(A) Verbal Humour
(B) Comedy of character
(C) Plot complications
(D) Strong emphases of suspense
Tag: M.A English Literature Mcqs with Answers
A word that sounds like another word but means something quite different is known as?
(A) Pun
(B) Pathos
(C) Epigram
(D) Witticism
Which literary form developed in the fifteenth century personified vices and virtues?
(A) Heroic epic
(B) Morality play
(C) The short story
(D) The romance
Postcolonial literature addresses?
(A) Biographies
(B) Travelogues
(C) The new cultural identities of the colonies
(D) Autobiographies
According to __ the novels of the eighteen forties do not reflect the respective society but they try to define it and in their attempt at defining the society they also participate in the common social process.
(A) T.S Eliot
(B) Huxley
(C) Samuel Johnson
(D) Raymond Williams
The sonnet on __ records a moment of visions in which Wordsworth for once is able to achieve satisfactory ordering of the complexities of the city.
(A) Westminster Bridge 1802
(B) Reverie of Poor Susan
(C) I travelled among unknown men
(D) When I have memory
George Orwell continues the great ironic tradition of __ and others.
(A) Daniel Defoe
(B) Lewis Carol
(C) Swift
(D) Voltair
Philosophically Shelley was a follower of __ holding the world of appearances less real than the world of underlying forms and ideas.
(A) Aristotle
(B) Sophocles
(C) Plato
(D) Zone