English Literature MCQs

Page No. 279

Complete this famous quote by John Dryden: “Who think too little, and who talk too __________” ?


aoften


blong


cmuch


dfast


View Answer much

What Pope poem begins, “In these deep solitudes and awful cells, / Where heav’nly-pensive contemplation dwells, / And ever-musing melancholy reigns; / What means this tumult in a vestal’s veins ?”


aThe Rape of the Lock


bSolitude: An Ode


cThe Dunciad


dEloisa to Abelard


View Answer Eloisa to Abelard

Who composed The Preludes ?


aS T Coleridge


bWilliam Wordsworth


cWilliam Shakespeare


dWilliam Blake


View Answer William Wordsworth

Given the popularity of the Gothic novel and the novel of purpose, which of the following novelists wrote fiction that is closer in subject matter to the novel of manners than it is to the writing of her own era ?


aFanny Burney


bMary Wollstonecraft


cAnna Letitia Barbauld


dJane Austen


View Answer Jane Austen

Who wrote: “There can be no freedom or beauty about a home life that depends on borrowing and debt.” ?


aHenry David Thoreau


bBenjamin Franklin


cRobert Browning


dHenrik Ibsen


View Answer Henrik Ibsen

Who wrote: “I would prefer not to.” ?


aEdgar Allan Poe


bHerman Melville


cThomas Gray


dHenry David Thoreau


View Answer Herman Melville

How would “Natural Supernaturalism” be best characterized as a Romantic notion introduced by Carlyle ?


aa form of animism in which objects in the natural world are believed to be inhabited by spirits


ba spontaneous belief in the supernatural based upon a surprise encounter with a supernatural being


ca process by which things that are familiar and thought to be ordinary are made to appear miraculous and new to our eyes


dthe experience of hallucinating contact with the supernatural world when taking opium



Who exemplified the role of the \peasant poet\ ?


aJohn Clare


bJohn Keats


cRobert Burns


dA and C only


View Answer A and C only

Which of the following became the most popular Romantic poetic form, following on Wordsworth’s claim that poetic inspiration is contained within the inner feelingsof the individual poet as \the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings\ ?


athe lyric poem written in the first person


bthe sonnet


cdoggerel rhyme


dthe political tract



Looking to the ancient past, many Romantic poets identified with the figure of the______________?


atroubadour


bskald


cchorister


dbard


View Answer bard

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