English Literature MCQs

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Which poets collaborated on the Lyrical Ballads of 1798 ?
A. Mary wollstonecraft and william blake
B. Mary wollstonecraft shelley and percy bysshe shelley
C. William wordsworth and samuel taylor coleridge
D. Charles lamb and william hazlitt
Who is the author of Aurora Leigh ?
A. Tennyson
B. Elizabeth barret browning
C. D. g. rossetti
D. Christina rossetti
Which scientific or technological advance did not take place in the first fifteen years of the twentieth century ?
A. Albert einstein’s theory of relativity
B. Wireless communication across the atlantic
C. The creation of the internet
D. The invention of the airplane
What characteristics of seventeenth century Metaphysical poetry sparked the enthusiasm of modernist poets and critics ?
A. Its intellectual complexity
B. Its union of thought and passion
C. Its uncompromising engagement with politics
D. A and b
Which of the following best describes litote, a favorite rhetorical device in Old English poetry ?
A. Embellishment at the service of christian doctrine
B. Repetition of parallel syntactic structures
C. Ironic understatement
D. Stress on every third diphthong
Which of the following is not an example of Restoration comedy ?
A. Etherege’s the MAN of mode
B. Wycherley’s the country wife
C. Behn’s the rover
D. Marlowe’s doctor faustus