1. ‘A poet is a diviner, foreseer, or prophet’, which among the option is correct for answering ‘a poet is called’ in the classical world.
a).Vates
b).Sortes
c).Carmina
d).Pylades
2.Which of the following terms, as used by Aristotle, means a sudden turn?
a).Peripeteia
b).Anagnorsis
c).Nemesis
d).Megethos
3.According to Dryden, Comedy begets
a).Divine pleasure
b).Irresistible pleasure
c).Malicious pleasure
d).Critical pleasure
4.What was Dr.Johnson’s opinion on language of poetry?
a).It should be the language of the learned
b).It should be an universal language
c).It should be a sublime poetic language
d).None of the above
5.Who said that ‘No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher’?
a).Wordsworth
b).Coleridge
c).Arnold
d).T.S. Eliot
6.Who are the authors of the critical work The Meaning of Meaning?
a).I.A. Richards and W.B. Yeats
b).W.B. Stanford and Edgar Allen Poe
c).Edgar Alen Poe and C.K. Ogden
d).C.K. Ogden and I.A. Richards
7.In his doctrine of the Objective Correlative, Eliot follows the theory and practice of the ______
a).Classicists
b). Romanticists
c).Symbolists
d).Naturalists
8.The Poet is only the efficient cause of the poem, but the poem, having form, has a formal cause that is to be sought. On examination, Northop Frye finds this formal cause to be
a).The myth
b).The archetype
c).The universal emotion
d).None of the above
9.In the Age of Pope which kind of poetry dominated the other kinds?
a).Epic Poetry
b).Satiric Poetry
c).Lyric Poetry
d).Romantic Poetry
10.Who has been called ‘a Foundling’ by its author?
a).Mr. Allworthy
b).Mr. Allworthy
c).Mrs. Western
d).Tom Jones
11.Mr. Marwood and Mrs. Millament are characters from
a).Rape of the Lock
b).The Way of the World
c).Power and the Glory
d).The Alchemist
12.What is the name of Squire Allworthy’s nephew who conspires against him?
a).Thwackum
b).Blifil
c).Patridge
d).Square
13.Gothic Novels are
a).Novels of mystery and terror
b).Novels written under the French influence
c).Novels of revolt
d).Novels of romantic adventures
14.What is related to Dr.Faustus?
a).Full of mysteries
b).Romantic
c).Heroes bargain the souls to devil
d).Introduction with horror fiction
15.Which of the following is not related one to The Rape of the Lock?
a).Lady Arabella
b).Pastoral Elegy
c).Mock Epic
d).Alexander Pope
16.In which of poems has ‘O Lady! We receive by but we give and in our life alone does Nature Live’?
a).Andrea Del Sarto
b).Dejection Ode
c).Tintern Abbey
d).The Meaning of Africa
17.Which of the following written in 1821 and published posthumously in 1840, it is author’s most confidential proclamation of the social function of poetry and the prophetic role of then poet?
a).Prelude
b).A Defence of Poetry
c).The Study of Poetry
d).My First Acquaintance with Poets
18.Who among the following had called Wordsworth, a ‘Moral Eunuch’?
a).Coleridge
b).Keats
c).Shelley
d).Arnold
19.Who called Keats ‘a Greek’ for his preoccupation with Hellenism in poetry ?
a).Arnold
b).Shelley
c).Eliot
d).G. Lytleton
20.When was the Lyrical Ballads published
a).1797
b).1798
c).1800
d).1802
21.The school of poetry which flourished under the leadership of Ezra Pound in the second decade of the twentieth century is
a).Symbolism
b).Imagism
c).Expressionism
d).Impressionism
22.The movement in art and literature emphasizing the expression of the imagination as realized in dreams and presented without conscious control, which developed in France under the leadership of Andre Breton, is
a).Surrealism
b).Mysticism
c).Symbolism
d).Imagism
23.Refrain is
a).A short pause between lines
b).The concluding line of a stanza in verse
c).A line or group of lines which is repeated throughout the course of the poem
d).The pause between stanzas
24.The term ‘Metaphysical’ in connection with Donne’s poetry, was first used by
a).Cowley
b).Dr.Johnson
c).Aristotle
d).Dryden
25.Milton’s Comus is an example of the type of drama which is called the
a).Farce
b).Masque
c).Romance
d).Revenge tragedy
26.The play by Marston that foreshadows Shakespeare’s The Tempest is
a).The Dutch Courtesan
b).The Malcontent
c).Antonio’s Revenge
d).Antonio and Mellida
27.Which of the following poems of Herbert is considered a predecessor of Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress?
a).The Pilgrimage
b).The Church Porch
c).The Gifts of God
d).The Altar
28.Dr.Johnson begins his Lives of the Poets with
a).Edmund Spenser
b).Edmund Waller
c).Abraham Cowley
d).John Donne
29.Milton’s Samson Agonistes is a tragedy on the Greek model. Whom does he follow here?
a).Sophocles
b).Seneca
c).Euripides
d).Aristotle
30.Who directs Satan to earth in Paradise Lost?
a).Sun
b).Gabriel
c).Raphael
d).Uriel
31.A story begins thus: ‘As I walked through the Wilderness of this world I lighted on a certain place where was a den (Bedford Jail) and laid me down in that place to sleep; and, as I slept, I dreamed a dream.’ Identify the book.
a).The Book of Job
b).Dr. Faustus
c).The Pilgrim's Progress
d).The Power and the Glory
32.In which month did the pilgrims march towards the Canterbury ?
a).April
b).March
c).June
d).May
33.The knights undertake dangerous adventures in each book of The Faerie Queene in order to
a).Protect their religion
b).Protect their countrymen
c).Win the favour of their lady love
d).Usurp the throne
34.Bacon defined the essay as
a).Receptacle for detached thoughts
b).Disposed meditations
c).Leisurely talk of a philosopher over the dinner table
d).Both (A) and (B)
35.The most famous of Beckett’s works has been his mysterious but innovative play
a).Waiting for Gadot
b).Happy Days
c).Endgame
d).Embers
36.The Room, The Dumb Waiter, The Birthday Party and The Caretaker are works of
a).John Arden
b).Joe Orton
c).Harold Pinter
d).Arnold Wesker
37.In which of the following poems of Ezekiel do we get a moving picture of a mother’s suffering?
a).The Couple
b).Night of the Scorpion
c).The Visitor
d).Philosophy
38.Coleridge’s Biographia Literaria appeared in the year
a).1817
b).1821
c).1823
d).1829
39.Who died of Tuberculosis?
a).Coleridge
b).Keats
c).Shelley
d).Scott
40.‘Bloomsbury Group’ is the name given to those writes who were associated with the Bloomsbury area of London from about
a).1907-1939
b).1909-1939
c).1908-1939
d).1907-1937
41.Thomas Hardy was born in
a).1830
b).1835
c).1840
d).1845
42.Thomas Hardy’s last novel was
a).Jude, the Obscure
b).The Woodlanders
c).The Return of the Native
d).Far From the Madding crowd
43.‘The Pigeon’ is a well known play written by
a).J.M. Barrie
b).Oscar Wilde
c).Shaw
d).Galsworthy
44.The novels of Virginia Woolf may be kept in which of the following characters
a).Picaresque novels
b).Epistolary novels
c).Historical novels
d).Stream of Consciousness novel
45.Emily Dickinson’s poetry presents
a).Political life in America
b).Seminary at Amherst
c).Interior life
d).Social life
46.Why Frost did not believe in erecting walls to make good neighbours?
a).Trespassers can’t be kept away
b).Neighbour’s pines and poet’s apple trees will never wrangle
c).Walls merely mark territory
d).Walls create a possibility of mischief
47. What are the important features of Cummings’ poetry ?
a).satire and sentiment, traditional values and contempt for authority and convention all combined in a unique way
b).the qualities of his paintings were merged with his poetry
c).direct in his writing choosing words meticulously
d).use of slang gave his poetry a spontaneity – candid
48.which poem these lines occur ‘O sleepless as the river under thee, Vaulting the sea, the prairies’ dreaming sod, unto us lowliest sometimes sweep, descend And of the curveship land a myth to God’
a).Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking
b).To Brooklyn Bridge
c).Passage to India
d).West Running Brook
49.In ‘The Hairy Ape’ O’Neill presents a world which can be described best as
a).Lovely
b).Brutal, stupid and profane
c).Religious
d).Advanced technological superiority
50.Who calls Blanche a nymphomaniac?
a).Stanley
b).Mitch
c).The doctor
d).Stella
51.What happens in Who is Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
a).There is a verbal articulation of their frustration
b).The old couple are joined by an instructor to make them give-up their pretentions
c).A fantasy
d).Comic release
52.Willy Loman for his family was
a).Burden
b).Nobody
c).A stranger
d).A salesman who had nothing to sell
53.In Things Fall Apart reference to Okonkwo’s age suggests
a).The spirit of the Iagloo system of telling time, though Achebe uses phraseology of western time
b).He was fifty
c).No importance to dating as in the western system
d).In traditional African system time flows
54.What factors are essential in a plot according to Aristotle?
a).A grand opening
b).Balanced in form
c).A beginning, middle, and end
d).All
55.Who said this ‘it is not rhyming and versing that maketh a poet, no more than a long gown maketh an advocate’?
a).Sidney
b).Shelley
c).Mathew Arnold
d).L.Trilling
56.Wordsworth and Coleridge defined poetry as an ‘Overflow of powerful feelings’ but it was tempered by saying that it was
a).Emotion recollected in tranquillity
b).Assertion of emotion
c).Own feelings and personification of nature
d).Rationalization
57. Who called Coleridge the ‘mediator’ between Germany and England?
a).T.S. Eliot
b).Rene Wellek
c).Cleanth Brooks
d).I.A. Richards
58.‘A Defence of Poetry ’ is an enthusiastic rebuttal to his friend’s book ‘The Four Ages of Poetry’ who is this friend?
a).John Keats
b).William Wordsworth
c).Thomas Love Peacock
d).Gosson
59.Keats stated: ‘I mean Negative Capability, that is, when man is capable to be in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact and reason’ where does this occur?
a).Letter to Benjamin Bailey
b).Letter to Shelley
c).Letter to John Taylor
d).Letter to George and Tom Keats
60.A beast with seven heads and ten horns appears in Chapter 13 of ______, in Book of Job.
a).John
b).Colossias
c).Revelation
d).Corinthians
61.Why was Joseph so worried in Act IV, scene III of The School for Scandal for Scandal?
a).He was seriously ill
b).He had lost everything
c).Maria refused him to marry
d).Lady Teazle had not come
62.Which of the three judges of the underworld suggests that Andrea go see Pluto and Proserpine?
a).Eacus
b).Radamanth
c).Minos
d). Charon
63.The total number of Speech sounds that occur in a language can be reduced to a smaller number of units are called _______
a).Phonology
b).Phoneme
c).Morpheme
d).Fricative
64.What is the name of Mr. Knightley’s estate?
a).Hartfield
b). Maple Grove
c).Donwell Abbey
d). Brunswick Square
65.What is the name of the village near Wuthering Heights?
a).Loch Crag
b).Gimmerton
c). Heatherton
d). Purvey
66.Who is Estella’s father?
a).Compeyson
b).Magwitch
c). Joe
d).Jaggers
67.Where is Jude from?
a).London
b).Marygreen
c).Christminster
d). Cardiff
68.Which character is a horse dealer in Middlemarch?
a).Mr. Bambridge
b). Mr. Wrench
c).Borthrop Trumbell
d). Mr. Dagley
69.Who originally asks to go to the lighthouse?
a). Prue
b). Andrew
c).James
d). Nancy
70.What is Mrs. Fellows most afraid of____ in The Power and the Glory?
a).Death
b). Armed rebellion by the peasants
c). Flash floods during the rainy season
d). Her husband's facial hair
71.Which of the following men is not a priest in Cry, The Beloved Country?
a).Msimangu
b). Father Vincent
c).Mr. Carmichael
d). Kumalo
72.Who kills Lord Siward’s son?
a).Duncan
b). Lennox
c).Macbeth
d). Ross
73.Where are Scottish kings crowned in Macbeth?
a).Edinburgh
b).Scone
c).London
d). Dunsinane
74.What shape does Ariel assume at the magical banquet in Act III, scene iii?
a).Harpy
b). Eagle
c). Sea-nymph
d). Hound
75.What do Prospero and Ariel set out as bait for Caliban, Trinculo, and Stephano?
a). a butt of sack
b). the nimble marmoset
c). glistening apparel
d). a thousand twangling instruments
76.After arriving in Athens, why does Antony send Octavia immediately back to Rome?
a).He cannot pretend that he loves her as he loves Cleopatra
b).He wishes her to make peace between himself and Caesar, who has disparaged his name in public
c).Due to political strife in Greece, he fears that Octavia is not safe there
d). He cannot stand Octavia’s bickering
77.What does Cleopatra contribute to Antony’s battle with Caesar?
a). A fleet of sixty ships
b). An army of ten thousand soldiers
c). An amulet to protect Antony in battle
d). A golden dagger
78.What does the Duke grant Lord Angelo in the play’s first scene?
a).His choice of mistress
b). A small fortune
c).Permanent rule over Vienna
d).Temporary rule over Vienna
79.The gentlemen that Lucio meets in the street talk about ___.
a).Angelo’s rule
b).Peace talks with Hungary
c).War with Norway
d). The defunding of schools
80.Who kills Falstaff?
a).Harry
b). Hotspur
c). The Douglas
d).Falstaff does not die in the play
81.The play Henry IV Part 1 is part of a series that deals with the rise of which royal house?
a).Windsor
b).Lancaster
c). Plantagenet
d).Tudor
82.When is the play set?
a).1202-1203
b). 1302-1303
c).1402-1403
d). 1502-1503
83. Which of the following is not lexical morpheme?
Articles
Nouns
Adjectives
Verbs
84. Who has been called as ‘High Priest or Prophet of Postmodernism’?
Jurgen Habermas
Jean Baudrillard
Jean Francois Lyotard
Gloria Jean Watkins
85. The postmodernist works ‘Simulations’ is written by?
Jurgen Habermas
Jean Baudrillard
Jean Francois Lyotard
Gloria Jean Watkins
86. Which of the term is not related to post modernism?
Hyperreal
Simulation
Parody
Fragment
87. Disneyland is perfect model for __________.
Hyperreal
Simulation
Parody
Fragment
88. Who said ‘the modern period begins with Enlightenment’
Jean Francois Lyotard
Jurgen Habermas
Jean Bauldrillard
Immanuel Kant
89. Whose famous definition of Post Modernism is ‘incredulity towards metanarratives’
Jean Francois Lyotard
Jurgen Habermas
Jean Bauldrillard
Immanuel Kant
90. Which of the French writer wrote ‘Simulations’. And it translated in 1983.
Jean Francois Lyotard
Jurgen Habermas
Jean Bauldrillard
Immanuel Kant
91. ‘Thy glorious household- stuffe did me entwine ’. This line appears in ______
Affliction
Pulley
To his coy Mistress
Epithalamion
92. A traveler asked the poet for directions and much of the vision's images were lost. Where was this anonymous but legendary traveler from?
Portsmout
Penzance
Porlock
Puddleby-on-the-Marsh
93. 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.
(I)-A, (II)-B, (III)-C, (IV)-D
(I)- B, (II)- C, (III)-A, (IV)-D
(I)-C, (II)-D, (III)- A, (IV)- B
(I)-D, (II)-A, (III)-B, (IV)-C
94. Who told Sidi that Baroka wants to take her for a wife?
Sadiku
The wrestler
Lakunle
Sidi’s friend
95. How old is Lakunle in the play ‘Lion and the Jewel’?
25
24
23
22
96. Which is not one of the three name according to the play ‘Lion and the Jewel’ ?
Morning
Noon
Night
Day
97. What is Drugger's nickname?
Dab
Nab
Nabby
Dibby-dabby
98. Who is cured of madness by Doctor Subtle?
Dapper
Doll Common
Dame Pliant
Kestrel
99. Which of the following is a nuptial song, praying for the joy and prosperity of the bride and pridegroom ?
Eclogue
Elegy
Epistle
Epithalamion
100. ‘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?
multiple boil in the skin
bright red gem
painful cluster
None of the above
101. Bacon’s style of essays are embedded with Epigrammatic style. Here the word epigram refers to
Witty statements in prose
Parody in prose
Splendid flow of writing in prose
Jumbling verse style in prose
102. Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be _________.
Deputed
Chunked
Chewed
Changed
103. which of the following is not a functional morpheme?
Conjunctions
Prepositions
Articles
Nouns
104. 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.
I, II, VI, VII, VIII, IX, X
IIII, IV, V,
II, III, IV, IX
ALL
105. The old friend of Mr. Hardcastle in ‘She Stoops to Conquer’ was
Sir Charles Marlowe
Diggory
Hastings
Tony Lumpkin
106. Which is the correct match according to works and characters
Jude The Obscure - Mrs. Moore
Great expectations - Molly bloom
To the Light House - Lilly Briscoe
Wuthering Heights - Gerald Crich
107. Which of the following is not a surrealist poet?
Hugh Sykes Dykes
David Gascoyne
Kenneth Allot
C.D. Lewis
108. ‘The just man justices’. What kind of foregrounding do you find in the above lines?
Syntactic
Semantic
Collocation
None of the above
109. ‘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?
The Waste Land
Andrea Del Sarto
Morte D' Arthur
The Scholar Gypsy
110. 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
I and II are correct
II and III are correct
I and IV are correct
III and IV are correct