Tuesday, 20 January 2026

Literary Genres - Multiple Choice Questions (MCQs)

 

Objective Type Questions (Multiple Choice):


1. Simile is a comparison using

a) Like or As
b
) Than
c
) But
d
) Yet

2. "Her eyes are as bright as stars" is an example of

a) Metaphor
b
) Simile
c
) Personification
d
) Allegory

3. Which figure of speech directly states that one thing is another?

a) Simile
b
) Metaphor
c
) Allegory
d
) Personification

 

4. "All the worlds a stage" is an example of

a) Simile
b
) Metaphor
c
) Allegory
d
) Hyperbole

 

5. An Allegory conveys

a) A moral or lesson
b
) Humour
c
) Tragedy
d
) Fantasy

 

6. "The sun smiled down on us" is an example of

a) Simile
b
) Metaphor
c
) Personification
d
) Allegory

7. Which of the following is an allegorical work of the Elizabethan period?

a) Hamlet
b
) The Faerie Queene
c
) Macbeth
d
) Doctor Faustus

8. Personification gives human qualities to

a) Animals
b
) Objects and abstract ideas
c
) Only humans
d
) Plants

9. Who used Allegory in The Faerie Queene?

a) Philip Sidney
b
) Edmund Spenser
c
) Shakespeare
d
) Marlowe

10. "Time flies" is an example of

a) Simile
b
) Personification
c
) Allegory
d
) Hyperbole

11. Which figure of speech creates imaginative comparisons?

a) Simile
b
) Allegory
c
) Irony
d
) Paradox

12. In which figure of speech does an entire story represent abstract ideas?

a) Metaphor
b
) Allegory
c
) Hyperbole
d
) Parody

13. Shakespeare often used Personification in

a) His comedies
b
) His sonnets
c
) His prose
d
) None of the above

 

14. What does Allegory usually teach?

a) A joke
b
) A moral lesson
c
) A metaphor
d
) A simile

15. The phrase "Love is a battlefield" is a

a) Simile
b
) Metaphor
c
) Personification
d
) Allegory

16. Who compared his beloved to a summers day in a famous sonnet?

a) Marlowe
b
) Shakespeare
c
) Sidney
d
) Jonson

17. "Hope whispered softly in her ear" uses

a) Allegory
b
) Personification
c
) Simile
d
) Hyperbole

18. "He fought like a lion" is a

a) Simile
b
) Metaphor
c
) Allegory
d
) Personification

19. Allegories are common in

a) Epics
b
) Satire
c
) Elegies
d
) Drama

20. Which is NOT a figure of speech?

a) Simile
b
) Metaphor
c
) Allegory
d
) Biography


 

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