1. Who is the first one of Chaucer’s description of Pilgrims in Canterbury Tales?.
a. Knight.
b. Squire.
c. Yeoman.
d. Parson.
2. Who stands for the true mission of Church to the poor in Canterbury Tales?
a. Knight
b. Parson
c. Ploughman
d. Squire
3. ‘Thy glorious household- stuffe did me entwine ’. This line appears in ______
a. Affliction
b. Pulley
c. To his coy Mistress
d. Epithalamion
4. ‘The Temple’ is a collection of poems. Pick out the odd one of following?
a. Published in 1633
b. It consists of 5 Affliction poem
c. Poems by George Herbert
d. Published by George Herbert in his life time.
5. To whom did Spencer firstly convey his plan to write about Faerie Queene?
a. Walter Raleigh
b. Sir Philip Sydney
c. Queen Elizabeth
d. Sir Humphrey Gilbert
6. Which period of notion is called the ‘Age of Revolutions’?
a. Jacobian Period
b. 20th century Period
c. Victorian Period
d. Romantic Period
7. Who coined the term ‘Georgian’ which indicates ‘Georgian Poets’?
a. Edward Marsh
b. Ezra Pound
c. T.S. Eliot
d. Edmund Thomas
8. Who had been called ‘The Mind in Undress’ by Coleridge?
a. Thomas De Quincey
b. Samuel Peppy
c. Charles Lamb
d. John Evelyn
9. He first made the acquaintance of Coleridge, Wordsworth and Southey; They became intellectual brotherhood at Lakes. It is intro to the work ‘Recollections of the Lakes and Lake Poet’ – this work is written by _____?
a. Charles Lamb
b. William Hazlitt
c. Thomas De Quincey
d. John Keats
10. ‘The knocking at the gate is a crux, a moment of revelation in which murder and the murder’. This line is applicable to one of the Quincey’s work. Which of the Shakespeare’s work was it referenced to_____.
a. Macbeth
b. Tempest
c. Antony and Cleopatra
d. King Henry IV
11. Match the writer and their term. (i) Coleridge, (ii) Elaine Showalter, (iii) Allice Walker, (iv) John Keats. (A)Willing Suspension of Disbelief , (B) Gynocritics, (C)Womanism, (D)Negative Capability.
a. (I)-A, (II)-B, (III)-C, (IV)-D
b. (I)- B, (II)- C, (III)-A, (IV)-D
c. (I)-C, (II)-D, (III)- A, (IV)- B
d. (I)-D, (II)-A, (III)-B, (IV)-C
12. Coleridge’s chapters on the poetry of Wordsworth in Biographia Literaria (1817). It is an example of _______.
a. Practical criticism
b. Impressionistic criticism
c. Judicial criticism
d. Pragmatic criticism
13. Which of the following writer is not a post-modernist theorist?
a. Jean Francois Lyotard
b. Jean Baudrillard
c. Geoges Bataille
d. E.M. Tillyard
14. Who is the first lover of Dorothea, whom she rejects, in Middlemarch?
a. Baulstrode
b. Fred
c. Casaubon
d. Chewtham
15. Which of the following is G.B. Shaw’s first play?
a. Widower’s House
b. Man and Superman
c. Mrs. Warren’s Profession
d. Murder in a Cathedral
16. The Norwegian dramatist who apparently influenced G.B. Shaw’s play is?
a. Henrik Ibson
b. J.M. Synge
c. John Galworthy
d. Oscar Wilde
17. Which of the following is a nuptial song, praying for the joy and prosperity of the bride and bridegroom ?
a. Eclogue
b. Elegy
c. Epistle
d. Epithalamion
18. What is the term used to mean a sudden change of fortune in a play or story?
a. Hamartia
b. Anagnorisis
c. Peripeteia
d. Nemesis
19. The ‘heroic’ couplet is written in_________.
a. Trochaic tetrameter
b. Spondaic hexameter
c. Iambic tetrameter
d. Iambic pentameter
20. Which of the following is alternatively known as the Age of Sensibility?
a. The age of Pope
b. The age of Milton
c. The age of Johnson
d. The age of Wordsworth
21. Alliteration is the repetition of speech sounds in a sequence of nearby words, usually applied to______.
a. Consonants only
b. Vowels only
c. Both consonants and vowels
d. Stressed syllable
22. What is meant by ‘Portmanteau’ a term introduced by Humpty Dumpty in Lewis Caroll’s Through the Looking Glass?
a. A word opposite in meaning to its sound
b. A word used in its original meaning
c. A word coined by fusing together two or more words
d. A word with very complex meaning.
23. What is a closet drams ?
a. A drama thought written in the dramatic form, intended to be read rather than to be performed in the theatre
b. A drama intended to be performed within a closet and not on stage
c. A drama set in a closet or a single room with characters coming into and out of it
d. None of the above
24. According to the theory of Northop Frye the four main narrative genres of literature are comedy, romance, tragedy and ______.
a. Autobiography
b. Poetry
c. Myth
d. Irony
25. In ‘The school for Scandal, who goes to Charles’s house posing as Mr. Premium?
a. Sir Oliver
b. Joseph
c. Rowley
d. Maria
26. The old friend of Mr. Hardcastle in ‘She Stoops to Conquer’ was
a. Sir Charles Marlowe
b. Diggory
c. Hastings
d. Tony Lumpkin
27. The period of French Revolution was
a. 1779-1789
b. 1789-1799
c. 1784-1794
d. 1794-1804
28. The Lady of Light was the nick name of
a. John Milton
b. John Donne
c. Hendry Vaughan
d. None
29. ‘Lycidas’ of Milton is a/an
a. Epic
b. Masque
c. Comedy
d. Elegy
30. ‘Paradise Regained ’ and ‘Samson Agonistes’ were published together in
a. 1671
b. 1617
c. 1607
d. 1610
31. A term used in grammatical theory and description to refer to a formal relationship between elements, whereby a form of one word requires a corresponding form of another.
a. Concord
b. Semiotics
c. Semantics
d. Repertoire
32. One may predominate as the official or standard form of the language, and this is the variety which may come to be written down.
a. Idiolect
b. Dialect
c. Bidialectalism
d. Convergence
33. A grammar which operates using this notion is a transformational grammar (TG) or transformational generative grammar (TGG). This type of grammar was first discussed by _____.
a. Leonard Bloomfield
b. Ferdinand de Saussure
c. Nikolai Trubetzkoy
d. Noam Chomsky
34. A term describing a sound change in which a sound is influenced by the vowel.
a. Umlaut
b. Uvular
c. Velar
d. Alliteration
35. According to the Coleridge in Biographia Literaria, which is the body of poetic genius?
a. Good sense
b. Fancy
c. Imagination
d. Motion
36. ‘The just man justices’. What kind of foregrounding do you find in the above lines?
a. Syntactic
b. Semantic
c. Collocation
d. None of the above
37. A Spenserian stanza has
a. Four iambic pentameters
b. Six iambic pentameters
c. Eight iambic pentameters
d. Ten iambic pentameters
38. Match the items in List-I (critic) with items in List –II (Theory) to the code given below: List –I (i) Cleanth Brooks, (ii) William Empson, (iii) Mark Schorer, (iv) Maud Bodkin. List-II (A) Ambiguity, (B) Paradox, (C) Archetypal patterns in poetry, (D) Techniques as discovery. CODES: i -ii -iii –iv
a. B-A-D-C
b. C-B-A-D
c. A-B-C-D
d. B-C-D-A
39. ‘That glory never shall his wrathe or might extort form me’ (Paradise Lost, Book - I) what ‘glory ’ is being referred by Satan?
a. The courage never to submit or yield
b. To reign in Hell
c. To defeat God
d. To spread evil
40. The Prelude although begun as early 1799 and finished in its first version in 1805, was not published until ______.
a. 1815
b. 1820
c. 1830
d. 1850
41. Which is the correct match according to works and characters
a. Jude The Obscure - Mrs. Moore
b. Great expectations - Molly bloom
c. To the Light House - Lilly Briscoe
d. Wuthering Heights - Gerald Crich
42. The first official royal Poet Laureate in English history was_______
42. Which of the following is not a surrealist poet?
a. Hugh Sykes Dykes
b. David Gascoyne
c. Kenneth Allot
d. C.D. Lewis
43. ‘Consume my heart away sick with desire and fastened to a dying animal.’ The above lines are taken from
a. Felix Randel
b. Sailing to Byzantium
c. Dejection Ode
d. Affliction
44. ‘The old order changeth yielding place to new, And God fulfils himself in many way.’ In which of the following poems do these lines appear?
a. The Waste Land
b. Andrea Del Sarto
c. Morte D' Arthur
d. The Scholar Gypsy
45. In Spenser’s The Faerie Queene there are the allegorized moral and religious virtues with their counterparts in the vices. Identify the correctly marched set:
a. Una-Truth; Guyon-Temprance; Duessa- Deceit
b. Una-Pride; Guyon-Deceit; Duessa- Temperance
c. Una-Deceit; Guyon-Pride; Duessa- Temperance
d. Una-Temperance; Guyon-Truth; Duessa-Pride
46. In ‘The Prologue’ to Dr. Faustus, the proposes that the theme should be- (I) Cursed necromancy, (II) audacious deeds, (III) dalliance of love, (IV) self-conceit. The correct combination according to the code is
a. I and II are correct
b. II and III are correct
c. I and IV are correct
d. III and IV are correct
47. In paradise Lost book IX, Milton writes that Adam was overcome with ‘_____’ and so ate the forbidden fruit against his ‘better Knowledge’ .
a. Female charm
b. Exceeding love
c. Faithful love
d. Taste so divine
48. Yeast’s ‘Sailing to Byzantium’ is about?
a. Irish Culture
b. Irish revolutionaries
c. The art and culture of Byzantium in general
d. Regenerating the art and culture that existed in Byzantium
49. Modern English emerged from the
a. South Midland dialect
b. East Midland Dialect
c. French Language
d. Northumbrian dialect
50. Most culinary terms in English are derived from
a. Exotic cooking
b. French cooking
c. Native Sources
d. Arabic Cooking
51. What does the verb “augment” mean?
a) Increase
b) Enlighten
c) Decrease
d) Weaken
52. Which of the following is the right meaning for Affliction - except?
a) Pain
b) Distress
c) Misery
d) Devotion
53. ‘Paid me my ______ in a world of mirth.’ Fill the right word of the poem Affliction
a) Book
b) Wages
c) God
d) Amount
54. What is Drugger's nickname?
a) Dab
b) Nab
c) Nabby
d) Dibby-dabby
55. Who is cured of madness by Doctor Subtle?
a) Dapper
b) Doll Common
c) Dame Pliant
d) Kestrel
56. Who is the first victim of Face and Subtle’s plan?
a) Dapper
b) Doll Common
c) Abel Drugger
d) Sir Epicure mammon
57. ‘but it will not rise to the price of a diamond or carbuncle, that showeth best in varied lights’ this line appears in Of Truth, here what is the meaning for Carbuncle?
a) multiple boil in the skin
b) bright red gem
c) painful cluster
d) None of the above
58. Bacon’s style of essays are embedded with Epigrammatic style. Here the word epigram refers to
a) Witty statements in prose
b) Parody in prose
c) Splendid flow of writing in prose
d) Jumbling verse style in prose
59. Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be _________.
a) Deputed
b) Chunked
c) Chewed
d) Changed
60. which of the following is not a functional morpheme?
a) Conjunctions
b) Prepositions
c) Articles
d) Nouns
61. Which of these words are lexical morpheme. (i) tiger, (ii) land, (iii) on, (iv) because, (v) when, (vi) look, (vii) break, (viii) long, (ix) girl, (x) house.
a) I, II, VI, VII, VIII, IX, X
b) IIII, IV, V,
c) II, III, IV, IX
d) ALL
62. Which of the following is not lexical morpheme?
a) Articles
b) Nouns
c) Adjectives
d) Verbs
63. Who has been called as ‘High Priest or Prophet of Postmodernism’?
a) Jurgen Habermas
b) Jean Baudrillard
c) Jean Francois Lyotard
d) Gloria Jean Watkins
64. The postmodernist works ‘Simulations’ is written by?
a) Jurgen Habermas
b) Jean Baudrillard
c) Jean Francois Lyotard
d) Gloria Jean Watkins
65. Which of the term is not related to post modernism?
a) Hyperreal
b) Simulation
c) Parody
d) Fragment
66. Disneyland is perfect model for __________.
a) Hyperreal
b) Simulation
c) Parody
d) Fragment
67. Who said ‘the modern period begins with Enlightenment’
a) Jean Francois Lyotard
b) Jurgen Habermas
c) Jean Bauldrillard
d) Immanuel Kant
68. Whose famous definition of Post Modernism is ‘incredulity towards metanarratives’
a) Jean Francois Lyotard
b) Jurgen Habermas
c) Jean Bauldrillard
d) Immanuel Kant
69. Which of the French writer wrote ‘Simulations’. And it was translated in 1983.
a) Jean Francois Lyotard
b) Jurgen Habermas
c) Jean Bauldrillard
d) Immanuel Kant
70. Where did Kubla build the dome
a) Guilder
b) Xanadu
c) Poictesme
d) Florin
71. A traveler asked the poet for directions and much of the vision's images were lost. Where was this anonymous but legendary traveler from?
a) Portsmout
b) Penzance
c) Porlock
d) Puddleby-on-the-Marsh
72. Who approached Coleridge to ask the possibility of translate Goethe’s Faust?
a) Lord Byron
b) John Murray
c) James Gillman
d) William Wordsworth
73. Who told Sidi that Baroka wants to take her for a wife?
a) Sadiku
b) The wrestler
c) Lakunle
d) Sidi’s friend
74. How old is Lakunle in the play ‘Lion and the Jewel’?
a) 24
b) 25
c) 23
d) 22
75. Which is not one of the three name according to the play ‘Lion and the Jewel’ ?
a) Morning
b) Noon
c) Night
d) Day