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(Q) bone of contention (2) holding the head high 3) elbow room (A) snapping one’s fingers 4. ‘To stir up a hornet’s nest’ means (2) to doa disservice to others (2) to exite the hostility of others (8) tobe totally at a loss, (A) tobe bitten by bugs 5. ‘Araw deal’ is (2) early stages of an assignment (8) unjust treatment (4) undecided contract 6. An ‘open question’ is (Q) apermanent problem 2) a question without any generally agreed answer (A) apermanent problem | eae ea: | | | | (hrtaraias urcoase | | \ | | Seen : Identify the basic | sentence pattern of the following | sentences by choosing from the given | options (7-8) 7. Lenvy you your beautiful garden. @ sve @ svo (3) SVOO @ svoc 2 2 8. ‘A little kindness goes a long way. @) sve @ svA @) svo (4) SVAO. 9, Thave always found him friendly. @ svo @ svc 8) svoc 4) Svoo Direction : Change the sentences as stated against each (10 ~ 21), The options are given, choose the grammatically correct one. 10, Walk carefully lest you should fall (change into compound) @) Walk carefully or you will fall, ® Carefully walking will avoid the fall, @ Fall you will without carefulness, @ If you do not walk carefully ‘you might fall 11, On being challenged they ran ‘away. (change into complex) (1) They were challenged so they ran away, @ When they were challenged they ran away. (® Challengingly they ran, (@) They ran because they were challenged. 12. | | 1 i | | | ja | | i ju | i i i i i i i i i | Thelieve that God exists, (change. into a simple sentence) (Q) Tbelieve and God exists 2) God exists because we believe it, () believe in God's existence. () God exists when we believe it, Someone has made a hole in the fence. (change into passive voice) @) A hole had been made in the fence (by someone) @) Ahole has been made in the fence. (8) The fence had been holed. (A) Someone holed the fence. We must leave the decision to your own judgement. (change into passive voice) (2) ‘The desision has to he left to ‘you to judge, (2) The decision is in your hands, (8) It is for you to decide what to do, () The decision must be left to your own judgement, 15. Things were sent flying in all | 18. My friends warned me not to directions by the — explosion. leave my car unlocked. (change (Change into active voice) into direct speech) (@) The explosion sent things | (2) “You cannot leave without flying in all directions. | locking your car.” said my (2) Things in all dirstions few | friends. with the explosion | @ “You had better not leave (8) The explosion had sent flying | your car unlocked,” said my ‘things in all directions, | Friends, (@) Flying things were sent in all | (@ “Unlocked, no never.” said directions. | my friends about my car. 16. He explained, I know the place | 305 ends tie sad not well because I used to live here.” (Change into indirect speech) . () He said that he had lived here | 1 There is nothing particularly and because of that he knew | impressive about this “picture, een | (change into interrogative) (2) He explained he knew the place () Is there anything gel al he ant GEREES particularly impressive about (@) He explained that he knew the | aa place well because he used to | (2) Is there nothing that live there. | impresses us about this (4) He explained that he knew the pert place well ashe had lived here | (@ Are you not impressed by this | picture ? 17. ‘If you get the job will you move to | (4) Does this picture particularly Delhi ? He asked. (change to | ae indirect speech) (1) He asked if whether he got the | 29, viriue is its own reward. (change oo ana Cece job, Yd move to Delhi. >» OR Eh ie he job he serge O weioD ee © What ie viru’ reward? @ Eopeseristlen tyres) (8) Is not virtue its own reward ? L moved to Delhi. (@) Virtue is own reward, Is not ? o 4 3 21, Everyone is dependent. (change to negative) (2) Everyone is not independent, @) Nobody is independent, (@) Someone is dependent (4) Nothing depends Direction : Answer the following questions by choosing the correct ‘answer frem the options given : 22, Avistotlo in his postics states that the poet should prefer in his narration, (2) improbable possibilities ) probable impossibilities (8) possible probabilities, (A) impossible probabilities 28. Command of which poetic device is the mark of a genius according ‘0 Aristotle ? Q) Irony: 2) Metalepsis (8) Metaphor (4) Justice 24, Which of the following is not a Popular term introduced by Horace in his Ars Postica ? () deus ex machina (@) in medias res (8) ab oro (@) atpictura | 25. What does Horace mean by the Phrase ‘purple prose’ ? () Royal language @) Decayed language (8) Dead language (A) Flowery language According to Longinus which aspect does not lead to faulty language ? ) puerility @) frigidity @) simplicity (A) turgidity ‘The Rasa theory is stated in which chapter of the Natva ‘Shastra ? @ 14 @ @6 @1 Sabrdava according to Bharat is (@) the human soul @) amental state (8) a model spectator (4) a type of Rasa ‘The word ‘ekstasis’ finds a place in the eritical canon of (Q) Longinus @ Aristotle (8) Horace (A) Neoptolemous In whose opinion the ‘theatre is not an hospital’ while reacting to the Aristotelian concept of Catharsis? (2) J. Hillis Miller @ IK. Atkins (B) Michael Foucault @ FL Lucas Who, fervently supporting poetry against spurious charges of corrupting men's mind, says we “need not say that poetry abuseth man’s wit, but that man's wit abuseth poetry” ? (Q) Henry Howard (2) Sir Walter Raleigh (8) Sir Philip Sidney (@ Gabriel Harvey 32, 33, 34, Which critic was of the opinion that “the greatness of literature cannot be judged solely by literary standards, though we must remember that whether it is literature or not can be determined only by literary standards? ? (Q) Matthew Arnold 2) TS. Bliot (@) LA.Richiards @) Allen Tate ‘The literary principle of ‘paradox’ ‘was first forogrounded by _? (2) Yvor Winters @) Cloanth Brooks @) LC. Knight (4) Kenneth Burke Which commentator calls Shakespeare's Hamlet “an indifferent play, the lines but Q) Abraham Wright @) TS. Eliot (8) Maynard Mack (4) John Calvin 35. 36. 37, 38, ‘“Markedness", a state of standing ‘out as non-typical was a formalist concept categorised by? (@) Mikhail Bakhtin (2) Viadimir Propp (@) Boris Fichenbaum (@) Roman Jakobson Northrope Frye in his first book, reinterprets the poetry of____? @) Thomas Chatterton @) George Cumberland @) William Blake @) Thomas Gray G. Wilson Knight's The Wheel of Bite is a collection of essays on (2) Shakespeare's plays 2) TS. Bliot’s poetry (@) Dante's The Divine Comedy (4) Goethe's Faust Who is the author of the critical treatise A Philosophical inquiry ‘nto the origin of our ideas of the Subline and Beautiful? @) Immanuel Kant (@) Edmund Spenser (3) Edmund Burke (4) 8.7. Coleridge | a9. | | | | | | i i 40. 41 42, | | | | | | | I | 1 7 Leavis’ New ‘Postry and Revaluation show the strong influence of which poet on the writer? Q) Milton @ TS. Biot (8) DH. Lawrence (@) William Wordsworth Pope's “An Essay on Criticism” was fiereely attacked. However, ‘one of the following did not do so. Who was it ? (Q) John Dryden (@) Thomas Rymer (8) John Dennis (@ Jonathan Swift ‘The Chicago School of critics are also called ) Structuralists (2) Deconstructionists () Neo Aristotelians (4) New Historioists Which of the notable dichotomy. was not propounded by. Ferdinand Saussare? (@) Langue and Parole (@) Text and context @) Signifior and signified (@) Synchrony and diachrony - 43, 44, Match the following concepts with the writer who introduced them? ‘A. Touchstone E, T.S. Eliot method B. Intentional _F. Cleanth Fallacy Brooks ©. The Heresy of G. Matthew Paraphrase Amold D. Dissociation H. Wimsatt & of Sensibility Beardsley ABCD @E F GH @F Gu eE @GHFE @H EF @ Where did Wordsworth first present his views on the nature ‘and function of poetry ? () In a separately brought out supplement. (@) InTable Talk @ In an Advertisement appended to the first edition of Lurical Ballads, (A) In @ rejoinder to Coleridge's contention. Which of the following writers wwas_not associated with the ‘Aesthetic Movement during the late 19 century ? (2) Matthew Arnold (2) Walter Pater (8) Oscar Wilde @ William Morris 46. a1, 48. ‘The term that John Ruskin coined to describe the ascription of human emotions to inanimate objects and impersonal natural forces is called : (2) Sympathetic Fallacy (2) Naturalist Fallacy (B) Affective Fallacy (A) Pathetic Fallacy Who said, “Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar" ? () 8.7. Coleridge @ PB. Shelley (8) John Keats (@) William Wordsworth Keat's idea that the poet submerges his/her’ senses and perceptions in the experience of another entity or even object corresponds to his theory of (Q) dissociation of sensibility (2) unification of sensibility (8) pathetic fallacy (A) negative capability 49. Gerald Manley Hopkin’s | 62. Dryden in “Bssay on described Alfred ‘Tennyson | Dramatic Poesy” does not debate: ejoratively as a because J Ono of what Hopkin’s considered his | © er of time, place and ‘uninspired poetry’. (Q) Pseudo-Hellenists | | @ catharsis and poetic justice, | @) rigid distinctions between (2) Parnassian nme. a wlucgaie (4) the use of rhyme in drama, (4) Dionysianist 58. Dr. Samuel Johnson in his Lives ‘af Poets is not critical of this poet ene esr} | EO his concept of Inscape and (2) Gray's “Odes” Instress from the ideas of GO aes “Metaphysics” (4) Jonathan Swift's “Satire” | | I the medieval philosopher | 54. “The poet's mind. is infact a © Dane dit ecaeeee e @) Thomas Merton | §P numberless feelings, phrases, images, which remain there until SD sRialte Patan i all the particles which ean unite } te form a new compound are | present together.” These lines are | from | @) Water Pater, Appreciations | @) Matthew Amold’s, Study of Poetry | | | | | 51. John Dryden wrote his “Defense of An Essay on Dramatic Poesy” in response to an attack by () Lord Byron (@) Sir Robert Howard ‘9) TS. Eliot’, Tradition and Dewees Individual Talent ® i () John Ruskin, Modern @) Thomas Shadwell Painters 3 ° a 55. 56. 87. “On some technical elements of style in literature” is an essay written by - (@) J.B. Priestley @ HG. Wells (@) Charles Dickens (4) RL, Stevenson ‘The Sense of an Ending is book by: (@) LO. Knights PR. Leavis @) Cleanth Brooks (®) Frank Kermode ‘The book A Grammar of Motives was written by (@) Noam Chomsky (@) Frank Palmer (@) Kenneth Burke (@) RS. Crane Dryden’s “An Essay of Dramatic Poesy” was written to counter the remarks made by Samuel Sorbiere about the English stage. Who else other than Dryden, replied to the charge? (1) Dr. Johnson @ Jonathan Swift (@) Thomas Sprat (A) Alexander Pope ‘On the Artificial Comedy of the Last Century is an essay written iy: (@) Charles Lamb (@) Leigh Hunt (@) William Hazlitt (A) Robert Southey Characters of Shakespeare's Plays is a book of criticiam written by : (@) Charles Lamb (2) William Hazlitt @) 8.7, Coleridge (@) Thomas De Quincey’ |. Which notorious critic of Shakespeare said that his plays were “trivial and positively bad” and what was the title of worklessay ? (1) Leo Tolstoy ~ On Shakespeare and Drama (2) George Bernard Shaw in ‘Saturday Review, (@) IRR. Tolkion in his Letters (4) Thomas De Quincey in “On the knocking at the Gate” in “Macbeth . According to 8.T. Coleridge the function of a critic is 2) to interpret and to judge (2) toappreciate and to interpret (B) to evaluate and to judge (@) tovalue and devalue 63. 64. 65. Arrange the following essays by | 66, T'S. Bliot chronologically : A, Metaphysical Poets B. Tradition and the Individual Talent ©. Hamlet and his Problems D. Homage to John Dryden : ‘Three essays on the poetry of j the Seventeenth Century | gy @) ABCD i @ bea | @ CaBD | @ DABC eins wus ot incu in those that_| LA. Richards used to substantiate interpretive criticim ? | (@) Metaphor | @) Allusivene | © Ambiguity | | | | | | ! | | | H (A) Pastiche ‘Who among the following has not contributed to the cannon of structuralist literary criticism ? () Claude Levi Stratise @) Jorge Luis Borges (8) Vladimir Propp @ Algirdas Greimas 68, 69, En “Poetry is the first and last of all knowledge - it is as immortal as the heart of man.” Who opined this ? Q) PB. Shelley @) 8.7. Coleridge (8) William Wordsworth (@) John Keata “Poetry thus makes immortal all that is best and most beautiful in the world” ? Who said this? Q) PB. Shelley @) 8.7. Coleridge (8) William Wordsworth (@) John Keats Who said that there should be “fire acts in a play”, “only three actors at a time", “Scenes of Bloodshed offstage” and, “hexameter verse for war poems”. () Aristotle @) Dryden (8) Longinus (@) Horace ‘The Road to Kandu is written by () 8.7, Coleridge (2) Herbert Read (8) JL. Lowes @ William Empson 0. nm “Timber or Discoveries made upon Men and Matter” is a critical work of : @) Thomas More (@) Ben Jonson (@) Thomas Kya (@) Henry Howard “A linguistic system is a series of differences of sound combined with a series of differences of ideas.” Who said this ? Q) Leonard Bloomfield 2) FR Leavis (8) Ferdinand de Saussure (@) Allan Tate According to which school of thought the critic ought to be considered to ‘create’ the finished work by his reading of it, and not to remain simply an inert consumer of a ‘ready-made’ product : @) Post-Modernism (2) New Historicism () Reader-response Theory ) Dialogism 2B. 8. Which among the following books cannot be said to incorporate {ideas cominal to Now Criticiom ? (@) LA. Richards’ Principles of Literary Criticism (2) Cleanth Brooks’ ‘The Well Wrought Ui ‘Structure of Poetry (@) William Empson’s _ Seven ‘Types of Ambiguity (@) Stephen Greenblatt and Catherine Gallagher's Practicing New Historicism ‘TS. Eliot's concept of tradition is countered by Harold Bloom's (Q) hereby of paraphrase (2) anxiety of influence (8) affective fallacy (@) dissociation of sensibility “The business of the poet is not to find new emetions, but to use the ordinary ones and in working them into poetry’, lo expres feelings which are not in actual ‘emotions at all.” T'S. Eliot says this in which of his texts ? (1) “Hamlet and His Problems” (2) “The Metaphysical Poets” (®) “Tradition and Individual Talent” (©) “The Frontiers of Criticism” 76. 1. 78. Who said tha:, “There is nothing ‘outside of the text” ? (1) Jacques Derrida (2) Roland Berthes (8) Cleanth Brooks (4) William Empson “The most striking aspect of linguistic competence is what we may call the ‘creativity of language’, that is the speaker's ability to produce new sentences...” This is a quote by who is here talking about the __ of human language. (2) TS. Eliot; Creative expressiveness (2) Noam Chomsky; capacity (8) William Empson; Ambiguities (A) Jean Baudrillard; Simulative ‘Generative’ Post-modernist thinkers developed concepts. like ‘difference’ and ‘hyper-reality’ to subvert (@) myths and parables (@) existing social phenomenon (8) critically ‘acceptable knowledge (®) grand narratives and “univocity of being 81. “What is an Author 7", an essay, is seen as a challenge to Barthe's depiction of a _ historical progression that will liberate the reader from the domination by the author. Who wrote this essay ? (2) Jacques Derrida (@) Michel Fousault (8) Gilles Deleuze @) Virginia Woolf Who coined the term ‘gender performativity’? (Q) Simone de Beauvoir (2) Blaine Showalter 8) Julia Kristeva (4) Susan Guber Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak introduced a major concept in postcolonial theory through which minority groups, nationalities mobilize themselv« on the basis of shared gendered, cultural or political identity. What is it ? @) Orientalism 2 Alterity (8) Subslternism (4) Strategic essentialism 82, ‘A concept propounded by Homi K. Bhabha in postcolonial theory which is a sign of double wrticulation, a strategy which propriates the other as it visualizes power is () Mimicery 2) Liminality (8) Hybridity (4) Ambivalence Match the following ‘Texts! in I with their ‘Authors’ in II: 1 0 A. TheFemale E. Toril Moi Eunuch B. Sexual/ —F. Luce Irigary ‘Textual Politics ©. ThisSex G. Germaine Which is Greer ‘Not One D. TheBeauty H. Naomi Wolf Myth ‘4. Brac @F.HGE @EFGdH @G@ EF H @H GE RF “The Personal is Political” is an essay written by : () Betty Friedan (2) Carol Hanisch (8) Sylvia Plath (A) Alice Walker 85. What is the term that Foucault ‘introduces in his book Tho Order of Things which refers to the orderly ‘unconscious’ structures underlying the production of knowledge in a particular time and place? (2) Heterotopia (2) Discursive formation (@) Aichive ) Episteme What word does Bakhtin use to deseribe the process through which meaning is evolved out of interactions among the author, the work and the reader ? @) Polyphony @ Dialogism (8) Heteroglossia (4) Chronotopia 1. ‘Individualism’, ‘Experimentation’, ‘Absurdity’, ‘Symbolism’ are the main characteristics of which kind of literature ? Q) Post Modernist (2) Post Structural (8) Modernist (@) Structuralist 88, 90. Who has coined the term ‘backlash’ for a strategy that ‘blames the victim’ by suggesting that women’s _ liberation. ‘movement is itself the cause of ‘many problems that plague women? 2) Shulamith Fizestone (@) Helene Cixous (8) Kathie Sarachild (4) Susan Paludi The Wretched of the-art a that analyses the eee effects of colonization, by Franz Fanon, derives its title from (1) The opening lyrics of “The Internationale”, a left-wing anthem @) Orid’s Metamorphosis (@) Dante's Divine Comedy (@ Lines from the anthem ‘This ‘Land is Your Lane’ iti ties ‘Readings froma _Hvphenated ‘Space is a book about ‘diaspories’ oF (1) Chandra Talpade Mohanty @) Uma Parmeshwaran (8) Arun Prabha Mukherjee @) Gayatri Spivak | | | I" | | . | | | | 94 | | 5 91. Avtar Brah has written a seminal ook on Diaspora called Q) Diaspora and Identity (@) Cartographies of Diaspora (8) Diaspora and Transnationalism @ Diaspora and Hvbridity Which among the following is not a Diaspora critic ? (1) William Safran @) Paul Gilroy (8) Robin Cohen (4) Raymond Williams Cultural Materialism makes analysis based in critical theory, in the tradition of the__? (2) Chicago School (@) Frankfurt School (8) Prague School (@) Rinzai School ‘Who says of cultural materialism (alli teach tet historiography” ? (1) Herbert Marcuse @) Antonio Gramsci (@) Graham Holderness‘ (4) Alan Sinfield 95. 97. “The poststructuralist orientation to history is now emerging in literary studies I characterize chiastically, as a reciprocal concern with the historicity of texts and the tesuality of history” is the new (2) Stephen Greenblatt (@) Louis Adrian Montrose (8) Clifford Geertz (A) Catherine Gallagher Post modernists typically argue that - (2) Universalist narratives which attempt to explain the world are invariably false, @) The worl is socially constructed in a variety of ways, (8) Differences of viewpoint should be celebrated, (4) Grand narratives are useful sources of information. All liberal fominists advocate (1) equal treatment in the public sphere (2) the strict segregation of the (8) discrimination in economic terms only, (A) no role in political matters 98, | | | | | | 99, | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 16 Who wrote that panopticism is a one-way power / knowledge relationship between those under surveillance and the watchers who could not be watched ? (2) Jeremy Bentham (2) Michel Foucalt (8) Erving Goffman (A) None of these Who first welcomed us to ‘The desert of the real” ? (2) Frederich Nietzsche (2) Jacques Derrida (8) Jean Baudrillard (A) Jean — Francois Lyotard 100. Who seeks an assumed binary opposition in an author's narrative then rereais the text against the author's wishes from the perspective of ‘the marginalized position, finally showing thatthe correct interpretation is, undecidable ? (2) Roland Barthes (@) Emmanuel Levines (8) Jean-Francois Lyotard (4) Jacques Derrida 2 101. Feminist Criticism does/is NOT (Q) concerned with —_—the ‘marginalization of women in patriarchal culture. try to. explain how the subordination of women is reflected in or challenged by @ literary texts, (8) try to examine the experiences of women from all races, classes. and cultures, (@) explain how and when women become responsible mothers. 102. Which one of the following is not one of Elaine Showalter’s four 1odels of sexual difference ? () Biological @) Occasional (©) Linguistic (@) Poychoanalytic 303. Which ofthe following statements is true of the Ego, according to Freud ? (D Teexists prior to the Ia. @ It follows the principle. @) Itlends ite ibidinal energy to ‘super ego, (4) Tt is not affected by reality, logic or the everyday world. pleasure | 104. Im “the imaginary order” the ‘subject's own image permanently catches and captivates the subject. In the Lacanian model this. statement refers to which ‘stage’? (Q) Symbology @) Mirror (8) Castration @) Alterity one of the concepts explored by Freud? 2) Oedipus complex 2) Slips (8) Myths | | | | 106. Which one ofthe lowing jn nat i (4) Unconscious 106. Which one is not a book written by Sigmund Freud ? (1) The Interpretation of Dreams men; they describe ‘it from their ‘own point of view, which they confuse with absolute truth’, ‘This statement is made by (@) Simone de Beauvoir (2) Mary Wollstonecraft (8) Elaine Showalter | @ Sigmund Freud | | | eecareameray aa | | | | | | | 108. Who said that, “Who speaks is not who writes, and who writes is not who is”? (2) Michel Foucault @) Jaques Derrida (@) Roland Barthes (A) Homi K. Bhabha 109. Of Grammatology, by Derrida, opens with a preface and an ‘exergue. The preface outlines the structure ofthe text and tests the theoretical matrix by a reading of age of () Shakespeare @ The Metaphysicals @ Rousseau (4) Kafka 110. “People know what they do; frequently they know why they do what they do; but what they don't know is what they do does” say Michel Foucault in his book : Q) Discipline and Punish (@) Madness and Civilisation (8) The Order of Things (@) The Archaeology __of ‘Knowledge 111. “In towards a feminist poetics’ Ee Showalter introduces the to construct ‘a cae framework for the analysis of women’s literature” (2) Comparative eriticiem (@) Expressive criticism (8) Mimetic criticism (4) Gynoeriticism | | | | | 112, Who was the first to propose a | "science focused on the study of | sims? | @) Vladimir Propp @ Jacques Derrida | Batt | (4) Ferdinand de Saussure | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 113. Who argued that the literary critic's relationship to literary discourse is the same as the linguist’s relationship to language? (@) Tavetan Todorov (2) Roland Barthes (8) Vladimir Propp (4) Roman Jakobson 114, Claude Levi-Strauss gave a structural reading of which famous story? \ () King Lear (2) Oedipus Rex @) TheLliad (@) Paradise Lost 115. Homi Bhabha’s essay “The | 118. Who came up with the term ‘Self ‘Commitment to Theory” is fashioning’? (2) a defense of poststructuralist (@) Clifford Geertz theary's political value. (@) Jerome McGann (2) a critique of poststructuralist eae theory of elitism. (@ Catherine Gallagher @) a critique of postcolonial theicg te 119. In “Postmodern Blackness”, bell | | hooks ‘argues that post-modern (4) an attestation of liminality | theory is good for ‘and ambivalence. | Maintaining ‘status quo” @) Critiquing essontialism [bet mene | (4) Critiquing language | | | | | | | 116. Which among the following is a common convention of postmodern writing ? (Q) Straight forward plots and realistic situations. 120, Which theoretical book is often cited as the book that created the ©) One andcvne mesngs | Sletten? (OA ae ta elas oni Bhabh's Loxation of and conventions @) Joseph Conrad's Heart of (®) Metafiction and intertextuality Darkness @) Eaward Saic’s Orientalism @) Frantz Fanon's ‘The ‘Wretched of the Earth 117, Which collection of essays by New Historicists focuses on the ‘Romantic period ? | | | 121, one asks ofa text, “How isthe | indigenous culture of the land | being portrayed ?” Which critical | theory would you be using ? | @) New Historicism | @ Peycho-analysis i (8) Deconstruction | () Pra — icism (@) Post-colonisitism Direction : Read the following poem | 128. Which emotional stance of love is ‘and answer the questions (122 - 131) contrasted with the that follow by choosing from the given “dauntleseness' of Thought ? options @) gloominess Love has earth to which she clings With hills and eireling arms about Wall within wall to shut fear out. ‘But Thought has need of no such things, For Thought has a pair of dauntless wings. (® abrasiveness On snow and sand and turf, Ieee Where love has left a printed trace With straining in the world’s embrace ‘And such is love and glad to be. ‘But Thought has shaken his ankles free, task of Thought as Herculean ? (Q) He can shake his ankles. @) He can bum every plume, (8) He can retrace his fight. (4) He can cleave interstellar gloom, | | | | | | | 124, How does the poet describe the | ‘Thought cleaves the interstellar gloom And sits in Sirius’ disc all night, Till day makes him retrace his flight, With smell of burning on every plume, Back past the sun to an earthly room, 125. The phrasels that the poet uses to show Love's endearing gestures are: () fusing with another star (2) encircling arms, being in the world’s embrace | His gains in heaven are what they are, | Yet some say love by being thrall ‘And simply staying possesses all | Trenaercurace |e) wngaeertn la curt 122, What physica tributes does tbo. | cagertoponnee vistory poet give to personify Love and | ‘Thought in stanza 1? | 2) hills and walls | @) arms and wings | @ arth and sky | @) fear and need i ! 126. ‘Sirius dise is, (2) luminous star (2) the edge of the mocn () the setting sun (4) a celestial abode a 2» s 127. How many times has the poet used a gender defining pronoun for Love in the poem ? () thrice @) once @) twice (A) never 128. The contrast being cited in the poem between Love and Thought is not about ? (2) sojourning the skies and remaining earthbound @) their fearfulness and dauntlessness (8) their influences during the day and at night (A) being free and being bound 129. Which figure of speech is, ‘repeatedly used in the last stanza ? (2) Onomatopocia @) Alliteration (8) Metaphor (4) Synecdoche 180. Which two senses are evoked in ‘the poem ? (2) Touch and Smell 2) Taste and Sight (8) Hearing and Seeing (@ Smelling as Tasting | 181, The nacrator in the poem ends in | frou attve becuse ( Love understands the emotion of fear. ) Love is able to achieve a more lasting bond. (@) Love is enthralled by heaven’s beauty. (4) Love needs to perform less ‘movements. Direction : Fill in the blanks in the following questions (132 - 136) by choosing the correct article/ determiner. 182. ve read the prescribed text times, | | | | | | | | @ some | @ mun | 0) tevera I eoalial | | | | | i | | | | | | | | | 133.1 have gone through both the ‘books, has the information Inet ) both 2) every (8) that (4) neither 134. He is on his way to work. () the Qa (3) those (4) no article a a 185. It has surely rained last night, there are drops: imprinted on the window panes, (Q) some (2) few (8) alittle (4) most 186. Our college is quite a landmark, cean tell you where it is, (2) eachone @) anyone (8) someone (4) each and every Direction : Fill in the blanks in the following sentences (187 ~ 140) by choosing the correct modal auxiliary from the given options : 137, He have sent the message immediately rather, than delaying its dispatch, (1) can't (2) shall (8) could (@) ought 138. A banyan tree to be here when we were children, @) must @ may (8) should ) used | 189.When fire breaks out one | not use the lift but take the emergency stairs down, @) have @) should (8) could (@) shan't | | | | | | 140. Did he criticize my |" arrangements? |) nea | @ ought | (3) dare | | (4) must Direction ; Fill in the blanks in the following sentences (141 - 145) by choosing the correct preposition / ‘phrasal verb from the given options : 141. The sky is overcast by clouds, I'm afraid we're a heavy downpour, () allowing for 2) infor (8) asking for calling for newly elected his associates to work for the good of their enterprise. (1) called out (2) called in (8) called to (@) called upon leader 143. She returned her parent: company after the completion of her deputation abroad. Q) in @ @ up @ by 144, The referee was booked. his decision regarding a penalty he had awarded the team. @) in @ by @) for @) at 145. This new machine will certainly production. @) stand up @) step up @) turnin (A) make for Direction : Fill in the blanks in the following sentences (146 ~ 150) by choosing the correct tense of the veri / ‘sequence of tenses from the given options, 146. After she felt refreshed. (@) have had @) have taken (® had had (4) hhad took. her tea she 147. Let's hope it won't still __ when we leave, () have rained (©) was raining (8) have be raining (@) be raining 148, Unless it rains, we will have to the plants daily. Q) waters @) watered (8) water (@) watering 149. Now the streets as parking places since the pavements have been encroached ‘upon by the shopkeepers. @) have being used @) being used (3) been using (A) are being used | | | | | | | | | you obeyed orders this would not have happened. ) Have @ Hed | | | | te ! (8) Should 53 ‘twats fin ert SPACE FOR ROUGH WORK 4

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