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Type A: Names of Writers of literary Pieces: (Who wrote what)
Poems:
- ‘The Rape of the Lock’ by Alexander Pope is a- Mock Heroic Poem (40)
- Who write the poem ‘The Good-Morrow’- John Donne (40)
- Who wrote an epic-John Milton (38)
- Gerontion is a poem by- T.S. Eliot (37)
- Elegy written in a Country Churchyard is a poem by- Thomas Gray (37) (36)
- The poem ‘The Solitary Reaper’ is written by- W. Wordsworth (36)
- ‘Isle of Innisfree’ is written by- W. B. Yeats (35)
“BCS English Literature MCQ Questions Analysis“
Plays
- The play the ‘Spanish Tragedy’ is written by- Thomas Kyd (38)
- Who is the author of ‘Man and Superman’- G.B. Shaw (38)
- Tempest is Shakespeare’s last play. (37)
- Volpone is written by – Ben Johnson (37)
- Shakespeare’s ‘Measure for Measure’ is a Comedy. (36)
- The play ‘Candida’ is by – G.B. Shaw (36)
- The play ‘Arms and the Man’ is by- G.B. Shaw (35)
- ‘Riders to the Sea’ is- a one act play (35)
Novels/Prose
- ‘Ulysses’ is a novel written by- James Joyce (40)
- The short story ‘The Diamond Necklace’ is written by- Guy de Maupassant (40)
- The most famous satirist in English literature is – Jonathan Swift (38)
- Who wrote ‘Biographia Literaria’’- S.T. Coleridge (37)
- Thomas Hardy wrote- The Return of the Natives (36)
- The Sun Also Rises is written by- Earnest Hemingway (37)
- A Passage to India is written by- E. M. Forster (35)
- Famous Indian novelist is – R. K. Narayan (38)
Type B: Who/what belongs to which age
- Who is not an American poet- W. B. Yeats (40)
- Who is not a Victorian Poet: Alexander Pope (38)
- Which period is known as ‘The Golden Age of English Literature’ – Elizabethan Period (38)
- Robert Browning was a Victorian poet. (37)
- ‘Restoration Period’ in English Literature refers to- 1660 (37)
- David Copperfield is a/an Victorian novel. (36)
- Romantic Age in English Literature began with the publication of – Preface to Lyrical Ballads (36)
- Who belongs to romantic age- S.T. Coleridge (36)
- Poet of Nature- W. Wordsworth (36)
- Elizabethan writer- Christopher Marlowe (35)
Type C: Quotations
- “All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand” who said this- Lady Macbeth (40)
- “Sweet Helen make me immortal with a kiss”. The sentence has been taken from the play- Doctor Faustus (40)
- Where are the songs of Spring? Aye, Where are they? Think not of them, thou hast the music too .’ -Who wrote this? – John Keats (40)
- “What’s in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet” Who said this- Juliet (40)
- “Man’s love is of man’s life a thing apart, ‘Tis woman’s whole existence” – this taken from the poem of – Lord Byron (40)
- “The old order changeth, yielding place to new” from Tennyson’s poem- Morte d’ Arthur (40)
- “Alone, alone, all, all alone, Alone on a wide, wide sea”- The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (38)
- “For God’s sake hold your tongue, and let me love”- John Donne (38)
- ‘Frailty thy name is woman’ is a dialogue from- W. Shakespeare (36)
- ‘Child is the father of a man’ is taken from the poem of – W. Wordsworth (36)
- “All at once I saw a crowd, a host of golden daffodils”- Wordsworth (35)
- “To be, or not to be, that is the question” is a famous dialogue from – Hamlet (35)
Type D: Character Related
- The central character of ‘Wuthering Heights’ by Emily Bronte is- Heathcliff (40)
- Othello gave Desdemona Handkerchief as a token of love. (37)
- ‘The Merchant of Venice’ is a Shakespearean play about- a Jew (36)
- ‘Othello’ is a Shakespearean play about – a moor (35)
Type E: Inter-linked contributions
- Who translated ‘Rubaiyat of Umar Khayyam’ into English- Edward Fitzgerald (40)
- Tennyson’s ‘In Memorium’ is an elegy on the death of – Arthure Henry Hellum (40)
- P.B. Shelley’s ‘Adonais’ is an elegy on the death of- John Kits (37)
- Gitanjali was translated by- W. B. Yeats (36)
- The play the ‘Spanish Tragedy’ is written by- Thomas Kyd (38)
Type F: Literary Terms & Figures of speech
- In literature, Euphemism means- inoffensive expression (38)
- The comparison of unlike things using words like or as is known to be – simile (37)
- The repetition of beginning consonant sound is known as- alliteration (37)
- The climax of a plot is what happens- at the height (36) (35)
Type G: Others
- William Shakespeare was born in – 1564 (40)
- Class relation and societal conflict is the key understanding of- Marxism (35)
- Who is not a Nobel Laureate- Grahame Greene (35)
- Jacobean Period in English literature refers to – 1603-1625 (38)
- The poem ‘Ulysses’ is written by –
- James Joyce
- W. B. Yeats
- Alfred, Lord Tennyson
- Percy Bysshe Shelley
- “All that glitters is not gold- often have you heard that told” is taken from Shakespeare’s play:
- The Merchant of Venice
- Romeo and Juliet
- A Midsummer Night’s Dream
- King Lear
- The play ‘Pygmalion’ is written by-
- Harold Pinter
- G. B. Shaw
- Samuel Beckett
- William Somerset Maugham
- “O Captain! My Captain!” is a poem written by Walt Whitman about the death of-
- George Washington
- Martin Luther King Jr.
- Abraham Lincoln
- Edward VII
- Shakespeare’s Hamlet was the Prince of –
- The British Isles
- Wales & Dublin
- Scotland
- Denmark
- ‘Sonnet 18‘is written by-
- William Shakespeare
- John Donne
- Emily Dickinson
- Michael Madhusudan Dutt
- The poem ‘Sands of Dee’ is written by-
- Charles Kingsley
- John Milton
- Rudyard Kipling
- Charlotte Bronte
- A hyperbole refers to-
- Rhetorical questions
- Exaggerated statements
- Contradictory words describing same thing
- Inverted parallel clauses
List of writers:
Elizabethan Age: 1558-1603
- William Shakespeare
- Christopher Marlowe: Doctor Faustus (Play)
- Francis Bacon: Father of English prose. Of Truth, Of Death, Of Marriage and Single Life etc. (Essay)
The Jacobean Age: 1603-1625
- Ben Jonson: Volpone (Play)
- John Donne: He is a metaphysical poet. List of poems- Death be not proud, The Good Morrow, A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning, The Canonization, The Sun Rising etc.
Caroline Age: 1625-1649
- John Milton: Paradise Lost (Epic), Paradise Regained (Epic), Areopagitica (pamphlet)
- Robert Herrick: To Daffodils (Poem)
The Restoration Period: 1660-1700
- William Congreve: Play- The Way of the World
The Augustan Period: 1700-1745 (also known as The Age of Pope)
- Alexander Pope: The Rape of The Lock (Mock Heroic Poem, Belinda and Barron, 794 lines)
Some famous quotes from his work are:
- Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
- To err is human, to forgive divine.
- A little learning is a dangerous thing.
- Jonathan Swift :
- Deniel Defoe
The Age of Sensibility: 1745-1785
- Samuel Johnson
- Thomas Gray: Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard (Poem)
The Romantic Period: 1798-1832
- William Wordsworth
- S. T. Coleridge
- P. B. Shelley
- John Keats
- Lord Byron
- William Blake
- Jane Austen
- Charles Lamb
The Victorian Period: 1832-1901
- A. L. Tennyson
- Robert Browning
- Matthew Arnold
- Charles Dickens
- Thomas Hardy
- Charlotte Bronte
- Karl Marx
- C. R. Darwin
The Modern Period: (Upto WWII)
Novelist:
- Joseph Conrad
- James Joyce
- Virginia Woolf
- D. H. Lawrence
- Earnest Hemingway
Poets:
- W. B. Yeats
- T. S. Eliot
- Robert Frost
Playwrights:
- G. B. Shaw
- Samuel Beckett
- Harold Pinter
BCS English Questions Analysis