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The notion of Competence was first developed in English studies by:
Options :
1. I.A. Richards
2. Noam Chomsky
3. Dell Hymes
4. Henry Sweet

Which of these terms used by Saussure corresponds to Chomsky's 'Performance'?
Options :
1. Difference
2. Parole
3. Paradigm
4. Langue

The Grammar- Translation Method in English Language Teaching primarily focuses on:
Options :
1. Accuracy
2. Fluency
3. Listening Skill
4. Appropriateness

Prof. C.J. Dodson is closely related to:
Options :
1. Bilingual Method
2. Direct Method
3. Translation cum Grammar Method
4. Substitution Table Method

Natural method is also known as:
Options :
1. Indirect Method
2. Bilingual Method
3. Direct Method
4. Inductive Approach

Which method is based on the principle of "from known to unknown"?
Options :
1. Translation cum Grammar Method
2. Bilingual Method
3. Substitution Table Method
4. Direct Method

The lungs and respiratory muscles are the parts of:
Options :
1. Glottalic Air Stream Mechanism
2. Velaric Air Stream Mechanism
3. Pharyngeal Air Stream Mechanism
4. Pulmonic Air Stream Mechanism

Articulatory, Acoustic and Auditory are the main branches of:
Options :
1. Phonetics
2. Phonology
3. Semantics
4. Linguistics

Study which is related to meaning in a language is known as:
Options :
1. Semantics
2. Syntax
3. Linguistics
4. Stylistics

Which of these levels of analysis is not correctly matched with their corresponding level of
structure of the language?
Options :
1. Phonetics: Sounds
2. Discourse: Connected Sentence
3. Syntax: Meanings
4. Morphology: Word Formation

Which is not an audio-video aid used in teaching?
Options :
1. Gramophone
2. Computer
3. Television
4. Cinema

Who gave the term Synchronic and Diachronic Approaches to study the languages?
Options :
1. Ferdinand de Saussure
2. Leopard Bloomfield
3. Noam Chomsky
4. Henry Sweet

Projected Aid includes:
Options :
1. Filmstrips
2. Blackboard
3. Books
4. Radio

Which among these is not used as Communicative Language Teaching strategies in classroom?
Options :
1. Scavenger Hunt
2. Role Play
3. Interview
4. Translation

The approach which 'traces the historical development of the language and records the changes
that have taken place in it between successive points in time' is:
Options :
1. Syntagmatic Approach
2. Paradigmatic Approach
3. Synchronic Approach
4. Diachronic Approach

Leonard Bloomfield wrote about an Indian book that It is "one of the greatest monuments of
human intelligence. It describes, in minute detail, every inflection, derivation and composition, and
every syntactic usage of its author's speech." What was the name of the book?
Options :
1. Mahabharata
2. Astadhyayi
3. Ramayana
4. Vedas

_______ is a minimal distinctive sound unit of a language.
Options :
1. Allophones
2. Phoneme
3. Syllable
4. Intonation

How many consonants in English (RP) are Fricatives?
Options :
1. 2
2. 3
3. 6
4. 9

Options :
1. Plea
2. Flea
3. Player
4. Ply

To disguise the real nature of an unpleasant idea by giving it an inoffensive name, eg. Restroom
for 'toilet' is known as:
Options :
1. Euphemism
2. Accidence
3. Syntax
4. Extension

Sound articulated with a stricture of complete closure and sudden release is called:
Options :
1. Africate
2. Lateral
3. Approximants
4. Plosive

Who said "We'll have rules! Lots of rules!" in The Lord of The Flies?
Options :
1. Ralph
2. Simon
3. Jack
4. Piggy

Which Roman God is said to tame the sea horse in My Last Duchess?
Options :
1. Jupiter
2. Mars
3. Venus
4. Neptune

To whom the narrator blames for the end of his romance in the first stanza of Browning's The Last
Ride Together?
Options :
1. God
2. Fate
3. Society
4. His beloved

Charles Dickens's David Copperfield is an example of which following novelistic form?
Options :
1. Nouveau roman or new novel
2. Epistolary novel
3. Bildungsroman novel
4. Historical novel

Dunois is a character in:
Options :
1. The Wasteland
2. Waiting for the Godot
3. A Room of One's Own
4. Saint Joan

Fortinbras is a character in:
Options :
1. David Copperfield
2. Paradise Lost
3. Hamlet
4. Saint Joan

Who escorts the fallen angels to dig for gold in Hell in Milton's Paradise Lost?
Options :
1. Mammon
2. Adam
3. Beelzebub
4. Satan

Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting is a line from the pen of the poet:
Options :
1. William Wordsworth
2. William Shakespeare
3. T.S. Eliot
4. John Keats

The play by Shakespeare which is considered as autobiographical is:
Options :
1. Timon of Athens
2. Hamlet
3. Cymbeline
4. Tempest

Hail, wedded love, mysterious law; true source of human happiness. These lines appear in:
Options :
1. Tintern Abbey
2. Paradise Lost
3. My Last Duchess
4. The Last Ride Together

What was the reason behind Judith Shakespeare's death in A Room of One's Own?
Options :
1. Suicide
2. Typhoid
3. Childbirth
4. Natural

Which poem was published in Frost's poetical collection Mountain Interval?
Options :
1. Home Burial
2. Mending Wall
3. The Road Not Taken
4. Birches
Note: For this question, ambiguity is found in question/answer. Candidate will get full marks
for this question if any of the correct options are chosen.

Eugene O' Neill founded an experimental theatre group in collaboration with George Cram Cook,
Susan Glaspell and others. What was the name of that theatre group?
Options :
1. The Washington Square Players
2. Eugene O'Neill Theatre

3. The Provincetown Players
4. The Wall Street Theatre Group

He can't love freely because he locks his feelings in a 'rusted tobacco tin' ever since he was a slave.
For whom it is being said in Morrison's Beloved?
Options :
1. Denver
2. Stamp Paid
3. Paul D
4. Halle

Who wrote a Preface for Mulk Raj Anand's novel The Untouchable which brought a worldwide
fame to him?
Options :
1. E.M. Forster
2. R.K. Narayan
3. Henrik Ibsen
4. Rudyard Kipling

To whom Bakha states as "peevish old black moneylender" in The Untouchable?
Options :
1. Ali
2. Ramanand
3. Havildar Charat Singh
4. Ram Charan

The main idea of the poem Love Poem for A Wife is:
Options :
1. The love bond
2. Lack of love
3. Lack of understanding
4. Unshared childhood

Girish Karnad's play Hayavadana is based on:
Options :
1. Transposed Heads
2. Dream on Monkey Mountain
3. Surfacing
4. The Striders

In 1981, which of the novel won Booker of Bookers prize?
Options :
1. Hayavadna
2. Midnight's Children
3. The Untouchable
4. Things Fall Apart

In Midnight's Children, the protagonist has the skill of:
Options :
1. A great artist
2. A sense of music
3. A strong sense of smell
4. A Painter

Milton, in his epic poem Paradise Lost, was 'of the Devil's party' without knowing it. Who said this
about Milton?
Options :
1. William Empson
2. C.S. Lewis
3. T.S. Eliot
4. William Blake

Place the sections of The Waste Land in the sequence in which they appear in the poem:
1. The Fire Sermon
2. Death by Water
3. A Game of Chess
4. What the Thunder Said
5. The Burial of the Dead
Options :
1. 5,3,1,2,4
2. 4,3,5,2,1
3. 1,2,3,4,5
4. 3,5,2,4,1

The words the thunder offers Da, Datta, Dayadhvam belong to the ancient scripture:
Options :
1. Bhagavad Gita
2. Taittiriya Upnishad
3. Brihadaranyaka Upanishad
4. Mundaka Upnishad

In The Edible Woman, Marian baked a cake in a shape of woman. She did the to test:
Options :
1. Peter
2. Duncan
3. Ainsley Tewce
4. Len

Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart, the first missionary who come to village Umuofia was
Options :
1. Reverend Smith
2. Mr. Jones
3. Uchendu
4. Mr. Brown

A. D. Hope in his poem Australia says "She is the last of lands, the emptiest". He is saying this
about:
Options :
1. Nature
2. River
3. Australia
4. History

The title Things Fall Apart is taken from a poem written by:
Options :
1. Alfred Tennyson
2. W.B. Yeats
3. T.S. Eliot
4. John Milton

In which language, Girish Karnad's Hayavadana was originally written?
Options :
1. Tamil
2. Sanskrit
3. Telgu
4. Kannada

Who among these does not belong to the group of metaphysical poets?
Options :
1. John Dryden
2. George Herbert
3. Thomas Traherne
4. Richard Crashaw

Renaissance is a _________ word which means rebirth.
Options :
1. Puritan
2. French
3. Latin
4. Italian

Which of the following was the main characteristic feature of European Renaissance?
Options :
1. Extension of Christian religion outside Europe.
2. Increasing production.
3. Controlling by the Church and religion.
4. To revive the classic ideals in literature, painting and architecture.

Which of the following writers wrote historical novels?
Options :
1. Sir Walter Scott and George Eliot
2. Jane Austen and Charlotte Bronte
3. William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge
4. Mary Shelley and Percy Bysshe Shelley

According to New Criticism, proper concern of literary criticism is:
Options :
1. Biographies of author
2. The social context of literature
3. Detailed consideration of literary work as an Independent entity

4. Literary history of the prevailing period.

________ played an important role in establishing the theory and practice of Post Colonial studies.
Options :
1. Franz Stanzel's A Theory of Narrative
2. Foucault's History of Madness
3. I.A. Richards Practical Criticism
4. Edward Said's Orientalism

The unconscious is structured like a language is oft-quoted dictum of:
Options :
1. Carl G. Jung
2. Sigmund Freud
3. Juliet Mitchell
4. Jacques Lacan

Who coined the term 'Metaphysical'?
Options :
1. John Donne
2. John Dryden
3. Dr. Samuel Johnson

4. T.S. Eliot

Disestablish Euro-centric norms of literary and artistic value is a feature of:
Options :
1. New Criticism
2. Post Colonial Criticism
3. Post-Modernism
4. New Historicism

The statement "when man is capable of being in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts, without any
irritable reaching after fact and reason" defines the theory of:
Options :
1. Psychoanalysis
2. Dissociation of Sensibility
3. Diaspora
4. Negative Capability

The essay Did Women Have a Renaissance? (1977) inaugurated a spirited debate among feminist
and other schools. Who wrote this?
Options :
1. Simon de Beauvoir
2. Joan Kelly
3. Mary Ellman
4. Kate Millet

Eliot's famous essay 'Hamlet and His Problems' defines his idea of:
Options :
1. Psychoanalysis
2. Dissociation of Sensibility
3. Objective Correlative
4. Metaphysical Wit

Which among these is not an Archetypal literary critic?
Options :
1. Northrop Frye
2. Maud Bodkin
3. Carl Jung
4. Ezra Pound

Who among these is a famous structural anthropologist?
Options :
1. Ferdinand de Saussure
2. Roman Jakobson
3. Claude Levi-Strauss
4. Roland Barthes

Which of the following is a correctly matched pair:
Options :
1. Deconstruction - Frye
2. Archetypal Criticism - Derrida
3. Psychoanalytical Criticism - Juliet Mitchell
4. Post-structuralism - T.S. Eliot

Gynocriticism is "a female framework for the analysis of women's literature, to develop new
models based on the study of female experience, rather than to adapt male models and theories".
Who coined the term Gynocriticism?
Options :
1. Charlotte Bronte
2. Sandra Gilbert
3. Susan Gubar
4. Elaine Showalter

Who among these is not a Myth critic?

Options :
1. Robert Graves
2. W.B. Yeats
3. Maud Bodkin
4. Francis Fergusson

The first Englishwoman to earn her living by her pen and the most versatile author of Restoration
Age is:
Options :
1. Aphra Behn
2. Lady Mary Montagu
3. Emily Bronte
4. Mary Shelley

Choose the correct sequence of literary movements given below:
Options :
1. Archetypal Criticism-Russian Formalism -New Criticism-Deconstruction
2. Deconstruction-Russian Formalism-Archetypal Criticism-New Criticism
3. Russian Formalism-Deconstruction- Archetypal Criticism-New Criticism
4. Russian Formalism- Archetypal Criticism -New Criticism - Deconstruction.


The central idea of Neo-classic Humanism was:
Options :
1. Arts for Art's sake
2. Art for Humanity's sake
3. Art for literature's sake
4. Art for Religion's sake

Who among these is not a Reader-Response critic?
Options :
1. Stanley Fish
2. Wolfgang Iser
3. Norman Holland
4. Judith Butler

A critic said in his Structuralist Poetics that Structuralist criticism "is essentially a theory of reading"
which aims to "specify how we go about making sense of texts". Who is the critic?
Options :
1. Jonathan Culler
2. Norman Holland
3. Roland Barthes
4. Stanley Fish

Womanist is to feminist as purple is to lavender. Who told this statement in her womanist
perspective?
Options :
1. Toni Morrison
2. Alice Walker
3. Elaine Showalter
4. Patricia Parker

Which of these is not a postmodernist development in literature?
Options :
1. Absurd
2. Beat Writer
3. Concrete Poetry
4. Graveyard Poetry

Stream of Consciousness technique is widely used in James Joyce's novel:
Options :
1. Ulysses
2. Dubliners
3. Exiles and Poetry
4. Finnegans wake

Post-structuralism is primarily intended against:
Options :
1. The primacy of theory
2. The decentering of the subject
3. The concept of discourse
4. The systematic, quasi-scientific pretension of the subject

The smallest unit of speech sound is:
Options :
1. Morpheme
2. Phoneme
3. Syntax
4. Lexeme

Who among these is a major exponent of The Project Method?
Options :
1. Kilpetric
2. B.S. Bloom
3. L.K. Davies
4. Jesperson

Which is not a principle on which Grammar Translation Method is based?
Options :
1. Domination of Vernacular
2. From unknown to known
3. Parallel Study of two language
4. Clarity and Firmness

The structure in the upper part of the trachea is called as:
Options :
1. Larynx
2. Pharynx
3. Epiglottis
4. Uvula

Any sound with no audible noise produced by constriction in the vocal tract, is known as:
Options :
1. Consonant
2. Vowel
3. Plosive
4. Uvular

Preparation, Presentation, Association, Generalisation, Application are the five steps of teaching
learning approach called as:
Options :
1. Evaluation Approach
2. Morrison Approach
3. Herbartian Approach
4. Management Approach

Which is not true about the Approach of teaching- learning?
Options :
1. It is the procedure of education.
2. It is a content- centred in nature.
3. It is to achieve educational and national objective.
4. It is a teacher- centred in nature.

The evolution of language in human society and its role in the formation of culture is another
aspect of language, society and culture. This study is known as:
Options :
1. Psycholinguistics
2. Sociolinguistics
3. Anthropological Linguistics
4. Neurolinguistics

Individual performance of language in speech or writing is known as:
Options :
1. Langue
2. Parole
3. Register
4. Dialect

Which is true about Diachronic Approaches to the study of language?
Options :
1. It sees language as a living whole, existing as a 'state' at one particular time.
2. It is an accumulation of all the linguistic activities that a language community engages in a

specific period.
3. It describes language as it exists.
4. It traces the historical development of the language.

A test which is designed to provide us with the information on whether a candidate's performance
demonstrates a particular language ability or not, is said to be:
Options :
1. Norm-referenced
2. Criterion-referenced
3. Syllabus-referenced
4. Reliability-referenced

Content words are:
Options :
1. Interrogatives
2. Prepositions
3. Auxiliaries
4. Words of particular grammatical class/ Words that convey information in a text

Which of these is an example of Audio-Video Two Way Communication as a teaching aid?
Options :
1. Television
2. Video-Conferencing
3. Telephone
4. Projector

The phonetic transcription of the word Play is:
Options :
1.
2.
3.
4.

Pronunciation of the word spin will come under the category of:
Options :
1. Voiceless aspirated bilabial plosive
2. Voiced bilabial plosive
3. Voiceless bilabial plosive
4. Voiced aspirated bilabial plosive

Hurry-worry, Criss-cross are the examples of:
Options :
1. Reduplication
2. Clippings
3. Compound Formation
4. Acronyms

A particular form of a language which is peculiar to a specific region or social group is known as:
Options :
1. Register
2. Dialect
3. Pidgin
4. Creole

A situation in which two languages (or two varieties of the same language) are used under
different conditions within a community, often by the same speakers is known as:
Options :
1. Diglossia
2. Register
3. Creole
4. Pidgin

CALL as an instructional material stands for:
Options :
1. Creative Activity for Language Learning
2. Call Aided Language Learning
3. Content Aided Language Learning
4. Computer Assisted Language Learning

Instruments or tools used to measure abilities or performance, in order to make evaluative

judgements or statements is known as:
Options :
1. Test
2. Evaluation
3. Assessment
4. Measurement

Formative and Summative Evaluation terms were given by:
Options :
1. James Popham
2. Michael Scriven
3. Brandon Youker
4. E.J. Davidson

In the poem Australia, to whom Hope compares the land of Australia?
Options :
1. A maiden
2. A widow
3. A newly wedded lady
4. An infertile woman

In Love Poem for a Wife, according to the poet where his wife spent her adolescence?
Options :
1. Syria
2. North Africa
3. Aden
4. Malabar Coast

Which of these Odes is not written by John Keats?
Options :
1. Ode on Indolence
2. Ode to Venus
3. Ode on Melancholy
4. Ode to Psyche

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In Lord of the Flies, the conch-shell is destroyed after the death of:
Options :
1. Piggy
2. Ralph
3. Simon
4. Roger

Who presented the 'taming sea-horse' to the Duke in My Last Duchess?
Options :
1. The Count
2. Claus of Innsbruck
3. Fra Pandolf
4. The Duchess

Padma Mangroli is a character in:
Options :
1. Hayavadna
2. Midnight's Children
3. Untouchable
4. Beloved

From which tree does the Satan offer the fruit to Eve?
Options :
1. Tree of Morality
2. Tree of Knowledge
3. Tree of Immortality
4. Tree of Wealth

The title Midnight's Children refers to the children born in the midnight of:
Options :
1. 15th August 1950
2. 26th January 1947
3. 15th August 1947
4. 26th January 1950

Things Fall Apart is set in which country?
Options :
1. South America
2. Kenya
3. South Africa
4. Nigeria

Who is considered as a "lecherous skirt-chaser" by Marian in The Edible Woman?
Options :
1. Duncan
2. Len
3. Fish
4. Trevor

In Things Fall Apart, the Missionaries were allowed to build their church:
Options :
1. Outside the city
2. Near Priestess's cave
3. In the evil forest
4. Inside the market

Girish Karnad had given his voice to an autobiography, turned into an audiobook by Charkha
Audiobook. Whose biography is it?
Options :
1. Dreams from My Father
2. Long Walk to Freedom
3. The Story of My Experiments with Truth
4. Wings of Fire

In the line "Breed dynasties among long legal words", who breeds their eggs in the poem Small-
Scale Reflections on a Great House?
Options :
1. Insects
2. Kings
3. Pigeons
4. Sparrow

In Ode to Nightingale, 'full of dewy wine' is used for:
Options :
1. Musk-Rose
2. Fruit-Tree
3. Song of Nightingale
4. Fast fading Violets

"Thou Child of Joy, Shout round me, let me hear thy shouts." In Immortality Ode, whose voice the
poet wants to hear at the end of the third stanza?
Options :
1. The Shepherd- boy
2. The lambs
3. His friend
4. Growing boy

The Last Ride Together is written in which form?
Options :
1. Hymn
2. Lyrics
3. Dramatic Monologue
4. Rhyme

In Hamlet, the ghost is first seen at:
Options :
1. Outside the castle
2. In Gertrude's chamber
3. On the deck of the ship
4. In the graveyard

Which is not the major themes of the poem Home Burial?
Options :
1. The mental breakdown
2. The loss of a child
3. The collapse of a marriage
4. The degeneration of a building

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood. What does the phrase in the poem The Road Not taken,
'yellow wood' refers to?
Options :
1. A yellow painted forest

2. Trees with pale yellow rotten flowers
3. Forest in Autumn season
4. A forest with yellow roads

Which of the novel has not been written by Virginia Woolf?
Options :
1. Mrs. Dalloway
2. A Room of One's Own
3. Night and Day
4. Adam Bede

In the play Hamlet, before Prospero released him, Ariel was stuck for twelve years in a:
Options :
1. Cage
2. Tree
3. Storm
4. Box

The Wasteland is a "cross-word puzzle of synthetic literary chronology" and a Spurious Verbal
Algebra". Who made this statement?
Options :
1. Ezra Pound
2. William Empson
3. Wyndham Lewis
4. Thompson

Margaret Atwood describes her novel The Edible Woman as:
Options :
1. Picaresque Novel
2. Proto-feminist Novel
3. Psychoanalytical Novel
4. Stream of Consciousness Novel

Who compared Dickens to Shakespeare who can "with a phrase make a character as real as flesh
and blood"?
Options :
1. Raymond Williams
2. Simon Callow
3. William Empson
4. T.S. Eliot

Think not of them, thou hast thy music too. In these lines, to whom Keats is referring to?
Options :
1. Nightingale
2. Summer
3. Spring
4. Autumn

The Last Ride Together was published in 1855 in the collection:
Options :
1. Pauline, a Fragment of a Confession
2. Bells and Pomegranates No. III: Dramatic Lyrics
3. Dramatis Personae
4. Men and Women

Something is rotten in the state of Denmark. Who makes this statement in the play Hamlet?
Options :
1. Claudius
2. Hamlet
3. Horatio
4. Marcellus

For which writer does Woolf say "wholly androgynous, if not perhaps a little too much of a
woman."
Options :
1. Marcel Proust
2. George Eliot
3. E.M. Forster
4. Margret Fuller

Which part of the poem The Wasteland deals with the discussion of sex?
Options :
1. The Burial of the Dead
2. Fire Sermon
3. A Game of Chess
4. Death by Water

Where does Joan plan to coronet Dauphin in Saint Joan?
Options :
1. Reims Cathedral
2. Avignon
3. Versailles
4. Paris


Who introduced the term 'Negative Capability'?
Options :
1. W.B Yeats
2. P.B. Shelley
3. Matthew Arnold
4. John Keats

Poetry is an inspired mathematics. Who said this remarkable quote about poetry?
Options :
1. T.S. Eliot
2. Wordsworth
3. Ezra Pound
4. Dryden

Which novelist is credited to write the first English novel of character?
Options :
1. Samuel Richardson
2. James Joyce
3. Daniel Defoe
4. Doris Lessing


Poetic licence term was defined in the late 17th century as the "liberty which poets have assumed
to themselves, in all ages, of speaking things in verse which are beyond the severity of prose".
Who defined this?
Options :
1. Jane Austen
2. John Dryden
3. Thomas Rymer
4. John Milton

Thomas Hardy, William Faulkner, Stella Gibbons are related to:
Options :
1. Documentary Fiction
2. Regional Novel
3. Involuted Novels
4. Magic Realism

The Georgian period ranges from:
Options :
1. 1603 to 1625
2. 1660 to 1700
3. 1880 to 1901
4. 1910 to 1936

Which of the following is considered to be the 'Father of Structuralism' as linguistic Theory?
Options :
1. Ferdinand Saussure
2. Karl Marx
3. Roland Barthes
4. Stanley Fish

Play based on the subject either a story from the Bible, or else the life and martyrdom of a Saint
are known as:
Options :
1. Miracle play
2. Morality Play
3. Interludes
4. Hymn

Which writer is famous for his Problem Play?
Options :
1. David Copperfield
2. Henrik Ibsen
3. James Joyce
4. Virginia Woolf

Who said about Romanticism as 'liberalism in literature'?
Options :
1. Victor Hugo
2. Walter Pater
3. F.R. Leavis
4. Basil Wiley

Julia Kristeva's intertextuality has its origin from:
Options :
1. Chomsky's Deep Structure
2. Derrida's Deconstruction
3. Stanley's Stylistics
4. Saussure's Semiotics

Which among these is not the underlying assumptions of Feminist Criticism?
Options :
1. Western civilization is pervasively patriarchal.
2. The prevailing concepts of gender are largely cultural constructs by the pervasive patriarchal
bias of our civilization.
3. This patriarchal ideology pervades those writings which have been traditionally considered
great literature, are written mainly by men for men.
4. The main protagonist should be a female whatever the theme, treatment of the subject is.

The literature of 'Diaspora' means the literature of:
Options :
1. Displaced people
2. Authors who have chosen to live in foreign countries on their own
3. People in self-imposed exile
4. Any people who have changed their location from their own country and settled in elsewhere

In literature, Structuralism upholds:
Options :
1. Fresh explanation of literary work.
2. To view literature as a second-order signifying system that uses the first-order structural
system of language as its medium.
3. A methodical description of literary archetypes.
4. Rejection of the self-sufficiency of structures.

The four main narrative genres of literature are 'displaced' modes of the four elemental forms of
myth associated with spring, summer, autumn and winter. Who gave this theory of myth in
literature?
Options :
1. Robert Graves
2. Francis Fergusson
3. Northrop Frye
4. Maud Bodkin

Frazer's The Golden Bough is an example of:
Options :
1. Archetypal Criticism
2. Psychoanalytical Criticism
3. Stream of Consciousness
4. Reader- Response Criticism

Which among these novelists is not a central representative of modernism?
Options :
1. Franz Kafka
2. Dorothy Richardson
3. William Faulkner
4. Daniel Defoe

Principles of Literary Criticism (1924) is a major work of New Criticism written by:
Options :
1. I.A. Richards
2. Cleanth Brooks
3. Allen Tate
4. W.K. Wimsatt

Psychoanalytic theory of conscious and subconscious is given by:
Options :
1. Carl J. Jung
2. Thomas Carlyle
3. Sigmund Freud
4. Jacques Lacan

The 11,396 definitions of Romanticism were given by:
Options :
1. Victor Hugo
2. Edgar Allen Poe
3. F.L. Lucas
4. William Wordsworth

Which of these is not a feature of Postcolonial Studies of literature?
Options :
1. Rejection of master narrative of Western imperialism.
2. An abiding concern with the formation, within Western discursive practices of the colonial
and post-colonial 'subject'.
3. To disestablish the Eurocentric norms of literary and artistic values.
4. To promote narrative in which colonial other is subordinated and marginalized.

Northrop Frye's in his remarkable Anatomy of Criticism includes four essays. Which of the
following is one among them?
Options :
1. Essays on Criticism
2. Archetypal Criticism
3. Feminist Criticism
4. Post-Modern Criticism

The 'Circulating Libraries' were in trend during the:
Options :
1. 17th Century
2. 18th Century
3. 15th Century
4. 16th Century


Which is not true about Virginia Woolf's essay "A Room of One's Own" contribution in feminist
theory?
Options :
1. It examines the educational, social and financial disadvantages women have faced
throughout history.
2. A women must have money and room of her own if she is to write fiction.
3. Woolf built the argument that literature and history is a male construct that had traditionally
marginalized.
4. Woolf presented a theory that woman is always a subject to exploitation due to her own
mental weakness.

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The notion of Competence was first developed in English studies by:

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Which of these terms used by Saussure corresponds to Chomsky's 'Performance'?

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Prof. C.J. Dodson is closely related to:

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Natural method is also known as:

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Which method is based on the principle of "from known to unknown"?

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The lungs and respiratory muscles are the parts of:

1. Glottalic Air Stream Mechanism

2. Velaric Air Stream Mechanism

3. Pharyngeal Air Stream Mechanism

4. Pulmonic Air Stream Mechanism

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Articulatory, Acoustic and Auditory are the main branches of:

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Study which is related to meaning in a language is known as:

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2. Discourse: Connected Sentence

4. Morphology: Word Formation

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Which is not an audio-video aid used in teaching?

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Projected Aid includes:

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_______ is a minimal distinctive sound unit of a language.

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How many consonants in English (RP) are Fricatives?

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