This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Literature > Regions > British Literature > British Literature – Quiz 10 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books British Literature Quiz 10 (19 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Who is considered the pioneer of the Romantic movement in literature? A) William Shakespeare. B) Edgar Allan Poe. C) William Wordsworth. D) Jane Austen. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) William Wordsworth. 2. The use of clues to hint at what is going to happen later in the plot. A) Alliteration. B) Onomatopoeia. C) Foreshadowing. D) Protagonist. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Foreshadowing. 3. Why can Yamba forgive her captors? A) She has experienced the forgiveness of God. B) They didn't know what they were doing was wrong. C) They ultimately made her life better by bringing her to a better country. D) They introduced her to religion. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) She has experienced the forgiveness of God. 4. Name two Elizabethan sonneteers. A) Wyatt(2) Surrey. B) John Keats(2) John Lyly. C) Vaughan(2) Carew. D) Shelly(2) Wordsworth. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Wyatt(2) Surrey. 5. The restoration of the Stuart monarchy to the throne with the return of Charles II from France in 1660; the literary period of the later part of the century of which the leading figure was John Dryden. A) Medieval Romance. B) Restoration. C) Romantic Age. D) English Renaissance. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Restoration. 6. The repetition of the accented vowel sound, and all succeeding sounds in words which come at the end of lines of poetry. A) End Rhyme. B) Masculine Rhyme. C) Internal Rhyme. D) Feminine Rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) End Rhyme. 7. A form of literature written in prose or poetry or a combination of the two which relies on action to portray life and character A) Drama. B) Epic. C) Elegy. D) Essay. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Drama. 8. A play, novel, or other narrative depicting serious and important events, in which the main character comes to an unhappy end. A) Comedy. B) Conceit. C) Tragedy. D) Archetype. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Tragedy. 9. Satire is often meant to be funny, but not always. A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) True. 10. Who are some of the prominent Romantic poets in British literature? A) Robert Frost, Walt Whitman, Langston Hughes, Emily Dickinson, Edgar Allan Poe. B) William Shakespeare, John Milton, Geoffrey Chaucer, Alexander Pope, T.S. Eliot. C) William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Lord Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley, John Keats. D) Jane Austen, Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Virginia Woolf, George Eliot. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Lord Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley, John Keats. 11. One unaccented syllable followed by an accented one A) Iamb. B) Dactyl. C) Trochee. D) Monosyllabic. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Iamb. 12. Poetry having no metrical pattern A) Theory. B) Madrigal. C) Free verse. D) Blank verse. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Free verse. 13. ..... poetry mourns the dead A) Elegiac. B) Epic. C) Homily. D) Monologue. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Elegiac. 14. Easily excused or forgiven A) Venial. B) Superfluous. C) Goad. D) Lithe. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Venial. 15. Arrogant and stubborn about one's beliefs A) Insipid. B) Dogmatic. C) Extraneous. D) Jaundiced. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Dogmatic. 16. Shakespeare played ..... in "Hamlet" . A) Horatio. B) The Ghost. C) Gertrude. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The Ghost. 17. A poem of mourning. A) Ballad. B) Didactic poem. C) Elegy. D) Epic. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Elegy. 18. Which book contains a lot of stories about sex, love, politics, war, the Church, etc.? A) Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer. B) The Sonnets by William Shakespeare. C) Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer. 19. Who had a diplomatic career? A) Samuel Johnson. B) Joseph Addison. C) Daniel Defoe. D) Sir Richard Steele. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Joseph Addison. ← PreviousRelated QuizzesRegions QuizzesEnglish Literature QuizzesBritish Literature Quiz 1British Literature Quiz 2British Literature Quiz 3British Literature Quiz 4British Literature Quiz 5British Literature Quiz 6British Literature Quiz 7British Literature Quiz 8 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books