English Literature

A 'Myth' is -

• a legend
• an adventurous story
• an mysterious story
• a dective story

'He prayeth best, who loveth best.' - Who said it?

• John Milton
• John Donne
• Lord Byron
• S.T. Coleridge

The story of 'Moby Dick' centres on -

• a mermaind
• whale
• a crocodile
• topic sentence

Who wrote the picaresque novel titled 'Tom Jones'?

• Samuel Richardson
• Horace Walpole
• Henry Fielding
• Laurence Steme

Caliban is an important character from Shakespeare's -

• TheTempest
• Hamlet
• Macbeth
• Othello

'All for Love' is a drama written by -

• John Dryden
• William congreve
• John Bunyan
• Francis Bacon

The poetic drama 'Murder in the Cathedral' was written by -

• Harold pinter
• G.B. Shaw
• T.S. Eliot
• Samuel Backett

"All changed, changed utterly : A terrible beauty is born." This extract is taken from W.B. Yeats poem titled -

• No Second Troy
• Easter 1916
• the Second Coming
• The wild Swans at Code

Who wrote the short story 'The Ant and the Grasshopper?

• Guy de Manupassant
• W. Somerset Maugham
• J.K. Rawlings
• O' Henry

A group of lines placed together to create poem is called a -

• form
• poem
• stanza
• paragraph

Who wrote the novel 'Great Expectations'?

• Charles Dickens
• John Milton
• G. B. Shaw
• Shakespeare

Everyone in the groo

• ode
• homage
• saga
• elegy

A mournful poem written on the death of someone loved and lost is -

• ode
• homage
• saga
• elegy

What is a sonet?

• a prose of special nature
• a poem of fourteen lines
• a cirticism of a poet
• a sad poem about nature

A little learning is a dangerous thing' is a quotation from -

• Oscar wildes
• Voltaire
• Altered Tennyson
• Alexander pope

--- was both a poet and a painter.

• John Keats
• Spenser
• William Blade
• John Donne

What kind of play is Julius Ceasar?

• romantic
• anti-romantic
• comedy
• historical

Where is the setting of the play 'Hamlet'?

• England
• Italy
• France
• Denmark

Which of the following novels is not written by an English Writer?

• A passage of India
• Sons and Lovers
• One Hundred Years of Solitude
• Pride and Prejudice

Who is the author of the novel 'The God of Small Things'?

• Thomas Hardy
• Jhumpa Lahiri
• R. K. Narayan
• Arundhati Roy

Who is not a modern poet?

• W. B. Yeats
• W. H. Auden
• John Keats
• T. S. Eliot

'No second Troy' is a -

• Short story
• novel
• poem
• drama

O' Henry was from -

• Canada
• America
• England
• Ireland

'If winter comes, can spring be far behind'? who wrote this?

• William Blake
• S. T. Coleridge
• Lord Byron
• P. B. Shelley

'Moby Dick' a novel was written by -

• Herman Melville
• Nathaniel Hawthome
• Mark Twain
• William Faulkner

Who is the poet of the poem 'Ozymandias'?

• P. B. Shelley
• William Wordsworth
• S. T. Coleridge
• John Keats

Who is not an Irish writer?

• Oscar Wilde
• James Joyce
• Jonathan Swift
• D. H. Lawrence

'Better to reign in hell, than serve in Heav'n'? - Who wrote this?

• Geoffrey Chaucer
• Christopher Marlowe
• John Milton
• P. B. Shelley

Who wrote the play 'The way of the world'?

• William Shakespeare
• William Congreve
• Ben Jonson
• Oscar Wilde

The most famous romantic poet of English literature is-

• John Dryden
• Alexander Pope
• William Wordsworth
• T. S. Eliot

Who is the author of 'Jane Eyre'?

• Charlotte Bronte
• Emily Bronte
• Jane Austen
• Mary Shelley

The novel prize of literature in 2019 is awarded to -

• V.S. Naipaul
• Sretlana Alexivick
• Peter Handke
• Orham Pamuke

Who wrote the book ' The waste land'?

• T.S. Eliot
• G.B. Shaw
• George Eliot
• George Orwell

Who of the following is not a novelist?

• Charles Dickens
• Emile Bronte
• William Blake
• Thomas Hardy

'PIP' is the protagonist in Charles Dicken's novel -

• A Christmas Carol
• A tale of two cities
• oliver twist
• Great expectation

In Shakespeare's play Hamlet. Hamlet was prince of -

• Norway
• Britain
• Denmark
• France

Who is the movement poet?

• Philip Larkin
• Ted Hughes
• T.S. Eliot
• W.H. Auden

Who could have written 'The book of job'?

• Jonh Milton
• Henry Vaugham
• William Shakespeare
• None of these

“Gulliver’s Travels’ is written by –

• Ernest Hemingway
• Jonathan Swift
• Bernard Shaw
• Charles Dick

Who is the author of 'Man and Superman'?

• Henry Folding
• H.G. Wells
• Walter Scott
• G.B. Shaw

Who of the following is a novelist?

• William Wordsworth
• John Keats
• Charles Dickens
• John Milton

'Justice delayed is justice denied' was stated by -

• Disraeli
• Emerson
• Gladstone
• Shakespeare

Man and Superman এর লেখক -

• G.B. Shaw
• Y.B. Yeats
• Thomas Hardy
• Charles Dickens

'Lady Chatterley's Lover' was written by the author of -

• Lord Jim
• The Rainbow
• Ulysses
• A passage to India

'Pip' is the protagonist in Charles Dickens' Novel -

• A christmas Carol
• A tale of Two Cities
• Oliver Twist
• Great Expectations

'Why, then, 'its none to you, for there is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes is so.' This extract is taken from the drama -

• king lear
• macbeth
• as you like it
• hamlet

'Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield' is taken from the poem written by -

• Robert Browing
• mattew anold
• Alfred temyson
• lord byron

Who is the author of the first scientific romance 'The Time Machine'?

• H.G. Wells
• Samuel Butler
• Henry James
• George Moore

The play 'The Birthday party' is written by -

• Samuel Beckeit
• Henry Livings
• Harold Pinter
• Arthur Miler

The poem 'The Love song of j. Alfred Prufrock's is written by -

• W.B. Yeats
• T.S Eliot
• Walter scon
• Robert Browing

The character 'Alfred Doolittle' is taken from Shaw's play titled -

• Pygmalion
• Man and Superman
• The Doctor's Dilemma
• Mrs. Warren's Prffession

'Was this the face that launch'd a thousand ships, And burut the topless towers of Ilium? Who speaks the famous lines?'

• Caesat
• antomy
• Faustus
• Romeo

'Time held me green and dying Though I sang in my chains like the sea.' These lines have been quoted from Dylan Thomas' Poem -

• The Flower
• Fem Hill
• By Fire
• After the Funeral

Adela Quested and Mrs. More are characters from the nevel -

• David Copperfield
• The Return of the Native
• A passage to India
• Adma Bede

In Shakespeare's play Hamlet, Hamlet prince of -

• Norway
• Britain
• Denmark
• France

Who is not a romantic poet?

• P.B. Shelley
• S.T. Coleridge
• John keats
• T.S. Eliot

"To be or not to be....' is taken from:

• Macbeth
• King Lear
• Hamlet
• Othello

Who is the author of 'Macbeth'?

• Jonathan Swift
• John Milton
• William Shakespeare
• Ben Jonson

'Farewell to Arms' is a novel by--

• Thomas Hardy
• Charles Dickens
• Earnest Hemingway
• D. H. Lawrence

Who is called the 'poet of buauty'?

• William Shakespeare
• John Keats
• P. B. Shelley
• William Wordsworth

Find the odd-man-out--

• The Bluest Eye
• Sula
• As I Lay Dying
• A Mercy

Find the odd-man-out--

• George Eliot
• Thomas Hardy
• Joseph Conrad
• James Joyce

"To be, or not be ,that is the question"--is a famous dialogue from--

• Othello
• Romeo and Juliet
• Hamlet
• Macbeth

Which of the following writers belong to the Elizabethan period?

• Christopher Marlowe
• Alexander Pope
• John Dryden
• Samuel Beckett

Riders to the sea is---

• an epic poem
• a novella
• a one act-play
• a theatrical adaptationof a poem

The poem "Isle of Innisfree"is written by---

• Dylan Thomas
• Ezra pound
• W.H Auden
• W.B.yeats

Othello is a Shakespeare's play about--

• A Jew
• A Roman
• A turk
• A moor

The play Arms and the man is bye--

• Jemes Joyce
• Samuel Beckett
• Arthur Miller
• George BernardShaw

Charles Dicknes is a great---

• poet
• novelist
• critic
• dramatist

Who of the following is a famous epic poet in English literature?

• Lord Tennyson
• John Milton
• Lord Byron
• H.G.Wells

Who wrote 'Fools rush in where angels fear to tread'?

• Rousseau
• Jhon Keats
• Alexander Pope
• Robert Frost

Who wrote 'The child is father of the man'?

• Shelley
• William Wordsworth
• Gladstone
• Napoleon

Who said--- "An unexamined life is not worth living"?

• Socrates
• Plato
• Aristotle
• Zeno

"England expects everyman to do his duty.' -- who told it?

• Thetcher
• Wilson
• Churchill
• Nelson

"Poets are the unacknowlwdged legislature of the world.' --who told it?

• Browning
• Tennyson
• Shelley
• Byron

Who wrote "To err is human, to forgive is devine."

• Keats
• A Tennyson
• Alexander Pope
• W. Blake

"Full many a flower is born to blush unseen. and wasre its sweetness in the desert air." said--

• P. B. Shelley
• Jhon Keats
• William Wordsworth
• Thomas Gray

'To be or not to be, that is the question'. a quotation from--

• King Lear
• Hamlet
• Tempest
• Julius Caesar

'Water water everywhere, not a drop to drink.' occurs in--

• The Ancient Mariner
• To Skylark
• The Paradise Lost
• The Cloud

'But I have promises to keep And miles to go before I sleep' --- was written by--

• T. S. Eliot
• W. B. Yeats
• Robert Frost
• Ted Huges

'Our Sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought'.--- was written by--

• P. B. Shelley
• Jhon Keats
• Henry David Thoreau
• Sir Winston Churchill

Who wrote 'beauty is truth, truth is beauty'?

• Shakespeare
• Wordsworth
• Keats
• Eliot

"Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed and some few to be chewed and digest". said--

• Joseph Addison
• Dr. Johnson
• Charles Lamb
• Francis Bacon

'If winter comes can spring be far behind'--is a quotation from P. B. Shelley's--

• The cloud
• Adonias
• Ode to the west wind
• To a Skylark

Who has written? 'He prayeth best, who loveth best All things great and small'.

• P. B. Shelley
• Jhon Keats
• Coleridge
• Lord Byron

Who wrote 'Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; Writing an exact man'?

• Shakespeare
• Keats
• Bacon
• Kyd

Who wrote 'A things of beauty is a joy forever'?

• John Keats
• William Wordsworth
• John Milton
• William Shakespeare

Who said 'Man is born free, and every where he is in chains'?

• Rousseau
• Keats
• Lord Mansfield
• Stuart Mill

'Let us not negotiate out of fear, but let us not fear to negotiate' said an American President in his inaugural speech, what was the name of the President:

• Richard Nixon
• John F. Kennedy
• Franklin D Roosevelt
• Ronald Reagan

'A small step for men, a giant step for mankind' said an astranaut. Name the astranaut:

• Neil Armstrong
• Edward White
• Yuri Gagarin
• Allen Shepherd

A. S. Hornby is famous for--

• Writing dictionaries
• Writting poems
• Writting songs
• Writting text books

Romeo and Juliet is a--

• Comedy
• Tragedy
• Romance
• Morality play

Goethe is the greatest poet of--

• Germany
• Russia
• England
• France

What is the full name of O' Henry?

• Walt Whitman
• William Sydney Porter
• MK Rawlings
• O'Neill

Who is called called the poet of poets?

• Geofrrey Chaucer
• Edmund Spenser
• Thomas Kyd
• William Shakespeare

Who wrote 'Gullivers Travels'?

• R. L. Stevenson
• Daniel Defoe
• D. H. Lawrence
• Jonathan Swift

'Brick Lane' is written by--

• Monica Ali
• R. K. Narayan
• Harold Pinter
• Elizabeth Bowen

'Balank Verse' is a kind of verse--

• having no rhyming end
• having blanks in the verse
• having no significance
• having no rhythmic flow

What is Epic?

• a porse composition
• a romance
• a novel
• a long poem

A fantasy is--

• A imaginary story
• A funny film
• A real life event
• A funny place

What is 'Sonnet'?

• A porse of special nature
• A sacred poem of reputed poet
• A poem of fourteen lines
• A criticism of a poet

'Elegy' is--

• historical poem
• figurative story
• song of lamentation
• short story

Who is the author of 'The Old Man and the Sea'?

• H. Melvile
• George Orwell
• Charles Dickens
• Ernest Hemingway

The novel 'Roots' was written by--

• P. B. Shelley
• Henry Miller
• H. G. Wells
• Alex Haley

The author of the book 'Asian Drama' is--

• Shakespeare
• Gunnar Myrdal
• Humayun Kabir
• Bertrand Russel

Who is the author of 'The Jungle Book'?

• T. S. Eliot
• P. B. Shelley
• Rudyard Kipling
• O' Henry

'The God of Small Things' is written by--

• Vikram Seth
• Jane Austen
• Arundhuti Roy
• E. M. Forster

Who is the author of 'Animal Farm'?

• Thomas More
• George Orwell
• Boris Pasternak
• Charles Dickens

Who is the greatest modern English dramatist?

• P. B. Shelley
• George Bernard Show
• Verginia Woolf
• S. T. Coleridge

Who is the author of 'A Farewell to Arms'?

• T. S. Eliot
• Plato
• John Milton
• Ernest Hemingway

'Vanity Fair' is a novel by--

• Dickens
• Thackeray
• Scott
• Feilding

Who wrote 'War and Peace'?

• P. B. Shelley
• Jhon Keats
• Leo Tolstoy
• Thomas Hardly

'A Tale of Two Cities' is a novel by--

• Dickens
• Thackeray
• Scott
• Feilding

Who is considere to be the Rebel poet in English literature?

• John Keats
• Waiter Scott
• John Milton
• Lord Byron

Who is called the 'Poet of beauty'?

• P. B. Shelley
• Jhon Keats
• William Wordsworth
• William Shakespeare

Who is called the 'Poet of Nature' in english literature?

• P. B. Shelley
• Jhon Keats
• William Wordsworth
• Lord Byron

Who is considered to be the father of english novel?

• Jeofrrey Chaucer
• Francis Bacon
• King Alfred the Great
• Henry Fielding

Who wrote the book 'Ivan Hoe'?

• P. B. Shelley
• Jhon Keats
• Charles Dickens
• O' Henry

Who is the most famous satirist in English literature?

• Alexander Pope
• Samuel Butler
• William Wordsworth
• Jonathan Swift

The first English dictionary was completed by---

• P. B. Shelley
• Samuel Butler
• William Blake
• Samuel Johnson

Who is the english 'Epic Poet'?

• John Keats
• William Wordsworth
• John Milton
• Lord Tennyson

'Paradise Lost' was written by--

• Dan Brown
• John Abraham
• John Milton
• John Denver

Macbeth is a--

• play
• novel
• an essay
• poem

Elizabethan tragedy is centred on--

• revenge
• nature
• love
• war

'Silent Woman' written by--

• John Rusuin
• Ben Jonson
• Kalidas
• Munshi Prem Chand

Shakespeare's 'Julious Caesar' is a--

• comedy
• satire
• tragedy
• historical play

'The Merchant of Venice' is written by--

• Shelley
• Wordsworth
• Shakespeare
• Milton

Who is the father of modern poetry?

• Jeofrrey Chaucer
• Robert Browning
• Keats
• Cynewulf

The author of 'Road to Freedom' is--

• Bertrand Russel
• Jhon Keats
• G B Shaw
• O Goldsmith

John Keats is primarily a poet of--

• Beauty
• Nature
• Love
• Revolution

Shakespeare's 'King Lear' is a---

• Satire
• Comedy
• Tragedy
• Lyric

The author of 'War and Peace' was--

• Tolstoy Leo Nikolaievich
• Tolstoy, Alexei, Nikolaievich
• Shakespeare, William
• Kosygin, Alexei

Who wrote the first english dictionary?

• A. T. Dev
• Chaucer
• Sir Thomas Malory
• Samuel Johnson

Father of English poetry is---

• Jeofrrey Chaucer
• Jhon Keats
• William Wordsworth
• William Shakespeare

Lord Tennyson is known as--

• Epic poet
• Lyric poet
• Romantic poet
• Poet of beauty

'A Voyage of Lilliput' is written by--

• R. L. Stevenson
• Thomas Harday
• William Wordsworth
• Jonathan Swift

Who wrote "Utopia"?

• William Caxton
• William Langland
• Sir Thomas Wyatt
• Sir Thomas More

Which one of the following plays is a comedy ?

• All's well that Ends well
• Hamlet
• Timon of Athens
• Antony and Cleopatra

Of the following who is the most translated author of the world ?

• V.I.Lenin
• Leo Tolstoy
• Agatha Cristie
• Mao Tse Tung

'Moby Dick' deals with -

• a Shark
• a Crocodile
• a Sea -Gull
• a While

ঈশ্বরচন্দ্র বিদ্যাসাগরের 'ভ্রান্তিবিলাস' কোন গ্রন্থের অনুবাদ ?

• Uncle Tom's Cabin
• Doll's House
• Macbeth
• The Commedy of Errors

Romeo and Juliet is a -

• comedy
• tragedy
• romance
• morality play

The beginning of the Renaissance may be traced to the city of -

• Venice
• London
• Paris
• Florence

মুনীর চৌধুরীর 'মুখরা রমণী বশীকরণ' কার লেখা অনুবাদ ?

• William Wordsworth
• William Somerset Maugham
• William Shakespeare
• Charles Dickens

O'Henry is famous for -

• Drama
• Short story
• Novel
• Poems

Calliban is a character in -

• King Lear
• Tempest
• Man and Superman
• Othello

Who wrote the Novel 'Roots' ?

• Henry Miller
• H.G . Halery
• Alex Haley
• John Milton

Which one of the following is not written by Shakespeare ?

• Macbeth
• Hamlet
• Othelo
• Dr. Faustus

The appropriate meaning of the word 'momologue' is -

• a long speech in a play spoken by one actor especially when alone
• conversation in a play
• a speech in a play in which a character, who is alone on the stage, speaks his thoughts aloud
• a dialogue between the two actors or actresses in a drama

Famous Satirist of English language is -

• E.M. Froster
• G.B. Shaw
• Swift
• Defoe

Who compiled the first English Dictionary ?

• Adam Smith
• Dr. Johnson
• Edmund Burke
• Edward Gibbon

Who is called the poet of poets ?

• Geoffrey Chaucer
• Edmund Spenser
• Thomas Kyd
• William Shakespeare

Who wrote 'Kubla Khan' ?

• Milton
• S.T. Coleridge
• Wordsworth
• Ben Jonson

Limerick is -

• a from of one-act play
• a form of short story
• a short from of light verse
• a kind of novel

The period from AD 1066 to 1500 is known as -

• The Old English Period
• The Middle English Period
• The Anglo-Saxon Period
• The Victorian Period

William Wordsworth is pre-eminently -

• a poet of liberty
• a poet of love
• a poet of nature
• a poet of humanism

'Laday Chatterley's Lover' is a novel written by -

• William Somerset Maugham
• Thomas Hardy
• Charles Dickens
• D.H. Lawrence

Milton was the author of -

• Hamlet
• Dr. Faustus
• Tom Jones
• Paradise Lost

William Shakespeare is a famous --- Century English playwright.

• nineteenth
• sixteenth
• eighteenth
• fifteenth

'Blank verse' is a kind of verse-

• having no rhyming end
• having blanks in the verse
• having no significance
• having no rhythmic flow

Tennyson's in Memoriam is -

• an elegy
• an ode
• a sonnet
• none of these

What is the meaning of the word 'Dirge' ?

• a kind of sonnet sequence
• a song expressing patrotic sentiment
• a long verse telling about an adventure
• a song expressing grief, lamentation and mourning

What is an epic ?

• a prose composition
• a romance
• a noval
• a long poem

'Canto' বলতে কি বুঝা যায় ?

• দীর্ঘ কবিতার একটি স্তবক
• নাটকের অঙ্ক
• মহাকাব্যের বিভাগ
• অমিত্রাক্ষর ছন্দে রচিত কবিতা

সনেট শব্দটি উদ্ভব হয়েছে যে ভাষা থেকে -

• জার্মানি
• ইংরেজি
• ইতালি
• ফ্রেঞ্চ

Which of the following means ---'a song of morning' ?

• lyric
• parody
• elegy
• ballad

A sonnet is a poem having --- lines.

• sixteen
• ten
• twelve
• fourteen

'Ballad' is -

• a kind of short narrative poem
• a kind of short condoling poem
• a kind of short love poem
• a rhymic verse

'Protagonist' indicates -

• the villain in a play
• the leading character of actor in a play
• the clown in a play
• the stage-director of a play

What is catastrophy ?

• The comical end of dramatic events
• The tragic end of dramatic events
• The comic tragic end of the play
• None of the above

What is 'Sonnet' ?

• A prose of special nature
• A sacred poem of reputed poet
• A poem of fourteen lines
• A criticism of a poet

'Melodrama' is a kind of play of -

• violent and sensational themes
• historical themes
• philosophical themes
• pathetic themes

What is Limerick ?

• A form of light verse
• A form of one -act play
• A kind of short narrative poem
• A kind of love poem

When a writter writes the story of his own life it is called -

• an autobiography
• a biography
• a diary
• a chronology

'Elegy' is -

• historical poem
• figurative story
• song of lamentation
• short story

The sentence, "Death, thou shalt not die". is an example of -

• simile
• metaphor
• irony
• paradox

Who is the father of Modern English literature ?

• G.B. Shaw
• Shakespeare
• P.B. Shelley
• William Wordsworth

W.Sommerset Maugham রচিত পুস্তক কোনটি ?

• Of Human Bondage
• Roads of Desiny
• Merchant of Venice
• Paradise Lost

'A Brief History of Time' বইটির লেখক -

• আলবার্ট আইনস্টাইন
• আইজ্যাক নিউটন
• জগদীশ চন্দ্র বসু
• স্টিফেন হকিং

রবীন্দ্রানাথ ঠাকুরের 'গীতাঞ্জলী' -এর ইংরেজি অনুবাদ কে করেন ?

• W.B Yeats
• John Keats
• Robert Frost
• Ralph Hodgson

Dr. Zivago বইয়ের লেখকের নাম কোনটি ?

• Boris Pasternauk
• Leo Tolstoy
• Rabindranath Tagore
• Dante

Who is the author of 'Animal Farm' ?

• Thomas More
• George Orwell
• Boris Pastemak
• Charles Dickens

Who is the author of 'For whom the Bell Toll' ?

• Charles Dickens
• Homer
• Lord Tennyson
• Earnest Hemingway

নিম্নোক্তদের মধ্যে ভিক্টোরিয়ান যুগের কবি কে ?

• Robert Browning
• Mathrw Amold
• William shakespeare
• P.B. Shelley

Who is the author of 'Around the World in Eighty Days' ?

• Jules Verne
• Christopher Marlowe
• Charles Kingsley
• Thomas Hood

Who created the detective 'Sherlock Holmes' ?

• John Gay
• W. Somerset Maugham
• Sir A Conan Doyle
• Dylan Thomas

ভরতপক্ষী ও সমীরণের কবি (Poet of Skylark and Winds) নামে পরিচিত কে ?

• Lord Byron
• John Keats
• William Wordsworth
• P.B. Shelley

Lucy সম্পর্কে কবিতা কোন কবি রচনা করেন ?

• S.T. Coleridge
• P.B. Shelley
• William Wordsworth
• Lord Byron

Who is the author of The Rhyme of the 'Ancient Mariner?

• William Wordsworth
• S.T. Coleridge
• W.Somerset Maugham
• Sir Walter Scott

John Keats is known as poet of -

• Beauty
• Love
• Nature
• None of them

নিম্নোক্তদের মধ্যে কে একাধারে কবি এবং চিত্রশিল্পী ছিলেন ?

• Donne
• Keats
• Blake
• Spenser

William Hazlitt কে ছিলেন ?

• Novelist
• Essayist
• Dramatist
• Poet

১৭৯৮-১৮৩০ সাল পর্যন্ত সময়কে ইংরেজি সাহিত্যের কোন কাল বলা হয় ?

• The Renaissance Period
• The Elizabeth age
• The Restoration Period
• The Romantic Age

John Keats is primarily a poet of -

• Beauty
• Nature
• Love
• Revolution

Who is considered to be the Rebel poet in English Literature ?

• Walter Scott
• Lord Byron
• John Keats
• John Austin

'Justice' কবিতাটির রচয়িতা কে ?

• William Shakespeare
• William Wordsworth
• Robert Frost
• Henry Wordsworth Longfellow

Who is called the 'poet of beauty' ?

• William Wordsworth
• P.B. Shelley
• John Keats
• Shakespeare

Who is called the 'poet of Nature' in English literature ?

• Lord Byron
• John Keats
• William Wordsworth
• P.B. Shelley

Who was the famous mock-heroic poet in English literature ?

• Lord Byron
• John Milton
• Alexander Pope
• Lord Tennyson

Gulliver's Travels পুস্থকটির রচয়িতা কে ?

• John Milton
• Jonathan Swift
• Charles Dickens
• Jane Austin

শোকগীতি 'Lycidas' -এর রচয়িতা কে ?

• Thomas Gray
• Alfred Tennyson
• John Milton
• John Keats

ইংরেজি ভাষায় প্রথম অভিধান কে রচনা করেন ?

• Samuel johnson
• Iazak Walton
• Samuel Butler
• Sir Thomas Browne

Who is considered to be the father of English novel ?

• Francis Bacon
• Geoffery Chaucer
• King Alfred the Great
• Henry Fielding

Who wrote the book I'van Hoe' ?

• O' Henry
• R.L. Stevenson
• Ernest Hemingway
• Sir Walter Scott

A lexicographer is a person who writes -

• Novels
• Dictionaries
• Graphs
• Medical books

Who of the following is a famous epic poet in English literature ?

• William Wordsworth
• Lord Byron
• William shakespeare
• John Milton

Who is the English 'Epic' poet ?

• John Keats
• John Milton
• William Wordsworth
• Lord Tennyson

Where is expressed the view that 'There is a divinity that shapes our ends' ?

• In King Lear
• In Hamlet
• In the Tempest
• In Merry wives of windsor

'Comedy of Errors' নাটকটি কে লিখেছেন ?

• Ben Jonson
• G.B. Shaw
• William shakespeare
• T.S. Elliot

Shakespeare was famous for all but one of the followings :

• Comedies
• Bourgeois drama
• Trangedies
• Tragio-drama

Shakespeare কোন সালে জন্মগ্রহন করেন ?

• ১৫৬৪ সালে
• ১৭৭৩ সালে
• ১৮০৯ সালে
• ১৯২৩ সালে

Shakespeare's 'Macbeth' is a -

• Comedy
• Satire
• Tragedy
• Low comedy

Shakespeare's 'King Lear' is a -

• Satire
• Comedy
• Tragedy
• Historical play

'Macbeth' নাটকটি কার লেখা ?

• William Wordsworth
• William Shakespeare
• John Milton
• George Bernard Shaw

"There are more things in haven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in our philosophy." - উক্তিটি Shakespeare - এর কোন নাটক থেকে উদ্ধৃত হয়েছে ?

• Hamlet
• King Lear
• Macbeth
• Othello

Shylock যে নাটকের চরিত্র, সে নাটকটির নাম -

• Doctor Faustus
• The Merchant of Venice
• The way of the world
• Arms and the Man

Macbeth is a -

• play
• novel
• an essay
• poem

A Shakespearean play consists of -

• three
• two acts
• five acts
• one act

Who is considered to be the father of English prose ?

• Francis Bacon
• King Alfred the Great
• Henry Fielding
• Geoffrey Chaucer

Who is the author of 'The Taming of the Shrew' ?

• Shaw
• Shakespeare
• Ibsen
• Jonson

'Silent Women' written by -

• John Ruskin
• Ben Jonson
• Kalidas
• Munshi Prem Chand

Which of the following is a 'Comedy' written by Shakespeare ?

• As You Like it
• King Lear
• Macbeth
• Hamlet

Author of 'Hamlet' -

• Geoffrey Chaucer
• William Blake
• William Wordsworth
• William Shakespeare

Shakespeare's 'Merchant of Venice' is a -

• Tragedy
• Comedy
• Satire
• Lyric

In what year did Shakespeare died ?

• 1570 AD
• 1580 AD
• 1630 AD
• 1616 AD

Hamlet by Shakespeare is -

• a comedy
• a tragic-comedy
• an epic
• a tragedy

Shakespeare wrote brilliant -

• poems
• essays
• novels
• dramas

'Renaissance' means -

• the revival of learning
• the revival of hard task
• the revival of life
• the revival of new country

Shakespeare's 'Julius Caesar' is a -

• Comedy
• Satire
• Tragedy
• Historical play

Who wrote the world famous tragic play 'King Lear' ?

• George Bernard Shaw
• William Shakespeare
• Christopher Marlowe
• John Milton

'The Merchant of Venice' is written by -

• Shelley
• Wordsworth
• Shakespeare
• Milton

Who is considered to be the father of English Poem ?

• William Langland
• Thomas More
• Roger Bacon
• Geoffrey Chaucer

Who is the father of modern English poetry ?

• Cynewulf
• Jeoffery Chaucer
• Robert Browning
• None of the above

Which was the oldest period in English literature ?

• Anglo-Norman
• Anglo-Saxon
• Chaucer's period
• Middle Age

"Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste its sweetsness in the desert air." উদ্ধৃতিটি কোন কবির কবিতা থেকে নেওয়া হয়েছে ?

• P.B. Shelley
• William Wordsworth
• Thomas Gray
• John Keats

'Water, water everyhere, not a drop to drink ' occurs in -

• The Ancient Mariner
• To Skylark
• The Paradise Lost
• The Cloud

"Come live with me and be my love, And we will all the preasures prove, That hills and valleys, dale and fields, And all the craggy mountains yield." These are a few lines of a poem of a great poet. Who is the poet ?

• J.Webstar
• C.Marlow
• W.Shakespeare
• Lord Bacon

'All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand' is a quotation from -

• Hamlet
• Othelo
• King Lear
• Macbeth

'To be or not to be' is the begining of a famous Soleloqu from -

• Paradise Lost
• Romeo and Juliet
• Hamlet
• Shahnama

'But I have promises to keep, And miles to go before I sleep' -was written by -

• T.S. Eliot
• W.B. Yeats
• Robert Frost
• Ted Huges

'Reading make a full man, conference a ready man, writing an exat man.'- Who told it ?

• Chapman
• Frost
• Hamlet
• Bacon

'Man is born free and everywhere he is in chains' quotation of -

• Votaire
• Vector Hugo
• Rousseau
• Shakespeare

Who said 'An unexamined life is not worth living' ?

• Socrates
• Plato
• Aristotle
• Zeno

'Cowards die many times before their death' - occurs in Shakespeare's.

• Julius Caesar
• Hamlet
• Macbeth
• Othello

'Justice delayed is justice denied' was stated by -

• Shakespeare
• Churchill
• Gladstone
• Diraeli

Who of the following was both a poet and painter ?

• Keats
• Donne
• Blake
• Spenser

The 'Poet Laureate' is --- ?

• the best poet of the country
• a winner of the nobel prize in poetry
• the court poet of England
• a classical poet

Which of the following ages in literary history is the latest ?

• The Augustan Age
• The Victorian Age
• The Georgian Age
• The Restoration Age

A fantasty is --- ?

• an imaginary story
• a funny film
• a history record
• a real-life event

In which century was the Victorian period ?

• 17th century
• 18th century
• 19th century
• 20th century

Child is father of man's taken from the writings of -

• P.B. Shelley
• S.T. Coleridge
• W. Wordsworth
• A.C. Swinburne

All the world's stage, And all the man and women mrely players , The have their exits and their entrance, And each man in his time plays many parts, His act being seven ages' - These lines are written by -

• Oliver goldsmith
• Alfred Tennyson
• William shakespeare
• D.H. Lawrence

'Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thoughts' - question from Shelley's -

• The Revolt of Islam
• The Cloud
• Ode to the West Wind
• To Skylark

'He prayeth well, who loveth best both man and bird and beast' -Who is told it ?

• Coleridge
• Bernard Shaw
• Morley
• Julius Caesar

'Our sweetest song are those that tell of saddest thoughts' -Who is the poet ?

• Kippling
• Wordsworth
• Shelley
• Byron

'England expects every man to do his duty'. - who told it ?

• Nelosn
• Churchill
• Wilson
• Thatcher

Stocking are ---- socks.

• long
• small
• big
• short

Identify the correct synonym for the word 'magnanimous' ?

• generous
• unkind
• revengful
• friendly

An person who writes about his own life writes -

• an diary
• a biography
• a chronicle
• an autobiography

Who described 'Moana lisa as' older the rocks among which she sit's ?

• Jane Austen
• Shakespeare
• Walter Pater
• Bertrand Russel

An effective English teacher must have an adequate knowledge of -

• The structure of English
• The grammar rules of English
• The life and culture of those who speake the language
• All of these

Novel means something new and is derived from -

• French
• Arabic
• Latin
• Greek

Which of the following school of literary writings is connected with a medical theory ?

• Comedy of Manners
• Theater of the Absurd
• Heroic Tragedy
• Comedy of Humours

At present English is taught to the children through -

• discussion method
• dialogue method
• communicative method
• direct method

What is the salient feature of all literature ?

• Artistic quality
• Sensuous quality
• Reflective quality
• Joyous quality

We look before and after pine for what is not a quotation from P.B Shelley's -- ?

• The Cloud
• Adonias
• To a Skylark
• Ode to the west wind

Moby Dick কিসের কাহিনী ?

• Acrcodile
• A whale
• A shark
• A menmaid

What is the inner significance of the poem 'The Arrow and the Song' ?

• It is a story of mere flight of an arrow and song
• Hard things and soft things remain side by side
• Cruel deeds and good deeds have effect upon mind
• A hard arrow can be compared to a soft song

One of the following authors, one is American . Who is he ?

• Alexander Pope
• Daniel Defoe
• William Faulkner
• Robert Browning

Booker Prize দেয়া হয় --

• সাহিত্যের জন্য
• বিজ্ঞানের জন্য
• দর্শনের জন্য
• চিত্রকলার জন্য

Which one is the shortest dramatic work ?

• Not
• Breath
• Footballs
• Radio

Who is well known for his translation of ' The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam' into English.

• Rose Macaulay
• Edward Fritzgerald
• George Bernard Shaw
• D.H. Lawrence

Goethe is the greatest poet of -

• Germany
• Russia
• England
• France

What type of book 'The women' is --- ?

• Novel
• Story
• Essay
• Drama

Who translated 'The New Testament' ?

• Langland
• John Wyclif
• Layaman
• Tottel

A Russian author who refused Noble Prize -

• Maxim Gorky
• Ruskin
• Alexander Solzhenitsin
• Boris Pasternak

Who was the only Laureate to refuse the Nobel Prize ?

• Jea Paul Sartre
• Rabindranath Tagore
• Leo Tolstoy
• T.S. Elliot

Nobel Prize winner in literature 'Harold Pinter' is from --

• US
• Australia
• UK
• Canada

'Mist and mellow fruitfulness' -- Which of the following figures of speech is used in this sentence ?

• Alliteration
• Metaphor
• Onomatopoeia
• Personification

What is the full name of the following is the tragedy 'Dr.Faustus' ?

• The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus
• The Tragedy of Doctor Faustus
• The Tragic History of Doctor Faustus
• Doctor Faustus

Which one of the following is the first long poem in English ?

• The Wanderer
• Beowulf
• The Seafarer
• Dream of the Road

Who translated the Bible into English for the first time ?

• Nicolus Udall
• Thomas Norton
• John Wycliff
• Edmund Spenser

'Alice in the Wonderland' belongs to -

• detective literature
• satirical literature
• juvenile literature
• religious literature

Guy de Maupassant is a famous --- short story writer.

• French
• Italian
• German
• Russian

A famous short story of Maupassant is --- ?

• Gift of the Magi
• Tropic of Cancer
• The Orince
• The Diamond Necklace

Award of Nobel prize in literature was stasted from the year -- ?

• 1901
• 1911
• 1913
• 1917

In 'Under the Greenwood Tree' the poet -

• does not speak about any enemy
• mentions two enemies
• speaks of one enemy
• speaks about the life of comfort and happiness

In the lines "Here shall he see/No enemy" taken from 'Under the Greenwood Tree' 'Here' stands for -

• nature
• the greenwood tree
• open space
• hunting ground

In 'Under the Greenwood Tree' the 'Tree' refers to -

• nature
• forest
• sun
• a big tree

'Victor Huge' was a -

• English novelist
• American novelist
• Scottish novelist
• French novelist

In which poem do you find Hindu allusion of philosophy ?

• Kubla Khan
• The Patriot
• The Waste Land
• The Cloud

The most striking feature of D.H. Lawrence's character is that -

• the almost portray himself
• they live a very simple life
• they live a very simple life
• they are sly of themselves

Who is the only Trojan who did not speak evil of Helen and was gentle and kind to her ?

• Priom
• Hector
• Paris
• Penelope

'The Captive lady' কার রচনা ?

• William Shakespeare
• Michel Modhusodhun Dutta
• Henry Wordsworth
• None of the above

'The End of History and the last Man' -- গ্রন্থটির রচয়িতা কে ?

• Samuel Huntington
• Robert Frost
• David Lynn
• M. Francis Fukuyama

Who wrote 'Crime and Punishment' ?

• Shellay
• Tolstoy
• Dostoevosky
• Byron

'To the light house' বইটির রচয়িতা কে ?

• Jane Austen
• Shakespeare
• S.T. Colerdge
• Virginia woolf

হোয়াইটহেডের বিখ্যাত পুস্তিকাটির নাম কি ?

• The Social Contract
• The Aim of Education
• The Rythm of Education
• Education and Democracy

'Phoenix' is --

• a mythological bird
• a kind of eagle
• a God of Greek mythology
• a leopard

Who is the author of 'Spirit of Islam' ?

• Abul Monsur Ahmed
• Syed Amir Ali
• Sir Syed Ahmed
• Abul Kalam Azad

'The Affluent Society' বইটির লেখক কে ?

• H.G Wells
• J.K. Galbraith
• T.S. Eliot
• David Hume

Silent Woman written by ---- ?

• John Ruskin
• Ben Jonson
• Kalidas
• Munshi Prem Chand

Who wrote the book 'Cancer Word' ?

• Alexander Solshenitsin
• Alexander Pope
• Boris Pastemak
• Leo Tolstoy

The Wrath of Achilles is the theme of :

• Aeneid
• Iliad
• Odyssey
• Don Juan

Who wrote 'The Illiad' ?

• Milton
• Vergil
• Homer
• Byron

Who wrote 'The Odyssesy and the Illiad' ?

• Milton
• Homer
• Vergil
• Hoffman

Christopher Marlowe is Shakespeare's -

• successor
• predecessor
• contemporary
• mentor

Who is the author of the drama, 'You never can tell' ?

• William Shakespeare
• G.B. Shaw
• Ben Jonson
• Christopher Marlowe

Who is the author of "Arabian Nights" ?

• Sir Richard Burton
• Alexander Pope
• Smith
• None of them

Who is the writer of the critical work 'Aspects of Novel' ?

• George Eliot
• George Herbert
• Virginia woolf
• Edward Morgan Forster

Who wrote the book 'Lord Jim : A Tale' ?

• Joseph Conrad
• Oscar Wilde
• Thomas Hardy
• Rudyard Kipling

'Lord of the Flies' is a novel by -

• Milton
• Shakespeare
• Shelley
• Wiliiam Golding

Who wrote 'The Spanish Tragedy'?

• John Lyly
• Thomas Kdy
• Robert Green
• Christopher Marlowe

Author of 'The picture of Dorian Gray' ?

• Boris Pasternauk
• Fitzerald
• Aldous Huxley
• Oscar Wilde

'The Sacred Flame' is Written by

• William Somerset Maugham
• G.B. Shaw
• Ernest Hemingway
• Oscar Wilde

'The Return of the Native ' is written by --

• Aldous Huxley
• Somerset Mougham
• Alexander Dumas
• Thomas Hardy

Brick Lane is written by ---?

• Monica Ali
• R.K. Narayan
• Harold Pinter
• Elizabeth Bowen

The first English novel, Pamela, has been written by -

• Daniel Defoe
• Henry Fielding
• Samuel Richardson
• Sir Walter Scott

'A Passage to India' - এর লেখক কে ?

• E.M. Froster
• Charles Dickens
• Rudyard Kipling
• James Joyce

The novel 'Roots' was written by -

• Hsnry miller
• H.G Wells
• Alex Haley
• P.B. Shelley

"Time, you Old Gipsy Man" - কবিতাটি কার লেখা ?

• Ralph hodgson
• Laurence Binya
• W.B. Yeats
• Robert Frost

'Point Counterpoint' - এর লেখক কে ?

• Charlotte Bronte
• H .G . Wells
• John Galsworthy
• Aldous Huxley

Author of 'The Time Machine' is -

• T.S. Eliot
• Thomas Kdy
• Robert Herrick
• H.G. Wells

The author of the book 'Asian Drama' is -

• Shakespeare
• Gunnar Myrdal
• Humayun Kabir
• Bertrand Russel

Who is the author of 'The Jungle Book' ?

• Hans Christain Anderson
• Enid Blyton
• Rudyard Kipling
• H .G. Wells

Harry potter and the Half Blood Prince. বইটির রচয়িতা কে ?

• J.K Rowling
• Sir walter scott
• Virginia woolf
• Alexander Dumas

'The God Small Things' is Written by -

• Vikram Seth
• John Galsworthy
• Arundhuty Roy
• E.M. Forster

'The ancient society' গ্রন্থের লেখকের নাম কি ?

• ইবনে খালদুন
• ইবনে বতুতা
• এল. এইচ . মর্গান
• অ্যাডাম স্মিথ

Dr. Zivago বইটি কার লেখা ?

• Boris Pasternak
• Leo Tolstoy
• Rabindranath Tagore
• Dante

'The Rape of Bangladesh' বইটি কার লেখা ?

• Anthony Mascarenhas
• Mathew Arnold
• G.B. Shaw
• Alexander Dumas

'The Canterbury Tales' is as alive and ---- today as it was nearly 600 years ago.

• appealing
• fruitful
• repelling
• enhancing

Geoffrey Chaucer wrote -

• Canterbury Tales
• Piers Plowman
• Morte d' Arthur
• The Maid's Tragedy

Who wrote 'Pride and Prejudice' ?

• Shakespeare
• Thomas Hardy
• Jane Austen
• John Milton

'Vanity Fair' is a novel by --- ?

• Dickens
• William Thackeray
• Scott
• Fielding

'Vanity Fair' is a ---?

• Short story
• Drama
• Poem
• Novel

"Animal Farm" was written by ---?

• George Orwell
• Stevenson
• Swift
• Mark Twain

Who is the author of "India Wins Freedom" ?

• Mahatma Gandi
• J.L . Nehru
• Abul Kalam Azad
• Moulana Akram Khan

"The Caucasion Chalk Circle" is a -

• play
• novel
• poem
• epic

Who is the 'University Wits' in the following list ?

• William Shakespeare
• Thomas Gary
• Robert Greene
• John Dryden

Who wrote Prometheus Unbound?

• Coleridge
• Keats
• Byron
• Aeschylus

Who wrote Madame Bovary ?

• Leo Tolstoy
• James Joyce
• E . M . Forster
• Gustave Flaubert

'The Canterbury Tales' are told by ---?

• Geofray Chaucer
• John Wyclif
• Boccaccio
• Thomas Barth

Emily Bronte is a --- ?

• Poet
• Critic
• Novelist
• Scientist

Jane Austen is the writer of -

• Jane Eyre
• Ramona
• Emma
• Rebecca

Which Indian English writter wrote 'A Suitable Boy ' ?

• Nirod Chaudhuri
• Jhumpa Lehri
• Anita Desai
• Vikram Seth

"Dr Faustus" was written by -

• Ben Jonson
• W. Shakespeare
• Christopher Marlowe
• John Webster

Lady Chatterley's Lover is a novel written by --

• William Somerset Maugham
• Thomas Hardy
• Charles Dickens
• D.H. Lawrence

Lady Chatterley's Lover was written by the author of --

• A Passage to India
• Lord Jim
• Rainbow
• Ulysses

The rainbow is ---?

• a poem by Wordsworth
• a short story by Somerset Maugham
• a novel by D. H . Lawrence
• a verse by Coleridge

D. H. Lawrence a famous novelist of modern age is not the author of one of the four Novels mentioned below. Which is the Novel ?

• The Rainbow
• Ulysses
• Sons and Lovers
• Lady Chatterley's Lover

'The Good Earth' has written by --- ?

• Virginia Woolf
• George Eliot
• Charles Dickens
• Pearl S. Buck

American female novelist Pearl S. Buck got nobel prize in 1938 for the book ---?

• The Good Earth
• House Divided
• The Patriot
• De Cameron

Nobel Prize winner American woman novelist is --- ?

• Bronte
• Austen
• Woolf
• Pearl S. Buck

Who was the greatest modern American short story writer ?

• E. Hemingway
• S. Bellow
• W. A . Longfellow
• O' Henry

O' Henry is famous for --- ?

• Drama
• Short story
• Novel
• Poems

What is the full name of the great American short story writer O' Henry ?

• Walt Whitman
• William Sydney Porter
• Mark Twain
• Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

Who wrote the short story 'The Gift of the Magi' ?

• Robert Frost
• William Wordsworth
• Jane Austen
• O' Henry

What is the full name of O' Henry ?

• Walt Whitman
• William Sydney Porter
• M. K . Bawlings
• O' Neill

"You may fool some of the people some of the time ; you can even fool some of the people all the time ; but you can't fool all the people all time " was stated by --- ?

• George Washington
• V. I Lenin
• Abraham Lincon
• Churchill

History of the II world war is written by -

• Keats
• Winston Churchill
• Clinton
• None of them

In Which year Sir Winston Churchill got the Nobel Prize in literature ?

• 1943
• 1945
• 1948
• 1953

Who was a statesman but awarded noble prize in English literature ?

• Stalin
• Nixon
• Churchil
• Rosevelt

What kind of literary work is 'The Luncheon' by Somerset Maugham ?

• A novel
• A short story
• A poem
• A scientific article

'সমারসেটমম' - কোনটি শুদ্ধ বানান ?

• Somerset Maugham
• Somerset Mom
• Somerset Mauhm
• Somerset Maghm

Who is the author of the book 'Of Human Bondage' ?

• Charles Dickens
• Smoerset Maugham
• Jane Austen
• D.H. Lawrence

Who is famous for the theory of 'Objective Co-relative' ?

• Virginia Woolf
• T.S. Eliot
• Edward Morgan Forster
• William Somerset Maugham

Murder in the Cathedral is written by ---?

• Harold Pinter
• T.S. Eliot
• G.B. Shaw
• Samuel Becket

Who was awarded Nobel Prize for the poem 'The Waste Land' ?

• D.H. Lawrence
• Lord Tennyson
• T.S. Eliot
• William Wordsworth

Who wrote 'The Waste Land' ?

• W.B Yeats
• Robert Frost
• W.H. Auden
• T.S. Elliot

'The Waste Land' is -

• a drama
• a poem
• a novel
• an eassy

T.S. Eliot is an English poet who is famous for his sensuousness. Who do T.S stand for ?

• Thomas Stearns
• Thompson Simson
• Thomas Stewart
• Thomas Stephen

T.S. Eliot is a ---- poet.

• romantic
• victorian
• modern
• post modern

Who of the following was a poet ?

• Charles Dickens
• T.S. Eliot
• Jane Austen
• G.B. Shaw

T.S. Eliot was born in -

• Ireland
• England
• Wales
• U.S.A

Bertrand Russel was British ---?

• Statement
• Polirician
• Philosopher
• Journalist

The author of 'Road to Freedom' is -

• Bertrand Russel
• John Keats
• G.B. Shaw
• Goldsmith

Who is the modern philosopher who was awarded Nobel Prize for literature ?

• James Baker
• Dr. Kissinger
• Bertrand Russel
• Lenin

'Man and Superman' বইটি কার লেখা ?

• উইলিয়াম শেক্সপিয়ার
• জর্জ বার্নাড' শ
• লিও টলস্টয়
• চার্লস ডিকেন্স

"Caesar and Cleopatra" is -

• a tragedy by Shakespeare
• a play by G.B. Shaw
• a poem by Lord Byron
• a novel by S.T. Coleridge

George Bernard Shaw is -

• a playwright
• a film maker
• a historian
• a modern painter

Who among the following is a dramatist ?

• George Bernard Shaw
• E.M. Forster
• T.S. Eliot
• Stephen Spender

Who is the greatest modern English dramatist ?

• Verginia woolf
• George Bernard Shaw
• P.B. Shelley
• S.T. Coleridge

Who is the author of 'the Old man and the Sea' ?

• H. Melvile
• George
• Charles Dickens
• Earnest Hemingway

Who is the author of "For Whom the Bell Tolls" ?

• Charles Dickens
• Homer
• Lord Tennyson
• Earnest Hemingway

Who is the author of "A Farewell to Arms" ?

• T.S. Eliot
• John Milton
• Plato
• Earnest Hemingway

Earnest Hemingway is a famous -

• British novelist
• Irish novelist
• American novelist
• Latin American novelist

Any one of the following pairs are literary collaborators -

• Eliot and Pound
• Yeats and Eliot
• Pope and Dryden
• Shelley and Keats

জর্জ ইলিয়টের প্রকৃত নাম কি ছিল ?

• T.S. Eliot
• Jane Austen
• Mary Anne Evans
• William Hazlitt

'Uncle Tom's Cabin' -এর লেখক কে ?

• Tennyson
• Pearl S. Buck
• Mrs. Harriet Stowe
• Thomas Hardy

Tennyson wrote -

• The Lotos Eaters
• Dover Beach
• My Last Dutchess
• The Eve of St. Agnes

What is "Linguistics"?

• The study of history
• The study of literature
• The study of porse
• The Scientific study of language

'Lorna Doone' is -

• a drama by Shakespeare
• a poem by Tennyson
• a novel by Blackmore
• an allegory by Bunyan

THe appropriate meaning of the word 'monologue' is--

• a long speach in a play spoken by one actor especially when alone
• conversation in a play
• a speach in a play in which a character, who is alone on the stage, speaks his thoughts aloud
• a dialogue between the two actors or actresses in a drama

Who is the author of the novel "Three Musketeers'' ?

• R.L. Stevension
• W. Shakespeare
• Sir Walter Scott
• Alexander Dumas

'Blank verse' অর্থ--

• অনুপ্রাস
• অমিত্রাক্ষর
• পয়ার
• মহাকাব্য

One of the following authors, one is French. Who is he ?

• Sir Asther Doyle
• W. Somerset Maugham
• Edward Fitzerald
• Alexander Dumas

'Blank verse' is a kind of verse---

• having no rhyming end
• having blanks in the verse
• having no significance
• having no rhythmic flow

Who is the author of 'The Origin of Species' ?

• C. Darwin
• A. Pope
• T. Hardy
• O. Goldsmith

What is the meaning of the word 'Dirge'?

• a kind of sonnet sequence
• a song expressing patrotic sentiment
• a long verse telling about an adventure
• a song expressing grief, lamentation and mourning

Who is the author of 'Round the World in Eighty Days' ?

• Sir Arther Conan Doyle
• Jules Verne
• Daniel Depoe
• Robert Louis Stevenson

'Canto' বলতে কি বুঝা যায়?

• দীর্ঘ কবিতার একটি স্তবক
• নাটকের অঙ্ক
• মহাকাব্যের বিভাগ
• অমিত্রকাব্যের ছন্দে রচিত কবিতা

A 'Canto' is----

• an act of a play
• a part of a play
• a chapter of a novel
• a division of an epic

'Ballad' is---

• a kind of short narrative poem
• a kind of short condoling poem
• a kind of short love poem
• a rhymic verse

Sherlock Homes detective stories were written by -

• Sir Arther Conan Doyle
• G.K. Cherterton
• Edgar Alan Poe
• John Galsworthy

A Fantasy is---

• An imaginary story
• A funny film
• A real life event
• A funny place

A Machiavellian characture is--

• An honest person
• A selfish person
• A courageous person
• A judicious person

On of the four mentioned below is not a novelist of Victorian age ---

• Charles Dickens
• Treasure Eliot
• James Joyce
• Thomas Austin

William Halitt is a -

• Novelist
• Essayist
• Dramatist
• Poet

Who translated 'Gitangoli' of Rabindranath Tagor in English ?

• W.B Yeats
• John Keats
• Robert Frost
• Ralph Hodgson

Famous Irish poet and dramatist is -

• H.G Wells
• Alexander Pope
• Cut a bad figure
• W.B Yeats

Leo Tolstoy is a ---- novelist.

• British
• German
• French
• Russian

'War and Peace' an epic tale of Napoleonic invasion is written by --

• George Bernard Shaw
• Ernest Hemming way
• Leo Tolstoy
• Anne Frank

'Protagonist' indicates--

• the villain in a play
• the leadidng character of actor in a play
• the cloen in a play
• the stage-director of a play

Who is the author of the book 'War and peace' ?

• Leo Tolstoy
• William Cowper
• Shakespeare
• John Ruskin

What is catastrophy?

• The comical end of dramatic events
• The tragic end of dramatic events
• The comic and tragic end of the play
• None of the avobe

From which language, Sonnet is originated?

• German
• English
• Italy
• French

One of the four mentionedbelow is not a Novelist of modern age in English Language. Who is he ?

• H.G Wells
• Charles Dickens
• Rudyard Kipling
• T.S. Elliot

A sonnet is a poem of ---- lines.

• ten
• twelve
• twenty
• fourteen

A sonnet is a lyric poem of--

• 12 lines
• 24 lines
• 14 lines
• 10 lines

Charles Dickens did not write -

• A tale of two cities
• Great Expectations
• David Coperfield
• Vicar of Wakefield

A poem of fourteen lines is called--

• Elegy
• Sonnet
• Ode
• Epic

Charles Dickens is not the novelist for one of the following ---?

• A tale of two cities
• Treasure Island
• James joyce
• Thomas Hardy

Which one does not relate to literature?

• Epilogue
• Monologue
• Demagogue
• Prologue

কোন পুস্তুকটি Charles Dickens - এর লেখা ?

• David Copperfield
• The Moon and the sixpence
• As you like it
• The Old Man and the Sea

Which one is not a literary ornament?

• Simile
• Similar
• Similitude
• Sarcasm

Charles Dickens is a great ---?

• Poet
• Critic
• Play-Wright
• Novelist

Melidrama is a kind of play of--

• historical themes
• violent and sensational themes
• pathetic themes
• philosophical themes

A Tale of Two Cities is a novel by -

• Dickens
• Thackerary
• Scott
• Fielding

Limerick কি?

• Love poem
• A kind of short narrative-poem
• A poem of light verse
• A poem of one-act play

Thennyson's in Memoriam is--

• an elegy
• an ode
• a sonnet
• None of the these

Who wrote the two famous novels, 'David Copperfield' and 'The Tale of Two Cities' ?

• Thomas Hardy
• Janne Austen
• George Eliot
• Charles Dickens

Charles Dickens was the writer of -

• Jane Eyre
• Wuthering Heights
• David Coperfield
• Return of the Native

Browning wrote -

• Rabbi Ben Ezra
• La Belle Dame Sans Merci
• Adonais
• Don Juan

'The Patriot' কবিতাটি কে রচনা করেছেন ?

• Sir Walter Scott
• Robert browning
• Robert Herrick
• Robert Frost

Who is the poet of the "Victorian Age" ?

• Helen Keller
• Mathew Arnold
• Shakespeare
• Robert Browning

Browning was the composer of any the the following poems -

• Two Voices
• The Scholar Gipsy
• Andrea del Sarto
• One one

Who has written ? 'He prayeth best, who loveth best, All things great and small.'

• John Keats
• Lord Byron
• P.B. Shelley
• S.T. Coleridge

Water, water, every where, not a drop to drink'. লাইনটি কোন কবির লেখা ?

• Wordsworth
• Gray
• Coleridge
• Scott

Water, water every where not a drop to drink' occurs in -

• The Ancient Mariner
• To Skylark
• The Paradise Lost
• The Cloud

One of the four mentioned below is not a poet of Romantic Age -

• William Blake
• William Wordsworth
• P.B. Shelley
• John Keats

Who is the author of the Rhyme of "The Ancient Mariner" ?

• William Wordsworth
• S.T. Coleridge
• Sir Walter Scott
• W. Somerset Maugham

William Wordsworth এর সমসাময়িক কবি কে ?

• T.S. Eliot
• W.B. Yeats
• D.G. Rossetti
• S.T. Coleridge

'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner' is a -

• play
• short story
• novel
• poem

Which of the following means-- 'a song of morning'?

• lyric
• parody
• elegy
• ballad

Elegy কি?

• Historical poem
• Figurative story
• Enemy
• Song of Lamentation

'Child is father of man' is taken from the writing of --

• P.B. Shelley
• S.T. Coleridge
• W. Wordsworth
• A.C. Swinburne

A work which has a meaning behind the surface meaning is--

• an epic
• an allegory
• a metaphor
• personification

"Behold her, single in the field, You solitary Highland Lass ! , Reaping and singing by herself ; Stop here or gently pass ! . These are a few lines of a poem of another great poet . Who is the poet ?

• P.B. Shelley
• W. Wordsworth
• Sir. W. Scott
• J. Keats

The sentance, "Death, thou shalt not die." is an example of--

• simile
• metaphor
• irony
• paradox

A lexicographer is a person who writes-

• Novels
• Dictionaries
• Graphs
• Medical books

'Ten thousand saw at a glance, Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.' What is the poet William Wordsworth referring to ?

• birds
• daffodils
• leaves
• bees

The 'Poet Laureate' is--

• the best poet oof the country
• a winner of the nobel prize in poetry
• the Court poet of England
• a classical poet

In "I wandered Lonely as a cloud" the daffodils gave the poet.

• a great deal of pleasure
• very pleasure
• many pleasure
• much pleasure

A person who writes about his own life writes-

• a diary
• a biography
• a chronicle
• a autobiography

'The Daffodil' is a poem written by -

• William Wordsworth
• Lewis Caroll
• John Keats
• P.B. Shelly

Someone who writes plays is called a--

• play writer
• dramatizer
• playwright
• playwrite

'The Daffodils' কি জাতীয় রচনা ?

• উপন্যাস
• কবিতা
• নাটক
• ভ্রমন কাহিনী

What is an epic?

• a prose composition
• a romance
• a novel
• a long poem

Who wrote poem about Lucy ?

• S.T. Coleridge
• P.B. Shelly
• William Wordsworth
• Lord Byron

'Debut' means---

• conclusion
• contradiction
• gracious response
• first appearance

Wordsworth wrote ---?

• The Rape of the Lock
• Absalom and Achitophel
• The Lucy poems
• The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

Allegorical means--

• poetry
• written in verse
• having symbolic meaning
• with timely significant

Written in March is a poem composed by -

• W. Wordsworth
• W. Wadsworth
• W. Blake
• William

'The country is good if its universities are good' was stated by--

• Indira Ghandi
• Pandit Neheru
• Mahatma Ghandi
• Sardar Patel

In 'The solitary Reaper' what does the word solitary mean ?

• Unhappy
• Humble
• Busy
• Lonely

The Solitary Reaper is a ---- ?

• heroic poem
• romantic poem
• classical poem
• patriotic poem

'Good face is the best latter of recommendation' was stated by--

• Queen Victoria
• Queen Elizabeth
• Queen Anne
• Queen Marry

Poet of "Solitary Reaper is ---- ?

• Wordsworth
• Shelley
• Shakespeare
• Keats

"That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind".

• এডউন অলড্রিন
• আলফ্রেড নোবেল
• মাইকেল কলিন্স
• নীল আর্মস্ট্রং

Wordsworth is a ---- poet. ?

• classical
• modern
• romantic
• greek

Who wrote the poem 'Solitary Reaper' ?

• Wordsworth
• Shelley
• Keats
• Shakespeare

'Govt. of the people, by the people for the people' was observed by---

• Abraham Linclon
• Clinton
• M.K. Gandhi
• Yasir Arafat

Wordsworth was inspired by ---- ?

• the French Revolution
• the American Revolution
• the Russian Revolution
• the Industrial Revolution

'A thing of beauty is a joy for ever' was stated by -

• John Keats
• William Shakespeare
• Bacon
• Milton

Who said "An unexamined life is wrong living"?

• Socrates
• Plato
• Artistotle
• Zeno

'England expects every man to do this duty.'- who told it.

• Nelson
• Wilson
• Churchil
• Thatcher

Which ode begins with the lines ? 'My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains. My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk'.

• Ode on the Spring
• Ode to duty
• Ode to a Nightingale
• Ode to the west wind

"Full many flower is born to blush unseen, And waste its sweetness on the desert air"- কোন কবির কবিতা থেকে নেয়া হয়েছে?

• P.B. Shelley
• William Wordsworth
• Thomas Gray
• John Keats

Who wrote 'Beauty is truth, truth is beauty' ?

• Shakespeare
• Wordsworth
• Keats
• Eliot

"মৃত্যু হচ্ছে নিছক" A short sleep . -এই উক্তটি কার ?

• বায়রন
• কিটস
• মাইকেল মধুসূদন দত্ত
• সুইটম্যান

'But I have promises to keep And miles to go before I sleep'- was written by-

• T.S. Elliot
• W. B. Yeats
• Robert Forst
• Ted Huges

'Give me good a mothers, I will give you a good nation.' was the observation of-

• Hitlar
• Abraham Linclon
• Napoleon
• Sk Majib

কোন ইংরেজ কবি যক্ষ্মা রোগে মৃত্যুবরণ করেন ?

• P.B. Shelley
• Robert Burns
• S.T. Colerdge
• John Keats

Who wrote Ode to a Nightingale ?

• Pope
• Shelley
• Wordsworth
• Keats

Who said "Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains"?

• Rousseau
• Keats
• Lord Mansfield
• Stuart Mille

Ode on a Grecian Urn ---- who is the poet of the poem ?

• Wordsworth
• Shelley
• Shakespeare
• Keats

'Justice delayed is justice denied' was stated by--

• Disraeli
• Emerson
• Gladstone
• Shakespeare

"Ode to Autumn" was written by --- ?

• Shelley
• Keats
• Byron
• Blake

A famous English poet who was Professionally known as a man of medicine is ---- ?

• Shelley
• Keats
• Milton
• Pope

'I have --- that one day this nation will live out the true meaning of its creed that all men are created equal.'

• desire
• hope
• dream
• wish

Poet of sensuousness ---?

• P.B. Shelley
• Wordsworth
• John Keats
• Byron

'Into the --- of death rode the six hundred.'

• city
• tunnel
• mad
• valley

John Keats কোন শ্রেণীর কবি ?

• Romantic
• Modern
• Classical
• Ancient

Ulysses কবিতাটির রচয়িতা কে?

• William Shakespeare
• Alfred Lord Tennyson
• Sir Walter Scott
• James Joyce

The poet of 'Romantic Age' is --

• George Well
• D.H. Lawrence
• John Milton
• John Keats

Who wrote 'Justice'?

• William Shakespeare
• William Wordsworth
• Robert Forst
• H. W. Longfellow

'The music in my heart I bore Long after it was heard no more. ' These lines are from the poem -

• The Solitary Reaper by Wordsworth
• Ode to a Nightingle by John Keats
• To a lady with a guitar by P.B. Shelley
• Elegy written in a country churchyard by Thomas Gray

--many critics, Mark Twain's novel Huckelbery Finn is his greatest work and is one of the greatest American novels ever written.

• Of
• According to
• Among
• For

One of the following was a Romantic Poet:

• Tennyson
• Arnold
• Shelley
• Browning

The year 1798 is famous for--

• The French Revolution
• The American Independence
• The death of keats
• Publication of Lyrical Ballads

"poets are unacknowledged legislators of the word" - Who told it ?

• Browing
• Shelley
• Tennyson
• Byron

George Eliot কোন সময়ের ঔপন্যাসিক ছিলেন?

• 17th century
• 18th century
• 19th century
• 20th century

Identify the poet of the verse : 'Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.'

• John Keats
• P.B. Shelly
• Lord Byron
• William Wordsworth

From which poem are the following lines taken ? 'Our sweetest songs are those that tell of the saddest thoughts'

• To a Skylark
• Remembrance
• Gifts of God
• A Farewel

"If winter comes , can spring be far behind ?" These lines were written by -

• Keats
• Frost
• Eliot
• Shelley

'Oh, lift me as a wave, a leaf, a cloud; I fall upon the thorns of life ! bleed.' This quotation is from P.B. Shelley's -

• The Cloud
• To a Skylark
• Ode to the West Wind
• Adonias

Which one of the following plays is a comedy?

• All's well that Ends well
• Hamlet
• Timon of Athens
• Antony and Cleopatra

In "Ozymandias" the poet says , "I met a traveller --- an --- land."

• by , old
• going , ancient
• from , antique
• passing , antique

মুনীর চৌধুরী 'মুখরা রমনী বশীকরণ' কার লেখার অনুবাদ?

• William Wordsworth
• W. Somerset Maugham
• William Shakespeare
• Charles Dickens

What lies half sunk in the sand in Shelley's "Ozymandias" ?

• broken statue
• two trunkless legs
• an ancient palace
• broken head of a statue

Shylok যে নাটকের চরিত্র, সে নাটকটির নাম--

• Doctor Faustus
• The Merchant of Vevice
• The Way of the World
• Arms and the Man

In Shelley's "Ozymandias" the words, 'My name is Ozymandias, king of kings' are inscribed on -

• the visage of the nature
• the pedestal of the nature
• the hand of the statue
• the sand of the antique land

"Ode to the West Wind" is by -

• Keats
• Shelley
• Coleridge
• Wordsworth

'All the world's a stage and all the men and women merely players'- a quotation from Shakespeare's-

• Macbeth
• As you like it
• Romeo & Juliet
• Tempest

'The Trumpet of prophency! O wind. If winter comes , can spring be far behind ?' Who is the poet of these lines ?

• P.B. Shelley
• William Wordsworth
• John Keats
• Robert Browning

Where is expressed the view that 'There is a divinity that shapes our ends?

• In King Lear
• In Hamlet
• In The Tempest
• In Merry Wives of Windsor

P.B. Shelley is known as -

• Epic poet
• Romantic poet
• Poet of nature
• Poet of beauty

ঈশ্বরচন্দ্র বিদ্যাসাগরের ‘ভ্রান্তবিলাস’ কোন গ্রন্থের অনুবাদ?

• Uncle Tom's Cabin
• Doll's House
• Macbeth
• The Comedy of Errors

'Comedy of Errors' is written by:

• Ben Johnson
• G.B. Shaw
• William Shakespeare
• T.S. Elliot

Pioneer of Romanticism is/are --?

• Wordsworth
• Coleridge
• Both
• None

'Cowards die many times before their death' বাক্যটি শেক্সপিয়ারের কোন নাটক হতে উদ্ধৃত হয়েছে?

• Macbeth
• Julius Ceaser
• Hamlet
• Othello

Who was English poet addicted to opium ?

• S.T. Coleridge
• P.B. Shelly
• John Keats
• S. Buck

Who wrote 'Cowards die many times before their death'?

• Shakespeare
• Franklin
• Dryden
• Carlyle

The literary work 'Kubla Khan' is --

• A history by Vincent Smith
• A verse by Coleridge
• A drama by Oscar Wilde
• A short by Somerset Maugham

Romanticism is mainly connected with of -

• John and happiness
• Expectation and disappointment
• Love and beauty
• Exitement and sensation

Shakespeare was famous for all but one of the followings:

• comedies
• tragedies
• bourgeoisic drama
• tragic-drama

'All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this land' is a quotation from---

• Hamlet
• Othelo
• Macbeth
• King Lear

Most important feature of romantic poetry -

• Beauty
• Nature
• Subjectivity
• Imagination

Shakespeare's 'Macbeth' is a--

• comedy
• satire
• tragedy
• low comedy

Edmund Burke belonged to --

• 16th century
• 17th century
• 18th century
• 19th century

'Macbeth' নাটকটি কার লেখা?

• William Wordsworth
• William Shakespeare
• John Milton
• G.B. Shaw