All GRE Subject Test: Literature in English Resources
Example Questions
Example Question #7 : Identification Of World Poetry After 1925
Which of the following works is by Russian poet Osip Mandelstam?
“The Lady with the Dog”
Pale Fire
Notes from the Underground
“The Overcoat”
Verses on the Unknown Soldier
Verses on the Unknown Soldier
“The Lady with the Dog” is by Anton Chekhov, “The Overcoat” is by Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol, Notes from the Underground is by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, and Pale Fire is by Vladimir Nabokov.
Example Question #8 : Identification Of World Poetry After 1925
Which Latin American poet wrote odes to age, ironing, socks, tomatoes, and birdwatching?
Pablo Neruda
Jorge Luis Borges
Mario Vargas Llosa
César Vallejo
Octavio Paz
Pablo Neruda
This is the Nobel Prize-winning Chilean poet Pablo Neruda.
Example Question #71 : Identification
Peruvian poet César Vallejo wrote which of the following works?
Los Heraldos Negros
The Aleph
Ficciones
The Library of Babel
The Book of Imaginary Beings
Los Heraldos Negros
Only Los Heraldos Negros is by Vallejo. The rest are works by the Argentinian writer Jorge Luis Borges.
Example Question #11 : Identification Of World Poetry After 1925
Nobel Prize-winning Mexican poet Octavio Paz wrote which of the following works?
The Autumn of the Patriarch
The Labyrinth of Solitude
Chronicle of a Death Foretold
No One Writes to the Colonel
Love and Other Demons
The Labyrinth of Solitude
Only The Labyrinth of Solitude is by Octavio Paz. The other works are all novels by Mexican writer Gabriel Garcia Márquez.
Example Question #72 : Identification
Which Latin American poet wrote the collection Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair?
Pablo Neruda
Mario Vargas Llosa
César Vallejo
Octavio Paz
Jorge Luis Borges
Pablo Neruda
This is Pablo Neruda. He employed a variety of poetic forms, including love poetry, epics, historical works, autobiography and political manifestos.