25 Most Repeated MCQS of English Literature and Linguistics with Answers and Explanations
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1. Name the English poet of the 18th century whose works included Rape of the Lock, Dunciad, and Essay on Man?
A. Nelson Mandela
B. Winston Churchill
C. Alexander Pope
D. None of these
Explanation:
Alexander Pope, (born May 21, 1688, London, England—died May 30, 1744, Twickenham, near London), a poet and satirist of the English Augustan period, best known for his poems An Essay on Criticism (1711), The Rape of the Lock (1712–14), The Dunciad (1728), and An Essay on Man (1733–34).
2. Who wrote ‘The Colossus in 1960?
A. Chinua Achebe
B. Toni Morrison
C. Ahmed Sulman Rushdie
D. Sylvia Plath
EXPLANATION:
Sylvia Plath (1932–63) was born in Boston, Massachusetts, and studied at Smith College. In 1955 she went to Cambridge University on a Fulbright scholarship, where she met and later married Ted Hughes. She published one collection of poems in her lifetime, The Colossus (1960), and a novel, The Bell Jar (1963).
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3. In Chaucer’s Legend of Good Women, how many legends are there?
- 7
- 8
- 9
- None of these
EXPLANATION:
The poet recounts ten stories of virtuous women in nine sections: Cleopatra, Thisbe, Medea, Phyllis, Hypsipyle, Ariadne, Lucretia, Philomene, Hypermnestra, and Dido.
''25 Most Repeated MCQS of English Literature and Linguistics'' 4. The term Implicature might refer to_________?a. Text Structureb. Double meaningc. Conversational Structured. None of these
EXPLANATION:
In pragmatics, conversational implicature is an indirect or implicit speech act: what is meant by a speaker's utterance that is not part of what is explicitly said. The term is also known simply as implicature.
5. Who called Chaucer the father of English literature?a. M Arnoldb. John Drydenc. TS Eliotd. Dr. Johnson
EXPLANATION:
It was John Dryden who called Geoffrey Chaucer the 'father of English poetry. ' Dryden did this in the preface of his book, Fables, Ancient and Modern, which was published in 1700.
6. Period in English Literature from 1901 to 1910 is called________?
A. The Pre-RaphaelitesB The Post ModernC The Edwardian PeriodD The Georgian Period
EXPLANATION
The Edwardian era or Edwardian period of British history spanned the reign of King Edward VII, 1901 to 1910 and is sometimes extended to the start of the First World War.
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7. The meaning a word within a language?A. SenseB. Common SenseC. EssenceD. None
EXPLANATION:
In linguistics, a word sense is one of the meanings of a word.
For example, a dictionary may have over 50 different senses of the word "play", each of these having a different meaning based on the context of the word's usage in a sentence, as follows: We went to see the play Romeo and Juliet at the theater.
9. A term introduced by the linguist SAUSSURE which refers to the state of a language as it exists at any given timeA. SynchronyB. DiachronyC. ParadigmaticD. None of these
EXPLANATION:
Synchrony was proposed firstly by Saussure. He stated that language as a system of signs can be studied as a complete system at any given point in time. Like chess, the important part of language is how pieces move and the positions of all pieces relative to one another.
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10. The study of signs is termed as_________?A. Semiotics
B. Semantics
C. Paradigmatic
D. Parole
EXPLANATION:
Semiotics, or semiology, is the study of signs, symbols, and signification. It is the study of how meaning is created, not what it is.
11. The novel Animal Farm was written by___________?
A. Shakespeare
B. William Hudson
C. George Orwell
D. None of these
EXPLANATION:
Eric Arthur Blair, better known by his pen name George Orwell, was an English novelist, essayist, journalist, and critic. His work is characterized by lucid prose, social criticism, opposition to totalitarianism, and support of democratic socialism.
12. __________ is term introduced by CHOMSKY to describe ‘the actual use of language in concrete situations’
A. Performance
B. Parole
C. C. Paradigmatic
D. N. O. T
EXPLANATION:
The term linguistic performance was used by Noam Chomsky in 1960 to describe "the actual use of language in concrete situations". It is used to describe both the production, sometimes called parole, as well as the comprehension of language.
13. The system of communication within a community.
A. Langue
B.
Parole
C. C. Paradigmatic
D. N. O. T
EXPLANATION:
Langue and parole is a theoretical linguistic dichotomy distinguished by Ferdinand de
Saussure in his Course in General Linguistics. The French term langue encompasses the
abstract, systematic rules and conventions of a signifying system; it is independent of,
and pre-exists, the individual user.
14. There are ______ consonant sounds in English
IPA.
A. 22
B. 23
C. 24
D. 25
EXPLANATION:
There are 24 consonant sounds in most English accents, conveyed by 21 letters of the regular English alphabet (sometimes in combination, e.g., ch and th).
15. There are ______ vowel sounds in English IPA.
A. 19
B. 20
C. 21
D. 22
EXPLANATION:
English Vowel Sound IPA symbols (International Phonetic Alphabet) English has 20 vowel sounds.
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16. Noam
Chomsky was born in _________?
A. December
7, 1928
B.
December 8,
1928
C. December 9, 1928
D. December 10, 1928
EXPLANATION:
Avram Noam Chomsky was born on December 7, 1928, in the East Oak Lane
neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. His parents, Ze'ev "William" Chomsky
and Elsie Simonofsky were Jewish immigrants.
17. Father of modern linguistics is ________?
A. Noam
Chomsky
B.
Ferden and De
Sassure
C.
None of these
D. Both A and B
EXPLANATION:
It's debatable. Choose accordingly.
18. The study of language and mind, which has
greatly advanced our understanding of the way in which we acquire language is_________?
A.
Sociolinguistics
B. Psycholinguistics
C. Biolinguistics
D. None of these
EXPLANATION:
Psycholinguistics is the study of the mental aspects of language and speech. It is
primarily concerned with the ways in which language is represented and processed in
the brain. A branch of both linguistics and psychology, psycholinguistics is part of the
field of cognitive science.
19. Transformational-generative grammar is a broad
theory used to model, encode, and deduce a native speaker’s linguistic
capabilities, was developed by_________?
A. Noam
Chomsky
B.
Ferdenand De
Sassure
C.
Leon Battista
Alberti
D.
Enoch Powell
EXPLANATION:
To overcome the limitations of CFGs, Chomsky started developing transformational
generative grammar (TGG) in the 1950s (Chomsky 1955a, 1955b, 1956, 1957).
20. Who is the Author of the Book “As u Like it”?
A.
Coleridge
B.
Karl Marx
C. Thomas Hardy
D. William Shakespeare
EXPLANATION:
As You Like It
Play by William Shakespeare
21. Who uttered these words “Beauty is truth,
truth is beauty, that is all” ?
A. Willams
Shakespeare
B.
Gold Smith
C.
John Keats
D.
Adolf Hitler
EXPLANATION:
"Beauty is truth, truth (is) beauty. that is all ye know on earth and all ye need to know
John Keats (1820). The quote states how beauty lies in permanence. Elements that never
perish will remain beautiful for eternity and the truth is one such element. Thus, it is
said that truth lies in everything that's beautiful and beauty lies in everything that's
true.
22. Competence is a term to describe the knowledge possessed
by native users of a Language which enables them to speak and understand their
language fluently was introduced by________?
A.
Sassure
B.
Enoch Powel
C. Noam Chomsky
D None of these
EXPLANATION:
According to Chomsky, competence is the ideal language system that enables speakers
to produce and understand an infinite number of sentences in their language,
and to distinguish grammatical sentences from ungrammatical sentences. This
is unaffected by "grammatically irrelevant conditions" such as speech errors.
23. Tennyson was_____________?
A.
a romantic
B. a
Victorian
C. a Pre-Raphaelite
D. None of these
EXPLANATION:
Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson FRS (6 August 1809 – 6 October 1892) was an
English poet. He was the Poet Laureate during much of Queen Victoria's reign. In 1829,
Tennyson was awarded the Chancellor's Gold Medal at Cambridge for one of his first
pieces,"Timbuktu".
23. Negative Capability to Keats,
means_______________?
A.
The ability to
sympathize with other
B.
Say bad things,
about others
C. To
empathize
D.
None of these
EXPLANATION:
Negative capability is a phrase first used by Romantic poet John Keats in 1817 to
explain the capacity of the greatest writers to pursue a vision of artistic beauty even
when it leads them into intellectual confusion and uncertainty, as opposed to
preference for philosophical certainty over artistic beauty.
24. “To be, or not to be, that is the question”- Where do you find this quotation?
A.
Macbeth
B. Hamlet
C.
As You Like It
D.
Othello
EXPLANATION:
The famous "To be or not to be" soliloquy comes from William Shakespeare's play
Hamlet(written around 1601) and is spoken by the titular Prince Hamlet in Act 3,
Scene 1.
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25. Who is called the Bird of Avon?
A.
John Dryden
B. William
Shakespeare
C.
John Milton
D.
None of these
EXPLANATION:
William Shakespeare: so-called from his birthplace, Stratford-on-Avon.
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