UP TGT English Literary Periods & Forms MCQ Test – Part 9 (20 Questions)

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Q1. What is an eclogue?

A. A stage direction
B. Epic invocation
C. Elizabethan history play
D. Short pastoral poem, often dialogue

Q2. Who wrote the Dictionary of the English Language (1755)?

A. Samuel Johnson
B. Geoffrey Chaucer
C. John Donne
D. George Orwell

Q3. What is enjambment?

A. Every line ends in a full stop
B. An epic's opening invocation
C. A play's interval
D. Syntax continues beyond the end of a verse line

Q4. Who wrote The Waste Land?

A. T. S. Eliot
B. Samuel Beckett
C. James Joyce
D. W. B. Yeats

Q5. What is hamartia?

A. A quatrain's rhyme
B. An actor's stage costume
C. Error or flaw contributing to a tragic downfall
D. A comedy's marriage

Q6. What is a frame narrative?

A. A novel without a narrator
B. A stage with only one actor
C. Story enclosing one or more other stories
D. A rhyme scheme

Q7. What is hyperbole?

A. Deliberate understatement
B. Initial consonant repetition
C. Deliberate exaggeration
D. A refrain at each stanza end

Q8. What is metonymy?

A. A 5-line stanza
B. A contradiction between two adjectives
C. Naming something by a closely associated thing
D. Comparing with 'like'

Q9. What is ottava rima?

A. Fourteen-line sonnet
B. Eight-line stanza with ABABABCC rhyme
C. Heroic couplet only
D. Six-line blank verse

Q10. Who wrote Ulysses (1922)?

A. James Joyce
B. Virginia Woolf
C. Joseph Conrad
D. T. S. Eliot

Q11. What was a key Renaissance intellectual ideal?

A. Industrial realism
B. Absurdist silence
C. Humanism
D. Only feudal chivalry

Q12. What is a masque?

A. A short prose allegory only
B. A Renaissance newspaper
C. Courtly performance combining drama, music and spectacle
D. A legal document

Q13. Who wrote Oroonoko?

A. Virginia Woolf
B. Mary Shelley
C. Jane Austen
D. Aphra Behn

Q14. The Industrial Revolution strongly shaped which literature?

A. Elizabethan revenge tragedy alone
B. Classical Greek epic alone
C. Victorian realist literature
D. Old English riddles

Q15. What is imagery in literature?

A. A footnote with references
B. Language evoking sensory experience
C. Only literal statistics
D. A list of birth dates

Q16. What is an epigram?

A. A medieval sermon
B. A play in three acts
C. Brief witty or pointed statement
D. A 12-book epic

Q17. What is oxymoron?

A. A metre with six feet
B. A prose chronicle
C. A story with a moral
D. Two apparently contradictory terms placed together

Q18. What is consonance?

A. An entire epic poem
B. Only vowel repetition
C. Repetition of consonant sounds
D. Parallel character arcs

Q19. What is a subplot?

A. A sonnet's octave
B. A poetic stanza
C. Secondary plot strand
D. An actor's costume

Q20. What is a dramatic monologue?

A. One fictional speaker reveals character to an implied listener
B. A prose preface
C. A whole play acted by a large cast
D. An anonymous chorus only

Exam trap: exact publication year ≠ approximate year written; verify “first printed”, “composed” and “collected” words carefully.

UP TGT English Literary Periods & Forms MCQ Test – Part 9 (20 Questions)