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This section includes 32 Mcqs, each offering curated multiple-choice questions to sharpen your General Knowledge knowledge and support exam preparation. Choose a topic below to get started.
| 1. |
Choose the correct word to complete the simile:As _____ as a tortoise. |
| A. | slow |
| B. | fast |
| C. | brave |
| D. | blind |
| Answer» B. fast | |
| 2. |
Choose the most appropriate optionThe figure of speech involving a direct address either to an absent person or to a personified inanimate object is called - |
| A. | Personification |
| B. | Apostrophe |
| C. | Oxymoron |
| D. | Onomatopoeia |
| Answer» C. Oxymoron | |
| 3. |
Choose the correct answer from the options given below."Frankly my dear, I don’t give a damn...." |
| A. | Scarlet Letter |
| B. | Gone with the Wind |
| C. | Lord of the Ring |
| D. | None of the above |
| Answer» C. Lord of the Ring | |
| 4. |
‘Lust for Life’ is the biography of the painter |
| A. | Vincent Van Gogh |
| B. | Satish Gujral |
| C. | Freida Kahlo |
| D. | None of the above |
| Answer» B. Satish Gujral | |
| 5. |
Identify the option that uses synecdoche. |
| A. | A hundred head of cattle |
| B. | He was as white as a sheet |
| C. | The pen is mightier than the sword |
| D. | it is an open secret |
| Answer» B. He was as white as a sheet | |
| 6. |
‘Death of a Salesman’ is a play written by |
| A. | Arthur Miller |
| B. | Arthur C. Clark |
| C. | Arthur Marlowe |
| D. | None of the above |
| Answer» B. Arthur C. Clark | |
| 7. |
Choose the most appropriate optionWhich one is odd one out? |
| A. | Nissim Ezekiel |
| B. | Sarojini Naidu |
| C. | Kiran Desai |
| D. | Dom Moraes |
| Answer» D. Dom Moraes | |
| 8. |
Direction: Choose the correct option for the proverb given below. 'Necessity is the mother of invention.' |
| A. | Imagery |
| B. | Personification |
| C. | Apostrophe |
| D. | None of the above |
| Answer» C. Apostrophe | |
| 9. |
Direction: Which of the following is an example of simile? |
| A. | I wandered lonely as a cloud. |
| B. | Life is a dream |
| C. | Anxiety is sitting on her face |
| D. | A lie has no legs. |
| Answer» B. Life is a dream | |
| 10. |
Identify the figure of speech in the following sentence:I must be cruel, only to be kind. |
| A. | Analogy |
| B. | Paradox |
| C. | Metaphor |
| D. | Epigram |
| Answer» C. Metaphor | |
| 11. |
‘Maqbool’ is a movie based on which of the following plays of Shakespeare |
| A. | Merchant of Venice |
| B. | Macbeth |
| C. | Much ado About Nothing |
| D. | None of the above |
| Answer» C. Much ado About Nothing | |
| 12. |
Choose the correct answer from the options given below. "Ring out the old, ring in the new...." |
| A. | Lady of Shallot-Tennyson |
| B. | In Memoriam-Tennyson |
| C. | Paradise Lost-John Milton |
| D. | None of the above |
| Answer» C. Paradise Lost-John Milton | |
| 13. |
"It’s elementary my dear _________!" |
| A. | Stetson |
| B. | Johnson |
| C. | Watson |
| D. | None of the above |
| Answer» D. None of the above | |
| 14. |
Direction: Identify the figure of speech employed in the following sentence-Silence is sometimes more eloquent than speech. |
| A. | Personification |
| B. | Bathos |
| C. | Oxymoron |
| D. | Antithesis |
| Answer» E. | |
| 15. |
Choose the correct option for the statement given below.'Christianity shone like a beacon in the black night of paganism.' What figure of speech is "Christianity shone like a beacon"? |
| A. | Simile |
| B. | Metaphor |
| C. | Hyperbole |
| D. | None of the above |
| Answer» B. Metaphor | |
| 16. |
Choose the correct answer from the options give below. "He is not of an age but of all time...." |
| A. | Ben Jonson wrote about William Shakespeare |
| B. | William Shakespeare wrote about Ben Jonson |
| C. | Coleridge wrote about Wordsworth |
| D. | None of the above |
| Answer» B. William Shakespeare wrote about Ben Jonson | |
| 17. |
221 B Baker Street is the address of the literary character |
| A. | Sherlock Holmes |
| B. | Harry Potter |
| C. | Hercule Poirot |
| D. | None of the above |
| Answer» B. Harry Potter | |
| 18. |
Choose the correct option for the blank below.The phrases 'the humming bee', 'the cackling hen', and 'the buzzing saw' are examples of _____________. |
| A. | Oxymoron |
| B. | Metonymy |
| C. | Onomatopoeia |
| D. | None of the above |
| Answer» D. None of the above | |
| 19. |
A standard sonnet is a poem of ___ lines. |
| A. | 14 |
| B. | 12 |
| C. | 16 |
| D. | none of the above |
| Answer» B. 12 | |
| 20. |
Fill in the blanks with appropriate word from the given options.______ is a figure of speech wherein a part is used to represent the whole or the whole for the part. |
| A. | Metonymy |
| B. | Litotes |
| C. | Synecdoche |
| D. | Hyperbole |
| Answer» D. Hyperbole | |
| 21. |
Direction: Which figure of speech is used in this text?Elderly American ladies leaning on their canes listed toward me like towers of Pisa. |
| A. | Onomatopoeia |
| B. | Simile |
| C. | Metaphor |
| D. | None of these |
| Answer» C. Metaphor | |
| 22. |
Miss Havisham is a character from Dickens’ novel |
| A. | Great Expectations |
| B. | David Copperfield |
| C. | Oliver Twist |
| D. | None of the above |
| Answer» B. David Copperfield | |
| 23. |
Direction: Choose the correct figure of speech in the following sentence:Death lays his icy hands on kings. |
| A. | Metaphor |
| B. | Personification |
| C. | Apostrophe |
| D. | Simile |
| Answer» C. Apostrophe | |
| 24. |
Choose the correct answer from the options given below. "Out, out brief candle!" |
| A. | Macbeth |
| B. | Comedy of Errors |
| C. | Much Ado about Nothing |
| D. | None of the above |
| Answer» B. Comedy of Errors | |
| 25. |
Choose the correct answer from the options given below. 'To err is human, to forgive divine.' |
| A. | Anticlimax |
| B. | Litotes |
| C. | Antithesis |
| D. | None of the above |
| Answer» D. None of the above | |
| 26. |
Choose the correct answer from the options given below. "Two roads diverged in a wood/And I took the one less traveled by...." |
| A. | Robert Browning |
| B. | Robert Frost |
| C. | Robert Southey |
| D. | None of the above |
| Answer» C. Robert Southey | |
| 27. |
Choose the correct answer from the options given below.'I'm so hungry I could eat a horse!' |
| A. | Hyperbole |
| B. | Metaphor |
| C. | Irony |
| D. | None of the above |
| Answer» B. Metaphor | |
| 28. |
Elizabethan Age of English Literature lasted- |
| A. | 1558 - 1603 |
| B. | 1603 - 1625 |
| C. | 1625 - 1649 |
| D. | 1649 - 1660 |
| Answer» B. 1603 - 1625 | |
| 29. |
'The Autobiography of an Unknown Indian' is an autobiography of |
| A. | Inder Kumar Gujral |
| B. | Nirad C. Chaudhuri |
| C. | Mahatma Gandhi |
| D. | Jawaharlal Nehru |
| Answer» C. Mahatma Gandhi | |
| 30. |
In 2011 who wins the Pulitzer Prize for the book 'The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer' |
| A. | Siddhartha Mukherjee |
| B. | Geeta Anand |
| C. | Jhumpa Lahiri |
| D. | Gobind Behari Lal |
| Answer» B. Geeta Anand | |
| 31. |
Who is the writer of the book 'A Suitable Boy' |
| A. | Vikram Seth |
| B. | Arundhati Roy |
| C. | Salman Rushdie |
| D. | Kiran Desai |
| Answer» B. Arundhati Roy | |
| 32. |
Who is the writer of the book 'Devdas' |
| A. | Satyajit Ray |
| B. | Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay |
| C. | Mahasweta Devi |
| D. | Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay |
| Answer» E. | |