UGC NET English Literature MCQs with explanations on Poetry
English Literature
50 MCQs on Poetry
1.
Who wrote Lyrical Ballads?
a) Wordsworth & Coleridge
b) Keats & Shelley
c) Byron & Blake
d) Eliot & Pound
Answer: a) Wordsworth & Coleridge
Explanation: This 1798 collection marks the beginning of Romanticism.
2.
Who defined poetry as “spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings”?
a) William Wordsworth
b) John Keats
c) T.S. Eliot
d) Dryden
Answer: a) William Wordsworth
Explanation: From the Preface to Lyrical Ballads.
3.
Who wrote The Rime of the Ancient Mariner?
a) Wordsworth
b) Coleridge
c) Keats
d) Shelley
Answer: b) Coleridge
4.
A sonnet has:
a) 10 lines
b) 12 lines
c) 14 lines
d) 16 lines
Answer: c) 14 lines
Explanation: Standard structure of a sonnet.
5.
The rhyme scheme of a Shakespearean sonnet is:
a) ABBA ABBA CDE CDE
b) ABAB CDCD EFEF GG
c) AABB CCDD EEFF GG
d) ABC ABC ABC ABC
Answer: b) ABAB CDCD EFEF GG
6.
Who wrote Ode to a Nightingale?
a) Shelley
b) Keats
c) Wordsworth
d) Byron
Answer: b) Keats
7.
“Ode to a Nightingale” explores:
a) Politics
b) Mortality and escape
c) War
d) Religion
Answer: b) Mortality and escape
8.
Who wrote Ozymandias?
a) Keats
b) Shelley
c) Byron
d) Blake
Answer: b) Shelley
9.
“Ozymandias” is about:
a) Love
b) Power and its decay
c) Nature
d) Religion
Answer: b) Power and its decay
10.
Who wrote The Waste Land?
a) Pound
b) Eliot
c) Yeats
d) Auden
Answer: b) Eliot
11.
The Waste Land reflects:
a) Romanticism
b) Modernist fragmentation
c) Classicism
d) Realism
Answer: b) Modernist fragmentation
12.
Who wrote Paradise Lost?
a) Shakespeare
b) Milton
c) Dryden
d) Pope
Answer: b) Milton
13.
Paradise Lost is written in:
a) Rhymed verse
b) Blank verse
c) Free verse
d) Couplet
Answer: b) Blank verse
14.
Who wrote The Tyger?
a) Wordsworth
b) Blake
c) Keats
d) Shelley
Answer: b) Blake
15.
“The Tyger” appears in:
a) Songs of Innocence
b) Songs of Experience
c) Lyrical Ballads
d) Leaves of Grass
Answer: b) Songs of Experience
16.
Who wrote Daffodils?
a) Wordsworth
b) Keats
c) Shelley
d) Byron
Answer: a) Wordsworth
17.
“Daffodils” celebrates:
a) War
b) Nature and memory
c) Death
d) Love
Answer: b) Nature and memory
18.
Who wrote Kubla Khan?
a) Wordsworth
b) Coleridge
c) Shelley
d) Keats
Answer: b) Coleridge
19.
“Kubla Khan” is known for:
a) Realism
b) Imagination and dream vision
c) Satire
d) Epic style
Answer: b) Imagination and dream vision
20.
Who wrote To His Coy Mistress?
a) Donne
b) Marvell
c) Milton
d) Pope
Answer: b) Marvell
21.
This poem is an example of:
a) Epic
b) Metaphysical poetry
c) Romantic poetry
d) Modern poetry
Answer: b) Metaphysical poetry
22.
Who wrote The Canonization?
a) Donne
b) Marvell
c) Herbert
d) Crashaw
Answer: a) Donne
23.
Metaphysical poetry is known for:
a) Simple language
b) Conceits and wit
c) Nature imagery
d) Ballads
Answer: b) Conceits and wit
24.
Who wrote The Raven?
a) Whitman
b) Poe
c) Dickinson
d) Frost
Answer: b) Poe
25.
“The Raven” is a:
a) Comedy
b) Narrative poem
c) Epic
d) Sonnet
Answer: b) Narrative poem
26.
Who wrote Leaves of Grass?
a) Whitman
b) Dickinson
c) Frost
d) Eliot
Answer: a) Whitman
27.
Whitman is associated with:
a) Free verse
b) Blank verse
c) Couplet
d) Sonnet
Answer: a) Free verse
28.
Who wrote Because I could not stop for Death?
a) Dickinson
b) Whitman
c) Frost
d) Eliot
Answer: a) Dickinson
29.
This poem personifies:
a) Love
b) Death
c) Nature
d) War
Answer: b) Death
30.
Who wrote The Road Not Taken?
a) Frost
b) Whitman
c) Eliot
d) Yeats
Answer: a) Frost
31.
This poem deals with:
a) War
b) Choice and consequences
c) Love
d) Religion
Answer: b) Choice and consequences
32.
Who wrote Sailing to Byzantium?
a) Eliot
b) Yeats
c) Auden
d) Pound
Answer: b) Yeats
33.
Yeats is associated with:
a) Romanticism
b) Modernism
c) Symbolism
d) Realism
Answer: c) Symbolism
34.
Who wrote In Memory of W.B. Yeats?
a) Eliot
b) Auden
c) Pound
d) Yeats
Answer: b) Auden
35.
An elegy is a poem of:
a) Joy
b) Mourning
c) Love
d) Satire
Answer: b) Mourning
36.
Who wrote Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard?
a) Gray
b) Pope
c) Dryden
d) Goldsmith
Answer: a) Gray
37.
A ballad is:
a) Lyric poem
b) Narrative poem
c) Dramatic poem
d) Epic
Answer: b) Narrative poem
38.
A haiku has:
a) 5-7-5 syllables
b) 7-5-7
c) 4-4-4
d) 6-6-6
Answer: a) 5-7-5 syllables
39.
Who wrote The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock?
a) Eliot
b) Pound
c) Yeats
d) Auden
Answer: a) Eliot
40.
This poem reflects:
a) Romanticism
b) Modern alienation
c) Classicism
d) Pastoral
Answer: b) Modern alienation
41.
Who wrote The Second Coming?
a) Eliot
b) Yeats
c) Auden
d) Pound
Answer: b) Yeats
42.
“Things fall apart…” refers to:
a) Stability
b) Chaos
c) Love
d) War
Answer: b) Chaos
43.
A limerick is:
a) Serious poem
b) Humorous poem
c) Epic
d) Ode
Answer: b) Humorous poem
44.
An ode is:
a) Narrative poem
b) Lyrical poem
c) Dramatic poem
d) Satirical poem
Answer: b) Lyrical poem
45.
Who wrote Ode to the West Wind?
a) Keats
b) Shelley
c) Wordsworth
d) Byron
Answer: b) Shelley
46.
The poem symbolizes:
a) Death
b) Change and revolution
c) Love
d) Religion
Answer: b) Change and revolution
47.
Who wrote My Last Duchess?
a) Browning
b) Tennyson
c) Arnold
d) Eliot
Answer: a) Browning
48.
This is an example of:
a) Lyric
b) Dramatic monologue
c) Ballad
d) Ode
Answer: b) Dramatic monologue
49.
Alliteration refers to:
a) Vowel repetition
b) Consonant repetition
c) Rhyme
d) Rhythm
Answer: b) Consonant repetition
50.
Free verse means:
a) Fixed rhyme
b) No strict meter
c) Blank verse
d) Couplet
Answer: b) No strict meter
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