English Language

Literary Analysis

4,216 Questions

Analyze classic and modernist novels, autobiographies, plays, and graphic novels across various genres. This topic tests your familiarity with prominent authors, literary movements, and thematic elements. Questions appear regularly in the English language sections of SSC, banking, and teaching competency exams.

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Literary Analysis Questions

Multiple choice

May the odds be ever in your favor.

  1. The Hunger Games

  2. Divergent

  3. Maze Runner

  4. Passengers
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

The phrase 'May the odds be ever in your favor' is the signature greeting used in the Hunger Games series.

Multiple choice apostrophe mark punctuation english

The 60s saw feminist books like Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique released to much acclaim.

Choose the option that best corrects the sentence.

  1. NO CHANGE

  2. The 60s saw feminist books like Betty Friedans The Feminine Mystique released to much acclaim.

  3. The 60's saw feminist books like Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique released to much acclaim.

  4. The 60's saw feminist books like Betty Friedans' The Feminine Mystique released to much acclaim.
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A,C Correct answer
Multiple choice story and its elements writing english

Imagine you wish to write a story about a princess. What would be a suitable setting?

  1. A castle in the Middle Ages

  2. A fishing boat

  3. A quiet farmhouse

  4. A prison
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

 A princess is accustomed to a medieval setting with an essence of  royalty, lavishness and grandeur. A castle is a place where such setting is facilitated. Therefore Option A is a suitable answer.

Whereas a fishing boat, a quiet farmhouse and a prison are not privileged with such grandeur. Thus the other options are not suitable

Multiple choice story and its elements writing english

Which of the following is an example of a part of an exposition?
Choose the best option:

  1. The very next day, she woke up to find herself in a new place ...

  2. Once upon a time, there lived a gracious king ...

  3. Finally, the witch was dead ...

  4. There was only one way out ...
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

 An exposition is 'a comprehensive description and explanation of an idea or theory'.

In literature, it's a literary device that introduces background information about events, settings, characters or other elements of a work to the reader.
Option B: This line 'once upon a time...' introduces a story, which is a part of a story. Hence option B is correct.
Option A: This line is a continuation of a story, and in the middle of a scene.
It does not reveal any background information.
Option C: This line is a conclusion and does not reveal any background information.
Option D: This line is a narration of an event and not a backstory.
Hence options A, C and D are wrong.

Multiple choice

The contest known as the Hunger Games commemorates:

  1. The armistice between the Capitol and the Districts

  2. The District's victory over the Capitol

  3. The Capitol's victory over the Districts
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

The Hunger Games are held annually by the Capitol as a reminder of the failed rebellion by the Districts and the Capitol's subsequent victory over them.

Multiple choice

May the odds be ever in your favor.

  1. The Hunger Games

  2. Divergent

  3. Maze Runner

  4. Passengers
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

This quote is the signature catchphrase from The Hunger Games series, spoken by Effie Trinket during the Reaping.

Multiple choice novels, society and history history

Which one is the novel of Henry Fielding?

  1. Tom Jones

  2. Pamela

  3. Germinal

  4. Ramona
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation
Henry Fielding, a novelist of the early eighteenth century, claimed he was ‘the founder of a new province of writing’ where he could make his own laws. The novel allowed flexibility in the form of writing. Henry Fielding’s Tom Jones (1749) was issued in six volumes priced at three shillings each – which was more than what a labourer earned in a week. 
Multiple choice novels, society and history history

Name the famous novel of Charles Dickens.

  1. Hard Times

  2. Oliver Twist

  3. Great Expectations

  4. All of the above
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

Charles John Huffman Dickens was an English writer and social critic. He created some best fictional characters.

  • Hard Times: - He writes about the times during the industrial revolution in this novel.  It focuses on the fictional town of Coke town, England and the people who live there and their struggles.
  • Oliver Twist was the second novel by Charles Dickens.  It portrays the life of an orphan who is sold into an apprenticeship with an undertaker. From there he escapes and joins criminal gangs. This shows the life of the criminals.
  • Great Expectations is the thirteenth novel by Charles Dickens which depicts the personal growth and personal development of an orphan nicknamed Pip.

Multiple choice novels, society and history history

The first novel to be serialised was ____________.

  1. Pickwick Books

  2. Pickwick Papers

  3. Pocket Books

  4. None of these
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

Pickwick papers are of Pick Wick club is Charles Dickens first novel. He wrote this novel at the age 24. It is the first novel that has been serialized. It consisted of sequences of loose adventures. The novel’s main character is Samuel Pickwick hence the name Pickwick papers.

Multiple choice social studies print culture and the modern world film and print media evolution of writing and communication system great reformers and reform movements

Which invention made the novel popular?

  1. Invention of Ink

  2. Invention of paper

  3. Invention of printing technology

  4. Invention of rubber
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

Novels had played a very significant role for imbibing a sense of nationalism in Indians.
Novels had brought this aspect by bringing together people from varied background and produced a sense of shared community.

Novel was made popular after the invention of printing press as it made printing cheap and affordable. Printing was made easier as age old tiresome techniques of printing have been replaced by new mechanical printing press

Multiple choice great depression between the two world wars - the russian revolution and the great depression history russian revolution the russian revolution

In The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck describes the fortunes of a family forced out of Oklahoma by the ravages of the ______.

  1. New Deal

  2. War Department

  3. Great Society

  4. Dust Bowl

  5. Potato famine
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

In The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck describes the fortunes of a family forced out of Oklahoma by the ravages of the Dust Bowl.