English Literature MCQs

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This famous neoclassical poet wrote on profound themes such as death, but he also had a lighter side. He once wrote an ode to a cat drowned in a tub of gold fishes ?


aAlexander Pope


bWilliam Collins


cThomas Gray


dBen Jonson


View Answer Thomas Gray

He wrote both religious and secular poetry. One of his poems urged virgins to make the most of their time ?


aBen Jonson


bAlexander Pope


cRobert Herrick


dJohn Dryden


View Answer Robert Herrick

Horace’s doctrine \ut pictura poesis\was interpreted to mean______________?


aA picture is worth a thousand words.


bPoetry is the supreme artistic form.


cArt should hold a mirror up to nature.


dPoetry ought to be a visual as well as a verbal art.



Which chilling novel of surveillance and entrapment had the alternative title Things as They Are ____________?


aJane Austen’s Emma


bMary Shelley’s Frankenstein


cWilliam Godwin’s Caleb Williams


dSir Walter Scott’s Waverley



Sir John Denham commemorated this poet, referring to him as “Old Chaucer” who, “like the morning star”, descends “to the shades,” so that “Darkness again the Age invades.”


aWilliam Shakespeare


bJohn Donne


cAbraham Cowley


dJohn Dryden


View Answer Abraham Cowley

In which work do you read: “Beauty is truth, truth beauty.” ?


aAdonais


bBright Star


cOde on a Grecian Urn


dLa Bell Dame Sans Merci


View Answer Ode on a Grecian Urn

According to Samuel Johnson, “No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for_____________?


alove.”


bhonor.”


cmoney.”


dhis party.”


View Answer money.”

Which metrical form was Pope said to have brought to perfection ?


athe heroic couplet


bblank verse


cfree verse


dthe ode


View Answer the heroic couplet

Which poets collaborated on the Lyrical Ballads of 1798, thus demonstrating the “spirit of the age,” which, in an era of revolutionary thinking, depended on a belief in the limitless possibilities of the poetic imagination ?


aMary Wollstonecraft and William Blake


bMary Wollstonecraft Shelley and Percy B. Shelley


cWilliam Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge


dCharles Lamb and William Hazlitt



Who was the ancient Gaelic warrior-bard considered by Napoleon and Thomas Jefferson to have been greater than Homer ?


aMacpherson


bMerlin


cDecameron


dOssian


View Answer Ossian

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