English Literature Mcqs
Margaret Atwood was born in which Canadian city ?

A. Vancouver
B. Toronto
C. Ottowa
D. Montreal

Which Welsh poet wrote “Under Milk Wood ? “

A. Anthony hopkins
B. Richard burton
C. Tom jones
D. Dylan thomas

Who wrote about the idyllic ’Isle of Innisfree’ ?

A. Dylan thomas
B. Ezra pound
C. Yeats
D. E. e. cummings

Carl Sandburg ’Planked whitefish’ contains what kind of imagery ?

A. Sea scenes
B. Rural idyll
C. War
D. Innocent childhood

In 1960 ’The Colossus’ was the first book of poems published by which poetess ?

A. Elizabeth bishop
B. Sylvia plath
C. Marianne moore
D. Laura jackson

Which of the following is not a poetic tradition ?

A. The epic
B. The comic
C. The occult
D. The tragic

Shakespeare composed much of his plays in what sort of verse ?

A. Alliterative verse
B. Sonnet form
C. Iambic pentameter
D. Dactylic hexameter

Which Poet Laureate wrote about a church mouse ?

A. Betjeman
B. Hughes
C. Marvel
D. Larkin

The –s in ‘john’s’ is __________?

A. An adjective forming morpheme
B. Plural morpheme
C. Possessive morpheme
D. Past morpheme

Who called Chaucer the father of English literature?

A. M arnaldb
B. John dryden
C. Dr johson
D. T  s eliot