PG TRB - ENGLISH


1.Who wrote ‘The Ancient Mariner’ ?
a).John Dryden
b).TS Eliot
c).ST Coleridge
d).William Wordsworth

Answer : c).ST Coleridge

2.‘The power of exciting the sympathy of the reader by a faithful adherence to the truth of nature’ is one of the cardinal points of poetry, said by ______.
a).John Dryden
b).TS Eliot
c).ST Coleridge
d).William Wordsworth

Answer : c).ST Coleridge

3.Who projected the famous phrase ‘willing suspension of disbelief ’?
a).IA Richards
b).William Wordsworth
c).ST Coleridge
d).Allen Tate

Answer : c).ST Coleridge

4.What did Coleridge suggest to give the power to the Reader’s interest of novelty?
a).Modifying colours of imagination?
b).Apply the natural facts
c).Use the scientific truth rather supernatural
d).Rational thoughts to be added

Answer : a).Modifying colours of imagination?

5.ST Coleridge titled his literary criticism, and religious and philosophical theory, as Biographia Literaria or _______________________.
a).Criticism to William Wordsworth
b).Biographical sketches of my literary life with William Wordsworth.
c).biographical sketches of my literary life and opinions
d).Literary criticism of my personal opinions on Poetry

Answer : c).biographical sketches of my literary life and opinions

6.According to Coleridge, which one contains the same elements as a prose composition?
a).Essay
b).Prose
c).Poem
d).Biography

Answer : c).Poem

7.According to Coleridge, which is the immediate object of a work, hat object may have been in a high degree attained, as in novels and romances?
a).Communication pleasure
b).Fallacy
c).Natural objects
d).imaginations

Answer : a).Communication pleasure

8.Which is the species of composition, that is stated by Coleridge in Biographia Literaria?
a).Prose
b).Poem
c).Novel
d).biography

Answer : b).Poem

9.Which is opposed to works of science that is stated by Coleridge in Biographia Literaria?
a).Prose
b).Poem
c).Novel
d).biography

Answer : b).Poem

10.Which is the Egyptians made the emblem of intellectual power?
a).The motion of Serpent
b).The motion of God
c).The motion of Tree
d).The motion of wit vehicle

Answer : a).The motion of Serpent

11. Who was the first poet to employ the neo-classical heroic couplet and quatrain in his own work?
a).ST Coleridge
b).Alexander Pope
c).John Dryden
d).Sir Philip Sydney

Answer : c).John Dryden

12.Who considered John Dryden to have “refined the language, improved the sentiments, and tuned the numbers of English poetry?”
a).Alexander Pope
b).Samuel Johnson
c).ST Coleridge
d).Mathew Arnold

Answer : b).Samuel Johnson

13.‘An Essay of Dramatic Poesy’ is written by John Dryden, this essay is structured in _______.
a).Monologue
b).Dialogue
c).Verse lines
d).Sonnet

Answer : b).Dialogue

14.How many friends are on the river Thames in ‘An Essay of Dramatic Poesy’?
a).1
b).2
c).3
d).4

Answer : d).4

15.The four friends in An Essay of Dramatic Poesy have taken refuge on a barge during a naval battle between the English and the ______fleets.
a).Dutch
b).French
c).Scotland
d).Poland

Answer : a).Dutch

16.Who is not one of the four friends in ‘An Essay of Dramatic Poesy’ ?
a).Neander
b).Lisideius
c).Lipididas
d).Crites

Answer : c).Lipididas

17.The four friends are aliased for actual Restoration critics, Dryden is as _______.
a).Eugenius
b).Lisideius
c).Neander
d).Crites

Answer : c).Neander

18.What is the subject of the four friends in ‘An Essay of Dramatic Poesy’ when they begin an ironic and witty conversation?
a).Prose
b).Poetry
c).Novel
d).Drama

Answer : b).Poetry

19.Among the four friends in in ‘An Essay of Dramatic Poesy’ their witty conversation turns into debate on the virtues of___________.
a).New and old
b).Prose and drama works
c).Ancient and modern writers
d).Wit and Knowledge

Answer : c).Ancient and modern writers

20.Who suggests drama is “a just and lively Image of Humane Nature.” in ‘An Essay of Dramatic Poesy’?
a).Eugenius
b).Lisideius
c).Neander
d).Crites

Answer : b).Lisideius

21. The most influential of the 20th century critic Herman Northrop Frye was a /an ________literary critic.
American
Australian
Canadian
French

Answer : Canadian

22. Whose visionary symbolism did Northrop Frye erudite in his ‘Fearful Symmetry’?
ST Coleridge
William Wordsworth
John Keats
William Blake

Answer : William Blake

23. Which of the following work is not written by Northrop Frye?
Anatomy of Criticism
Fearful Symmetry
The Great Code: The Bible and Literature
Death of the Author

Answer : Death of the Author

24. ‘Sailing to Byzantium’ is the example of Frye’s ___________vison
Tragic vison
Comic vison
Romance vision
Ironic vision

Answer : Comic vison

25. Which of Frye’s work consists of 'Archetypal Criticism: Theory of Myths' ?
Anatomy of Criticism
Fearful Symmetry
Fables of identity
Creation and recreation

Answer : Anatomy of Criticism

26. Frye has identified two major categories 1. Comedic 2. Tragic. Furtherly Comedic subdivided into _____.
Comedy and romance
Comedy and tragedy
Tragedy and satire
Satire and irony

Answer : Comedy and romance

27. Frye has identified two major categories 1. Comedic 2. Tragic. Furtherly Tragic subdivided into _____.
Comedy and romance
Comedy and tragedy
Tragedy and satire
Satire and irony

Answer : Tragedy and satire

28. According to Northrop Frye Tragedy is associated to the downfall of the protagonist as _______ suggests the demise of the season.
Autumn
Spring
Summer
Winter

Answer : Autumn

29. Who are the subordinate characters of Spring season?
Witch
Traitor and siren
Bride
Father and mother

Answer : Father and mother

30. Choose the correct one to the central pattern of the comic and tragic vision. 1. Human world, 2. Animal World, 3. Vegetable World, 4. Mineral world, 5. ________.
God world
Myth World
Sprit world
Water world

Answer : Water world

31. City and building is __________ world.
Human world
Animal world
Mineral world
Water world

Answer : Mineral world

32. Choose the correct match of comic vision
Human world - temple
Animal world - garden
Mineral world - Precious stone
Water world - park

Answer : Mineral world - Precious stone

33. John Keats died of __________.
tuberculosis
drowned in River
Suicide
Murder by his patron

Answer : tuberculosis

34. What did Keats give us as the intuition of his thoughts in his letters mostly?
about novel
about drama
about poetry
about prose

Answer : about poetry

35. When a man is capable of being in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact and reason is called according to Ketas?
Positive Capability
Negative Capability
Profound similarity
Visionary mode of creation

Answer : Negative Capability

36. Keats wrote a letter to J. H. Reynolds, on 17, 18, April 1817. In this letter he said ‘If I should receive a Letter from you and another from my Brothers on that day ’twould be a parlous good thing’. Here he mentioned ‘on that day’ as reference to a birth of famous play writer of Elizabethan age. What is the day of date?
April 20
April 21
April 22
April 23

Answer : April 23

37. Which of the following person’s letter consisted the meaning of ‘Negative Capability’?
Letter to George and Tom(Thomas) Keats
Letter to Shelley
Letter to John Taylor
Letter to John Hamilton Reynolds

Answer : Letter to George and Tom(Thomas) Keats

38. Who first used the term ‘Negative Capability’?
William Shakespeare
John Dryden
Alexander Pope
John Keats

Answer : John Keats

39. A concept ‘Negative capability’ is first articulated by John Keats about the artist’s access to truth without the pressure and framework of logic or science. Especially To whom did Keats contemplate his own craft and the art of others
William Shakespeare
Aristotle
Thomas Middleton
Ben Jonson

Answer : William Shakespeare

40. Who said about John Keats ‘There is hardly one statement of Keats' about poetry which...will not be found to be true, and what is more, true for greater and more mature poetry than anything Keats ever wrote’?
Shelley
T.S. Eliot
Lord Tennyson
Mathew Arnold

Answer : T.S. Eliot

41. In letter to Benjamin Bailey, Keats wrote, 'I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the Heart's affections and the truth of Imagination – What the imagination seizes as Beauty must be truth,' Which of Keats poem is indicated by this lines ?
Endymion
Ode to Psyche
Ode on a Grecian Urn
Ode on a Melancholy

Answer : Ode on a Grecian Urn

42. In whose letter did Keats describe theory of knowledge and of the human experience of the world that the intellect is a ‘Mansion of Many Apartments’.?
Letter to Shelley
Letter to Benjamin Bailey
Letter to John Taylor
Letter to J H Reynolds

Answer : Letter to J H Reynolds

43. Which Chamber did Keats call the Chamber of Maiden-Thought?
First chamber
Second Chamber
Third Chamber
Fourth Chamber

Answer : Second Chamber

44. Which is darkened and at the same time on all sides of it many doors are set open and all leading to dark passages, we see not the balance of good and evil?
Infant Chamber
Thoughtless chamber
Chamber of Maiden Thought
Chamber of enemy’s apartment

Answer : Chamber of Maiden Thought

45. To whom did Keats compare with Wordsworth and wonder on his ‘less anxiety for Humanity’?
John Milton
William Shakespeare
Shelley
ST Coleridge

Answer : John Milton

46. Wordsworth’s Tintern Abbey is best example for
Infant Chamber
Thoughtless chamber
Chamber of Maiden Thought
Chamber of enemy’s apartment

Answer : Chamber of Maiden Thought

47. When was T.S. Eliot received ‘Order of Merit’ which was founded by Edward VII in 1902.
1915
1922
1948
1965

Answer : 1948

48. Objective Correlative ,is a theory by T.S Eliot, is appeared in _____________.
The Wasteland
The Sacred Wood
Hamlet and his problems
The Metaphysical Poets

Answer : Hamlet and his problems

49. ‘Dissociation of sensibility’ is a famous phrase used by T.S. Eliot in the essay _________.
The Wasteland
The Sacred Wood
Hamlet and his problems
The Metaphysical Poets

Answer : The Metaphysical Poets

50. T. S. Eliot in his essay ‘The Metaphysical Poets’, which first appeared in 1921 as a review of _________ edition of ‘Metaphysical Lyrics and Poems of the Seventeenth Century’ (1921).
H. J. C. Grierson's
John Donne’s
Ezra Pound’s
Irving Babbitt’s

Answer : H. J. C. Grierson's

51. Which of the following writes do not feel their thoughts as immediately as the odour of a rose according to T.S. Eliot’s notes or his observation?
W.H Auden and W.B Yeats
Tennyson and Robert Browning
Wallace Stevens and Hart Crane
Walt Whitman and Robert Frost

Answer : Tennyson and Robert Browning

52. What is the another one phrase which is used by T.S Eliot’s in his essay The Metaphysical poets. ‘Dissociation of sensibility’ and _______________
Stream of Consciousness
Objective Correlative
Unification of Sensibility
Esemplastic

Answer : Unification of Sensibility

53. Who defined metaphysical poetry is ‘the most heterogeneous ideas are yoked violence together’?
T.S Eliot
Daniel Defoe
John Dryden
Dr. Samuel Johnson

Answer : Dr. Samuel Johnson

54. Who show that metaphysical poetry is distinguished from other poetry by unification of sensibility?
Ezra Pound
John Dryden
Dr. Samuel Johnson
T.S Eliot

Answer : T.S Eliot

55. According to Eliot ‘sensibility’ means a synthetic faculty which can amalgamate and unite
thought and feeling
emotion and situation
image and picture
fallacy and imagination

Answer : thought and feeling

56. Eliot gives concrete illustrations to show that such unification of sensibility, such fusion of thought and feeling, is to be found in the poetry of Donne as well as in much of modern poetry, but it is lacking in the poetry of ________.
Elizabeth Robert Browning
Mathew Arnold
Tennyson
William Wordsworth

Answer : Tennyson

57. Which of the following was not right one for Eliot’s phrase ‘Dissociation of sensibility and unification of sensibility’?
a). Metaphysical poets thought as immediately as the odour of a rose
b). direct sensuous apprehension of thought
c). the fusion of thought and feeling
d). a set of objects, a situation, a chain of events which shall be the formula of that particular emotion

Answer : a set of objects, a situation, a chain of events which shall be the formula of that particular emotion

58. According to T.S Eliot, Which of the following writer express his thoughts and ideas by embodying them in sensuous imagery and it is mainly through the imagery that the Unification of sensibility finds its appropriate expression.
Tennyson
Robert Browning
John Donne
Philip Larkin

Answer : John Donne

59. According to T.S Eliot, Which of the following two writers were great poets and they rendered important service to the cause, of poetry and under their influence, the English language became more pure and refined.
Tennyson and Robert Browning
John Milton and Dryden
Chaucer and Edmund Spenser
William Collins and Ben Johnson

Answer : John Milton and Dryden

60. Which of the following poet is not a metaphysical poet?
T.S Eliot
John Donne
George Herbert
Abraham Cowley

Answer : T.S Eliot

61. Which of the following is a play of T.S. Eliot?
The love song of J. Alfred Prufrock
Ash Wednesday
Murder in the cathedral
The wasteland

Answer : Murder in the cathedral

62. Choose the correct one.(i) Aristotle was born in 384 BC, (ii) Aristotle was the student of Plato, (iii) Plato was student of student of Aristotle, (iv) Plato was the teacher of Aristotle’s academy
I correct
I , II correct
III, IV correct
I, III, IV correct

Answer : I , II correct

63. How chapters are in Aristotle’s poetics?
23
24
25
26

Answer : 26

64. According to Aristotle which is common principle of poetry, music, dance, painting and sculpture?
Imagination
Imitation
Invocation
Interest

Answer : Imitation

65. Six elements of tragedy in the order of importance are stated to be _________, character, thought, language, music(song), spectacle.
Discourse
Diction
Plot
Tragedy

Answer : Plot

66. Which is the combination of the incidents of the story?
Plot
Imitation
Language
Thought

Answer : Plot

67. Which is the intellectual element shown in what the character say when proving or disproving a point?
Plot
Thought
Character
Language

Answer : Thought

68. Which is the expression of thoughts in words
Diction
Plot
Character
Pleasure

Answer : Diction

69. Choose the correct match:
Peripeteia - error of judgement
Hamartia - tragic incident
Catastrophe - reversal of situation
Anagnorsis - recognition

Answer : Anagnorsis - recognition

70. According to Aristotle which of the following is superior because it includes all the elements of epic?
Plot
Epic
Tragedy
Diction

Answer : Tragedy

71. Aristotle says Poetry is more philosophic and of graver importance than _______.
Science
Action
Time
History

Answer : History

72. Who was the first to use the term ‘Mimesis’ in connection with poetry?
Aristotle
Plato
Horace
Euripides

Answer : Plato

73. Plato equated poetry with painting. What did Aristotle equated with poetry ?
Painting
Music
Books
Image

Answer : Music

74. The imitation of action, serious, complete and certain magnitude are related to the definition of _____.
Comedy
Romance
Tragedy
Love

Answer : Tragedy

75. Catharsis means _______.
Glorification
Purification
Sympathy
Controlled situation

Answer : Purification