English Literature Questions for Bank and other Jobs

1. Protagonist indicates -the leading character in a play

2. A sonnet is a poem having fourteen lines

3. ‘Blank Verse’ is a kind of verse -having no rhyming end

4. The real name of O. Henry is William Sydney Porter.

5. ‘To Daffodils’ is written by – Robert Herrick

6. Goethe is the greatest poet of – Germany

7. The author of the book ‘Asian Drama ‘is – Gunnar Myrdal

8. ‘A Passage to India’ is written by – E.M Forster

9. William Blake was both -a poet and painter

10. The full name of the tragedy ‘Dr. Faustus’ – The Tragic History of Doctor Faustus

11. ‘To be or not to be’ is the beginning of a famous soliloquy from – Hamlet.

12. The father of English Poem – Geoffrey Chaucer

13. Francis Bacon is an – Essayist

14. ‘Renaissance’ means – the revival of learning

15. Elizabethan tragedy is centered on – Revenge

16. Most famous satirist in English literature – Jonathan Swift

17. A lexicographer is a person who writes – dictionaries

18. The father of English Novel – Daniel Defoe

19. The English Poet who addicted to opium – S.T. Coleridge

20. The Golden Age of English Literature – the Elizabethan Age