📚 100 English Literature Quiz (With Answers)
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POETRY (1–25)
1. Who wrote “The Road Not Taken”?
Robert Frost
2. “Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?” is written by —
William Shakespeare
3. Who wrote “Daffodils”?
William Wordsworth
4. “Paradise Lost” is written by —
John Milton
5. Who wrote “Ode to a Nightingale”?
John Keats
6. The poet of “Ulysses” —
Alfred Tennyson
7. “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” author —
S. T. Coleridge
8. Who is known as the Bard of Avon?
Shakespeare
9. “My Last Duchess” poet —
Robert Browning
10. “Because I Could Not Stop for Death” poet —
Emily Dickinson
11. “If—” is written by —
Rudyard Kipling
12. “Ozymandias” is by —
P. B. Shelley
13. Which poet wrote “On His Blindness”?
John Milton
14. “The Charge of the Light Brigade” is written by —
Tennyson
15. Author of “Kubla Khan” —
Coleridge
16. “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” poet —
Robert Frost
17. Who wrote “The Tyger”?
William Blake
18. “Dover Beach” poet —
Matthew Arnold
19. “When I have fears” was written by —
John Keats
20. “The Waste Land” was written by —
T. S. Eliot
21. “An Elementary School Classroom in a Slum” poet —
Stephen Spender
22. Who wrote “Annabel Lee”?
Edgar Allan Poe
23. “To Autumn” is written by —
Keats
24. The metaphysical poet among these:
John Donne
25. “Song of Myself” poet —
Walt Whitman
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NOVELS & FICTION (26–50)
26. Author of “Pride and Prejudice” —
Jane Austen
27. Author of “Jane Eyre” —
Charlotte Brontë
28. Who wrote “Wuthering Heights”?
Emily Brontë
29. “Oliver Twist” author —
Charles Dickens
30. “David Copperfield” was written by —
Dickens
31. “Moby Dick” author —
Herman Melville
32. “Great Expectations” author —
Dickens
33. Author of “1984” —
George Orwell
34. Author of “Animal Farm” —
George Orwell
35. “The Old Man and the Sea” writer —
Ernest Hemingway
36. Who wrote “The Catcher in the Rye”?
J. D. Salinger
37. Author of “Frankenstein” —
Mary Shelley
38. “To Kill a Mockingbird” author —
Harper Lee
39. “War and Peace” author —
Leo Tolstoy
40. “Crime and Punishment” was written by —
Fyodor Dostoevsky
41. Who wrote “The Great Gatsby”?
F. Scott Fitzgerald
42. Author of “The Alchemist” —
Paulo Coelho
43. Who wrote “The Hobbit”?
J. R. R. Tolkien
44. “Harry Potter” series author —
J. K. Rowling
45. “The Merchant of Venice” is a —
Play
46. “The Invisible Man” author —
H. G. Wells
47. Who wrote “A Tale of Two Cities”?
Charles Dickens
48. “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer” author —
Mark Twain
49. “The Canterbury Tales” author —
Geoffrey Chaucer
50. “Dracula” author —
Bram Stoker
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DRAMA (51–75)
51. Author of “Hamlet” —
Shakespeare
52. “Macbeth” is a —
Tragedy
53. “Romeo and Juliet” was written by —
Shakespeare
54. “Othello” author —
Shakespeare
55. “Julius Caesar” was written by —
Shakespeare
56. “Pygmalion” playwright —
George Bernard Shaw
57. “Waiting for Godot” playwright —
Samuel Beckett
58. “The Tempest” author —
Shakespeare
59. “A Doll’s House” playwright —
Henrik Ibsen
60. “The Merchant of Venice” is a —
Comedy
61. “King Lear” author —
Shakespeare
62. “Arms and the Man” playwright —
George Bernard Shaw
63. “She Stoops to Conquer” author —
Oliver Goldsmith
64. Play featuring Shylock —
The Merchant of Venice
65. “To be or not to be” appears in —
Hamlet
66. “The Importance of Being Earnest” was written by —
Oscar Wilde
67. The tragic flaw of Macbeth —
Ambition
68. “Antigone” was written by —
Sophocles
69. “Oedipus Rex” playwright —
Sophocles
70. “Doctor Faustus” was written by —
Christopher Marlowe
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LITERARY TERMS & AUTHORS (76–100)
76. Who is known as the Father of English Literature?
Geoffrey Chaucer
77. Who is the Father of English Poetry?
Chaucer
78. Who is known as the Father of the English Novel?
Henry Fielding
79. A poem of 14 lines is called —
Sonnet
80. A long narrative poem is called —
Epic
81. A short story usually has —
One main theme
82. The opposite of a tragedy is —
Comedy
83. A humorous play is called —
Farce
84. Words that sound like what they mean —
Onomatopoeia
85. A comparison using ‘like’ or ‘as’ —
Simile
86. A direct comparison —
Metaphor
87. Exaggeration for effect —
Hyperbole
88. Repetition of initial consonant sounds —
Alliteration
89. The time and place of a story —
Setting
90. The main idea of a literary work —
Theme
91. A story where animals act like humans —
Fable
92. A story that teaches a moral —
Parable
93. A funny imitation of something —
Parody
94. A character opposing the hero —
Antagonist
95. The central character —
Protagonist
96. A play written in dialogue —
Drama
97. A poem mourning someone’s death —
Elegy
98. A Japanese 3-line poem —
Haiku
99. A short witty saying —
Epigram
100. A story based on imagination —
Fiction
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