Wayground logo

Free Printable Worksheets

Font size

S
M
L
XL
Worksheets

History of English Literature

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 8mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

In Memoriam is a philosophic elegy inspired by the death of Tennyson's dear friend........................

a)

Arthur Henry Clough

b)

Arthur Henry Hallam

c)

Arthur Henry Williams

d)

John Milton

2.

Name the poetic technique perfected by Robert Browning

a)

Dramatic Personae

b)

Dramatic soliloquy

c)

Dramatic Monologue

d)

Dramatic impersonation

3.

Who wrote Aurora Leigh?

a)

Matthew Arnold

b)

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

c)

Alfred Lord Tennyson

d)

Robert Browning

4.

Identify the movement associated with this painting

(a)  

5.

Who wrote The Fleshly School of Poetry?

a)

Robert Browning

b)

Robert Williams

c)

Robert Buchanan

d)

Robert Graves

6.

Name the Poet Laureate during Queen Victoria's reign

a)

Robert Browning

b)

Alfred Lord Tennyson

c)

Dante Gabriel Rossetti

d)

Matthew Arnold

7.

Name the author of Sohrab and Rustum

a)

Matthew Arnold

b)

Robert Graves

c)

Christina Rossetti

d)

Charles Swinburne

8.

Thyrsis is a monody written by Arnold on the death of .......

a)

Arthur Hugh Williams

b)

Arthur Hugh Clough

c)

Robert Browning

d)

Sir Henry Taylor

9.

Which one of the following is NOT the feature of Modernism?

a)

Formal experimentation and style

b)

Break with Tradition

c)

Medieval Outlook

d)

Free Verse

10.

Oscar Wilde is associated with ............... movement

a)

Symbolism

b)

Impressionism

c)

Decadent

d)

Aestheticism

11.

Name the movement associated with art for art's sake

a)

Romantic movement

b)

Classical Movement

c)

Fin de Siecle Movement

d)

Carpe Diem Movement

12.

Name the odd one

a)

Siegfried Sassoon

b)

Isaac Rosenberg

c)

Wilfred Owen

d)

Robert Frost

13.

My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity.

All a poet can do today is warn.

Red lips are not so red As the stained stones kissed by the English dead.


Who wrote these lines?

a)

Rupert Brooke

b)

Isaac Rosenberg

c)

Wilfred Owen

d)

Siegfried Sassoon

14.

Who wrote Hugh Selwyn Mauberley?

a)

T S Eliot

b)

Ezra Pound

c)

W B Yeats

d)

W H Auden

15.

Modernism is relatively simple combining less stylistic experimentation, continuation with tradition and conventional moral standards

a)

True

b)

False