Which of the following writers wrote historical novels?
Jane Austen and Charlotte Bronte
Sir Walter Scott and Maria Edgeworth
William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Mary Shelley and Percy Bysshe Shelley
Correct Answer :
B. Sir Walter Scott and Maria Edgeworth
Related Questions
Sassoon and Brooke wrote what kind of poetry?
Light verse
Romantic
Political satire
War poems
What is the title of the poem that begins thus What is this life, if full of care, we have no time to stand and stare?
Comfort
Leisure
Relaxation
Tranquility
What was strange about Emily Dickinson?
She rarely left home
She wrote in code
She never attempted to publish her poetry
She wrote her poems in invisible ink
Which of the following words describe the prevailing attitude of High-Modern Literature?
Skeptical
Authoritative
Impressionistic
Both a & c
chaucers franklin was guilty of which sin?
Lust
Corruption
Theft
Gluttony
From which of Shakespeares plays is this famous line: Did my heart love til now?/ Forswear it, sight/ For I never saw a true beauty until this night
A Midsummer Nights Dream
Hamlet
Othello
Romeo and Juliet
Who was often called as the Romantic Poet as most of his poems revolved around nature?
William Blake
William Shakespeare
William Morris
William Wordsworth
How old was Rupert Brooke at the time of his death?
24
31
21
28
Who has defined poetry as a fundamental creative act using languages?
H. W. Longfellow
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Dylan Thomas
William Wordsworth
from which language the name chaucer has been driven?
french
latin
italian
english
Which Welsh poet wrote Under Milk Wood?
Anthony Hopkins
Richard Burton
Tom Jones
Dylan Thomas
___________is a late 20th century play written by a woman?
Queen Cristina
Top Girls
Camille
The Homecoimg
There was aware of her true love, at length come riding by This is a couplet from the Bailiffs Daughter of Islington. What figure of speech is used by the poet?
Metaphor
Synecdoche
Euphemism
Irony
What is the imitation of natural sounds in word form?
Personification
Hyperboles
Alliteration
Onomatopoeia
Of Mans first disobedience, and the fruit Of that forbidden tree whose mortal taste Brought death into the world, and all our woe, With loss of Eden. This is an extract from:
Paradise Lost
Paradise Regained
Samson Agonistes
Divorce Tracts
Where did chaucer bury?
westminster abbey
kent church
chapel at windsor
None of the above
What is the earliest surviving European poem?
The Homeric epic
The Gilgamesh epic
The Deluge epic
The Hesiodic ode
What is the word for a play on words?
pun
simile
haiku
metaphor
which of these is magnum opus of chaucer?
Troilus and criseyde
House of fame
The canterbury tales
Parliament of fowls.
Which of the following is not a poetic tradition?
The Epic
The Comic
The Occult
The Tragic
How has Stephen Dunn been described in the Oxford Companion to 20th Century Poetry?
A poet of middleness
Capturing a sense of spiritual marooness
One of the leading prairie poets
Has some distinction as a critic
What is a sonnet?
A poem of six lines
A poem of eight lines
A poem of twelve lines
A poem of fourteen lines
Which of the following is not a Shakespeare tragedy?
Titus Andronicus
Macbeth
Hamlet
None of the above
Aldous Huxley was a poet, but was better known as what?
Politician
Dramatist
Novelist
Architect
Carl Sandburg Planked whitefish contains what kind of imagery?
Sea scenes
Rural Idyll
War
Innocent childhood
Ted Hughes was married to which American poetess?
Carolyn Kizer
Mary Oliver
Sylvia Plath
Marianne Moore
Which of the following is not an English poet (i. e. from England)?
Victor Hugo
Alexander Pope
John Milton
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Wlliam Shakespeare is not the author of:
Titus Andronicus
Taming of the Shrew
White Devil
Hamlet
Who wrote The Hound of the Baskervilles?
Agatha Christie
H Ryder-Haggard
P D James
Arthur Conan Doyle
Where did T. S. Eliot spend most of his childhood?
Denver
St Louis
Cuba
Toronto