English Literature Trivia Questions
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This author of "Romeo and Juliet" is often called the greatest writer in the English language.
Difficulty: Easy- William Shakespeare
- Charles Dickens
- Geoffrey Chaucer
- John Milton
This 14th-century alliterative poem tests a knight of the Round Table who must honor a beheading bargain made at Arthur's court.
Difficulty: Medium- Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
- The Knight's Tale
- Le Morte d'Arthur
- Parzival
This Eliot term describes the 17th-century split between thought and feeling that supposedly damaged English poetry.
Difficulty: Hard- Dissociation of sensibility
- Objective correlative
- Mythical method
- Impersonal theory
In this fairy tale, a young girl visits her grandmother's house only to find a wolf has taken her place.
Difficulty: Easy- Hansel and Gretel
- Little Red Riding Hood
- Cinderella
- Sleeping Beauty
This T.S. Eliot poem opens with "April is the cruellest month" and is considered a landmark of modernist poetry.
Difficulty: Medium- The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
- Four Quartets
- The Waste Land
- Ash Wednesday
This Christopher Marlowe play features a scholar who sells his soul for 24 years of power and knowledge.
Difficulty: Hard- Tamburlaine
- The Jew of Malta
- Doctor Faustus
- Edward II
This British author created the world of Hogwarts and the boy wizard Harry Potter.
Difficulty: Easy- C.S. Lewis
- Roald Dahl
- J.K. Rowling
- Philip Pullman
This Gabriel Garcia Marquez novel spanning generations of the Buendia family exemplifies magical realism.
Difficulty: Medium- Love in the Time of Cholera
- One Hundred Years of Solitude
- Chronicle of a Death Foretold
- The Autumn of the Patriarch
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