EXERCISE NO:I

WORKS AND SUBTITLES

[ ] Decameron: Prince Galahout (Boccacio)

[ ] The Female Quixote: or, The Adventures of Arabella - Charlotte Lennox - 1752

[ ] Don Quixote of La Mancha (Cervantes)

[ ] Under the Greenwood Tree: A Rural Painting of the Dutch School - 1872 Thomas Hardy

[ ] Mayor of Casterbridge: The Life and Death of a Man of Character - (1886) Thomas Hardy

[ ] Animal Farm: A Fair Story (George Orwell)

[ ] Michael: A Pastoral Poem- (1800 Wordsworth)

[ ] The History of Tom Jones: A Foundling (1749 Henry Fielding)

[ ] Istanbul: A Memories and the City - Orhan Pamuk

[ ] The Ascent F6: A Tragedy in Two Acts - 1936- WH Auden

[ ] Waiting for Godot: A Tragicomedy in Two Acts - Samuel Beckett

[ ] Sons and Lovers - (original title) Paul Morel

[ ] Way of the World: A comedy (Congreve 1700)

[ ] All For Love, The World Well Lost (Dryden 1677)

[ ] She Stoops to Conquer: Mistakes of a night (Goldsmith)

[ ] Oliver Twist; The Parish Boy's Progress (pub by Richard Bently) by Dickens

[ ] Vanity Fair: A Novel Without Hero (Thackery)

[ ] The Vicar of Wakefield: A Tale Supposed to be Written by Himself 1766 (Goldsmith)

[ ] Middlemarch, A provincial Life 1784 (George Eliot)

[ ] Bingo: Scenes of Money and Death (1973 Edward Bond) [Shakespeare comes as a character]

[ ] Hardbreak House: A Fantasia in the Russian Manner on English Themes (1919 G.BShaw)

[ ] Silas Marner: The Weaver of the Raveloe (1861 George Eliot)

[ ] Felix Holt: The Radical (1866 George Eliot )

[ ] Importance of Being Earnest: a trivial comedy for Serious People - Oscar Wild

[ ] The Wheel of Fire; The Interpretation of Shakespearean tragedy. Wilson Knight

[ ] Pamela: Virtue Rewarded - Samuel Richardson

[ ] Joseph Andrews, or The History of Adventures of Joseph Andrews and of his Friend Mr
Abraham Adams - Henry Fielding

[ ] Andrea del Sarto: The Faultless Painter - Robert Browning

[ ] Tess of the D'Urbervilles:A Pure Woman - Hardy

Tess of D'URBERVILLES - The Daughter of the D'Urbervilles (original intended title)

[ ] Gorboduc or The Ferrex and Porrex - Thomas Norton and Thomas Sackville

[ ] Holy Sonnets, or The Divine Meditations, or Divine Sonnets --John Done (1633)

[ ] Tottel's Micellany, Songs and Sonnets

[ ] Mac Flecknoe; A Satyr upon the True-Blew-Protestant Poet, T.S. - (Dryden)

[ ] The Wheel of Fire: Interpretations of Shakespearean Tragedy (Wilson Knight)

[ ] Endymion: The Man in the Moon (John Lyly)

[ ] The Mistress: Several Copies of Love Versus - Abraham Cowley

[ ] Hespiredes: The Works Both Humane and Divine of Robert Herrick (Robert Herrick-1648)

[ ] Elegy for John Donne - "An Elegy Upon the Death of St Paul's Dr John Donne"

[ ] Troilus and Cressida: Truth Found Too Late (opera) - Dryden

[ ] Alexander's Feast, or the Power of Music (1697) - Dryden

[ ] Histeriomastix: The Players Scourge or Actors Tragedy (1633) - William Prynne

[ ] The Pilgrim's Progress - The Pilgrim's Progress from This World to That Which Is to Come;
Delivered under the Similitude of a Dream - John Bunyan

[ ] Candide: All for the Best; or The Optimist; or Optimism

[ ] Roughing it in the Bush, Or, Forest Life in Canada (1852) - Susanna Strickland Moodie
1. The anthology 'Some imagist Poets' was published in 1915 by: Amy Lowell

2. To which novelist is the epithet 'prophesier of the things past' applied? Walter Scott

3. On which of his novels did David Story win the Booker Prize in 1976? Saville

4. What is the other name of Thomas Hardy's novel ―Under the Green Wood Tree‖? A
Rural Painting of the Dutch School.

5. What could be the tragic flaw in Hamlet? Noble Inaction

6. What is a feminine rhyme? An unstressed syllable at the end of a line

7. Which poet is known as ‗The Nun of Amherst‘? Emily Dickinson

8. "Pope can fix in one couplet more sense than I can do in six. Who wrote this sentence? :
Swift

9. Dryden wrote a poem......... to celebrate the return of Charles II. Astraea Redux

10. The Mirror and the Lamp (1953) was written by M. H. Abrams

11. Which is the very first work of Hemingway? The Torrents of Spring

12. By whom was the critical term 'Negative Capability' introduced?. John Keats

13. "He affects the metaphysics"-this comment was made on Donne by: Dryden

14. Who is the first recipient for Sahitya Academy for English Drama? Mahesh Dattani

15. ‗Old Possum‘ is the nickname of which poet, given by Ezra Pound? T.S. Eliot

16. Who is known as ‗The Sage of Concord‘? Emerson

17. Which one of the following novels of Virginia Woolf is known as a Prose poem?

A. The Voyage Out (1915) B. Night and Day

18. C. Mrs. Dalloway (1915) D. The Waves (1931)

19. The author of the verbal icon (1954) is.... William wimsatt

20. "Terror and pity may be raised by the decorations, the mere spectacle; but they may also
arise from the circumstances of the action itself; which is far preferable and shows a superior
poet." Aristotle

21. Who was it that defined Romanticism as 'addition of strangeness to beauty'? Walter Pater
22. "Good Morning to the day and next, my gold! Open the shrine that I may see my saint
―These lines are taken from : Volpone

23. The 'Animal Farm' by George Orwell satire on: Communism

24. Nom-de-plume means: A pen name

25. Which of the following is not a satire? Divine Comedy

26. Lycidas is a.......... elegy. Pastoral

27. A record of events drawn from personal knowledge is called : Memoir

28. What form of art does Aristotle consider to be more refined and superior? Tragedy

29. Name the person who is mourned by Milton in 'Lycidas': Edward King

30. A theme or idea developed on a particular subject in music or literature is known as :

Motif

31. 'Absalom and Achitophel' is a satire on : Shaftesbury

32. What can be a suitable theme of Othello? Jealousy

33. Who does Shelley call 'wolves' in Adonais. Critics and journalists

34. Who describes Aristotle's literary style as a "River of gold "? Cicero

35. Name the elegy by Spencer in which he mourns the death of Sydney : Astrophel

36. A phrase or statement yielding sense in more than one way is known as : Amphiboly

37. Analogy means : The process of reasoning

38. Whose death is mourned in 'Elegy written in a Country Churchyard‘? Poor country
rustics

39. A confusion between the poem and its results is known as : Affective Fallacy

40. The name of someone else assumed by the author of a work is : Allonyms

41. A ballad is written on a tragic theme. One of the following Ballads is an exception to it.
Which one? John Gilpin

42. Whose death is mourned by Matthew Arnold in Rugby Chapel: His father

43. Whose death does Arnold mourn in "Thyrsis"? A. H. Clough

44. Who is the merchant of Venice? Antonio

45. What is a Masque? A musical play

46. Which sonnet of Shakespeare is a parody of the conventions of love poetry, the
Petrarchan sonnets? No. 130. My mistress‘ eyes are nothing like the Sun.

47. The term ‗Lollard‘ refers to: The followers of John Wycliffe

48. The forsyte saga:Galsworthy

49. Author of Lady Chatterley‘s lover:D.H.Lawrence

50. "Dissociation of sensibility ":Eliot

51. "Hell is a city much like London." Whose view is this? Shelley

52. The Old English ― Martyrology‖ is a Mercian collection of: Hagiographies

53. Who said that "Milton used English words with a foreign idiom"? Dr. Johnson

54. Who, among the poets in England in the 1930s had Left- leaning tendencies?: WH
Auden, Louis Mac Neice, C Day Lewis

55. Collins' poem In 'Yonder Grave a Druid Lies' is an elegy on the death of --- James
Thomson

56. Who said that Paradise Lost lacks in human interest? Dr. Johnson

57. "The Death of the Author "Roland Barthes

58. What is the meaning of Stultus sum? I am a fool

59. Who first translated "Essais of Montaigne" into English in 1603? John Florio

60. Charles Lamb studied at 'Christ's Hospital' from 1782-89, and here began his friendship
with Coleridge. What is the other name of Christ's Hospital? The Blue Coat School.

61. Who said Shakespeare's heroes are universal but they are individual also? Addison

62. who is a hell hound:Macbeth

63. "Over rough and smooth she trips along. And never looks behind:And sings a solitary
song.That whistles in the wind."From which poem of Wordsworth are these lines quoted?: Lucy
Gray

64. "Tragedy imitates men as better, and Comedy as worse, then they really are."Who held
this view? Aristotle
65. Who said, "The Prelude has a large measure of poetic unity because it has a single hero--
the poet himself."? Matthew Arnold

66. "Poetry sheds no tears such as angels weep, but natural and human tears." Whose view is
this? Wordsworth

67. The Rime of the Ancient Waggoner was written by - William Magnin

68. ― Honest criticism and sensitive appreciation are directed not upon the poet but upon the
poetry‖—— said by: TS Eliot

69. Who is the author of John Gilpin? Cowper

70. "Our English archers bent their bows, Their hearts were good and trew,At the first flight
of arrows sent

71. Full four score Scots they slew."Which ballad these lines are quoted? Chevy Chase

72. Which of the following is the earliest ballad? Cheby Chase

73. What is Ossian? A body of ballads collected by Macpherson

74. In the Babes in the wood the two children are killed and left in the wood. Who buries
them? A bird Robin redbreast

75. The Lay of the Last Minstrel was written by Sir Walter Scott

76. "I saw their starved lips in the gloam, With horrid warning gaped wide,And I awoke and
found me here, On the cold hill side."From which ballad have these lines been quoted? Scott's
Proud Maisie

77. D. G. Rossetti's Ballads are included in his --- Ballads and Sonnets

78. The earliest English poet whose name is known is: Caedmon

79. A reference to characters and events of mythology means : Allusive

80. Author of The Confidential clerk:T.S.Eliot

81. "chocolate cream soldier "Bluntschli

82. The novel "Antara " is wriiten by? Marilena mexi

83. "The trumpet does not more stun you by its loudness, the whisper teases you by its
provoking inaudibility." Who said? Lamb in The Old and the New Schoolmaster
84. "I play over again for Love, as the gamesters phrase it, game for which I one paid so
dear." This appears in Lamb's : New Year Eve

85. "Let her first lesson be with Susan Winstantly----to reverence her sex. 'This line is in:
Modern Gallantry

86. "Lamb's humour has a tinge of sadness in it; it is the humour of a deeply suffering soul."
Whose comment is this? Ainger

87. What is the meaning of 'Opus operatum est' in the essay 'The Superannuated Man'? My
work is finished .

88. "He is known by his knock. Your heart telleth you: "That is Mr. --." A rap, between
familiarly and respect; that demands and, at the same time, seem to despair of, entertainment."
Who said? Lamb in Poor Relations

89. "Lamb had a love of mystifying an putting the readers on fault? G. H. Herford

90. When did Lamb write "Specimens of English Dramatists Who Lived about the Time of
Shakespeare"? 1808

91. "What wonders will not woman's love perform?‖ Who said? Lamb in The Old and the
New Schoolmaster

92. "How vanished from his lonely hearth‖ Who says this about Lamb? Wordsworth

93. Who is the author of the road to Xanadu (1927)? J. L. Lowes (The Road to Xanadu: A
Study in the Ways of the Imagination ―—-J L .Lowes.)

94. Who says about Lamb? "He even said, in his whimsical way, that he wrote neither for
the present nor for the future, but for antiquity" Hudson

95. "Contented to suck the milky fountains of their Alma Maters without inquiring into the
venerable gentlewoman's years they rather hold such curiosities to be impertinent ---
unreverend."Whom does Lamb attack in the Essay, 'Oxford, in the Vacation': Heads of colleges

96. The earliest surviving work in English is: Caedmon‘s Hymn.

97. The odes of Keats are.....A. Regular.B. Irregular. ANS:C. Both

98. James's "prefaces " to his novels were edited under the title " The art of the Novel (1834)
by whom? R. P. Blackmuir

99. "It is true I had my Sunday to myself; but Sundays', admirable as the institution of them
is for purposes of worship, are of that very reason the very worse adopted for days of unbending
and recreation."Which Essay? The Superannuated Man.
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EXERCISE NO:2

1. Derrida's theory of Deconstruction problematizes. All habits of thought

2. "I have a kindly yearning towards these dim specks --- poor blots --- innocent blackness -
--From which essay of Lamb? The Praise of Chimney Sweepers

3. "My maid, and more legendary aunt, supplied me with good store, but I shall mention the
accident which directed my curiosity originally into this channel.‖ From which essay of Lamb?
Witches, and Other Night Fears

4. Men at some time are masters of their ——,The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our ——-But
in ourselves, that we are ——. fates, stars, underlings

5. To be or not to be, that is the question: Whether ‗tis nobler in the mind to suffer, The —
—- and ——— of outrageous Fortune, Or to take arms against a —— of ——— ,And by
opposing, end them. Slings, arrows, sea, troubles.

6. This above all: to thine own self be true,And it must follow, as the —— the —— ,Thou
canst not then be false to any man. night, day.

7. Name the critical journal of the Tory? The Quaterly

8. A thick soled boot worn as a symbol in tragedies is known as : Buskins

9. From which essay of Lamb this phrase is taken? "a superfoetation of dirt": South Sea
House

10. ―credulity is the man's weakness , but the child's strength." This statement appears
in:witches and other Night fears

11. "Hark, the cock crows, and yon bright star,Tells us, the day himself's not far; And see
where, breaking from the night, He gilds the western hills with light."From which essay of
Lamb?: New Year's Eve

12. From which essay "I was told he had run away. This was the punishment for the first
offence" Christ's Hospital

13. Name the essayist whose essays were published under the title 'I for One': Leslie Stephen

14. The phrase, ‗Willing suspension of disbelief ‗ was coined by: Coleridge

15. "I was a poor friendless boy. My parents, and those who should care for me, were far
away."From which essay of Lamb?: Christ's Hospital
16. From which essay of Lamb this phrase is taken? "His tristful visage": South Sea House

17. " All changed, changed utterly a terrible beauty is born " These lines occur in a poem by:
W. B. Yeats

18. " And I am dumb to tell the lover's tomb how at my sheet goes the same crooked worm"
These lines occur in a poem by: Dylan Thomas

19. " A rose is a rose is a rose is a rose ", this statement was made by: Gertrude Stein

20. Which book is Charles' novel?: old blind Margret

21. Be not afraid of greatness. Some are ——- great, some —— greatness, and some have
greatness ——- upon them: born, achieve, thrust

22. What is denouement? The ending of a comedy

23. In Joseph Andrews Fielding parodies?: Richardson's Pamela

24. Which of the following is a critical work of Ben Jonson?: Discoveries

25. "I write in metre because I am about to use a language different from that of prose." Who
says this?: Coleridge

26. What is John Bunyan's Grace Abounding?: The author's autobiography

27. "The end of writing is to instruct; the end of poetry is to instruct by pleasing."Whose
view is this?: Dr. Johnson's

28. What does Ben Jonson mean by a 'Humorous' character?: A character whose temper is
determined by one of the four fluids in the human body

29. Dryden wrote An Essay of Dramatic Poesy. Is this---: An interlocution

30. What type of novel is Daniel Defoe's Moll Flanders?: A picaresque novel

31. Who said about Lamb? "Oh, he was good, if e'er a good man lived'. His only rival for
almost perfect goodness of nature is Sir Walter Scott.": Wordsworth

32. "The Waste Land remains a great positive achievement. In it a mind fully alive to the age
compels a poetic triumph out of the peculiar difficulties facing a poet in the age." Who said?: F.
R. Leavis

33. "The medley of images; the deliberately mixed metaphors, the combination of the grand
and the prosaic manners, the bold amalgamation of the material and the spiritual." Who said?: C.
M. Bowra
34. The Mysteries of Udolpho is a ---: Gothic Novel

35. "The Waste Land goes beyond a mere diagnosis of the spiritual distempers of the age, it
is a lament over man's fallen nature, a prophecy, and a promise." Who said?: Bullough

36. T. S. Eliot completed a doctoral thesis on the philosophy of ---: E. H. Bradley

37. Who wrote ―For thy sake, tobacco, would do anything 'but die"?: Charles Lamb

38. "A pun is a pistol let off at the ear; not a feather to tickle the intellect" is taken from:A-
Popular falacies

39. Who has written "Two Cheers for Democracy"?: E. M. Forster

40. When were T. S. Eliot's volume of essays published? 1928

41. In a famous Emily Dickinson poem, what comes ‗After great pain‘?: A formal feeling.

42. "The twentieth century is still the nineteenth, although it may in time acquire its own
character."These lines are written by: T. S. Eliot

43. In which Charles Dickens novel do we come across a character called 'Miss Pross'? A
Tale of Two Cities

44. "Good Morning to the day and next, my gold! Open the shrine that I may see my
saint"These lines are taken from : Volpone

45. Who was it that defined Romanticism as 'addition of strangeness to beauty'?: Walter Pater

46. Who wrote in reference to tragedy :"Terror and pity may be raised by the decorations, the
mere spectacle; but they may also arise from the circumstances of the action itself; which is far
preferable and shows a superior poet.": Aristotle

47. The author of The verbal lcan (1954) is.... William wimsatt

48. Which one of the following novels of Virginia Woolf is Known as a Prose poem ?: The
Waves (1931)

49. In which of the following did Dryden say, Donne affects the metaphysics"?: Discourse of
satire

50. Who is the first recipient for Sahitya Academy for English Drama ?: Mahesh Dattani

51. ‗Reliques of Ancient English Poetry‘ is a collection of ballads and popular songs
collected by: Thomas Percy
52. In which Romantic poem do we find the following expression of a state of poetic
paralysis?My genial spirits fail,And what can these avail,To lift the smothering weight from off
my breast?: Coleridge‘s ‗Dejection: an Ode.‘

53. Homily in middle English means .... Short religious discourse ―God is in heaven and all
is right with the world.‖ This line is from:. Pipa Passes

54. What is the name of the Prioress in Canterbury Tales? Madam Eglentyne

55. Surrealism was launched as a concerted artistic movement in..... France

56. Most portmanteau words are formed by combining the prefix of one word with suffix of
another word. Examples: Information+ entertainment= Infotainment..Multiple+ complex=
Multiplex.In the following portmanteau words which one is formed by combining both
prefixes?: Modem

57. One line for the play HAMLET by William Shakespeare (1564 to 1616)? Hamlet is
Shakespeare's longest play early 17th century "play within the play".

58. Identify the satire work: The Waste Land

59. What do you mean by Neo-logism?: The coining of new words

60. Robert Greene‘s ‗ Groats-worth of Wit‘ was publishedin1592: Posthumously.

61. Which Eliotion character utters the question? "Do I eat a peach"?: Prufrock

62. "It is a beautiful fantastic thing and underlines the skill with which each verse, closed by
a linear four strong syllables, accents each step of the mystery." Who said,?: Stopford A. Brooke

63. " poetry is emotions recollected in tranquility " who defined poetry in these words ?:
wordsworth

64. Hoding up of vice or folly to ridicule : Satire

65. Who has written 'Ode on Superstitions of the Highlands of Scotland': Collins

66. 'Ode to Thomas Moore' is written by : Byron

67. 'Jerusalem Delivered' is an epic is written by: Tasso

68. The central theme of Homer's Illiad is: The Trojan War

69. The action in an epic involves...... deeds in battles. Superhuman

70. 'Lusiad' is an epic written by: Camoens

71. An assumed name by an author is called as : A. Pseudonym B. Nom-de-plume C.
Sobriquet D. All of these

72. 'Semantics' is a branch of : Philology

73. In the end of the play Measure for Measure who was married to Angelo?: Mariana

74. In which play of Shakespeare the following monologue occur :

75. "Certainly my conscience will serve me to run"?: The Merchant of Venice

76. Who among the following is supposed to be a real descendant of Banquo?: James - I

77. Love is a spirit all compact of fire Not gross to sink ,but light ,and will aspire : Venus and
Adonis

78. Elizabethan Age ended in.. 1603(1558—1603)

79. A form of reasoning in which a conclusion is drawn from Two statements : Syllogism

80. To be thus is nothing But to be safely thus .Who utters ?: Macbeth

81. Tudor dynasty was found in: 1485 AD

82. Chaucer chose which of the following dialect for his expression?: East Midland

83. 'My mistress with a monster is in Love' is a monologue in Shakespeare's play--- A

Midsummer Night's Dream

84. Which one of the following books did not influence Wordsworth?: Paradise Regained

85. During Puritan Age theatres were banned in: 1642

86. In Macbeth, who goes mad and finally dies---: Lady Macbeth

87. In Shakespeare's Hamlet who kills Hamlet's father?: Claudius

88. Who is usually known as the Poets' Poet?: Spenser

89. In which play of Shakespeare, the battle of Philippi takes place?: Julius Caesar

90. Antonym of TYRO: Expert

91. What is the year 1588 famous for? The defeat of the Spanish Armada by England under
Queen Elizabeth.

92. The battle of Philippi actually took place in the year ---: 42 B. C.
93. What is Aubade? : a poem or piece of music appropriate to the dawn or early morning.An
Aubade is an early morning song whose general motto is an urgent request to a loved one to get
up . 'Hark ,hark ,the lark at heaven's gate singes' is an example by Shakespeare .

94. Who said, "Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting"?: Wordsworth

95. In which episode of The Prelude, the following lines appear? "It was an act of stealth
,And troubled pleasure.": Boating(Also known as Boat Stealing Episode)

96. In Shakespeare's play Measure for Measure, Isabella is the sister of ---: Claudio

97. Who is the least read Lake poet?: Southey

98. In Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, Juliet is the daughter of --- Lord Capulet

99. The Prelude was addressed to---: Coleridge

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EXERCISE NO:3

1. Hector is a character in a Shakespeare's play---: Troilus and Cressida

2. One impulse from a vernal wood,May teach you more of man,Of moral evil and of good
,Than all the sages can.These beautiful lines are taken from Wordsworth‘s poem: The Tables
Turned

3. Who was executed in 1649?: Charles I

4. What does Aristotle say about Homer's "Illiad"? : It would not work in the format of a
tragedy.

5. In King Lear, who among the following was hanged?: Cordelia

6. Who wrote "Life Of Milton"?:David Masson

7. A poet could not but be gay,In such a ——— company.( Daffodils).Fill in the blank:
Jocund

8. Of which poem of Wordsworth, the opening lines are :"If from the public way you turn
your steps

9. Up the tumultuous Brook of Green - head ghyll, You will suppose that with an upright
path,Your feet must struggle.": Michael

10. Shakespeare's Measure for Measure belongs to the category of his---- Problem plays
11. "If to do were as easy as it know" is a monologue in The Merchant of Venice spoken by--
-: Portia

12. Cynthio had been a source of Shakespeare's play ---: Othello

13. Memorable lines from Wordsworth:Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive,To be young was
very heaven.What was he celebrating in these lines?: French Revolution

14. Which poem of Wordsworth is based on a story from the Trojan War? A. Laodamia B.
The Solitary Reaper C. Ode to Duty D. Resolution and Independence.

15. Who kill themselves at the battle of Philippi?: Brutus and Cassius

16. A mock heroic poem is written in a..... Mood: Non-serious

17. How many sylphs are given the charge of protecting Belinda's petticoat in The Rape of
the Lock?: 50

18. 'The Battle of the Frogs and Mice' (Second title is 'Batrachomyomachia') is written
in........ language: Greek

19. The Rape of the Lock is written in: Heroic Couplet

20. The battle is fought in the Rape of the Lock in a game of: Cards

21. A mock heroic poem....... of a real epic: Parody

22. What do you call a thing which has the appearance of truth: Verisimilitude?

23. When was first English Lexicon published? 1755, Dr. Samuel Johnson‘s.

24. The 'Battle of the Frogs and Mice' is a parody of: Iliad

25. Who gave this statement "Are the commentators on "Hamlet" really mad, or only
pretending to be?": Wilde

26. A humorous poem with five lines, the first two rhyming with the last is known as :
Limerick

27. Who used the term Renaissance for the first time? Jules Michelet, the French historian.
Popularized by Jacob Burckhardt.

28. The representations by symbols : Symbolism

29. A short narrative poem which is intended to be sung is called : Lyric

30. The idyll is known to have been originated by the Greek poet..... Theocritus
31. A dance song by a strolling singer or a band of singers to the accompaniment of a harp or
a fiddle is known as : Ballad

32. Who said," the result is result, fail or pass" :Galsworthy.

33. Which of the following is not a quality of a lyric:

34. A. A lyric is a short poem B. A lyric must have a musical quality

35. C. A lyric is essentially a didactic poem D. A lyric must express any one single
emotion

36. A literary man, a writer of literary works is : Literateur

37. A lyric is meant to be sung by a single singer to the accompaniment of a..... Lyre

38. Who was made Poet Laureate in 1843 AD? William Wordsworth (1843-1850)

39. A character of two or more letters joined together and each in one piece is known as :
Ligature

40. Daffodils, stretching in a never ending line remind the poet of: Galaxy, Milky Way.

41. A book containing words and phrases arranged according to their meanings is known as :
Thesaurus

42. Elizabethan lyrics are unrivalled for their word music and........ Verbal melody

43. Each separate sheet of paper in a book consisting of two pages is known as : Leaf

44. 'The Rape of the Lock' satirizes : The contemporary aristocratic society

45. Addison's Spectator is a collection of satiric...... Essays

46. The well-known novel ‗Catch- 22‘ comes under which category?: War fiction

47. In the 1940s, a critic and a philosopher produced two influential and controversial papers
called ‗The Intentional Fallacy‘ and ‗The Affective Fallacy‘. Identify them.A. Cleanth Brooks.
B. Monroe C. Beardsley.C. William K Wimsatt Jr.D. RP Blackmur:Ans: B & C

48. Who called Shakespeare "a drunken savage"?:Voltaire

49. Originally a song intended to be sung and accompanied on the lyre is said to be : Lyric

50. Milton was a: Royalist

51. A kind of simple farcical drama that was popular among the Greeks and Romans, is
called : Mime
52. The substitution of the name of an attribute of a thing for the name of a thing itself is
known as : Metonymy

53. 'The Vanity of the World's is a work of: Matthew Prior

54. Galsworthy's 'Silver Box' satirises : Legal Trial

55. "What corpse is curious on the longitude And situation of his cemetery!" ,Lines are
from:The Wasteland

56. Orthography means: Writing System

57. "A manly man, to been an Abbot able,Ful many deyntee hors hadde he in stable."
Chaucer satirises one of the pilgrims in these lines. Identify the pilgrim: Monk

58. The great world or universe as distinguished from the "little world" is called : Macrocosm

59. An elaborate, semi dramatic, costly form of entertainment introduced from Italy to
England during the first half of the sixteenth century is known as : Masque.

60. A general truth, which is drawn from experience and also a rule of conduct, a precept is
known as :Maxim

61. ‗Catch-22 situation‘— this famous expression is based on a novel by Joseph Heller

62. What is history according to the Aristotle? : Concerned simply with facts.

63. Fanny Burney‘s ‗Evelina‘ carries the sub-title: Or a Young Lady‘s Entrance into the
World

64. What is the name that Aristotle uses for words that an audience may not understand? :
Complicated words.

65. According to "Poetics" what would be the analogy between the pen of a writer and the
plough of a farmer? : They are tools: both are used to make a living.

66. The ridiculous misuse of words in speech or writing caused by the replacing of won word
for another similar in sound but different in meaning is called : Malapropism

67. 'The Medal' by Dryden is a personal satire on : Shaftesbury

68. The interchange of position between sounds and letters in a word as the s and p in the
word 'claps' is called : Metathesis

69. "Magnum opus" is: An author's most important book

70. What does Philip Sidney call poet haters in his ‗Defence of Poesie‘? Mysomousoi
71. An ode sung by a single actor in Greek Tragedy; a poem mourning someone's death is
called : Monody

72. A professional musical entertainer of the middle ages, either attached to some great
household or wandering from place to place is called : Minstrel

73. Name the elegy that Dryden wrote on the death of Cromwell :Heroic Stanzas in the Death
of Cromwell

74. 'On the Death of a Mad Dog' is a...... elegy.(Oliver Goldsmith) :Non - serious

75. What does Aristotle believe to be the downfall of many poets? : They attempt to put
stories that involve very complex actions into poems.

76. What form of art does Aristotle consider to be more refined and superior? : Tragedy

77. A good satire should be.... and not malicious: Reformatory

78. 'Elegy written in a Country Churchyard' is a...... elegy. Pastoral

79. The prose 'The American Scholar‘ by Emerson

Objective on Early Period Beginning to 1550

1. The life span of Gower is=1325-1408

2. Confession Amantis is a great English work written by= John Gower

3. Which work deals with the peasant's revolt of 1381= Vox Clamantis

4. Gower's Vox Clamantis consists of how many books= five

5. Confessio Amantis is a collection of= English octosyllabic couplets.

6. 'In whose hands is wickedness and their right hand is full of gifts'

The line is taken from= Piers the Plowman.

7. The first theologian to distribute leaflets and pamphlets of the people was= John Wyclif.

8. One of the first Englishman to challenge the authority of the Catholic Church was= John
Wyclif.

9. Robert Henryson is a Scottish poet of the= 15th century.

10. Who made frequent use of tag phrase like sothly to telle in his work= John Lydgate.

11. The Ship of Fools a translation from German has been written by= Alexander Barclay.
12. The life span of John Skelton is= 1460-1529.

13. Which work of Dunbar deals with the union. Of two countries England and Scotland=
TheThistle and the Rose.

14. Who is known as Chaucer of Scotland William dunbar.

15. Which work of Scottish Chaucerian imitates Chaucer's House of Fame= Douglas' "The
Palace of Honour".

16. John Fortescue mainly wrote in= Latin.

17. Sir Thomas Wyatt a young courtier of the court oh Henry VIII was deeply influenced by=
Italian tradition.

18. Real and allegorical characters mingled freely for the first time in= King Jehan.

19. Blank verse is used for first time for dramatic purposes in= Gorboduc.

20. Chaucer celebrated some princely betrothal in which of his work= The Parliament of Fouls.

Short objective on 19th Century (1832-1875)

1. Charles Dickens was suspected of, having written The Four Georges in order to -- Flatter
American Prejudices.

2. Disraeli's novel of society is -- Vivian Gray.

3. Disraeli's Tale of Alert was remarkably -- oriental.

4. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell was the daughter of -- Unitarian minister.

5. Mrs. Gaskell‘s Cranford was written in -- 1853.

6. The career of Charlotte Bronte was fixed by the success of -- Jane Eyre.

7. Scientific leaders like Herschel Owen Sedgwick and Tyndale regard Tennyson as a champion
of --Science.

8. Who has described Matthew Arnold great critic -- David Daiches.

9. Arnold expounds his classical creed and disapproves romantic style in a clear and forceful
manner in -- Preface to the poems.

10. Browning's ""Feristha's Agencies""is a collection of -- dramatic monologue.

11. The work of Pre-Raphaelite group is characterized by -- Preponderance of art.

12. The Oxford and Cambridge Magazine 1856 was founded and conducted for a year by --
William Morris.

13. Which William Morris work bears on Chaucer for a model -- "Jason".

14. In which work Anthony Trollope discussed the simplicity of novel writing -- Autobiography.

15. Katherine Mansfield was the wife of -- Middleton Murry.

16. The influence of Scott is felt in Thackeray's -- Esmond.

17. The Irish National Theatre was constructed in -- Dublin.

18. Who form the Rhymer's club -- The impressionists?

19. Which poetry is strongly pictorial --Pre-Raphaelite poetry?

20. The Oxford movement was fundamentally a movement for -- Religious reform.

Short objective on Feminism

1. Feminism has been defined as asking ‗new questions of old texts by:Lisa Tussle

2. ‗The Madwoman in the Attic‘ (1979) was written by: Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar

3. which of these is not a phase suggested by Showalter regarding women‘s writing? The
feminism phase.

4. ‗The Madwoman in the Attic‘ is: Bertha Jenkins

5. ‗The Madwoman Thesis‘ basically suggests that: The suppression of their creative powers by
society make women behave in a subversive manner.

6. Consider the following sentences regarding feminism: Feminism believes that women use
language in a comparatively digressive manner

7. The most obvious connection that feminism has observed between myth and women‘s social
conditions is: Myth has contributed in establishing social norms that could help men to dominate
women.

8. Who is associated to the famous lecture ‗The Classical Feminist Tradition‘? Paul Fry

9. ‗The Female Eunuch‘ was published in: 1970

10. Identify the proper chronological order of the following works concerned to feminism:
Thinking about Women; Sexual politics; The Female Eunuch; A Literature of their Own
11. The concept of ‗Gynocriticism‘ is believed to be pioneered by which of the following works?
A Literature of their Own

12. ‗A literature of their Own‘ was published in: 1977

13. Which of the following has not been particularly part of feminism as a literary movement at
any stage?: Role played by women in the publishing industry

14. The Way of All Flesh by Samuel Butler.

15.The Way of All Flesh (1903) is a semi-autobiographical novel by Samuel Butler that attacks
Victorian-era hypocrisy.

16. Written between 1873 and 1884, it traces four generations of the Pontifex family. Butler
dared not publish it during his lifetime, but when it was published it was accepted as part of the
general reaction against Victorianism.

*Some Basic Terms Coined by Writers in Literature*

1. Objective Correlative by T.S.Eliot 2. Dissociation of Sensibility by T.S.Eliot

3. Willing to Suspension of Disbelief by Coleridge 4. Negative Capability by Keats

5. American Renaissance by F.O Matthiessen 6.Natyashastra by Bharata

7. Rasa concept by Bharata 8. Kavya Prakasha by Mamata

9. Dhvanyaloka or Suggestion by Anandvardhana 10. Vakrokti by Kuntaka

11. Riti, Guna, Kavyalankara by Vaman 12. Positivism by August Campte

13. Romantic by Friedrich Schlegel 14. Metaphysical Poets by Dr.Johnson

15. Upstart Crow is Robert Green 16. Cultural Materialism by Raymond Williams

17. Imagism by T.E.Hume 18. Imagined Communities by Benedict Anderson

19. Horizon of Expectation by H.R.Jauss 20. Strategic Essentialism by Gayitri Spivak

21. Utilitarianism by J.S..Mill 22. Incunabula means Books published before 1501

23. Tension by Allen Tate 24. Strong Lined Poetry by G.M.Hopkins

25. Dictum 'Life Imitates Art' by John Ruskin 26. Theatre of Cruelty by Jerzy

27. Epic Theatre by Bertold Bretch 28. Theatre of Oppressed by Augusto Bal

29. Expressionist Theatre by George Kaiser 30. The Guilded Age by Mark Twain
31. Ambiguity by William Empson 32. Intertextuality by Julia Kristeva

33. Heteroglossia by M.Bakhtin 34. Dialogic Imagination by M.Bakhtin

35. Sublime by Longinus 36. Carnivalesque by M.Bakhtin

37. Jacobian Novel by Garry Kelly 38. Surrealism by Andre Breton

39. Decorum by Horace 40. The wasp of Twickenham by Pope

41. Theory of Avant Grade by Peter Berger 42. Chaucer of Scotland is William Dunbar

43. Poetic Justice by Rhymer 44. TouchStone method by M.Arnold

45. Pathetic Fallacy by John Ruskin 46. Theory of Population by Malthus

47. Provincialising Europe by Dipesh Chakravarthy 48. Egotistical Sublime is to William

Wordsworth

49. Young Juvenile is Thomas Nash 50. Macabre element by John Webster

51. Sprung Rhythm and Curtal Sonnet and Inscape and Instress are by G.M.Hopkins

52. Life Force by G.B.Shaw 53. Light of Asia is Admin Arnold

54. Only Connect by E.M.Forster 55. Sports of Time by W. Wordsworth

56. Orientalism by E.Said 57. Womanism by Alice Walker

58. Third Space by Edward Doha 59. Hybridity by Homi Bhaba

60. Reception aesthetics by Wolfgang User 61. Langue and Parole by Ferdinand Saussure

62. Interlanguage by M.A.K.Halliday 63. Difference and Defferecnce by Derrida

64. Signs by Saussure 65. Stock Responses by I.A.Richards

66. Deep Structure by N.Chomsky 67. Competency and Performance by N.Chomsky

68. Readerly and Writerly Text by R.Bathes 69. Ironic and Indexical by C.S.Pierce

70.Habitus by Julia Kristeva 72. Flaneur by Walter Benjamin

73. Chora by J.Kristeva 74. Simulacrum or Simulacra by Jean Baurdrillard

75. Subaltern by G.Spivak 76. Metahistory by Hayden White

77. Polyphony by M.Bakhtin 78. Hegemony by Antonio Gramsky

79. Theoretician of Sociability is Malcolm Braburry 80. New Historicism by Greenblatt

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1. Who called Shakespeare Bardolatry?: Shaw in the preface to his collection Three Plays
for Puritans published in 1901

2. Who wrote the script of the movie Shakespeare In Love? Both

3. For 13 years Faulkner frequently travelled to.............to work on screen plays. Hollywood

4. The innovative interdisciplinary studies focusing on the cultural practices and their
relation to power is called : Cultural studies.

5. Wordsworth's magnum opus is generally considered to be................. The prelude

6. Uriah Heep in Dickens's auto-biographical novel David copperfield is:Antagonist

character.

7. Sohrab and Rustam is taken from:shahnama

8. Ques-Sohrab and Rustam is written in: blank verse

9. Oscar Wilde's play "Importance of Being Ernest" is a : farcical comedy.

10. Who among the following is not connected with Comedy of Menace? : John Arden

11. Chronologically arrange the following novels by Samuel Beckett. (1) Dream of Fair to
Middling Women (2) Murphy (3) Mercier and Camier (4) Molloy Answers: (a) 1234 (b) 2341,
(c) 3412 (d) 4123.????

12. If The Tempest of Shakespeare is seen as a play of colonial imperialism, who is the
imperialist usurper in the play? Prospero

13. Whose Memoir is The Gatekeeper? Terry Eagleton.

14. Which Victorian novel carried the subtitle "Pen and Pencil Sketches of English Society"
when it appeared in nineteen installments as a serial during 1847-48? Vanity Fair

15. Who among the following is NOT a poet of the older generation of English romantic
poets? (a) Wordsworth (b) Coleridge (c) Walter Scott (d) Byron.
16. Wordsworth, Coleridge, Southey and Scott belong to the old generation of romantics, and
Shelley, Keats and Byron belong to the younger generation.

17. Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey is a satire on which genre of novel?: Gothic

18. Which Shakespeare play is often compared with Kalidasa's 'Shakuntalam' The Tempest

19. The coinage 'modem' is made up of: mode + them.

20. Which two words go into the making of the portmanteau word 'internet'? international +
network

21. Of the following novels which one is not concerned with Jazz?:Home

22. The coinage 'evailable' means : available online

23. Which two words blend to make the portmanteau word 'blog? web and log

24. A theatrical or operatic piece with a single actor or singer, usually portraying one
character, is called: monodrama.

25. Tennyson calls his Maud (1855) a monodrama. However, the first English monodrama is
Pandora (1790) by Frank Sayers.

26. Which poem of Shelley is autobiographical in nature? Alostor.

27. Who among the following early American poets was a slave? Phillis Wheatley (..A
distinctly American lyric voice of the colonial period was Phillis Wheatley, a slave whose book
"Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral," was published in 1773. She was one of the
best-known poets of her day, at least in the colonies, and her poems were typical of New
England culture at the time, meditating on religious and classical ideas.)

28. T.S. Eliot identifies two types of imperfect critics. One kind is represented by Arthur
Symons, and the other by Arnold

29. In which of the following publications Eliot's essay Tradition and Individual Talent first
saw light? Times Literary Supplement (TLS)

30. Who among the following is not a 'magic realist'? (a) Salmon Rushde (b) Dan Brown (c)
Borges (d) Marquez

31. Who among the following was not an Elizabethan courtier-poet? (a) Sidney (b) Leicester
(c) Raleigh (d) Spense Answer:D

32. The lesbian novel among the following is : The Passion (The novel is by Jeanette
Winterson best known for her first novel, Oranges are not the only Fruit. Winterson herself was a
lesbian, and The Passion was in fact inspired by her irrepressible desire for Pat Kavanagh, her
literary agent)

33. In which Ben Jonson play do we meet the Littlewit - Win couple? Bartholomew Fair

34. The 2014 DSC Prize for South Asian Literature worth 50,000 dollars was won by Cyrus
Mistry, the brother of Rohinton Mistry. Which of his novels won the prize? Chronicle of a
Corpse Bearer.

35. With which 19th century American poet do we relate Reverend Charles Wadsworth? (b)
Emily Dickinson

36. Who is considered as America's first poet in English? Thomas Morton

37. Name the founder of the Chicago School of criticism. R.S. Crane

38. In which anthology Wordsworth's poem "Anecdote for Fathers" first appeared? Lyrical
Ballads

39. The only Poet Laureate of England who did not write any official poem is (a) Southey (b)
Wordsworth (c) Tennyson (d) John Betjeman:Ans:B.

40. A Time to Change (1952) inaugurated the poetic career of which Indian English poet?
Nissim Ezekiel

41. Bernard Shaw's play Caesar and Cleopatra features the fictionalized relationship of
Cleopatra with : Caesar

42. Which historical figure is Bernard Shaw's 'Man of Destiny'?: Napoleon.. (The Man of
Destiny is an 1897 play by George Bernard Shaw. It was published as a part of Plays Pleasant,
which also included Arms and the Man, Candida and You Never Can Tell. It is based on an
historic incident at the early stage of Napoleon Bonaparte's military career following upon his
advancement to General.)

43. Which Wordsworth poem has an epigraph from an utterance by the Delphic oracle?
Anecdote for Fathers.

44. "Lovers, when they marry, face .Eternity with touching grace." Which Indian English
poem begins with these lines? Marriage

45. The book 'Language as Ethic' makes an appeal to readers, writers and enthusiasts of
literature for an ethical use of language. Who is the poet-critic who won the British Council
partnered All India Poetry Contest in 1988 for the poem "Madras Central"? Vijay Nambisan

46. Which royal dynasty Edmund Spenser celebrates in his epic poem The Faerie Queene? A
Tudor, B Plantagenet,C Stuart,D Anjou
47. Which of the following poems echoes Wordsworth's theory that ―Child is the Father of
Man‖ ? Anecdote for Fathers

48. Who among the following is the poet-fabulist-feminist of Indian origin, bent on
dislodging deep-rooted traditional prejudices related to gender, sexuality and homophobia?
Suniti Namjoshi

49. Junot Díaz is a Dominican-American short-story writer who bagged Pulitzer for her 2007
debut novel. The novel has now been hailed by American critics as the best novel of the 21st
century. And the novel is (a) The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

50. In Kalidasa's play 'Abhigyan Shakuntalam" which sage curses the enraptured Shakuntala
enraged by her neglect of welcome-rites due to him? Durvasa

51. Who among the following is a post-Rushdie generation Indian diaspora author of the
novel A Sin of Color, and an Oxford academic? Sunetra Gupta …( Calcutta born Ms Gupta has
done four novels in all so far, and her debut work was Memories of Rain)

52. Which of the following is not a lesbian play? Blood on Blood

53. I speak three languages, write in,Two, dream in one.Which Indian English poet's proud
confession is this? Kamala Das..( The quote is from her poem An Introduction)

54. What is the name of the leading pig in George Orwell's Animal Farm? Napoleon is a
better answer, though Snowball is also there.

55. In Carpe Diem poetry, which flower is a frequent emblem of the brevity and the finality
of death?: Rose

56. The first collection of songs and sonnets is called Tottel's Miscellany. Who was
Tottel?:The name of the publisher.

57. Who is the poet who has written an Ode to himself?:Ben Jonson

58. What is the portmanteau word coined by Derrida?: Difference

59. 'The Well Wrought Urn' is written by Cleanth Brooks.

60. Who is the author of ‗ The Devil‘s Dictionary‘?:Ambrose Bierce

61. In which sonnet of Milton is there a reference to the Biblical Parable of Talents?: On His
Blindness

62. In which sonnet of Milton is there a reference to Alcestis from Greek Mythology?: on his
deceased wife
63. What is the meaning of 'Nil Nisi Bonum' , the title of an essay by Thackeray: Nothing but
good, of the Dead. The Latin phrases De mortuis nihil nisi bonum and De mortuis nil nisi bene
[dicendum] indicate that it is socially inappropriate to speak ill of the dead. As a mortuary
aphorism,

64. Which device used by the writers for a sudden unexpected solving of a problem was
called by Hemingway as ' Cheating'?: Deus Ex Machina

65. William Faulkner's novel, 'The Sound and Fury' takes it's title from whose soliloquy and
in which play of Shakespeare? It is from the soliloquy of Macbeth in the play 'Macbeth'. It is part
of Macbeth's response to his wife's suicide.

66. "Out, out, brief candle!.Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player,That struts and frets
his hour upon the stage,And then is heard no more. It is a tale. Told by an idiot, full of sound and
fury,Signifying nothing." (Macbeth, Act V Sc.5.L 23-28)

67. Metaphysical conceit:"A comparison whose ingenuity is more striking than it's
justness."Helen Gardner.

68. The only novel written by Tom Stoppard: Lord Malquist and Mr. Moon

69. 'Provincial Habits.' is the sub title of:Madame Bovary

70. Who was the poet laureate of England during 1692- 1715?: Nahum Tate

71. Why did Jean- Paul Sartre decline the Nobel Prize?: Because he didn‘t want to be
‗institutionalized‘.

72. Why was Dryden dismissed from poet laureatship? Catholic Dryden refused to swear the
oath of allegiance to a Protestant King.

73. ― The most heterogeneous ideas are yoked by violence together.‖ Whose statement is
this about the Metaphysical poetry?: Johnson.

74. The first example in English of Verse debate: The owl and the Nightingale

75. Which work is sometimes referred to as TS Eliot's 'Conversion poem'?: Ash Wednesday.
(Ash Wednesday (1927), based on Dante's Purgatoriao, marks Eliot's conversion from
Catholicism to Anglicanism. Eliot, who was an avowed Cathoic, referred to the conversion as 'a
movement from spiritual barrenness (discussed in The Waste Land) to human salvation'. This is
also a point at which we find a change in his poetic style as well. The style changes from the
dramatic (Profruck and The Waste Land) to the contemplative. Nabakov parodies Ash
Wednesday in his Lolita.)
76. Which religious building is central to Eliot‘s play ‗Murder in the Cathedral ‗?:
Canterbury Cathedral

77. Before becoming established in Literature, Eliot worked for a bank. Which one?: Lloyd's.

78. What are the two names of characters that William Golding borrowed from ‗Coral Island‘
for his ‗Lord of the Flies‘?:Ralph and Jack

79. One of the influences on Golding's 'Lord of the Flies' is a book written almost 100 years
before. Name the author and the book: Coral Island by RM Ballantyne

80. Robert Louis Stevenson's 1882 novel Treasure Island was in part inspired by The Coral
Island

81. How to categorise 'Wasteland'.Is it a..:Modernist poem

82. The title ' The Burial of the Dead' is taken from Title is from Anglican book of common
prayer

83. Who translated 'The Wasteland' into Polish language?: Czeslaw Milosz

84. At Harvard , Eliot‘s doctoral thesis was on: FH Bradley

85. The character in 'Wasteland', Madame Sosostris' is taken from: Aldous Huxley's 'Crome
Yellow'.

86. In Dylan Thomas famous play ‗Under Milk Wood‘, the name of a small Welsh seaside
village is llareggub. It is the reverse of the word, buggerall.

87. Which novel of James Joyce begins with‖ Once upon a time‖? Portrait of an artist as a
young man

88. Which famous novelist referred to the scope of her writing as "the little bit (two inches
wide) of ivory": Jane Austen

89. Who once described 'The Wasteland' as " the relief of a personal and wholly insignificant
grouse against life......just a piece of rhythmical grumbling.": Eliot himself.

90. Threnody is another name for: Dirge("song of lamentation," 1634, from Gk. threnodia,
from threnos "dirge, lament," + oide "ode." Gk. threnos probably is from a PIE imitative base
meaning "to murmur, hum)

91. Which novel has these opening lines? ― whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own
life or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show: David
Copperfield
92. The word 'literature' originates from the Latin root 'littera' which means (a) letter or
handwriting

93. The only novel written by Tom Stoppard: Lord Malquist and Mr. Moon

94. From which novel is this opening line? ―Mother died today.‖: The Stranger by Albert
Camus

95. ― If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you probably want to know is where I
was born and what my lousy childhood was like....and all that David Copperfield kind of crap,
but I don‘t feel like going into it.‖These are the opening lines of which novel?: The Catcher in
the Rye by J.D. Salinger

96. ― Miss Brooke had that kind of beauty which seems to be thrown into relief by poor
dress.‖This is the opening line of which famous novel?: Middlemarch by George Eliot

97. Which famous critical work begins with a controversial statement thus:"The great
English novelists are, Jane Austen, George Eliot, Henry James and Joseph Conrad."( 'The great
English novelists are Jane Austen, George Eliot, Henry James and Joseph Conrad...' So begins
what is arguably F.R. Leavis' most controversial book, The Great Tradition, an uncompromising
critical and polemical survey of English fiction that was first published in 1948.

1. 'Every mother breeds not son alike'is a quote from :titus andronicus

2. In a famous Emily Dickinson poem, what comes ‗After great pain‘?. A formal feeling.

3. "The twentieth century is still the nineteenth, although it may in time acquire its own
character."These lines are written by: T. S. Eliot

4. "Good Morning to the day and next, my gold! Open the shrine that I may see my
saint"These lines are taken from : Volpone

5. Who was it that defined Romanticism as 'addition of strangeness to beauty'?. Walter Pater

6. Who wrote in reference to tragedy :"Terror and pity may be raised by the decorations,
the mere spectacle; but they may also arise from the circumstances of the action itself; which is
far preferable and shows a superior poet." Aristotle

7. Which one of the following novels of Virginia Woolf is Known as a Prose poem ? A.
The Voyage Out (1915) B. Night and Day C. Mrs. Dalloway (1915) Ans:D. The Waves (1931)
8. In which of the following did Dryden say, Donne affects the metaphysics"?. Discourse of
satire

9. Who referred as "happy genius" in Ben Jonson's epistle "To The Readers"?George
Chapman. The play is Sejanus. Shakespeare work as an actor in it. Jonson recall him as happy
share and happy genius.

10. ‗Old Possum‘ is the nickname of which poet , given by Ezra Pound ? T.S. Eliot

11. "He affects the metaphysics"-this comment was made on Donne by: Dryden

12. which is the very first work of Hemigway ? The Torrents of Spring('A Romantic Novel
in Honour of the Passing of a Great Race', The Torrents of Spring - Hemingway's second
published work - wonderfully parodies the themes and styles of the 'great race' of writers of his
generation.)

13. The Mirror and the Lamp (1953) was written by M. H. Abrams

14. "Pope can fix in one couplet more sense than I can do in six."Who wrote this sentence?
Swift

15. The name 'Metaphysical Poets'is given by:. Samuel Johnson

16. Which poet is known as ‗The Nun of Amherst‘? Emily Dickinson

17. Dryden wrote a poem......... to celebrate the return of Charles II.. Astraea Redux

18. Discuss surrealism in the poem THE PAINTER by John Ashbery

19. When were T. S. Eliot's volume of essays published? 1928

20. In which Romantic poem do we find the following expression of a state of poetic
paralysis?

21. My genial spirits fail . And what can these avail.To lift the smothering weight from off
my breast? . Coleridge‘s ‗Dejection: an Ode.‘

22. ‗Reliques of Ancient English Poetry‘ is a collection of ballads and popular songs
collected by: Thomas Percy

23. Robert Greene‘s ‗ Groats-worth of Wit‘ was publishedin1592: Posthumously.

24. What is a feminine rhyme? An unstressed syllable at the end of a line

25. the unfortunate traveller : or, the life of jack wilton.(This novel written by Thomas Nash
is the first English Picaresque novel. It was first published in 1594 but set during the reign of
Henry the Eighth of England. Episodic in nature, the narrative jumps from place to place and
danger to danger.)

26. Jack Wilton is the narrator. He is a page in the English court.

27. The novel consists of 15 episodes knit together by the rogue‘s adventures which have a
more or less true historical background.

28. The Spanish novella, ‗ Lazarillo de Tormes‘ (1554) (author anonymous) is credited by
the modern scholars with founding the genre Picaresque.

29. The author of The verbal lcan (1954) is.... William Wimsatt

30. Longinus in his ‗On the Sublime‘ defines sublime as a kind of loftiness and excellence in
language, raising the style of the ordinary language.The five sources of the Sublime are:1 Great
ideas 2 Passion 3 The appropriate use of figures 4 The right diction 5 Skilful composition

31. About which heroine of hers did Jane Austen say, ―A heroine whom no one but myself
will much like.‖: Emma

32. A clearly homosexual sensibility is there in which play of Marlowe?: Edward the second

33. There was a question on Paul de Man and the accusation of his being a Nazi
sympathiser.Paul de Man (1919- 1983).

34. Which novel of Dickens is called a social protest novel of 19th century?: (Hard Times)

35. "If it were now to die, it were to be most happy." That was her feeling__Othello's feeling,
and she felt it, she was convinced, as strongly as Shakespeare meant Othello to feel it, all
because she was coming down to dinner in a white frock to meet Sally Seton! These lines are
from Virginia Woolf's novel: Mrs Dalloway

36. Which Elizabethan revenge playwright acknowledges his Senecan influence by

referencing three Senecan plays in his tragedy? Thomas Kyd

37. Who wrote peter bell ,poem :Wordsworth

38. What is denouement? The ending of a comedy

39. In Joseph Andrews Fielding parodies? Richardson's Pamela

40. Which of the following is a critical work of Ben Jonson? Discoveries

41. "I write in metre because I am about to use a language different from that of prose." Who
says this? Coleridge

42. What is John Bunyan's Grace Abounding? The author's autobiography

43. "The end of writing is to instruct; the end of poetry is to instruct by pleasing."Whose
view is this? Dr. Johnson's

44. What does Ben Jonson mean by a 'Humorous' character? A character whose temper is
determined by one of the four fluids in the human body

45. Dryden wrote An Essay of Dramatic Poesy. Is this--- An interlocution

46. What type of novel is Daniel Defoe's Moll Flanders? A picaresque novel

47. Who said about Lamb? "Oh, he was good, if e'er a good man lived'. His only rival for
almost perfect goodness of nature is Sir Walter Scott." Wordsworth

48. Who has written "Two Cheers for Democracy"? E. M. Forster

49. The Epigraph of Albert Camus‘ novel ‗The Plague‘ .

50. As an epigraph to his novel, Camus chose a sentence by Daniel Defoe. It comes from
Defoe‘s preface to volume three of ‗Robinson Crusoe.‘(―It is as reasonable to represent one kind
of imprisonment by another as it is to represent anything which really exists by that which exists
not‖ Before he started to work on the book, Camus had gathered a vast amount of information
about plagues from medical and historical sources as well as from Daniel Defoe‘s ― Journal of
the Plague Year.‖)

51. Rudyard Kipling wrote the poem, ' The White Man's Burden' in 1899. In this poem,
Kipling urged the US to take up the' burden' of empire, as had Britain and other European
nations.

52. African Americans objected to the notion of the ' White Man's Burden'. An African-
American clergyman and editor HT Johnson wrote the poem, 'The Black Man's Burden' in 1899.

53. The racialised notion of ‗The White Man‘s Burden‘ became a euphemism for:
Imperialism

54. ‗The Devil‘s Dictionary‘ by Ambrose Bierce.

55. One is reminded of Stuart Gilbert's commentary on James Joyce's Ulysses.

56. Peterloo massacre is mentioned in which poem of Shelley? Gandhi ji often quotes from
this poem.It published posthumously... in 1832:The masque of Anarchy( "The Masque of
Anarchy" or "The Mask of Anarchy") is a British political poem written in 1819 (see 1819 in
poetry) by Percy Bysshe Shelley following the Peterloo massacre of that year.

57. In which Barthes anthology do we read his essay The Death of the Author? Image-
Music-Text
58. To which collection of Arthurian legends, the title of Barthes's essay "The Death of the
Author" alludes to? Le Morte d'Arthur ( "The Author is a certain functional principle by which,
in our culture, one limits, excludes and chooses: ... The author is therefore the ideological figure
by which one marks the manner in which we fear the proliferation of meaning" said Foucault in
his 1969 lecture, "What is an Author" in response to which earlier work? : The Death of the
Author) ("The Masque of Anarchy" (or "The Mask of Anarchy") is a British political poem
written in 1819 (see 1819 in poetry) by Percy Bysshe Shelley following the Peterloo massacre of
that year)

59. Which Barthes work contains an eulogy of his mother? Camera Lucida

60. In which Barthes anthology do we read his essay The Death of the Author? Image-
Music-Text.

61. To which collection of Arthurian legends, the title of Barthes's essay "The Death of the
Author" alludes to? Le Morte d'Arthur

62. Which of the following is considered the first modern English detective novel? The
Moonstone (The novelist if Wilkie Collins, and the year of publication of the novel is 1868. But
the "The Moonstone." contains a footnote mentioning an earlier one, called "The Notting Hill
Mystery," that came out in 1862, and its author is said to be Charles Felix. This should not
however be confused with the American writer Edgar Allen Poe's first ever detective story "The
Murder in the Rue Morgue," (1841). The question is on English detective story, and therefore
Poe is not relevant here.)

63. Who among the following is the disillusioned Marxist and classicist 'novelist of ideas',
best remembered for his autobiographical novel The Aerodrome (1941)? Rex Warner

64. The English novelist, critic and editor best known for his pseudonym "Q" is: Arthur
Quiller-Couch

65. "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction", and "One-Dimensional
Man" are considered two of the most influential recent works of Marxist aesthetics. While the
former essay is by Walter Benjamin, the other is by (d) Herbert Marcuse.

66. Who among the following is NOT a Marxist critic? Ans:(a) Harold Bloom (b)
Christopher Caudewell (c) Terry Eagleton (d) Fredric Jameson

67. Who coined the term 'cultural poetics' to refer to New Historicism, the critical practice
of the nineteen-eighties?: Stephen Greenblatt

68. Who among the following is the American critic General Editor of The Norton
Shakespeare (2015) and author of the book Will in the World? Stephen Greenblatt
69. Best known for his work The Sense of an Ending: Studies in the Theory of Fiction
(1967), this critic and reviewer is described as "the best living reader of Shakespeare anywhere,
hands down". Who among the following is the English writer we are talking about? Frank
Kermode

70. The group of poets credited for bringing a political consciousness to modernist poetry is:
the Auden Group

71. Sea and Sadinia' by D.H. Lawrence is a : travelogue.

72. "As for Greiffenhagen's 'Idyll', it moves me almost as if I were in love myself. Under its
intoxication, I have flirted madly this Christmas." Lawrence said so about the 1891 painting 'An
Idyll' and later this flirtation crystallized as one of his early novels. The novel is: The White
Peacock

73. Arrange chronologically the following D H Lawrence novels: (1) Sons and Lovers (2)
The Rainbow (3) Lady Chatterley's Lover (4) The Escaped Cock :Answers: 1234

74. Ursula and Gudrun are sisters in which D.H. Lawrence novel?: Women in Love

75. In which of the following novels 'stream of consciousness' is NOT seen used as a
narrative technique? (a) Tristram Shandy (b) Notes from Underground (c) Lieutenant Gust (d)
Little Dorrit Ans: D

76. Who famously compared human mind to an iceberg?: Freud

77. Which work among the following is considered the starting point in any discussion on
painting and poetry? : Laocoön: The essay is by the 18th century German art critic Lessing.

78. The setting of Joyce's Ulysses is : Modern Dublin ( Early twentieth century Dublin is
the setting of the novel)

79. Who among the following Odyssey characters is not a model for Joyce in the
characterization of his Ulysses? Tiresias (Leopold Bloom of the novel corresponds to Odysseus
in Homer's epic; Stephen Dedalus corresponds to Odysseus's son Telemachus; and Bloom's wife
Molly corresponds to Penelope, Odysseus's wife, who waits twenty years for her husband to
return.)

80. Which Joyce work is famous for its "Nausicaä" episode?: Ulysses

81. Which Joyce book ends with the first half of the first sentence of the novel? (b)
Finnegans Wake

82. The motive idea of Joyce's Finnegans Wake that 'history is cyclical' is inspired by
which 18th-century Italian philosopher? (a) Giambattista Vico✅
83. Who among the following is a pre-war writer considered as modernist?: Henry James

84. "Was it needless death after all?" In which poem does Yeats raise this vexing
question?:Easter 1916

85. Which of the following is not a play included in Yeats's 1921 collection entitled Four
Plays for : The Green Helmet

86. Poems written during which phase of Yeats's writing career were saturated by folklore,
occultism and Celtic myths? (a) Early romantic phase✅ (b) Mature Middle phase (c) Final
apocalyptic phase (d) none of these

87. "I owe my soul to Shakespeare, to Spenser, and to Blake…and to the English language in
which I think, speak and write…; my hatred tortures me with love, my love with hate." Which
Irish writer's paradoxical statement is this? (a) Lady Gregory (b) W.B. Yeats ✅(c) Samuel
Beckett (d) J.M. Synge

88. The all-pervading influence on European Modernism of which Irish writer can be
described unquestionable and colossal? (a) Bernard Shaw (b) O'Brien (c) J.M. Synge (d) Samuel
Beckett✅

89. Who among the following was a Scottish Modernist poet? (a) Hugh MacDiarmid✅ (b)
James O‘Grady (c) Douglas Hyde (d) Flann O‘Brien

90. The poet who led the appeal efforts to the Federal Government for the release of Pound,
who was charged with treason for his fascist support during World War II, was (a) Wallace
Stevens (b) Hart Crane (c) Carlos Williams (d) Robert Frost✅

91. The pioneering Modernist who broadcast a pro-Fascist series of programs addressed to
the Allied troops on Italian radio during World War II is (a) Franz Kafka (b) Andre Gide (c)
Rene Rilke (d) Ezra Pound✅

92. Which specific essay by Ezra Pound exemplifies the modernist intention for a conscious
break from the traditional ways, and for experimenting with the form and expression in writing,
in order to represent the shocking realities and sensibilities engendered by World War I? (a) The
Serious Artist (b) How to Read (c) Make it New ✅(d) A Few Don'ts

93. Who considered Shakespeare, ‗the man who had the largest and most comprehensive
soul‘, as the English Homer ‗or Father of our Dramatick Poets‘? (a) Dr. Johnson (b) Dryden✅
(c) Pope (d) Lamb
94. Who, among the following, first used the term "Old English" to denote the unmixed and
inflectional state of the English Language which was known as Anglo-Saxon.? (a) Bede (b) King
Alfred (c) Henry Sweet ✅(d) Chaucer

95. Which African-American poet-novelist coined in 1983 the term "womanist" to mean "A
black feminist or feminist of color" ? (a) Toni Morrison (b) Maya Angelou (c) Alice Walker✅
(d) Jamaica Kincaid,

96. The cultural status of the African-American women of the 1930's Southern United
States is the core content of Alice Walker's epistolary Pulitzer Prize novel (a) The Color Purple
✅(b) Possessing the Secret of Joy (c) The Third Life of Grange Copeland (d) Now is the time to
open your heart

97. Montaigne's essays were translated into English by Shakespeare's friend who had
considerable influence on the Bard. The linguist, lexicographer and royal tutor in question is (a)
Walter Raliegh ✅(b) John Florio (c) Norton (d) Cave Beck

98. Moved by Shakespeare's success with Julius Caesar, Ben Jonson wrote two Roman
plays.One was Sejanus, and the other (a) Volpone (b) The Alchemist (c) Cynthia's Revels (d)
Catiline✅

99. Emile Legouis and Louis Cazamian are (a) French historians of English literature ✅(b)
British historians of French literature (c) French novelists who wrote in English (d) disciples of
linguist Saussure

1. Which of the following is NOT one of the five sources of sublimity, according to
Longinus? (a) great thoughts (b) strong emotions (c) noble diction (d) commitment to societal
good.✅

2. Among the following, the word with a grammatical function, but not counted among the
parts of speech is (a) particle ✅(b) tense (c) pitch (d) stress

3. The American equivalent (as used by Mark Twain, O. Henry and Faulkner in their
works) for the British expression 'complexioned' is (a) colored (b) complectioned (c) complected
✅(d) complicated

4. The word 'climactic' refers to (a) climate (b) climax ✅(c) climbing (d) none of these

5. Bust is slang for (a) failure ✅(b) burst (c) best (d) remote
6. The word 'broke' (meaning 'without money') is (a) a slang ✅(b) a formal expression (c)
a wrong expression (d) none of these.

7. The Victorian poet who composed a full-length verse drama at the age of fourteen is (a)
Matthew Arnold (b) Robert Browning✅ (c) Elizabeth Browning (d) William Morris

8. What are the two parts of the metaphor as I.A. Richards identifies them in his book The
Philosophy of Rhetoric (1936)? (a) specific and particular (b) tenor and vehicle ✅(c) vehicle
and voice (d) tone and tenor

9. The biography of Mahatma Gandhi written by Raja Rao is (a) The Great Indian Way
✅(b) Changing India (c) Tomorrow (d) The Meaning of India

10. Which Raja Rao novel is sub-titled "A Tale of India"? (a) The Cat and Shakespeare
✅(b) Kanthapura (c) The Chessmaster and His Moves (d) On the Ganga Ghat

11. Which of the following is Raja Rao's metaphysical novel? (a) Cat and Shakespeare
✅(b) The Serpent and the Rope (c) The Cow of the Barricades (d) Kanthapura

12. Which of the following is a Booker Prize winner? (a) Waiting for Mahatma (b) The God
of Small Things✅ (c) Shame (d) The Golden Gate

13. Which poem by Christina Rossetti is considered a revision of the Petrarchan Sonnet? (a)
Venus's Looking-Glass (b) The Rose That Blushes Rosy Red (c) The Queen of Hearts (d) The
World✅

14. Who among the following brought to English a non-English sensibility through his
fiction? (a) Melville (b) Poe (c) Hawthorne (d) Conrad✅

15. The Victorian poet who did extensive work on the prosody of Milton's later works is (a)
Matthew Arnold (b) Carlyle (c) Oscar Wilde (d) Robert Bridges✅

16. Whom did Coleridge describe as 'the complete man of letters'? (a) Walter Scott (b)
Goethe (c) Shakespeare (d) Southey✅

17. The late 19th-century West European artistic and literary movement, that followed an
aesthetic ideology of excess and artificiality, well represented by Swinburne in England, is (a)
Vorticism (b) Futurism (c) Symbolism (d) The Decadent School✅

18. The Victorian poet of lesbianism, cannibalism, sado-masochism, and anti-theism is (a)
Oscar Wilde (b) Elizabeth Browning (c) Swinburne✅ (d) Christina Georgina Rossetti
19. Poems, Chiefly Lyrical (1830) is the first independent anthology of which Victorian
poet? (a) Matthew Arnold (b) Robert Browning (c) A. C. Swinburne (d) Alfred Tennyson✅

20. Which Tennyson female character leans on a velvet bed, with a pearl garland around
her head and fully appareled royally? (a) Mariana (b) The Lady of Shalott ✅(c) Fatima (d) Dora

21. The protagonist and narrator of Dickens's novel Great Expectations is (a) Fagin (b) Pip
✅(c) Gradgrind (d) Edward Murdstone

22. With which of the theatrical schools below Brecht is associated? (a) Realist (b) Absurd
(c) Epic ✅(d) Expressionist

23. Which of the following Coleridge poems is a fragment? (a) Christabel✅ (b)
Dejection:An Ode (c) Frost at Midnight (d) The Eolian Harp

24. Which Bombay-born British Nobelist poet's vernacular collection of poems on

Victorian Army is Barrack-Room Ballads? (a) Dom Moraes (b) George Orwell (c) Ruskin Bond
(d) Rudyard Kipling✅

25. "I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; I lift my lids and all is born again."Which
tear-soaked neurotic love-poem composed by Plath in her University days begins with this image
of death and rebirth? (a) Mad Girl's Love Song ✅(b) Ariel (c) Tulips (d) Two Lovers and a
Beach

26. Which Kipling poem is considered ostensibly a poem about Eurocentric racism? (a)
Absent-minded Beggar (b) If (c) The Whiteman's Burden ✅(d) Hymn Before Action

27. Most controversial in his life time, D.H. Lawrence spent a good part of his life in self-
imposed exile. Which Nobelist writer heartlessly described him as the "proto-German Fascist"?
(a) Winston Churchill (b) Bertrand Russell✅ (c) Bernard Shaw (d) Rudyard Kipling

28. Who is often mentioned as the novelist of the dehumanizing impact of modernity and
industrialization? (a) James Joyce (b) George Eliot (c) Evelyn Waugh (d) D.H. Lawrence✅

29. Who among the following is a 'spoken-word-artist' besides being a contemporary poet?
(a) Harry Baker (b) Simon Armitage ✅(c) Jenny Joseph (d) Seamus Heaney

30. 'Xanadu' is a collection of poems by which 21st century British professor-poet-

dramatist? (a) Simon Armitage ✅(b) Geoffrey Hill (c) Harry Baker (d) Charles Tomlinson

31. Which of the following is a representative work of the Graveyard School? (a)
Westminster Abbey (b) The Pleasures of Melancholy ✅(c) Solitude as Solace (d) Tears, Idle
Tears
32. Andrew Motion, British poet-laureate from 1999 to 2009, was a biographer too. Which
celebrity poet's life has he published in book-form? (a) T.S. Eliot (b) Dylan Tomas (c) Stephen
Spender (d) Philip Larkin✅

33. 'Makar' is the term used by which country to refer to its modern poet laureates? (a)
Greece (b) France (c) Italy (d) Scotland✅

34. Jeffrey Eugenides is one of the best contemporary young American novelists. He won
Pulitzer for fiction in 2003, for which queer novel? (a) The Virgin Suicides (b) Middlesex✅ (c)
The Marriage Plot (d) Asleep in the Lord

35. Whose memoir on London life is "Conversations in Bloomsbury"? (a) E.M. Forster (b)
Virginia Woolf (c) Mulk Raj Anand ✅(d) Lytton Stratchey

36. Who offered Mulk Raj Anand the title of his novel "The Sword and the Sickle" on
emerging Communism? (a) Raja Rao (b) E.M. Forster (c) George Orwell ✅(d) Edmund Goose

37. Which of the following novels has a one-day time scheme? (a) Rajmohan's Wife (b)
Untouchable ✅(c) Serpent and the Rope (d) Swami and Friends

38. Which of the following novels has a fourteen-year-old protagonist? (a) Untouchable (b)
Kanthapura (c) The Vendor of Sweets (d) Coolie✅

39. The first book by an Indian in English was a (a) novel (b) collection of poems (c)
collection of stories (d) travelogue✅

40. The language error, caused by the mishearing of the original word (as in 'pillows of
trust' for 'pillars of trust') is called (a) Eggcorns ✅(b) Shelled errors (c) misheard errors (d) none
of these

41. What common English word Bernard Shaw spelled as 'ghoti'? (a) footie (b) ghat (c)
fish✅ (d) none of these

42. Bernard Shaw once visited Orleans and happened to see the sculptured face of St.
Maurice. "It is a wonderful face, the face of a born leader," he wrote. "I shall do a play on it
some day." And which was the play Shaw wrote inspired by that face? (a) The Man of Destiny
(b) Saint Joan ✅(c) Man and Superman (d) The Devil's Disciple

43. Where is the play The Devil's Disciple set? (a) London (b) Paris (c) Lancashire (d)
Colonial America of the Revolutionary period✅

44. Who is the eponymous hero of The Devil's Disciple by Bernard Shaw? (a) Richard
Dudgeon✅ (b) Anthony Anderson (c) Christopher Dudgeon (d) General Burgoyne
45. Which of the following is not one of Shaw's 'plays for puritans'? (a) The Apple Cart✅
(b) Captain Brassbound's Conversion (c) Caesar and Cleopatra (d) The Devil's Disciple

46. How is Henry Sweet connected with Bernard Shaw's play Pygmalion? (a) He inspired
Prof Higgins ✅(b) Shaw wrote the play at the suggestion of Sweet (c) Sweet had written a dull
play on the theme earlier, and this play persuaded Shaw to reuse the theme for a brilliant repeat
(d) none of these

47. Which of the following is not a 'play unpleasant' by Bernard Shaw? (a) Widowers'
Houses (b) The Man of Destiny ✅(c) The Philanderer (d) Mrs. Warren's Profession

48. To which of his highly popular plays Bernard Shaw added the postscript essay "What
Happened Afterwards"? (a) Pygmalion ✅(b) Arms and the Man (c) Caesar and Cleopatra (d)
Doctor's Dilemma

49. The oldest history of any European country written in a vernacular language is (a) The
Anglo-Saxon Chronicle (b) Ecclesiastical History of the English People ✅(c) The History of the
Britons

50. Which of the following is not a sub-category of Old English? (a) Mercian (b) West
Saxon (c) Northumbrian (d) East Anglian✅

51. We read the earliest extant dramatic passage in English literature in (a) The Owl and the
Nightingale (b) Christ✅ (c) Beowulf (c) Exodus

52. Which of the following is Joseph Conrad's first known writing? (a) The Congo Diary
✅(b) Heart of Darkness (c) An Outcast of the Islands (d) Lord Jim

53. The first edition of his first novel (1897) sold out so rapidly that this early 20th century
popular British novelist gave up the profession of a doctor and dedicated himself to full-time
writing. (a) Arnold Bennett (b) C.P. Snow (c) A.J. Cronin (d) Somerset Maugham✅

54. Which modernist writer has written a dog's biography as a hybrid work of fiction and
non-fiction? (a) James Joyce (b) D.H. Lawrence (c) Virginia Woolf ✅(d) Marcel Proust

55. Which of the following works by Woolf makes use of the major events in Tiresias
myth? (a) Orlando ✅(b) The Voyage Out (c) The Mark on the Wall (d) Night and Day

56. The death of which contemporary does Arnold mainly lament in 'Memorial Verses'? (a)
Wordsworth ✅(b) Scott (c) Coleridge (d) Southey

57. "He taught us little; but our soul ,Had felt him like the thunder's roll." About which
romantic poet is this comment by Arnold? : Byron
58. "Goethe in Weimar sleeps, and Greece, Long since, saw Byron's struggle cease. But
one such death remain'd to come; The last poetic voice is dumb— "The last poetic voice Arnold
refers to here is (a) Wordsworth✅ (b) Keats (c) Shelley (d) Browning

59. Which of the following poems has the theme of yearning for death? (a) The Lady of
Shallot (b) Maud (c) Mariana (d) Tithonus✅

60. With which innovative Victorian poet is connected the notion of 'counterpoint'? (a)
Swinburne (b) Browning (c) Eliza Browning (d) Hopkins✅

61. The Hollywood movie "The Last Time I Saw Paris" is loosely based on which
Fitzgerald story? (a) Babylon Revisited ✅(b) The Great Gatsby (c) Tender is the Night (d) The
Last Tycoon

62. Who among the 'Thirties Poets' was Irish? (a) Louis Macneice✅ (b) Stephen Spender
(c) Christopher Isherwood (d) Edward Upward

63. Which 20th century fraternity of poets were called 'social poets'? (a) Modernists (b)
Neo-romantics (c) Auden Group ✅(d) The Movement Poets

64. We read the earliest extant dramatic passage in English literature in (a) The Owl and the
Nightingale (b) Christ✅ (c) Beowulf (c) Exodus

65. Which of the following is Joseph Conrad's first known writing? (a) The Congo Diary
✅(b) Heart of Darkness (c) An Outcast of the Islands (d) Lord Jim

66. The first edition of his first novel (1897) sold out so rapidly that this early 20th century
popular British novelist gave up the profession of a doctor and dedicated himself to full-time
writing. (a) Arnold Bennett (b) C.P. Snow (c) A.J. Cronin (d) Somerset Maugham✅

67. Which modernist writer has written a dog's biography as a hybrid work of fiction and
non-fiction? (a) James Joyce (b) D.H. Lawrence (c) Virginia Woolf ✅(d) Marcel Proust

68. Which of the following works by Woolf makes use of the major events in Tiresias myth?
(a) Orlando ✅(b) The Voyage Out (c) The Mark on the Wall (d) Night and Day

69. The death of which contemporary does Arnold mainly lament in 'Memorial Verses'? (a)
Wordsworth ✅(b) Scott (c) Coleridge (d) Southey

70. "He taught us little; but our soul ,Had felt him like the thunder's roll." About which
romantic poet is this comment by Arnold? : Byron
71. "Goethe in Weimar sleeps, and Greece, Long since, saw Byron's struggle cease. But one
such death remain'd to come; The last poetic voice is dumb— "The last poetic voice Arnold
refers to here is (a) Wordsworth✅ (b) Keats (c) Shelley (d) Browning

72. Which of the following poems has the theme of yearning for death? (a) The Lady of
Shallot (b) Maud (c) Mariana (d) Tithonus✅

73. With which innovative Victorian poet is connected the notion of 'counterpoint'? (a)
Swinburne (b) Browning (c) Eliza Browning (d) Hopkins✅

74. The Hollywood movie "The Last Time I Saw Paris" is loosely based on which
Fitzgerald story? (a) Babylon Revisited ✅(b) The Great Gatsby (c) Tender is the Night (d) The
Last Tycoon

75. Who among the 'Thirties Poets' was Irish? (a) Louis Macneice✅ (b) Stephen Spender
(c) Christopher Isherwood (d) Edward Upward

76. Which 20th century fraternity of poets were called 'social poets'? (a) Modernists (b)
Neo-romantics (c) Auden Group ✅(d) The Movement Poets

77. Which six-part Pulitzer winning alliterative Eclogue by Auden is a search for substance
and identity in a world submerged in distress by war and rapid industrialization? (a) City without
Walls (b) The Age of Anxiety ✅(c) For the Time Being (d) Nones

78. Opened on 8 November 1602, the Bodleian Library is the oldest research libraries in
Europe. With over 12 million items, it is the second-largest library in Britain, just after the
British Library. Where is this located? (a) London (b) New York (c) Harvard (d) Oxford✅

79. Where is The Folger Shakespeare Library, home for the world's largest Shakespeare
collection, located? (a) London (b) Stratford (c) Washington✅ (d) New York

80. In which Shakespeare poetry anthology do we read the love-letters of Paris and Helen?
(a) The Passionate Pilgrim ✅(b) Sonnets (c) To the Queen (c) A Lover's Complaint

81. Which theoretical work was written with the professed intention of establishing that
western literature is a coherent and unified structure? (a) Archetypal Patterns in Poetry (b) Myth
and Miracle (c) Literary Landmarks (d) Anatomy of Criticism✅

82. "I mean by an archetype a symbol which connects one poem with another and thereby
helps to unify and integrate our literary experience." Whose statement is this? (a) Carl Jung (b)
Francis Fergusson (c) Maud Bodkin (d) Northrop Frye✅
83. Which stream of criticism emerged as a reaction against New Criticism which found
literary text as if it existed in a vacuum totally divorced from all inter-textual connections? (a)
Structuralism (b) Russian Formalism (c) Psychoanalytical criticism (d) Archetypal criticism✅

84. From the humble status of the adopted son of a bricklayer, which Elizabethan dramatist
rose to be the first poet-laureate of his country? : Jonson

85. Elizabethan dramatist, John Webster, is chiefly known for two of his tragedies; one is
the Duchess of Malfi, and the other (a) 'Tis a pity, she is a whore (b) White Devil✅ (c) The
Queen (d) Love's Sacrifice

86. Who among the following is Banquo's son in the play Macbeth? (a) Siward (b)
Donalbain (c) Fleance ✅(d) none of these

87. ‗Stars, hide your fires, / Let not light see my black and deep desires‘ - In Macbeth
whose aside is this? (a) Macbeth✅ (b) Lady Macbeth (c) first witch (d) Banquo

88. In the opening scene of Macbeth, the witches agree to meet Macbeth at what time? (a)
before sunset✅ (b) after sunset (c) midnight (d) before sunrise

89. On the anonymous publication of In Memoriam in 1850, who in a celebrated essay of

1928, sought to prove through hidden cryptograms, that Queen Victoria was its true author? (a)
Christopher Ricks (b) Aldous Huxley (c) Ronald Knox ✅(d) E.M. Forster

90. In which Tennyson poem Queen Victoria is said to have found comfort after Prince
Albert, her husband's, bereavement? (a) Crossing the Bar (b) Dora (c) In Memoriam ✅(d) The
Princess

91. Which poem did Tennyson call his Divine Comedy? (a) In Memoriam✅ (b ) The Lady
of Shallot (c) Morte d' Arthur (d) The Palace of Art

92. Tennyson's poem that begins with a funeral and ends with a marriage is (a) The Princess
(b) The Palace of Art (c) In Memoriam ✅(d) Morte d' Arthur

93. How is Christopher Ricks related to Tennyson? (a) Cambridge friend (b) patron (c)
biographer-critic (d) publisher✅

94. "He saw thro' life and death, thro' good and ill, He saw thro' his own soul." About
whom is Tennyson speaking here? (a) Christ (b) The Poet (c) Hallam ✅(d) none of these

95. Who saves the shipwrecked Sebastian in Twelfth Night? (a) Antonio ✅(b) Valentine (c)
Curio (d) Fabian
96. In the male guise what name does Viola adopt? (a) Antonio (b) Caserio✅ (c) Valentine
(d) Curio

97. Who is Olivia's pompous steward in Shakespeare's Twelfth Night? (a) Malvolio ✅(b)
Toby (c) Feste (d) Fabian

98. Who are the twins in Shakespeare's Twelfth Night? (a) Sebastian and Viola ✅(b) Viola
and Olivia (c) Olivia and Orsino (d) Sebastian and Olivia

99. One of the two different goals of English teaching is 'reception'; and the other is (a)
listening (b) comprehension ✅(c) reading (d) expression

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1. Time for a Tiger, The Enemy in the Blanket and Beds in the East form the three novels of
which Burgess trilogy? (a) Brunei trilogy (b) Malayan trilogy ✅(c) War trilogy (d) Home trilogy

2. Who among the following is a Catholic linguist, novelist and composer? (a) Lawrence
Sterne (b) Anthony Burgess✅ (c) Evelyn Waugh (d) Graham Greene

3. Which of the following novels is dystopian? (a) Ulysses (b) Voyage Out (c) A
Clockwork Orange✅ (d) Our Man in Havana

4. English is the state language of two states in eastern India. One is Meghalaya and the
other (a) Assam (b) Tripura (c) Nagaland✅ (d) Himachal Pradesh

5. Which of the following is considered the 'Magna Carta' of English education in India?
(a) Kothari Commission Report (b) Wood's Despatch (c) The Central Advisory Board of
Education Report ✅(d) The Tara Chand committee report

6. Which Article of our Constitution lays down that English language shall continue to be
used for all purposes of the Union for a period of 15 years from the commencement of the
constitution? (a) 343 ✅(b) 344 (c) 345 (d) 346

7. Which of the following statements cannot be true if Lord of the Flies is read as an
allegory? (a) The island is the world✅ (b) Ralph's conch-led Parliament represents democratic
government.(c) Jack's tribalism represents autocratic government (d) Piggy represents the
common man who is always ignored by governments whatever the form be

8. Which Ballad hero of Scott's is "So daring in love, and so dauntless in war," (a) Lochiel
(b) Lochinvar✅ (c) Tushielaw (d) Gillian
9. Which of the following novels has the 1745 Jacobite Uprising as its historical
background? (a) Moll Flanders (b Mill on the Floss (c) Waverly✅ (d) Guliver's Travels

10. The first historical novel in western literary tradition is (a) Tom Jones (b) Tristram
Shandy (c) Waverly✅ (d) Daniel Deronda

11. Galworthy's literary career spanned the periods of (a) Victoria (b) Edward (c) George
(d) all the three✅

12. Galworthy's works revolves round the contemporary English : Upper middle class

13. Who among the following is NOT an anglo-saxon author? (a) Caedmon (b) Bede (c)
Alfred (d) Layamon✅

14. "Lo, praise of the prowess of people-kings,of spear-armed Danes, in days long sped,we
have heard, and what honor the athelings won!" Quoted above is the modern English version of
the opening lines of which Anglo-saxon work? (a) Seafarer (b) Cædmon's Hymn (c) The Anglo-
Saxon Chronicle(d) Beowulf✅

15. The English pronoun 'they' is a borrowing from (a) French (b) Latin (c) Scandinavian
(d) Norse✅

16. "Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage". In which Shakespeare comedy do you
hear this? (a) Measure for Measure (b) Much Ado About Nothing (c) Twelfth Night ✅(d) The
Merry Wives of Windsor

17. The only Shakespearean play which had a subtitle at the time of publication is (a) As
You Like It (b) Twelfth Night ✅(c) The Comedy of Errors (d) The Merchant of Venice

18. Which Shakespeare comedy has Illyria as its setting? (a) As You Like It (b) What You
will✅ (c) Two Gentlemen of Verona (d) The Comedy of Errors

19. Jaipur Literature Festival, is 'the greatest literary festival on earth' co-founded by (a)
William Dalrymple ✅(b) David Davidar (c) Shobha De (d) Shashi Tharoor

20. Who among the following wrote on the themes of women sexuality and femininity? (a)
Sara Aboobacker (b) Ashapoorna Devi (c) Eunice de Souza (d) Ismat Chugtai✅

21. Who, among the following Indian playwrights, is associated with the Third Theatre? (a)
Nissim Ezeikal (b) D.L. Roy (c) Badal Sircar✅ (d) Manjula Padmanabhan

22. The speed at which the action moves and the reader gets information determine the
narrative's (a) pace✅ (b) speed (c) style (d) evolution
23. Of the four rhetorical modes of discourse, the three are exposition, argumentation, and
description, and the fourth one is (a) dialogue✅ (b) flashback (c) commentary (d) narration

24. Mary Shelley's Frankenstein is an instance of (a) epistolary narrative voice ✅(b) the
third-person subjective voice (c) third-person objective voice (d) third-person omniscient

25. When a story is revealed through a narrator who is also a character within his or her
own story, the point of view is said to be (a) first person ✅(b) second person (c) third person (d)
semi-omniscient

26. A story's grammatical tense that shows its time-frame in the present, past or future is
called (a) Narrative Time✅ (b) Chronological Time (c) Subjective Time (d) Time Sequence

27. A character who defines certain characteristics of the protagonist by exhibiting opposite
traits is called (a) antagonist (b) confidante (c) deuteragonist (d) foil✅

28. A prominent trend in the late 20th century and early 21st century American poetry is a
return to metrical and rhymed verse. This Movement is known as (a) Metricalism (b) Back to
rhymes (c) Formal Poetry Movement (d) New formalism✅

29. The Germ was a journal of the (a) Vorticist School (b) Pre-Raphaelite School ✅(c)
Imagist School (d) Beat School

30. Which of the following Poe poems was inspired in part by Dickens's novel Barnaby
Rudge? (a) To Helen (b) The Raven ✅(c) Annabel Lee (d) A Dream within a Dream

31. In which of the following poems a student laments his lost love? (a) La Belle Dame
Sans Mercy (b) The Raven (c) Annabel Lee (d) ―The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock‖Answer.
❓❓❓❓

32. Which Indian linguist among the following formulated rules of morphological analysis
more advanced than any 20th century western theory? (a) Patanjali (b) Ananda Vardhana (c)
Kuntaka (d) Panini✅

33. Which of the following linguists believed that the goal of linguistic description should
be to construct a theory that would account for the infinite number of sentences of a natural
language? (a) Saussure (b) Bloomfield (c) Sapir (d) Chomsky✅

34. In which book does Chomsky discuss the two layers of sentences, namely deep structure
(D-Structure) and surface structure (S-structure)? (a) Syntactic Structures (b) Aspects of the
Theory of Syntax ✅(c) Three Models for the Description of Language (d) Knowledge of
Language
35. The mathematician-philosopher who won Nobel Prize for literature is (a) G.H. Hardy
(b) J.B.S Haldane (c) Russell✅ (d) Churchill

36. Parts of speech is central to which model of grammar? (a) Traditional✅ (b) Structuralist
(c) Generative (d) Tagmemic

37. "Light of my life, fire of my loins" - Which novel opens with these two phrases? (a)
Rain and Fire (b) Lolita ✅(c) Murphy (d) Lady Chatterley's Lover

38. What did Hemingway call his economical and understated style of writing? (a)
Minimalist Theory (b) Reductionist Theory (c) Skeleton sketch (d) Iceberg Theory✅

39. The Whale is the sub-title of which American novel? (a) The Old Man and the Sea (b)
Moby Dick ✅(c) The Grapes of Wrath (d) The Sea

40. Who among the following had 'Miller' as his middle-name? (a) Faulkner (b) Steinbeck
(c) Hemingway ✅(d) Mark Twain

41. Who is the tragic hero of Miller's historical play The Crucible? (a) John Proctor ✅(b)
Willy Loman (c) Joe Keller (d) Quentin

42. The first ever Afro-American dramatist to stage a play in Broadway was a woman, and
she is (a) Lorraine Hansberry ✅(b) Toni Morrison (c) Maya Angelou (d) Zora Hurston

43. Which of the following plays is considered as one of the early great modern tragedies?
(a) Emperor Jones (b) A Doll's House ✅(c) Waiting for Godot (d) After the Fall

44. Which modern American dramatist's plays demonstrate that modern man can also be
suitable subject for tragedy as the ancient kings and queens were? (a) Edward Albee (b) David
Mamet (c) Arthur Miller✅ (d) August Wilson

45. In Hayavadana, how did the Goddess make Hayavadana complete? (a) turns into a
complete horse ✅(b) turns into a complete man (c) turns his body into a horse and head human
(d) none of these

46. In Hayavadana what happens to Padmini in the end? (a) commits 'sati' ✅(b) marries
Kapila (c) kills Kapita and sticks to Devadatta (d) runs away to unknown land

47. Which of the following is Karnard's first play? (a) Tuglaq (b) Yayati ✅(c) Hayavadana
(d) Taledanda

48. Sadavel.k: Kapila, in Hayavadana, is a man of (a) poetry (b) purity (c) body (c) spirit✅
49. As Karnard himself states, what is his source for the central episode of Devadatta and
Kapila in Hayavadana? (a) Transposed Heads (b) Vetala Panchimshati ✅(c) Both the above (d)
none of these

50. Which Shakespeare play is famous for its Balcony Scene? (a) The Merchant of Venice
(b) As You Like It (c) Twelfth Night (d) Romeo and Juliet✅

51. Pleasant, rhythmical and harmonious effects of poetry are together known as (a)
harmony (b) symphony (c) euphony ✅(d) melody

52. Which literary form derives its name from the Greek term meaning 'making'? (a) Elegy
(b) Epic (c) Romance (d) poetry✅

53. Which psychoanalytic theory does Harold Bloom rely on for his theory of anxiety of
influence? (a) Oedipus complex (b) Electra complex (c) Racial memory (d) Collective
unconscious✅...❗❗❗❗

54. To which Dickens novel was Oscar Wilde referring when he wrote: "One must have a
heart of stone to read the death of Little Nell without laughing"? (a) A Christmas Carol (b)
Oliver Twist (c) Pickwick Papers (d) The Old Curiosity Shop✅

55. Which of the following is Donne's elegy on the shortest day of the year? (a) A
Valediction: Forbidding Mourning (b) A Nocturnal upon S. Lucy's Day (c) Jealousy (d) The
Anagram❓❓

56. In Greek mythology Paris of Troy abandoned his first wife to woo Helen of Sparta. Who
was the abandoned wife? (a) Hecuba (b) Oenone✅ (c) Athena (d) Hera

57. Verbal irony is also known as (a) dramatic irony (b) tragic irony (c) Socratic irony (d)
rhetorical irony✅

58. The 18th century author of The Beggar's Opera, Fables and Black-eyed Susan is (a)
Edward Young (b) John Gay✅ (c) Addison (d) Steele.

59. Who is Shock to Belinda in The Rape of the Lock? (a) brother (b) friend (c) guard (d)
pet-dog✅

60. In Pope's The Rape of the Lock, who goes to the Cave of Spleen for a bag of "sighs,
sobs, and passions, and the war of tongues" and a vial filled "with fainting fears, soft sorrows,
melting griefs, and flowing tears"? (a) Umbriel ✅(b) Ariel (c) Thalestris (d) Sir Plume
61. Sartor Resartus, the Victorian philosophical novel, is considered a commentary on the
thought and life of which German philosopher? (a) Schiller (b) Goethe (c) Diogenes (d)
Nietzsche❓❓

62. The Victorian thinker who considered history as the biography of great men is (a)
Arnold (b) Morris (c) Carlyle (d) John Ruskin❓

63. Which of the following is Orwell's dystopian novel about totalitarianism? (a) Animal
Farm (b) Nineteen Eighty-four ✅(c) Burmese Days (d) Coming Up for Air

64. Which of his books, Orwell claims, "fuses political purpose and artistic purpose." (a)
Nineteen Eighty-four (b) Animal Farm (c) Coming Up for Air (d) A Clergyman's Daughter❓

65. Which of Bacon‘s books gives us his views on research? (a) The Advancement of
Learning (b) The New Atlantis✅ (c) Magna Instauratio. (d) The Novum Organum

66. The editor of The Picador Book of Modern Indian Literature is (a) Salmon Rushdie (b)
Amitav Ghosh (c) Ruskin Bond (d) Amit Chaudhari✅

67. Rusty is a semi-autobiographical character created by which Indian English writer? (a)
Shashi Tharoor (b) Salmon Rushdie (c) Ruskin Bond✅ (d) Dom Moraes

68. Ruskin Bond's historical novel connected with the Indian Mutiny of 1857 is (a) A Flight
of Pigeons✅ (b) With Love from the Bills (c) Landour Days (d) The Panther's Moon

69. Writers Workshop, an enterprise for the publication of Indian writing in English, was
founded in the 1950s by (a) Nirad C. Chaudhari (b) R.K. Narayan (c) P. Lal ✅(d) Mulk Raj
Anand

70. In which pioneering Indian English novel Achakka narrates the story in the form of a
legend about the novel's fictional locale? (a) Malgudi Days (b) Kanthapura✅ (c) The Private
Life of an Indian Prince (d) Fire on the Mountain

71. 'Bree' is a fictional village created by which of the following authors? (a) Henry James
(b) Steinbeck (c) Antony Trollope (d) J.R.R. Tolkien✅

72. Who are the paying guests in the 2014 Sara Waters' novel "The Paying Guests"? (a)
Lilian and Leonard Barber✅ (b) Sherry and Merry Walpole (c) Bob and Jill Smith (d) Deborah
and Jack Williams

73. Which Victorian psychological novel captures the hypocrisy of the age expressing the
period's moral dichotomy of good and evil? (a) Bleak House (b) Vanity Fair (c) The Woman in
White (d) The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde✅
74. Which Margaret Lawrence novel unfolds as the recollection of a ninety-nine year old
woman-narrator in the fictional town called Manawaka? (a) The Diviners (b) The Fire Dwellers
(c) A Jest of God (d) The Stone Angel✅

75. What do the words ―Homo fuge‖ mean in the context of Doctor Faustus? (a) Man, Stay
(b) Stick to your promise (c) Be Bold (d) Man, flee✅

76. Which of the following is a postcolonial play by Derek Walcott? (a) Dream on Monkey
Mountain ✅(b) The Lion and the Jewel (c) The Black Hermit (d) The Dilemma of a Ghost

77. Which classic postcolonial novel tells the story of Okonkwo, the 19th century Igbo
village leader who sadly witnesses the tragic demise of his culture at the hands of colonialism?
(a) Things Fall Apart✅ (b) The Conservationist (c) Season of Migration to the North (d) A Man
of the People

78. Frantz Fanon‘s 1961 French book The Wretched of the Earth examining possibilities for
anti-colonial violence was the result of which political upheaval? (a) Algerian struggle against
France for independence✅ (b) Cypriot's struggle against British domination (c) African
resistance to colonial rule (d) the anti-colonialist migration in the French, Belgian, German, and
Portuguese colonies

79. Who among the following translated into English Bengali author Mahasweta Devi's
works with critical introductions? (a) R. Pathasarathy (b) William Radice (c) Shiv K Kumar (d)
Gayatri Spivak✅

80. "These errors are Correct" (2008) is a collection of poems by which Indian English
poet-novelist whose 2012 novel was short-listed for Man Booker? (a) Gieve Patel (b) Dom
Moraes (c) Jeet Thayyil ✅(d) Vikram Seth

81. Who is the narrator of Part I of Faulkner's novel "Sound and Fury"? (a) Benjamin ✅(b)
Quentin (c) Jason (d) Dilsey

82. The Beats restored the long-lost oral tradition into American literary circles, and the
poem instrumental to this revolutionary retreat was (a) Where Flesh Circulates (b) Howl ✅(c)
Pictures of the Gone World (d) The Scripture of the Golden Eternity

83. Which Bookstore in San Francisco turned out to be a hub of Beat Generation literati? (a)
Bookhive (b) City Lights✅ (c) Papyrus (d) Insight

84. A major influence on the Beats was (a) the classics (b) neoclassic writers (c) romantics
✅(d) modernists
85. Which of the following statements is not correct in respect of the Beat Generation? (a)
As a post-war phenomenon they demanded a wholesale reappraisal of the conventional structures
of society. (b) They questioned the rampant materialism of the society (c) They found capitalism
a boost to human competitiveness and overall national growth (d) In the world of literature and
art, the Beats fashioned a literature that was more bold, straightforward, and expressive than
anything that had come before. Option C ✅��is the right answer. They were against the ways
of Capitalism.

86. With which American university the beat writers were associated? (a) New York (b)
Yale (c) Columbia ✅(d) Harvard

87. Who coined the term Beat Generation? (a) Jack Kerouac ✅(b) Allen Ginsberg (c)
Lucien Carr (d) Neal Cassidy

88. Winterson's The Gap of Time is the cover-novel-version of which Shakespeare play? (a)
Much Ado About Nothing (b) As You Like It (c) The Winter's Tale ✅(d) King Lear

89. The narrator of which of the following Winterson novels is not gendered as male or
female? (a) Written on the Body ✅(b) Art and Lies (c) Gut Symmetries (d) The Passion

90. Which of the following Winterson novels is considered her fictionalized autobiography?
(a) Oranges are not the Only Fruit ✅(b) The Stone Gods (c) Written on the Body (d) Sexing the
Cherry (d) The Powerbook

91. Which Jeanette Winterson novel presents an invented world set during the English Civil
War featuring the fabulous 'Dog Woman' and the orphan she raises? (a) Boating for Beginners
(b) Sexing the Cherry ✅(c) The Passion (d) Oranges are not the only Fruit,

92. Which of the following is Angela Carter's collection of poems? (a) The Passion of New
Eve (b) Unicorn ✅(c) Expletives Deleted (d) The Magic Toyshop

93. Under what title Angela Carter's maiden novel Shadow Dance (1966) was published in
the United States? (a) Wayward Girls and Wicked Women (b) American Ghosts (c) Honey
Buzzard ✅(d) Burning Your Boats

94. Pope's Rape of the Lock is based on an incident in (a) Aeneid (b) Odyssey (c) Old Norse
Myth (d) a real incident heard from Pope's friend

95. Which Tolstoy novel has the epigraph "Vengeance is mine; I will repay"? (a) War and
Peace (b) Anna Karenina ✅(c) The Death of Ivan Ilyich (d) Hadji Murat

96. The title of which of his works Forster borrows from Pope? (a) The Celestial Omnibus
(b) The Longest Journey (c) Where Angels Fear to Tread ✅(d) The Eternal Moment.. Forster
borrows the title from Pope's line, "For fools rush in where angels fear to tread", in his poem A
Essay on Criticism (1711).

97. Which E.M. Forster novel is set against the Indian Independence Movement of the
1920s? (a) Where Angels Fear to Tread (b) Howard's End (c) The Longest Journey (d) A
Passage to India✅

98. Which of the following is not a war-novel? (a) The Charterhouse of Parma (b) Mrs
Dalloway (c) A Farewell to Arms (d) A Passage to India.. Option D✅ is the answer. Stenthal's
1839 French novel The Charterhouse of Parma has a war-setting. It begins with the French army
sweeping into Milan.

99. The subtitle of which post-war British play did Irwin Wardle borrow to refer to Pinter's
plays as 'comedy of menace'? (a) The Making of Moo (b) One Way Pendulum (c) The Lunatic
View✅ (d) The Life and Death of Almost Everybody

100. Which post-war British dramatist declared that his plays are about "the weasel under the
cocktail cabinet"? (a) David Campton (b) Nigel Dennis (c) N. F. Simpson (d) Harold Pinter.✅

1. Which of the following is NOT a novel of the metafictional sub-genre? (a) Tristran
Shandy (b) The Lord of the Rings (c) Willie Master's Lonesome Wife (d) For Whom the Bell
Tolls✅

2. In 1970 William H Gass coined a new term, meta-fiction, to refer to the self-conscious
postmodern novels fast growing in number. The book in which he introduces the term is (a)
Metafiction – The Theory and Practice of Self-Conscious Fiction (b) Fiction and the Figures of
Life (c) Fabulation and Metafiction (d) Metareferential Turn in Contemporary Arts and
Media❓❓

3. Which work of Nobelist Coetzee is a re-writing of Defoe's Robinson Crusoe? (a)

Waiting for the Barbarians (b) Dusklands (c) Foe✅ (d) Life and Times of Michael K

4. Defoe's The Furtunate Mistress is better known as (a) Manon Lescaut (b) Further
Adventures (c) Roxana ✅(d) The Adventures of Captain Singleton

5. In "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" the ineffectual, elderly Prufrock thinks to
himself that he has "measured out his life in coffee spoons." Here coffee spoons reflect a
humdrum existence and a wasted lifetime. The line illustrates Eliot's concept of (a) impersonality
(b) Objective correlative ✅(c) dissociation of sensibility (d) Unified sensibility

6. Shelley's dramatic work on incest and parricide is (a) Hellas (b) The Devil's Walk (c)
The Cenci ✅(d) The Witch of Atlas
7. The real name of the principal character nick-named Lolita in Nabakov's eponymous
novel is (a) Dolly (b) Nymphet (c) Nubile (d) Dolores✅

8. Which modernist writer's assertion is "on or about December 1910 human character
changed."? (a) T.S. Eliot (b) Virginia Woolf ✅(c) James Joyce (d) Gertrude Stein

9. Who among the following is credited with the invention of Basic English? (a) Roger
Fowler (b) Randolph Quirk (c) Leonard Palmer (d) Carles Ogden✅

10. In which fictional biography Woolf looks at the city-life through the eyes of a dog with
Elizabeth Barrett Browning at the center? (a) Orlando:A Biography (b) Flush:A Biography ✅(c)
The London Scene (d) The Duchess and the Jeweller

11. Which of the following is a work of cross-genre blend of fiction and non-fiction by
Vrginia Woolf? (a) Monday or Tuesday (b) Three Guineas (c) Flush:A Biography ✅(d) A Mark
on the Wall

12. The bold and unprincipled barbarian who launches repeated attacks on virtuous Pamela
in Richardson's eponymous novel is (a) Mr. B✅ (b) Mr. D (c) Mr. R (d) Mr. S

13. Woolf's debut novel introduces which of her later heroines? (a) Cassandra (b) Sara (c)
Jinny (c) Mrs. Dalloway✅

14. DeSalvo's Melymbrosia attempts to restore the text of which Woolf novel as she had
originally conceived it? (a) Night and Day (b) Jacob's Room (c) Mrs Dalloway (d) The Voyage
Out✅

15. Which of the following does not have a frame-story? (a) Mahabharata (b) One
Thousand and one Nights (c) The Decameron (d) Mayor of the Casterbridge✅

16. The literary term 'visio' refers to (a) ancient visionary tales (b) dream vision poems✅
(c) author's vision a work reflects (d) an outline of a work

17. Which dream-vision poem among the following introduced into English iambic
pentameter for the first time? (a) Piers Plowman (b)The Temple of Glass (c) Pearl (d) Legend of
Good Women✅

18. The novelist who gave 19th century Britain its historical identity is (a) Richarson (b)
Fielding (c) Jane Austen (d) Walter Scott.. Option D✅���� is the right answer. Scott (1771-
1832), the founder of the genre of historical novel, gave romantic Europe, through his most
important historical novels Waverly (1814) and Ivanhoe (1820), the awareness that history was
not merely the chronological ordering of political or religious events, but the product of human
decisions.The novels celebrate the glorious past of his country and create in the readers an idea
of their country's fascinating yesterdays.

19. Who among the following is NOT connected with the Gothic novel tradition of 18th
century England? (a) William Bedford (b) Horace Walpole (c) Ann Radcliffe (d) Walter Scott✅

20. Which novel tradition did Ann Radcliff establish? (a) Pastoral (b) Thriller (c)
Psychological (d) Gothic✅

21. Robinhood and King Richard the Lionheart are characters in which Scott novel? (a) The
Heart of Midlothian (b) Ivanhoe✅ (c) Talisman (d) Rob Roy

22. The 12th century crusades become the background of which Walter Scott novel? (a)
Ivanhoe (b) Waverly (c) The Abbott (d) Talisman❓

23. Which Indian-born English writer's power-politics novel (1901), focusing on India and
Indian life, popularized the term 'the Great Game' referring to the political conflict between
Russia and Britain in Central Asia? (a) The Sacred Fount (b) Kim ✅(c) Erewhon Revisited (d)
Animal Farm

24. The first picaresque novel in English is (a) Moll Flanders (b) The Unfortunate Traveler
✅(C) Don Quixote (d) Tom Jones

25. From which earlier English blank verse five-act Senecan tragedy, Shakespeare draws for
his King Lear? (a) Gorboduc ✅(b) The Spanish Tragedy (c) Edward II (d) Tamburlaine

26. For which work was Arundhati Roy awarded the 2006 Sahitya Akademi Award which
she refused? (a) The End of Imagination (b) The Algebra of Infinite Justice ✅(c) Broken
Republic (d) The Greater Common Good

27. Ruth Prawer Jhabvala 1927-2013), the German-born writer settled in India, won two
Oscars, for her adaptations of EM Forster's novels A Room with a View and Howards End, and
the Booker Prize for her novel Heat and Dust. Another writer who has won both Booker and
Oscar is (a) E.M. Forster (b) Nayanthara Sahgal (c) Kian Desai (d) None✅�

28. Who invented the acronym 'MacSpaunday' to refer to the four Auden Generation poets?
(a) Stephen Spender (b) Roy Campbell (c) Philip Larkin (d) Dylan Thomas❓

29. Which Milton poem does Ransom rely on in his The World's Body to illustrate
'anonymity' as an essential condition of poetry? (a) On the Morning of Christ's Nativity (b)
Paradise Lost (c) Lycidas (d) Upon the Circumcision❓
30. To whom does the world seem an ―immense panorama of futility and anarchy‖? (a)
Pound (b) Eliot ✅(c) Joyce (d) Beckett

31. Which 1922 poem is hailed as "the primer of poetic modernism and the quintessential
statement of post-war despondency"? (a) Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening (b) The Red
Wheelbarrow (c) In a Station of the Metro (d) The Wasteland❓

32. The Kenyon Review which espoused New Criticism was edited by (a) John Crowe
Ransom (b) Cleanth Brooks (c) Allen Tate (d) Rene Wellek❓

33. Vorticism was Britain‘s answer to avant-garde movements like surrealism, dada, and
futurism. What was its journal called? (a) Granta (b) The Kenyon Review (c) The Partisan
Review (d) Blast

34. The author's alter ego, is a poet, philosopher, and physician whose life is disrupted by
the war and by his love for Lara, the wife of a revolutionary. Which Pasternak novel dwells on
this nutshell theme? (a) The Last Summer (b) Doctor Zhivago (c) Gulag Archipelago (d) The
Poor Folk

35. The irresistible Scarlett and the flashy, contemptuous Rhett are the most loved lovers of
the English speaking world since Romeo and Juliet. In which 20th century novel do they appear?
(a) The Great Gatsby (b) Wuthering Heights (c) Madam Bovary (d) Gone with the Wind

36. Which one of the following classic novels has d'Artagnan as the key character? (a) The
Three Musketeers (b) Ivanhoe (c) The Man Who Laughs (d) The Count of Monte Cristo

37. Who is 'the embittered eccentric jilted bride' in Great Expectations? (a) Estella (b) Miss
Havisham (c) Mrs. Sparsit (d) Lucie

38. Which Shakespeare romance has a Masque? (a) Cymbeline (b) A Winter's Tale (c) The
Tempest (d) Pericles

39. The 1986 novel "I'm Dying Laughing: The Humourist" by Australian novelist Christina
Stead is based on the life of which American novelist of communist leanings? (a) Margaret
Mitchell (b) Sylvia Plath (c) Kate Chopin (d) Emily Wilkes✅

40. Miles Franklin's semi-autobiographical novel on the exploits and adventures of four
generations of Delacys is (a) All That Swagger✅ (b) My Brilliant Career (c) Some Everyday
Folk and Dawn (d) Prelude to Waking

41. Which Australian feminist writer wrote under the pen-name "Brent of Bin Bin"? (a)
Debra Adelaide (b) Ada Cambridge (c) Miles Franklin (d) Traci Harding
42. Stella Prize is awarded annually for the best literary work by a woman of (a) England
(b) America (c) France (d) Australia✅

43. Which of the following novels is considered Australian poet, playwright and novelist
Marcus Clarke's (1846-1881) classic novelization of Australian 'convictism' (a) The
Melbournians (b) The Lust of Hate (c) The Making of Rachel Rowe (d) For the Term of His
Natural Life

44. "My blood boils in my own veins while I speak to you about him … And the terrible
thing is that … it is I myself who was the first to speak about this Shakespeare. I was the first
who showed to the French a few pearls which I had found in his enormous dunghill." (a)
Rousseau (b) Voltaire✅ (c) Locke (d) Congreve

45. Ques:- Margaret Hale is the central woman character in Elizabeth

Gaskell‘s…………..Ans:- North and South.

46. Ques:- Pip is a character in Dickens‘s…………….Ans:- Great Expectations

47. Ques:- Wuthering Heights is a novel by………………………Ans:- Emily Bronte

48. Ques:- Which novel of George Eliot, according to long, reaches a climax of her literary
power ?Ans:- Silas Marner

49. Ques:- Amours de Vayage (1849) is one of the best Known works of…Ans:- Arthur
Clough

50. Ques:- Aurora Leigh by E.B. Rrowing is better known as a/an…Ans:- Verse novel

51. Ques;-Who of following wrote The Critic as Artist ? Ans:- Oscar Wilde

52. Ques:- One of the plays George Bernard Shaw deals with the problem of phonetics and
pronunciation. Which of the following is that play ? Ans:- Pygmalion

53. Ques:- Disraeli‘s Young England Trilogy consists of Coningsby, Sybil and ……Ans:-
Tancred

54. Ques;- Macaulay served in india as a legal advisor to the Supreme Council from:Ans:-
1834 to 1838

55. Ques:- Who wrote Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde ? Ans:- R L Stevenson

56. Ques:- Matthew Arnold‘s Memorial Verses‘ mourns the death of: Ans:- Goethe, Byron
and Wordsworth

57. Ques:- Unto This Last is an unfinished series of articles on political economy which
appeared in The Cornhill Magazine. Who wrote these articles ? Ans:- John Ruskin
58. Ques:- The Oxford Movement led by the teachers at Oxford University was essentially
a……Ans:- Religious Movement

59. Ques:- Who succeeded Queen Victoria in 1901 ? Ans:- Edward 7

60. Ques:- In which work was Sherlock Holmes introduced in 1887 ? Ans:- A Study in
Scarlet

61. Ques:- Which of the plays of Bernard Shaw ridicules the popular romantic conception of
the professional solider‘s courage and incidentally the pretensions of aristocracy ? Ans:- Arms
and the Man

62. Ques:- ―Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold ;Mere anarchy is loosed upon the word,
―From which poem of W.B. Yeats have these lines taken ? Ans:- The Second Coming

63. Ques:- All plays of J.M. Synge were staged at …………..Ans:- Abbey Theatre

64. Ques:- Who of the following coined the term ‗ streams of consciousness‘ ? Ans:-William
James

65. Ques:- Who reduced the length of ―The Waste Land‖ drastically and brought to the
present stage ? Ans:- Ezra Pound

66. Ques:- The Fourth part of ―The Waste Land‖ is titled as ………Ans:- Death By Water

67. Ques:-Where from did Aldous Huxley borrow the title, ― Brave New World ―? Ans:- The
Tempest (Shakespeare

68. Ques:- In which of the following works of Virginia Woolf does the sex of the lead
character changes ? Ans:- Orlando

69. Ques:- Name the writer of the twentieth century who developed remarkable gifts of
military leadership in Arabia : Ans:- T.E. Lawrence

70. Ques:- The only play James joyce wrote is ………Ans:- Exiles

71. Ques:- The Driver‘s Seat, The public Image and Not To Disturb are novels by……Ans:-
Muriel Spark

72. Ques:- Which is the first volume of Doris Lessing‘s autobiography ? Ans:- Under My
Skin

73. Ques:- Whose painting does Auden refer to in ―Muses De Beaux Arts‖ ? Ans:- Breughal

74. Ques;- Name the poet whose The Hawk in the Rain and Lupercal express a rapt
fascination with animal energy and independence : Ans:- Ted Hughes
75. Ques:- Who is the protagonist in John Osborne‘s Look Back in Anger ? Ans:- Jimmy

76. Ques:- Of the following who was the product of The Royal Court Theatre ? Ans:- John
Arden

77. Who wrote Lolita ? Ans:- Vladimir Nobokov

78. Ques:- Which of the following is not a work of James Baldwin ? Ans:- Uncle Tom‘s
Children

79. Ques:- The Old Man and the Sea recounts the adventures of…… Ans:- Santiago

80. Ques:- The Price of Arthur Miller presents a family geud ……Ans:- Between two
brothers

81. Ques:- Which novel of Rabindranath Tagore makes a psychological study of its three
main characters- Nikhil, Bimla and Sandeep ? Ans:- The home and the World

82. Ques:- In 1917, Ananda K. Coomaraswamy joined the Museum of Fine Arts as the
Keeper of Indian Art at ………Ans;- Boston

83. Ques;- What is the name of Bakha,s sister in Anand‘s Untouchable ? Ans:- Sohini

84. Ques:- ‗Negative Capability‘ is a term associated with……… Ans:- Keats

85. Ques:- Panegyric is a formal written or oral composition………Ans:- Lauding a person

86. Ques:- Who advocated the use of ―Touchstone Method‘ ? Ans:- Arnold

87. Ques:- Milton composed Areopagitica in……………Ans:- Prose

88. Ques:- Which of the following is not written by Shakespeare ? Ans:- Love‘s Triumph
Through Callipolis

89. Ques:- Who said, ―Feminism at heart is a massive complaint, Lesbianism is the solution ―
? Ans:- Jill Johnson

90. Ques:- Who formed the ‗centre for contemporary cultural studies‘ at University of
Birmingham ?Ans:- Richard Hoggart

91. Ques:- The concept of ‗Negritude‘ is most associated with… Ans:- Aime Cesaire

92. Ques:- Everything is connected to everything else. ― is the first of the four laws of
ecology given by : Ans:- Barry Commoner

93. Ques:- Where is Chadra Tal lake ? Ans;- Central Lahaul in Lahaul Spiti
94. Ques:- Where river‘s tributaries are Baljedi and Budhil Streams ? Ans:- Ravi

95. Ques:- Which of the following tales of Chaucer deal with the Chivalric romance of
Palamon and Arcite ? Ans;- The Merchant‘s tale

96. Ques:- Whose tomb Chaucher,s pilgrims in The Canterbury Tales are going to visit ?
Ans:- Thomas Becket

97. Ques:- To whom did Chaucer dedicate his Troilus and Criseyde ? Ans:- John Wycliffe

98. Ques:- Who of the following was the first to suggest that Satan is the real hero of
Paradise lost ? Ans:- William Blake

99. Ques:- An ‗epithalamium‘ is a poem written to celebrate…………Ans:- Marriage

100. Forster‘s A Passage to India is set in …………Ans;- Chandrapore

101. Ques:- Who wrote the play The Return of Ulysser ? Ans:- Robert Bridges

102. Ques:- Evelina or A Young Lady‘s into the World published in 1778 was written
by……………….Ans:- Miss Burney (Frances Fanny)

103. Ques:- In which of the following plays does Hippolyta appear ? Ans:- A Midsummer
Night‘s Dream

104. Ques:- Who is the author of The Journal of the Plague year ? Ans:- Daniel Defoe

105. Ques:- How long did Robinson Crusoe live on the deserted island ? Ans:- A little over 28
years

106. Ques;- ‗Most friendship is feigning, most loving mere folly.‘These words occur
in………Ans:- As You Like It

107. Ques:- One of the friends of the writer of Utopia is also a character in it. Name him.
Ans:- Peter Giles

108. Ques:- Pope reissued the final version of The Rape of the lock after adding machinery of
sylph and clarissa‘s to its original version in ……Ans:- 1717

109. Ques:- Wessex, a fictitious place in England, i s invariably associated with one of the
important novelists of modern era. Name the novelist. Ans:- Thomas Hardy

110. Ques:- The Ossianic Poems which explore the world of Celtic antiquity were written
by……………. Ans:- Macpherson

111. Ques:- Shelley‘s The Cenci is a/an…………Ans:- Play

112. Ques:- Dickens caricatured utilitarian thinking with telling directness in his portrayal
of… Ans:- Thomas Gradgrind

113. Ques:- Which of the novelists does not belong to ―Campus Novelists‖ Group ? Ans:-
Anthony Powell

114. Ques:- Who was Samuel Johnson‘s biographer ? Ans:-Boswell

115. Ques:- Who wrote the Wealth of Nations ? Ans:- Adam Smith

116. Ques:- Who buys Henchard‘s wife in The Mayor of Casterbridge ? Ans:-Newson

117. Ques:- ―Beauty is truth, truth beauty‘-that is all.ye need to know on earth, and all ye need
to know,‖Name need ode where from these lines have been taken : Ans:- Ode on a Grecian Urn

118. Ques:-Porphyro and Madeline are lovers in…………Ans:- The Eve of St. Agnes

119. Ques:- ―I fall upon the thorns of life I BLEED ― In which poem of Shelley does this line
occur ? Ans:- Ode to the West Wind

120. Ques:- What is the other title of Mary Shelley,s Frankenstein ? Ans:- The Modern
Prometheus

121. Ques:- Mr. and Mrs. Bennet in Pride and Prejudice have…………….daughter(s). Ans:-
Five

122. Ques:- When Robert Southey was made the Poet Laureate ? Ans:- 1813.

123. Ques:- The polish mariner who presented colonialism as both brutal and brutalising in
many of his novels and stories was………Ans;- Joseph Conrad

124. Ques;- Name the subtitle of Thackeray,s Vanity Fair : Ans:- A Novel Without a Hero
Samuel Johnson‘s Dictionary of the English Language (1755) established many of the
conventions still found in dictionaries today. Johnson identified a core vocabulary of some
43,500 words, labeled each word‘s part of speech.

In 1854, Charles Wood prepared a despatch on an educational system for India. Considered the
"Magna Carta of English Education in. India", this document was the first comprehensive plan
for the spread of education in India. The original title of his revolt of Islam was : laon and
cythna ✅

A great essayist known ,as alpha of the plough : a.g. Gardiner ✅

Who among the following is a Catholic linguist, novelist and composer? (a) Lawrence Sterne
(b) Anthony Burgess ✅(c) Evelyn Waugh (d) Graham Greene

Time for a Tiger, The Enemy in the Blanket and Beds in the East form the three novels of
which Burgess trilogy? (a) Brunei trilogy (b) Malayan trilogy✅ (c) War trilogy (d) Home trilogy

Which non-fiction book by the American feminist poet Andrienne Rich (1929-2012) who
deserves credit for bringing "the oppression of women and lesbians to the forefront of poetic
discourse", examines the institution of motherhood as a socio-historic construct? (a) Blood,
Bread and Poetry (b) Of Woman Born ✅(c) Poetry and Commitment (d) On Lies, Secrets and
Silence

Who among the following is an American historical novelist specializing in epic fictional
biographies? (a) Margaret George✅ (b) Margaret Atwood (c) Margaret Mitchell (d) Margaret
Hall

Which of the following is a Man Booker recreating Henry VIII's Tudor England brutally and
acutely? (a) Wolf Hall ✅(b) Claudius (c) The Pillars of the Earth (d) The Confessions of Nat
Turner

Who among the following is often considered 'the grand dame of British crime writing'. (a)
Ruth Rendell✅ (b) Ruth Ware (c) Sara Waters (d) Zadie Smith

Marxist literary critic Fredric Jameson viewed which 2004 novel as a new, science fiction-
inflected variation on the historical novel now "defined by its relation to future fully as much as
to past. (a) White Teeth (b) Cloud Atlas (c) The Ocean at the End of the Lane (d) The Girl Next
Door❗

Which book by feminist poet Adrienne Rich (1971-2012), hailed as "contemporary America's
most powerful and distinctive poetic voice", examines the institution of motherhood as a socio-
historic construct? (a) On Lies, Secrets and Silence (b) Blood, Bread, and Poetry (c) A Human
Eye (d) Of Woman Born,❓

About which French philosopher and pioneering essayist does Woolf write about in The
Common Reader (First Series)? (a) Voltair (b) Henri Bergson (c) Montaigne (d) Romain
Tolland❓

Which of the following essays by Virginia Woolf is not autobiographical? (a) Reminiscences
(b) 22 Hyde Park Gate (c) A Sketch of the Past (d) How Should One Read a Book?❓

The first African American book, "Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral" (1773)
was written by an African woman enslaved in Boston; and her name was (a) Phillis Wheatley✅
(b) Harriet Beecher Stowe (c) Mary Prince (d) Mattie Jackson

Amit Chaudhari's fourth novel "A New World" dramatizes the

condition of a stranger in a familiar land. Reviewing this novel R.K. Narayan compares
Chaudhari to which Russian master of fiction and drama? (a) Tolstoy (b) Dostoevsky (c)
Chekhov✅ (d) Sholakov

Who among the following is not a campus novelist? (a) Martin Amis, ✅(b) Malcolm Bradbury,
(c) David Lodge (d) C.P. Snow.

Who among the following is characterized as the novelist of the excesses of late-capitalist
Western society, whose 1984 novel 'Money' sees currency notes as 'suicide notes'? (a) Julian
Barnes (b) Frederick Forsyth (c) Dorris Lessing (d) Martin Amis✅

Which Oxford Professor of Poetry has translated "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (2007)",
the 14th-century Middle English chivalric romance, into contemporary idiom for the seventh
edition Norton Anthology? (a) Geoffrey Hill (b) Simon Armitage✅ (c) Ruth Padel (d)
Christopher Ricks

Which book won for Arundhati Roy the 2006 Sahitya Academy Award? (a) The God of Small
Things (b) The Ministry of Utmost Happiness (c) The End of Imagination (d) The Algebra of
Infinite Justice✅

The term 'Pylon Poets' refers to poets of the (a) 1910s (b) 1920s (c) 1930s (d) 1940s( Option C
is the right answer. The group (also called Oxford poets) comprises important poets of the
second generation of modernism such as W. H. Auden, Louis MacNeice, C. Day Lewis, Stephen
Spender and John Betjeman. Named after the Spender poem called The Pylons (1933), the
nickname Pylon Poets identifies the group with their use of imagery derived from industry and
technology under the influence of the metaphysical poetry of John Donne. Donne's ‗scientific‘
images were much admired by T. S. Eliot, who, in turn, influenced Auden and Spender in
particular. A more immediate influence is probably Marxist materialism, which affected the
group to a greater or lesser degree.�

Who among the following poets wrote under the pen name Nicholas Blake? (a) W.H. Auden (b)
Stephen Spender (c) C. Day Lewis✅ (d) Louis MacNeice

Who among the following was a poet of no political leanings? (a) W.H. Auden (b) Stephen
Spender (c) C. Day Lewis (d) Louis MacNice✅

She belongs to the first generation of Indian novelists who wrote about the plight of the rural
peasantry and the urban middle-class, immigration and interracial relationships. The Indian-
English woman writer we are talking about is (a) Anita Desai (b) Sashi Deshpande (c) Kamala
Markandeya✅ (d) Manju Kapur

Who defined Commonwealth Literature as ―that body of writing created in the English
language, by persons who are not themselves white Britons, or Irish, or citizens of the United
States of America.‖ (a) Bill Ashcroft (b) Gayati Spivak (c) Salmon Rushdie (d) Shashi
Tharoor❓

Which of the following is a journal devoted to Feminist cultural studies? (a) Frontiers (b)
Feminist Theory (c) Gender and Language (d) Differences✅

Which Victorian character lends the symbolism of the 'madwoman' in the title The Madwoman
in the Attic? (a) Miss Havisham (b) Madam Bovary (c) Bertha Rochester✅ (d) Anne Catherick

Which work by Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar explores Victorian literature from feminist
perspective? (a) The Angel in the House (b) The Madwoman in the Attic✅ (c) A Literature of
their Own (d) Professions for Women

Elaine Showalter's 1977 book "A Literature of Their Own" is exclusively devoted to women
novelists of (a) Britain from Bronte to Lessing✅ (b) America from 1800 (c) both England and
America from 1800 (d) Commonwealth and Continental countries from 1800

―Demand me nothing. What I know I know‖ – from Othello, is considered one of the great exit
lines in Shakespeare canon. The speaker of the line in the play is (a) Othello (b) Iago ✅(c)
Bianca (d) Emilia

The 20th century German-born Nobel winning painter-poet-novelist who dwelt chiefly on the
theme of "individual's search for authenticity, self-knowledge and spirituality" is (a) Thomas
Mann (b) Andre Gide (c) Gunter Grass (d) Hermann Hesse✅

The philosopher who spoke of the 'death of god' is (a) Socrates (b) Libnitz (c) Nietzsche ✅(d)
Schiller
 Who among the following is a structuralist narratologist? (a) Jonathan Culler (b) Judith Butler
(c) Gerard Genette ✅(d) Foucault

When the narrator tells the story in the third person limited by what thought, felt and
experienced by a single character of a few characters, the point of view is (a) stream of
consciousness ✅(b) omniscient (c) intrusive (d) limited

Which one of the following is a play by Tennyson? (a) Enoch Garden (b) The Foresters (c) The
Deserted House (d) St. Simeon Stylites❓

Which Tennyson poem is subtitled 'A Monodrama'? (a) Ulysses (b) The Lotos Eaters (c) Maud
✅(d) Mariana

Which serio-comic poem by Tennyson speaks about a ladies academy and 'the new woman'? (a)
The Lady of Shalott (b) The Princess (c) The Palace of Art (d) Enone❓

Which one of the following is not a 'graveyard school' poem? (a) Night-Piece on Death (b) The
Grave (c) Night Thoughts (d) Home They Brought Her Warrior Dead❓

Which among the following is a founding text of eco-criticism? (a) The Comedy of Survival:
Studies in Literary Ecology (b) Ecocriticism (c) The Truth of Ecology: Nature, Culture, and
Literature (d) The Cambridge Introduction to Literature and the Environment❗

Ecocriticism originated as an idea known as (a) green cultural studies (b) ecopoetics (c)
environmental literary criticism (d) literary ecology✅

The folklore element in Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice is (a) pound of flesh ✅(b)
casket choice (c) elopement (d) Jew baiting

What literary effort is Jacob Grimm, the renowned linguist, is today admired for? (a) Grimm's
Law ✅(b) Fairy Tales (c) Spy Fiction (d) German Gothic fiction

Which 19th century German literary giant reworked the Faust legend into a two-part play of
global appeal ? (a) Lessing (b) Goethe✅ (c) Thomas Mann (d) Rilke

The Faust legend is a myth that dates back to (a) the classical Greek period (b) the ancient
Roman History (c) the medieval period✅ (d) the Renaissance period.

What metaphor does Keats use for the silence of the Grecian Urn? (a) Sylvan historian (b)
foster-child of slow time (c) unravished bride of quietness✅ (d) leaf-fringed legend

Who among the following is NOT an American Hero? (a) Captain Ahab (b) Huck Finn (c)
Arthur Gordon Pym (d) Michael Henchard✅
 The quarterly journal the transcendentalists published with Emerson as editor was (a) The Dial
✅(b) The Kenyon Review (c) The Concord (d) The Brook Farm Gazette

The American literary movement that emerged as a reaction against 18th century rationalism
was (a) Mysticism (b) Abolitionist Movement (c) Concord Movement (d) Transcendentalism✅

Which romantic essayist wrote on murder as a fine art? (a) Hazlitt (b) Lamb (c) De Quincey
✅(d) Emerson

Granta is a journal founded by the students of the University of (a) Oxford (b) Cambridge
✅(c) Columbia (d) Yale

Which of the following poems is unfinished? (a) Tintern Abbey (b) Lucy Gray (c) Frost at
Midnight (d) Christabel✅

"A sadder and wiser man .He rose the morrow morn" Who? (a) The Leech Gatherer (b)
Michael (c) The Ancient Mariner ✅(d) Mac Flecknoe

Which English grammarian wrote his grammar book in the epistolary form? (a) Palmer (b) P.C.
Wren (c) N. Martin (d) William Cobbett✅

The journey of Bunyan's hero Christian is from 'This World to (a) that which is to come ✅(b)
Paradise (c) Purgatario (d) the other

Bunyan's 'Grace Abounding' (1666) is considered his (a) spiritual autobiography✅ (b)
testament of faith (c) attempt to define the good and the bad (d) vision of the christian world yet
to be born

In which of his poems Milton discusses freedom, free will and individual choice? (a) Paradise
Regained (b) Lycidas (c) Paradise Lost✅ (d) Samson Agonistes

"They also serve who only stand and wait." Which poem ends with this line? (a) Good Morrow
(b) The Dunciad (c) On His Blindness ✅(d) Lycidas

Edward Albee's play about the existentially fraught relationship between a middle-aged
professor and his wife is (a) Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?✅ (b) The Lady from Dubuque (c)
The Man Who Had Three Arms (d) Three Tall Women

Which Edward Albee play is about an intense encounter between two strangers on a park-bench
in New York City? (a) Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (b) The Zoo Story ✅(c) A Delicate
Balance (d) Seascape
 The 1846 novel 'Poor Folk' is the debut work of which Russian literary giant? (a) Tolstoy (b)
Gogol (c) Pushkin (d) Dostoevsky✅

In his Gulliver's Travels, Swift satirizes human beings magnifying them into (a) Lilliputians (b)
Brobdingnagians ✅(c) Houyhnhnms (d) Glubbdubdribians

Which of the following satires is a repudiation of the high praise Southey lavished on King
George III? (a) Don Juan (b) The Vision of Judgement✅ (c) The Way of All Flesh (d) Erewhon

The title of which book in Shashi Tharoor's The Great Indian Novel alludes to Rushdie's title,
Midnight's Children? (a) Sixth (b) Seventh (c) Eighth ✅(d) Nineth

Which of the following is NOT a partition novel? (a) Train to Pakistan (b) Clear Light of the
Day (c) Midnight's Children (d) The Great Indian Novel✅

"Beautiful" - Whose last word was this? (a) Virginia Woolf (b) Keats (c) Charlotte Bronte (d)
Barrett Browning✅

Who is England's 'Northamptonshire Peasant Poet'? (a) Thomson (b) Crabbe (c) Clare✅ (d)
Collins

Who among the following 19th century poets is today hailed as 'the greatest proletarian poet of
England'? (a) Crabbe (b) Byron (c) Wilde (d) Clare✅

John Clare (1793-1864) was a poet of (a) the English urban life (b) the English country side✅
(c) the human predicament (d) God's glory

Which of the following is a sonnet by Keats? (a) Sleep and Poetry (b) When I have fears that I
may cease to be ✅(c) The Curse of Kehama (d) Pleasures of Hope

Retreat to what Vaughan longs for in his poem The Retreat? (a) angel infancy ✅(b) morbid
youth (c) heavenly home (d) blissful paradise

Who is the 'busy old fool' in Donne's poem The Sun Rising? (a) Moon (b) child (c) old man (d)
Sun✅

"I caught this morning morning's minion" - In this line from Hopkin's The Windover who is the
'morning's minion'? (a) sun (b) falcon✅ (c) breeze (d) dew

Whick English poet is associated with 'Terrible Sonnets'? (a) W.B. Yeats (b) Donne (c)
Hopkins ✅(d) Dylan Thomas
 In which poem does Pope present essayist Addison as Atticus? (a) Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot ✅
(b) Mac Flecknoe (c) Dunciard (d) An Essay on Man

In Lycidas, what does "Camus, reverend Sire,"(line 103) represent? (a) pagan spirituality (b)
Christian Enlightenment (c) Cambridge University✅ (c) Roman God

Intermixing gods and saints, nymphs and angels, which Miltom poem blends the pagan and the
christian? (a) Paradise Lost (b) Paradise Regained (c) Lycidas✅ (d) The Passion

A post-Tennyson poet laureate, little remembered today, won the postion for political rather
than poetical reasons. The so-called poet is (a) Nahum Tate✅ (b) John Masefield (c) Robert
Bridges (d) Alfred Austin

Which stamp-vendor won doctorate from Oxford and rose to be the poet-laureate of England?
(a) Southey (b) Bridges (c) Betjeman (d) Wordsworth✅

Dryden's Mac Flecknoe is a Varronian satire while Orwell's Animal Farm is a (a) Juvanalian
Satire✅ (b) Horatian Satire (c) Menippean Satire (d) none of these

Which of the following words describe the prevailing attitude of High-Modern Literature?
Skeptical

2. Which Welsh poet wrote ―Under Milk Wood?‖ Dylan Thomas

4. Who wrote ―The Hound of the Baskervilles?‖Arthur Conan Doyle

5. Wlliam Shakespeare is not the author of: White Devil

6. _____is a late 20th century play written by a woman? Camille

7. Which of the following writers wrote historical novels? Sir Walter Scott and Maria Edgeworth

9. Which of the following are Thomas Hardy books? The Poor Man and the Lady and The
Return of Native

11. Who wrote the poems, ―On death‖ and ―Women, Wine, and Snuff?‖John Keats

12. ―Of Man‘s first disobedience, and the fruit Of that forbidden tree whose mortal taste Brought
death into the world, and all our woe, With loss of Eden.‖This is an extract from:Paradise
Regained

13. William Shakespeare was born in the year:1564

15. Who wrote ‗The Winter‘s Tale?‘ William Shakespeare

16.Which poem ends ‗I shall but love thee better after death‘? How do I love thee
17. Which poet is considered a national hero in Greece? Lord Byron

18. Which kind of poem is Edward Lear associated with? Nonsense

19. In coleridge‘s poem ‗The rime of the Ancient Mariner‘where were the three gallants going?
A wedding

20. Harold Nicholson described which poet as ‗Very yellow and glum. Perfect manners‘? T. S.
Elliot

21. What was strange about Emily Dickinson? She rarely left home

22. Rupert Brooke wrote his poetry during which conflict? First World War

23. Which Poet Laureatewrote about a church mouse? Betjeman

24. Which American writer published ‗A brave and startling truth‘ in 1996: Maya Angelou

25. Who wrote about the idyllic ‗Isle of Innisfree‘? W. B. Yeats

26.Sylvia Plath married which English poet? Hughes

27. Carl Sandburg ‗Planked whitefish‘ contains what kind of imagery? War

28. Which influential American poet was born in Long Island in 1819? Walt Whitman

29. In 1960 ‗The Colossus‘ was the first book of poems published by which poetess? Sylvia
Plath

305. In his poem Kipling said ‗If you can meet with triumph and . . . . . . . . . . ‗? Disaster

31. Which of the following is not a literary device used for aesthetic effect in poetry? Grammar

32. True or false: Writing predates poetry. False

33. What is the earliest surviving European poem? The Homeric epic

34. Which of the following is not a poetic tradition? The Occult

35. What is the study of poetry‘s meter and form called? Prosody

36.Shakespeare composed much of his plays in what sort of verse? Iambic pentameter

37. Which poet invented the concept of the variable foot in poetry? William Carlos Williams

38. Who wrote this famous line: ‗Shall I compare thee to a summer‘s day/ Thou art more lovely
and more temperate…‘ Shakespeare

39. From what century does the poetic form the folk ballad date? The 12th
40. From which of Shakespeare‘s plays is this famous line: ‗Did my heart love til now?/
Forswear it, sight/ For I never saw a true beauty until this night‘ Romeo and Juliet

41. What is a poem called whose first letters of each line spell out a word? Acrostic

42. Auld Lang Syne is a famous poem by whom? Robert Burns

43. How has Stephen Dunn been described in ‗the Oxford Companion to 20th Century Poetry? A
poet of middleness

44. ‗The Cambridge school‘ refers to a group who emerged when? The 1960′s

45. Margaret Atwood was born in which Canadian city? Ottowa

46.How did W. H. Auden describe poetry? A game of knowledge

47. Sassoon and Brooke wrote whatt kind of poetry? War poems

48. Where did T. S. Eliot spend most of his childhood? St Louis

49. Ted Hughes was married to which American poetess? Sylvia Plath

50. How old was Rupert Brooke at the time of his death? 28

: List of Elegies:

1. Adonais - Shelley (death of Keats)

2. Astrophel - Sidney (death of Spencer)

3.In Memoriam - Tennyson ( death of Arthur Henry Hallam)

4. Thyrsis - Matthew Arnold ( death of

Arthur Hugh Clough)

5. On my first sonne - Ben Johnson ( death of his son)

6. When Licas lost in the doria bloomed- Walt Whitman ( death of Lincoln)

7. In Memory of W. B Yeats - W. H Auden

8. Rugby Chapel - Matthew Arnold ( death of his father)

9. Memorial verses - Mathew Arnold

10. Wordsworth's grave - William Watson

11. Heine's grave - Matthew Arnold

12. Elegy written in the country churchyard - Thomas Gray ( loss of faith)

13. Meditation upon death ( Thanatopsis )- William Cullen Bryant

14. O Captain My captain - Walt Whitman ( death of Lincoln )

15. Elegy on his Cat - Joachim Du Belly.

1. Which among these is considered as the first Australian novel? a) Henry Savery‘s Quintus
Servinton.

2. "The doubleness of the Australian experience" is a term given by: b) Judith Wright

3. A famous novel by Thomas Keneally which is about an Indigenous Australian bushman set
on a mission of revenge: d) The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith

4. A selection of poems written by Robert Southey in which he depicted the stories of

transported convicts in New South Wales. a) "Botany Bay Eclogues"

5. The credit of being the first Australian novel written by a woman goes to: b) The Guardian: a
tale

6. An Australian literary genre of semi-autobiographical writing about the discontent youth

living in suburbs : c) Grunge Lit.

7. True History of the Kelly Gang, a Booker Prize winner about the famous Australian
bushranger and Outlaw is penned by a very famous expatriate Australian author: d) Peter Carey

8. This novel by the first Australian to win the Noble Prize, Patrick White, is about his
experience as a jackaroo:

a) Happy Valley

9. A nationalistic Australian literary movement of the 1930s to mid-1940s to promote native

ideas and traditions, especially in literature. b) Jindyworobak movement

10. The successful production of which play is considered as "the birth of Australian Drama":
c) Summer of the Seventeenth Doll

11. A classic of modern Australian literature, this novel by Helen Garner depicts her own
tumultuous life: a) Monkey Grip

Some Mcqs from chaucer & prologue:�☺����

1) Who introduced the heroic couplet into English? Ans: Chaucer (in the Legend of Good
Women)

2) Who wrote the Book of Duchess? Ans: Chaucer

3) Who is referred to as ‗fusion tunic‘? Ans: Knight

4) Madame Eglantine also known as? Ans: Prioress

5) Father of English poetry is? Ans: Chaucer

6) Whose name is Huberd? Ans: Friar

7) Who is described as ‗Epicurus Son‘? Ans: Franklin

8) During Chaucer‘s period medicine was connected with: Ans: Astronomy

9) Who called Chaucer as the father of English Poetry? Ans: Dryden

10) How many Pilgrims are there in Canterbury Tales? Ans: 30 (including Chaucer)

11) Which is the first in Canterbury Tales? Ans: The Knight‘s Tale

12) The Pilgrims went for a pilgrimage to Canterbury in the month of: Ans: April

13) 29 Pilgrims came to Tabard Inn at: Ans: Early in the morning

14) How many battle were fought by knight? Ans: 10

15) What is the name of the nun? Ans: Madame Eglantine

16) The Nun speaks ___ fluently: Ans: French

17) The young Squire who appears in the Canterbury Tales is the son of ___ Ans: The Knight

18) The Yeoman attended on or served whom? Ans: The Knight

19) Who is fond of hunting? Ans: The Monk

20) A sailor appears in the prologue to Canterbury Tale. The sailor ship name was: Ans:
Maudelayne

21) Who was deaf among the following? Ans: Wife of Bath

22) How many times Wife of bath married? Ans: 5 times

23) How many times Wife of bath went to Jerusalem? Ans: 3 times
24) Which are the tales in ―Canterbury Tales‖ were written in Prose? Ans: The Parson‘s Tale
and Melibus Tale

25) What are the tales told by Chaucer? Ans: The Tale of Sir Thopas and The Tale of Melibee

26) Which is the longest tale? Ans: Parson‘s Tale

27) The Shortest tale is? Ans: Yeoman ????

28) Who was Parson‘s brother? Ans: Plowman

29) Who always rode last in the group of pilgrims? Ans: Reeve (He is a Carpenter)

30) The pilgrims Stayed at: Ans: Tabard Inn

31) The host asked the pilgrims to tell __ stories when they go to Canterbury: Ans: Two

32) Who proposed that every pilgrim should tell two stories? Ans: The Host

33) Who opposed the proposal of the Host? Ans: No one

34) The Pilgrims started their pilgrimage at:Ans: Morning

35) ―Therefore he loved Gold in special‖. The word ‗he‘ refers to whom? Ans: The Doctor

36) Number of pilgrims including the narration or in the prologue conterbury tales are: Ans: 30

37) How many completed tales are there in the Canterbury Tales? Ans: 24

38) What type of Dialect Chaucer used in his work? Ans: East Midland Dialect

39) Why are the pilgrims going to Canterbury? Ans: To worship the relics of Saint Thomas
Becket

40) What does the Squire wear? Ans: Cloth embroidered with flowers

41) Who marries Emelye in the Knight‘s Tale? Ans: Palamon

42) According to the Wife of Bath, what do women most desire? Ans: Sovereignty over their
husbands

43) What does Chanticleer dream? Ans: That he will be taken away by an orange, houndlike
creature

44) Who are the three men searching for in the Pardoner‘s Tale? Ans: Death

45) Who is branded by a red-hot poker in the Miller‘s Tale? Ans: Nicholas

46) Who gives the brand to the Nicholas? Ans: Absolon

47) Which of the following tales is a fabliau? Ans: The Miller‘s Tale

48) Which pilgrim has a forked beard? Ans: The Merchant

49) What is the moral of the Nun‘s Priest‘s Tale? Ans: Never trust a flatterer.

50) What is the Wife of Bath‘s Prologue about? Ans: Her life with her five different husbands

51) When does The Canterbury Tales take place? Ans: In the late fourteenth century

52) For which social classes did Chaucer write? Ans: All levels of society

53) What was Chaucer‘s profession? Ans: Civil servant

54) How many Canterbury Tales are there? Ans: 24

55) What is a romance? Ans: A story of knights, ladies, quests, and love

56) Which tale qualifies as part of a medieval sermon? Ans: The Pardoner‘s Tale

57) Which pilgrims are most richly attired? Ans: Wife of Bath, Squire, Monk, Physician,
Franklin

58) Which tales take place in the Orient? Ans: The Man of Law‘s Tale and the Squire‘s Tale

59) Which pilgrim carries a brooch inscribed with Latin words meaning ―Love Conquers All‖?
Ans: The Prioress

60) At what time of year does the pilgrimage take place? Ans: In the height of spring

61) Which characters are connected to the Church? Ans: The Prioress, the Monk, the Friar, the
Summoner, and the Pardoner

62) Which tale is about a talking falcon? Ans: The Squire‘s Tale

63) Which tales are about the patient suffering of women? Ans: The Man of Law‘s Tale (Exile
of Custance), the Clerk‘s Tale (Ordeal of Griselda), and the Physician‘s Tale (Mercy killing of
Virginia)

64) Why does the Pardoner upset the Host? Ans: The Pardoner tries to sell indulgences to the
pilgrims, after he has already told them that he cheats people.

65) In which year Chaucer wrote Canterbury Tales? Ans: 1387 to 1400

66) Who did Arcite who won the fight with Palamon die? Ans: He fell from the Horse Riding

67) Who imprisoned Arcite and Palamon? Ans: Theseus, the duke of Athens
68) The characters John and Alayn appear in the story of ___ Ans: The Reeve‘s Tale

69) The Perkyn who drinks heavily and stays with his friend‘s house and his wife who is a
prostitute appears in the tale of ___ Ans: The Cook‘s Tales

70) Who had Ulcer on his face? Ans: The Cook

71) The conversion of muslims to chrisitians takes place in the story of ___ Ans: The Man of
Law‘s Tale.

72) What is the name of the mother of Sultan who is killed by her Sultan in the tale of the man
of Law? Ans: Hermengyld

73) What is the name of the mother of Alla, the King of Northumberland who is killed by her
son Alla? Ans: Donegild

74) Who is the son born to All and Custance? Ans: Mauricius

75) How many lines the prologue of Canterbury Tales has? Ans: 858 lines

76) Which are the unfinished Tales of Canterbury Tales? Ans: The Cook‘s Tale and Squire‘s
Tale

77) Who is Mrs. Sweetbriar? Ans: Madame Eglantine

78) The clerk of oxford had twenty books which were written by ____ Ans: Aristotle

79) Who says of Chaucer ―Here is God‘s Plenty‖? Ans: Dryden

80) Who criticizes Canterbury Tales as Portrait Gallary? Ans: Dryden

81) Who says of Chaucer, ―He must have been a man of most wonderful comprehensive soul?
Ans: Dryden

82) Who called Chaucer as the father of English poetry? Ans: Dryden

83) Who called Chaucer as the father of our splendid English Poetry? Ans: Matthew Arnold

84) Who called Chaucer as a perpetual fountain of good sense? Ans: Matthew Arnold

85) Who says of Chaucer, ―He will be read far more generally than he is read now‖ Ans:
Matthew Arnold

86) Who said that Chaucer lacks high seriousness? Ans: Matthew Arnold

English Literature Answers and Questions

1. The Hundred Years‘ War was fought between – England and France

2.Wat Tyler‘s Rebellion took place in - 1381

3. Chaucer‘s Canterbury Tales belongs to – 3rd Period of Chaucer‘s literary career

4. Norman Conquest took place in – 1066 (11th Century)

5. Wyclif‘s Bible was published in – 1380

6. William Langland‘s The Vision of William concerning Piers the Plowman was written in –
1362-90

7. The Travels of Sir John Maundeville was published in - 1400

8. The Hundred Years‘ War was begun in – 1338 (14th Century)

9.Chaucer lived during the reigns of – Edward III, Richard II and Henry IV

10. Chaucer‘s Canterbury Tales was written in – 1385 onwards

11. The War of Roses was fought between – The House of York and the House of Lancaster

12. The War of Roses was fought during the period – 1455-86

13. Thomas Malory‘s Morte De Arthur was written in – 1470 (published in 1485)

14. Caxton‘s Printing Press was set up in – 1485

15. Thomas More‘s Utopia was published in – 1516 (Latin), 1551 (English)

16. The First English Comedy, Roister Doister was written in – 1550 Nicholas Udall

17. Roister Doister was written by – Nicholas Udall

18. The First English Tragedy, Gorboduc was written in – 1561

19. Gorboduc was written by – Thomas Sackville, Lord of Buckhurst & Thomas Norton

20. Tottel‘s Miscellancy was published in - 1557

21. Queen Elizabeth ascended the throne of England in – 1558

22. Globe Theatre was built in – 1599

23. The Elizabethan Age covers the period – 1558-1602

24. The leader of University Wits was – Christopher Marlowe

25. Marlowe‘s first tragedy was – Tamburlaine the Great (1587)

26. Shakespeare wrote – 37 plays

27. Dryden‘s All for Love is based on Shakespeare‘s – Antony and Cleopatra

28. Shakespeare‘s Sonnets were published in – 1609

29. The hero of Spenser‘s Faerie Queene is - King Arthur

30. Spenser‘s Faerie Queene is dedicated to – Queen Elizabeth

31. Spenser dedicated his Shephearde‘s Calendar to – Philip Sydney

32. John Lyly‘s Euphues, the Anatomy of Wit was published in 1579 and was contemporary
with – Shepheardes Calender.

33. White Devil and Duchess of Malfi were written by – John Webester

34. Ben Jonson‘s first play Every Man in his Humour was published in – 1598

35. Ben Jonson is known for his – Comedy of Humours

36. Ben Jonson‘s play written wholly in prose – Bartholomew Fair

37. Bacon‘s essays are written in – Aphoristic style

38. Bacon wrote essays in all – 106 essays (1st, 2nd, 3rd Edition – 10, 38, 58 essays)

39. Authorised version of the Bible - 1611

40. The leader of Metaphysical School of Poets was – Henery Vaughan

41. The term ‗Augustan‘ was first applied to school of Poets by – Dr. Johnson

42. The intellectual father of French Revolution – Rousseau

43. Lyrical Ballads was published in – 1798

44. The leader of the Pre-Raphaelite in England was – D.G. Rossetti

45.Pope‘s Rape of the Lock contains – Five Cantos

46. A Ballad stanza generally contains – Four lines

47. The phrase ‗Stream of Consciousness‘ is associated with – James Joyce

48. The Hero of Homer‘s Iliad is – Achilles

49. The founder of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood in England – William Holman Hunt

50.The originator of the Oxford Movement was – John Keble

Who is believed to be the pioneer of the so called New Criticism? A. John Crowe Ransom✅

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" Poetry for Shelley takes the place of Religion" who said? D. Arnold✅

[11:44 AM, 1/25/2019] Sadavel.k: "Where they burn books, they will also ultimately burn
people." - The German Jewish writer who wrote so is (a) Goethe (b) Herman Hesse (c) Thomas
Mann (d) Heinrich Heine✅

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1.Who was King of England in Becket's time? Henry II

2.What position does Thomas hold at the time of his murder? Archbishop

3.What position has Thomas held in the past? Chancellor

4.Where has Thomas been before the play starts? France

5.How long has Thomas been gone when he returns? Seven years

6.Where is the cathedral? Canterbury

7.Who is in the Chorus? Women

8.Why did Eliot write this play? He was commissioned for a festival.

9.What year was the play first performed? 1935

10.Why has the Chorus gathered at the top of the play? They sense something bad is going to
happen.

11.How can one best describe the Chorus's attitude at the top of the play? Pessimistic

12.How does the Chorus feel about Thomas's return? Worried

13.What is the First Priest like? Worried

14.What is the Second Priest like? Pragmatic

15.What is the Third Priest like? Patient

16.What medieval image suggests patience? Wheel

17.In the image of the "wheel," who sits at the center?God

18.Who brings news of Thomas's return? Herald

19.Which of the following is NOT a subject of political disagreement between the king and
Thomas? Alms for the poor

20.Why is the Herald worried about Thomas's return? Violence might follow.

21.What is Thomas's main flaw? Pride

22.Which of the following is NOT a powerful class in English politics in the play? Businessmen

23.How does the Chorus describe their lives in Part I? Living and partly living"

24.For what does the Second Priest chide the Chorus in Part I? For being worried about Becket's
return.

25.What are the two philosophies that Becket juxtaposes in terms of the Chorus? Acting and
Suffering

1. Who wrote "Discourse Concerning Satire"? John Dryden

2. Who is addressed as "this sanguine coward, this bedpresser"?Falstaff

3. The term "golden age" is derived from ____.Hesoid's "Works and Days"

4. __ is a term applied to language which is smooth, pleasant and musical to the ear.Euphony

5. Who wrote "The Two April Mornings"?William Wordsworth

6. __ is written in dramatic form, intended by the author to be read rather than to be performed.
Closet drama

7. Who wrote "A Song from Shakespeare's Cymbeline"?William Collins

8. What does the term "fin de siecle" mean?End of the century

9. The concept of self-sufficiency of an aesthetic object was proposed in ___.Immanuel Kant's

"Critique of Aesthetic Judgment"

10. What is the feminine form of 'confidant'? Confidante

Who authored Prison and Chocolate Cake? Nayantara Sahgal

The book The Songlines by Bruce Chatwin deals with the aboriginal people of: Australia

3. Who has written the poem ‗Red Wheelbarrow‘? William Carlos William
4. ‗As civilisation advances, poetry almost necessarily declines‘ – Who said this about epic
poetry? Macaulay

. Who is Thyrsis in the poem of the same name written by Arnold?

A) Arthur Hugh Clough B) P B Shelley C) John Keats D) Arthur Hallam

6. Aristotle argues that the soul of tragedy is: Plot

The concept of ‗hegemony‘ was introduced by: Antonio Gramsci

8. The famous work Culture and Societyis authored by:Raymond Williams

Who coined the phrase ―Egotistical Subline‖? John Keats

Wolfgang Iser‘s name is associated with: Reader-Response Criticism

Who is the writer of the essay, ―The Laugh of Medusa‖? Helene Cixous

―The empire writes back‖ was the phrase used by one of the following writers: Salman Rushdie

In which form of poetry, is the speaker imagined to be addressing a silent listener? Dramatic
Monologue

14.Sir Philip Sidney employs......rhetoric as a tool to make his argument. Forensic

The last six lines of a Petrarchan Sonnet are called: sestet

1.After his wife s death R.Browning was published.....? Dramatic_Persona

2.Which work of R .Browning was published on the day of his death ...? Asolando

3.In which work of Tennyson, we have found ' I do forgive him and they slept soundly ...' ?
Sea_Dream

4.Fault Lines a memoir is authored by ... M_Alexander

5.How many sonnet s was included in the work' Sonnet s from the Portuguese...? 44

6.Which of the following plays is a dramatization of ' Feathertop' ...? The_Scarecrow

7.O' Neil experimented a stream of conscienceness technique in his ...? Strange_Interlude

8.Which language became the official language in England after Norman Conquest ...? French

9.Which among the following are not the work done by Samuel Richardson? Moll_Flanders

10.Which dialect became the standard English by the time of Chaucer...? east_midland
11.St . Pauls school was established to serve as a model school for the teaching of ...?
Latin_&_Greek

12.Byculla Boy is a novel by ..A.Banker

13.The character of Robin Hood in Ballad is presented...? as_a friend of the poor

14.Which work of R.Browning was based on the life of the Physician...? Paracelus

15.Who for the first time discriminated between imagination and fancy..? S_T_Coleridge

16.The chief characteristic of the Renaissance ....? Emphasis_on_Humanism

17.What is ' Maud ' in Tennysons poem ( Maud ) ...? a_girl

18.After his wife's death R. Browning published.....? Dramatic_Persona

19.In which work of Tennyson, we have found ' I do forgive him and they slept soundly ...' ?
Sea_Dream

20.' Poems by Two Brothers ' by Tennyson was written by ...? Three_person

Literary Theory

1. The New Critics were: Formalist critics

2. What approach to literary criticism requires the critic to know about the author's life and
times? Historical

3. Formalist critics believe that the value of a work cannot be determined by the author's
intention. What term do they use when speaking of this belief? The intentional fallacy

4. Who originated the term "objective correlative," which is often used in formalist criticism?

T.S. Eliot

5. In a Freudian approach to literature, concave images are usually seen as: Evidence of an
Oedipus complex

6. He was an influential force in archetypal criticism. Jung

7. Seven is an archetype associated with: Perfection

8. This feminist critic proposed that all female characters in literature are in at least one of the
following stages of development: the feminine, feminist, or female stage. Elaine Showalter
9. A critic argues that in John Milton's "Samson Agonistes," the shearing of Samson's locks is
symbolic of his castration at the hands of Delilah. What kind of critical approach is this critic
using? Psychological approach

10. One archetype in literature is the scapegoat. Which of these literary characters serves that
purpose? Ophelia

11. One of the disadvantages of this school of criticism is that it tends to make readings too
subjective. Formalist Criticism

12. This literary critic coined the term "fancy." Samuel Taylor Coleridge

13. Michael Foucault was the major practitioner of this school of criticism. Structuralism

14. This critical approach assumes that language does not refer to any external reality. It can
assert several, contradictory interpretations of one text. Deconstructionism

15. A critic examining John Milton's "Paradise Lost" focuses on the physical description of the
Garden of Eden, on the symbols of hands, seed, and flower, and on the characters of Adam, Eve,
Satan, and God. He pays special attention to the epic similes and metaphors and the point of
view from which the tale is being told. He looks for meaning in the text itself, and does not refer
to any biography of Milton. He is most likely a __ critic. Formalist

16. This literary critic warned: "We must remember that the greater part of our current reading
matter is written for us by people who have no real belief in a supernatural order . . . And the
greater part . . . is coming to be written by people who not only have no such belief, but are even
ignorant of the fact that there are still people in the world so 'backward' or so 'eccentric' as to
continue to believe." T.S. Eliot

17. A critic of Thomas Otway's "Venice Preserv'd" wishes to know why the play's conspirators,
despite the horrible, bloody details of their obviously brutish plan, are portrayed in a sympathetic
light. She examines the author's life and times and discovers that there are obvious similarities
between the conspiracy in the play and the Popish Plot. She is most likely a ___ critic. Historical

18. This poet might be described as a moral or philosophical critic for arguing that works must
have "high seriousness." Matthew Arnold

For about 30 years, who among the following was Barthes's friend Pulitzer winning poet-
translator? (a) Stephen Heath (b) Richard Howard ✅(c) Richard Miller (d) Annette Lavers

Through a structural analysis of Balzac's which story Barthes demonstrates the functioning of
different codes of meaning in his 1970 'essai' S/Z ? (a) Gambara (b) La Bourse (c) Z. Marcas (d)
Sarrasine✅
 What according to Barthes, his five codes of meaning point to? (a) integrity of the text (b)
fabric of the text (c) ambivalence of the text (d) multivalence of the text✅

Barthes's 'Semantic code' refers to meaning at the (a) denotative level (b) connotative level
✅(c) cultural level (d) all the three levels

The title of which work by Barthes refers to his categorization of characters in phallic terms?
(a) A Lover's Discourse: Fragments (b) The Pleasure of the Text (c) Writing Degree Zero (d)
S/Z✅

Barthes uses the terms 'plaisir' (pleasure) and jouissance ('bliss') to refer to the (a) effects of the
text✅ (b) inspiration behind the text (c) writer's reward (d) none of these

Among the following, the American cartoonist and comics theorist best known for his non-
fiction work "Making Comics" is (a) William Hogarth (b) Thomas Nast (c) Charles Addams (d)
Scott McCloud"✅

Who among the following Indian English writers is renowned for promoting children's
literature in India with his debut 1956 novel The Room on the Roof he wrote when he was hardly
seventeen? (a) Amish Tripati (b) Mulk Raj Anand (c) Ruskin Bond ✅(d) Rudyard Kipling

At a time when mysteries and thrillers were scarcely read in India, who pioneered the genre and
contributed immensely to it with books like Spy in Amber? (a) Khushwant Singh (b) Manjeri
Eswaran (c) Manohar Malgonkar✅ (d) Ruskin Bond

Which among the following is Arundhati Roy's 2001 collection of political essays? (a) The
End of Imagination (b) Broken Republic (c) The Algebra of Infinite Justice✅ (d) Listening to
Grasshoppers

Which of the following is a Booker winning Indian financial journalist's 2016 sports-novel? (a)
Born to Win (b) Raced to Rubble (c) Selection Day✅ (d) Loneliness of a Long Distance Runner

Whose first novel is Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard? (a) Aravind Adiga (b) R.K. Narayan (c)
Kamala Das (d) Kiran Desai✅

The host nation and theme UN has chosen for the 2018 World Environment Day is (a) Canada,
Man's connection with Nature (b) Angola, Go Wild for Life (c) Soudi Arabia, Consume with
Care (d) India, Beat plastic✅

Which Indian English poet speaks of 'context-sensitive' thinking in his 1990 essay " "Is There
an Indian Way of Thinking?" (a) Nissim Ezekiel (b) Keki Daruwala✅ (c) A.K. Ramanujan (d)
P. Lal
 The image of "A skull on the holy sands‟ in the imagist poem "Dawn at Puri" startles the reader
with the juxtaposition of the abstract (holy) and the concrete (skull). Whose poem is this
anyway? (a) A.K. Ramanujan (b) Keki N Daruwalla (c) Nissim Ezekiel (d) Jayant Mahapatra✅

Who is ironically stated as 'sceptic, rationalist' in one of Ezekiel's very popular poems? (a)
Father ✅(b) Mother (c) Holy man (d) The speaker

Who among the following is the early Bengali poet and editor of the English language journal
Hindu Intelligencer, published from Calcutta? (a) Kashiprasad Ghosh✅ (b) Michael
Madhusudan Dutt (c) Bankinchandra Chatterjee (d) Toru Dutt

The first Indian English poet Derozio's long narrative poem on the ill-fated life and adventures
of the Brahmin widow Nuleeni is (a) The Fakir of Jangheera✅ (b) The Harp of India (c) To
India, my Native Land (d) None of these

Born in the same year (1809) two poets set the tone and tenor of early Indian English poetry.
One of them was Henry Louis Vivian Derozio, the first Indian English poet and the father of
Indo-Anglican sonnet, who wrote under the influence of English romantics like Byron and Scott.
And the other (a) Michael Madhusudan Dutt (b) Sri Aurobindo (c) Toru Dutt (d) Kashiprasad
Ghosh✅

Which early poem by Kashiprasad Ghosh relates the tragic story of a poet who throws himself
into the sea unable to bear the death of his love ? (a) The Shair✅ (b) The Captive Lady (c) The
Vision of the Past (d) Immortal Love

In his women-centred plays Mahesh Dattani is considered to be the true successor of which
contemporary Indian English dramatist? (a) B.V. Karanth (b) Girish Karnard✅ (c) Bhisham
Sahni (d) Vijay Thendulkar

Which Dattani play has at its center a traumatized woman (Mala) plagued by the continued
influence of her childhood sexual abuser? (a) Thirty Days in September✅ (b) Tara (c) Dance
Like a Man (d) Seven Steps Around the Fire

In which play Dattani presents Ratna, a woman responsible for the death of her own child? (a)
Dance Like a Man ✅(b) Seven Steps Around the Fire (c) On a Muggy Night in Mumbai (d)
Where There's a Will

"She sees more of her children than her husband." This is a grammatically ambiguous sentence.
Which of the following terms refers to such sentences? (a) amphibology✅ (b) multisemy (c)
polysemy (d) kenning

For us 'apology' is an expression of regret for a mistake. But for Sidney, it was a 'defence' or
'justification'; cf his "Apologie for Poetry"). So 'apology' has two meanings, and these meanings
are contradictory. Such words with contradictory meanings are known as (a) fallacies (b) puns
(c) amphinym (d) contronym✅

"Pretty women wonder where my secret lies." Which Maya Angelou poem begins with this
line? (a) Still I Rise (b) Caged Bird (c) Phenomenal Woman ✅(d) Refusal

"The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain" is a 1925 essay by (a) Toni Morrison (b) Maya
Angelou (c) Langston Hughes ✅(d) Wole Soyinka

"I wonder as I wander" is an autobiographical work by (a) Zora Hurston (b) Langston Hughes
✅(c) Ralph Ellison (d) Alice Walker

Which of the following is a science fiction novel by H.G. Wells? (a) Invisible Man (b) The
Invisible Man ✅(c) Juneteenth (d) Of Mice and Men

Which novel won for R.K. Narayan, the pioneering Indian English novelist the 1960 Sahitya
Akademi Award 1960? (a) Waiting for the Mahatma (b) The Man-Eater of Malgudi (c)
Grandmother's Tale (d) The Guide✅

Who is the financial expert in R.K. Narayan's novel The Financial Expert? (a) Margayya ✅(b)
Vasu (c) Velan (d) Raju

Which of the following is not one of P.G. Wodehouse‘s Cricket Trilogy? (a) Mike at Wrykyn
(b) Mike and Psmith (c) Psmith in the City (d) The Match✅

Originally published in 2001, The Canterbury Tales is a play based on Chaucer's 14th century
poem. The playwright is (a) John O'Connor ✅(b) Clare Bayley (c) Steven Berkoff (d)
Gregrory Burke

Which one-act-play by Edward Albee concerns two characters, Peter and Jerry, who meet on a
park bench in New York City's Central Park? (a) The American Dream (b) The Death of Bessie
Smith (c) The Zoo Story✅ (d) Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

. A son of a vintner inherently adopted a French term for his surname, acquired a seat in the
court of as many as three English Kings and gained the first resting place in the poet's corner of
the Westminster Abbey. Identify this personality. Geoffery Chaucer✅

The first African born writer to receive the Nobel for literature . ( Algeria-- born.): Albert Camus

The first Black to win the Nobel Prize: Wole Soyinka

• Pioneer of Eco-criticism:- Charyll Glotfelty (U.S.A.)

• Eco-criticism came forward since 1989 W.L.A. (World Literature Association)

• William Rueckert‘s essay, ―Literature & Ecology: An Experiment in Eco-criticism.‖

• Eco-criticism came first in U.S. & then in U.K.

• Eco-criticism is a study of culture and cultural products.

• Feminism came in the late 19th century.

• First wave of feminism-19th to early 20th century.

• Second wave of feminism- 1960s-1980s

• Third wave of feminism- 1990s to current.

• The word feminism came first in France.

• Mary Wollstonecraft- ―A Vindication of the Rights of a Woman.‖

• The anti-slavery campaign in 1830s.

• ―The Female Eunuch‖ was published in 1970 by Germaine Greer.

• 20th century British feminist criticism begins with Virginia Woolf.

• Much British feminist criticism has had a political orientation.

• Elaine Showalter‘s, ―A Literature of their Own‖ (1977)

• Patricia Meyer Spacks‘, ―The Female Imagination‖ (1975)

• Ellen Moer‘s, ―Literary Women‖ (1976)

• Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar‘s, ―The Madwoman in the Attic‖ (1979)

• Michele Barrett‘s, ―Women‘s Oppression Today: Problems in Marxist Feminist Analysis‖

(1980)

• ―The Feminine Mystique‖ was written by Betty Friedan in 1963.

• Millett‘s influential book concerned female sexuality and the representation of women in
literature.

• Shulamith Firestone‘s, ―The Dialectic of Sex (1970) which used gender rather than class as the
prime category of historical analysis.

• Mary Ellman‘s, ―Thinking About Women‖ (1968)

• Judith Newton and Deborah Rosenfelt‘s, ―Feminist Criticism and Social Change‖ (1985)
• Alice Walker‘s, ―In Search of Our Mothers‘ Garden‖ (1983)

• Barbara Smith‘s, ―Toward a Black Feminist Criticism‖ (1977)

• Lesbian Critics:-Mary Daly‘s, ―Gyn/Ecology‖ (1978) and Adrienne Rich‘s, : Compulsory

Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence‖ (1980)

• Adrienne Rich wrote ―Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence‖ (1980)

• Judith Butler‘s, ―Gender Trouble (1990) was a powerful critique of heterosexual assumptions
in feminist theory.

• 20th century British feminist criticism begins with Virginia Woolf.

• Much British feminist criticism has had a political orientation.

• Virginia Woolf‘s landmark work, ―Women: The Longest Revolution‖, later expanded and
produced ―Women‘s Estate‖(1971)

• Juliet Mitchell examined patriarchy in terms of Marxist categories of production and private
property as well as psychoanalytic theories of gender.

• Juliet Mitchell born in 1940 in New Zealand. She was a British Psychoanalyst and socialist
feminist.

• Juliet Mitchell is best known for her book ―Psychoanalysis and Feminism: Freud, Reich, Laing
and Women (1974). Peter Gay considered it as ―the most rewarding and responsible
contribution‖.

• Michele Barrett wrote the famous book- ―Women‘s Oppression Today‖ (1980).

• Cora Kaplan, Mary Jacobus, and Penny Boumelha have comprised the UK Marxist-Feminist
Collective, formed in 1976.

• Virginia Woolf was a great pioneer of feminist literary criticism.

Woolf was the daughter of the Victorian agnostic philosopher Leslie Stephen.

• Woolf settled with her brothers and sisters in Bloomsbury after the death of her parents.

• Bloomsbury was the fashionable are of London.

• The ―Bloomsbury Group‖ included the economist John Maynard Keynes, the historian and
biographer Lytton Strachey, the art critic Clive Bell, and the writer Leonard Woolf, whom
Virginia was to marry in 1912.

• This group was unconventional in its outlooks and often in its sexuality.
• Woolf‘s own views of femininity and gender relations must have been rooted partly in her own
sexuality; she was engaged in a relationship with the writer Vita Sackville West.

•The "Graveyard Poets", also termed "Churchyard Poets", were a number of pre-Romantic
English poets of the 18th century #characterised by their #gloomy_meditations on #mortality,
"skulls and coffins, epitaphs and worms" elicited by the presence of the #graveyard.

•"Graveyard" poetry increasingly expressed a feeling for the "sublime" and uncanny, and an
antiquarian interest in ancient English poetic forms and folk poetry.

•The "graveyard poets" are often recognized as #precursors of the #Gothic_literary_genre, as

well as the #Romantic_movement.

•At its narrowest, the term "Graveyard School" refers to four poems: Thomas Gray's
#Elegy_Written_in_a_Country_Churchyard, Thomas Parnell's "Night-Piece On #Death", Robert
Blair's #The_Grave , and Edward Young's #Night-Thoughts

•The term itself was not used as a brand for the poets and their poetry until
#William_Macneile_Dixon did so in 1898.

•The earliest poem attributed to the Graveyard School was #Thomas_Parnell's #A_Night-Piece
on Death (1721), in which King Death himself gives an address from his kingdom of bones:

● John Locke �was an English philosopher and physician "Father of Liberalism" ; to form
character (mental, physical, and moral) ; Education as Training of the mind/Formal discipline ;
Notable ideas - "Tabula rasa"

● Francis Bacon � was an English philosopher, statesman, scientist, jurist, orator and author.
"Father of scientific method" "Father of empiricism"

● Jean Jacques Rousseau �was a Francophone Genevan philosopher, writer and composer of
the 18th century."Hollistic educati..on"(physical,moral, intellectual)

Notable ideas - moral simplicity of humanity; child centered learning; Famous novel: "Emile" or
On Education; Human Development

● Edgar Dale � was an American educator who developed the "Cone of Experience" aka "Father
of Modern Media in Education"

● Erik Erikson �was a German-born American developmental psychologist and psychoanalyst

known for his theory on "psychosocial development" of human beings.

● Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi �was a swiss pedagogue and educational reformer who
exemplified Romanticism in his approach. "Social regeneration of humanity" Notable ideas:
"Four-sphere concept of life" his motto was " Learning by head, hand and heart"
● Friedrich Frobel � was a German pedagogue a student of Pestalozzi who laid the "foundation
of modern education" based on the recognition that children have unique needs and capabilities.
"Father of kindergarten"

● Johann Herbart �was a German philosopher, psychologist and founder of pedagogy as an

academic discipline.

● Edward Lee Thorndike � was an American psychologist ; " Father of Modern educational
psychology; connectionism; law of effect. ; "Realize the fullest satisfaction of human wants"

Which mode of criticism aims at establishing the accuracy of what the author actually wrote in
a literary work? (a) Practical Criticism (b) Biographical Criticism (c) Historical criticism (d)
Textual criticism✅

Who among the following was the orginal tragic playwright of Restoration England? (a)
Wycherley (b) Jeremy Collier (c) Aphra Behn (d) Thomas Otway✅

What happens to Shakespeare's Fool in Nahum Tate's reworking of the play King Lear? (a) He
joins hands with the lady villians (b) He deserts the King in the middle of the play (c) He
commits suicide in the end (d) Fool does not appear in Tate's King Lear.✅

The key-theme of Restoration comedy was (a) Love (b) Urban idiosyncracies (c) Sex✅ (d)
Country simplicity

George Etherege's play The Man of Mode is a comedy of (a) character✅ (b) humours (c)
situations (d) action

"The short and simple annals of the poor" alludes to which pre-romantic poem? (a) Ode to
Evening (b) Seasons (c) Elegy written in a Country Churchyard✅ (d) The Hermit

What according to Gray 'teaches the rustic moralist to die' (Elegy, line 84) ? (a) Fame and Glory
(b) Religious faith (c) Simplicity (d) the holy texts on the graves✅

"The grave's a fine and private place, But none I think do there embrace."

Which metaphysical poem ends with these grim and ironical lines? (a) The Good Morrow (b)
Silence and Stealth of Days (c) To his Coy Mistress✅ (d) The Wine of Love

Who among the following is not a metaphysical? (a) Crashaw (b) Donne (c) Herbert (d)
Thomson✅

In which poem Donne raises the question: ―Where can we find two better hemispheres‖? (a)
The Flea (b) The Good Morrow ✅(c) The Sun Rising (d) The Dream
 The first woman to publish a book of poems in England was (a) Anne Bradstreet ✅(b) Eliza
Acton (c) Lucy Aikin (d) Anne Askew

: In the collection "Poems by Two Brothers" (1857), with whom did Tennyson collaborate? (a)
Charles✅ (b) Frederick (c) Edward (d) Hallam

The woman-poet considered for poet-laureateship along with Alfred Tennyson was (a)
Christina Rossetti (b) Elizabeth Barrett Browning ✅(c) Felicia Hemans (d) Letitia Elizabeth
Landon

The volume of poems entitled The Improvisatrice, The Troubadour and The Golden Violet, are
by one woman Victorian poet, and the poet is (a) Eliza Barret (b) Letitia Landon✅ (c) Felicia
Hemans (d) Christina Rossetti

Who, among the following Victorian women poets, was a child prodigy, who published a
volume of poems when she was hardly fourteen. (a) Felicia Hemans ✅(b) Eliza Barrett (c)
Latitia Landon (d) Christina Rossetti

The hero of the Old English Epic Beowulf is (a) anglo-saxon (b) Germanic ✅(c) French (d)
The dialect in which Beowulf is written is (a) Northumbrian (b) East Saxon (c) West Saxon
✅(d) Mercian

Which of the following works is not authentically by Chaucer? (a) The Flower and the Leaf
✅(b) Anelida and Arcite (c) The House of Fame (d) Troilus and Criseyde

Which of the following is a prose-work by Chaucer? (a) The Book of the Duchess (b) The
House of Fame (c) The Legend of Good Women (d) The Tale of Melibeus✅

Which early English poet is credited for importing the decasyllabic line from France? (a)
Gower (b) The Pearl Poet (c) Chaucer (d) Wyatt

An asteroid and a lunar crater have been named after which English poet? (a) Shakespeare (b)
Marlowe (c) Sidney (d) Chaucer✅

: The full-title of Langland's Piers the Plowman is (a) The Vision of William concerning Piers
the Plowman ✅(b) The Dream Vision of Piers the Plowman (c) Piers the Plowman, a Dream
Vision (d) Piers the Plowman, a Dream Allegory

Which early Scottish poet wrote an epic of thirteen thousand lines on the history of his
country's freedom, with King Bruce as its hero? (a) Langland (b) Gower (c) Mandeville (d)
Barbour✅
 Who among the following is designated as the first English prose stylist? (a) Dryden (b)
Wycliff (c) Bacon (d) Malory✅

: Chevy Chace, Sir Patrick Spens, and the Robin Hood poems are ballads of the (a) 12th century
(b) 13th century (b) 14th century (d) 15th century✅

Who among the following is a Middle English biographer and chronicler? (a) Geoffrey of
Monmouth (b) Bede (c) Mathew Paris ✅(d) William of Malmesbury

The term Matthew Arnold uses in his Oxford lectures to refer to those Englishmen who
consider wealth as indicative of greatness is (a) barbarians (b) decadents (c) philistine✅ (d)
plebian

In the preface to his Poems (1918) Hopkins points out that Sprung Rhythm has come from (a)
the epic metrics (b) classical Latin (c) common speech ✅(d) Greek prosody.

What was Linguistics known in the 19th century? (a) Lanugage History (b) Comparative
Language Study (c) Philology✅ (d) Phonology

Which sentimental English novelist was known as 'the Man of Feeling' after the name of his
own novel? (a) Henry Mackenzie✅ (b) Horace Walpole (c) Matthew Lewis (d) William
Beckford

"A Letter to a Hindu" is a work by which Russian author? (a) Chekhov (b) Sholokhov (c)
Tolstoy✅ (d) Mayakovsky

Which book by Wimsatt is subtitled "Studies in the Meaning of Poetry"? (a) Verbal Icon✅ (b)
Hateful Contraries (c) Day of the Leopards (d) Literary Criticism: A Short History

The pragmatic meaning of the question ‗What time do you call this?‘ is (a) What time is it? (b)
What season is this? (c) Is it a good or bad time for you? (d) Why are you so late?✅

: Oscar Wilde's posthumously published work De Profundis is in the form of a long letter
written when he was a prisoner in Reading Gaol. To whom is it addressed? (a) Lord Alfred
Douglas, his homosexual partner✅ (b) Constance Lloyd, his wife (c) The Marquis of
Queensberry, his rival in a libel suit (d) none of these

As a poet, Yeats was a practitioner of (a) free verse (b) blank verse (c) traditional forms✅ (d)
none of these

The Prelude is a long autobiographical poem,first drafted in 1799, expanded in 1805, revised at
intervals until 1839 and finally published posthumously in 1850. Its title "The Prelude" was
chosen by.....
c. His wife Mary ✅

Who coined the phrase-"poetry is the criticism of life"?.Matthew Arnold✅

62 "Poetry is a criticism of life under the conditions fixed for such a criticism by the laws of
poetic truth and poetic beauty." Who defines poetry in these words? : Matthew Arnold✅

Who described 'The Wasteland ' as "A drama for voices." :Ted Hughes

(Ted Hughes has described The Waste Land as 'a drama for voices', 'an assemblage of human
cries', 'exactly as in a musical composition, and only waiting for us to hear them'.The snatch of
Wagner interrupting 'The Burial of the Dead' – has somebody dropped a needle on a
gramophone? – is only the most obvious sign. Musicality is evident in the rhythms of the poem's
language. 'The Fire Sermon', for example, begins 'The river's tent is broken: the last fingers of
leaf / Clutch and sink into the wet bank' (l. 174). However, Hughes observes more than the
elegance of Eliot's characteristic cadences. Music, sound, song and voices are central to The
Waste Land's idiom, its structure, and, above all, to its ambitions to record modernity)

The Common Man figures prominently both in the plot of the play and also as a narrator and
commentator. What is the play?: A Man for all Seasons

(Robert Bolt's A Man for All Seasons (first staged in 1960) on the life of the 16th century Lord
Chancellor executed by Henry VIII for his conscience, presents the Brechtian character of the
'Common Man' as narrator and framing device. He is an offbeat character who plays a number of
roles which include the protagonist's servant, a publican, a boatman, More's jailer, jury foreman
and executioner. Bolt seeks to break 'the fourth-wall' through him. Beyond that, the Common
Man also underscores the importance of the common man history, as stated explicitly in his
opening speech :""the sixteenth century was the century of the Common Man-like all the other
centuries.")

1. ( T. S. Eliot‘s The Waste Land has been regarded as one of the most important modern
poems. The work addresses modernity and the lost connection to high culture and fine art. Eliot‘s
concept of utopia was rapidly drifting even as he created this piece. Eliot's work is considered as
a seminal work of Modernism because it embodies the fundamental precepts of the intellectual
movement. When Woolf, another preeminent Modernist, writes that "all human relations have
shifted," it reflects the basic idea that the literature of Modernism is one whereby individuals
have experienced a seismic movement between what they have been told to believe or what they
used to embrace as opposed to what is in front of them. This chasm of experience is where Eliot's
work falls as it articulates a vision of post World War I reality where what has been told, the
transcendental truths that people were instructed to embrace in order to establish meaning, have
proven hollow. This is where Woolf's notion of human relations "shifted" is best seen. Eliot's
work is one where human beings are presented with quite a different vision than what they have
been told. Eliot's work is considered to be seminal to understanding Modernism because it does
not shy away from this theme of fragmentation and disilusionment with reality. Adding to this is
the very style in which it was written. Eliot does not conform his writing to the traditional
standards of what writing has been told to be. Rather, he creates a work that is poem, story,
narrative, philosophical treatise, and personal exploration with images from Classical, Eastern,
Western, and even futuristic referential points. In this, Eliot has "shifted" what art can be and
what writers can do. For these reasons, Eliot's work is seen as critical and vital to understanding
Modernism, a seminal representation of the movement)

The book in question is ―The Great Tradition: George Eliot, Henry James, Joseph Conrad‖
(1948) by F.R. Leavis (1895-1978), the Cambridge Professor and critic. The book is a review of
the English novel and a close reading of the four novelists in the title, with ‗moral seriousness‘ as
an uncompromising criterion for inclusion in the great tradition of English novelists. Leavis
dismisses Lawrence Sterne for his 'irresponsible (and nasty) trifling'. He considers Fielding
important 'not because he leads to Mr J. B. Priestley but because he leads to Jane Austen, and
finds Joyce's Ulysses, less a new start for fiction than 'a dead end'.

Holden Caulfield, who has become an icon for teenage rebellion, is the protagonist of which
novel? :The Catcher in the Rye(Holden Caulfield is a fictional character in author J. D. Salinger's
1951 novel The Catcher in the Rye. Since the book's publication, Holden has become an icon for
teenage rebellion and angst, and now stands among the most important characters of 20th-
century American literature. The name Holden Caulfield was used in an unpublished short story
written in 1942 and first appeared in print in 1945.)

1. 'Fame is the Spur' by Howard Spring, is the best seller of 1940. It is about the rise to power of
a Labour politician. The novel encapsulates the truth that all politicians seek to deny: that they
love popularity more than they love the people. The title came from Milton's 'Lycidas'.

Which work did Nirad C. Chaudhuri call ‗ the finest novel in the English language with an
Indian theme‘? D. Kim✅

Which of the following is Edward Albee's debut play? (a) The Zoo Story✅

Which play by Tennessee Williams is autobiographical in that it reflects the playwright's

unhappy family background? (a) The Glass Managerie✅

From whom, Tennessee Williams admitted, he had learned the art of 'fearless expression of
brute nature'. (a) D.H. Lawrence (b) Strindberg (c) Joyce (d) Hemingway✅

: Which of the following is a Memory Play? (a) Death of a Salesman (b) Emperor Jones (c) The
Zoo Story (d) The Glass Manageries✅
 Who, among the following American critics, was a life-long literary journalist connected with
Vanity Fair and The New Republic? (a) Cleanth Brooks (b) Allen Tate (c) Edmund Wilson ✅(d)
J.C. Ransom

: Among the following, who was a member of the Fugitives, later the Southern Agrarians? (a)
Edmund Wilson (b) J.C. Ransom ✅(c) Cleanth Brooks (d) Elder Olson

: The critical school of thought in which the author is regarded as the origin and source of a text,
a unifying figure in which the overall meaning of a work is supposed to reside, is (a) Authorial
Literary Studies (b) Auteurist literary studies (c) Subjective Literary Studies (d) Intentional
Fallacy.✅

Which of the following is not one of Bernard Shaw's 'unpleasant' plays?

(a) Widowers' Houses (b) Candida ✅(c) The Philanderer (d) Mrs. Warren's Profession

The concept of 'aesthetic distance' refers to the reader's detachment from what is happening in
the text, and its opposite is the reader's (a) interest (b) enjoyment (c) involvement ✅(d) intimacy

The dialect in which Beowulf is written is .... (c) West Saxon

What is the full form of "CD-ROM"? Compact Disc ROM

Bug means: Logical error in a program

What is the full form of "modem"? Modulator Demodulator

Which of the following is described the meaning of a declarative hypotheses

A. The expression of the correlations among the variables

B. The declaration of the relationship among the variables ANS. Both A and B.✅

The meaning of Crossed Reaction Experimental Design is:

A. Such an experimental design where all the reactions are carried out with the subjects in a
sequential fashion..

B. Such an experimental design where the subject related errors are eliminated

C. Both of the above are correct.✅

Who among the following Indian educators/thinkers drew heavily from the philosophy of
Vedanta ? ( DEC 2018 ) Swami Vivekananda✅

The most important quality of a good teacher is : Good communication skills

 As a good classroom communicator, you are supposed to know your: artful pauses

1. Graham Greene's The Power and The Glory was published in? 1940

2. All about H Hatter(1948) was written by G.V Desani

3. In which novel does Graham Greene satirizes spy novels?

A. The Power and The Glory B. The Quiet American✅

C. Our Man in Havana D. Brighton Rock

5. The Strange Case of Billy Biswas(1971) was a novel by : Khushwant Singh ✅

6. Who is regarded as the first woman poet in Australia? ✅A. Ada Cambridge

7. Which novel by an Indian administrator exposes the moribund culture of Babudom?

A. Red Earth and Pouring Rain B. Autobiography of an Unknown Indian C. The Last Labyrinth
✅ D. English August : An Indian Story

8. A Dance in the Forests(1960), a celebration of Nigerian Independence, was written by

A. Chinua Achebe ✅ B. Wole Soyinka

9. The Solid Mandala, a pre-war urban Australian novel was written by :✅A. Patrick White

10. Mandela's Ego is a novel by: Lewis Nkosi

T.S. Eliot‗s The Waste Land is dedicated to Il miglior fabro (―The better Craftsman‖) which

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Stanley Fish – Reader Response theory

The term ―The Fleshly School of Poetry‖ is associated with the : Pre-

The term ―Negritude‖ was coined by : Ainee Cesaire and Leopold Senghor
 The term ‗American renaissance‗ was first used by : F. O. Matthiessen

. Muriel Spark‗s The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie is a rewriting of the Victorian novel : Jane
Eyre

Epithalamium‗ is a : nuptial song

Only connect‖ is the epigraph to a novel by : E.M. Forster

‗IL Migilor Fabro‗ is the expression Eliot used for : Ezra Pound

Who is given credit for first using the term―romantic? (A) Friedrich Schlegel

Bildungsroman‗ translated literally means : Development novel

The macabre element in drama was introduced by :John Webster

. Symbolist movement was influenced by : (A) Poetic theory of Edgar Allan Poe (B) Stephane
Mallarme‟s Poetry (C) Prose of Emerson (D) Ezra Pound‟s Cantos Answer: B

The Rambler appeared every : (A) Tuesday and Saturday

‗Imagism‗ is associated with : T. E. Hulme

The ‗Reader-Response Theory‗ implies that == there is no one correct meaning of the text

The term ‗magic realism‗ was first introduced by = Franz Roh

Who among the following developed the term strategic essentialism ? (B) Gayatri Chakravorty
Spivak

Doris Lessing‗s interest in ____ is widely recognized : Ans: Sufism

Who called the novel the bright book of life‗ ?== D.H. Lawrence

The mind-forged manacles‗ is phrase from : ‖London‖

A classical influence on Ben Jonson‗s Volpone is======== Aristophanes

Kipling‗s ―The White Man‗s Burden‖ is addressed to == The American imperial mission in
the Philippines.

Provincializing Europe is a concept propounded by : Dipesh Chakravarty

W.B. Yeat‗s ―Easter 1916 is ==== a response to a major political uprising

―Imagined Community is a concept propounded by Benedict Anderson

Which of the following is a spoof of a Gothic novel ? Northanger Abbey

 The ―madwoman in the attic‖ is a specific reference to : Bertha Mason of Jane Eyre

Who is credited for using the term 'Romantic ' to describe for literature for the first time ...
Fredrick Schlegel

Feedback makes the classroom communication process : (DEC 2018)

A. Linear B. Circular C. Complete D. lnteractive e. Disorganised A. (b) , (c) and (d) ✅

Which among the following provides the strongest evidence of cause-and-effect relationship
between independent and dependent variables ? (DEC 2018) Experimental approach✅

A research report will contain : (DEC 2018 )

(A) Financial accounts (B) Prefatory parts (C) Utilisation certificates

(D) Title page (E) Table of contents (F) Terminal chapters (B) (b),(d),(e) and (f)✅

With what name an attribute like height, weight or happiness that is measurable and that is
assigned with changing values be called ? Variable

The originality of a research topic will depend upon factors of :

A. Uniqueness of the the topic B. Utilitarian dimensions

C. Support system D. Non- requirement of supervision e. Feasibility of the study

A. (a) , (b) , (c) and (e) ✅

The first Indian Satellite for serving the educational sector is known as: EDUSAT✅

THE OBLIQUE NARRATIVE OR THE FRAME NARRATIVE

The Oblique Narrative is a narrative convention of a tale within a tale whereby the ‗inner‘
narrative is presented in the words of a fictional narrator whom we first meet in the ‗outer‘ or
enclosing narrative. This is also known as ‗Frame Narrative‘ or ‗Narrative within Narrative‘.

This mode can permit the writer to use a more relaxed, discursive, conversational mode than
would be customary with the ‗omniscient author‘ convention.

Joseph Conrad‘s ‗ Heart of Darkness.‘

Conrad used frame narrative in his ‗Heart of Darkness.‘, under the influence of the medieval tale
telling poets such as Chaucer and Boccaccio. The narrator in this technique does not involve
himself in the events, but keeps himself at a distance, so as to observe all the accounts of the
characters and delivers it to us. In this book, the two narrators go on describing the events one
after the other, interweaving all the incidents. One narrator makes frame by introducing and
explaining the events at the beginning, then handing it over the narrative to another narrator , and
at last, again resuming the narrative himself. The first narrator remains apart but still he is with
the crew members and is one of them.

These are the important facts related to given title:- the waste land Poet :- T. S Eliot,Published
in 1922

� It's dedicated to Ezra pound who made a lot many improvement and abridged it in the present
form.

It is called ―condensed epic" by I A Richardson.

Eliot was known for a technic ‗objective correlative‘.

Richardson called it ‗poetic shorthand‘.

Main themes of the poem:---

A. Spiritual degeneration

B. Disillusionment

C. Boredom of a generation

�Tiresias is the central figure of the poem,an interested spectator of the modern waste land.

�Tiresias comes as spokes man of Eliot.

It is divided into five parts:-

1. The burial of the dead.

2. A game of chess

3. The fire sermon

4. Death by water

5. What the thunder Said

�It depends on Indian mythology Shanti,Shanti,Shanti(upnisad

[7:11 AM, 1/27/2019] Sadavel.k: 1. Forest of Arden appears in the play -

- As You Like It

2. Who is the author of Steel Glass ?

- Gascoigne

3. In which year was the Globe Theatre built ?

- 1599

4. Shakespeare's Sonnets were first published in

- 1609

5. Who was the author of Endymion ?

- John Lyly

6. Who is the author of Venus and Adonis ? - Shakespeare

8. When Sidney died, Spenser wrote an elegy on his death. Which of the following ? - Astrophel

9. Spenser's Epithalamion is - a wedding hymn

10. Spenser's Amoretti is - a collection of his love sonnets

11. Spenser wrote a series of sonnets in honour of his lady love, Elizabeth Boyle, whom he later
married.

What title did he give to this series ? - Amoretti

12. Roister Doister is believed to be the first real comedy in English. Who wrote it ? - Nicholas
Udall

13. Gorboduc is believed to be our first real tragedy.

It was written in collaboration by : - Thomas Sackville and Thomas Norton

14. The first tragedy Gorboduc was later entitled : - Ferrex and Porrex

15. Sidney's Apologie for Poetrie is a reply to : - Gosson's School of Abuse

16. In his Apologie for Poetrie, Sidney : - defends the Three Dramatic Unities

17. –––– has written only Tragedies. - Marlowe

18. "Was this the face that launched a thousand ships?" In which play does this line occur ?

- Marlowe's Dr. Faustus

19. Who used the phrase 'Marlowe's mighty line' for Marlowe's Blank Verse ? - Ben Jonson

20. Who said, "Shakespeare has only heroines and no heroes" ? - Ruskin

21. For what is the phrase 'The Mousetrap' used by Shakespeare ? - The play within the play in
Hamlet

22. Spenser dedicates the Preface to The Faerie Queene to : - Sir Walter Raleigh

23. The Faerie Queene is an allegory. In this Queen Elizabeth is allegorized through the
character of : - Gloriana

24. Who calls Spenser the 'Poets' Poet' ? - Charles Lamb

25. In which work did Spenser first use the Spenserian stanza ? - Faerie Queene

26. In the original scheme or plan of the Faerie Queene as designed by Spenser, it was to be
completed in :TWELVE

#The_Graveyard_poets

•The "Graveyard Poets", also termed "Churchyard Poets", were a number of pre-Romantic
English poets of the 18th century #characterised by their #gloomy_meditations on #mortality,
"skulls and coffins, epitaphs and worms" elicited by the presence of the #graveyard.

•"Graveyard" poetry increasingly expressed a feeling for the "sublime" and uncanny, and an
antiquarian interest in ancient English poetic forms and folk poetry.

•The "graveyard poets" are often recognized as #precursors of the #Gothic_literary_genre, as

well as the #Romantic_movement.

•At its narrowest, the term "Graveyard School" refers to four poems: Thomas Gray's
#Elegy_Written_in_a_Country_Churchyard, Thomas Parnell's "Night-Piece On #Death", Robert
Blair's #The_Grave , and Edward Young's #Night-Thoughts

•The term itself was not used as a brand for the poets and their poetry until
#William_Macneile_Dixon did so in 1898.
•The earliest poem attributed to the Graveyard School was #Thomas_Parnell's #A_Night-Piece
on Death (1721), in which King Death himself gives an address from his kingdom of bones:

•Characteristic later poems include #Edward_Young's Night-Thoughts (1742), in which a lonely

traveller in a graveyard reflects lugubriously on:

The vale funereal, the sad cypress gloom;

The land of apparitions, empty shades!

•Blair's #The_Grave (1743) proves to be no more cheerful as it relates with grim relish how:

Wild shrieks have issued from the hollow tombs;

Dead men have come again, and walked about;

And the great bell has tolled, unrung and untouched.

•However, a more contemplative mood is achieved in the celebrated opening verse of Gray's
Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard (1751)

The curfew tolls the knell of parting day.

The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea,

The ploughman homeward plods his weary way,

And leaves the world to darkness and to me.

The Number of monophthong in English sound's is C. 12

Which of the following words describe the prevailing attitude of High-Modern Literature?

Skeptical

2. Which Welsh poet wrote ―Under Milk Wood?‖ Dylan Thomas

4. Who wrote ―The Hound of the Baskervilles?‖Arthur Conan Doyle

6. _____is a late 20th century play written by a woman? Camille

7. Which of the following writers wrote historical novels? Sir Walter Scott and Maria Edgeworth

9. Which of the following are Thomas Hardy books? The Poor Man and the Lady The Return of
Native

11. Who wrote the poems, ―On death‖ and ―Women, Wine, and Snuff?‖ John Keats
12. ―Of Man‘s first disobedience, and the fruit Of that forbidden tree whose mortal taste Brought
death into the world, and all our woe, With loss of Eden.‖ This is an extract from: Paradise
Regained

13. William Shakespeare was born in the year: 1564

16.Which poem ends ‗I shall but love thee better after death‘? How do I love thee

17. Which poet is considered a national hero in Greece? Lord Byron

18. Which kind of poem is Edward Lear associated with? Nonsense

19. In coleridge‘s poem ‗The rime of the Ancient Mariner‘where were the three gallants going?A
wedding

20. Harold Nicholson described which poet as ‗Very yellow and glum. Perfect manners‘?

T. S. Elliot

21. What was strange about Emily Dickinson? She rarely left home

22. Rupert Brooke wrote his poetry during which conflict? First World War

23. Which Poet Laureatewrote about a church mouse?Betjeman

24. Which American writer published ‗A brave and startling truth‘ in 1996.Maya Angelou

25. Who wrote about the idyllic ‗Isle of Innisfree‘?W. B. Yeats

26.Sylvia Plath married which English poet? Hughes

27. Carl Sandburg ‗Planked whitefish‘ contains what kind of imagery? War

28. Which influential American poet was born in Long Island in 1819? Walt Whitman

29. In 1960 ‗The Colossus‘ was the first book of poems published by which poetess? Sylvia
Plath

305. In his poem Kipling said ‗If you can meet with triumph and . . . . . . . . . . ‗? Disaster

31. Which of the following is not a literary device used for aesthetic effect in poetry? Grammar

33. What is the earliest surviving European poem? The Homeric epic

34. Which of the following is not a poetic tradition? The Occult

35. What is the study of poetry‘s meter and form called? Prosody

36.Shakespeare composed much of his plays in what sort of verse? Iambic pentameter
37. Which poet invented the concept of the variable foot in poetry?William Carlos Williams

38. Who wrote this famous line: ‗Shall I compare thee to a summer‘s day/ Thou art more lovely
and more temperate…‘Shakespeare

39. From what century does the poetic form the folk ballad date?The 12th

40. From which of Shakespeare‘s plays is this famous line: ‗Did my heart love til now?/
Forswear it, sight/ For I never saw a true beauty until this night‘Romeo and Juliet

41. What is a poem called whose first letters of each line spell out a word? Acrostic

42. Auld Lang Syne is a famous poem by whom? Robert Burns

43. How has Stephen Dunn been described in ‗the Oxford Companion to 20th Century Poetry?A
poet of middleness

44. ‗The Cambridge school‘ refers to a group who emerged when?The 1960′s

45. Margaret Atwood was born in which Canadian city?Ottowa

46.How did W. H. Auden describe poetry? A game of knowledge

47. Sassoon and Brooke wrote whatt kind of poetry? War poems

48. Where did T. S. Eliot spend most of his childhood? St Louis

49. Ted Hughes was married to which American poetess?Sylvia Plath

50. How old was Rupert Brooke at the time of his death? 28

GOTHIC NOVEL

The Gothic novel as a literary genre began with Horace Walpole‘s ‗The Castle of Otranto‘
published in 1764. The story involves a mystery and a curse, hidden passages and fainting
heroines, the staples of the gothic novel. Walpole claimed that the book was a translation of a
manuscript printed in Naples in 1529, which had been found in the library of an ancient Catholic
family. This was fiction and so began the tendency to supply the genre with fake documentation
to increase the mysterious atmosphere surrounding the work.

The term ‗gothic‘ was originally applied to a style of medieval architecture and art, and not
always in a complimentary manner. It referred to atmospheric works which were built in reaction
to the rationality of the neoclassical style and indulged in emotional extremes. The darkness that
is associated with the term stems from the English Protestant linking the medieval era with harsh,
cruel laws and superstitious rituals.

•The first novelists

Most of the first gothic novelists were fascinated by the medieval era and style and their novels
found their most natural settings in the remote ruins of castles, mansions and monasteries.
Although not the first gothic novelist, it is Ann Radcliffe who is considered to be the pioneer of
the gothic novel. Radcliffe wrote in the late 1700‘s and early 1800‘s and her novels typically
included young, innocent heroines living in dark, gloomy castles ruled by mysterious barons. Her
books were especially popular with young women of the upper and middle classes and she has
influenced many writes of the type since then. Mary Shelley‘s Frankenstein is also a gothic novel
which has had a lot of influence on the genre.

•European gothics

Gothic novels were also being published in France and Germany, with the ‗roman noir‘ or black
novel in the former and the ‗Schauerroman‘ or shudder novel in the latter. The German gothic
novels were usually more violent and horrific than the English and French literature.

•Gothic legacy

By 1840, the genre became less popular in Britain due to over-saturation but the style has had an
influence on many of the greatest writers. The Victorian craze for short ghost stories, Edgar
Allen Poe and Charles Dickens and then, later on, the works of Robert Louis Stevenson, Oscar
Wilde and Bram Stoker (Dracula) are all examples of this influence.

The Restoration Comedy Of Manners

Introduction:

Bonamy Dobree points out that in the history of dramatic literature there are some periods which
are predominantly comic and some which are difmitely tragic. Tragedy generally flourishes
when religious, moral, and social values are more or less fixed and positive; and comedy, when
they are uncertain and fluid. The ages of Aeschylus, Shakeapeare, and Corneille were the periods
of the dominance of tragedy, and those of Aristophanes, Jonson, and Moliere that of comedy.

The Restoration period, likewise, was a comic period as, to use the words of Dobree, "it was an
age of enquiry and curiosity." Things like sexual morality came to be examined, and new
conclusions, mostly tentative, came to be expressed. Comedy was thrown into a more scientific
and literally "prosaic" mould, and the imaginative fights of the Elizabethans and the bizarre
poetry of the metaphysicals were discarded in favour of a down-to-earth kind of expression. The
Restoration age was marked by the establishment of the Royal Society and a great expansion of
scientific knowledge. In many departments of life and literature this scientific spirit of enquiry
and disbelief was abroad. This temper and spirit of the age found appropriate expression in
comedy. Whereas in the field of tragedy the age has none to show except Otway as a true master,
in the field of comedy it presents a galaxy of brilliant writers whose work has made this age one
of the most splendid in the annals of English drama.

The Comedy of Manners:

Chiefly the Restoration age is associated with the rise and development of what is called "the
comedy of manners." This kind of comedy was indeed a true mirror of the temper and outlook of
the society-rather a section of the society-of the age. But it will be a gross error to suppose that
the comedy of manners was the only kind of comedy written and appreciated in this age. The
chief practitioners of the comedy of manners were:

(i) Sir George Etherege (1635-1691)

(ii) William Wycherley (1640-1715)

(iii) William Congreve (1670-1729)

(iv) Sir John Vanbrugh (1661 -1726)

(v) George Farquhar (1678-1707)

The comedies written by these playwrights, says Dobree, "form but an infinitesimal portion of
the many comedies produced during these years." Their comedy of manners, says the same critic,
"did not by any means dominate the world of the theatre: it was rivalled by many another forms
which proved as popular, if not more popular, with contemporary audiences" The other forms of
comedy v- ere mainly the comedy of humours and the comedy of intrigue. Whereas Shadwell
made his mark in the former kind, Dryden, Tate, Durfey, and some others achieved notable
successes in the latter. Let us now examine the salient features of the comedy of manners and see
how it differs from Elizabethan comedy.

Shaping Influences:

Whereas throughout its long career English tragedy has always accepted foreign influences,
English comedy has been less amenable to them. But the Restoration comedy of manners did
assimilate a good deal of the Continental spirit. John Wilcox in The Relation ofMoliere to
Restoration comedy has tried to dispel the belief that Restoration comedy was substantially
influenced by French comedy. Even then it is certain that Moliere was held in much respect by
Restoration dramatists. He provided them with quite a few ideas about plot and effective comic
characterisation. The strong element of intrigue in the plot is due in some measure to the
influence of Spanish drama. As regards the influence of the preceding masters of comedy on
Restoration comedy, it is of interest to note that Jonson, Beaumont and Fletcher stand in the
forefront whereas Shakespeare is relegated to the background. Restoration comedy lacks the
warmth and depth of Elizabethan comedy, but on the side of credit it also eschews its
extravagance and lack of realism. Shakespeare's plays were out of favour,ia this age. Samuel
Pepys records in his Diary that once he attended a performance of Shakespeare's A Mid-Summer
Night's Dream, but he did not like it at all, "for it is the most uninspired play that ever I saw in
my life." Another diarist of the age, Evelyn, in the same tone criticises Shakespeare's tragedy
Hamlet: "I saw Hamlet played, but now the old plays begin to disgust this refined age, since his
majesty's being so long abroad." Unlike the "romantic" Shakespeare, Ben Jonson and Beaumont
and Fletcher were respected and appreciated by both the dramatists and audiences of the age,
Ben Jonson taught the comedy writers a sense of hard realism combined with a hard-hitting
satirical temper. Beaumont and Fletcher bequeathed them a courtly spirit. Johnson was directly
and even duly copied by his "sons" like Shadwell. But he had also to teach the writers of the
comedy of manners quite a few things. Bonamy Dobree avers in this connexion: "Even the
masters of the comedy of manners showed that they had learned part.

1. Two of the following list are ―Angry Young Men‖ of the 1950‘s British literary scene.

I. John Osborne . II. Kingsley Amis

2. Laurence Sterne‘s Tristram Shandy contains: (B) Nine volumes

3. Which of the following statement is NOT true of Areopagitica ?

(A) It was published in 1644. (B) It argues for the liberty of Unlicensed Printing.(C) It pleads for
British privileges regarding Free Trade. (D) It is a speech addressed to the Parliament of
Engl

4. Thomas Hardy‘s last major novel was ___.(B) Jude the Obscure

5. The Hind and the Panther Transvers‘d to the Story of the Country

Mouse and the City Mouse is a satire on: (C) John Dryden

6. Match the columns :

Terms Theorists

1. Matthew Arnold----- I. Apollonian – Dionysian

2. Friedrich Nietzsche---- II. Fancy – Imagination

3. G.H. Hopkins--- III. Hellenism – Hebraism

4. S.T. Coleridge--- IV. Inscape – Instress ans:(A) 2 4 1 3

7. In King Lear who among the following speaks in the voice of Poor Tom ? (B) Edgar

8. In Wordsworth‘s Prelude the Boy of Winander is affected by: (C) Muteness

 9. Which of the following is NOT mentioned as part of the London locale in The Waste Land ?
(B) King Arthur Street

10. Which of the following novels is NOT written by Jean Rhys ?

(A) After Leaving Mr. Mackenzie (B) Good Morning, Midnight

(C) The Quiet American (D) Wide Sargasso Sea Answer: C

Answer the following questions.

(i) Why is Spenser called 'The Poets' Poet'?

Ans. Spenser was first called "The Poets' Poet" by the English essayist Charles Lamb because his
poetic faculty was unique, his greatness was immediately recognized, he coached many poets,
and a host of poets followed him. Milton, Browne, and two Fletchers were his professed
disciples.

(ii) What are Spenser's intentions in writing 'The Faerie Queen'?

Ans. Spenser's aim in writing "The Faerie Queene" was to a create a great national literature for
England, equal to the classic epic poems of Homer and Virgil. The poem is dedicated to
Elizabeth I, who is represented in the poem as the Faerie Queene herself.

(iii) What is Spenserian Stanza?

Ans. The Spenserian Stanza is a fixed verse form invented by Edmund Spenser for his epic poem
"The Faerie Queene". Each stanza contains nine lines in total: eight lines in iambic pentameter
followed by a single 'alexandrine' line in iambic hexameter. The rhyme scheme of these lines is
'ababbcbcc."

(iv) Who is Una?

Ans. Una is Redcross's future wife, and the other major protagonist in Book I. She is meek,
humble, and beautiful, but strong when it is necessary; she represents Truth, which Redcross
must find in order to be a true Christian.

(v) Why does Redcross Knight abandon Una?

Ans. The Redcross Knight abandons Una because he believes the deception of the Archimago,
which pretends to show that Una is not chaste.

(vi) Which of the moral virtues does Redcross Knight represent?

Ans. The Redcross Knight represents holiness. He is bearing the symbol of Jesus Christ upon his
shield. His brand of holiness includes moral and theological purity, as he fights deceptive
monsters on behalf of his lady Una.

(vii) What role does Archimago play in 'The Faerie Queen'?

Ans. Archimago is a sorcerer. His name means "Arch-Image". In the narrative, he is continually
engaged in deceitful magics, as when he makes a false Una to tempt the Red-Cross Knight into
lust, and when he failed, conjures another image, of a squire, to deceive the knight into believing
that Una was false to him.

(viii) What is 'the house of Morpheus'?

Ans. Mopheus is the god of sleeps and dreams. It lives in a mystical cave that seems far removed
from reality. This cave is called "the house of Morpheus".

(ix) What is meant by a Ballad?

Ans. A narrative poem, often of folk origin and intended to be sung, consisting of simple stanzas
and usually having a refrain. The Anonymous medieval ballad, "Barbara Allan", exemplifies the
genre.

(x) What is a sonnet?

Ans. A sonnet is a poem of fourteen lines using any of a number of formal rhyme schemes. In
English, a sonnet has 3 quatrains followed by a couplet and ten syllables per line. (iambic
pentameter). It usually expresses a single, complete thought, idea or sentiment. Examples include
P.B. Shelley's "Ozymandias" and John Keats' "When I Have Fears".

(xi) Explain the rhyme scheme in a sonnet.

(vii) What role does Archimago play in 'The Faerie Queen'?

Ans. Archimago is a sorcerer. His name means "Arch-Image". In the narrative, he is continually
engaged in deceitful magics, as when he makes a false Una to tempt the Red-Cross Knight into
lust, and when he failed, conjures another image, of a squire, to deceive the knight into believing
that Una was false to him.

(viii) What is 'the house of Morpheus'?

Ans. Mopheus is the god of sleeps and dreams. It lives in a mystical cave that seems far removed
from reality. This cave is called "the house of Morpheus".

(ix) What is meant by a Ballad?

Ans. A narrative poem, often of folk origin and intended to be sung, consisting of simple stanzas
and usually having a refrain. The Anonymous medieval ballad, "Barbara Allan", exemplifies the
genre.

(x) What is a sonnet?

Ans. A sonnet is a poem of fourteen lines using any of a number of formal rhyme schemes. In
English, a sonnet has 3 quatrains followed by a couplet and ten syllables per line. (iambic
pentameter). It usually expresses a single, complete thought, idea or sentiment. Examples include
P.B. Shelley's "Ozymandias" and John Keats' "When I Have Fears".

(xi) Explain the rhyme scheme in a sonnet.

Ans. The Petrarchan or Italian sonnet has the rhyme scheme ABBAABBA CDECDE. The
Shakespearean sonnet has the rhyme scheme ABAB CDCD EFEF GG. The Spenserian sonnet is
a variation of the English sonnet with the rhyme scheme ABAB BCBC CDCD EE.

(xii) What is a Shakespearean Sonnet?

Ans. A Shakespearean Sonnet is a poem expressive of though, emotion or idea. It is composed of

three quatrains and a terminal couplet in iambic pentameter with the rhyme scheme abab cdcd
efef gg. It is also call Elizabeth Sonnet or English Sonnet.

(xiii) How many Sonnets did Shakespeare write?

Ans. Shakespeare wrote 154 sonnets which were collected together and published posthumously
in 1609 by Thomas Thorpe.

(xiv) What are the major themes of Shakespeare's sonnets?

Ans. Different types of romantic love, the dangers of lust and love, Platonic love vs. carnal lust,
real beauty vs. cliched beauty, the responsibilities of being beautiful, the ravages of time,
selfishness and greed, self-deprecation and inadequacy, homoerotic desire and financial bondage
are the major themes of Shakespeare's sonnets.

(xv) Who is Shakespeare's Dark Lady?

Ans. Twenty-four of Shakespeare's sonnets are addressed to a mysterious woman called Dark
Lady. Scholars believe that she could be one of four historical women: Mary Fitton, a lady in
waiting to Queen Elizabeth; Lucy Morgan, a brothel owner and former maid to Queen Elizabeth;
Emilia Lanier, the mistress of Lord Hunsdon, patron of the arts; and the mother of his
illegitimate son Devanant.

Derek Walcott was born in Castries, Saint Lucia, the West Indies, on January 23, 1930. His first
published poem, "1944" appeared in The Voice of St. Lucia when he was fourteen years old, and
consisted of 44 lines of blank verse. By the age of nineteen, Walcott had self-published two
volumes, 25 Poems (1948) and Epitaph for the Young: XII Cantos (1949), exhibiting a wide
range of influences, including William Shakespeare, T. S. Eliot, and Ezra Pound.

He later attended the University of the West Indies, having received a Colonial Development and
Welfare scholarship, and in 1951 published the volume Poems.

In 1957, he was awarded a fellowship by the Rockefeller Foundation to study the American
theater. He published numerous collections of poetry in his lifetime, most recently The Poetry of
Derek Walcott 1948-2013 (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2014), White Egrets (Farrar, Straus and
Giroux, 2010), Selected Poems (2007), The Prodigal: A Poem (2004), and Tiepolo's Hound
(2000).

The founder of the Trinidad Theater Workshop, Walcott also wrote several plays produced
throughout the United States: The Odyssey: A Stage Version (1992); The Isle is Full of Noises
(1982); Remembrance and Pantomime (1980); The Joker of Seville and O Babylon! (1978);
Dream on Monkey Mountain and Other Plays (1970); Three Plays: The Last Carnival; Beef, No
Chicken; and A Branch of the Blue Nile (1969). His play Dream on Monkey Mountain won the
Obie Award for distinguished foreign play of 1971. He founded Boston Playwrights' Theatre at
Boston University in 1981.

His first collection of essays, What the Twilight Says (Farrar, Straus & Giroux), was published in
1998.

About his work, the poet Joseph Brodsky said, "For almost forty years his throbbing and
relentless lines kept arriving in the English language like tidal waves, coagulating into an
archipelago of poems without which the map of modern literature would effectively match
wallpaper. He gives us more than himself or 'a world'; he gives us a sense of infinity embodied in
the language."

Walcott's honors include a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship, the T. S. Eliot Prize, the Montale
Prize, a Royal Society of Literature Award, and, in 1988, the Queen's Medal for Poetry. In 1992,
Walcott became the first Caribbean writer to receive the 1992 Nobel Prize in Literature, and in
2015, he received the Griffin Trust for Excellence in Poetry's Lifetime Achievement Award. He
was an honorary member of the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters.

1. .After his wife s death R.Browning was published.....? Dramatic_Persona

2. Which work of R .Browning was published on the day of his death ...? Asolando

3. .In which work of Tennyson, we have found ' I do forgive him and they slept soundly ...'
? Sea_Dream
4. Fault Lines a memoir is authored by ... M_Alexander

5. How many sonnet s was included in the work' Sonnet s from the Portuguese...? 44

6. Which of the following plays is a dramatization of ' Feathertop' ...? The_Scarecrow

7. Which among the following are not the work done by Samuel Richardson? A) Virtue

8. Which dialect became the standard English by the time of Chaucer...? East_midland

9. St . Pauls school was established to serve as a model school for the teaching of ...?
#Latin_&_Greek

10. Byculla Boy is a novel by .. - .Banker

11. The character of Robin Hood in Ballad is presented...? as_a friend of the poor

12. Which work of R.Browning was based on the life of the Physician...? Asolando - The
Ring and the Book - - Men and Women

13. Who for the first time discriminated between imagination and fancy..? - #S_T_Coleridge

14. The chief characteristic of the Renaissance ....? - #Emphasis_on_Humanism

15. What is ' Maud ' in Tennysons poem ( Maud ) ...? - #a_girl

16. After his wife's death R. Browning published.....? - #Dramatic_Persona

17. In which work of Tennyson, we have found ' I do forgive him and they slept soundly ...' ?
#Sea_Dream

18. .' Poems by Two Brothers ' by Tennyson was written by ...? #Three_person

19. Who called "North of Boston" as ' one of the most revolutionary books of Modern
times'? Ezra pound✅

20. Another name of Basic Education or Nai Talim is : Wardha Education Plan✅

21. According to T.S. Eliot, when did 'sentimental age' begin in English poetry? (a) late 17th
century (b) early 18th century✅ (c) late 18th century (d) 19th century

22. "Two Noble Kinsmen" the play co-authored by Shakespeare is based on which
Boccaccio story of The Canterbury Tales? (a) The Shipman's Tale (b) The Knight's Tale✅ (c)
The Prioress's Tale (d) Sir Thopas' Tale
23. 'Puritan Interregnum' is better known as (a) Commonwealth period✅ (b) Neoclassical
period (c) Restoration period (d) Age of Prose and Pamphlets

24. Which literary form derives its name from the Greek term meaning 'making'? poetry✅

25. Which century marks the transition from decaying medievalism to promising
Renaissance in English literature? (a) 14 (b) 15 ✅(c) 16 (d) 17

26. What is Georg Lukacs' term to refer to the novels which reflect the social reality of their
capitalist age? (a) Exploter's epic (b) Capitalist epic (c) Social reality epic (d) bourgeois epic✅

27. What is Georg Lukacs' term to refer to the novels which reflect the social reality of their
capitalist age? (a) Exploter's epic (b) Capitalist epic (c) Social reality epic (d) bourgeois epic✅

28. Which of the following is a prose-work by Chaucer? The Tale of Melibeus

29. The dialect in which Beowulf is written is .... West Saxon

30. Who, in The Canterbury Tales, tells the medieval love-triangle-romance of Palamon,
Arcite and Emily? The Knight

31. Chaucer's Yeoman's Tale reveals not only the erudite astronomer in him but also the
accomplished (a) sailor (b) musician (c) alchemist ✅(d) painter

32. What is the possible exception to Saussure's observation that verbal signs are arbitrary?
(a) gestures (b) body language (c) onomatopoeia ✅(d) none of these

33. The motto of the witches in Macbeth is (a) Fair is foul, and foul is fair ✅(b) All fair is
foul, and all foul is fair (c) All fair and foul in this bog (d) Foul is Fair or Fair is foul

34. In Act I Sc.1 of Hamlet, Horatio refers to the ghost as 'the extravagant and erring spirit"
(Line 153). What does 'extravagant' mean here? (a) royally dressed (b) heavily armed (c)
wandering✅ (d) huge in size

35. The feature common to Dryden's literary essays in the Restoration, Dr. Johnson's Lives
of English Poets, Coleridge's Lectures on Shakespeare, and Mathew Arnold's Essays in
Criticism, is that they all belong to the critical mode of (a) applied or practical criticism ✅(b)
objective criticism (c) impressionist criticism (d) expressive criticism

36. Among the following Middle English works, which one is on Statesmanship?
Policraticus✅

37. A story's grammatical tense that shows its time-frame in the present, past or future is
called ... Narrative Time✅
38. Which one of the following Orwell works is a piece of non-fiction? Homage to
Catalonia✅

39. Known best for the dystopian novel "Brave New World", this 20th century writer is a
spiritual pacifist and humanist interested in universalism, parapsychology and philosophical
mysticism. The writer, a seven-time Nobel nominee, in question is : Aldous Huxley

40. Perhaps the most famous of the poet's subjects is ―Crow," an amalgam of god, bird and
man, whose existence, he felt pivotal to the knowledge of good and evil. Born Edward James,
which 20th century poet is referred to here? Ted Hughes

41. Who was the editor of the journal 'Scrutiny'? .FR.Leavis✅

42. The English aesthetic philosopher regarded as the 'father of imagism' is T.E. Hulme✅

43. Who wrote Doktor Faustus(novel) Thomas Mann✅

44. Which British poet killed in action at the age of 34 has the headstone carrying the
inscription ―One of the War Poets‖ (d) Hulme✅

45. Which of the following is a fourteen-word verbless modernist poem presenting two
images and freezing a moment in time? In a Station of the Metro✅

46. Which of the following was the Anglo-Saxon term for the peasant or an unrefined
commoner? (c) churl✅

47. The device used by which poets T.S. Eliot describes as "the elaboration of a figure of
speech to the farthest stage to which ingenuity can carry it‖? Donne and Cowley✅

48. ‘Not unattractive‘ is an example of : Litotes✅

49. Motif: Recurring element having symbolic significance in a story.✅

50. Monody: A poem in which one person laments another‘s death.✅

51. Which plays of Shakespeare deal with the Wars of the Roses? Henry vi parts 1,2,3 and
Richard iii✅

52. When Galsworthy turned down Knighthood in 1917, who was the Prime Minister of
England? A. Winston Churchill B. Anthony Eden C. Lloyd George✅

53. Who said, "Keats's had flint and iron in him" a. Matthew Arnold ✅
54. Robert Frost was sent to ___ as a representative of the American people by John F.
Kennedy. Russia✅

55. The sequel to Sanctuary is ... Requiem for a Nun ,a play

56. Keats speaks of his Endymion as 'a feverish attempt rather than a deed accomplished'
in...a. the Preface of Endymion .✅

57. Who wrote the book " Surprised by Sin "? B- Stanley Fish✅

58. Who wrote the book " Feminist Milton"? J.Wittreich✅

59. Who wrote the book " Milton's Grand Style"? Christopher Ricks✅

60. Who wrote the book " Milton's God"? William Empson✅

61. Who wrote the book " Preface of Paradise Lost "? C.S.Lewis✅

62. Robert Frost got Pulitzer Prize in 1937 for.. C- A Further Range✅

63. whom does Shelley call 'wolves' in Adonais ? critics and Journalist✅

64. "I write in metre because I am about to use a language different from prose " who said
this? B- S.T.Coleridge✅

65. A confusion between the poem and its result is known as : affective fallacy ✅

66. [11:27 AM, 1/29/2019] Sadavel.k: Ques-Ulysses believe s that old age is not an age of ..-
Rest✅

67. [11:27 AM, 1/29/2019] Sadavel.k: Ques-which poem of Tennyson is based on Homer's
Odyssey n Dante inferno.....-Ulysses✅

68. Come friends/'tis not too late to seek a .........world:Newer✅

69. Tennyson's swan song is.... Crossing the Bar✅

70. Tennyson saw nature with the eye of a poet as well as with the eye of ....-A scientist✅

71. who called the poem The Prelude..." An orphic song indeed."? Coleridge✅

[11:29 AM, 1/29/2019] Sadavel.k: Ques- There is a clear influence of ___In "Leech Gatherer"...

A Hazlitt
B Coleridge

C Spencer✅

D Wordsworth

[11:30 AM, 1/29/2019] Sadavel.k: Ques-who said about Wordsworth.." A Lost Leader"

A Keats

B Shelley

C Browning✅

D Tennyson

[11:30 AM, 1/29/2019] Sadavel.k: Ques-Who said about Wordsworth.." He uttered nothing
base."??

A Keats

B Shelley

C Browning

D Tennyson✅

[11:31 AM, 1/29/2019] Sadavel.k: Ques-Hazlitt describes..... .....as new and terrific dance of
death.

A.The Triumph of Life✅

B.Adonais

C.The Cenci

D.Hellas

[11:34 AM, 1/29/2019] Sadavel.k: Ques.The line "I m the daughter of earth and water" appear
in:

A.The Cloud✅

B.To a Skylark

C.Ode to the West Wind

D.Hellas
[11:34 AM, 1/29/2019] Sadavel.k: Ques-"Life may change, but it may fly not."

These lines from:

A.Hellas✅

B.The Cloud

C.Ode to the West Wind

D.To a Skylark

Types of Literature in the Age of Reason.

For about 30 years, who among the following was Barthes's friend Pulitzer winning poet-
translator? (a) Stephen Heath (b) Richard Howard ✅(c) Richard Miller (d) Annette Lavers

Through a structural analysis of Balzac's which story Barthes demonstrates the functioning of
different codes of meaning in his 1970 'essai' S/Z ? (a) Gambara (b) La Bourse (c) Z. Marcas (d)
Sarrasine✅

What according to Barthes, his five codes of meaning point to? (a) integrity of the text (b)
fabric of the text (c) ambivalence of the text (d) multivalence of the text✅

Barthes's 'Semantic code' refers to meaning at the (a) denotative level (b) connotative level
✅(c) cultural level (d) all the three levels

The title of which work by Barthes refers to his categorization of characters in phallic terms?
(a) A Lover's Discourse: Fragments (b) The Pleasure of the Text (c) Writing Degree Zero (d)
S/Z✅

Barthes uses the terms 'plaisir' (pleasure) and jouissance ('bliss') to refer to the (a) effects of the
text✅ (b) inspiration behind the text (c) writer's reward (d) none of these

Among the following, the American cartoonist and comics theorist best known for his non-
fiction work "Making Comics" is (a) William Hogarth (b) Thomas Nast (c) Charles Addams (d)
Scott McCloud"✅

Who among the following Indian English writers is renowned for promoting children's
literature in India with his debut 1956 novel The Room on the Roof he wrote when he was hardly
seventeen? (a) Amish Tripati (b) Mulk Raj Anand (c) Ruskin Bond ✅(d) Rudyard Kipling
 At a time when mysteries and thrillers were scarcely read in India, who pioneered the genre and
contributed immensely to it with books like Spy in Amber? (a) Khushwant Singh (b) Manjeri
Eswaran (c) Manohar Malgonkar✅ (d) Ruskin Bond

Which among the following is Arundhati Roy's 2001 collection of political essays? (a) The End
of Imagination (b) Broken Republic (c) The Algebra of Infinite Justice✅ (d) Listening to
Grasshoppers

Which of the following is a Booker winning Indian financial journalist's 2016 sports-novel? (a)
Born to Win (b) Raced to Rubble (c) Selection Day✅ (d) Loneliness of a Long Distance Runner

Whose first novel is Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard? (a) Aravind Adiga (b) R.K. Narayan (c)
Kamala Das (d) Kiran Desai✅

The host nation and theme UN has chosen for the 2018 World Environment Day is (a) Canada,
Man's connection with Nature (b) Angola, Go Wild for Life (c) Soudi Arabia, Consume with
Care (d) India, Beat plastic✅

Which Indian English poet speaks of 'context-sensitive' thinking in his 1990 essay " "Is There
an Indian Way of Thinking?" (a) Nissim Ezekiel (b) Keki Daruwala✅ (c) A.K. Ramanujan (d)
P. Lal

The image of "A skull on the holy sands‟ in the imagist poem "Dawn at Puri" startles the reader
with the juxtaposition of the abstract (holy) and the concrete (skull). Whose poem is this
anyway? (a) A.K. Ramanujan (b) Keki N Daruwalla (c) Nissim Ezekiel (d) Jayant Mahapatra✅

Who is ironically stated as 'sceptic, rationalist' in one of Ezekiel's very popular poems? (a)
Father ✅(b) Mother (c) Holy man (d) The speaker

Who among the following is the early Bengali poet and editor of the English language journal
Hindu Intelligencer, published from Calcutta? (a) Kashiprasad Ghosh✅ (b) Michael
Madhusudan Dutt (c) Bankinchandra Chatterjee (d) Toru Dutt

The first Indian English poet Derozio's long narrative poem on the ill-fated life and adventures
of the Brahmin widow Nuleeni is (a) The Fakir of Jangheera✅ (b) The Harp of India (c) To
India, my Native Land (d) None of these

Born in the same year (1809) two poets set the tone and tenor of early Indian English poetry.
One of them was Henry Louis Vivian Derozio, the first Indian English poet and the father of
Indo-Anglican sonnet, who wrote under the influence of English romantics like Byron and Scott.
And the other (a) Michael Madhusudan Dutt (b) Sri Aurobindo (c) Toru Dutt (d) Kashiprasad
Ghosh✅
 Which early poem by Kashiprasad Ghosh relates the tragic story of a poet who throws himself
into the sea unable to bear the death of his love ? (a) The Shair✅ (b) The Captive Lady (c) The
Vision of the Past (d) Immortal Love

In his women-centred plays Mahesh Dattani is considered to be the true successor of which
contemporary Indian English dramatist? (a) B.V. Karanth (b) Girish Karnard✅ (c) Bhisham
Sahni (d) Vijay Thendulkar

Which Dattani play has at its center a traumatized woman (Mala) plagued by the continued
influence of her childhood sexual abuser? (a) Thirty Days in September✅ (b) Tara (c) Dance
Like a Man (d) Seven Steps Around the Fire

In which play Dattani presents Ratna, a woman responsible for the death of her own child? (a)
Dance Like a Man ✅(b) Seven Steps Around the Fire (c) On a Muggy Night in Mumbai (d)
Where There's a Will

"She sees more of her children than her husband." This is a grammatically ambiguous sentence.
Which of the following terms refers to such sentences? (a) amphibology✅ (b) multisemy (c)
polysemy (d) kenning

For us 'apology' is an expression of regret for a mistake. But for Sidney, it was a 'defence' or
'justification'; cf his "Apologie for Poetry"). So 'apology' has two meanings, and these meanings
are contradictory. Such words with contradictory meanings are known as (a) fallacies (b) puns
(c) amphinym (d) contronym✅

"Pretty women wonder where my secret lies." Which Maya Angelou poem begins with this
line? (a) Still I Rise (b) Caged Bird (c) Phenomenal Woman ✅(d) Refusal

"The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain" is a 1925 essay by (a) Toni Morrison (b) Maya
Angelou (c) Langston Hughes ✅(d) Wole Soyinka

"I wonder as I wander" is an autobiographical work by (a) Zora Hurston (b) Langston Hughes
✅(c) Ralph Ellison (d) Alice Walker

Which of the following is a science fiction novel by H.G. Wells? (a) Invisible Man (b) The
Invisible Man ✅(c) Juneteenth (d) Of Mice and Men

Which novel won for R.K. Narayan, the pioneering Indian English novelist the 1960 Sahitya
Akademi Award 1960? (a) Waiting for the Mahatma (b) The Man-Eater of Malgudi (c)
Grandmother's Tale (d) The Guide✅

Who is the financial expert in R.K. Narayan's novel The Financial Expert? (a) Margayya ✅(b)
Vasu (c) Velan (d) Raju
 Which of the following is not one of P.G. Wodehouse‘s Cricket Trilogy? (a) Mike at Wrykyn
(b) Mike and Psmith (c) Psmith in the City (d) The Match✅

Originally published in 2001, The Canterbury Tales is a play based on Chaucer's 14th century
poem. The playwright is (a) John O'Connor ✅(b) Clare Bayley (c) Steven Berkoff (d)
Gregrory Burke

Which one-act-play by Edward Albee concerns two characters, Peter and Jerry, who meet on a
park bench in New York City's Central Park? (a) The American Dream (b) The Death of Bessie
Smith (c) The Zoo Story✅ (d) Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

A son of a vintner inherently adopted a French term for his surname, acquired a seat in the court
of as many as three English Kings and gained the first resting place in the poet's corner of the
Westminster Abbey. Identify this personality. Geoffery Chaucer✅

Which work did Nirad C. Chaudhuri call ‗ the finest novel in the English language with an
Indian theme‘? Kim✅

Which of the following is Edward Albee's debut play? (a) The Zoo Story✅ (b) A Delicate
Balance (c) Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolf? (d) The Sand Box

Which play by Tennessee Williams is autobiographical in that it reflects the playwright's

unhappy family background? (a) The Glass Managerie✅ (b) A Street Car Named Desire (c) Cat
on a Hot Tin Roof (d) Sweet Bird of Youth

From whom, Tennessee Williams admitted, he had learned the art of 'fearless expression of
brute nature'. (a) D.H. Lawrence (b) Strindberg (c) Joyce (d) Hemingway✅

Which of the following is a Memory Play? (a) Death of a Salesman (b) Emperor Jones (c) The
Zoo Story (d) The Glass Manageries✅

Who, among the following American critics, was a life-long literary journalist connected with
Vanity Fair and The New Republic? (a) Cleanth Brooks (b) Allen Tate (c) Edmund Wilson ✅(d)
J.C. Ransom

Among the following, who was a member of the Fugitives, later the Southern Agrarians? (a)
Edmund Wilson (b) J.C. Ransom ✅(c) Cleanth Brooks (d) Elder Olson

The critical school of thought in which the author is regarded as the origin and source of a text,
a unifying figure in which the overall meaning of a work is supposed to reside, is (a) Authorial
Literary Studies (b) Auteurist literary studies (c) Subjective Literary Studies (d) Intentional
Fallacy.✅
Which mode of criticism aims at establishing the accuracy of what the author actually wrote in a
literary work? (a) Practical Criticism (b) Biographical Criticism (c) Historical criticism (d)
Textual criticism✅

Who among the following was the orginal tragic playwright of Restoration England? (a)
Wycherley (b) Jeremy Collier (c) Aphra Behn (d) Thomas Otway✅

What happens to Shakespeare's Fool in Nahum Tate's reworking of the play King Lear? (a) He
joins hands with the lady villians (b) He deserts the King in the middle of the play (c) He
commits suicide in the end (d) Fool does not appear in Tate's King Lear.✅

The key-theme of Restoration comedy was (a) Love (b) Urban idiosyncracies (c) Sex✅ (d)
Country simplicity

George Etherege's play The Man of Mode is a comedy of (a) character✅ (b) humours (c)
situations (d) action

"The short and simple annals of the poor" alludes to which pre-romantic poem? (a) Ode to
Evening (b) Seasons (c) Elegy written in a Country Churchyard✅ (d) The Hermit

What according to Gray 'teaches the rustic moralist to die' (Elegy, line 84) ? (a) Fame and Glory
(b) Religious faith (c) Simplicity (d) the holy texts on the graves✅

[6:07 PM, 1/26/2019] Sadavel.k: "The grave's a fine and private place,

But none I think do there embrace."

Which metaphysical poem ends with these grim and ironical lines? (a) The Good Morrow (b)
Silence and Stealth of Days (c) To his Coy Mistress✅ (d) The Wine of Love

Who among the following is not a metaphysical? (a) Crashaw (b) Donne (c) Herbert (d)
Thomson✅

In which poem Donne raises the question: ―Where can we find two better hemispheres‖? (a)
The Flea (b) The Good Morrow ✅(c) The Sun Rising (d) The Dream

The first woman to publish a book of poems in England was (a) Anne Bradstreet ✅(b) Eliza
Acton (c) Lucy Aikin (d) Anne Askew

In the collection "Poems by Two Brothers" (1857), with whom did Tennyson collaborate? (a)
Charles✅ (b) Frederick (c) Edward (d) Hallam
 The woman-poet considered for poet-laureateship along with Alfred Tennyson was (a)
Christina Rossetti (b) Elizabeth Barrett Browning ✅(c) Felicia Hemans (d) Letitia Elizabeth
Landon

The volume of poems entitled The Improvisatrice, The Troubadour and The Golden Violet, are
by one woman Victorian poet, and the poet is (a) Eliza Barret (b) Letitia Landon✅ (c) Felicia
Hemans (d) Christina Rossetti

Who, among the following Victorian women poets, was a child prodigy, who published a
volume of poems when she was hardly fourteen. (a) Felicia Hemans ✅(b) Eliza Barrett (c)
Latitia Landon (d) Christina Rossetti

The hero of the Old English Epic Beowulf is (a) anglo-saxon (b) Germanic ✅(c) French (d)
Italian

The dialect in which Beowulf is written is (a) Northumbrian (b) East Saxon (c) West Saxon
✅(d) Mercian

Which of the following works is not authentically by Chaucer? (a) The Flower and the Leaf
✅(b) Anelida and Arcite (c) The House of Fame (d) Troilus and Criseyde

Which of the following is a prose-work by Chaucer? (a) The Book of the Duchess (b) The
House of Fame (c) The Legend of Good Women (d) The Tale of Melibeus✅

Which early English poet is credited for importing the decasyllabic line from France? (a) Gower
(b) The Pearl Poet (c) Chaucer (d) Wyatt

An asteroid and a lunar crater have been named after which English poet? (a) Shakespeare (b)
Marlowe (c) Sidney (d) Chaucer✅

The full-title of Langland's Piers the Plowman is (a) The Vision of William concerning Piers the
Plowman ✅(b) The Dream Vision of Piers the Plowman (c) Piers the Plowman, a Dream Vision
(d) Piers the Plowman, a Dream Allegory

Which early Scottish poet wrote an epic of thirteen thousand lines on the history of his
country's freedom, with King Bruce as its hero? (a) Langland (b) Gower (c) Mandeville (d)
Barbour✅

Who among the following is designated as the first English prose stylist? (a) Dryden (b)
Wycliff (c) Bacon (d) Malory✅

Chevy Chace, Sir Patrick Spens, and the Robin Hood poems are ballads of the (a) 12th century
(b) 13th century (b) 14th century (d) 15th century✅
 Who among the following is a Middle English biographer and chronicler? (a) Geoffrey of
Monmouth (b) Bede (c) Mathew Paris ✅(d) William of Malmesbury

The term Matthew Arnold uses in his Oxford lectures to refer to those Englishmen who
consider wealth as indicative of greatness is (a) barbarians (b) decadents (c) philistine✅ (d)
plebian

In the preface to his Poems (1918) Hopkins points out that Sprung Rhythm has come from (a)
the epic metrics (b) classical Latin (c) common speech ✅(d) Greek prosody.

What was Linguistics known in the 19th century? (a) Lanugage History (b) Comparative
Language Study (c) Philology✅ (d) Phonology

Which sentimental English novelist was known as 'the Man of Feeling' after the name of his
own novel? (a) Henry Mackenzie✅ (b) Horace Walpole (c) Matthew Lewis (d) William
Beckford

"A Letter to a Hindu" is a work by which Russian author? (a) Chekhov (b) Sholokhov (c)
Tolstoy✅ (d) Mayakovsky

Which book by Wimsatt is subtitled "Studies in the Meaning of Poetry"? (a) Verbal Icon✅ (b)
Hateful Contraries (c) Day of the Leopards (d) Literary Criticism: A Short History

The pragmatic meaning of the question ‗What time do you call this?‘ is (a) What time is it? (b)
What season is this? (c) Is it a good or bad time for you? (d) Why are you so late?✅

Oscar Wilde's posthumously published work De Profundis is in the form of a long letter written
when he was a prisoner in Reading Gaol. To whom is it addressed? (a) Lord Alfred Douglas, his
homosexual partner✅ (b) Constance Lloyd, his wife (c) The Marquis of Queensberry, his rival
in a libel suit (d) none of these

As a poet, Yeats was a practitioner of (a) free verse (b) blank verse (c) traditional forms✅ (d)
none of these

The Prelude is a long autobiographical poem,first drafted in 1799, expanded in 1805, revised at
intervals until 1839 and finally published posthumously in 1850. Its title "The Prelude" was
chosen by.....

a. William Wordsworth himself

b. His Sister Dorothy

c. His wife Mary ✅

d. His friend S.T. Coleridge

Who coined the phrase-"poetry is the criticism of life"?

a.T.S.Eliot

b.F.L.Lucas

c.F.R.Leavis

d.Matthew Arnold✅

"Poetry is a criticism of life under the conditions fixed for such a criticism by the laws of poetic
truth and poetic beauty." Who defines poetry in these words? MatthewArnold✅

The phrase 'stormy sisters' applied to---A. Charlotte Bronte B. Emily Bronte C. Ann Bronte D.
Collectively to all the three✅

These are the important facts related to given title:- the waste land:.Poet :- T. S EliotPublished
in 1922: � It's dedicated to Ezra pound who made a lot many improvement and abridged it in the
present form.It is called ―condensed epic" by I A Richardson.Eliot was known for a technic
‗objective correlative‘.

Richardson called it ‗poetic shorthand‘.

Main themes of the poem:---

A. Spiritual degeneration

B. Disillusionment

C. Boredom of a generation

�Tiresias is the central figure of the poem, an interested spectator of the modern waste land.

�Tiresias comes as spokes man of Eliot.

It is divided into five parts:-

1. The burial of the dead.

2. A game of chess

3. The fire sermon

4. Death by water

5. What the thunder Said

�It depends on Indian mythology Shanti,Shanti,Shanti(upnisad

Forest of Arden appears in the play - - As You Like It

2. Who is the author of Steel Glass ? - Gascoigne

3. In which year was the Globe Theatre built ?- 1599

4. Shakespeare's Sonnets were first published in - 1609

5. Who was the author of Endymion ? - John Lyly

6. Who is the author of Venus and Adonis ? - Shakespeare

7. How many plays did Shakespeare write in all ? - 37

8. When Sidney died, Spenser wrote an elegy on his death. Which of the following ?- Astrophel

9. Spenser's Epithalamion is- a wedding hymn

10. Spenser's Amoretti is - a collection of his love sonnets

11. Spenser wrote a series of sonnets in honour of his lady love, Elizabeth Boyle, whom he later
married.

What title did he give to this series ?- Amoretti

12. Roister Doister is believed to be the first real comedy in English. Who wrote it ? - Nicholas
Udall

13. Gorboduc is believed to be our first real tragedy. It was written in collaboration by :- Thomas
Sackville and Thomas Norton

14. The first tragedy Gorboduc was later entitled :- Ferrex and Porrex

15. Sidney's Apologie for Poetrie is a reply to :- Gosson's School of Abuse

16. In his Apologie for Poetrie, Sidney :- defends the Three Dramatic Unities

17. –––– has written only Tragedies.- Marlowe

18. "Was this the face that launched a thousand ships?" In which play does this line occur ? -
Marlowe's Dr. Faustus

19. Who used the phrase 'Marlowe's mighty line' for Marlowe's Blank Verse ? - Ben Jonson

20. Who said, "Shakespeare has only heroines and no heroes" ? - Ruskin
21. For what is the phrase 'The Mousetrap' used by Shakespeare ?- The play within the play in
Hamlet

22. Spenser dedicates the Preface to The Faerie Queene to :- Sir Walter Raleigh

23. The Faerie Queene is an allegory. In this Queen Elizabeth is allegorized through the
character of :- Gloriana

24. Who calls Spenser the 'Poets' Poet' ? - Charles Lamb

25. In which work did Spenser first use the Spenserian stanza ? - Faerie Queene

26. In the original scheme or plan of the Faerie Queene as designed by Spenser, it was to be
completed in :Twelve

Which of the following words describe the prevailing attitude of High-Modern Literature?
Skeptical

2. Which Welsh poet wrote ―Under Milk Wood?‖ Dylan Thomas

3. Who wrote Canterbury Tales? Geoffrey Chaucer

4. Who wrote ―The Hound of the Baskervilles?‖ Arthur Conan Doyle

5. Wlliam Shakespeare is not the author of:White Devil

6. _____is a late 20th century play written by a woman? Camille

7. Which of the following writers wrote historical novels? Sir Walter Scott and Maria Edgeworth

9. Which of the following are Thomas Hardy books? The Poor Man and the Lady..The Return of
Native

11. Who wrote the poems, ―On death‖ and ―Women, Wine, and Snuff?‖ John Keats

12. ―Of Man‘s first disobedience, and the fruit Of that forbidden tree whose mortal taste Brought
death into the world, and all our woe, With loss of Eden.‖ This is an extract from:Paradise
Regained

13. William Shakespeare was born in the year:1564

15. Who wrote ‗The Winter‘s Tale?‘William Shakespeare

16.Which poem ends ‗I shall but love thee better after death‘? How do I love thee

17. Which poet is considered a national hero in Greece? Lord Byron

18. Which kind of poem is Edward Lear associated with? Nonsense

19. In coleridge‘s poem ‗The rime of the Ancient Mariner‘where were the three gallants going?
A wedding

20. Harold Nicholson described which poet as ‗Very yellow and glum. Perfect manners‘? T. S.
Elliot

21. What was strange about Emily Dickinson? She rarely left home

22. Rupert Brooke wrote his poetry during which conflict? First World War

23. Which Poet Laureatewrote about a church mouse? Betjeman

24. Which American writer published ‗A brave and startling truth‘ in 1996. Maya Angelou

25. Who wrote about the idyllic ‗Isle of Innisfree‘? W. B. Yeats

26.Sylvia Plath married which English poet? Hughes

27. Carl Sandburg ‗Planked whitefish‘ contains what kind of imagery? War

28. Which influential American poet was born in Long Island in 1819? Walt Whitman

29. In 1960 ‗The Colossus‘ was the first book of poems published by which poetess? Sylvia
Plath

In his poem Kipling said ‗If you can meet with triumph and . . . . . . . . . . ‗? Disaster

Which of the following is not a literary device used for aesthetic effect in poetry? Grammar

What is the earliest surviving European poem? The Homeric epic

Which of the following is not a poetic tradition? The Occult

What is the study of poetry‘s meter and form called? Prosody

Shakespeare composed much of his plays in what sort of verse? Iambic pentameter

Which poet invented the concept of the variable foot in poetry? William Carlos Williams

Who wrote this famous line: ‗Shall I compare thee to a summer‘s day/ Thou art more lovely and
more temperate…‘ Shakespeare

From what century does the poetic form the folk ballad date? The 12th
 From which of Shakespeare‘s plays is this famous line: ‗Did my heart love til now?/ Forswear it,
sight/ For I never saw a true beauty until this night‘ Romeo and Juliet

What is a poem called whose first letters of each line spell out a word? Acrostic

Auld Lang Syne is a famous poem by whom? Robert Burns

How has Stephen Dunn been described in ‗the Oxford Companion to 20th Century Poetry? A
poet of middleness

‗The Cambridge school‘ refers to a group who emerged when?The 1960′s

Margaret Atwood was born in which Canadian city? Ottowa

How did W. H. Auden describe poetry? A game of knowledge

Sassoon and Brooke wrote whatt kind of poetry? War poems

Where did T. S. Eliot spend most of his childhood? St Louis

Ted Hughes was married to which American poetess? Sylvia Plath

How old was Rupert Brooke at the time of his death?28

Two of the following list are ―Angry Young Men‖ of the 1950‘s British literary scene.

I. John Osborne

II. C.P. Snow

III. Anthony Powell

IV. Kingsley Amis

The right combination, accordingto the code

(A) I & II (B) II & IV (C) I & IV (D) I & III ..Answer: C

2. Laurence Sterne‘s Tristram Shandy contains

(A) Six volumes (B) Nine volumes (C) Ten volumes(D) Four volumes :Answer: B

3. Which of the following statement is NOT true of Areopagitica ?

(A) It was published in 1644.

(B) It argues for the liberty of Unlicensed Printing.

(C) It pleads for British privileges regarding Free Trade.

(D) It is a speech addressed to the Parliament of England.

Answer: C

4. Thomas Hardy‘s last major novel was ___.

(A) Tess of the D‘urbervilles

(B) Jude the Obscure

(C) The Return of the Native

(D) The Trumpet Major

Answer: B

5. The Hind and the Panther Transvers‘d to the Story of the Country

Mouse and the City Mouse is a satire on

(A) Alexander Pope

(B) Jonathan Swift

(C) John Dryden

(D) Samuel Butler

Answer: C

6. Match the columns :

Terms Theorists

1. Matthew Arnold

2. Friedrich Nietzsche

3. G.H. Hopkins

4. S.T. Coleridge

I. Apollonian – Dionysian

II. Fancy – Imagination

III. Hellenism – Hebraism

IV. Inscape – Instress

I II III IV

(A) 2 4 1 3

(B) 2 4 3 1

(C) 1 4 2 3

(D) 4 2 1 3

Answer: A

7. In King Lear who among the following speaks in the voice of Poor Tom ?

(A) Kent

(B) Edgar

(C) Edmund

(D) Gloucester

Answer: B

8. In Wordsworth‘s Prelude the Boy of Winander is affected by

(A) Blindness

(B) Deafness

(C) Muteness

(D) Lameness

Answer: C

9. Which of the following is NOT mentioned as part of the London locale

in The Waste Land ?

(A) St. Manus Martyr

(B) King Arthur Street

(C) St. Mary Woolnoth

(D) Lower Thames Street

Answer: B

10. Which of the following novels is NOT written by Jean Rhys ?

(A) After Leaving Mr. Mackenzie

(B) Good Morning, Midnight

(C) The Quiet American

(D) Wide Sargasso Sea

Answer: C

Which of the following is not one of Bernard Shaw's 'unpleasant' plays?

(a) Widowers' Houses (b) Candida ✅(c) The Philanderer (d) Mrs. Warren's Profession

The concept of 'aesthetic distance' refers to the reader's detachment from what is happening in
the text, and its opposite is the reader's (a) interest (b) enjoyment (c) involvement ✅(d) intimacy

The dialect in which Beowulf is written is ....

(a) Northumbrian

(b) East Saxon

(c) West Saxon ✅

(d) Mercian

What is the full form of "CD-ROM"? Compact Disc ROM✅

Bug means: Logical error in a program✅

Which of the following is not one of Bernard Shaw's 'unpleasant' plays?

(a) Widowers' Houses (b) Candida ✅(c) The Philanderer (d) Mrs. Warren's Profession

The concept of 'aesthetic distance' refers to the reader's detachment from what is happening in
the text, and its opposite is the reader's (a) interest (b) enjoyment (c) involvement ✅(d) intimacy

What is the full form of "modem"? Modulator Demodulator✅

Which of the following is described the meaning of a declarative hypotheses

A. The expression of the correlations among the variables

B. The declaration of the relationship among the variables

C. Both A and B.✅

The meaning of Crossed Reaction Experimental Design is

A. Such an experimental design where all the reactions are carried out with the subjects in a
sequential fashion

B. Such an experimental design where the subject related errors are eliminated

C. Both of the above are correct.✅

Who among the following Indian educators/thinkers drew heavil from the philosophy of
Vedanta ? ( DEC 2018 ) Swami Vivekananda✅

The most important quality of a good teacher is: Good communication skills.............✅

As a good classroom communicator, you are supposed to know your: artful pauses.............✅

Graham Greene's The Power and The Glory was published in? 1940

All about H Hatter(1948) was written by A. G.V Desani

In which novel does Graham Greene satirizes spy novels? A. The Power and The Glory B. The
Quiet American ✅C. Our Man in Havana D. Brighton Rock

The Strange Case of Billy Biswas(1971) was a novel by

A. Amitav Ghosh B. Khushwant Singh ✅ C. Arun Joshi

Who is regarded as the first woman poet in Australia? Ada Cambridge

7. Which novel by an Indian administrator exposes the moribund culture of Babudom?

A. Red Earth and Pouring Rain B. Autobiography of an Unknown Indian C. The Last
Labyrinth✅ D. English August : An Indian Story

8. A Dance in the Forests(1960), a celebration of Nigerian Independence, was written by

A. Chinua Achebe✅ B. Wole Soyinka C. Ngugi wa Thiango D. Flora Nwapa

9. The Solid Mandala, a pre-war urban Australian novel was written by ✅A. Patrick White

10. Mandela's Ego is a novel by ✅A. Lewis Nkosi

 T.S. Eliot‗s The Waste Land is dedicated to Il miglior fabro (―The better Craftsman‖) which
refers to : (A) Ezra Pound (B) Baudelaire (C) G.M. Hopkins (D) Dante Answer: A

Table-Talk is a collection of essays by : (A) Lamb (B) Hunt (C) Hazlitt (D) De Quincey
Answer: C

Stanley Fish – Reader Response theory

The title The Sound and the Fury is taken from : (A) Hamlet (B) Macbeth (C) The Tempest (D)
King Lear Answer: B

The term ―The Fleshly School of Poetry‖ is associated with the : (A) Chartists (B) Pre-
Raphaelites (C) Symbolists (D) Imagists Answer: B

The term ―gothic‖, a category of fiction, also applies to : (A) architecture (B) painting (C)
music (D) theater Answer: A

The term ―Negritude‖ was coined by : (A) Frantz Fanon and Homi Bhabha (B) Ngugi Wa‟
Thiongo and Wole Soyinka (C) Ainee Cesaire and Leopold Senghor (D) K. Alfred Memi and
Chinua Achebe Answer: C

The term ‗American renaissance‗ was first used by : (A) R. W. B Lewis (B) Leo Marx (C) F.
O. Matthiessen (D) Richard Chase Answer: C

Muriel Spark‗s The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie is a rewriting of the Victorian novel : (A) Jane
Eyre (B) Villette (C) Wuthering Heights (D) North and South Answer: A

‗Epithalamium‗ is a : nuptial song

―Only connect‖ is the epigraph to a novel by : (A) George Orwell (B) Joseph Conrad (C) D.H.
Lawrence (D) E.M. Forster Answer: D

IL Migilor Fabro‗ is the expression Eliot used for : (A) W. B. Yeats (B) Samuel Beckett (C) W.
H. Auden (D) Ezra Pound Answer: D

Who is given credit for first using the term―romantic? (A) Friedrich Schlegel (B) Kant (C)
Coleridge (D) Schiller Answer: A

Bildungsroman‗ translated literally means : (A) Development novel (B) Psychological novel
(C) Autobiographical novel (D) Campus novel Answer: A

The macabre element in drama was introduced by : (A) John Lyly (B) Marlow (C)Ben Jonson
(D)John Webster Answer: D

Symbolist movement was influenced by : (A) Poetic theory of Edgar Allan Poe (B) Stephane
Mallarme‟s Poetry (C) Prose of Emerson (D) Ezra Pound‟s Cantos Answer: B
 The Rambler appeared every : (A) Tuesday and Saturday (B) Sunday and Wednesday (C)
Friday and Monday (D) Thursday and Monday Answer: A

.‗Imagism‗ is associated with : (A) T. S. Fliot (C) E. E. Cummings (B) D. H. Lawrence (D) T.
E. Hulme Answer: D

The ‗Reader-Response Theory‗ implies that == there is no one correct meaning of the text

The term ‗magic realism‗ was first introduced by = Franz Roh

Who among the following developed the term strategic essentialism ? (A) Edward Said (B)
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak (C) Homi Bhabha (D) Aijaz Ahmed Answer: B

Doris Lessing‗s interest in ____ is widely recognized : Ans: Sufism

Who called the novel the bright book of life‗ ?== D.H. Lawrence

The mind-forged manacles‗ is phrase from : ‖London‖

A classical influence on Ben Jonson‗s Volpone is======== Aristophanes

Kipling‗s ―The White Man‗s Burden‖ is addressed to == The American imperial mission in
the Philippines.

―Provincializing Europe is a concept propounded by (A) Edward Said (B) Paul Gilroy (C)
Abdul R. Gurnah (D) Dipesh Chakravarty Answer: D

W.B. Yeat‗s ―Easter 1916 is ==== a response to a major political uprising

―Imagined Community is a concept propounded by Benedict Anderson

Which of the following is a spoof of a Gothic novel ? Northanger Abbey

The ―madwoman in the attic‖ is a specific reference to

(A) The narrator of ―Goblin Market‖ (B) Augusta Egg‟s 1858 narrative painting (C) The
Heroine of The Yellow Wallpaper (D) Bertha Mason of Jane Eyre Answer: D

Who is credited for using the term 'Romantic ' to describe for literature for the first time ... A.
Wordsworth B. Fredrick Schlegel✅ C. Gothe D. Byron

Feedback makes the classroom communication process : (DEC 2018)

A. Linear B. Circular C. Complete D. lnteractive e. Disorganised

A. (b) , (c) and (d) ✅

 Which among the following provides the strongest evidence of cause-and-effect relationship
between independent and dependent variables ? (DEC 2018): Experimental approach✅

A research report will contain : (DEC 2018 )

(A) Financial accounts (B) Prefatory parts (C) Utilisation certificates (D) Title page

(E) Table of contents (F) Terminal chapters :(B) (b),(d),(e) and (f)✅

With what name an attribute like height, weight or happiness that is measurable and that is
assigned with changing values be called ? (DEC 2018) Variable✅

The originality of a research topic will depend upon factors of : (DEC 208 )

A. Uniqueness of the the topic

B. Utilitarian dimensions

C. Support system

D. Non- requirement of supervision

e. Feasibility of the study

A. (a) , (b) , (c) and (e) ✅

The first Indian Satellite for serving the educational sector is known as: EDUSAT✅

Who called "North of Boston" as ' one of the most revolutionary books of Modern times'?

A-John F. Kennedy

B- Pt.Nehru

C- Ezra pound✅

D- Himself

According to T.S. Eliot, when did 'sentimental age' begin in English poetry? (a) late 17th
century (b) early 18th century✅ (c) late 18th century (d) 19th century

"Two Noble Kinsmen" the play co-authored by Shakespeare is based on which Boccaccio story
of The Canterbury Tales? (a) The Shipman's Tale (b) The Knight's Tale✅ (c) The Prioress's
Tale (d) Sir Thopas' Tale
 'Puritan Interregnum' is better known as (a) Commonwealth period✅ (b) Neoclassical period
(c) Restoration period (d) Age of Prose and Pamphlets

Which literary form derives its name from the Greek term meaning 'making'? poetry✅

Which century marks the transition from decaying medievalism to promising Renaissance in
English literature? (a) 14 (b) 15 ✅(c) 16 (d) 17

What is Georg Lukacs' term to refer to the novels which reflect the social reality of their
capitalist age? (a) Exploter's epic (b) Capitalist epic (c) Social reality epic (d) bourgeois epic✅

What is Georg Lukacs' term to refer to the novels which reflect the social reality of their
capitalist age? (a) Exploter's epic (b) Capitalist epic (c) Social reality epic (d) bourgeois epic✅

Which of the following is a prose-work by Chaucer? The Tale of Melibeus✅

The dialect in which Beowulf is written is .... West Saxon ✅

Who, in The Canterbury Tales, tells the medieval love-triangle-romance of Palamon, Arcite and
Emily? (a) Wife of Bath (b) The Cook (c) The Miller (d) The Knight✅

Chaucer's Yeoman's Tale reveals not only the erudite astronomer in him but also the
accomplished (a) sailor (b) musician (c) alchemist ✅(d) painter

What is the possible exception to Saussure's observation that verbal signs are arbitrary? (a)
gestures (b) body language (c) onomatopoeia ✅(d) none of these

The motto of the witches in Macbeth is (a) Fair is foul, and foul is fair ✅(b) All fair is foul,
and all foul is fair (c) All fair and foul in this bog (d) Foul is Fair or Fair is foul

In Act I Sc.1 of Hamlet, Horatio refers to the ghost as 'the extravagant and erring spirit" (Line
153). What does 'extravagant' mean here? (a) royally dressed (b) heavily armed (c) wandering✅
(d) huge in size

The feature common to Dryden's literary essays in the Restoration, Dr. Johnson's Lives of
English Poets, Coleridge's Lectures on Shakespeare, and Mathew Arnold's Essays in Criticism, is
that they all belong to the critical mode of (a) applied or practical criticism ✅(b) objective
criticism (c) impressionist criticism (d) expressive criticism

Among the following Middle English works, which one is on Statesmanship? (a) Policraticus✅
(b) Metalogicus (c) Polychronicon (d) Architrenius
 A story's grammatical tense that shows its time-frame in the present, past or future is called ...
Narrative Time✅

Which one of the following Orwell works is a piece of non-fiction? (a) Homage to Catalonia✅
(b) A Clergyman's Daughter (c) Burmese Days (d) Coming Up For Air

Known best for the dystopian novel "Brave New World", this 20th century writer is a spiritual
pacifist and humanist interested in universalism, parapsychology and philosophical mysticism.
The writer, a seven-time Nobel nominee, in question is (a) Bertrand Russell (b) George Orwell
(c) J.B. Priestley (d) Aldous Huxley✅

Perhaps the most famous of the poet's subjects is ―Crow," an amalgam of god, bird and man,
whose existence, he felt pivotal to the knowledge of good and evil. Born Edward James, which
20th century poet is referred to here? (a) Philip Larkin (b) John Betjaman (c) Stephen Spender
(d) Ted Hughes✅

Who was the editor of the journal 'Scrutiny'? FR.Leavis✅

The English aesthetic philosopher regarded as the 'father of imagism' is (a) Pound (b) T.E.
Hulme✅ (c) William Carlos Williams (d) F.S. Flint

Who wrote Doktor Faustus(novel) :Thomas Mann✅

Which British poet killed in action at the age of 34 has the headstone carrying the inscription
―One of the War Poets‖�? (a) Sassoon (b) Binion (c) Blunden (d) Hulme✅

Which of the following is a fourteen-word verbless modernist poem presenting two images and
freezing a moment in time? (a) Spring and All (b) Oread (c) Above the Dock (d) In a Station of
the Metro✅

Which of the following was the Anglo-Saxon term for the peasant or an unrefined commoner?
(a) freeman (b) serf (c) churl✅ (d) yeoman

The device used by which poets T.S. Eliot describes as "the elaboration of a figure of speech to
the farthest stage to which ingenuity can carry it‖? (a) Shakespeare and Ben Jonson (b) Donne
and Cowley✅ (c) Wordsworth and Coleridge (d) Tennyson and Browning

‘Not unattractive‘ is an example of: Litotes✅

Motif: Recurring element having symbolic significance in a story.✅

Monody: A poem in which one person laments another‘s death.✅

 Which plays of Shakespeare deal with the Wars of the Roses? . Henry vi parts 1,2,3 and
Richard iii✅

When Galsworthy turned down Knighthood in 1917, who was the Prime Minister of England?
Lloyd George✅

Who said, "Keats's had flint and iron in him" Matthew Arnold ✅

Robert Frost was sent to ___ as a representative of the American people by John F. Kennedy.
Russia✅

The sequel to Sanctuary is .... Requiem for a Nun ,a play

Keats speaks of his Endymion as 'a feverish attempt rather than a deed accomplished' in.... the
Preface of Endymion .✅

Who wrote the book " Surprised by Sin "? Stanley Fish✅

Who wrote the book " Feminist Milton"? J.Wittreich✅

Who wrote the book " Milton's Grand Style"? Christopher Ricks✅

Who wrote the book " Milton's God"? William Empson✅

Who wrote the book " Preface of Paradise Lost "? C.S.Lewis✅

Robert Frost was influenced by... A-W.B.Yeats B- Thomas Hardy C- Spencer D- A &B E- C
& D✅

Robert Frost got Pulitzer Prize in 1937 for.. A Further Range✅

whom does Shelley call 'wolves' in Adonais ? - critics and Journalist✅

I write in metre because I am about to use a language different from prose " who said this?
S.T.Coleridge✅

A confusion between the poem and its result is known as .. affective fallacy ✅

-Ulysses believe s that old age is not an age of .....-Rest✅

-which poem of Tennyson is based on Homer's Odyssey n Dante inferno.....Ulysses✅

Come friends/'tis not too late to seek a .........world:Newer✅

Tennyson's swan song is.... Crossing the Bar✅

Tennyson saw nature with the eye of a poet as well as with the eye of ....A scientist✅

who called the poem The Prelude..." An orphic song indeed."? Coleridge✅

There is a clear influence of ___In "Leech Gatherer"... Spencer✅

who said about Wordsworth.." A Lost Leader" Browning✅

Who said about Wordsworth.." He uttered nothing base."?Tennyson✅

Hazlitt describes..... .....as new and terrific dance of death.

A.The Triumph of Life✅

: Ques.The line "I m the daughter of earth and water" appear in:

A.The Cloud✅

-"Life may change, but it may fly not." These lines from:.Hellas✅

The other title of Alastor (1816) is:The Spirit of Solitude✅

What did Byron try to rescue from Shelley's funeral pyre?.His skull✅

like shakespeare who also knew small latin & less greek ? Keats✅

Curses are like chickens, they come home to roost. Simile✅

ALL IS TRUE is a unfinished work by whom ? Shakespeare ✅

"A Shape with lion body and the head of man." This line appears in :The second coming ✅

Which of the following printers use dry ink powder ? ( DEC 2018 )

(a) Dot Matrix Printer (b) Thermal Printer c) Laser Printer (d) Ink Jet Printer :Answer - C

Who is considered the " Apostle to the English and a founder of English Church? "John Donne✅

Charles Lamb was influenced by.. Thomas Browne✅

- Nissim Ezekiel was influenced by.. Eliot✅

Who said about Charles Lamb , "Essayist par excellence" Hugh Walker✅
Shakespeare's venus & Adonais and Rape of Lucrice have been dedicated to ....... Henry
Wriothesely✅

Who is the founder of criticism? . Aristotle ✅

The "Theory of Imitation" criticized the work of ___ Poets ✅

Augustan Literature is also called____ Augustan literature (sometimes referred to misleadingly

as Georgian literature) is a style of British literature produced during the reigns of Queen Anne,
King George I, and George II in the first half of the 18th century and ending in the 1740s, with
the deaths of Alexander Pope and Jonathan Swift, in 1744 and 1745, respectively. It was a
literary epoch that featured the rapid development of the novel, an explosion in satire, the
mutation of drama from political satire into melodrama and an evolution toward poetry of
personal exploration. In philosophy, it was an age increasingly dominated by empiricism, while
in the writings of political economy, it marked the evolution of mercantilism as a formal
philosophy, the development of capitalism and the triumph of trade.

The period after __ is perhaps best characterized by the spread of English around the world.
The period after 1700 is the best characterized by the spread of English around the world: the
emerging varieties of English lead to divergence while globalization encourages convergence.
Politically, we could argue that Canadian, Kenyan, and Singaporean

English are separate languages, if, as Weinreich said, a language is a dialect with an army.
Linguistically, most people would argue that these varieties are all English despite differences in
the phonology, grammar, and lexicon. All Englishes display the analytic character that English
has been moving towards: an abundance of grammatical words (auxiliaries and prepositions) and
reliance on word order. Much of the vocabulary of these varieties is similar as well.

How many generations touched in Wouthering Heights Novel:. 4✅

Titles Taken

[ ] Arms and Men (Shaw) - Virgil's Aeneid

[ ] Captain Courageous (Kipling) - Mary Ambree

[ ] Where Angles Fear to Tread ( E M Foster) - An Essay on Criticism

[ ] Passage to India - Leaves of Grass

[ ] Cakes and Ale,or The Skelton in the Cupboard(Maugham) - Twelfth night

[ ] Appointment in Samaria ( John Hora) - A Merchant in Bagdad(Maugham)

[ ] Antic Hay ( Huxley)s- EdwardII (Marlowe)

[ ] Those Barren Leaves (Huxley)- The Tables Turned ( Wordsworth)

[ ] After Many a Summer (Huxley)- Tennyson's Tithonus

[ ] Time Must Have a Stop (Huxley)- Henry IV. Part 1

[ ] The Less Deceived (Larkin)- The Tempest

[ ] Darkness visible ( Golding)- The Paradise Lost

Which play of Shakespeare T. S. Eliot calls 'The Mona Lisa' of English literature?Hamlet

Confusing works

Works - Authors

1. Essay on Man - a poem by Pope

2. Essay on Milton - a prose by Macaulay

3. Essay on Criticism - a poem by Pope

4. Essay In Criticism - a prose by Mathew Arnold

5. Essays of Elia - Charles Lamb

Who said about Charles Lamb , "Essayist par excellence" Hugh Walker✅

Who defines criticism as "a disinterested endeavor to learn and propagate the best that is
known and thought in the world"? A. Eliot B. Arnold✅ C. Shelley

The Western philosophical system that recognizes only that which is scientifically verified, and
relies only on data derived from experience is (a) objectivism (b)✅ positivism (c) rationalism
(d) empiricism

The cultural critic who defined culture as the 'whole way of life' is (a) E.P. Thomson (b)
Raymond Williams✅ (c) Neil Postman (d) Susan Sontag

Who is Sir Thomas Malory? Sir Thomas Malory (c. 1415 – 14 March 1471) was an English
writer, the author or compiler of Le Morte d'Arthur (originally titled The Whole Book of King
Arthur and His Noble Knights of the Round Table).

Culture and Anarchy, major work of criticism by Matthew Arnold, published in 1869. In it
Arnold contrasts culture, which he defines as ―the study of perfection,‖ with anarchy, the
prevalent mood of England‘s then new democracy, which lacks standards and a sense of
direction. Arnold classified English society into the Barbarians (with their lofty spirit, serenity,
and distinguished manners and their inaccessibility to ideas), the Philistines (the stronghold of
religious nonconformity, with plenty of energy and moralitybut insufficient ―sweetness and
light‖), and the Populace (still raw and blind). He saw in the Philistines the key to culture; they
were the most influential segment of society; their strength was the nation‘s strength, their
crudeness its crudeness; it therefore was necessary to educate and humanize the Philistines.
Arnold saw in the idea of ―the State,‖ and not in any one class of society, the true organ and
repository of the nation's collective ―best self.‖ No summary can do justice to culture and
Anarchy, however; it is written with an inward poise, a serene detachment, and an infusion of
subtle humour that make it a masterpiece of ridicule as well as a searching analysis of Victorian
society. The same is true of its unduly neglected sequel, Friendship‘s Garland(1871).

Hamlet is based on a Norse legend composed by Saxo Grammaticus in Latin around 1200 AD.
The sixteen books that comprise Saxo Grammaticus' Gesta Danorum , or History of the Danes ,
tell of the rise and fall of the great rulers of Denmark, and the tale of Amleth, Saxo's Hamlet, is
recounted in books three and four .

Saxo's story was first printed in Paris in 1514, and Francois de Belleforest translated it into
French in 1570, as part of his collection of tragic legends, Histoires Tragiques .

An English translation of Belleforest's text appeared in 1608 called The Hystorie of Hamblet , so
either Shakespeare was fluent in French or he used another source, because he wrote Hamlet in
1600. Many scholars believe a translated copy of Belleforest existed well before 1608 but there
is no proof to support this claim.

Generally, it is accepted that Shakespeare used the earlier play based on this Norse legend by
Thomas Kyd, called the Ur-Hamlet . There is no surviving copy of the Ur-Hamlet and the only
information known about the play is that it was performed on the London stage; that it was a
tragedy; that there was a character in the play named Hamlet ; and a ghost who cried "Hamlet,
revenge!"

Shakespeare..... Had a great command over English

Shakespeare was part owner of ....... a. Lord Chamberlain's Men (King's Men)

b. Globe c. Black Friars d. b & c e. all.✅

Historical plays of WS cover & represent......

a. English History right fr. 12th to 16 centuries about 1200 to 1550

b. five generations of mediveal power struggles.

c. Hundred years war with france fr Henry Vth to Joan of Arch and the wars of roses between
York & Lancaster.

d. Period of English history of England over a period of about 350 years.

e. all.✅

Le_Morte_d_Arthur is a reworking by Sir Thomas Malory of existing tales about the legendary
King Arthur, Guinevere, Lancelot, Merlin, and the Knights of the Round Table. Malory
interpreted existing French and English stories about these figures and adds original material.
Originally published: 1485,Author: Thomas Malory.Original language: Middle
English.Characters: King Arthur, Gawain, Mordred,Uther Pendragon, Igraine.. Genres: Fiction,
Prose..Adaptations: Excalibur (1987), Knights of the..Round Table (1953)

KAILYARD POETS.

Kailyard school of poetry belongs to Scottish Literature.It is a term applied to a group of

Scottish writers who exploited a sentimental and romantic image of small town life in Scotland
with much use of the vernacular. The vogue lasted from about 1888 to 1896.

It‘s name derives from the Scottish ‗ kail- yard‘, a small cabbage patch usually adjacent to a
cottage. It has been called Kitchen garden school of poetry or Kailyard School.

The term Kailyard was first applied by the critic J.H. Millar. Millar characterised the literary
impulse as ―a revolt of the provinces against the centre.‖ It is a sentimental idealisation of
humble village life.

Writers of the Kailyard school are: J.M.Barrie, Ian Maclaren, J.J.Bell, George Mac Donald,
Gabriel Setoun.

James Barrie is the author of‖Auld Licht Idylls‖(1888) and ―A Window in Thrums‖(1889).

The Kailyard poets were widely read throughout Scotland, England and the US and inspired
many imitators. The natural and un sophisticated style and parochial viewpoint quickly
degenerated into mawkish sentimentality which provoked a hostile reaction among contemporary
Scottish realists and later writers of the 20th century.

MacDiarmid criticises it as a false tradition in Scottish literature. Kailyard poetry has been
criticised as ‗ mawkish‘ and a poor imitation of Robert Burns.Their false notions of Scottish life
were shattered by G. Douglas in his ― The House with the Green Shutters‖(1901).
 Shakespeare's venus & Adonais and Rape of Lucrice have been dedicated to ....... Henry
Wriothesely✅

Sadavel.k: Who wrote,'The Eminent Victorians'? . Lytton Stratchey✅

Galsworthy gave up _ for literature.Law✅

A verbal error in which corresponding consonants and vowels are switched between two words
in a phrase.. Spoonerism✅

Galsworthy‘s series of three trilogies and the interludes based around the Forsyte family are
collectively called: The Forsyte Chronicles✅

Hit the nail on the head: Doing or saying something that is precisely right.✅

: Which of these is a phrase from Eliot's "The Love Song of J.Alfred Prufrock"? Do I dare to eat
a peach?.✅

Who celebrated Cromwell‘s return from Ireland through an Ode? Marvell ✅

― I am not Prince Hamlet, nor was meant to be.‖ From which poem? It is from Love Song of
Alfred J Prufrock by TS Eliot.

Under what pen name did Steele start Tatler? Isaac Bickerstaff✅

"Milton viewed Nature merely through the spectacle of books."----Whose remark is this?
Dryden.✅

O for a beaker full of the warm South..Full of the true, the blushful Hippocrene. From which
poem? Name the poet. Ode to Nightingale by Keats✅

What was the name for a poet or a bard in Old English? Scop✅

― From harmony, from Heavenly harmony, This universal frame began.‖The opening lines of
which poem by Dryden? A Song for St. Cecilia‘s Day✅

John Dryden described a major English poet as ― a Rough diamond, and must first be polished
ere he shines.‖ Chaucer✅

For how long did Satan lie ‗vanquished‘ or beaten? 9 days✅

In which year did Eliot become a British subject? 1927✅

 ' Barrack room Ballads' written by Rudyard Kipling✅

Palinode:An ode in which the writer retracts a view or sentiment expressed in an earlier poem.
The first recorded use of a palinode is in a poem by Stesichorus in the 7th century BC. Here he
retracts his earlier statement that the Trojan War was all the fault of Helen.WB Yeats poems,
September 1913 and Easter 1916 are an example of Palinode.

Which popular nursery rhyme is mentioned at the end of ‗The Wasteland? London Bridge is
Falling Down✅

Eliot‘s The Wasteland, was first published in the London magazine The Criterion. One month
later it was published in New York in the magazine, The Dial✅

―Where are the songs of Spring? Ay, Where are they? Think not of them, thou hast thy music
too‖ Beautiful lines! From which poem? By which poet? 'To Autumn' By John Keats..The poem
is a good example of Negative Capability...✅

The Way of All Flesh by Samuel Butler.

The Way of All Flesh (1903) is a semi-autobiographical novel by Samuel Butler that attacks
Victorian-era hypocrisy.

Written between 1873 and 1884, it traces four generations of the Pontifex family. Butler dared
not publish it during his lifetime, but when it was published it was accepted as part of the general
reaction against Victorianism. Sheridon ✅

Name the father & author of "Eassais"....... Montaigne✅

"Mellow fruitfulness" this is related to with which work of John Keats ?Ode to Autumn___
'season of mists and mellow fruitfulness.'✅

Who calls Tintern Abbey, a dark passage ? Keats✅

NIGHTINGALE POEMS: The Owl and the Nightingale.It is a 12th or 13th Middle English
poem detailing a debate between an owl and a Nightingale as overheard by the poem‘s narrator.
It is the earliest example in Middle English of a literary form known as verse debate.

The Nightingale: A Conversation poem——- Coleridge.This poem was written by Coleridge in

1798. Coleridge incorporates conversational language while examining higher ideas of nature
and morality.
Ode To A Nightingale——- Keats.This famous ode of Keats was written in 1819. Keats uses the
bird to position poetic imagination between the mortal and the immortal. It is an intense
meditation on the contrast between the painful mortality that defies human existence and the
immortal beauty found in the nightingale‘s carefree song; and it considers poetry‘s ability to
create a kind of rapt suspended state between the two.

Sweeney Among The Nightingales——- T.S.Eliot

A modernist lyric poem that first appeared in 1919. Sweeney is projected as the representative of
modern amoral dehumanised human being. Sweeney is set among his female counterparts. They
are, really speaking, ‗Nightingales‘, cheap and vulgar prostitutes, from whose clutches Sweeney
manages to free himself. Eliot is denouncing in this poem, the evil of the purely fleshly basis of
man — woman relationship which dries up the spring of emotional and spiritual currents of
conjugal relationship.

Nightingales—— Robert Bridges.

It goes against all the romantic qualities that are normally given to these birds. Bridges associates
the Nightingale with deep sorrow.

The Nightingale—— Sir Philip Sidney

It deals with the myth of Philomena. It is based on book 6 of Ovid‘s ‗Metamorphoses‘ , which
tells the story of Philomena, raped by her sister‘s husband. Gods turn Philomena into a
Nightingale.

The classical poem by wordsworth is- loadamia ✅

The famous expression, ‗Barkis is willing‘ is based on a character from which novel of
Dickens? David Copperfield✅

[ It was said that no records are found for the 7 years duration of 1585 - 1592.This duration is
known for ? . W. Shakespeare began his successful career ✅

We little know about Shakespeare's life during two major spans of his life time 1578 - 1582 &
1585 - 1592 commonly known as TWO LOST YEARS.

1578 - 1582 (4 years ) = covers the time after shakespeare left grammar school untill his
marriage.

1585 - 1592 (7 years) = covers the period in which shakespeare must have been perfecting his
dramatic skills, and actually began his successful career.

John Willoughby is a character in Jane Austen‘s : Sense and Sensibility✅

 Promos and Cassandra by Whetstone is the source of Shakespeare's play -Measure for Measure
✅

These 13 is a collection of short stories written by whom ?1931 Faulkner✅

Harry in the play "The Family Reunion" may be compared with Shakespeare's - A. Macbeth, B.
King Lear, C. Othello, D. Hamlet✅

Which play of Shakespeare T. S. Eliot calls 'The Mona Lisa' of English literature?Hamlet✅

Who said, "I was born and passed the first seven years of my life in the Temple. It's gardens, it's
hills, it's fountains, it's rivers... these are my oldest recollections" . Charles Lamb✅

Who is an "alchemist" in Shakespeare's roman play 'Julius Caesar'? Brutus✅

W. Shakespeare bridged the reigns of...... a. Elizabeth I.b. James I. c. both✅( C is correct
because Elizabeth's period was 1558 to 1603 and James I's period was 1603 to 1625 and after
that Charles l.W. Shakespeare did much of work in Elizabeth's period and as well as James l)

Name the unfinished play of John Keats :Hyperion n the fall of Hyperion both r unfinished✅

In which poem of Tennyson We have The Theme of "Withdrаwаl frоm Аn uncоngеniаl wоrld
Оf еscаpе еithеr tо dеаth Оr mоrе оftеn, tо Аn Idеаl drеаm wоrld‗,? thе lоtоs - еаtеrs✅

"Good fances makes good neighbour" Personification /✅ Sarcasm

Tennyson got 'The Chancellor Gold Medal' For his poem ' Timbuctoo' in...- 1829✅

Who got 'British Order of Merit' in 1948? T.S.Eliot✅

Who got 'T.S.Eliot Prize' in 2011? Derek Walcott✅

Who wrote 'Mr. H.' In 1806? Lamb✅

Charles Lamb's 'John Woodvel' was published in .. 1802✅

"In Memoriam" consists of.. A- 131 Lyrics B- 132 lyrics C- - 134 lyrics

( Tennyson' Poem In Memoriam is a very long one. It was written for 17 years from 1833 to
1849 and was published in 1850 as a single poem. The poem is divided into 133 Cantos
including Prologue and Epilogue. There are minimum 3 and maximum 36 stanzas in a Canto ,
total 723 stanzas.)
 The IPA was first published in 1888 by the Association Phonétique Internationale (International
Phonetic Association), a group of French language teachers founded by Paul Passy. ... A
phonetic script for English created in 1847 by Isaac Pitman and Henry Ellis was used as a model
for the IPA.

Father of essay.... MONTAIGNE

Father of English essay....BACON

Prince of Essay.....LAMB

Which Deconstructionist‘s reputation was irreparably damaged by the revelation after his death
of his wartime anti - Semitism? Paul de Man.✅

Which Lucy poem of Ww is hailed as " Sublime Epitaph" by Ww? A Slumber did my Spirit
Seal✅

Who says, "I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affection and truth of
imagination?" Keats ✅

Who called wasteland "a music of ideas" ?. I.A.Richards✅

�Source of Julius Caesar is Plutarch's Lives

�Source of Antony and Cleopatra is Plutarch's Lives

�Sources of Othello is Cynthio and An Italian tale in Hocatonimithi.

THE TERM "METAPHYSICAL" Coined by = William Drummond of Hawthronder

THE TERM "METAPHYSICAL POETS" Coined by = Samuel Johnson

Used by = John Dryden

Applied to = John Donne

THE TERM "METAPHYSICAL STYLE" established by = John Donn.

�Boccaccio's Decamerone (Day 3, Tale 9) is the source of Shakespeare's play All's Well That
Ends Well.

�The History of Apollonius and Silla in B Rich's Riche Farewell to Militarie Profession (1581)
is the source of Twelfth Night

�Sources of Troilus and Cressida by William Shakespeare is Henryson's Testament of Cressida,

Lydgate's Troy Book and Chapman's Seven Books of the Iliad.
�Sources of The Merchant of Venice is Giovanni Fiorentino's Collection of novelle, Munday's
Zelauto and Gesta Romannorium.

�Source of Comedy of Errors is Poitus Menaechmi or The Twins

�Sources of Timon of Athens by Shakespeare is Plutarch's Life of Antony, Painter's Palace of

Pleasure and Lucian's Timons or The Misanthrope.

�Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale is inspired by Greene's Pondosto.

1. Ulysses-Dramatic Monologue-Tennyson

2. Ulysses -Novel -James Joyce

3. Ulysses -play-Stephen Philips

Who gives the principle of "texture"? A. Ransom ✅B. Crane C. Empson D. Eliot

Who accuses Arnold of "high pamphleteering? "

A. Eliot B. I. A. Richards C. F. R. Leavis✅

�Shakespeare's play Titus Andronicus gets influence from Hecuba, Thyestes and Troades.

�Source of The Two Gentleman of Verona is Montemayor's Diana

�Source of Coriolanus is Plutarch's Lives

Who makes the theory of 'tensions'? A. Richards B. Allen Tate✅ C. Crane D. Ransom

Why should we stand here like guilty conspirators waiting for some revelation" From which play
this extract has been taken- Family Reunion by T S Eliot .

'The time when most I loved my task,These two must make me love it more' From which poem?
Two Tramps in Mud Time By Robert Frost

Who says? "The poet's mind is in fact receptacle for seizing and storing up numberless feelings,
phrases, images, which remain there until all the particles which can unite to form a new
compound are present together."T.S.Eliot. ✅

"Honest criticism and sensitive appreciation is directed not upon the poet but upon the poetry."
Who says? Eliot. ✅

The term "metaphysical poets" was first used by A. Jonson B. Dr. Johnson✅ C. Helen Gardner
D. Dryden
Who said "Keats was a Greek"? A. Wordsworth B. Coleridge C. Lamb D. Shelley✅

"The rarer action is in virtue than in vengeance". A. Hamlet B. King Lear C. The Tempest ✅D.
The Merchant of Venice

The line "There is a special Providence in the fall of a sparrow" occurs in :A. Hamlet✅

Who called "The Waste Land" 'a music of ideas'? . I. A. Richards✅

Which of the following books is translated by John Keats? Aeneid✅

What according to P. B. Shelley, is intellectual beauty? The human mind at work✅

Who has divided literature into two broad divisions -Literature of power and literature of
knowledge? De Quincey ✅

Merrylegs is a dog appears in which Novel of Charles Dickens? Hard tims

"This is the way the world ends,,Not with a bang but a whimper."Which poem? The Hollow
Men by T. S. Eliot✅

Whom does Thomas Gradgrind call, 'girl number twenty' in Hard Times?Sissy Jupe ✅

Who is Mrs. Pegler in the novel Hard Times?She is Bounderby's mother.✅

Which of Dickens novel has three Parts as Recalled to Life, The Golden Thread and The Track
of the Storm?A tale of two cities✅

"The Taming of the Shrew " is based on Gascoigne's Supposses

___ is a poem in dialogue form between the sea and his beloved. An Invitation✅

Chameleon poet.. Keats✅

Whose novels are called "Epic in misery" ? MulkRaj Anand✅

A work that makes fun of another work by imitating some aspect of the the writer's style is
called :A. Satire B. Farce C. Parody ✅D. Fable

Whose death does "when Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd commemorate"? Lincoln's .✅

Imagism as a literary movement is associated with :A. T. S. Eliot B. D. H. Lawrence C. E. E.

Cummings D. T. E. Hulme✅
 'A Game of Chess', the second section in The Waste Land, is also the title of a play to which T.
S. Eliot refers in his 'Notes'. That play was written by: Thomas Middleton✅

Who said, "Poets are the mirrors of the gigantic shadows which futurity cast upon the present"?
P. B. Shelley✅

Who said, "A thought to Donne was an experience. It modified his sensibility"? T. S. Eliot ✅

Who did Henchard arrange to hire as his Manager before meeting Farfrae in The Mayor of
Casterbridge? Joshua Jopp✅

"Happiness is but an occasional episode in the general drama of pain." The above statement
occurs in: The Mayor of Casterbridge ✅

The phrase 'Two inches of ivory' is used for the plots of : . Jane Austen✅

What is "Kinchin Lay"? In the novel "Oliver Twist" Fagin explained the meaning of Kinchin
Lay to Noah Claypole and Charlotte thus "Kinchin Lay" - Kinchins were young children sent
on errands by their mothers with six pences and shillings, and to lay was just to take their money
away by knocking them down and walking away slowly with the money as if nothing had
happened.

Tellson's Bank features in which of Dickens novel? A tale of two cities.

In whose opinion "Poetry is the most highly organized form of intellectual activity?" T. S.
Eliot✅

Who wrote "Three Stories and Ten Poems" and "The Fifth Column and the First Forty Nine
Stories"?Ernest Hemingway

Who is the hero in Mulk Raj Anand's trilogy Village, Across the Black Waters and the Sword
and the Sickle?Lal singh✅

Name the very first published novel of Thomas Hardy under his name :A pair of blue eyes ✅

Among the following, the poetic form NOT popular during Chaucer's time was (a) lyric (b)
ballad (c) allegory (d) dramatic monologue✅

The early alliterative anglo-saxon tradition attains its climax in (a) The Canterbury Tales (b)
Pearl (c) Piers Plowman✅ (d) Confessio Amantis

He was king among poets and poet among kings of 15th century Britain." To whom does this
quote refer? (a) Robert II (b) James I ✅(c) Richard III (d) Henry IV
 Which 15th century English poet wrote a continuation of Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde? (a)
Henry Bradshaw (b) John Kay (c) John Skelton (d) Robert Henryson✅

Chaucer, Langland, Gower and the Gawain poet are often classified as (a) Chaucerian poets (b)
Dawn poets (c) Ricardian poets ✅(d) The Romance poets

The chief of the Scottish Chaucerian poets was the wandering friar (a) John Lydgate (b) John
Skelton (c) William Dunbar ✅(d) Gawin Douglas

Which of the following works of Hoccleve is considered an edification of Henry V ? (a) The
Regement of Princes✅

The Decadence refers to the English poetry of the decade : 1890s✅

Which of the following Hardy poems is noted for its 'macabre humor'? (a) Ah! Are you Digging
my Grave? ✅

"The land's sharp features seemed to be The Centuries corpse outleant" wrote Hardy at the
close of the 19th century; but in which poem? (a) The Oxen (b) Neutral Tones (c) The Darkling
Thrush✅ (d) The Man He killed

From whom does Hardy borrow the expression 'The President of the Immortals' with which
Tess ends? (a) Shakespeare (b) Milton (c) Aeschylus ✅(d) Dante

What term does Pound use to refer to the mixing of different layers and levels of vocabulary in
a text? (a) Logopedia (b) Logocentrism (c) Logopoeia ✅(d) Logomania

In the opening chapters of which Dickens novel Thomas Gradgrind warns the teachers and
pupils at his ―model‖ school to avoid using their imagination? (a) Great Expectations (b) Hard
Times✅ (c) Bleak House (d) Our Mutual Friend

―The interpretations of science do not give us this intimate sense of objects as the
interpretations of poetry give it; they appeal to a limited faculty, and not to the whole man.It is
not Linnaeus [. . .] who gives us the true sense of animals, or water, or plants, who seizes their
secret for us, who makes us participate in their life; it is Shakespeare [. . .] Wordsworth [. . .]
Keats.‖ Who makes this telling remark? (a) Mathew Arnold ✅(b) T.S. Eliot (c) F.R. Leavis (d)
Virginia Woolf

The Peterloo massacre followed a workers' uprising at (a) Manchester (b) Bristol (c) London
(d) Dover (Option A ✅is the right answer. The Peterloo Massacre occurred at St Peter's Field,
Manchester on 16 August 1819, when cavalry charged into a 60 to 80 thousand strong crowd
who had gathered there demanding reform of parliamentary representation. Shelley wrote two
poems protesting against the bloodshed - "England in 1819" and "Song to the Men of England")
 Which of the following statements is true of The First Reform Bill of 1832 (a) extended voting
rights to non-landowning men ✅

For the first time Heroic couplets were used in English literature in Chaucer's (a) The Prologue
(b) The Legend of Good Women ✅(c) The House of Fame (d) The Book of the Duchess

Which is the frame story of Chaucerian Tales? (a) The Knight's Tale (b) The Host's Tale (c)
The Clerk's Tale (d) The Prologue✅

The Peasants' Revolt (1381), also called Wat Tyler's Rebellion or the Great Rising echoes in
which Chaucerian tale? (a) Nun's Priest's Tale (b) Pardoner's Tale (c) Knight's Tale (d) Clerk's
Tale (Option A ✅is the right answer. In The Nun's Priest's Tale, at line 628, the narrator
mentions "Jack Straw," who was one of the rebel leaders of the Uprising. Chaucer lived over one
of the main gates of the city of London and must have been an eye witness to the Rebellion)

The Peasants' Revolt (1381), also called Wat Tyler's Rebellion or the Great Rising echoes in
which Chaucerian tale? (a) Nun's Priest's Tale (b) Pardoner's Tale (c) Knight's Tale (d) Clerk's
Tale (Option A✅ is the right answer. In The Nun's Priest's Tale, at line 628, the narrator
mentions "Jack Straw," who was one of the rebel leaders of the Uprising. Chaucer lived over one
of the main gates of the city of London and must have been an eye witness to the Rebellion)

The fifteenth century English play Everyman is a (a) miracle play (b) morality play ✅(c)
masque (d) interlude

"Lies will flow from my lips, but there may perhaps be some truth mixed up with them; it is for
you to seek out this truth and to decide whether any part of it is worth keeping. If not, you will of
course throw the whole of it into the waste-paper basket and forget all about it." The quote forms
part of which modernist critic-novelist's lecture? (a) D.H. Lawrence (b) James Joyce (c) Virginia
Woolf ✅(d) Dorothy Richardson

Thomas Middleton's play Women Beware Women is a (a) tragedy (b) comedy (c) masque (d)
interlude (Option A✅ is the right answer. The play acquires special importance for its
psychological undertones.Through the character of Livia, Middleton traces the psychological
stages in the growth of a cynic)

Which Deconstrctionist‘s irreparably damaged by the revelation after his death, of his wartime
anti - Semitism.? Paul de Man✅

Absurd, Literature : The term is applied to a number of works in drama and prose fiction which
have in common the sense that the human condition is essentially absurd, and that this condition
can be adequately represented only in works of literature that are themselves absurd. Both the
mood and dramaturgy of absurdity were anticipated as early as 1896 in Alfred Jarry's French
play Ubu roi {Ubu the King). The literature has its roots also in the movements of expressionism
and surrealism, as well as in the fiction, written in the 1920s, of Franz Kafka (The Trial,
Metamorphosis). The current movement, however, emerged in France after the horrors of World
War II, as a rebellion against essential beliefs and values of traditional culture and traditional
literature. This earlier tradition had included the assumptions that human beings are fairly
rational creatures who live in an at least partially intelligible universe, that they are part of an
ordered social structure, and that they may be capable of heroism and dignity even in defeat.
After the 1940s, however, there was a widespread tendency, especially prominent in the
existential philosophy of men of letters such as Jean-Paul Sartre and Albert Camus, to view a
human being as an isolated existent who is cast into an alien universe, to conceive the universe as
possessing no inherent truth, value, or meaning, and to represent human life—in its fruitless
search for purpose and meaning, as it moves from the nothingness whence it came toward the
nothingness where it must end—as an existence which is both anguished and absurd.

Affective Fallacy: In an essay published in 1946, W. K. Wimsatt and Monroe C. Beardsley

defined the affective fallacy as the error of evaluating a poem by its effects—especially its
emotional effects—upon the reader. As a result of this fallacy "the poem itself, as an object of
specifically critical judgment, tends to disappear," so that criticism "ends in impressionism and
relativism." The two critics wrote in direct reaction to the view of I. A. Richards, in his
influential Principles of Literary Criticism (1923), that the value of a poem can be measured by
the psychological responses it incites in its readers. Beardsley has since modified the earlier
claim by the admission that "it does not appear that critical evaluation can be done at all except
in relation to certain types of effect that aesthetic objects have upon their perceivers." So
modified, the doctrine becomes a claim for objective criticism, in which the critic, instead of
describing the effects of a work, focuses on the features, devices, and form of the work by which
such effects are achieved. An extreme reaction against the doctrine of the affective fallacy was
manifested during the 1970s in the development of reader-response criticism. Refer to: Wimsatt
and Beardsley, "The Affective Fallacy," reprinted in W. K. Wimsatt, The Verbal Icon (1954);
and Monroe C. Beardsley, Aesthetics: Problems in the Philosophy of Criticism (1958), p. 491
and chapter 11. See also Wimsatt and Beardsley's related concept of the intentional fallacy

Ambiguity In ordinary usage "ambiguity" is applied to a fault in style; that is, the use of a vague
or equivocal expression when what is wanted is precision and particularity of reference. Since
William Empson published Seven Types of Ambiguity (1930), however, the term has been
widely used in criticism to identify a deliberate poetic device: the use of a single word or
expression to signify two or more distinct references, or to express two or more diverse attitudes
or feelings. Multiple meaning and plurisignation are alternative terms for this use of language;
they have the advantage of avoiding the pejorative association with the word "ambiguity."

Beat Writers identifies a loose-knit group of poets and novelists, writing in the second half of
the 1950s and early 1960s, who shared a set of social attitudes—antiestablishment, antipolitical,
anti-intellectual, opposed to the prevailing cultural, literary, and moral values, and in favor of
unfettered self-realization and self-expression. The Beat writers often performed in coffeehouses
and other public places, to the accompaniment of drums or jazz music. "Beat" was used to
signify both "beaten down" (that is, by the oppressive culture of the time) and "beatific" (many
of the Beat writers cultivated ecstatic states by way of Buddhism, Jewish and Christian
mysticism, and/or drugs that induced visionary experiences). The group included such diverse
figures as the poets Allen Ginsberg, Gregory Corso, and Lawrence Ferlinghetti and the novelists
William Burroughs and Jack Kerouac. Ginsberg's Howl (1956) is a central Beat achievement in
its breathless, chanted celebration of the down-and-out and the subculture of drug addicts, social
misfits, and compulsive wanderers, as well as in its representation of the derangement of the
intellect and the senses effected by a combination of sexual abandon, drugged hallucinations, and
religious ecstasies. (Compare the vogue of decadence in the late nineteenth century.) A
representative novel of the movement is Jack Kerouac's On the Road (1958). While the Beat
movement was short-lived, it left its imprint on the subjects and forms of many writers of the
1960s and 1970s; see counterculture, under Periods of American Literature.

Refer to Lawrence Lipton, The Holy Barbarians (1959); Seymour Krim, ed., The Beats (1960);
Gregory Stephenson, The Daybreak Boys: Essays on the Literature of the Beat Generation (1989

Chronicle Plays were dramatic works based on the historical materials in the English
Chronicles by Raphael Holinshed and others. They achieved high popularity late in the sixteenth
century, when the patriotic fervor following the defeat of the Spanish Armada in 1588 fostered a
demand for plays dealing with English history. The early chronicle plays presented a loosely knit
series of events during the reign of an English king and depended for effect mainly on a bustle
of stage battles, pageantry, and spectacle. Christopher Marlowe, however, in his Edward II
(1592) selected and rearranged materials from Holinshed's Chronicles to compose a unified
drama of character, and Shakespeare's series of chronicle plays, encompassing the succession of
English kings from Richard II to Henry VIII, includes such major artistic achievements as
Richard II, 1 Henry IV, 2 Henry IV, and Henry V The Elizabethan chronicle plays are sometimes
called history plays

Cultural Studies designates a recent and rapidly growing cross-disciplinary enterprise for
analyzing the conditions that effect the production, reception, and cultural significance of all
types of institutions, practices, and products; among these, literature is accounted as merely one
of many forms of cultural "signifying practices." A chief concern is to specify the functioning of
the social, economic, and political forces and power-structures that produce all forms of cultural
phenomena and endow them with their social "meanings," their "truth," the modes of discourse
in which they are discussed, and their relative value and status. One precursor of modern cultural
studies was Roland Barthes, who in Mythologies (1957, trans. 1972) analyzed the social
conventions and "codes" that confer meanings in such social practices as women's fashions and
professional wrestling. (See Barthes under semiotics and structuralism.) Another was the British
school of neo-Marxist studies of literature and art—especially in their popular and working-class
modes—as an integral part of the general culture. This movement was inaugurated by Raymond
Williams' Culture and Society (1958) and by Richard Hoggart's The Uses of Literacy (1958,
reprinted 1992), and it became institutionalized in the influential Birmingham Centre for
Contemporary Cultural Studies, founded by Hoggart in 1964. In the United States, the vogue for
cultural studies had its roots mainly in the mode of literary and cultural criticism known as "the
new historicism," with its antecedents both in poststructural theorists such as Louis Althusser
and Michel Foucault and in the treatment of culture as a set of signifying systems by Clifford
Geertz and other cultural anthropologists. (See under new historicism.) A prominent endeavor in
cultural studies is to subvert the distinctions in traditional criticism between "high literature" and
"high art" and what were considered the lower forms that appeal to a much larger body of
consumers. Typically, cultural studies pay less attention to works in the established literary
canon than to popular fiction, best-selling romances (that is, love stories), journalism, and
advertising, together with other arts that have mass appeal such as cartoon comics, film,
television "soap operas," and rock and rap music. And within the areas of literature and the more
traditional arts, a frequent undertaking is to move to the center of cultural study works that, it is
claimed, have been marginalized or excluded by the aesthetic ideology of white European or
American males, particularly the products of women, minority ethnic groups, and colonial and
postcolonial writers. As in new historicist criticism, politically radical exponents of cultural
studies orient their writings and teaching toward the explicit end of reforming existing power-
structures and relations, which they view as dominated by a privileged gender, race, or class. A
conspicuous activity in cultural studies is the analysis and interpretation of objects and social
practices outside the re…

Decadence. In the latter nineteenth-century, some French proponents of the doctrines of

Aestheticism, especially Charles Baudelaire, also espoused views and values that developed into
a movement called "the Decadence." The term (not regarded by its exponents as derogatory) was
based on qualities attributed to the literature of Hellenistic Greece in the last three centuries B.C.,
and to Roman literature after the death of the Emperor Augustus in 14 A.D. These literatures
were said to possess the high refinement and subtle beauties of a culture and art that have passed
their vigorous prime, but manifest a special savor of incipient decay. Such was also held to be
the state of European civilization, especially in France, as it approached the end of the nineteenth
century.

Didactic Literature. The adjective "didactic," which means "intended to give instruction," is
applied to works of literature that are designed to expound a branch of knowledge, or else to
embody, in imaginative or fictional form, a moral, religious, or philosophical doctrine or theme.
Such works are commonly distinguished from essentially imaginative works (sometimes called
"mimetic" or "representational") in which the materials are organized and rendered, not in order
to enhance the appeal of the doctrine they embody, but in order to enhance their intrinsic interest
and their capacity to move and give artistic pleasure to an audience. In the first century B.C. the
Roman Lucretius wrote his didactic poem De Rerum Natura ("On the Nature of Things") to
expound and make persuasive and appealing his naturalistic philosophy and ethics, and in the
same era Virgil wrote his Georgics, in which the poetic elements serve to add aesthetic appeal to
a laudation of rural life and information about the practical management of a farm. Most
medieval and much Renaissance literature was didactic in intention. In the eighteenth century, a
number of poets wrote georgics (on the model of Virgil) describing in verse such utilitarian arts
as sheepherding, running a sugar plantation, and making cider. Alexander Pope's Essay on
Criticism and his Essay on Man are eighteenth-century didactic poems on the subjects of literary
criticism and of moral philosophy.

The Gothic novel, or in an alternative term, Gothic romance, is a type of prose fiction which
was inaugurated by Horace Walpole's The Castle of Otranto: A Gothic Story (1764)—the
subtitle refers to its setting in the middle ages—andf lourishedt hrough the early nineteenth
century. Some writers followed Walpole's example by setting their stories in the medieval
period; others set them in a Catholic country, especially Italy or Spain. The locale was often a
gloomy castle furnished with dungeons, subterranean passages, and sliding panels; the typical
story focused on the sufferings imposed on an innocent heroine by a cruel and lustful villain, and
made bountiful use of ghosts, mysterious disappearances, and other sensational and supernatural
occurrences (which in a number of novels turned out to have natural explanations). The principal
aim of such novels was to evoke chilling terror by exploiting mystery and a variety of horrors.
Many of them are now read mainly as period pieces, but the best opened up to fiction the realm
of the irrational and of the perverse impulses and nightmarish terrors that lie beneath the orderly
surface of the civilized mind. Examples of Gothic novels are William Beckford's Vathek
(1786)—the setting of which is both medieval and Oriental and the subject both erotic and
sadistic—Ann Radcliffe's The Mysteries of Udolpho (1794) and other highly successful Gothic
romances, and Matthew Gregory Lewis' The Monk (1796), which exploited, with considerable
literary skill, the shock-effects of a narrative involving rape, incest, murder, and diabolism. Jane
Austen made good-humored fun of the more decorous instances of the Gothic vogue in
Northanger Abbey (written 1798, published

Objective Correlative. This term, which had been coined by the American painter and poet
Washington Allston (1779-1843), was introduced by T. S. Eliot, rather casually, into his essay
"Hamlet and His Problems" (1919); its subsequent vogue in literary criticism, Eliot said,
astonished him. "The only way of expressing emotion," Eliot wrote, "is by finding an Objective
correlative'; in other words, a set of objects, a situation, a chain of events which shall be the
formula of that particular emotion," and which will evoke the same emotion from the reader.
Eliot's formulation has been often criticized for falsifying the way a poet actually composes,
since no object or situation is in itself a "formula" for an emotion, but depends for its emotional
significance and effect on the way it is rendered and used by a particular poet. The vogue of
Eliot's concept of an outer correlative for inner feelings was due in part to its accord with the
reaction of the New Criticism against vagueness of description and the direct statement of
feelings in poetry—an oft-cited example was Shelley's "Indian Serenade": "I die, I faint, I fail"—
and in favor of definiteness, impersonality, and descriptive concreteness. See Eliseo Vivas, "The
Objective Correlative of T. S. Eliot," reprinted in Critiques and Essays in Criticism, ed. Robert
W. Stallman (1949

Pathetic Fallacy. A phrase invented by John Ruskin in 1856 to signify any representation of
inanimate natural objects that ascribes to them human capabilities, sensations, and emotions
(Modern Painters, Vol. 3, chapter 12). As used by Ruskin—for whom "truth" was a primary
criterion of art—the term was derogatory; for, he claimed, such descriptions do not represent the
"true appearances of things to us" but "the extraordinary, or false appearances, when we are
under the influence of emotion, or contemplative fancy." Two of Ruskin's examples are the lines
The spendthrift crocus, bursting through the mould Naked and shivering, with his cup of gold,
and Coleridge's description in "Christabel" of The one red leaf, the last of its clan, That dances as
often as dance it can. These passages, Ruskin says, however beautiful, are false and "morbid."
Only in the greatest poets is the use of the pathetic fallacy valid, and then only at those rare times
when it would be inhuman to resist the pressure of powerful feelings to humanize the perceived
fact. Ruskin's contention would make not only his romantic predecessors but just about all poets,
including Shakespeare, "morbid." "Pathetic fallacy" is now used, for the most part, as a neutral
name for a very common phenomenon in descriptive poetry, in which the ascription of human
traits to inanimate nature is less formal and more indirect than in the figure called
personification. See Josephine Miles, Pathetic Fallacy in the Nineteenth Century (1942); Harold
Bloom, ed., The Literary Criticism of John Ruskin (1965), Introduction and pp. 62-78.

1).Tennyson also wrote "Aurangzeb"??✅

2).John Dryden wrote "Aurang- Zebe"✅

Who is called " A born story teller and a novelist in hurry"? Mulk Raj Anand✅

Who interacted with the Bloomsbury Group in London? M.R.Anand✅

Who wrote "Curries and Other Indian Dishes"? Anand✅

Who called his autobiography " a thousand failure"? Nissim Ezekiel ✅

Which of the following is considered the first English-language Modernist literary movement?
(a) Furturism (b) Imagism✅ (c) Vorticism (d) Cubism

Filippo T. Marinetti (1876-1944) was associated with which literary movement? (a) Modernism
(b) Imagism (c) Expressionism (d) Futurism✅

Who defined an image as ―that which presents an intellectual and emotional complex in an
instant of time.‖ (a) T.E. Hulme (b) Ezra Pound ✅(c) James Joyce (d) F. S. Flint
 Quoted below is the debut poem of a celebrated English imagist poet: A touch of cold in the
Autumn night—I walked abroad,And saw the ruddy moon lean over a hedge,Like a red-faced
farmer.I did not stop to speak, but nodded,And round about were the wistful stars.With white
faces like town children.The poet is : T.E. Hulme✅

Which Augustan writers epitaph reads "one who strove with all his might to champion liberty"?
Pope B. Swift ✅

The study of ancient societies :. Anthropology B. Archaeology ✅

Who is Jip in the novel David Copperfield? Dora's lapdog✅

"I write in metre because I am about to use a language different from that of prose." Who says
this ? Coleridge ✅

�Sources of The Merchant of Venice is Giovanni Fiorentino's Collection of novelle, Munday's

Zelauto and Gesta Romannorium.

'Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control, These three alone lead life to sovereign power.
Yet not for power (power of herself Would come uncalled for) , but to live by law, Acting the
law we live by without fear; And, because right is right, to follow right Were wisdom in the
scorn of consequence. From Oenone by Alfred Lord Tennyson

Which novel of his did Dickens divide into 3 parts, exemplifying the biblical concept of
―Whatsoever a man Soweth, that shall he also reap.‖ . Hard Times✅

Tristan Tzara is known as the founder of which literary movement? (a) Impressionism (b)
Dadaism ✅(c) Apocalyse (d) Vorticism

"A new and beautiful and interesting disease" - Who referred to the literature of the decadent
thus? Arthur Symons✅ ( Option �C is the answer. It is in his 1893 work "The Decadent
Movement in Literature" that Symons makes this comment)

"Full fathom five thy father lies,Of his bones are coral made:" This song sung by Ariel in
Shakespeare's The Tempest is a (a) dirge✅ (b) hymn (c) psalm (d) panegyric

An eight-line poem or stanza, especially ottava rima, is called (a) an octave ✅(b) an ottavo (c)
a mini-sonnet (d) an octastich

The narrator of "Lycidas" is (a) Milton (b) Lycidas (c) an uncouth swain ✅(d) a learned frair

Who is the absent-minded parson in the novel Joseph Andrews? (a) Tow-wouse (b) Wilson (c)
Booby (d) Adams✅
 Which character in Joseph Andrews bears autobiographical undertones? (a) Wilson✅ (b)
Adams (c) Joseph (d) Peter Pounce

What is the subtitle of The Vicar of Wakefield? (a) A Novel (b) A Sentimental Novel (c) A
Tale ✅(d) The Hermit

The Vicar of Wakefield – subtitled A Tale, Supposed to be written by Himself – is a novel by

Irish writer Oliver Goldsmith (1728–1774). It was written from 1761 to 1762 and published in
1766. It was one of the most popular and widely read 18th-century novels among Victorians.

In which novel does Coleridge find one of the "three most perfect plots ever planned." (a)
Robinson Crusoe (b) Don Quixote (c) Tom Jones✅ (d) Joseph Andrews

The Editor of "The Student's Chaucer" (Oxford 1895) is (a) F.N. Robinson (b) Coghill (c)
Manly and Rickert (d) W.W. Skeat✅

For whom does the Pearl poet mourn in his elegy? (a) His wife (b) His King (c) His father (d) a
girl child✅

A poem in which the successive stanzas begin with consecutive letters of the alphabet is called
(a) acronym (b) euology (c) panegyric (d) ABC poem✅

Where and when did Sonnet originate? (a) 13th century Italy✅ (b) 12th century France (c) 4th
century Rome (d) 3rd century Greece

Which of the following is Keats's fragment poem? (a) Endymion (b) Hyperion✅ (c) Isabella
(d) The Eve of St. Agnes

"A writer only begins a book. A reader finishes it" -Samuel Johnson

New Criticism :Name given to a style of criticism advocated by a group of academics writing in
the first half of the 20th century. New Criticism, like Formalism, tended to consider texts as
autonomous and ―closed,‖ meaning that everything that is needed to understand a work is present
within it. The reader does not need outside sources, such as the author‘s biography, to fully
understand a text; while New Critics did not completely discount the relevance of the author,
background, or possible sources of the work, they did insist that those types of knowledge had
very little bearing on the work‘s merit as literature. Like Formalist critics, New Critics focused
their attention on the variety and degree of certain literary devices specifically metaphor, irony,
tension, and paradox. The New Critics emphasized ―close reading‖ as a way to engage with a
text, and paid close attention to the interactions between form and meaning.

Important New Critics included :-

1. Allan Tate, 2. Robert Penn Warren, 3. John Crowe Ransom, 4. Cleanth Brooks, 5. William
Empson, 6. F.R. Leavis. 7. William K. Wimsatt and 8. Monroe Beardsley coined the term i
―intentional fallacy‖; and

ii. ―Affective Fallacy: A term coined by New Critics William K. Wimsatt and Monroe C.
Beardsley in their essay "The Affective Fallacy" (1946).

―iii.―Heresy of Paraphrase‖ Cleanth Brooks‖ and

―iv. ―Ambiguity‖: William Empson :.‖

Who first used the term the theatre of Absurd? Martin Esslin✅

Who according to Sameul Johnson is Father of English Criticism? Dryden✅

How many books are contained in The Shepherd's Calendar? 12 ✅

The words "What's in a name?" Occur in : Romeo and Juliet✅

Edmund Spenser and offered hints for the perpetration of Spenser's The Fairies Queen
indicating a plan of 12 books in all that was never completed? Raleigh✅

Which school of school is a called neo Aristotleans' ---

A) Bloomsbury B) N ew Criticism C) Deconstruction D) Chicago Critics❓

John Wycliffe influences by? Roger Bacon ✅

The opening line of 'The Waste Land,' 'April is the cruellest month,' is an allusion to which
work of medieval literature? Canterbury tales ✅

Who among the followmg Indian writers in English, has created an identifiable imagined locale
.R. K. Narayan's Malgudi✅

The Word 'Diaspora‘ literally means : Scattering✅

―Politics and the English Language‖ is an essay by : George Orwell ✅

Which famous American novel ends with the following line : ―After all, Tomorrow is another
day.‖ Gone With the Wind✅

The term 'Restoration' refers to the restoration of : Charles Il.✅

In Marxist Criticism the term ‗interpellation‘ implies : How individuals take up a

preestablished ―subject position‖ in societal structure ✅
 "The Outcasts of Poker Flat" (1869) was first published in.✅the American author West Bret
Harte is an example of naturalism and local colour of California

The Gothic novel and its readers are satirized in which work ? Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
✅

Which of the following does not belong to the group of dramatists called the ‗University Wits' ?
Webster ✅

Confusing_works

Works - Authors

1. Essay on Man - a poem by Pope

2. Essay on Milton - a prose by Macaulay

3. Essay on Criticism - a poem by Pope

4. Essay In Criticism - a prose by Mathew Arnold

5. Essays of Elia - Charles Lamb

6. Essays of Ancient & Modern - T. S. Eliot

7. The Rape of the Lock - epic poem by Pope

8. The Rape of the Lucrecee - a long poem by Shakespeare

9. The way of the World - A comedy by William Congrave

10. The Way of All Flesh - a novel by Samuel Butler

Hemingway got Nobel Prize for :. Arms and the Man . For Whom the Bell Tolls

. The Sun Also Rises

2. Despite his wounds, Hemingway assisted Italian soldiers to safety, for which he received the
Italian Silver Medal of Bravery Award in: 1918

3. The character of Catherine Barkley in a Novel A Farewell to Arms get inspiration from ?
Agnes von Kurowsky

4. Which year, Hemingway was awarded a Bronze Star for his bravery during World War II. :
1947
He was recognized for his valor, having been "under fire in combat areas in order to obtain an
accurate picture of conditions", with the commendation that "through his talent of expression,
Mr. Hemingway enabled readers to obtain a vivid picture of the difficulties and triumphs of the
front-line soldier and his organization in combat".

5. When did Hemigway get Pulitzer Prize for his novel The Old Man and the Sea ? 1953

When did Hardy become the member of the Order of Merit? 1910

When was Hardy nominated for the Noble Prize in literature though didn't won it? 1910

How many times Hardy was nominated for the Nobel Prize though never won it? : Twice

Which prize was awarded to Alfred Lord Tennyson in 1929 for his poem Timbuktu? .
Chancellor's Gold Medal

Which of these novel got Booker prize in 1993? Paddy Clark Ha Ha Ha

When was Thomas Hardy awarded the medal of Royal Institute of British Architects? 1963

When did Seamus Heaney get Nobel Prize in literature? 1995

The government of France made Faulkner a Chevalier de la Légion d'honneur in1951

5. Which award was awarded to Faulkner for his novel A Fable (1954) which he received in
1955-. Pulitzer Prize

Faulkner was awarded Pulitzer Prize second time posthumously in 1963 for his novel which was
published in 1962: The Reivers

Double ditch = unintelligible language

Sui generis = unique

Carpe diem = seize the day

Bad blood = unfriendliness

Who coined the terms "intentional fallacy" and "affective fallacy," ? W.K. wimsatt and Monroe
Berdsley

The phrase "anxiety of influence" was coined by .horald Bloom

 who is related to The "Prague school " of linguistic thoery :-roman jokabson

John Wycliffe influences by? Roger Bacon ✅

The line ―she dwells with Beauty must be‖ occurs in Keats‘..LAMIA✅

The title of the novel, 'Fame Is The Spur' by Howard Spring is taken from which work of John
Milton?Lycidus ✅

The Three Trilogies, and four short Interludes based on the Forsyte Family are collectively
called:. The Forsyte Chronicles✅

Who is the author of the lines: Death be not proud....................Death , thou shalt die.! Donne✅

In which novel did Conrad first introduce his technique of ‗ Oblique narrative‘.? Heart of
Darkness✅

According to T.S Eliot, "a great critic is a critic who conveys a way to previous writer by his
mistakes or good writing.

Which of the following Chaucer poems is not a dream vision? (a) The Legend of Good Women
(b) Astrolabe✅ (c) The Parliament of Fowls (d) The Book of the Duchess

Who, among the following, was not Chaucer's contemporary? (a) Thomas Hoccleve (b) Henry
Scogan (c) Ralph Strode (d) William Tyndale✅

The Poem that makes a reference to Valentine's Day is (a) The Wife of Bath's Tale (b) The
Book of the Duchess (c) The Parliament of Fowls✅ (d) Troilus and Criseyde

Who among the following is a Pre-christian hero? (a) Beowulf ✅(b) King Alfred (c) Gawain
(d) The Plowman

Arrange chronologically the following works of Chaucer: (a) The Romaunt of the Rose (b) The
Book of the Duchess (c)The House of Fame (d) Anelida and Arcite Answer options: (1) ABCD
✅(2) BCDA (3) CDAB (4) DABC

Which of the following Chaucer works is a fragment? (a) The Romaunt of the Rose (b) The
House of Fame✅❓❓❓ �(c) The Book of the Duchess (d) The Parliament of Fowls

Unfinished work

A .Henry viii Shakespeare

B .prelude Wordsworth

C. the triumph of life Shelley

D .ode to Maia Keats

E .Hyperion Keats

F .The mysteries of edwin drood Dickens

G . mr noon Lawrence

H .the garden of Eden. Hemingway

History of britain Milton

Who among the following is not discussed by Woolf in her essay "The Russian Point of View"?
(a) Chekhov (b) Dostoevsky (c) Tolstoy (d) Gogol✅

Middleton's most successful collaborations were with (a) Rowley✅ (b) Dekker (c) Heywood
(d) Ford

Thornton Wilder's 'The Ides of March' (1948) is a historical novel based on the life and times
of (a) Virgil (b) Augustus (c) Julius Caesar ✅(d) Cleopatra

The original manuscript of a literary work written wholly by its author is known as (a)
manuscript (b) handwritten text (c) hologram (d) holograph✅

A work which admonishes its readers and urges them to adopt moral attitudes is a (a) homily✅
(b) tirade (c) moral fable (d) myth

"Some one peculiar quality,Doth so possess a man, that it doth draw .All his affects, his spirits,
and his powers,In their confluctions, all to run one way."These lines from the Induction to
Jonson's Everyman in His Humor speaks of the (a) gist of the play (b) unique nature of the play
(c) end of the play (d) his theory of humours✅

The stress mark (') placed on certain syllables in a line of verse is called (a) stroke (b) bar (c)
sign (d) ictus✅

Tennyson's The Charge of the Light Brigade recalls which 'lost' war Britian purposelessly
fought? (a) Waterloo (b) Crimean ✅(c) Boer War (d) The Indian Rebellion
 Which work by Carlyle, among other things, berates the British system and freedom for
denying work to so many? (a) The French Revolution (b) Sartor Resartus (c) Past and Present
✅(d) On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History

Which work by Carlyle, among other things, berates the British system and freedom for
denying work to so many? (a) The French Revolution (b) Sartor Resartus (c) Past and Present
✅(d) On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History

Who among the following is associated with the tradition of dandyism? (a) Byron (b) Oscar
Wilde ✅(c) D.G. Rossetti (d) Andre Breton

What does the French term 'fin de siecle' (pronounced f də ˈsjɛkl) translate into English? (a)
fine days of the year (b) fine days of the decade (c) end of the century ✅(d) end of the world

George Moore's "Confessions of a Young Man" (1888) is considered the first English manifesto
of which movement? (a) Imagism (b) Vorticism (c) Decadence✅ (d) Dandyism

The stream of consciousness naarrative form is entirely made up of the dialogue of mind with
(a) the character (b) the author (c) the reader (d) itself✅

Erziehungsroman is another term for which of the following? (a) bildungsroman ✅(b) hitorical
novel (c) novel with a key (d) novella

"Perhaps the plaintive numbers flow,,For old, unhappy, far-off things ..And battles long ago?"
Whose plaiantive numbers? (a) Ruth's (b) Dora's (c) Reaper's✅ (d) Isabella's

According to T.S. Eliot, the only way open to express emotion in art is to (a) dissociate
sensibility (b) fuse feeling and thought (c) balance tradition with individual talent (d) find an
objective correlative✅

By critical consensus which of the following is the most influential English literay work of the
20th century? (a) The Waste Land ✅(b) Ulysses (c) Lady Chatterley's Lover (d) Pilgrimage

Which of the following is a term that refers to a highly emotional scene audience usually
expect, so that the dramatist is bound to write it? (a) scena finale (b) scene de menage (c) scene
de vie (d) scene a faire✅

Which modernist poet's early poetry is concerned with the analysis and exploration of man's
"anxiety, guilt, and isolation" using largely the psychological theories of Freud andLane? (a)
T.S. Eliot (b) Hilda Dolittle✅ (c) W.B. Yeats (d) Auden
 Which of the following works of Chaucer shows unmistakable French influence? (a) The
Parlement of Foules (b) The Book of the Duchesse ✅(c) The Compleynt of Mars (c) The
Compleynt of Venus

In which Shakespeare play does Holofernes, the pedantic schoolmaster, appear? (a) Two
Gentlemen of Verona (b) Love's Labour's Lost ✅(c) As you Like It (d) Measure for Measure

The 20th century British dramatist associated with thesis play is (a) Oscar Wilde (b)
Christopher Fry (c) Galsworthy ✅(d) J.M. Barrie

The metrical foot consisting of two accented syllables only is (a) anapest (b) trochee (c)
spondee ✅(d) Dactyl

Who is the serpent turned woman in Keats's poetry? (a) Isabella (b) La Belle Dame sans Merci
(c) Lamia✅ (d) Madeleine

The 2009 British-French-Australian biographical romantic film based on the last three years of
John Keats and his relationship with Fanny Brawne is (a) La belle dame sans merci (b) When
I've fears (c) Lamia (d) Bright Star✅

In which poem does Keats speak of a deserted town where there is none to explain why it is
empty? (a) Ode to Psyche )b) Endymion (c) Hyperion (d) Grecian Ode✅

[ Option D���is the answer. The relevant lines are: " What little town by river or sea shore,
Or mountain-built with peaceful citadel, Is emptied of this folk, this pious morn?And, little
town, thy streets for evermore.. Will silent be; and not a soul to tell.. Why thou art desolate, can
e'er return." (45-50)

Where and when did Surrealism originate? (a) 20th century France✅ (b) 20th Century
Germany (c) 19th century Britain 18th century Italy.( Option A is the right
answer.��(surrealism) Apollinaire coined the term and poet Andre Breton founded the
Movement in 1924 issuing the Movement's first manifesto which claims that a higher reality can
be captured by freeing the mind from logic anf reason. Dylan Thomas and Joyce (in Finnegans
Wake) are often arguably referred to as English surrealists)

Which Art-Movement do Picasso and Salvador Dali represent? (a) Expressionism (b)
Impressionism (c) Cubism ✅(d) Fauvism

Browning's musician-hero is (a) Rabbi Ben Ezra (b) Abt Vogler✅ (c) Brother Lawrence (d) Fra
Lippo Lippi

Which of the following is a play based on Aeschylus's The Suppliants? (a) Big Love✅ (b) The
Dinner Party (c) Far away (d) Face to Face
 Shakespeare's The Comedy of Errors is a (a) comedy (b) farce (c) satire (d) musical.(Option C
✅is the right answer. Generally a nonsensical genre of play, farces are characterized by
overacting and slapstick humor. A more recent example of farce is Mark Twain's 'Is He Dead?')

A play in which everything (like acting, dialogue etc) except list of acts and scenes, is
improvised is called a (a) Canovaccio✅ (b) Blind play (c) Blank Scenario (d) No-play

Which of the following is a variant of the historical fiction? (a) fictional biography (b) memoir
(c) documentary fiction ✅(d) fictionalized autobiography

A short, constantly recurring musical phrase associated with a particular person, place, or idea
is called (a) refrain (b) encore (c) leitmotif ✅(d) counterpoint

A short comic sexy medieval verse tale with middle-class or lower-class characters is called (a)
satire (b) ribaldry (c) fabliau✅ (d) tale

Which German dramatist has adapted into his theater the Russian formalist concept of
defamiliarization? (a) Goethe (b) Buchner (c) Hauptmann (d) Brecht✅

Which of the following is not a sentimental novel? (a) Pamela (b) The English Rogue✅ (c)
Sentimental Journey (d) Man of Feeling

Which of the following plays has no chorus? (a) Samson Agonistes (b) Murder in the Cathedral
(c) Riders to the Sea✅ (d) Prometheus Unbound

"If poetry comes not as naturally as the leaves to a tree, it had better not come at all," said
✅ is the
correct answer. The quote occurs in a letter Keats wrote to John Taylor, his publisher, essayist,
and writer on 27th February 1818 concerning his poetic axioms)

Wordsworth was revolting against which neoclassic poetic principle when he spoke of treating
lowly subjects in serious tone and in the language of the common man? (a) literature as art (b)

highest forms of literary art (Option C✅ is the right answer. The neoclassic principle of
'decorum' insists that poetry should deal only with high subjects in an elevated style. But the fact
remains that most of the English neoclassic poets were satisfied with mock-epics and satires on
trivial themes)

Which of the following works is on Romantic poetry? (a) The Golden Bough (b) The Imprial
Theme (c) The Burning Fountain (d) The Visionary Company(Option D✅ is the right answer.
The full title of this 1961 Harold Bloom book is "The Visionary Company: A Reading of English
Romantic Poetry")
 Aristotle was a direct disciple of (a) Socrates (b) Plato✅ (c) Theophrastus (d) Nichomachus

The term 'metaphysics' was first coined by (a) Donne (b) Dryden (c) Dr. Johonson (d)
Aristotle✅

Who, in Chaucer's Prologue, has " ... ... at his beddes heed,,Twenty bookes, clad in blak or
reed,Of aristotle and his philosophie" (a) The Parson (b) The Knight (c) The Oxenford Clerk
✅(d) Madame Eglantine

The first poem to establish Yeats's reputation as a poet was (a) Second Coming (b) The
among the Reeds (d) The Shadowy Waters(Option B✅ is
the right answer. The poem belongs to his earliest phase (1889) of the past world nostalgia and
pre-Raphaelite coloring)

The Tower (1928) and The Winding Stair and other Poems (1933), mark the summit of Yeats's
maturity as a poet. He handles in these collections (a) philosophical themes with microscopic
precision ✅(b) themes of everyday life romantically (c) the wold of the magic and the occult (d)
Irish national life and freedom struggle with the unswerving commitment of a patriot

Which one of the following is Graham Greene's satire on contemporary spy novels? (a) A Gun
for Sale (b) The Ministry of Fear (c) The Third Man (d) Our Man in Havana✅

The term metaphysical is used by Donne. Coined by Aristotle �

Cultural materialism is a term, used by the British neo-Marxist critic Raymond Williams,

John Keats 'Ode to Autumn' is an example of : Horatian Ode✅

The character 'Fog' appears in Dickens' novel: Pickwick Papers✅

The lines "I am forced by the five senses to fear the five senses." are taken from : Hymns in
Darkness ✅

T. S. Eliot's critical notion "dissociation of sensibility" and "objective correlative" were derived
from : French writers ✅

In Hemingway's short story 'The capital of the world', Paco is diminutive of: Francisco✅

Who called shakespeare ,The largest and most comprehensive soul : Dryden ✅

Which of the following expressions does not appear in the Introduction to Tennyson's In
Memoriam?

A. Let knowledge grow from more to more

B. Strong son of God, immortal love

C. Our wills are ours, to make them thine

D. The roots are wraft about the bones✅

. As an editor, Nissim Ezekiel was not associated with which of the following?

A. Quest

B. Imprint

C. Poetry India

D. Opinion✅

[5:59 AM, 2/3/2019] Sadavel.k: Which character of Dickens keeps on hoping that ,,something
will turn up

A barkis

B Micawber ✅

C uria heep

D miss havisham

[6:01 AM, 2/3/2019] Sadavel.k: Shakespeare used prose for

(a) tragic scenes

(b) Comic scenes✅

(c) horror scenes

(d) marriage scenes

[6:02 AM, 2/3/2019] Sadavel.k: Who said,"Shakespearean tragedy is the apotheosis of man"?

A.C.Bradley ✅

[6:03 AM, 2/3/2019] Sadavel.k: Essay of Elia appeared in

A 1820

B 1821

C 1823 ✅
D 1822

[6:04 AM, 2/3/2019] Sadavel.k: Who wrote that it "reveals Shakespeare's magnificence at the art
of comedy"?

A- Harold Bloom✅

B- T. S. Eliot

C- F.R.Levis

D-Mathew Arnold

[6:06 AM, 2/3/2019] Sadavel.k: Which work of Wordsworth is called, "the fine flower of
eighteenth century meditative poetry? Lyrical ballads,

Immortality Ode,

The recluse,

Tintern Abbey.✅

[6:06 AM, 2/3/2019] Sadavel.k: Which of Shakespearean plays has an element of colonialism ?

A- The Tempest✅

B- Hamlet

C- Cymbeline

D- Hamlet

[6:06 AM, 2/3/2019] Sadavel.k: How many sections are there in Lycidas?

A-6✅

B-7

C-8

D-9

[6:08 AM, 2/3/2019] Sadavel.k: Name ,the unfinished play By Ts ,Eliot.

Sweeney Agonistes✅

[6:09 AM, 2/3/2019] Sadavel.k: Which of the following characters does not appear in David
Copperfield ?
A.Ham

B.Tommy Traddles

C.Doctor Strong

D. DOCTOR rank✅

[6:11 AM, 2/3/2019] Sadavel.k: To strive ,to seek ,to find and to yield

I will drink life to the lees...Tennyson ' s Ulysses✅

[6:12 AM, 2/3/2019] Sadavel.k: If in a ballad, a line or stanza is repeated but with an addition
that advances the story, it is called-1- Referential repetition,

Incremental repetition,✅ just repetition, none.

[6:13 AM, 2/3/2019] Sadavel.k: A.Ulysses dramatic monologue

By alfred lord Tennyson .

B.Ulysses novel by james Joyce .

C.Ulysses play ,by stephen Philip.

[6:20 AM, 2/3/2019] Sadavel.k: About English Literature

#Who_is_the_father_of_the_short_story?

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Edgar A. Poe is called the "father" of the short story because he is credited with setting up the
first guidelines for the short story.

[6:22 AM, 2/3/2019] Sadavel.k: About English Literature

#Who_is_known_as_the_father_of_naturalism?

The best-known "proponent of naturalism" was the novelist and French art critic Émile Zola
(1840–1902); he was one of the most passionate defenders of Taine's theories, putting them to
use in his novels. Zola's foreword to his novel Thérèse Raquin (1867) became the fundamental
manifesto of literary naturalism.

[6:23 AM, 2/3/2019] Sadavel.k: #Who_is_called_the_father_of_prose?

William Tyndale: The Father of English Prose. The King James Bible, since its publication in
1611, has had a profound influence on the development of the English language, not only in the
words and phrases that it employed but also in the syntax and grammatical usages that it
rendered into the English vernacular.

[9:20 AM, 2/3/2019] Sadavel.k: Who is a burly land lord in ,the barbar,s trade union

A bijay chand ✅

B prem chand

C thanu chand

D sardar singh ,

Pgt today exam

[9:23 AM, 2/3/2019] Sadavel.k: Q. About whom did Arnold write in his poem 'Memorial Verses'
--- 'He laid us as we lay at birth/on the cool flowery lap of birth... '?

A. William Wordsworth ✅

B. William Shakespeare

C. Tennyson

D. John Keats

[9:24 AM, 2/3/2019] Sadavel.k: Q. The reference of ''faithful shepherd'' appears in which of the
following poems?

A. Crossing the Bar

B. Dover Beach

C. Rugby Chapel ✅

D. None of the above

[9:32 AM, 2/3/2019] Sadavel.k: "We shall not cease from exploration and the end of all our
exploring will be to arrive where we began and to know the place for the first time "

TS Eliot

[9:33 AM, 2/3/2019] Sadavel.k: Who calls tintern abbey ,

A dark passage :keats.

[9:34 AM, 2/3/2019] Sadavel.k: "His story requires Romans and Kings,but he thinks only on
men " Who remarked ìt for Shakespeare ??

A.Ben jonson

B.dryden

C.dr jonson✅

D.arnold

Dr Samuel Johnson...in Preface to Shakespeare

[9:38 AM, 2/3/2019] Sadavel.k: Elia,s style is the only thing in english prose

That can be called absolutely perfect

Who said ?

A jc Powys ✅

B Compton ricket

C Walter pater

D Hazlitt

[9:39 AM, 2/3/2019] Sadavel.k: A very popular poet was thin ,tall black in complexion ,children
used to mock at him saying whether he has come from india ,

Who is tha poet

A Eliot

B Shelley

C Yeats ✅

D edwin Arnold

[9:39 AM, 2/3/2019] Sadavel.k: Humour with lamb is never far from tragedy through his tears
you may see the rainbow in the sky ,for him humour and pathos are really inseparable from one
another ,they are different facets of the same gem

Who said
1 Hugh Walker ✅

2 Compton ricket

3 pater

4 george Sampson

[9:40 AM, 2/3/2019] Sadavel.k: Yeats founded the abbey theatre with

A Eliot

B shaw

C lady Annie Besant

D lady Gregory✅

[9:41 AM, 2/3/2019] Sadavel.k: Q. Who is a burly landlord in 'The Barber's Trade Union'?

A. Bijay Chand✅

B. Padam Chand

C. Thanu Chand

D. Sardar Singh

By Mulk Raj Anand in 1944

[10:34 AM, 2/3/2019] Sadavel.k: A Short Speech At The End Of A Play Is The

A.Epilogue✅

B.Denouement

C.Peroration

D.Conclusion

CRITICS ON ELIOT‘S ‗THE WASTE LAND.‘

Ted Hughes described it as ‗A drama of voices.‘

I.A. Richards —‗A music of ideas.‘

Ezra Pound— ‗It is the longest poem in the English language because of its profundity,
perplexity and density of poetic allusions, myths and meanings.‘

F.R.Leavis— ‗Rich disorganisation.‘

Edmund Wilson— ‗ one of our only authentic poets.‘ About the poem, he said, ‗I doubt whether
there is a single other poem of equal length by a contemporary American which displays so high
and so varied a mastery of English verse.‘

J.C. Ransom— ‗Extreme disconnection.‘

Empson used a passage from the poem as an example of ambiguity in his ,‘ Seven Types of
Ambiguity‘ (1930), without any doubts regarding the greatness of the poem or the genius of the
poet. The first 17 lines of ‗A Game of Chess‘ have been analysed by Empson to explicate the
ambiguity of syntax, which, according to him, has been exquisitely accomplished by the poet so
as to stand out as a dramatic and lyrical highlight.

1. Two of the following list are ―Angry Young Men‖ of the 1950‘s

British literary scene.

I. John Osborne

II. C.P. Snow

III. Anthony Powell

IV. Kingsley Amis

The right combination, accordingto the code

(A) I & II

(B) II & IV

(C) I & IV

(D) I & III

Answer: C

2. Laurence Sterne‘s Tristram Shandy contains

(A) Six volumes

(B) Nine volumes

(C) Ten volumes

(D) Four volumes

Answer: B

3. Which of the following statement is NOT true of Areopagitica ?

(A) It was published in 1644.

(B) It argues for the liberty of Unlicensed Printing.

(C) It pleads for British privileges regarding Free Trade.

(D) It is a speech addressed to the Parliament of England.

Answer: C

4. Thomas Hardy‘s last major novel was ___.

(A) Tess of the D‘urbervilles

(B) Jude the Obscure

(C) The Return of the Native

(D) The Trumpet Major

Answer: B

5. The Hind and the Panther Transvers‘d to the Story of the Country

Mouse and the City Mouse is a satire on

(A) Alexander Pope

(B) Jonathan Swift

(C) John Dryden

(D) Samuel Butler

Answer: C

6. Match the columns :

Terms Theorists

1. Matthew Arnold

2. Friedrich Nietzsche
3. G.H. Hopkins

4. S.T. Coleridge

I. Apollonian – Dionysian

II. Fancy – Imagination

III. Hellenism – Hebraism

IV. Inscape – Instress

I II III IV

(A) 2 4 1 3

(B) 2 4 3 1

(C) 1 4 2 3

(D) 4 2 1 3

Answer: A

7. In King Lear who among the following speaks in the voice of Poor Tom ?

(A) Kent

(B) Edgar

(C) Edmund

(D) Gloucester

Answer: B

8. In Wordsworth‘s Prelude the Boy of Winander is affected by

(A) Blindness

(B) Deafness

(C) Muteness

(D) Lameness

Answer: C

9. Which of the following is NOT mentioned as part of the London locale

in The Waste Land ?

(A) St. Magnus Martyr

(B) King Arthur Street

(C) St. Mary Woolnoth

(D) Lower Thames Street

Answer: B

10. Which of the following novels is NOT written by Jean Rhys ?

(A) After Leaving Mr. Mackenzie

(B) Good Morning, Midnight

(C) The Quiet American

(D) Wide Sargasso Sea

Answer: C

[9:57 PM, 2/3/2019] Sadavel.k: Before Chaucer; there was no national language for the English
people. They had only regional dialects. Chaucer used one of these languages- the East Midland-
and by the force of his genius raised it to the level of the national language. This is why he is
called the (a) Father of English Poetry (b) Father of English Literature (c) Father of the English
Language ✅(d) Father of the National Language

[6:54 AM, 2/4/2019] Sadavel.k: Which play of Tennyson is not a play of historical trilogy

A queen mary

B Harold

C the cup✅

D backett

[6:57 AM, 2/4/2019] Sadavel.k: �Source of Comedy of Errors is Poitus Menaechmi or The
Twins

[6:58 AM, 2/4/2019] Sadavel.k: Queen Mary ,Harold

The cup

Historical plays .
By tennyson

[6:59 AM, 2/4/2019] Sadavel.k: �Source of Antony and Cleopatra is Plutarch's Lives

[7:03 AM, 2/4/2019] Sadavel.k: Ques- An episodic, often autobiographical novel about a rogue
or picaro (a person of low social status) wandering around living off his wits.

A. Sonnet

B. Southern Gothic

C. Picaresque Novel✅

D. Stream of Consciousness

[7:04 AM, 2/4/2019] Sadavel.k: Tennyson's Plays

1. Queen Mary 1875 2. Harold 1876 3. The Falcon 1879 4. The Cup 1881 5. Beckett 1884 6. The
Foresters 1892

[7:05 AM, 2/4/2019] Sadavel.k: Ques- A distinctive feature or repeated theme or idea in a piece
of literature.

A. Jargon

B. Vernacular

C. Motif✅

D. Invective

[7:07 AM, 2/4/2019] Sadavel.k: �The History of Apollonius and Silla' in B. Rich's Riche
Farewell to Militarie Profession (1581) is the source of Twelfth Night

[7:13 AM, 2/4/2019] Sadavel.k: Maud reflects the spirit of the patriotic passion of the time of

A the world war 1

B the world 2

C the civil war ✅

D the Crimean war

[7:15 AM, 2/4/2019] Sadavel.k: In memoriam is

A elegy poem ✅
B comic poem

C satirical poem .d ballad

[7:19 AM, 2/4/2019] Sadavel.k: Ques- A literary type or form.

A. Genre✅

B. Aphorism

C. Foil

D. Analogy

[7:32 AM, 2/4/2019] Sadavel.k: "Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul."

Who said this? �Alexander Pope ✅

[7:33 AM, 2/4/2019] Sadavel.k: #What_is_realism_and_naturalism_in_Theatre?

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Naturalism is a movement in European drama and theatre that developed in the late 19th and
early 20th centuries. It refers to theatre that attempts to create an illusion of reality through a
range of dramatic and theatrical strategies.

[7:34 AM, 2/4/2019] Sadavel.k: #What_is_realism_in_drama?

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Realism in the theatre was a general movement that began in the 19th-century theatre, around the
1870s, and remained present through much of the 20th century. It developed a set of dramatic
and theatrical conventions with the aim of bringing a greater fidelity of real life to texts and
performances.

[7:39 AM, 2/4/2019] Sadavel.k: As an introspective first-person narrative, which of the

following novels is the forerunner of psychological novel in English? (a) Pamela (b) Moll
Flanders (c) Tristram Shandy ✅(d) Joseph Andrews

[7:40 AM, 2/4/2019] Sadavel.k: The first true threnody in English literature is (a) Lycidas (b)
Gray's Elegy (c) Thyrsis (d) The Pearl✅

[7:41 AM, 2/4/2019] Sadavel.k: Which of the following is an example of 14th century Valentine
poetry? (a) The Parlement of Foules ✅(b) The Pearl (c) Piers Plowman (d) The Book of the
Duchesse
[7:42 AM, 2/4/2019] Sadavel.k: "Keats and His Nightingale: A Blind Date" is (a) a mythical
study of Keats's Nightingale Ode (b) a painting by Keats's painter-friend Severn (c) an American
short documentary film nominated for Academy Award ✅(d) an unpublished poem by Sylvia
Plath

[8:38 AM, 2/4/2019] Sadavel.k: The fine flower of 18th century is

1-Lyrical Ballads

2-Immortality Ode

3-Tintern Abbey✅

4- The Recluse

[9:16 AM, 2/4/2019] Sadavel.k: Arrange chronologically the following works of Chaucer: (a)
The Romaunt of the Rose (b) The Book of the Duchess (c)The House of Fame (d) Anelida and
Arcite

Answer options: (1) ABCD✅ (2) BCDA (3) CDAB (4) DABC

[9:18 AM, 2/4/2019] Sadavel.k: Which of the following is not true of Chaucer's age? (a) great
popular regard for church and papal supremacy✅ (b) strong nationalistic passions (c) Peasant
upheavals (d) Rise of the middle class

[9:20 AM, 2/4/2019] Sadavel.k: "I was born twice: first, as a baby girl, on a remarkably
smogless Detroit day of January 1960; and then again, as a teenage boy, in an emergency room
near Petoskey, Michigan, in August of 1974,‖ Eugenides writes in the opening lines of his novel.
This renders the protagonist a mythic life with the ability to communicate between the genders,
to see not with the monovision of one sex but in the stereoscope of both. (a) Which 2002
American novel are we talking about? (a) The Virgin Suicides (b) The Marriage Plot (c)
Middlesex ✅(d) Fresh Complaint

[9:21 AM, 2/4/2019] Sadavel.k: With her 1999 debut novel which tells the story of the friends
Jones and Iqbal against the backdrop of the postcolonial multicultural London, the 23 year old
British prodigy Zadie Smith wowed the literary world. The novel that grabbed accolaids in
dozens and readers in millions is (a) Swing Time (b) White Teeth✅ (c) The Autograph Man (d)
On Beauty

[9:22 AM, 2/4/2019] Sadavel.k: From where does Graham Greene borrow the title of his 1940
novel The Power and the Glory? (a) Shakespeare (b) Milton (c) T.S. Eliot (d) The Lord's
Prayer….Option D✅ is the correct answer. The relevant lines often recited at the end of the
Prayer is, "For thine is the kingdom, the power, and the glory, forever and ever, amen."
[9:22 AM, 2/4/2019] Sadavel.k: Which Agatha Christie novel cited below features both the
Belgian detective Hercule Poirot, and Chief Inspector Japp? (a) The Big Four (b) The Mystery of
the Blue Train (c) One, Two Buckle My Shoe ✅(d) A Pocket Full of Rye

[9:22 AM, 2/4/2019] Sadavel.k: The historical novel (also Gay fiction) "The Shakespeare
Conspiracy" (2010) by Ted Bacino reconstructs the biography of which Elizabethan writer? (a)
Bacon (b) Sidney (c) Spenser (d) Marlowe✅

[9:23 AM, 2/4/2019] Sadavel.k: Viola/Cesario is the protagonist of which Shakespeare play? (a)
As you Like It (b) All is Well That Ends Well (c) Twelfth Night (d) Merry Wives of
Windsor….Option C✅ is the right answer. Though sexually ambiguous, she has an infectious
energy that audience love, and this makes her eligible to be ranked with Rosalind (As You Like
It) as one of Shekespeare's best heroines.

[9:24 AM, 2/4/2019] Sadavel.k: In which Shakespeare play do we meet the Beatrice-Benedick
pair? (a) As You Like It (b) Two Gentlemen of Verona (c) Much Ado About Nothing✅ (d) Two
Gentlemen of Verona

[9:24 AM, 2/4/2019] Sadavel.k: Which novella by Doris Lessing combines fiction and non-
fiction in the course of reimagining the life of her parents? (a) Shikasta (b) The Grass is Singing
(c) The Good Terrorist (d) Alfred and Family✅

[9:24 AM, 2/4/2019] Sadavel.k: The darkest and shortest great tragedy of the Bard is driven by
the demonic imaginative dynamo of her satanic heart lusty for power and pelf. Of which
Shakespeare play is this true? (a) King Lear (b) Macbeth ✅(c) Coriolanus (d) Antony and
Cleopatra

[9:25 AM, 2/4/2019] Sadavel.k: Described as one of the 20th century's most influential
Shakespeare theatrical productions, "Peter Brook's Dream" is inspired by which Shakespeare
play? (a) The Tempest (b) Love's Labour's Lost (c) A Midsummer Night's Dream ✅(d)
Cymbeline

[9:25 AM, 2/4/2019] Sadavel.k: Which of the following books attack the male bias implicit in
Freud's psychoanalytical theory? (a) The Second Sex (b) A Room of One's Own (c) Women and
Writing (d) Sexual Politics✅

[9:26 AM, 2/4/2019] Sadavel.k: Which of the Indian novels in English presents a middle-aged
woman's travel in search of indepedence? (a) A Portrait of the Writer as a Young Wife (b) Rich
Like Us (c) The Ladies Coupe✅ (d) You are Here
[9:26 AM, 2/4/2019] Sadavel.k: Which Arvind Adiga novel is in the form of a series of unsent
letters to the Chinese premier from one who left his village to work as a chauffeur in Delhi? (a)
Between Assassinations (b) The White Tiger✅ (c) The Last Man in Tower (d) Selection Day

[9:26 AM, 2/4/2019] Sadavel.k: The two assassinations mentioned in Avind Adiga's novel
"Between Assassinations" are those of (a) Indira Gandhi and Rajiv Gandhi✅ (b) Mahatma
Gandhi and Indira Gandhi (c) John F Kennedy and Martin Luther King (d) Jesus Christ and
Mahatma Gandhi

[9:27 AM, 2/4/2019] Sadavel.k: The first Indian woman poet to write in English was (a) Sarojini
Naidu ✅(b) Toru Dutt (c) Eunice de Souza (d) Kamala Das

[9:27 AM, 2/4/2019] Sadavel.k: The Descendants, The Anamalai Poems, Only the Soul Knows
How to Sing, and Yaa Allah are volume of poems written by (a) Sarojini Naidu (b) Kamala
Das✅ (c) Laxmi Kannan (d) Mani Rao

[9:28 AM, 2/4/2019] Sadavel.k: Which Indian poet writing in English is often bracketed with
Sylvia Plath, Anne Sexton and Judith Wright? (a) Kamala Das ✅(b) Laxmi Kannan (c) Mani
Rao (d) Suniti Namjoshi

[9:28 AM, 2/4/2019] Sadavel.k: The Indian-English woman poet undeniably impacted by
Wordsworth is (a) Eunice de Souza (b) Sarojini Naidu (c) Toru Dutt (d) Monika Verma✅

[9:28 AM, 2/4/2019] Sadavel.k: Which post-Independence Indian woman poet writing in English
is often compared to Emily Dickinson for her minimalism and decorum coupled with bitter
irony‘. (a) Monika Verma (b) Eunice de Souza ✅(c) Kamala Das (d) Gouri Deshpande

[9:29 AM, 2/4/2019] Sadavel.k: "Once upon a time there were two sisters and one got married
and one didn't. Or, once upon a time there were two piglets and one went to market and one
didn't, or, one was straight and one wasn't. The point is, whatever they did or failed to do, they
were a great disappointment to their poor mother." Which Suniti Namjoshi poem begins with
these lines? (a) ALTITUDES (b) TO BE A POET (c) GRASS BLADE (d) SNOW WHITE AND
ROSE GREEN✅

[9:29 AM, 2/4/2019] Sadavel.k: Apart from the theme of man-woman relationship, Gouri
Deshpandey's romance with the past is well articulated in her poetry. Which of the following
volumes of poetry is hers? (a) A Sheaf Gleaned in French Fields (b) The Wizard Mask (c) Lost
Love ✅(d) Tribute to Papa

[9:29 AM, 2/4/2019] Sadavel.k: "House of a Thousand Doors" is a collection of poems by an

Indian diasporic literary luminary and distinguished Professor of English at the New York city.
Best known for her expressionist experiments, the Indian English poet we are speaking about is
(a) Eunice de Souza (b) Meena Alexander ✅(c) Rukmini Bhayya Nayar (d) Mani Rao

[9:30 AM, 2/4/2019] Sadavel.k: Where is the locale of Amit Chaudhari's novel 'The Immortals'?
(a) Calcutta (b) Delhi (c) Allahabad (d) Mumbai✅

[9:30 AM, 2/4/2019] Sadavel.k: ‗Market activism‘, ‗literary activism‘ and deprofessionalization‘
are terms created by which Indian English author in resistance to the marginalization of the
literary by the 'market' and the 'academia'? (a) Salmon Rudhie (b) Shashi Tharoor (c)
Khushwant Singh (d) Amit Chaudhari✅

[9:30 AM, 2/4/2019] Sadavel.k: Which Jhumpa Lahiri novel was first published in a literary
journal as a novella and later expanded to book-length form? (a) Unaccustomed Earth (b)
Interpreter of Maladies (c) Namesake✅ (d) The Lowland

[9:31 AM, 2/4/2019] Sadavel.k: Jhumpa Lahiri's Pulitzer work 'Interpreter of Maladies' has as its
umbrella theme the dilemma of the Indians and Indian Americans caught between their roots and
the New World. The work is a (a) novella (b) novel (c) collection of short stories ✅(d) Memoir

[9:31 AM, 2/4/2019] Sadavel.k: What is the 'possible' name of the Nurse in Shakespeare's
Romeo and Juliet? (a) Magdeline (b) Anne (c) Angelica✅ (d) Bianca

[9:33 AM, 2/4/2019] Sadavel.k: The Indian society portrayed in Anita Desai's 1999 novel
'Fasting Feasting' is (a) women-friendly (b) dominated by women (c) a community struggling to
break loose from patriarchy✅ (d) a society with deep-rooted beliefs in women power

[9:33 AM, 2/4/2019] Sadavel.k: The term 'stream of consciousness' was coined by William
James in 1890 in his book The Principles of Psychology (1890), but the term was first applied in
a literary context in The Egotist (April 1918) by which British woman suffragist novelist? (a)
Dorothy Richardson (b) Virginia Woolf (c) May Sinclair✅ (d) Gertrude Stein

[9:33 AM, 2/4/2019] Sadavel.k: Which Henry James novel is suggested as a significant
precursor of the stream of consciousness narrative technique? (a) The American (b) The Portrait
of a Lady ✅(c) The Wings of the Dove (d) Daisy Miller

[9:34 AM, 2/4/2019] Sadavel.k: Which Eliot dramatic monologue of an urban man, stricken with
feelings of isolation and an incapability for decisive action is said to have been influenced by the
narrative poetry of Robert Browning, including "Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister"? (a) The
Waste Land (b) The Hollow Men (c) The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock ✅(d) The Preludes
[9:34 AM, 2/4/2019] Sadavel.k: Which Indian English writer is known for his stream of
consciousness narrative style as told by a loquacious young Indian man? (a) Shashi Tharoor (b)
Rohinton Mistry (c) Amitav Ghosh (d) Salmon Rushdie✅

[9:35 AM, 2/4/2019] Sadavel.k: Which 'plenty angry' woman playwright wrote her AYM play,
with 19 year old Jo as protagonist, when she was just 18, and made it a singular success of long
lasting influence? (a) Caryl Churchill (b) Shelagh Delaney ✅(c) April De Angelis (d) Nina
Raine

[9:36 AM, 2/4/2019] Sadavel.k: Which D.H. Lawrence novel tells the story of a young married
woman, whose upper-class, well built and handsome husband's physical disability and neglect
for her leads her into an affair with a gamekeeper? (a) The Rainbow (b) Kangaroo (c) The Boy
in the Bush (d) Lady Chatterley's Lover✅

[9:36 AM, 2/4/2019] Sadavel.k: Which of the following Lawrence novels is an alternative
version of the story that was told in Lady Chatterley's Lover? (a) The Escaped Cock (b) The Fox
(c) The Lost Girl (d) John Thomas and Lady Jane✅

[9:37 AM, 2/4/2019] Sadavel.k: The primary aim of the New Critics was to show the unity
beneath the apparent disunity of the text. Which critical school sought to achieve just the
opposite of this, that is, to show the internal contradictions or inconsistencies in the text, and
thereby revealing the disunity which underlies its apparent unity? (a) formalist (b) archetypal (c)
structuralist (d) deconstructionist✅

[9:37 AM, 2/4/2019] Sadavel.k: Which of the following texts by Roland Barthes marks his
transition from structuralism to post-structuralism? (a) Writing Degree Zero (b) The Death of the
Author✅ (c) From Work to Text (d) S/Z

[9:37 AM, 2/4/2019] Sadavel.k: Which critical theory of the 1980s was described the 'turn to
history', whereby history, politics, and context were reinstated at the center of the literary-critical
agenda? (a) Feminism (b) Postcolonial Theory (c) New Historicism ✅(d) Cultural Criticism

[9:38 AM, 2/4/2019] Sadavel.k: The title of Roland Barthes's 1964 essay "The Last Happy
Writer" refers to which French philosopher-writer? (a) Voltaire✅ (b) Sartre (c) Camus (d)
Balzac

[9:38 AM, 2/4/2019] Sadavel.k: Barthes's term for the text that aims at making the reader the
producer of the text rather than its consumer is (a) Readerly (b) Writerly ✅(c) Readers' produce
(d) Writers' produce
[9:39 AM, 2/4/2019] Sadavel.k: Arthur Seaton is the autobiographical anti-hero of which Alan
Sillitoe novel? (a) The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner (b) Saturday Night and Sunday
Morning ✅(c) A Man of His Time (d) The Broken Chariot

[9:40 AM, 2/4/2019] Sadavel.k: The category of texts Barthes describes as "a cupboard where
meanings are shelved, stacked, and safeguarded" is (a) biographies (b) scriptures (c) classics✅
(d) histories

[9:40 AM, 2/4/2019] Sadavel.k: Which of the following feminist groups does not prefer alliance
with men to battle against oppressive forces of racism, homophobia and advanced modes of
capitalism? (a) radical feminists ✅(b) black feminists (c) lesbian feminists (d) socialist
feminists,

[9:41 AM, 2/4/2019] Sadavel.k: Which of the following is the debut work of an iconic
postmodern novelist? (a) On Beauty (b) V. ✅(c) The Golden Notebook (d) The Tunnel

[9:41 AM, 2/4/2019] Sadavel.k: Option B ���is the right answer. The author is Thomas
Pynchon and the novel (1963) is about the exploits of a discharged U.S. Navy sailor named
Benny Profane.

[9:41 AM, 2/4/2019] Sadavel.k: It is a postmodern novel that pretends to be a novel that can‘t get
started, with parodies of Borges, French thrillers, Japanese erotic fiction, political allegories and
magical realism. Every chapter turns out to be not a continuation of the work, but the first
chapter of another one. And in the end the disparate stories add up to an ironic, but tender happy
ending. The novel discussed here is (a) The Autograph Man (b) If on a Winter‘s Night a Traveler
✅(c) Gravity's Rainbow (d) The Good Terrorist

[9:42 AM, 2/4/2019] Sadavel.k: Which of the following is not one belonging to Doris Lessing's
novel-quintet Canopus in Argos? (a) The Grass is Singing (b) Shikasta (c) The Sirian
Experiments (d) The Sentimental Agents….Option A �✅is the right answer. "Canopus in
Argos: Archives" is a sequence of five science fiction novels taking place in future history. The
novel quintet comprise the following:

Book 1: Shikasta (1979)

Book 2: The Marriages Between Zones Three, Four and Five (1980)

Book 3: The Sirian Experiments (1980)

Book 4: The Making of the Representative for Planet 8 (1982)

Book 5: The Sentimental Agents (1983)

[9:43 AM, 2/4/2019] Sadavel.k: Doris Lessing's book in hybrid form -part fiction, part notebook,
part memoir - is (a) Under my Skin (b) Through the Tunnel (c) Martha Quest (d) Alfred and
Emily✅ is an autobiographical novel

[9:45 AM, 2/4/2019] Sadavel.k: A. Under my skin.is an autobiographical novel

[9:45 AM, 2/4/2019] Sadavel.k: Which of the following poets is not included in Wilson Knight's
The Starlit Dome (1941), subtitled Studies in the Poetry of Vision? (a) Wordsworth (b)
Coleridge (c) Shelley (d) Tennyson✅

[9:46 AM, 2/4/2019] Sadavel.k: Which of the following is, as Margaret Drabble calls, one of
Lessing's 'inner space fiction'? (a) The Grass is Singing (b) Martha Quest (c) The Golden
Notebook✅ (d) Shikasta

[9:47 AM, 2/4/2019] Sadavel.k: The 1977 novel "Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter" recounts the
real life story of a Nobelist falling for a 32 year old divorcee as an 18 year old student. Which
Nobelist has authored the book? (a) Stephen Spender (b) Golding (c) Mario Llosa (d) Graham
Greene

Option C✅ is the right answer. Llosa, as you all know, is a Peruvian writer who won the 2010
Nobel.

[9:47 AM, 2/4/2019] Sadavel.k: The 1959 novella "Goodbye, Columbus" depicting the life of
middle-class Jewish Americans, is the debut work of a strikingly autobiographical American
author, who died about a month ago at New York. The author in question is (a) Edward Allen
(b) Saul Bellow (c) Russell Banks (d) Philip Roth✅

[9:47 AM, 2/4/2019] Sadavel.k: Which Gertrude Stein book picks up where her earlier 1933
work "The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas" leaves off. (a) The Making of Americans (b)
Three Lives (c) Paris France (d) Everybody's Autobiography✅

[9:48 AM, 2/4/2019] Sadavel.k: On his return home from seven years of exile,Thomas in Murder
in the Cathedral, has to resist four temptations. Which of the following is not one among them?
(a) the crown and the scepter ✅ (b) lasting power as chancellor (c) recognition as a leader of the
barons against the king (d) eternal glory as a martyr.

[9:49 AM, 2/4/2019] Sadavel.k: Which Edward Bond play was instrumental for the abolition of
theater censorship in England by The Theaters Act (1843) ? (a) The Pope's Wedding (b) Saved
✅(c) Bingo (d) The Sea
Edward Bond (born July 18 1934) is an English playwright, theatre director, theorist and
screenwriter. He is the author of the play Saved (1965), the production of which was
instrumental in the abolition of theatre censorship in the UK. His highly controversial work has
met with extremes of reaction, from vilification to claims that he is the world‘s greatest living
dramatist

[9:49 AM, 2/4/2019] Sadavel.k: Which of the following Bond plays is on Shakespeare as a
retiree? (a) Lear (b) Bingo✅ (c) The Fool (d) Dea

[9:49 AM, 2/4/2019] Sadavel.k: Which English poet is featured in Bond's play The Fool? (a)
William Collins (b) John Masefield (c) Thomas Gray (d) John Clare✅

[9:50 AM, 2/4/2019] Sadavel.k: "What the is the state of the nation and its theater?" Bond
discusses this question as introduction to which of his following plays? (a) Lear (b) Dea✅ (c)
Saved (d) The Sea

[9:50 AM, 2/4/2019] Sadavel.k: Which among the following is British playwright John Arden's
novel shortlisted for 1982 Man Booker? (a) Silence Among the Weapons✅ (b) Books of Bale
(c) The Happy Haven (d) Live Like Pigs.

[9:50 AM, 2/4/2019] Sadavel.k: Arden calls which of his plays 'an unhistorical parable'? (a)
Cogs Tyrannic (b) Jack Juggler (c) Stealing Steps (d) Sergeant Musgrave's Dance✅

[9:51 AM, 2/4/2019] Sadavel.k: Which among the following is Arden's "play about a play within
the play"? (a) Pearl ✅(b) Live Like Pigs (c) Sergeant Musgrave's Dance (d) Portrait of a Rebel

[9:51 AM, 2/4/2019] Sadavel.k: Which of the following is a postcolonial, postmodern, and
magical realist novel? (a) The Magic Mountain (b) Sorrows of Young Werther (c) Kanthapura
(d) Midnight's Children✅

[9:51 AM, 2/4/2019] Sadavel.k: Which of the following is an honor Midnight's Children has not
won? (a) Booker (b) Best of the Bookers (c) Booker of Bookers (d) Pulitzer Fiction Prize✅

[9:52 AM, 2/4/2019] Sadavel.k: Canadian literary theorist Linda Hutcheon coined in her book A
Poetics of Postmodernism, the term 'historiographic metafiction' to refer to novels that fuse the
devices of historical fiction and meta-fiction. Who among the following is not associated with
this mode of writing: (a) Michael Ondaatje (b) John Fowles (c) Thomas Pynchon (d)
Cervantes✅

[9:52 AM, 2/4/2019] Sadavel.k: Which work by the Pakistani-British postcolonial novelist Hanif
Kureishi is considered an instance of biographic meta-fiction? (a) The Black Album (b) Intimacy
(c) The Body (d) The Last Word……Option D✅ is the right answer. The book explores the
process of writing a literary biography of a living person. It also inquires into the dynamics of the
relationship between the biographer and his subject – a writer. As such, the novel can be taken as
an instance of biographic meta-fiction, a subcategory of historiographic meta-fiction.

[9:53 AM, 2/4/2019] Sadavel.k: The Pakistani novelist Mohsin Hamid's novel about a young
couple shortlisted for the Man Booker is (a) How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia (b) Moth
Smoke (c) Discontent and its Civilizations (d) Exit West✅

[9:53 AM, 2/4/2019] Sadavel.k: Which Pakistani novelist confessedly considers his/her novels a
'divided man‘s conversation with himself' and himself/herself a 'mongrel' of no definable breed?
(a) Kamila Shamsie (b) H.M. Naqvi (c) Omar Shahid Hamid (d) Mohsin Hamid✅

[9:53 AM, 2/4/2019] Sadavel.k: Which Paul de Man essay ends with the rhetoric question ―How
can we know the dancer from the dance?‖ from Yeats's poem Among School Children? (a)
Criticism and Critics ((b) Semiology and Rhetoric✅ (c) The Rhetoric of Romanticism (d) The
Resistance to Theory

[9:54 AM, 2/4/2019] Sadavel.k: Who among the following is a translator of Tagore's poems? (a)
Lila Ray (b) Monica Varma (c) Mary Erulkar (d) Indira Devi Chanrajgir

Option B ✅is the right answer. Her translation of Tagore's poems is titled "A Bunch of Tagore
Poems" . She has also translated into English Jayadeva's "Geet Govind".

[9:54 AM, 2/4/2019] Sadavel.k: "A knife most willing to cut your best friend's throat ...

Words are a nuisance, but They grow on me like leaves on a tree," These lines belong to the
Indian English woman poet who declared: "I am sinner,/I am saint./ I am the beloved and
the/Betrayed." The poet in question is (a) Sujatha Bhatt (b) Kamala Das✅ (c) Amrita Pritam
(d) Suniti Namjoshi

[9:54 AM, 2/4/2019] Sadavel.k: Gouri Deshpande was a bilingual Indian English writer; she
wrote in English and (a) Bengali (b) Kannada (c) Marathi✅ (d) Assamese

[9:55 AM, 2/4/2019] Sadavel.k: The Indian English writer who translated from English to
Marathi the ten volumes of "Arabian Nights" written by Sir Richard Burton, the orientalist, is (a)
Nissim Ezekiel (b) Gouri Deshpande✅ (c) Khushwant Singh (d) Suniti Namjoshi