This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Regions > British Literature > British Literature – Quiz 26 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books British Literature Quiz 26 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Who contributed to 'The Tatler'? A) Joseph Addison. B) Sir Richard Steele. C) Daniel Defoe. D) Samuel Johnson. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Joseph Addison. 2. 5 feet A) Hexameter. B) Tetrameter. C) Dimeter. D) Pentameter. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Pentameter. 3. The method of presenting the reader with the material of the story; the perspective from which the story is told. A) Point of View. B) Satire. C) Tone. D) Rerain. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Point of View. 4. A movement within the Anglican Church led by John Henry Newman from 1833 to 1845 which sought to return to the rituals and practices of the Roman Catholic Church. A) Oxford Movement. B) Middle-class Morality. C) Medieval Romance. D) English Reformation. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Oxford Movement. 5. A European movement characterized by an interest in and imitation of classical works and styles, emphasizing conformity to fixed literary standards, proper patterns of outward social conduct, formality, restraint, polish, and elegance. A) Neoclassicism. B) Metaphor. C) Pageant. D) Miracle Play. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Neoclassicism. 6. Shakespeare invented a Shakespearean sonnet. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 7. A melancholy poem which reflects on nature and death A) Elegiac poem. B) Elegy. C) Epic. D) Epigram. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Elegy. 8. What do you call the emotional release or purification experienced by the audience when watching a tragic play? A) Climax. B) Euphoria. C) Resolution. D) Catharsis. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Catharsis. 9. In a Shakespearean play, what is a dramatic monologue in which a character reveals their inner thoughts and emotions called? A) Dialogue. B) Solitude. C) Monologue. D) Soliloquy. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Soliloquy. 10. Alliteration and kenning were important in the poetry. A) Anglo Saxon Period. B) Medieval Period. C) Renaissance. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Anglo Saxon Period. 11. The reasons why the work The Lord of the Rings is so popular, except: A) He. B) Writing techniques. C) Sales techniques. D) Extrinsic elements of the story. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Extrinsic elements of the story. 12. Beneficial, healthful, profitable, and wholesome are ..... ? ..... of baneful A) Synonyms. B) Antonyms. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Antonyms. 13. The following are the writers of Victorian Period except? A) Daylan Thomas. B) Charles Dickens. C) Thomas Hardy. D) George Eliot. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Daylan Thomas. 14. "Let loyalty and truth be paramount with you. If you have faults, shrink not from correcting them" A) Always be loyal and truthful.Do not be afraid to admit your mistakes, correct them. B) It is better to be truthful and sincere than to exhibit proper behavior but not mean it. C) When someone does good to you, do good to them. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Always be loyal and truthful.Do not be afraid to admit your mistakes, correct them. 15. Emerging, coming into existence A) Nascent. B) Trenchant. C) Indefeasible. D) Tyro. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Nascent. 16. In which century Chaucer lived in? A) 13th Century. B) 14th Century. C) 15th Century. D) 16th Century. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 14th Century. 17. ..... is a speech by a single character. A) Prologue. B) Monologue. C) Dialogue. D) Epilogue. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Monologue. 18. The Roman Emperor Julius Caesar visited Britain in A) 43 AD. B) 65 BC. C) 55 BC. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 55 BC. 19. During the Iron Age, ..... composed hymns and poems, and compiled historical records, served as judges, and conducted religious ceremonies in oak groves. A) Monks. B) Priests. C) Druids. D) Politicizing. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Druids. 20. An informal and more personal essay than those written in the eighteenth century A) Familiar essay. B) Formal essay. C) Pastoral elegy. D) Irony. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Familiar essay. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesRegions QuizzesBritish Literature Quiz 1British Literature Quiz 2British Literature Quiz 3British Literature Quiz 4British Literature Quiz 5British Literature Quiz 6British Literature Quiz 7British Literature Quiz 8British Literature Quiz 9 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books