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English
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AC. Bradley's Shakespearean Tragedy was published in
1) 1904 2) 1906 3) 1905 4) 1908
Sartor Resarius is atext by
1 Ruskin 2) Amold 3) Carlyle 4) Burke
‘The name of Dr. Johnson's biographer is
1) Bosewell 2) Dryden 3) Bolingbroke 4) Sheridan
‘Such a Long Journey is writen by
1) Vikram Seth 2)Rohinon Mistry 3) Salman Rushdie 4) M.G. Vassanji
‘The essay ~ “The Death of the Author” is written by
1) Roland Barthes 2)Michel Foucault 3) Dersida 4) Gramsci
Naryashastra is writen by
1) Kuntaka, 2) Anandavardhana 3) Bharatamuni 4) Abhinavagupta
‘Which of the following feminist cites did use the expression ~ "Gynocrtieism” forthe first
time?
1) Blaine Showalter 2) Mary Ellmann 3) Simone de Beauvoir 4) Kate Millet
IM, Coetzee’s Foe isa postmodern retelling oF
1) hanhoe 2).Bvelina 3) Robinson Crusoe 4) The Moonstone
‘The term “metaphysical poets” was fist used by
1)Dr. Johnson 2) Dryden 3)Helen Gardner 4) Ben Jonson
‘To whom does Chaucer refer when he says that "He knew the tavern well in every town? ?
1) Pardoner 2) Monk 3) Squire 4) Petar
‘The term ~ “American
naissance” was firs used by :
1) F.0. Matthiessen 2) Richaid Chase 3) Leo Marx 4 RW.B. Lewis
The Anxiety of influence : A Theory of Poetry is writen by
1)Maud Bodkin 2) Stephen Spender 3) Harold Bloom 4) Frank Kermode
“Victorian Compromise” is an expression first used by
1)David Cecil 2) G.K. Chesterton 3) Vincent Buckley 4) Lytton Strachey
Muriel Spark's The Prime of Miss Jean Brod
1) Jane Eyre 2) Villewe 3) Wuthering Heights 4) North and South,
rewriting of the Victorian novel
‘The Time Machine is writen by
1) Bvelyn Waugh 2) Allan Sillitoc. -3)H.G, Well). 4) D.HL. Lawrence
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‘Which of the following novels by Dickens does attack the New Poor Lav of 1834 in the
‘opening chapters?
41) Oliver'Twist 2) Great Expectations 3) Hard Times 4) Domibey and Son
‘Which ofthe following characters does appear in Waiting for Godor?
Jey 2) Lucky 3) Jimmy Porter 4) Ham
“Hamartia” means
1) Reversal of fortunes 2) Purgation of emotions 3)Depravity 4) Exror of judgement
“Sprung rhythm” is associated with
1)GM. Hopkins | 2) William Blake 3) Philip Larkin 4) Ted Hughes
“Jindiworwbak” movement relates to
1) Canadian literature 2) Australian literature
3) Caribbean literature 4) New Zealand literature
‘John Evelyn and Samuel Pepys were famous waiters of:
1) diaries 2) editorials 3) letters A)essays
Vanity Fair is witten by
1) Henry Fielding 2) WM. Thackeray 3) Trollope 4) Goorge Eliot
Swift's Tale ofa Tub isa satire on
1) Science and philosophy 2) Artand morality
3) Dogma and superstiti 4) Fake morals and manners
The Mystery plays deal with
1) The lifeof Christ. 2) The New World 3) Psalms 4) Apocrypha
‘Riders fo the Sea is a play writen by
I)WB. Yeats 2)G.B. Shi 3)}M,Synge 4) Christopher Frye
“The Affective Fallacy” ~ the tem was coined by :
1) Allan Tate 2)LA. Richards,
3) Rene Wellek 4) W.K. Wimsatt and M.C. Beardsley
In“Adonais”, Shelley mourns
1) the socio-political anarehy in Europe
2) the death of John Keats
3) the widespread corruption in contemporary polities
4) the condition ofthe working-class in England
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‘Uncle Tom's Cabin is, primarily, an example of
1) sunealist uniting 2) symbolit writing
3) anti-slavery writing 4) impressionistic wating
Nobel Prize for literature for2014 was given to
1) Margaret Atwood 2) Ben Oki 3)Harold Pinter 4) Patick Modiano
‘Which of the following text is associated with the “Angry Young Men” movement in
England?
1) Room ax the Top 2) Mrs. Dalloway 3) Heart of Darkness. 4) Sons and Lovers
Evelina is writen by
1) Fanny Bumey 2) Charlotte Bronte 3) Jane Austen 4)
ToSir, With Love is concemed with E.R, Braithwaite’ experiences as
ly Bronte
1) a aderin the busy strcts of Paris 2) a black man protesting agains racism in Jamaica
3)a black teacher in London 4) a black teacher in Sydney
Which of the following is said to be the founder of the school of thought called ~
“Uilitarianisey”?
1) Jeremy Bentham 2) James Mill 3). Mill 4) Marx
The Celtic Twiligh, a book of short-stores was written by
James Joyce 2) W.B. Yeats 3)PLB. Shelley 4) Helene Cixous
‘The subtitle of Matthew Ammold’s Culture and Anarchy is
1) An Essay in Poitieal and Social Criticism
2) A study of contemporary Polities and Economy
3) A critique of Culture and Society
4) An Essay in Cultural Criticism
‘Which ofthe following erties did intoduce the term ~ “dialogism”?
1)MH. Abrams 2) Derrida 3)Mikhail Bakhtin 4) Todorov
‘Which ofthe following isnot influenced by expressionism’?
1) WB. Yeus 2) Fugene O'Neill §) slmer ice 4) Scan O'Casey
‘Alexander Pope's Essay on Criticism (1711) is
1) a collection of prose — essays describing the principles of neo-Classical literary writing
2) a compendium of neo-Classical poetic theory
heroic couplets
3) an essay on the condition of European literature
4) an essay on the Greek and Roman theories of literature
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“Plat” and “Round” characters were proposed by ;
I)EM.Forster 2) Bemard Shaw 3)Hemy James 4) DH. Lawrence
“The term ~ “Pathetic Fallacy” was invented by
1) Raymond Williams 2)1.A.Richards 3)Rene Wellek 4) John Ruskin
*Sceplee and Crown/Must tumble down” —is an example of
1) Metonymy. 2) Meiosis 3)Dead Metaphor 4) Simile
In Coleridge’s Christabel, Geraldine is
1)a widow 2)an enchantress_$)anich lady 4) apoor woman,
(Of teroes, Hero-Worship and the Heroic in History's written by
1) John Ruskin 2) Gibbon 3) Thomas Carlyle 4) Thomas Arnold
Which of th following did write the first Indian novel in English?
1)Dean Mahomet 2) Raja Rammohan Roy
3) Bankim Chandra Chatterjee 4) RN. Tagore
Which of the following writers did write about “Sthalapurana” inthe “Foreword” of her/his
novel ?
1) Raja Rao 2)MR.Anand 3) Anita Des 4) RK. Naryanan
‘The Faure Poerry — was writen by =
1) Nissim Ezekiel 2). Parthasarathy 3)
“Ballad” has traditionally been considered
wurobindo 4), Lal
1) a folkloric verse narative 2)a classical verse narrative
3) musical poem 4) pattotic verse narative
Aurora Leigh is.
1) ahistorical novel 2) a mythical narrative
3) anovelin-verse 4) play with seven women characters
_Aureng-Zebe, a heroic play was written by
1)John Dryden 2) Alexander Pope 3) Sheridan 4) Bemard Shaw
Beatrice and Renedick ~ the two characters figure in Shakespeare's
1) Much Ado Abow Nothing 2) The Comedy of Errors
3). Midsummer Night's Dream 4) Twelfth Night
‘Which ofthe following is nota part of The Wesker Trilogy?
1) Chicken Soup with Barley 2)Roots 3)’ Talking About Jerusalem 4) Caritas
‘A Vindication ofthe Rights of Man was written by
1) 1.8. Mall 2) James Mill 3) Benthem 4) Mary Wollstonceral
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1) Charlotte Bronte _2) Elizabeth Gaskell 3) Jane Austen 4) George Eliot
SA. The Long Revoluionis witten by
DCS. Pieree 2) Raymond Williams 3)R.Hoggart 4) TS, Eliot
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1) The Ramayana 2) The Gita 3) Brikadaranyaka Upanishad 4) Isha Upanishadd
56. Which of the following does not belong to the Bloomsbury Group 2
1) Leonard Woolf 2) Virginia Woolf 3) LM. Keynes. 4) DH. Lawrence.
57, Dickens’ famous novel Bleak House is about
1) corruption in education system 2) cotruption in legal system
3) corruption in the political parties 4) corruption rampant in aristocratic families
58. Who, of the following, is eredited with the statement ~ “Milton was of the Devil’s party
‘without knowing it
1) William Blake 2)David Cecil - 3) P.B,Shelley 4) Byron
59, ‘The distinetion between primary imagination, secondary imagination and fancy occurs in
Biographia Literaria in chapter
XI 2) XII xiv 4) XVI
60, James Joyee’s novel ~A Portrait ofthe Artistas a Young Man isa prominent example of
1) Bildungsroman 2) Autobiographical novel
3) Historical novel 4) Expressionistc novel
61. July's People a novel written by Nadine Gordimer is about :
1) the conservation of ecology in South Arica
2) the altered power-elations in post-apartheid South Afica
3) the elass-conflct in contemporary Nigeria
4) the situation of women in Afican Society
62, Who among the following is nota formalist ritie?
1) Stanley Fish 2) William Empson 3) Cleanth Brooks 4) Allen Tate
63. Barabas isthe main character in Martowe's play
1) Doctor Faustus. 2) award 3) The.Jew of Malta. 4) Tamburtaine, the
G4 Nectar in a Sieve is writen by =
1) Kamala Markandaya 2) Anita Desai 3) Shashi Deshpande. 4) Nayantara Sagal
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1) William Tyndale 2) Thomas Browne 3) John Wyeliffe 4) Miles Coverdale
66, Jean Rhy's Wide Sargasso Seais set in
1) The Caribbean 2) The Congo region 3) The Niger Delia. 4) The African
67, Which ofthe following is not about & dystopia?
1) RM. Ballantyne’s The Coral Island 2) George Orwell's Nineteen Bighyy Four
savannah
3) William Golding's Lord ofthe Flies 4) Aldous Huxley's Brave New World
68. Which ofthe following poems does contain the phrase — “sill, sad muste of humanity"?
1) Ode: Imimations of tmmortaity 2) Michael: Pastoral Poem
3) The Solitary Reaper 4) Tintern Abbey
69. “To Daffodils” is a poem written by :
1) William Wordsworth 2) Robert Herrick 3) John Keats APB, Shelley
70. One of the most famous direc addresses tothe readers ~ “Reader, | martied him” occurs in
1) Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre 2) Henry Fielding’s Tom Jones
3) George Eliot's Middlemarch 4) Dickens's Hard Times
71. Charles Darwin's Origin ofthe Species was published in
1) 1879 2) 1845 3) 1865 4) 1859
72. The motto - “only connect” is taken from
1) EM Forster's Howards End 2) Joseph Conrad's Nostromo
3) Rudyard Kipling’s Kim 4) HG, Wells's The History of Mr, Polly
73. Which famous Romantic pocm does begin with the line - “hall to thee Blithe spit / Bid
thou never wert?”
1) "Ode to a Nightingale” 2)**To the Cuckoo” 3)*ToaSkylak” — 4)"Toa Daisy”
74, The title of Wiliam Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury is taken from a play by
1) Christopher Marlowe 2) William Shakespeare 3) Ben Jonson 4) John Webster
75. Who, among the following, is not a Restoration playwright?
1) William Congreve 2) William Wycherley 3) Ben Jonson 4) George Euherape
76. Molly Bloom is a character in James Joyce's
1)A Portrait ofthe Artistas a Young Man 2) Dubliners
3) Ubysses 4) Exiles
71. TS, Bliot uses the term - “objective correlative” in his essay
1) “Hamlet” 2) “The Metaphysical Poets”
3) “Tradition and Individual Talent” 4) “Dante”,
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Belinda’slapdog, in Pope's The Rape ofthe Lock is named
1) Luck 2) Shock 3) Pluck 4) Muck
‘Which ofthe following novels by V.S. Naipaul is set in Aftiea and cartes echoes of Joseph
Conrad?
1) The Mystic Masseur 2)A House for Mr, Biswas
3)A Bend in the River 4) The Minie Men
“There is nothing outside the text” ~is a key statement emanating from :
1) Deconstruction 2)New Historcism 3) Structuralism 4) Feminism
Which, atthe allowing novels, ino! writen hy Margaret Atwood?
1) Siafacing 2) The Stone Angel 3) The Handmaid's Tale 4) The Blind Assossin
‘The term —“cultural materialism’ is associated with
1) Stephen Greenblatt 2) Matthew Amold 3) Raymond Williams 4) Richard Hoggart
Dr, Samuel Johnson's Dictionary ofthe English Language was published inthe year
11755 21710 217s 4)1730
Kipling’s “The White Man's Burden’ is addressed to
1) The Belgian colonial expansion inthe Congo
2) The American imperial mission inthe Philippines
3) The British imperial presence in Nigeria
4) The British colonial entry into India
“Imagined community” is a concept propounded by
1) Aijez Ahmed 2) Benedict Andetson 3) Homi Bhabha 4) Partha Chatterjee
‘The author of Gender Trouble is :
1) Blaine Showalter 2) Helene Cixous 3) Michele Barrett 4) Judith Butler
“Magic Reality” is closely associated with
1) Gabriel Garcia Marquez 2)Kingsley Amis 3) Anita Desai 4) Rohinton Mistry
‘The term —“The Movement” was coined by
D)Philip Larkin 2) J.D. Seott '3)DJ.Enright 4) John Wain
Iyelidas is writen by
1)John Milton 2) PB. Shelley 3) Byron 4) John Keats
First English person to introduce a printing press in England was :
1) William Boyd 2) William Caxton 3) Lord Aron 4) Richard Johnson
“Riponese ie all” i Hine from
1) King Lear 2) Hamlet 3) Othello 4) Macbeth
ULR, Ananthamurthy’s Samskara was translated by :
1) Bhyrappa 2)Gitish Katnad 3) A.K, Ramanujan 4) HS. Shivaprakash
“The mind-forged manactes” is a phrase from
})"APoison Tree” 2) “Eternity” 3)"1 Asked a Thiet™ 4)“London”
“lmagism’” is associated with
TE,Hulme 2) 7.8. Eliot 3)DIL. Lawrence 4) EE. Cummings
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‘The Confessions of an English Opium Bater is wtten by
1) William Hezlit. 2)S:7. Coleridge 3) Landor 4) De Quincey
The term - “stream of consciousness” is derived from the writing of
1) William James 2) Mary Sinclair’ 3) William Butler 4) Gertrude Stein
‘The phrase ~ “dissociation of sensibility” was first used by
1)Philip Sidney 2)Mauthew Arnold 3) T'S. Eliot 4) John Dryden
John Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress was waitten when he was
1) in prison 2)on pilgrimage 3) ina church 4) ona social mission
A Dance ofthe Forests is written by
1) WoleSoyinks 2)CChinua Achebe 3) Angus Wilson 4) Nadine Gordimer
Bosola is a character in play by :
1) BenJoason 2) Webster 3) Marlowe 4) Shakespeare
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