Online Quiz on English Literature:
Which of the following is not a form of poetry?
(a) Novel
(b) Sonnet
(c) Haiku
(d) Epic
Which of the following literary devices is often used in poetry to compare two things that are not alike?
(a) Metaphor
(b) Allusion
(c) Hyperbole
(d) Symbolism
Who is the author of the novel “Pride and Prejudice”?
(a) Jane Austen
(b) Charles Dickens
(c) William Shakespeare
(d) Virginia Woolf
What is the title of the book by Emily Bronte that tells the story of a passionate love affair between Heathcliff and Catherine Earnshaw?
(a) Pride and Prejudice
(b) Sense and Sensibility
(c) Jane Eyre
(d) Wuthering Heights
Which of these writers is from the Renaissance period?
(a) Djuna Barnes
(b) Mina Loy
(c) Samuel Beckett
(d) Christopher Marlowe
What literary device is often used in poetry to create a musical quality?
(a) Metaphor
(b) Imagery
(c) Rhyme
(d) Simile
Who is considered one of the greatest poets in the English language?
(a) Edgar Allan Poe
(b) Walt Whitman
(c) William Shakespeare
(d) Maya Angelou
What is the title of the book by Lewis Carroll that tells the story of a girl who falls down a rabbit hole into a fantasy world?
(a) Peter Pan
(b) The Secret Garden
(c) Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
(d) The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe
What is the title of the book by Charles Dickens that tells the story of an orphan boy named Pip and his journey to becoming a gentleman?
(a) Great Expectations
(b) Oliver Twist
(c) A Tale of Two Cities
(d) David Copperfield
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What is the name for a group of lines in a poem?
(a) Chapter
(b) Stanza
(c) Verse
(d) Prose
Which of the following is not a play by William Shakespeare?
(a) Hamlet
(b) Macbeth
(c) The Canterbury Tales
(d) Romeo and Juliet
Who is the author of the novel “1984”, which depicts a dystopian future where the government controls every aspect of people’s lives?
(a) George Orwell
(b) Aldous Huxley
(c) Virginia Woolf
(d) T.S. Eliot
Which of these writers is a well-known contemporary writer?
(a) Virginia Woolf
(b) W.B. Yeats
(c) Kazuo Ishiguro
(d) Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Which of the following poets is associated with the Romantic era?
(a) William Shakespeare
(b) John Milton
(c) William Wordsworth
(d) T.S. Eliot
What is the title of Mary Shelley’s famous gothic novel about a scientist who creates a monster?
(a) Dracula
(b) Frankenstein
(c) The Picture of Dorian Gray
(d) Wuthering Heights
Which of the following is a common theme in poetry?
(a) Sports
(b) Technology
(c) Nature
(d) Politics
Which British author is known for writing the James Bond series of spy novels?
(a) Ian Fleming
(b) J.K. Rowling
(c) Charles Dickens
(d) Virginia Woolf
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What is the name for a poem that tells a story?
(a) Ode
(b) Sonnet
(c) Ballad
(d) Free verse
What is the title of the epic poem by John Milton about the fall of Adam and Eve from the Garden of Eden?
(a) The Divine Comedy
(b) Paradise Lost
(c) Beowulf
(d) The Canterbury Tales
What is the term for the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a poem?
(a) Rhyme scheme
(b) Meter
(c) Enjambment
(d) Alliteration
Which of the following authors is known for his detective novels featuring the character Sherlock Holmes?
(a) Agatha Christie
(b) Edgar Allan Poe
(c) Arthur Conan Doyle
(d) Raymond Chandler
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Which of these is a famous poet from the modernism period?
(a) William Shakespeare
(b) William Wordsworth
(c) John Milton
(d) T.S. Eliot
English literature dates back to what period?
(a) 7th century
(b) 8th century
(c) 9th century
(d) 10th century
