English Literature MCQs

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What is the difference between a simile and a metaphor ?
A. No difference. simply two different ways in referring to the same thing.
B. A simile is more descriptive.
C. A simile uses as or like to make a comparison and a metaphor doesn’t.
D. A simile must use animals in the comparison.
What is the imitation of natural sounds in word form ?
A. Personification
B. Hyperboles
C. Alliteration
D. Onomatopoeia
Who wrote “The Hound of the Baskervilles ?”
A. Agatha christie
B. H ryder-haggard
C. P d james
D. Arthur conan doyle
____________is a late 20th century play written by a woman ?
A. Queen cristina
B. Top girls
C. Camille
D. The homecoimg
Who wrote “Ten Little Niggers ?”
A. Sir arthur conan doyle
B. Irvine welsh
C. Agatha christie
D. None of above
Which of the following is not a work of John Keats ?
A. Endymion
B. To some ladies
C. To hope
D. None of above
How has Stephen Dunn been described in ’the Oxford Companion to 20th Century Poetry ?
A. A poet of middleness
B. Capturing a sense of spiritual marooness
C. One of the leading prairie poets
D. Has some distinction as a critic