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In addition to this, if the candidate writes his/ her Hall Ticket No. or name anywhere in
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2. This Booklet has (12) pages. If any defect, please bring it to the notice of the Invigilator.
3. This Booklet has two parts. Part A carries 50 Objective Type Questions, with (A), (B),
(C) and (D) as alternatives. Choose the correct alternative and in the OMR Answer
Sheet, darken the circle that you have chosen as your answer.
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darken the circle in the OMR Answer Sheet, then the candidate shall NOT get any
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5. In Part B this Booklet carries 8 questions, out of which the candidate requires to attempt
any five question. Every question must be answered in not more than 20 lines.
6. Pleas hand over his Booklet alongwith the OMR Answer Sheet to the Invigilator before
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Part A (Objective)

Instructions: Choose the correct alternative (a, b, c, d,) from the following 50 questions and
darken the corresponding circle in the OMR Sheet. Each question carries one mark.
1x50=50
1) Which one of the following is the oldest poetic codex?
A) Vercelli Book B) Black Book
C) The Faerie Queen D) The Gododdin

2) Songes and Sonettes is supposedly the first printed anthology of English poetry.
It is also called
A) Tottel's Miscellany B) Verses and Vercelli
C) Chaucer’s Verses D) Conductor of Chaos

3) In whose household account the "Chaucer Life Records" appeared?

A) Catherine Howard, the Countess of Suffolk
B) Elizabeth de Burgh, the Countess of Ulster
C) Frances Sydney, the Countess of Sussex
D) Sophie, the Countess of Wessex

4) Rhapsode refers to
A) an epic poem
B) a classical Greek performer of epic poetry in the 5th and 4th centuries BC
C) a Scottish professional performer of narrative poetry of 7th and 8th centuries
D) an Irish poem

5) Diophantus and Charidora is the work of

A) Robert Burns B) James Hepburn C) Robert Aytoun D) James I

6) Which play of Shakespeare begins with the following lines? To sing a song that old was
sung/From ashes ancient Gower is come;
A) King John B) Titus Andronicus C) Pericles D) Winter’s Tale

7) Who wrote the poem ‘Mementos’ which appeared in the ‘Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell?
A) Emily Brontë B) Anne Brontë C) Emily Dickinson D) Charlotte Brontë

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8) The Green Dwarf was written by Charlotte Brontë under the pseudonym of
A) Currer Bell B) Ellis C) Acton Bell D) Lord Charles Albert Florian Wellesley

9) The Novel, ‘Things as They Are’ is also known with the title
A) The Adventures of Caleb Williams B) The Jungle
C) The Grapes of Wrath D) Nature and Art

10) Journey without Maps is a travel account by

A) Graham Greene B) Edmond Hamilton C) Richard Guest D) Richard Ford

11) Identify the writer below who had written a story a week for over a year for New York World
Sunday Magazine
A) Earnest Miller Hemingway B) William Sydney Porter
C) James Joyce D) Herman Melville

12) Identify the name of the Professor of English literature who wrote: The Native Chiefs and Their
States in 1877: A Manual of Reference.
A A A J Nesbitt B) George Robert Aberigh-Mackay
C) L Tipping D) Dr. L Chase

13) Who is the author of Panic Spring?

A) Ruskin Bond B) Gerald Durrell C) Lawrence Durrell D) Glen Duncan

14) Ralph Roister Doister by Nicholas Udall is considered to be the

A) first English Tragedy B) first English novel
C) first English comedy D) first English epic

15) What is the label used for the romantic fiction written in the 17th century and 18th century, primarily
by women and whose notable authors were Eliza Haywood and Delarivier Manley?
A) Romantic fiction B) Elizabethan fiction C) Manley fiction D) Amatory fiction

16) Which novel given in the options does not belong to Victor Hugo?
A) The Man Who Laughs B) Bug-Jargal
C) The Last Day of a Condemned Man D) 61 Hours

17) Who wrote The Mysteries of Udolpho?

A) Ann Radcliff B) Immanuel Radcliff C) Geoffrey Radcliff D) Victor Radcliff

18) Pry- A Novella is

A) an interactive story on the Apple iTunes store
B) an e-novel in versified form
C) a translation of prejudiced replies of youth
D) a television adaptation of a detective story.

19) Which of the following is considered to be the first ever novel published in the floppy disk?
A) e by Matt Beaumont
B) Host by Peter James
C) With Eyes Closed by Jason Miranda
D) The Greatest Secret in the World by Og Mandino

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20) Who is credited for first presenting the concept of e-reader?

A) Gregory Newby B) Robert 'Bob' Carlton Brown
C) Roderick Chisholm D) Jon Harkins

21) Who is credited with introducing the term epistemology?

A) Peter Noah B) Immanuel Kant
C) James Frederick Ferrier D) Robert Nozick

22) Who wrote A Treatise of Human Nature?

A) Immanuel Kant B) Locke C) David Hume D) William Blake

23) Who wrote Critique of Pure Reason?

A) Milton B) Coleridge C) David Hume D) Immanuel Kant

24) Who founded The Gentleman’s Magazine?

A) Jane West B) William Lisele Bowles
C) Thomas Campbell D) Edward Cave

25) The third Edinburgh Review published during 1802 to 1929 was noted for promotion of
A) Romanticism and Whig Politics B) Lake Poets and Tory Politics
C) Classicism and Whig Politics D) Romanticism and Tory Politics

26) Who was the first editor of North American Review?

A) William Tudor B) John Chapman C) James Mill D) Francis Jeffery

27) Identify the title of the first monolingual Dictionary in English from the choices given below:
A) A Dictionary of the English Language B) Table Alphabeticall
C) English Expositor D) Glossographia

28) Who had been credited for making one of the first initial attempts to write a dictionary in
the English language?
A) Dr Samuel Johnson B) Richard Mulcaster
C) James Murray D) Ben Jonson

29) Futhorc is
A) a form of Greek alphabet B) a Semitic alphabet
C) a Runic alphabet D) a Dravidian alphabet.

30) During which period ‘The Great Vowel Shift’ took place?
A) 1800 to 2000 CE B) 400 to 1000 CE
C) 1350 to 1550 CE D) 600 to 800 CE

31) Welsh is historically also known as

A) Cornish B) Breton C) Anglo-Saxon D) the British tongue

32) A lexeme is
A) the study of the order of the syntactic constituents of a language
B) a fixed or prototypical word order
C) the knowledge of word order
D) a unit of lexical meaning that exists regardless of the number of inflectional endings
it may have or the number of words it may contain.

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33) Orthographic units are

A) the letters of an alphabet B) sounds C) phones D) allophones

34) What is agglutinative language?

A) A language which has a high rate of affixes or morphemes per word, and
which is very regular, in particular with very few irregular verbs
B) A Synthetic language
C) A Polysynthetic language
D) A dialect

35) Phonaesthetics is
A) the study of phonetics
B) the study of the inherent pleasantness (euphony) or unpleasantness (cacophony) of
the sound of certain words
c) the study of phonology
d) the study of aesthetics.

36) Wave model in historical linguistics refers to

A) a tree model of language B) a model of language change
C) social splitting D) social behaviour

37) A Sprechbund refers to

A) relatedness at the level of linguistic form
B) Sprachbund
C) shared ways of speaking which go beyond language boundaries
D) Morphology

38) Who introduced ‘systemic functional grammar’?

A) Noam Chomsky B) Robert Van Valin
C) Michael Halliday D) Kees Hangeveld

39) Who developed Oral-formulaic theory?

A) Lord Alfred Tennyson B) Robert Southey
c) Clarisse Vincent and Magi Percy D) Milman Parry and Albert Lord

40) Metrical phonology is

A) a phonology of phrases
B) a phonological theory concerned with the division of sentences
C) a phonetic theory concerned with aspirations
D) a phonological theory concerned with organizing segments into groups of
relative prominence

41) Incluing is
A) a technique in which the reader is gradually exposed to background information about
the world in which a story is set
B) ridiculing
C) a technique in which the reader is exposed to the dénouement suddenly
D) a type of flattery in action.

42) A pyrrhic is
A) a metrical foot B) a poem of 16 lines C) a stanza D) an ode.

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43) An aubade is
A) an evening love song B) a morning love song
C) a song of grief D) a song of separation.

44) Dictamen is
A) the art of giving dictation B) the art of writing letters
C) the art of copying D) the art of graffiti

45) Apocope is
A) the addition of a syllable from the end of the word
B) the loss of one and more sounds from the beginning of the word
C) the loss of one or more sounds from the end of a word
D) the addition of a word in the middle of a sentence.

46) What is Pastiche?

A) An emotional appeal
B) Diversion of the attention
C) Using forms and styles from another author, generally as an affectionate tribute
D) Arresting attention.

47) Asemic writing is

A) a Semitic writing B) an Aramaic script
C) an Indo-European writing D) a wordless open semantic form of writing

48) Identify the rhetorical term below which means ‘use of superfluous or redundant words often
enriching the thought’?
A) Paronomasia B) Prolepsis C) Litotes D) Pleonasm

49) The statement ‘I came, I saw, I conquered’ is an example of

A) Asyndeton B) Chiasmus C) Syllepsis D) Zeugma

50) Onomastics is the study of

A) Names B) Performance C) Listening D) Visuals

Part B (Descriptive)

Write notes on any five of the following 5x5=25

a) Immigrant narratives in English

b) Indian minority narratives in English
c) Acculturation and assimilation in world English literature
d) Literature of civil wars
e) Print culture and the history of English books
f) English lexicography
g) The English language assessment and testing
h) Teaching and learning of English in the Urdu speaking world
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