stud
bud
Sign up
Log in
Home
Library
Explore
SAT
More
English literature Flashcards | StudBud
Explore
/
English literature
English literature
22 terms
·
StudBud Administration
·
4,449 plays
General questions on basic English literature.
Flashcards
22 cards
F
Practice quiz
P
Host live
L
Questions
22
Answers
1
In which literary epoch was William Shakespeare active?
The Antiquity
The Realism
The Enlightenment
The Renaissance
2
Lyrical Ballads was a collection of poems, written in the Romantic period. When was this?
1300
1500
1800
2000
3
Leaves of Grass is written by a very famous American author. Name?
Emelie Dickinson
Harriet Beecher Stowe
James Joyce
Walt Whitman
4
Who wrote: "The Old Man and the Sea" and "A Farewell to Arms"?
Oscar Wilde
Lord Byron
Ernest Hemingway
William Shakespeare
5
This work by Geoffrey Chaucer deals with people's life in the Middle Ages:
The Jungle Book
The Hobbit
Canterbury Tales
Pride and Prejudice
6
This is a strange book about Lilliputs and Yahoos. Name?
Gulliver's Travels
Kubla Kahn
The Murders at Rue Morgue
Robinson Crusoe
7
A Modest proposal is a novel dealing with......
starting a war
eating children
burning witches
beating children
8
Some years ago a Canadian author won the Nobel price for literature. Who?
Alice Smith
Alice Munroe
Alice Cooper
Alice in Wonderland
9
William Golding wrote this novel about kids stranded on a desert island:
Picture of Dorian Grey
Lord of the Flies
Ulysses
A Farewell to Arms
10
the biggest writer during REALISM in Great Britain was.....
Eric Blair
Jonathan Swift
Charles Dickens
Antigone
11
What kind of plays are Macbeth and Hamlet?
tragedies
satiric plays
comedies
history plays
12
What is the name of Shakespeare's theater in London?
The Globe
The Swan
The Roundhouse
The Palace
13
"Brave new World" is a dystopian novel. Who wrote it?
Ray Bradbury
Jeff Koontz
Aldous Huxley
Virginia Wolf
14
John Steinbeck wrote a famous novel about George and Lennie. Name?
Of Mice and Men
A Room with a View
A Midsummer Night's dream
Tortilla Flat
15
"The Daffodils" by William Wordsworth is England's most loved poem. What is it about?
old mythology
war weapons
wild flowers
Indian mountains
16
Charles Dickens wrote......
Lord of the Rings
Huckleberry Finn
Oliwer Twist
Tom Sawyer
17
Pride and Prejudice
and
Emma
are written by this female author:
Harper Lee
Joyce Carol Oates
Jane Austen
Charlotte Brontë
18
In which era was lyric, epic and drama the dominant genres?
Reniassance
Antiquity
Romantic
medieval times
19
Who wrote the novel "The Great Gatsby"?
JD Salinger
Jane Austen
Edgar Allen Poe
Scott Fitzgerrald
20
Which novel is the most significative book from the Enlightenment?
Uncle Tom's cabin
Robinson Crusoe
Frankenstein
Candide
21
The Jungle book
is a novel written by an English writer. Name?
D.H Lawrence
Rudyard Kipling
James Joyce
Susan Collins
22
This writer is called the "master of terror". Name?
Seamus Heaney
PD James
Stephen King
Mark Twain