1.Which of the following poem of Keats bears the mark Helenism?
a).Endymion and Hyperion
b).Lamia and Grecian Urn
c).Ode to Nightingale and Psyche
d).All of the above
2.Who was called by Keats as ‘The Egoistical Sublime’?
a).Wordsworth
b).Shelley
c).Byron
d).Coleridge
3. Coleridge’s Biograohia Literaria was published in
a).1801
b).1808
c).1827
d).1817
4.The Romantic Writes were influenced by the idealism of German philosophers such as
a).Kant and Rousseau
b).Rousseau and More
c).More and Hegel
d).Kant and Hegel
5.Who hastened the death of Keats according to Shelly’s Adonais?
a).The Government
b).The Brutal reviewers
c).His beloved
d).Poetry
6.Lyrical Ballads opens with
a).Kubla Khan
b).Ode to Duty
c).Rime of the Ancient Mariner
d).Immortality Ode
7.Which work inspired Coleridge’s Kubla Khan?
a).Holinshed’s Chronicle
b).Plutarch’s Lives
c).Travels in Scotland
d).Purchas’s Pilgrimage
8.Who is Adonais of the poem Adonais?
a).Lord Byron
b).John Keats
c).Shelley Himself
d).None of the above
9.Name Wordsworth’s spiritual autobiography?
a).Tintern Abbey
b).The Recluse
c).The Prelude
d).Immortality Ode
10.Essays of Elia first appeared in
a).London Magazine
b).Gem
c).Blackwood’s Magazine
d).Edinburgh Review
11.Name Sarojini Naidu’s last collection of poems
a).The Broken Wing
b).The Golden Threshold
c).The Bird of Time
d).The Temple
12.Allen Tale’s Tension in Poetry is taken from ____________.
a).The Man of Letters in the Modern World
b).Allen Tate and his works
c).I’ll Take My Stand
d).The Fathers
13.Which novel shows the action moves from village to town, from town to city, from city to Bombay and from Bombay to Simla?
a).Untouchable
b).The English Teacher
c).Kanthapura
d).Coolie
14.Which of these refers to attitude of speaker towards his listener?
a).Sense
b).Feeling
c).Tone
d).Intention
15.The setting of ‘The Power and the Glory’
a).Vietnam
b).Haiti
c).Paraguay
d).Mexico
16.Who is in fact a ‘tall clownishe young man’, his adventures represent the individual Christian’s struggles to maintain personal holiness while avoiding pride in all its forms
a).Redcross
b).Lakunle
c).Job
d).Yank
17.Which of the following phrase us appeared in ‘Byzantium’?
a).Sound of stick upon the floor
b).Hade’s bobbin bound in mummy cloth
c).With beauty like a tightened bow
d).A tattered coat upon a stick
18.Which of the following works cannot be categorised under postcolonial theory?
a).Nation and Narration
b).Orientalism
c).Discipline and Punish
d).White Mythologies
19.Locke’s ‘Essay Concerning Human Understanding’ is a classic statement of ___________ philosophy.
a).Aesthetic
b).Empiricist
c).Nationalist
d).Realist
20.Sir Thomas Wyatt and the Earl of Surrey jointly brought out Tottel’s Miscellany during the Renaissance. Identify the name of the Earl of Surrey form the following:
a).Thomas Lodge
b).Thomas Nashe
c).Thomas Sackville
d).Henry Howard
21.The dramatic structure of Restoration comedies combines in it the features of (I). The Elizabethan Theatre. (II). Neoclassical Theatre of Italy and France. (III). The Irish Theatre. (IV). The Greek Theatre.
a).I and IV are correct
b).III and IV are correct
c).II and III are correct
d).I and II are correct
22.The etymological meaning of the word ‘trope’ is
a).Gesture
b).Turning
c).Mirror
d).Desire
23.Who among the following English poets defined poetic imagination as ‘a repetition in the finite mind of the eternal act of creation in the infinite I AM’?
a).Sir Philip Sydney
b).Wordsworth
c).Coleridge
d).Shelley
24.How many volumes are in Biographia Literaria; or Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions?
a).1
b).2
c).3
d).4
25. Choose the correct Match of this following : Schools and Concept of Criticism.
a).Formalism - I.A. Richards
b).New Critics - John Crow Ransom
c).Psychological Theory of the value of literature - The Jungians
d).Literary art as archetypal image - Victor Shklovsky
26.‘Five miles meandering with a mazy motion through wood and dale the sacred river ran’ above the line is appeared in Kubla Khan; or a Vision in a Dream, which is a poetic fragment. Where does this ‘Sacred river’ directly run to ?
a).A lifeless ocean
b).The caverns measureless
c).A fountain
d).The waves
27. Who is the twentieth century poet, a winner of the Noble Prize for literature who rejected the label ‘British’ though he has always written in English rather than his regional language?
a).Douglas Dunn
b).Seamus Heaney
c).Geoffrey Hill
d).Philip Larkin
28. Which of the following characters from Eliot’s Waste Land is not correctly mentioned ?
a).The typist
b).Madam Sosostris
c).The young man Carbuncular
d).The Merchant from Eugenides
29. Which tale in The Canterbury Tales uses the tradition of the Beast Fable?
a).The Kinght’s Tale
b).The Monk’s Tale
c).The Nun’s Priest Tale
d).The Miller’s Tale
30.With Bacon the essay form is
a).An intimate, personal confession
b).Witty and boldly imagistic
c).The aphoristic expression of accumulated public wisdom
d).Homely and vulgar
31. John Osborne’s Look Back in Anger is an example of
a).Drawing room comedy
b).Kitchen-sink Drama
c).Absurd Drama
d).Melodrama
32. The genre that narrates a hero or heroine’s process of psychological maturation and focuses on experience and changes that accompanied the growth of the character from youth to adulthood is applicable to the character ____________.
a).Pip – Great Expectations
b).Jude – Jude the Obscure
c).Emma Woodhouse - Emma
d).Willy Loman –Death of a Salesman
33. John Suckling belong to the group of
a).Metaphysical poets
b).Cavalier Poets
c).Neo-Classical poets
d).Religious poets
34.All forms of feminism posit that: (I)The Relationship between sexes in one of inequality and oppression. (II)There should be an end to all wars. (III)Women need financial independence. (IV)All men are prone to violence.
a).I and II are correct
b).III and IV are correct
c).I and III are correct
d).II and IV are correct
35.Which of the following is not true of post – structuralism?
a).It seeks to undermine the idea that meaning pre-exists its linguistic expression
b).There can be no meaning which is not formulated and no language formulation reaches anywhere beyond language.
c).There is no a-textual ‘origin’ of a text.
d).Every sign refers to every other sign adequately
36.Arrange the following English literary periods in the order in which they appeared. (1) Elizabethan, (2) Caroline, (3)Anglo Norman, (4)Early Tudor
a).3241
b).3421
c).2341
d).3412
37.The purpose of the Pre-Raphaelites was primarily to promote
a).Complexity and ambivalence in art and literature
b).Simplicity and naturalness in art and literature
c).Symbolic and classical modes in art and literature
d).Psychological and mythic modes in art and literature
38.Which of the following statements best describes the term ‘deconstruction’?
a).It seeks to expose the problematic nature of ‘cantered’ discourse
b).It advocates ‘subjective’ or ‘free’ interpretation
c).It emphasizes the importance of historical context
d).It is a method of critical analysis
39.Which one of the following best describes the basic principle of New Criticism?
a).An emphasis on the distinctive style and personality of the authors
b).Stressing the virtues of discipline, order and the ethical mean
c).Locating the meaning of a literary work in the internal relation of the language that constitute a text
d).Evaluating a literary text against a backdrop of historical events
40.Jacques Lacan posits three ‘orders’ which structure human existence. In the list that follows: identity the one that is not included by Lacan.
a).Imaginary
b).Real
c).Unconscious
d).Symbolic
41.‘Lexis’ refers to
a).All word forms having meaning or grammatical functions
b).The history of words
c).Study of select word forms
d).The selection of words
42. The system of social rules that a speaker knows about language and uses it is called
a).Grammar
b).Morphology
c).Orthography
d).Pragmatics
43.The term ‘ecological imperialism’ was coined by
a).Vandana Shiva
b).Laurence Buell
c).Paulo Feire
d).Alfred Crosby
44.A close friend of Dickens objected to the original ending of ‘Great Expectations’ in which Estella remarries and Pip remain single. Dickens accordingly revised to a more conventional ending which suggests that Pip and Estella will marry. Who was the friend?
a).Wilkie Collins
b).Thomas Beard
c).Thomas Carlyle
d).Richard Bentley
45.In ‘Wuthering Heights’ Cathy appears in a dream beating at a window, wailing ‘Let me in’, blood running down her wrist. Who dreams her?
a).Lockwood
b).Nelly
c).Heathcliffe
d).Edgar Linton
46.Who among the following English writers opposed the Licensing Act of 1643?
a).John Milton
b).Andrew Marvell
c).John Bunyan
d).John Donne
47.In the age of pressurized happiness, we sometimes grow insensitive to subtle joys. The italicised words are an example of
a).A transferred Epithet
b).A simile
c).A metaphor
d).A hyperbaton
48.Which of the following characters is killed in Achebe’s Things Fall Apart in conformity with an African tribal custom?
a).Okonkwo
b).Obierika
c).Ikemefuna
d).Nwoye
49.‘We will do it, I tell you; We will do it.’ The repetition of a phrase is
a).Antiphrasis
b).Diacope
c).Aposiopesis
d).Enumeratio
50.Which one of the following characters in Shakespeare’s Tempest is associated with the Earth?
a).Ferdinand
b).Caliban
c).Ariel
d).Prospero
51.Which one of the following playwrights will not be covered under the category / term ‘Theatre of the Absurd’?
a).Jean Genet
b).Jean Giraudoux
c).Samuel Beckett
d).Eugene Ionesco
52._____________ is the use of words whose pronunciation imitates the sound the word describes.
a).Alliteration
b).Onomatopoeia
c).Oxymoron
d).Enthymeme
53.Which of the following deals with neighbourly relations?
a).Birches
b).Daddy
c).Mending Wall
d).West Running Brook
54.Dryden’s dramatization of Paradise Lose is entitled?
a).All for Love
b).The State of Innocence
c).Annus Mirabilis
d).Religio Medici
55.Two pioneering feminist tracts, Kate Millet’s ‘Sexual Politics’ and Germaine Greer’s ‘The Female Eunuch’ were published in
a).1969
b).1968
c).1970
d).1967
56.Who defined poetry as ‘the best words in the best order’?
a).Wordsworth
b).Coleridge
c).Shelley
d).Keats
57.Who among the Victorian authors has described himself / herself as an agonistic?
a).Matthew Arnold
b).Charles Dickens
c).George Eliot
d).Thomas Hardy
58.Who among the following romantic poets ended his life, lauded and respected as ‘The Sage of Highgate’?
a).William Blake
b).ST Coleridge
c).PB Shelly
d).William Wordsworth
59.In the Rape of Lock, Belinda’s guardian sylph is unable to prevent the Baron’s fatal mischief because.
a).He discovers an earthy lover lurking in Belinda’s heart
b).He is disturbed by Clarrisa’s speech
c).The view is blocked by the imposing figure of Sir Plume
d).He is yet to return from a visit to the Cave of Spleen
60.Arrange the following English Language Teaching (ELT) methods and approaches in the order in which they appear. (1). Direct Method, (2). The Communicative Language Teaching, (3). The Grammar Translation Method, (4). The Silent Way
a).1342
b).3142
c).3214
d).1324
61.‘With all the eagerness to know the truths of life, she retained very child like ideas about marriage…. The really delightful marriage must be that when your husband was a sort of a father, and could even teach you Hebrew, if you wished it.’ She is the protagonist of a novel. Who is she?
a).Emma
b).Miss Havisham
c).Dorothea
d).Arabella Fermor
62.The various symbols used in Girish Karnard’s Tughlaq are associated with code: (1). Pythons, (2). Vultures, (3). Wasps, (4). Butterflies
a).1 and 2 are correct
b).1 and 3 are correct
c).3 and 4 are correct
d).2 and 3 are correct
63. Of the following statements, which one is not true of Congreve’s The Way of the World?
a).The Way of the World was staged in 1700
b).It was played at the theatre in Lincoln’s Inn Fields
c).It was a failure on the stage
d).The dialogue was unintelligible
64.In Keats’ ‘Ode on a Grecian Urn’ the key ideas are best described as the following except one. Which one?
a).Movement versus stasis
b).Disappointing love versus eternal bliss
c).Scars of history versus consolation of art
d).Beauty versus truth
65.The Faerie Queene is an epic celebration of __________. (1). Queen Elizabeth, (2). The Irish Nation, (3). The Roman Catholic Church, (4). The Protestant Faith
a).1 and 3 are correct
b).1 and 2 are correct
c).1 and 4 are correct
d).2 and 3 are correct
66.An extremely simplified form of a language used as a contact language among speakers of different language is a
a).Dialect
b).Creole
c).Pidgin
d).Register
67.The Norman Conquest of England in the Battle of Hastings is an important landmark in the history of English literature. It occurred in the year
a).1066
b).1065
c).1076
d).1075
68.Out of the four chief dialects that flourished in the pre- Chaucerian period, the one that became the standard English in Chaucer’s time is
a).The Northern
b).The East Midland
c).The West – Midland
d).The southern
69.The very idea of The Canterbury Tales is believed to have been taken from Boccaccio’s
a).Recamerone
b).Filostrato
c).Confessio Amantis
d).Polychronicon
70.In prologue and Canterbury Tales, Chaucer employed the
a).Ottava Rhyme
b).Rhyme Royal
c).Heroic Couplet
d).Both (a) and (c)
71.Who among the following was a friend of Edmund Spenser and offered hints for the interpretation of Spenser’s The Faerie Queene indicating a plan of 12 books in all that was never completed?
a).Bacon
b).Daniel
c).Drayton
d).Raleigh
72.Regarding which metaphysical poet TS Eliot says that the special quality of his verse is ‘the quality of civilization, of a traditional habit of life’?
a).Robert Herrick
b).Richard Lovelace
c).Abraham Cowley
d).Andrew Marvell
73.The poets who sided with King Charles I against the parliament are called
a).Cavalier Poets
b).Caroline Poets
c).Metaphysical Poets
d).Both A and B
74.L’Allegro, Il Peneseroso, Comus and Lycidas are the four immortal poems of
a).D’Avenant
b).Denham
c).Milton
d).Lovelace
75.Game at Chess is the play written by
a).Beaumont
b).Toumeur
c).Middleton
d).Webster
76.The Definition of Love and To His Coy Mistress are the famous poems of
a).John Donne
b).Abraham Cowley
c).Andrew Marvell
d).George Herbert
77.Dr Faustus makes a deal of surrendering his soul in return for 24 years of life with
a).Eunuchus
b).Mephistopheles
c).Bodadill
d).Brainworm
78.Which of the following is called ‘The Holy grail of puritanism’?
a).Paradise Lost
b).Faerie Queene
c).Pilgrim’s Progress
d).Dr Faustus
79.In 1660, which marks the beginning of the Restoration Age, who among the following was restored to the English Throne?
a).James II
b).Edward II
c).Charles II
d).Henry V
80.Dryden’s All For Love is a transitional play, showing the features of both, the heroic play and _______
a).Sentimental tragedy
b).Sentimental comedy
c).Restoration comedy
d).Comedy of humours
81.Congreve achieved immediate success with his first play
a).Double Dealer
b).Love for Love
c).Old Bachelor
d).The Way of the World
82.Who is the author of THE TEMPLE
a).John Donne
b).Andrew Marvell
c).George Herbert
d).John Bunyan
83.The plot of Samson Agonistes taken from?
a).The New Testament
b).The Book of Judge
c).Greek Mythology
d).Plutarch’s Lives
84.How many books are contained in Paradise Lose?
a).10
b).
c).12
d).14
85.Which critic refers to Milton’s ‘The Grand style’?
a).William Wordsworth
b).Dr Samuel Johnson
c).Matthew Arnold
d).ST Coleridge
86.Who may be regarded as representative of Dryden himself in his Dramatic Poesy?
a).Neander
b).Eugenius
c).Crites
d).None of the above
87.‘O Wind, if winter comes, can spring be far behind’ these famous words have taken form
a).Ode to Autumn
b).Ode to Grecian Urn
c).Ode to the West Wind
d).Ode to Dejection
88.Which of nature poets has been said to be endowed with ‘organic sensibility’
a).Wordsworth
b).Coleridge
c).Shelly
d).Keats
89. Who said ‘a liar is a man who is brave towards God but is coward towards men’?
Bacon
Pilate
Common man
Montaigne
90. According to Bacon, who are love lies? (i) Common man, (ii)Business man, (iii) poet, (iv) merchant.
II, III, IV
II, IV
III, II
All
91. Which of the following option is the chief use for delight in Of Studies?
Discourse thoughts
Marshalling affairs
Judgement and disposition
Privateness and retiring
92. Who condemns the studies?
Common men
Crafty men
Simple men
Wise men
93. Whom does the Earl of Douglas kill?
King Henry
Sir John Falstaff
Prince Hal
Sir Walter Blunt
94. Where does the final battle of the play Henry IV- part-1 take place?
Falkirk
Yorktown
Shrewsbury
Shropshire
95. Who is proclaimed king after Duncan is murdered?
Macduff
Macbeth
Banquo
Malcolm
96. What does the second apparition tell Macbeth?
‘None of woman born shall harm Macbeth’
‘none of woman born shall take Dunsinane’
‘none of woman born shall become king.’
‘none of woman born shall beware thee’
97. Which of these characters is aware of the Duke's disguise before the end?
Friar Thomas
Angelo
The provost
Isabella
98. Who convinces Isabella to advocate for her brother?
Claudio himself
Lucio
The provost
The duke, in disguise
99. Wordsworth’s Tintern Abbey is best example for
Infant Chamber
Thoughtless chamber
Chamber of Maiden Thought
Chamber of enemy’s apartment
100. According to Keats, The Imagination may be compared to _________
Eve’s dream
Adam’s dream
Infant dream
Maiden’s dream
101.Emerson said, ‘The next great influence into the spirit of the scholar is the mind of the Past,—in whatever form, whether of literature, of art, of institutions, that mind is inscribed’. Which of the following is the best type of the influence of the past, and perhaps we shall get at the truth,—learn the amount of this influence more conveniently,—by considering their value alone?
a).Pioneer’s experience
b).Research scholar’s own ideas
c).Books
d).Research in rural area and village
102.Emerson said ‘the world was plastic and fluid in the hands of _______’.
a).God
b).Books
c).Scientist
d).Research Scholar
103.According to Robert Frost ‘ Earth’s the right place for ______'
a).Love
b).Heaven
c).Play
d).swinging
104. the Kelly gang’s hold-up in the town of ______
a).Jerilderie
b).sydney
c).Melbourne
d).Canberra
105 .Which is the cosmic representation of all forms of energy and movements in nature and cosmos?
a).The Dance of Shiva
b).Poems of Sarojini Naidu
c).Poem: River
d).Our Casuarina Tree
106. The term simulacrum where the real is replaced by its shadow was first used by_____.
Roland Barthes
Jean Baudrillard
Jean-Francoise Lyotard
Jacques Lacan
107. Catharsis means
Misfortune
Error of judgement
Purgation of emotions
Moral failure
108. In Tennessee Williams’ Street Car Named Desire, Blache Du Bois is a lady caught in the vortec of:
Love and sympathy
Illusion and artifice
Candour and patience
Pride and Prejudice
109. ‘I do not hate progress, only its nature which makes all roofs and faces look the same….’ The above passage reflects.
Lakunle’s progressive ideals
Sidi’s pride
Baroka’s guile
Sadiku’s ambivalent attitude
110. In ‘Hero as Divinity’ Carlyle deals with:
Heroic divinities of Germanic tribes
Pagan divinities of Scandinavian origin
Early Christian divinities of Anglo-Saxon period
Heroic divinities of Norse Mythology