English Literature MCQs

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Which of the following assertions would William Wordsworth most likely agree with ?


aPoetry should be written in the common language of ordinary people.


bPoetry should focus on the lives and thoughts of elite people.


cPoetry should never concern itself with the natural world.


dPoetry should rhyme.


View Answer Poetry should rhyme.

Which of the following concepts does Aristotle consider to be the most important element of a Greek tragedy ?


aPlot


bPoetic diction


cSong composition


dStage design


View Answer Plot

Which of the following offers the best definition of a fable ?


aA story in which the author provides an explicit moral


bA story that takes place in the distant past


cA light-hearted, humorous story in which viewers are shown proper ways to behave


dA story told to little children



Shakespeare’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” can be described as what kind of play ?


aA comedic play


bA tragic play


cA modern play


dA tragi-comedy


View Answer A comedic play

Which of the following are examples of poetic structures ?


aLines of text with words that rhyme at the end


bA continuous block of text


cUnrhymed lines


dAll of these


View Answer All of these

Which of the following poems can be described as a haiku ?


aPound’s “In a Station of the Metro”


bBishop’s “One Art”


cAuden’s “Paysage Moralisé”


dWilliam Shakespeare’s “Sonnet 18”



Which of the following offers the best definition of the theatrical concept of a chorus ?


aMembers of the audience who comment on the play’s actions


bCharacters who remind the audience that the play is fictional


cA group of characters who comment on the actions of the play while participating in them


dA group of characters who comment on the actions of the play while not participating in them



In “Characters of Shakespeare’s Plays”, what does William Hazlitt mean when he states the following: “We do not like to see our author’s plays acted, and least of all, ’Hamlet’. There is no play that suffers so much in being transferred to the stage” ?


aHamlet cannot be staged properly because of the complexity of the play’s use of language.


bHamlet is not relevant to the Romantic age.


cThe role of Hamlet cannot be properly played by any actor.


dHamlet is a work that was written to be read, not performed.



A work of criticism that considers how English imperialism affected native Indian authors would be an example of_______________?


aMarxist theory


bpsychoanalytic theory


cpostcolonial theory


ddeconstruction


View Answer postcolonial theory

What are the basic questions literary theory asks ?


aWhat is literature?


bWhy do people write literature?


cWhat are the effects of literature?


dAll of these.


View Answer All of these.

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