English Literature

Marine Academy Admission Questions 2012 to 2024

English Literature

1. Allegory means----.

Correct Answer: figurative story

2. Author of the Ulysses novel is----.

Correct Answer: James Joyce

3. What is the main theme of "The Gift of the Magi"?

Correct Answer: Love

4. Author of Ulysses is:

Correct Answer: Lord Tennyson

[Note: The novelist James Joyce wrote the novel "Ulysses" (modernist literature, 1922). The poet Lord Tennyson wrote the poem "Ulysses" (dramatic monologue, 1833). Though both works are titled "Ulysses," they belong to different genres and were written by different authors, addressing different themes and narratives.]

5. Who among the following is a revolutionary poet?

Correct Answer: PB Shelley

6. The poet William Wordsworth is known for ----.

Correct Answer: romantic poetry

7. Who was a statesman but awarded Nobel prize in English Literature?

Correct Answer: Churchill

8. The climax of a plot is what happens:

Correct Answer: at the height

9. Coleridge's poem "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" is a ----.

Correct Answer: ballad

10. The poet William Blake has compared the schoolboy to ----.

Correct Answer: a caged bird

11. Shakespeare was an English____.

Correct Answer: Poet and dramatist

12. Helen of Troy was the wife of ----?

Correct Answer: Menelaus

13. Which of the following books is written by Thomas Hardy?

Correct Answer: The Return of the Native

14. In a story we must have----.

Correct Answer: a moral

15. Writing about one's own life is called----.

Correct Answer: autobiography

16. A fantasy is----.

Correct Answer: an imaginary story

17. What is an "epic"?

Correct Answer: a long poem

18. "Lycidas" - who wrote this?

Correct Answer: John Milton

19. Who was a statesman but awarded Nobel prize in English Literature?

Correct Answer: Churchill

20. Coleridge's poem "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" is a----.

Correct Answer: ballad

[Coleridge's poem "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" is a Lyrical Ballad.] 

21. If you're writing about your father's life, you are writing----.

Correct Answer: a biography

22. What is an "epic"?

Correct Answer: a long poem

23. A person who writes novels is called a ----.

Correct Answer: novelist

24. Whose quotation is this: "Knowledge is power"?

Correct Answer: Hobbes