BS English ELL 102: Introduction to Literary Studies

The Iliad and the Odyssey are written by ------------------------------- .
1. Virgil
2. Homer
3. Dante Alighieri
4. Edmund Spenser
Aeneid is written by ------------------------------- .
1. Virgil
2. Homer
3. Dante Alighieri
4. Edmund Spenser
Divine Comedy is written by ------------------------------- .
1. Virgil
2. Homer
3. Dante Alighieri
4. Edmund Spenser
Faerie Queene is written by ------------------------------- .
1. Virgil
2. Homer
3. Dante Alighieri
4. Edmund Spenser
Don Quixote is written by ------------------------------- .
1. Daniel Defoe
2. Samuel Richardson
3. Miguel de Cervantes
4. Henry Fielding
Pamela is written by ------------------------------- .
1. Daniel Defoe
2. Samuel Richardson
3. Miguel de Cervantes
4. Henry Fielding
Joseph Andrews is written by ------------------------------- .
1. Daniel Defoe
2. Samuel Richardson
3. Miguel de Cervantes
4. Henry Fielding
Robinson Crusoe is written by ------------------------------- .
1. Daniel Defoe
2. Samuel Richardson
3. Miguel de Cervantes
4. Henry Fielding
Paradise Lost is a / an ------------------------------- .
1. Ode
2. Sonnet
3. Epic
4. Ballad
George Eliot’s Mill on the Floss is a typical example of ------------------------------------------ .
1. Bildungsroman
2. epistolary novel
3. historical novel
4. satirical novel
Samuel Richardson’s Clarissa is a typical example of ------------------------------------------ .
1. Bildungsroman
2. epistolary novel
3. historical novel
4. satirical novel
Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels is a typical example of ------------------------------------------ .
1. Bildungsroman
2. epistolary novel
3. historical novel
4. satirical novel
Walter Scott’s Waverly is a typical example of ------------------------------------------ .
1. Bildungsroman
2. epistolary novel
3. historical novel
4. satirical novel
Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is a typical example of ------------------------------------------ .
1. Bildungsroman
2. epistolary novel
3. historical novel
4. satirical novel
The presentation of the initial situation in plot is called the -------------------------------------- .
1. exposition
2. complication
3. climax
4. resolution
The development of suspense in the conflict of plot is called the -------------------------------------- .
1. exposition
2. complication
3. climax
4. resolution
The highest turning point in the conflict of plot is called the -------------------------------------- .
1. exposition
2. complication
3. climax
4. resolution
The plot usually ends with -------------------------------------- .
1. exposition
2. complication
3. climax
4. resolution
A character that often represents the general traits of a group of persons or abstract ideas is called a / an --------------------------------- .
1. individual
2. type
3. round
4. minor
Which of the following genres is NOT included in Narrative poetry?
1. epic
2. romance
3. ballad
4. lyric
A poem that laments the death of a dear person is called a / an ------------------------- .
1. lyric
2. ballad
3. elegy
4. ode
A poem that addresses a natural object or abstract idea is called a / an ------------------------- .
1. lyric
2. ballad
3. elegy
4. ode
A poem that is short and uses first person account of something is called a / an ------------------------- .
1. lyric
2. ballad
3. elegy
4. ode
A figure of speech that compares two different things by some connecting word is called a / an ---------------------------- .
1. simile
2. metaphor
3. symbol
4. image
A figure of speech where one thing is equated with another without any comparison is called a / an ---------------------------- .
1. simile
2. metaphor
3. symbol
4. image
An image that appeals to the readers' sense of sight is called a / an ----------------------------- .
1. visual image
2. auditory image
3. tactile image
4. olfactory image
An image that appeals to the readers' sense of smell is called a / an ----------------------------- .
1. visual image
2. auditory image
3. tactile image
4. olfactory image
An image that appeals to the readers' sense of touch is called a / an ----------------------------- .
1. visual image
2. auditory image
3. tactile image
4. olfactory image
An image that appeals to the readers' sense of hearing is called a / an ----------------------------- .
1. visual image
2. auditory image
3. tactile image
4. olfactory image
A drama that has religious, allegorical or biblical themes and was often performed in front of churches is called a / an -------------------------------- .
1. miracle play
2. history play
3. classical Roman play
4. Elizabethan play
The Comedy of manners was very popular during ------------------------------- age.
1. Elizabethan
2. Restoration
3. Medieval
4. Modern
Which of the following is NOT a part of the Three Unities?
1. time
2. place
3. action
4. dialogue
A typical example of the Theatre of the Absurd is ------------------------------------.
1. Waiting for Godot
2. Prometheus Unbound
3. Hamlet
4. Dr Faustus
George Bernard Shaw and Oscar Wilde were among the most important playwrights of ---------------------------------- century.
1. late 19th
2. mid 18th
3. early 17th
4. early 20th
Which of the following drama is NOT by William Shakespeare?
1. King Lear
2. Romeo and Juliet
3. The Importance of being Earnest
4. A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Romantic Period encompasses ----------------------------------.
1. First half of 19th century
2. First half of 18th century
3. First half of 17th century
4. First half of 20th century
Postmodernism flourished during ------------------------------- .
1. 1920s and 30s
2. 1940s and 50s
3. 1960s and 70s
4. 1980s and 90s
16th and 17th centuries are often known as the ---------------------------- period.
1. Romantic
2. Classical
3. Medieval
4. Renaissance
Alexandar Pope was a fomous poet of the -------------------------------- period.
1. neoclassical
2. transcendental
3. modernist
4. Victorean
Which of the following is NOT a romantic poet?
1. Robert Frost
2. William Wordsworth
3. P. B. Shelley
4. S. T. Coleridge
To the Lighthouse is written by ------------------------------ .
1. James Joyce
2. Virginia Wolf
3. Thomas Hardy
4. Charles Dickens
The Wasteland is written by ------------------------------ .
1. Ezra Pound
2. Robert Frost
3. T. S. Eliot
4. W. H. Auden
Paradise Lost is written by ------------------------------ .
1. Geoffrey Chaucer
2. Edmund Spenser
3. John Milton
4. Robert Browning
The Canterbury Tales is written by ------------------------------ .
1. Geoffrey Chaucer
2. Edmund Spenser
3. John Milton
4. Robert Browning
The Rape of the Lock is written by ------------------------------ .
1. Geoffrey Chaucer
2. Edmund Spenser
3. Alexander Pope
4. Robert Browning
Oliver Twist is written by ------------------------------ .
1. Charles Dickens
2. Thomas Hardy
3. Mark Twain
4. Jonathan Swift
Wuthering Heights is written by ------------------------------ .
1. Emily Bronte
2. Thomas Hardy
3. Mark Twain
4. Jonathan Swift
Pride and Prejudice is written by ------------------------------ .
1. Emily Bronte
2. George Eliot
3. Virginia Wolf
4. Jane Austen
Animal Farm is written by ------------------------------ .
1. George Orwell
2. Oscar Wilde
3. G. B. Shaw
4. Ernest Hemingway
‎The Adventures of Tom Sawyer is written by ------------------------------ .
1. George Orwell
2. Oscar Wilde
3. Mark Twain
4. Ernest Hemingway
In the poem, Fog by Carl Sandburg, fog is compared to a / an --------------------------------------.
1. cat
2. mist
3. blanket
4. harbour
A narrative technique in which text shifts the emphasis from exterior aspects of the plot to the inner world of a character, is often known as ----------------------------------------.
1. Stream of Consciousness
2. dramatic monologue
3. foreshadowing
4. linear plot
Robert Browning's Patriot into Traitor is a fine example of --------------------------------------------------- .
1. dramatic monologue
2. imagist poetry
3. transcendentalism
4. post-modernism
A sub-type of a novel which generally shows the development of a protagonist from childhood to maturity is called --------------------------------.
1. novelette
2. Bildungsroman
3. picaresque novel
4. satirical novel
A sub-type of a novel which points out the we.aknesses of society by exaggerating social conventions is called ----------------------------------.
1. novelette
2. Bildungsroman
3. picaresque novel
4. satirical novel
A sub-type of a novel which recounts the episodic adventures of a vagrant rogue who usually gets into trouble by breaking social norms is called ----------------------------------.
1. novelette
2. Bildungsroman
3. picaresque novel
4. satirical novel
A sub-type of prose fiction which assumes a position between the short story and a novel is called ----------------------------------.
1. novelette
2. Bildungsroman
3. picaresque novel
4. satirical novel
Guy de Maupassant was a / an ------------------ short story writer.
1. Spanish
2. English
3. Irish
4. French
Miguel de Cervantes was a / an ------------------ fiction writer.
1. Spanish
2. English
3. Irish
4. French
George Bernard Shaw was a / an ------------------ playwright.
1. Spanish
2. English
3. Irish
4. French
Robert Frost was a / an ------------------ poet.
1. Italian
2. English
3. Irish
4. American
Homer was a / an ------------------ poet.
1. Roman
2. English
3. Greek
4. American
Emily Dickinson was a / an ------------------ poet.
1. Roman
2. English
3. Greek
4. American
Samuel Beckett was a / an ------------------ playwright.
1. German
2. English
3. Irish
4. American
Carl Sandburg was a / an ------------------ poet.
1. Russian
2. English
3. Greek
4. American
Virgil was a / an ------------------ poet.
1. Roman
2. Russian
3. Greek
4. American
Oscar Wilde was a / an ------------------ poet and playwright.
1. German
2. English
3. Irish
4. American
Mark Twain was a / an ------------------ writer and humorist.
1. German
2. English
3. Irish
4. American
Beowulf is an old English ---------------------.
1. epic
2. romance
3. drama
4. novel
Anton Chekhov was a / an ------------------ playwright and short story writer.
1. Russian
2. English
3. Greek
4. American
Goethe was a / an ------------------ writer.
1. Russian
2. English
3. German
4. American
The Poetics is an important book on tragedy by ----------------------------.
1. Aristotle
2. Plato
3. Socrates
4. Epicurus
John Keats died at the age of ------------------------------.
1. 24
2. 25
3. 26
4. 27
Robert Browning was a famous ----------------------------- poet.
1. Romantic
2. Renaissance
3. Victorean
4. Augustan
The last two lines of a Shakespearean sonnet are called a / an ------------------------.
1. octet
2. sestet
3. quatrain
4. couplet
Romantic movement started in England with the publication of Lyrical Ballads by -------------------- and William Wordsworth.
1. William Blake
2. John Keats
3. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
4. Percy Bysshe Shelley
The famous one-act play, the Bear, is a fine example of --------------------------.
1. farce
2. tragedy
3. tregicomedy
4. melodrama
In English, poetry is written in -----------------------.
1. prose only
2. verse only
3. either prose or verse
4. neither prose nor verse
Which of the following is NOT a genre of literature.
1. poetry
2. drama
3. fiction
4. rhetoric
A group of lines in a poem is called a ----------------------------.
1. rhyme
2. rhythm
3. stanza
4. couplet
------------------------- is a literary device in which what appears, on the surface, to be the case, differs radically from what is actually the case.
1. paraphrase
2. irony
3. alliteration
4. personification

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BS English ELL 102: Introduction to Literary Studies

BS English
ELL 102: Introduction to Literary Studies