(A) Travelogues
(B) The new cultural identity of the colonies
(C) Biographies
(D) Autobiographies
Tag: M.A English Literature Mcqs with Answers
What poets collaborated on the Lyrical Ballads of 1798?
(A) Charles Lamb and William Hazlitt
(B) Dorothy Wordsworth and William Wordsworth
(C) William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge
(D) None of the above
What is a title to Milton’s blank verse epic that is written in and critiques the epic tradition?
(A) Paradise lost
(B) L’Allegro
(C) The Divine Comedy
(D) Lycidas
Who is considered the pioneer of metaphysical poetry?
(A) John Keats
(B) William Wordsworth
(C) John Donne
(D) None of the above
What characterizes a ‘metaphysical conceit’ a strategy characteristics of John Donne’s poetry?
(A) Self definition through images
(B) Confusion that avoids questions of moral accountability
(C) The linking of images from very different ranges of experiences
(D) None of the above
__ belongs to a relatively small group of creative geniuses whose greatest works were written after he turned 50.
(A) Keats
(B) Coleridge
(C) Milton
(D) Spencer
Who authored Piers Plowman?
(A) William Langland
(B) Chaucer
(C) Sir Thomas Mabry
(D) Geoffrey of Monmouth
In the War of Roses what does roses stands for?
(A) Girls
(B) Places
(C) Houses
(D) Flowers