Literature & Literary Terms

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Q1.Who wrote "Pride and Prejudice"?

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A Charlotte Bronte
B Emily Bronte
C Jane Austen
D Virginia Woolf
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Correct Answer: C

"Pride and Prejudice" (1813) was written by Jane Austen.

Q2.Who is the author of "Hamlet"?

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A Charles Dickens
B William Shakespeare
C John Milton
D Geoffrey Chaucer
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Correct Answer: B

"Hamlet" is one of Shakespeare's most famous tragedies.

Q3.Who wrote "1984"?

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A Aldous Huxley
B H.G. Wells
C George Orwell
D Ray Bradbury
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Correct Answer: C

"1984" was written by George Orwell (1949).

Q4.Who wrote "A Tale of Two Cities"?

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A Thomas Hardy
B Charles Dickens
C Oscar Wilde
D William Makepeace Thackeray
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Correct Answer: B

"A Tale of Two Cities" was written by Charles Dickens (1859).

Q5.Who wrote "Paradise Lost"?

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A William Shakespeare
B Geoffrey Chaucer
C John Milton
D Edmund Spenser
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Correct Answer: C

"Paradise Lost" (1667) was written by John Milton.

Q6.Who wrote "The Old Man and the Sea"?

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A F. Scott Fitzgerald
B William Faulkner
C Ernest Hemingway
D John Steinbeck
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Correct Answer: C

"The Old Man and the Sea" (1952) was written by Ernest Hemingway.

Q7.Allama Iqbal's "Shikwa" is written in:

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A English
B Urdu
C Persian
D Punjabi
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Correct Answer: B

"Shikwa" is written in Urdu and is part of "Bang-e-Dra".

Q8.Who wrote "Gitanjali"?

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A Mirza Ghalib
B Rabindranath Tagore
C Faiz Ahmad Faiz
D Muhammad Iqbal
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Correct Answer: B

"Gitanjali" won the Nobel Prize in Literature (1913) for Rabindranath Tagore.

Q9.Who is known as the "Father of English Poetry"?

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A John Milton
B William Shakespeare
C Geoffrey Chaucer
D Edmund Spenser
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Correct Answer: C

Geoffrey Chaucer is known as the Father of English Poetry.

Q10.Who wrote "Brave New World"?

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A George Orwell
B Aldous Huxley
C Ray Bradbury
D H.G. Wells
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Correct Answer: B

"Brave New World" (1932) was written by Aldous Huxley.

Q11."Silas Marner" was written by:

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A Thomas Hardy
B George Eliot
C Charles Dickens
D Jane Austen
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Correct Answer: B

"Silas Marner" (1861) was written by George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans).

Q12.Which literary device is used in "The wind whispered through the trees"?

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A Metaphor
B Simile
C Personification
D Hyperbole
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Correct Answer: C

Personification gives human qualities to non-human things.

Q13.Who is the author of "The Republic"?

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A Aristotle
B Plato
C Socrates
D Homer
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Correct Answer: B

"The Republic" is a philosophical work by Plato.

Q14."I have told you a million times" is an example of:

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A Simile
B Metaphor
C Hyperbole
D Personification
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Correct Answer: C

Hyperbole means deliberate exaggeration for effect.

Q15.A play with a sad ending is called a:

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A Comedy
B Satire
C Tragedy
D Farce
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Correct Answer: C

A tragedy ends in disaster, especially for the protagonist.

Q16.A sonnet has how many lines?

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A 12
B 14
C 16
D 18
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Correct Answer: B

A sonnet is a 14-line poem.

Q17.The repetition of initial consonant sounds is called:

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A Assonance
B Rhyme
C Alliteration
D Onomatopoeia
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Correct Answer: C

Alliteration is the repetition of the same initial consonant sound.

Q18.What literary device is used in "Life is a journey"?

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A Simile
B Metaphor
C Personification
D Alliteration
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Correct Answer: B

A metaphor makes a direct comparison without "like" or "as".

Q19.What literary device is used in "She is as brave as a lion"?

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A Metaphor
B Simile
C Hyperbole
D Irony
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Correct Answer: B

A simile uses "like" or "as" to compare.

Q20.Which period of English literature came first?

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A Renaissance
B Romantic
C Victorian
D Elizabethan
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Correct Answer: D

The Elizabethan period preceded the Renaissance in literary history.