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English Language and Literature by Rashed Nizam
English Language and Literature by Rashed Nizam
2. The term ‘the Palliser Novels’ is used to describe the political novels of—
3. Identify the poet whom Queen Victoria, regarded as the perfect poet of ‘1ove and
loss’-
(A) Tennyson
(B) Browning
(C) Swinburne
(D) D. G. Rossetti
Answer:D
4. A verse form using stanza of eight lines, each with eleven syllables, is known as•—
5. Identify the writer who first used blank verse in English poetry~—
7. Identify the rhetorical figure used in the following line of Tennyson : “Faith unfaithful
kept him falsely true/’
(A) Oxymoron
(B) Metaphor
(C) Simile
(D) Synecdoche
Answer:A
(A) A teacher
(B) A clerk
(C) A thief
(D) A dentist
Answer:C
12. Identify the novel in which the character of Charlotte Lucas figures-
(A) Hamlet
(B) Henry IV, Pt I
(C) The Tempest
(D) Twelfth Night
Answer:A
14, Who said that Shakespeare in his comedies has only heroines and no heroes?
16. That Milton was of the Devil’s party without knowing it, was said by——
(A) Blake
(B) Eliot
(C) Johnson
(D) Shelley
Answer:A
17. Who called Shelley ‘a beautiful and ineffectual angel beating in the void his luminous
wings in vain’ ?
(A) Walter Rater
(B) A. C. Swinburne
(C) Matthew Arnold
(D) T. S. Eliot
Answer:C
Answer:B
20. Thackeray’s Esmond is a novel of historical realism capturing the spirit of-
22. “My own great religion is a belief in the blood, the flesh as being wiser than the
intellect’ Who wrote this ?
24. “The rarer action is in virtue that in vengeance.” This line occurs
(A) Hamlet
(B) Henry IV, Pt I
(C) The Tempest
(D) Twelfth Night
Answer:C
26. ‘Heaven lies about us in our infancy’. This line occurs in the poem—
28. When Wordsworth’s ‘immortality Ode’ was first published in 1802, it had on1y—-
(A) Stanzas I to IV
(B) Stanzas I to V
(C) Stanzas Ito VI
(D) Stanzas I to VII
Answer:B
29. Which method of narration has been employed by Dickens in his novel Great
Expectations ?
(A) Wordsworth
(B) Coleridge
(C) Lamb
(D) Shelley
Answer:B
(A) Keats
(B) Byron
(C) Shelley
(D) Wordsworth
Answer:A
(A) Claudius
(B) Hamlet
(C) Polonius
(D) Rosencrantz
Answer:B
(A) Milton
(B) William Shakespeare
(C) T. S. Eliot
(D) Ruskin
Answer:B
34. “Dost thou think, because thou art virtuous,
there shall be no more cakes and ale’
Who speaks the lines given above in Twelfth Night ?
36. Who calls poetry “the breadth and finer spirit of all knowledge” ?
(A) Wordsworth
(B) Shelley
(C) Keats
(D) Coleridge
Answer:A
(A) Viola
(B) Duke
(C) Olivia
(D) Malvolio
Answer:B
38. What was the cause of William’s death in Sons and Lovers ?
(A) An accident
(B) An overdose of morphia
(C) Suicide
(D) Pneumonia
Answer:D
40. Which stanza form did Shelley use in his famous poem ‘Ode to the West Wind’ ?
(A) Milton
(B) Coleridge
(C) Carlyle
(D) John Ruskin
Answer:D
(A) Byron
(B) Shelley
(C) Coleridge
(D) Lamb
Answer:C
Answer:B
46. How many soliloquies are spoken by Hamlet in the play Hamlet ?
(A) Nine
(B) Seven
(C) Five
(D) Three
Answer:C
(A) Satire
(B) Sensuality
(C) Sensuousness
(D) Social reform
Answer:C
(A) agnosticism
(B) optimism
(C) pessimism
(D) skepticism
Answer:B