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50+ MCQs on Elegy with Answers for UGC NET / SET Prepration

1. Which literary form does an elegy belong to?
A) Drama
B) Poetry
C) Novel
D) Essay

2. Who is considered the father of English elegy?
A) William Shakespeare
B) John Donne
C) Thomas Gray
D) Geoffrey Chaucer

3. Which of the following is a characteristic feature of an elegy?
A) Celebration of joy
B) Lightheartedness
C) Lamentation or mourning
D) Satirical tone

4. Which famous poem by Thomas Gray is considered one of the finest English elegies?
A) “The Waste Land”
B) “Ode to a Nightingale”
C) “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard”
D) “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”

5. In an elegy, what is often the subject of lamentation?
A) Love
B) Nature
C) Death
D) Celebration

6. Which of the following poets wrote the elegy “In Memory of W.B. Yeats”?
A) W. H. Auden
B) T. S. Eliot
C) Robert Frost
D) Langston Hughes

7. Who is the author of the famous elegy “Adonais”?
A) John Keats
B) Lord Byron
C) Percy Bysshe Shelley
D) William Wordsworth

8. The term “elegy” is derived from which language?
A) Greek
B) Latin50+ MCQs on Elegy with Answers for UGC NET / SET Prepration
C) French
D) German

9. Which poet wrote the elegy “Lycidas”?
A) John Donne
B) John Milton
C) John Keats
D) William Wordsworth

10. Which emotion is most commonly associated with elegies?
A) Joy
B) Anger
C) Sadness
D) Excitement

11. Who is the author of the elegy “To an Athlete Dying Young”?
A) William Wordsworth
B) W. H. Auden
C) A. E. Housman
D) T. S. Eliot

12. In what form is the elegy “Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night” written?
A) Sonnet
B) Villanelle
C) Haiku
D) Free verse

13. “Dirge” is a synonym often used interchangeably with elegy. What does “dirge” specifically refer to?
A) A joyous celebration
B) A mournful song or poem for the dead
C) A comedic play
D) A religious text

14. Who is the author of the elegy “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d”?
A) Emily Dickinson
B) Walt Whitman50+ MCQs on Elegy with Answers for UGC NET / SET Prepration
C) Robert Frost
D) Langston Hughes

15. What is a common theme found in many elegies?
A) Celebration of life
B) Mourning the loss of someone or something
C) Romantic love
D) Adventure and exploration

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16. Which of the following poets wrote “Elegy for Jane”?
A) Sylvia Plath
B) Robert Lowell
C) Theodore Roethke
D) Elizabeth Bishop

17. Which historical figure inspired Percy Bysshe Shelley’s elegy “Adonais”?
A) John Keats
B) William Shakespeare
C) Lord Byron
D) Abraham Lincoln

18. What is the meter typically used in elegiac poetry?
A) Iambic pentameter
B) Trochaic tetrameter
C) Anapestic hexameter
D) Dactylic pentameter

19. Which of the following is NOT a common theme in elegiac poetry?
A) Loss
B) Nature
C) Love
D) Victory

20. Who is the author of the elegy “To His Coy Mistress”?
A) Andrew Marvell
B) John Milton
C) William Wordsworth
D) John Donne

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21. Which of the following is a famous elegy by Seamus Heaney?
A) “The Raven”
B) “An Irish Airman Foresees His Death”
C) “Digging”
D) “Casualty”

22. Who wrote the elegy “When Great Trees Fall”?
A) Maya Angelou
B) Langston Hughes
C) Gwendolyn Brooks
D) Nikki Giovanni

23. Which of the following is NOT a common poetic device used in elegies?
A) Simile
B) Metaphor
C) Irony
D) Alliteration

24. Who wrote the elegy “In Memory of Eva Gore-Booth and Con Markiewicz”?
A) William Butler Yeats
B) T. S. Eliot
C) W. H. Auden
D) Langston Hughes

25. What is the primary purpose of an elegy?
A) To celebrate life
B) To criticize society
C) To lament loss or death
D) To entertain readers

26. Which poet wrote “The Ballad of Reading Gaol,” often considered a modern elegy?
A) W. H. Auden
B) T. S. Eliot
C) Oscar Wilde
D) Langston Hughes

27. Which poet wrote the elegy “To Autumn”?
A) Percy Bysshe Shelley
B) John Keats50+ MCQs on Elegy with Answers for UGC NET / SET Prepration
C) William Wordsworth
D) Lord Byron

28. Who wrote the elegy “In Memoriam A.H.H.”?
A) William Wordsworth
B) Alfred, Lord Tennyson
C) John Milton
D) Samuel Taylor Coleridge

29. Which of the following is NOT an essential characteristic of an elegy?
A) Lamentation
B) Celebration
C) Reflection
D) Consolation

30. What does the term “threnody” refer to in relation to elegiac poetry?
A) A joyful celebration
B) A lament or dirge
C) A humorous anecdote
D) A romantic declaration

31. Who wrote the elegy “For the Union Dead”?
A) Robert Frost
B) Langston Hughes
C) Sylvia Plath
D) Robert Lowell

32. Which poet wrote “Funeral Blues,” famously recited in the film “Four Weddings and a Funeral”?
A) T. S. Eliot
B) W. H. Auden
C) Langston Hughes
D) Maya Angelou

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33. Which poet wrote the elegy “Meditation at Lagunitas”?
A) Elizabeth Bishop
B) Theodore Roethke
C) Robert Lowell
D) Sylvia Plath

34. Who wrote the elegy “A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal”?
A) William Wordsworth
B) John Keats
C) Samuel Taylor Coleridge
D) Percy Bysshe Shelley

35. In which elegy does the speaker famously lament, “Gather ye rosebuds while ye may”?
A) “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard”
B) “To His Coy Mistress”
C) “Adonais”
D) “Lycidas”

36. Who wrote the elegy “An Arundel Tomb”?
A) John Keats
B) W. H. Auden
C) T. S. Eliot
D) Robert Lowell

37. Who wrote the elegy “Mortality”?
A) William Wordsworth
B) John Keats
C) Emily Dickinson
D) Thomas Gray

38. Which poet wrote the elegy “Crossing the Bar”?
A) William Wordsworth
B) Alfred, Lord Tennyson50+ MCQs on Elegy with Answers for UGC NET / SET Prepration
C) John Milton
D) Samuel Taylor Coleridge

39. Who is the author of the elegy “Elegy for My Father, Who Is Not Dead”?
A) Andrew Marvell
B) Billy Collins
C) Langston Hughes
D) Robert Frost

40. What is the tone typically found in elegies?
A) Joyful
B) Melancholic
C) Comedic
D) Ironic

41. Which poet wrote the elegy “Death Be Not Proud”?
A) John Donne
B) William Wordsworth
C) Robert Frost
D) Emily Dickinson

42. Who wrote the elegy “Because I Could Not Stop for Death”?
A) John Keats
B) Walt Whitman
C) Emily Dickinson
D) Langston Hughes

43. Which poet wrote the elegy “Elegy for Jane”?
A) Sylvia Plath
B) Robert Lowell
C) Theodore Roethke
D) Elizabeth Bishop

44. Who wrote the elegy “Lament for a Son”?
A) C. S. Lewis
B) J. R. R. Tolkien
C) N. T. Wright
D) Nicholas Wolterstorff

45. Which of the following is a well-known modern elegy collection by Mary Jo Bang?
A) “Ariel”
B) “Elegy”
C) “The Dream of a Common Language”
D) “A Village Life”

46. Who is the author of the elegy “In Memory of W. B. Yeats”?
A) W. H. Auden
B) T. S. Eliot
C) Robert Frost
D) Langston Hughes

47. Which poet wrote the elegy “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard”?
A) William Wordsworth
B) Samuel Taylor Coleridge
C) Thomas Gray50+ MCQs on Elegy with Answers for UGC NET / SET Prepration
D) John Keats

48. What is the main subject of the elegy “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d”?
A) The passing of spring
B) The death of Abraham Lincoln
C) The end of a romantic relationship
D) The beauty of nature

49. Which poet wrote the elegy “Exequy”?
A) John Donne
B) Robert Herrick
C) Thomas Carew
D) Richard Crashaw

50. Which of the following is NOT a well-known elegiac poet?
A) Langston Hughes
B) Sylvia Plath
C) Maya Angelou
D) William Blake

Answer

1. B) Poetry
2. C) Thomas Gray
3. C) Lamentation or mourning
4. C) “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard”
5. C) Death
6. A) W. H. Auden
7. C) Percy Bysshe Shelley
8. A) Greek
9. B) John Milton
10. C) Sadness
11. C) A. E. Housman
12. B) Villanelle
13. B) A mournful song or poem for the dead
14. B) Walt Whitman
15. B) Mourning the loss of someone or something
16. C) Theodore Roethke
17. A) John Keats
18. A) Iambic pentameter
19. D) Victory
20. A) Andrew Marvell
21. D) “Casualty”
22. A) Maya Angelou
23. D) Alliteration50+ MCQs on Elegy with Answers for UGC NET / SET Prepration
24. A) William Butler Yeats
25. C) To lament loss or death
26. C) Oscar Wilde
27. B) John Keats50+ MCQs on Elegy with Answers for UGC NET / SET Prepration
28. B) Alfred, Lord Tennyson
29. B) Celebration
30. B) A lament or dirge
31. D) Robert Lowell
32. B) W. H. Auden
33. A) Elizabeth Bishop
34. C) Samuel Taylor Coleridge
35. B) “To His Coy Mistress”
36. B) W. H. Auden
37. D) Thomas Gray
38. B) Alfred, Lord Tennyson
39. B) Billy Collins
40. B) Melancholic
41. A) John Donne
42. C) Emily Dickinson
43. C) Theodore Roethke
44. D) Nicholas Wolterstorff
45. B) “Elegy”
46. A) W. H. Auden
47. C) Thomas Gray
48. B) The death of Abraham Lincoln
49. A) John Donne
50. D) William Blake