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A sonnet consists of how many lines
14
William Shakespeare was born in
United Kingdom
Who wrote ‘The Invisible Man’?
H.G. Wells
Poems by Sylvia Plath
Daddy, Lady Lazarus, Mad Girl’s Love Song
Bequest
Not written by Sylvia Plath
Who wrote ‘The Canterbury Tales’?
Geoffrey Chaucer
Helen of Troy is the daughter of
Zeus and Leda
Who killed Arjuna in Mahabharata
Babruvahana
How many witches predict Macbeth’s fate in the play ‘Macbeth’ by William Shakespeare?
4
Protagonist of the novel ‘Great Expectations’ by Charles Dickens is
Pip
Which poems are termed as ‘epics’?
Iliad, Ramayana, The Odyssey, Canterbury Tales
What is the “lock” referred to as in ‘The Rape of Lock’ by Alexander Pope?
Lock of hair
Romantic poets
John Keats
Edgar Allan Poe
Emily Dickinson
Edgar Lee Masters
In the Book 4 of Gulliver’s Travel, which community Gulliver aspires to choose?
Houyhnhnms
Which village does Elizabeth belong to in Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen?
Longbourn
“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a ________”
Wife
In Pride and Prejudice, Darcy’s estate is called
Pemberley
‘Culture and Anarchy’ was written by
Mathew Arnold
The Romantic Afe was the age of
Lyric
Pozzo was a character in
Waiting for Godot
Who considers literature as superstructure?
Marxists
Who collects ten faults of Shakespeare?
Dr. Johnson
Not a lake poet
Keats
Who was the first translator of Virgil’s works in English?
Dryden
‘Othello’ was based on
An Italian tale in Hecatommithi
A character in Virginia Woolf’s novel changes his sex. Which is that novel?
Orlando
How many Shakespeare’s history plays are based on Roman history?
4
Who has been dubbed as ‘angry young man’ of the 1950s?
John Braine
Charles Dickens died in 1870 leaving the unfinished novel which was?
Edwin Drood
Chaucer was indebted to
Homer
In Homer’s Odyssey, Ulyssey was the king of
Ithaca
Who were “Lollards”?
The followers of John Wycliffe
When is The Illiad thought to have been composed?
The eighth century
Which God helps to bring about the death of Patroclus?
Zeus
In what city was Jesus born?
Bethlehem
Who takes Jesus’s body off the cross?
Joseph of Arimathea
The Poetics deals with primarily with what genre?
Tragedy
Which of Aristotle’s early works was inspired by the death of a friend?
Eudemus
When did Aristotle live?
384-322 BC
Which philosopher was Aristotle’s master?
Plato
How was the school founded by Aristotle known?
Lyceum
Whose creation is the character Mowgli?
Rudyard Kipling
Arundhati Roy’s God of Small Things is based in which Indian state?
Kerala
Name the American short story writer who wrote under the pseudonym (pen name) O. Henry.
William Sydney Porter
The term “plot” refers to
The sequence of events and actions in a narrative
A stanza is a
Paragraph in a poem
“A thing of beauty is a joy forever.” This famous line is from a poem by
John Keats
Who authored the science fiction novel Jurassic Park which was adapted by Steven Spielberg into a blockbuster film?
Micheal Crichton
Which character in Shakespeare’s Roman play Julius Caesar delivers the speech beginning “Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears”?
Mark Antony
Which popular writer of crime stories is known as the “Queen of Crime”?
Agatha Christie
Macbeth
The title of a play written by William Shakespeare
British novelist
Charles Dickens
George Eliot (Mary Anne Evans)
Emily Bronte
Not a British novelist
Paulo Coelho
