This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Introductions > English Literature (1) – Quiz 153 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books English Literature (1) Quiz 153 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What is phonology? A) The study and classification of speech sounds. B) It is the classification of the sounds within the system of a particular language or languages. C) Replacing one with the other in a word makes a minimal pair. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) It is the classification of the sounds within the system of a particular language or languages. 2. The nightingale was ..... A) Smart. B) Kind. C) Naive. D) Intelligent. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Naive. 3. "The night is a big, black cat" is an example of A) Simile. B) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 4. The poet describes the midnight as a glimmer because of A) Moonlight falling on the Lake water. B) Sunlight falling on the Lake water. C) Shimmering water of the Lake. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Moonlight falling on the Lake water. 5. Fell me in three parts ..... Here fell means? A) Destroy. B) End. C) Cut. D) Fix. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Cut. 6. A myth explains the actions of ..... or ..... A) Animals, people. B) Gods, heroes. C) Men, women. D) Gods, people. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Gods, heroes. 7. Which word is finite verb? " We saw a clown standing on his head trying to do a daring stunt." A) Standing. B) Trying. C) Do. D) Daring. E) Saw. Show Answer Correct Answer: E) Saw. 8. What is your name? A) Richa. B) Rahul. C) Reena. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Richa. 9. What does the duke assure Shylock before giving his punishment? A) Shylock will see the difference of their spirit. B) Shylock will be shown mercy. C) Shylock will be banished from Venice. D) Shylock's life will be spared. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Shylock will see the difference of their spirit. 10. What literary device is used when a writer gives human qualities to non-human objects or animals? A) Objectification. B) Personification. C) Animalization. D) Dehumanization. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Personification. 11. "Her eyes are a deep ocean." This is an example of a: A) Simile. B) Poem. C) Personification. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Metaphor. 12. In the text, it states, "I knew that once I could write like an educated man there would be no limit to what I could achieve." What inference can be made about the narrator based on this statement? A) He values education and knows it will take him far. B) He is a better thief and will continue making his life that way. C) He does not value his relationship with Anil. D) Anil feel obligated to teach the narrator. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) He values education and knows it will take him far. 13. Which age is known as Golden Age of English literature? A) Victorian age. B) Romantic age. C) Augustan age. D) Elizabethan Age. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Elizabethan Age. 14. The most famous work of Edmund Spenser's was published in A) 1590. B) 1560. C) 1567. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 1590. 15. The person who writes the book is called the ..... A) Illustrator. B) Dialogue. C) Author. D) Character. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Author. 16. Who is the writer of the story A) James hilton. B) Tony mitton. C) Ruskin bond. D) Charles dickens. E) Jean ure. Show Answer Correct Answer: E) Jean ure. 17. Which is the pronoun here? "I am going with my mom to the movies" A) I and My. B) Mom and Movies. C) Going and to. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) I and My. 18. According to stanza 4, what do you think the persona's foe did in the garden? A) The persona's foe slept in the garden. B) The persona's for ate the apple. C) The persona's foe had a cup of coffee. D) The persona's foe went for a stroll. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The persona's for ate the apple. 19. What are the white flowers used for according to the poem? A) Making crowns for the brow of a bridegroom. B) For maidens to wear in their hair. C) To perfume the sleep of the dead. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) To perfume the sleep of the dead. 20. "Rudi would lose his way to Cicago if he was not to able to speak English well" . It means ..... A) Rudi gets lost because his English was poor. B) Rudi doesn't get lost owing to his good English skill. C) In spite of his poor English, Rudi doesn't get lost. D) Although Rudi is not good in English, he doesn't get lost. E) Rudi doesn't get lost because his English is not well. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Rudi doesn't get lost owing to his good English skill. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesEnglish Literature (1) Quiz 1English Literature (1) Quiz 2English Literature (1) Quiz 3English Literature (1) Quiz 4English Literature (1) Quiz 5English Literature (1) Quiz 6English Literature (1) Quiz 7English Literature (1) Quiz 8English Literature (1) Quiz 9English Literature (1) Quiz 10 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books