English Literature in Literature : Practice MCQ Questions & Answers with Explanations

In Leda and the Swan, who wooes Leda in guise of a swan?

Identify the writer who was expelled from Oxford for circulating a pamphlet

Identify the writer who first used blank verse in English poetry?

Identify the work by Swinburne which begins when the hounds of spring are on winters traces.."?

Identify the work by Ruskin which began as a defence of contemporary landscape artist especially Turner?

Identify the rhetorical figure used in the following line of Tennyson Faith un-faithful kept him falsely true.

Identify the poet, whom Queen Victoria, regarded as the perfect poet of love and loss—

Identify the character who is a supporter of Womens Rights in Sons and Lovers?

Identify the character in The Tempest who is referred to as an honest old counselor

Hamlets famous speech To be,or not to be; that is the question occurs in?

Graham Greenes novels are marked by?

Estella is the daughter of?

Carlyles work On Heroes, HeroWorship and the Heroic in History is a course of?

A verse form using stanza of eight lines, each with eleven syllables, is known as?

Who, among the following, is not the second generation of British Romantics?

Who, among the following, is not connected with the Oxford Movement?

Who, among the following writers, was not educated at Christs Hospital School, London?

Who wrote the poem Defence of Lucknow?

Who is Thomas Percy in Henry IV, Pt I?

Who is praised as a hero by Carlyle in his lecture on the Hero as King?