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“Inane gaudiness” is a phrase used in connection with neo-classicism by ________
[1] William Wordsworth [2] S.T. Coleridge [3] Matthew Arnold [4] T.S. EliotAnswer: [1] William Wordsworth
“The elegy written in a country churchyard” is written in:
[1] Quatrains of ten syllable lines [2] Octava and sestet [3] Heroic couplet [4] AlexandrinesAnswer: [1] Quatrains of ten syllable lines
Which among the following is an incomplete poem by P.B. Shelley?
[1] “The triumph of life” [2] “Ode to the west-wind” [3] “Queen Mab” [4] “The daemon of the world”Answer: [1] “The triumph of life”
Who said, “there is, there can be and there ought to be the difference between the language of prose and metrical composition”?
[1] John Dryden [2] William Wordsworth [3] S.T. Coleridge [4] T.S EliotAnswer: [2] William Wordsworth
Which of the following works is NOT written by P.B Shelley?
1) The Mask of Anarchy
2) Queen Mab: A Philosophical Poem
3) The Vision of Judgement
4) The Revolt of Islam
Answer: 3) The Vision of Judgement
Who among the following has composed the lyrical drama Hellas?
1) Lord Byron
2) P. B Shelley
3) William Wordsworth
4) John Keats
Answer: 2) P. B Shelley
Who among the following characters personifies necessity in P. B Shelley’s Prometheus Unbound?
1) Prometheus
2) Demogorgon
3) Jove
4) Jeus
Answer: 2) Demogorgon
Which of the following works have been authored by Thomas De Quincey?
A) Confessions of An English Opium Eater
B) The French Revolution
C) Hudibras
D) Autobiography
E) Suspiria De Profoundis
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
1) A, B and C
2) A, C and D
3) A, D and E
4) A, B and D
Answer: 3) A, D and E
Given below are two statements:
Statement I: Wordsworth’s “Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood” was published in 1807.
Statement II: In “Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood,” Wordsworth sums up his philosophy of childhood.
In the light of the above statements, choose the correct answer from the options given below:
1) Both Statement I and Statement II are false.
2) Both Statement I and Statement II are true.
3) Statement I is true but Statement II is false.
4) Statement I is false but Statement II is true.
Answer: 2) Both Statement I and Statement II are true.
Identify the poet of the following poems:
(a) The Skylark
(b) The Badger
(c) The Gypsy Camp
(d) First Love
(1) P.B. Shelley
(2) John Clare
(3) Lord Byron
(4) Robert Burns
Answer: (2) John Clare
Name the poet who has composed the following poems:
(a) The Divine Image
(b) The Holy Thursday
(c) The Little Boy Lost
(d) The Little Boy Found
(1) William Shakespeare
(2) William Blake
(3) William Collins
(4) Samuel Johnson
Answer: (2) William Blake
According to Greek Mythology, who is a Psyche in John Keats’ “Ode to Psyche”?
(1) A mortal woman
(2) Cupid
(3) An immortal woman
(4) Venus
Answer: (1) A mortal woman
Which among the following poems has not been composed by P.B. Shelley?
(1) To Wordsworth
(2) Mutability
(3) Hymn to Intellectual Beauty
(4) When We Two Parted
Answer: (4) When We Two Parted
