The document contains 15 multiple choice questions from previous B.A. (Hons) Part III English examinations from 2010, 2009, 2008, and 2007. The questions cover a range of topics in English literature including figures of speech, poetic forms and meters, genres of literature, and authors.

2. Identify the figure of speech in the following line—

3. “And death shall be no more, Death thou shalt die.”

4. Name two writers of Absurd Drama.

5. Name two writers of Problem Plays.

6. Define Ballad Meter.

7. Identify the feet in the following line-

8. “The curfew tolls the knell of parting day.”

9. Tennyson’s poem Ulysses is a ___________________________.

10. Shepherd’s Calendar has been written by__________________.

11. Life of Samuel Johnson was written by ______________________.

12. Confession by St. Augustine is ____________________________.

13. Name one novel by Walter Scott.

14. Oliver Twist is a __________________novel.

15. Mrs. Warren’s Profession is a play by________________________.

16. The rhyme scheme of Ottava Rima is _____________________.

17. Give an example of Metonymy.

19. What is hexameter?

20. Identify the figure of Speech in:

21. As the hart panteth after the water brooks.

22. What is the rhyming scheme of Spenserian Stanza?

23. Name one Petrarchan Sonnet.

24. Define Dactylic feet.

25. What is Paradox.

26. The Stanza form of Don Juan is ______________________________.

27. Name one Comedy of Humours.

28. Name any one Jacobean Tragedy.

29. Give the name of an absurd play by Beckett.

30. Jawahar Lal Nehru’s An Autobiography is dedicated to____________.

31. Identify the figure of speech in :

32. He was clad in steel.

33. William Congreve belonged to__________________Century.

34. Define Onomatopoeia

36. Identify the figure of Speech in:

37. I wandered lonely as a child.

38. What is Terza Rima?

39. Identify the figure of Speech in:

40. Why man, if the river were dry,

41. I am able to fill it with tears.

42. When both the syllables of a disyllabic foot are unaccented, we get___________________________________measure.

43. How many poetic lines are there in Ottava Rima?

44. Comedy of Manners belongs to ____________________Century.

45. Name a Poet using Heroic Couplet.

46. Who Wrote Pamela?

47. Name one of the pioneers of the Gothic Novel.

48. Name a novelist who used stream of consciousness technique.

49. Give the definition of metonymy.

50. Who wrote My Experiments with Truth?

51. Who wrote Waiting For Godot?

52. What is tetrameter ?

54. Identify the metre in the following lines :

55. To wake the soul by tender

56. Stroke of art,

57. To raise the genius, and to mend

58. The hear;

59. What is an octave?

60. Identify the figure of Speech in the following :

61. Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.

62. A metre consisting of five feet in a poetic line is called______________.

63. How many poetic lines are there in a Spenserian Stanza?

64. Name a Comedy Written in the Restoration Period.

65. Which metrical foot is the reverse of an iamb?

66. Which poetic form celebrates the legend of Robin Hood?

67. Name any writer of the historical novel.

68. Name any poet who has composed poem in blank verse.

69. To which type of drama is Samuel Beckett associated?

70. Name any writer of dramatic monologue.

71. Who has written Eminent Victorians?

72. Give the definition of Synecdoche.

73. What type of drama has Galsworthy Written?