(A) Walter Scott
(B) Thomas Kyd
(C) Congreve
(D) Robert Greene
Tag: M.A English Literature Mcqs with Answers
Which tragedy has not been written by William Shakespeare?
(A) King Lear
(B) The Spanish Tragedy
(C) Othello
(D) Macbeth
Who wrote ‘’Milton thou shouldst be living at this hour’’?
(A) Wordsworth
(B) Gray
(C) Pope
(D) Dryden
In a list of languages ranked by number of native L1 speakers. Where does English come?
(A) 1st
(B) 2nd
(C) 3rd
(D) 4th
‘’His verse is sensuous and passionate and at its best simple thus according with Milton’s famous definition’’ about whom has this been said:
(A) Walt Whitman
(B) Cooper
(C) Over Wendel Homes
(D) Emerson
The old wives tale is a novel by?
(A) Arnold Bennett
(B) Henry James
(C) Hardly
(D) None of the above
Bacon essays are regarded as compendiums of?
(A) General knowledge
(B) Current affairs
(C) Diplomatic matters
(D) Worldly wisdom
What is meant by Etymology?
(A) The study of the origins of the words and how they have changed over time.
(B) The study of language
(C) The study of words which sound similar to one another.
(D) None of the above