1. In the following cluster of poems by Shelley, which one has the voyage motif

"Adonais"

The Revolt of Islam

"Ode to the West Wind"

Alastor


2. In Sydney's sonnet sequence, Astrophil and Stella, the final sonnet

brings no resolution

ends in joy

brings a definite resolution

promises another sonnet sequence



3. Who among the following English writers opposed the Licensing Act of 1643

John Milton

Thomas Browne

Andrew Marvell

Abraham Cowley



4. Who claimed "I have not published a single paper that is not written in a spirit of benevolence and with a love of mankind"

Pope

Dryden

Swift

Addison



5. A protagonist writes a letter of confession, but it gets lost under the carpet only to be found on the wedding day. Who is the protagonist

Bathsheba

Lucetta

Sue

Tess



6. In an age of pressurized happiness, we sometimes grow insensitive to subtle joys. The italicised words are an example of

a transferred epithet

a simile

a metaphor

a hyperbaton



7. In Graham Greene's Brighton Rock, Hale is murdered with the help of 'brighton rock' which is

a kind of sugar-candy

a form of grenade

a baton

a kind of rock



8. Which poet among this group does not belong to the 'Auden Generation' group of poets

Stephen Spender

Alun Lewis

Cecil Day Lewis

Louis Macneice



9. In Lord of the Flies which character comes to realize that the is actually the evil inside the boys themselves and it is that which is breaking things up

Jack

Simon

Roger

Ralph



10. Which text exemplifies the anti-Victorian feeling prevalent in the early twentieth century

Code
I. Eminent Victorians
II. Jungle Book
III. Philistine Victorians
IV. The Way of All Flesh
The correct combination according to the code is

II and IV are correct.

I and IV are correct.

III and IV are correct.

II and III are correct.



11. What event allowed mainstream British theatre companies to commission and perform work that was politically, socially and sexually controversial without fear of censorship

The abolition of the Lord Chamberlain's office in 1968.

The illegal performance of works by Howard Brenton and Edward Bond.

The collapse of liberal humanist consensus in the late 1960s.

A combined appeal to the Queen by a group of London dramatists.



12. The Wife of Bath's philosophy of marriage shows that she

is a strong person with keen awareness of her own rights.

tends to say one thing and do the opposite.

cares only for pleasure, not for right and wrong.

trusts thought too much instead of feeling.



13. Which of the following characters is killed in Achebe's Things Fall Apart in conformity with an African tribal custom

Okonkwo

Obierika

Ikemefuna

Nwoye



14. "We will do it, I tell you; we will do it." The repetition of a phrase is

Antiphrasis

Diacope

Aposiopesis

Enumeratio



15. Find the poet who is the odd one in the group

Wallace Stevens

Robert Lowell

Sylvia Plath

Anne Sexton



16. Which one of the following characters in Shakespeare's Tempest is associated with the Earth

Ferdinand

Ariel

Caliban

Prospero



17. In the Advancement of Learning Bacon attempted a preliminary survey of the entire field of learning, by analyzing the principal obstacles to its advancement. Identify from among the following choices the one that he did not mention as an obstacle

Rhetoric

Medieval scholasticism

Inductive method

Pseudo sciences



18. Who among this group of young male characters in Jane Austen's novels is not sent to the University for education

Tom Bertram

John Thorpe

James Morland

Henry Tilney



19. Charles Dickens caricatured utilitarian thinking with telling directness in his portrayal of

Paul Dombey

Thomas Gradgrind

Philip Pirrip

Harold Skimpole



20. Which one of the following playwrights will not be covered under the category term 'Theatre of the Absurd'

Jean Genet

Jean Giraudoux

Samuel Beckett

Eugene Ionesco



21. The following are two lists of lines from poems and their titles. Match them

List I List II
(Lines from poems) (Titles of poems)
I. "The squat pen rests as snug as a gun." 1. "Church Going"
II. "A serious ­house on serious earth it is." 2. "Hawk Roosting"
III. "Time held me green and dying." 3. "Digging"
IV. "I hold creation in my foot." 4. "Fern Hill"
Which is the correct combination according to the above code
Code
I II III IV
4 1 2 3

2 3 4 1

1 2 3 4

3 1 4 2


22. is the use of words whose pronunciation imitates the sound the word describes.

Alliteration

Onomatopoeia

Oxymoron

Enthymeme

23. Arrange the following books in the order in which they appeared. Use the code given below
I. The Dictionary of the English Language
II. The History of Rasselas
III. The Vanity of Human Wishes
IV. Lives of the English Poets
Which is the correct combination according to the above code
Code

III, II, IV

II, III, IV

IV, III, II, I

II, III, IV


24. Arrange the following forms in the order in which they appeared. Use the code given below
I. commedia dell'arte
II. confessional poetry
III. agitprop
IV. picaresque novel
The correct combination is
Code

IV, II, III

IV, III, II

II, IV, III

III, IV, II


25. Which of the following poems deals with neighbourly relations

"Birches"

"Home Burial"

"Mending Wall"

"Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening"


26. The following are two lists of writers and their works. Match them
List I List II
(Writers) (Works)
I. Katherine Susannah Prichard 1. Barungin
II. Colin Johnson 2. My Place
III. Sally Morgan 3. Wild Cat Falling
IV. Jack Davis 4. Coonardoo
Which is the correct combination according to the above code
Code
I II III IV
3 2 1 4

4 3 2 1

2 1 4 3

1 4 3 2

27. How does John Stuart Mill define 'happiness'

Doing what one wants to do

Leading a fulfilling life

Pleasure and the absence of pain

Virtuous activity



28. "Had we but world enough, and time, This coyness, lady, were no crime … But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near." Andrew Marvell in these lines emphasizes the theme of

love

love and transience

love and political passion

love and flattery


29. The following are two lists of dramatists and their plays. Match them
List I List II
(Dramatists) (Plays)
I. George Etheredge 1. The Country Wife
II. William Wycherley 2. The Man of Mode
III. John Vanbrugh 3. The Double Dealer
IV. William Congreve 4. The Provok'd Wife
The correct combination is
Code
I II III IV
2 3 4 1

3 2 1 4

4 3 2 1

2 1 4 3


30. The following are two lists of writers and their works. Match them
List I List II
(Writers) (Works)
I. Uma Parameswaran 1. Drums of My Flesh
II. Bharati Mukherjee 2. Trishanku
III. Michael Ondaatje 3. Jasmine
IV. Cyril Dabydeen 4. Anil's Ghost
Which is the correct combination according to the above code
Code
I II III IV
1 3 2 4

3 4 1 2

2 3 4 1

4 1 3 2

31. Dryden's dramatization of Paradise Lost is entitled

All for Love

The State of Innocence

Annus Mirabilis

Religio Medici



32. Two pioneering feminist tracts, Kate Millet's Sexual Politics and Germaine Greer's The Female Eunuch were published in

1969

1968

1970

1967



33. Who defined poetry as 'the best words in the best order'

Wordsworth

Coleridge

Keats

Shelley



34. What did Thomas Carlyle mean by "Close thy Byron; open thy Goethe"

Britain's pre-eminence as a global power will depend on mastery of foreign languages.

Abandon the introspection of the Romantics and turn to the higher moral purpose found in Goethe.

Even a foreign author is better than a home-grown scoundrel.

Leave England and emigrate to Germany.


35. Conrad's Heart of Darkness presents two conflicting discourses present in his own culture. Identify the two discourses from the following

Modernism and anti-colonialism

Modernism and structuralism

Anti-colonialism and Eurocentricism

Material culturalism and tribalism



36. Who among the following poets defined free verse as playing tennis without a net

Robert Frost

Ezra Pound

Philip Larkin

William Carlos Williams



37. Christopher Marlowe wrote all the following plays except

Tamburlaine the Great

The Jew of Malta

Richard III

Edward II

38. According to Barthes, a text which draws attention to its artifice, to the ways in which it is structured, is called

writerly text

aesthetic text

readerly text

formal text



39. Which of the following descriptions is not applicable to Pope's The Rape of the Lock

A mock heroic poem

Written in heroic couplets

Pope's tribute to Queen Anne

Produced in two versions, consisting of 2 and 5 cantos


40. From the following list, choose the work which is not written by E.M. Forster

Where Angels Fear to Tread

Maurice

A Room of One's Own

The Longest Journey



41. The 'Vulgate Bible' was prepared to make the Bible available to

the ecclesiastics

the elite class

the courtiers

the common men



42. Literary works such as Charles Dickens's David Copperfield, Samuel Butler's The Way of All Flesh and James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man provide examples of which following novelistic form

Nouveau roman or new novel

Epistolary novel

Bildugsroman

Historical novel



43. "I fall upon the thorns of life I bleed expresses a pathetic cry of a wounded heart from "Ode to the West Wind" by Shelley. The poem consists of

fourteen line terza rima stanzas

four-lined stanza characterized by swift action

a particular rhyme scheme in a villanelle

an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed one



44. In the Fall of Hyperion Keats's Muse figure is

Thea

Moneta

Lamia

Calliope



45. What literary work best captures a sense of the political turmoil particularly regarding the issue of religion just after the Restoration

Gay's Beggar's Opera

Butler's Hudibras

Pope's Dunciad

(D)Dryden's Absalom and Achitophel



46. Who among the Victorian authors has described himself/herself as an agnostic

Matthew Arnold

Charles Dickens

George Eliot

Thomas Hardy



47. Preface to Frantz Fanon's The Wretched of the Earth was written by

Aime Cesaire

Ania Loomba

Jean Paul Sartre

Edward Said



48. Who among the following theorists formulated the concept of the utile dulci, profit combined with delight

Plato

Aristotle

Horace

Longinus



49. Out of the four humours of the body, the Jacobeans thought of themselves as specially prone to

choler

blood

phlegm

melancholy



50. Who among the following Romantic poets ended his life, lauded and respected as 'The Sage of Highgate'

William Blake

S.T. Coleridge

P.B. Shelley

William Wordsworth