Understanding and Analyzing Literature Quiz

Challenge yourself with questions on authors, literary devices, and famous works. How well do you know literature?

#1

Who is the author of 'To Kill a Mockingbird'?

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Harper Lee
J.D. Salinger
William Faulkner
#2

What literary device is used when a non-human object is given human characteristics?

Simile
Metaphor
Personification
Hyperbole
#3

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

Winston Smith
Big Brother
Julia
O'Brien
#4

Which of the following is NOT a Greek tragedy playwright?

Sophocles
Euripides
Aristotle
Aeschylus
#5

Who wrote the famous poem 'The Waste Land'?

T.S. Eliot
Robert Frost
William Wordsworth
Emily Dickinson
#6

Which of the following is NOT a play written by William Shakespeare?

Romeo and Juliet
Hamlet
Pride and Prejudice
Macbeth
#7

Who wrote the epic poem 'Paradise Lost'?

John Milton
Dante Alighieri
Geoffrey Chaucer
Virgil
#8

Who wrote the novel 'Brave New World'?

George Orwell
Aldous Huxley
Ray Bradbury
Philip K. Dick
#9

In 'The Catcher in the Rye,' what is Holden Caulfield's favorite expression?

Keep on keepin' on
Catch you later
Allie-oop
Phony
#10

In 'The Great Gatsby', what is the occupation of Jay Gatsby?

Stockbroker
Writer
Farmer
Bootlegger
#11

What literary movement emphasized the expression of emotions, imagination, and individualism?

Naturalism
Romanticism
Realism
Transcendentalism
#12

Which novel by Toni Morrison won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1988?

Beloved
The Bluest Eye
Song of Solomon
Sula
#13

Which novel by Gabriel Garcia Marquez is often considered a defining work of magic realism?

Love in the Time of Cholera
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Chronicle of a Death Foretold
Memories of My Melancholy Whores
#14

Who wrote the novel 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest'?

Ken Kesey
Jack Kerouac
J.D. Salinger
Kurt Vonnegut
#15

Which literary work is known for its opening line, 'It was the best of times, it was the worst of times'?

Pride and Prejudice
Great Expectations
David Copperfield
A Tale of Two Cities

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