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MODEL QUESTION PAPER OF KERALA PSC EXAMINATION FOR THE POST

OF LECTURE IN ENGLISH

TIME: 2 HOURS MAXIMUM MARK: 100

All questions are mandatory

Short questions (6x3=18)

1. Comment on the real-life incident on which "The Rape of the Lock" is composed.

2. Rural ethos in Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard.

3. Comment on the allusion of ''Laurels, Myrtles and Ivy'' in the poem Lycidas.

4. Male gaze

5. What is the relationship between “tradition” and the “individual talent” according to T.S
Eliot?

6. Theory of Rasa

Paragraph questions (10x5=50)

7. Discuss the ways in which Emily Brontë uses the different locations in Wuthering Heights
in order to emphasise the themes of the novel.

8. Encoding/Decoding

9. Medievalism in Kubla Khan

10. What makes Waiting for Godot a “tragicomedy”?

11. Magical realism in Nights at the Circus

12. Feminist reading of Nagamandala

13. Adiga's social criticism in The White Tiger

14. Expressionism in Emperor Jones

15. Psycholinguistics

16. Epistemology of the Closet is one of the key texts in queer theory. Comment.

Essay questions (4x8=32)

17. Trauma in Daddy

18. Time in Wuthering Heights

19. Tension in The Waste Land

20. Commodity fetishism


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