This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Regions > British Literature > British Literature – Quiz 28 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books British Literature Quiz 28 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Name one example of an archetypal character in British literature. A) Comic relief. B) Sidekick. C) Villain. D) Tragic hero. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Tragic hero. 2. "Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of the powerful feelings" is a definition of poetry by ..... A) Wordsworth. B) Coleridge. C) Byron. D) Shelley. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Wordsworth. 3. Presenting a discrepancy between appearance and reality or between expectation and fulfillment A) Dramatic irony. B) Irony of situation. C) Verbal irony. D) Satire. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Irony of situation. 4. A hero who is usually in conflict with an opponent called an antagonist. A) Protagonist. B) Drama. C) Georgians. D) Scop. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Protagonist. 5. The root word ..... ? ..... means to touch. A) PLAC. B) SENS, SENT. C) TANG, TACT, TING. D) US, UT. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) TANG, TACT, TING. 6. Rhyme involving only one syllable. A) Masculine Rhyme. B) Feminine Rhyme. C) End Rhyme. D) Approximate Rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Masculine Rhyme. 7. After Lydia disappears, the deepest worry of the Bennet family is that her marriage will ruin their ..... A) Reputation. B) Finances. C) Health. D) Relationships. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Reputation. 8. Capricious, erratic, fickle, impulsive, unreliable, and whimsical are ..... ? ..... of flighty. A) Synonyms. B) Antonyms. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Synonyms. 9. An accented syllable followed by two unaccented ones A) Anapest. B) Dactyl. C) Iamb. D) Trochee. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Dactyl. 10. A fourteen-line poem, usually written in iambic pentameter, that has one of several rhyme schemes. A) Stanza. B) Satire. C) Sonnet. D) Assonance. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Sonnet. 11. It is considered as the great age of novel. A) Romantic Period. B) Victorian Period. C) Modern Period. D) Contemporary Period. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Victorian Period. 12. Who wrote the novel "The Kite Runner" ? A) Khaled Hosseini. B) Salman Rushdie. C) Orhan Pamuk. D) Naguib Mahfouz. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Khaled Hosseini. 13. Who is Called as " Father of Poetry" ? A) Edmund Spenser. B) Geoffrey Chaucer. C) William Wordsworth. D) John Keats. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Geoffrey Chaucer. 14. Sir Lancelot A) Anglo Saxon Period. B) Medieval Period. C) Renaissance. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Medieval Period. 15. Resulting from accumulation, increasing A) Cumulative. B) Goad. C) Trite. D) Impunity. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Cumulative. 16. Which literary movement emphasized the importance of nature and emotions in British literature? A) Enlightenment. B) Realism. C) Gothic. D) Romanticism. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Romanticism. 17. To admit or be admitted into a group or college A) Exculpate. B) Sine qua non. C) Trenchant. D) Matriculate. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Matriculate. 18. A dramatic allegory in which the vices and virtues waged for the possession of the human soul. A) Morality Play. B) Miracle Play. C) Mystery Play. D) Medieval Romance. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Morality Play. 19. A consonance is ..... A) Repetition of similar consonant sounds within nearby words. B) Same vowel sound repeats within a group of words. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Repetition of similar consonant sounds within nearby words. 20. ..... is the study of word origins A) Etomology. B) Biology. C) Wordology. D) Speakology. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Etomology. ← 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