Literary Analysis in English Literature Quiz

Explore narratology, literary devices, authors, and themes with this English literature quiz. How well do you know classic works?

#1

Who is the author of the novel 'Pride and Prejudice'?

Jane Austen
Emily Brontë
Charlotte Brontë
Charles Dickens
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#2

Which literary device involves giving human characteristics to non-human entities?

Metaphor
Personification
Simile
Alliteration
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#3

Who wrote the novel 'To Kill a Mockingbird'?

Harper Lee
John Steinbeck
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Mark Twain
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#4

Who is the author of the play 'Death of a Salesman'?

Arthur Miller
Tennessee Williams
Eugene O'Neill
August Wilson
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#5

Who is the author of the poem 'The Raven'?

Edgar Allan Poe
Emily Dickinson
Walt Whitman
Robert Frost
#6

Who wrote the novel 'Moby-Dick'?

Herman Melville
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Henry David Thoreau
Mark Twain
1 answered
#7

Who wrote the play 'Romeo and Juliet'?

William Shakespeare
John Milton
Oscar Wilde
Emily Dickinson
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#8

What is the literary term for a long narrative poem that celebrates the deeds of legendary or heroic figures?

Sonnet
Ballad
Epic
Haiku
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#9

Who is the protagonist in George Orwell's novel '1984'?

Winston Smith
Julia
Big Brother
O'Brien
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#10

Which literary work is often considered the first modern novel?

Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift
Tom Jones by Henry Fielding
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#11

Which literary term refers to the technique of hinting at events that will occur later in the story?

Foreshadowing
Flashback
Irony
Symbolism
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#12

What is the central theme of Franz Kafka's novel 'The Metamorphosis'?

Love and betrayal
Existentialism
Isolation and alienation
Social inequality
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#13

Which literary movement emphasized intense emotional expression, imagination, and individualism?

Romanticism
Realism
Naturalism
Modernism
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#14

Who wrote the poem 'The Waste Land'?

T.S. Eliot
W.B. Yeats
Robert Frost
Ezra Pound
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