1 Who, among the following, advanced the theory that the mind is a tabula rasa at birth, and acquires all ideas by experience

John Locke

John Wesley

Isaac Watts

Denis Diderot

2 Which of the following authors wrote Studies in the History of the Renaissance

Walter Pater

Oscar Wilde

Thomas Carlyle

John Ruskin

3 Whom does Harriet Smith finally marry in one of Jane Austen's novels

Knightley

Darcy

Collins

Mr. Martin

4 A poet once referred to an old man as "A tattered coat upon a stick". That is an example of

Metonymy

Sarcasm

Simile

Metaphor

5 Which of these is NOT a pastoral elegy

Lycidas

In Memoriam

Thyrsis

Adonais

6 In Beckett's Waiting for Godot the characters often use dislocated, repetitious and cliched speech primarily to

illustrate the essentially illogical, purposeless nature of the human condition

re-create the workings of the subconscious

mock the exaggerated dignity and wisdom of modern, self-professed intellectuals

reinforce the comic action of farcical plots

7 Which of the following sixteenth-century poets was NOT a courtier

George Puttenham

Philip Sidney

Walter Raleigh

Thomas Wyatt

8 Patrick White published two novels in the 1950s giving the eras of pioneering and exploration in Australian history an epic, ironic and psychological dimension. The novels are
A Fringe of Leaves
The Tree of Man
Voss
The Aunt's Story
The right combination according to the code is

and

and

and

and

9 In which of the following works did Bakhtin propose his widely cited concept of the 'Carnivalesque'

"Discourse in the novel"

Dialogic Imagination

Rabelais and his world

"Forms of Time and of the Chronotope in the Novel"

10 Match the columns
(Author) (Text)
Sebastian Faulks Amsterdam
Peter Ackroyd Changing Places
Ian McEwan Hawksmoor
David Lodge Birdsong

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11 In New Criticism, the key term 'tension' is associated with

Cleanth Brooks

John Crow Ransom

Austin Warren

Allen Tate

12 While compiling what sort of book did Samuel Richardson conceive of the idea for his Pamela or Virtue Rewarded

an account of the plague in London

an instruction manual for manners

a book of devotion

a book of model letters

13 Who among the war Poets gained notoriety in 1917, when disenchanted with the way the war was being conducted he drafted his letter of "wilful defiance of the military authority" which captured attention in the House of Commons, and was forcibly admitted to the war hospital at Craiglockhart, primarily to avoid his being court-martialled

Rupert Brooke

Siegfried Sassoon

Wilfred Owen

Isaac Rosenberg

14 If you cannot understand an argument and remark, "It's Greek to me",

John Milton

Samuel Johnson

William Shakespeare

John Donne you are quoting

15 Which of the following works did Walter Scott compile

The Lay of the Last Minstrel

Marmion

Ivanhoe

The Minstrelsy of Scottish Border

16 Which of the following is NOT written by Wole Soyinka

Home and Exile

Kongi's Harvest

The interpreters

The Swamp Dwellers

17 In the Defense of Poesy Sidney says " Now as in geometry the oblique must be known as well as right and in arithmetic, the odd as well as the even, so in the actions of our life who seeth not the filthiness of evil wanteth a great foil to perceive the beauty of virtue". Which of the following forms of poesy offers a foil that helps us perceive the beauty of virtue

Pastorals

Parody

Comedy

Tragedy

18 John Dryden described a major English poet as "a rough diamond, and must first be polished ere he shines ....." Identify him

Geoffrey Chaucer

John Gower

George Herbert

Robert Herrick

19 In a remarkably proleptic insight, a critic wrote the following,anticipating Benedict Anderson's definition of the nation as "an imagined political community":
"Most novels are in some sense knowable communities. It is part of a traditional method ­an underlying stance and approach that a novelist offers to show people and their relationships in essentially knowable and communicable ways".
Name the critic and the reference

Van Wyck Brooks, The writer in America

Raymond Williams, The country and the city

Joseph Wood Krutch, The Modern Temper

T.S. Eliot, Notes Towards a Definition of culture

20 "Fair is my love, and cruel as she's fair; Her brow-shades frown, although her eyes are sunny".
The above lines are characterized by

circumlocution

antithesis

anticlimax

bathos

21 In his "Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot" Pope tells us that as a poet he had benefited from "This saving counsel, 'keep your piece nine years'" which enjoins on writer's patience and great care before they rush to print. Whose "counsel" is Pope referring to

Longinus's in On the Sublime

Horace's in Ars Poetica

Quintilian's Institutio Oratoria

Aristotle's Poetics

22 An English architect and stage-designer -Beginning 1605, joined Jacobean court to design masques -contributed significantly to the spectacular theatre which succeeded the commonwealth after his death the first designer to use revolving screens to indicate scene-changes on the English stage.
Identify this artist/designer.

Henry Irving

Inigo Jones

Henry Arthur Jones

William Inge

23 may be defined as any departure from the rules of pronunciation or diction, for the sake of rhyme or metre, or an unjustifiable departure from fact.

Poetic license

Poetic justice

Poetic deviance

Poetic diction

24 That Humanities and the sciences were in fact "two cultures" was suggested by

Aldous Huxley in his oxford lectures on poetry

W.H. Anden in his oxford lectures on poetry

F.R. Leavis in his book, The Great Tradition

C.P. Snow in his Rede lecture .

25 Chaueer satirizes the Monk because the Monk

is too concerned with courtesy and matters of etiquette

cheats the poor peasants by selling them false religious relics

courts favour of wealthy people but spends no time with poor people

spends too much time hunting and too little time on religious duty

26 Divided into three sections this ground-breaking work published in 1953 uses as the frame of the spiritual and moral awakening of a fourteen-year-old during a Saturday night service in a Harlem church. Identify the work.

Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Are Watching God

James Baldwin's Go Tell it on the Mountain

Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon

Richard Wright's Native Son

27 Chartism, a political movement that took its name from the People's Charter had six points. Identify the one point on the following list that was NOT Chartist
universal manhood sufferage
equal electoral districts
comprehensive insurance scheme for labour
vote by secret ballot
payment of MPs
no property qualifications for MPs
Annual parliaments
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28 These beauteous forms,
Through a long absence, have been to me
As is a landscape to a blind man's eye... ("Tintern Abbey Lines")
Which of the following rhetorical terms best suits these lines

Apostrophe

Litotes

Hyperbole

Catachresis

29 The 'monster' in Frankenstein is NOT responsible for the death of

Clerval

Justine

Elizabeth

Alphonse Frankenstein

30 Which of the following plays of William Shakespeare is NOT directly referred to in T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land

Hamlet

King Lear

Coriolanus

The Tempest

31 Identify the group below which is known as the "Sons of Ben".

Noel Coward, E.G. Craig, William Macready, Matheson, Lang

John Dryden, the Earl of Rochester, Samuel Butler

William Cartwright, Richard Corbett, Thomas Randolph

William Holman Hunt, John E. Millais, D.G. Rossetti, William Morris

32 Christopher Marlowe was one of the first major writers to affirm what can be identified as a clearly homosexual sensibility. Which drama of his deals with it

Edward II

The Jew of Malta

Doctor Faustus

Dido, Queen of Carthage

33 "When true silence falls we are still left with echo but are nearer nakedness. looking at speech is to say that it is a constant stratagem to cover nakedness". Identify the playwright who underlines the significance of silence thus.

Samuel Beckett

Harold Pinter

Luigi Pirandello

Joe Orton One way of

34 The determining feature of syllabic verse is neither nor but the number of syllables in a line.

number, numbers

sounds, silences

stress, quantity

gists, piths

35 In Robert Browning's dramatic monologue, which painter does Andrea del Sarto compare himself to What does he find lacking in his own work in comparison

Fra Lippo Lippi humour

Raphael Soul

Leonardo da Vinci Verisimilitude

Botticelli liveliness

36 In which of the following does Robert Southey detail the Indian superstitions as an idolatry to be suppressed by a civilizing protestant form of colonialism

"Thalaba"

The Curse of Kehama

"Pitying the wolves"

Country Horrors

37 The following is the classic ending of a celebrated novella in English
"I kept on creeping just the same, but I looked at him over my shoulder. got out at said "in spite of you and Jane. And I've pulled off most of the papers, so you can't put me back ."
Now why should that man have fainted But he did, and right across my path by the wall, so that I had to creep over him every time

Yellow Woman (Leslie Mormon Silko)

The Yellow Wallpaper (Charlotte P.Gilman)

Johny Panic and the Bible of Dreams (Sylvia Plalth)

Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been (Joyce C. Oates)

38 Harriet B. Stowe had wanted to write a work based on the life of an Afro-American writer which was later published as

Uncle Tom's Cabin

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

Cry, The Beloved Country

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

39 Samuel Johnson's "Dissertation upon Poetry" is part of which of his following works

the final section of his preface to Shakespeare

a chapter of his novel Rasselas

the epilogue of his Lives of Poets

one of his Rambler essays

40 A new series called "New Accents" was launched by Methuen in 1977. The first title to be published in the series was

Deconstruction Theory and Practice

Formalism and Marxism

Structuralism and Semiotics

Making and Difference Feminist Literary criticism

41 "Humble and rustic life was generally chosen, because, in that condition, the essential passions of the heart find a better soil in which they can attain their maturity, are less under restraint, and speak a plainer and more emphatic language... The language, too, of these men has been adopted... because such men hourly communicate with the best objects from which the best part of language is originally derived". Which of the following groups of the author's poems in the Lyrical Ballads (1800) contradict this statement in the "Preface to the Lyrical Ballads", as pointed out by S.T.Coleridge

"Ode on the Intimations of Immortality", Prelude.

The Tasks, Seasons.

"Michael", "Ruth", "The Brothers".

"Elegy Written in a country churchyard", "Ode on the Popular Superstitions of the Highlands".

42 A remarkable novelist of the English Modernist phase who wrote a short book on what the novel is (and why it matters) remarked, "Oh dear, yes the novel tells a story". Identify the novelist

Virginia Woolf

James Joyce

E.M. Forster

D.H. Lawrence

43 What is the name of the angel, who, of those who owed allegeance to Satan, dared to protest against his impious doctrine and left his company to return to God (Paradise Lost, Book

Michael

Abdiel

Uriel

Gabriel

44 Which of the following is NOT a school associated with Romantic period in English literature

The Cockney School

The Fireside School

The Lake School

The Satanic School

45 The idea of "new ethnicities" in post-war Britain was advanced by

Donald Hall

Stuart Hall

Paul Gilroy

Hanif Kureishi

46 Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse begins in a piece of dialogue
"Yes, of course, if it's fine tomorrow", said Mrs. Ramsay. "But you'll have to be up with lark", she added.
Present among the listeners of her remark is

her father

her nephew

her son

her driver

47 Match the phrase with character
"motiveless malignity" Macbeth
"Reason in Madness" Hamlet
"Supp'd full of horrors" Lear
"To be, or not to be" Iago

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48 In Tristram Shandy the narrator's presentation of his life and opinions is

linear

digressive

chronological

rounded

49 The famous sonnet of John Milton beginning "When I consider how my light is spent..." ends with

Before me stares a wolfish eye, Behind me creeps a groan or sigh

They also serve who only stand and wait

And which is more you'll be a Man, my son

And bless him for the sake of him that's gone

50 Her vision was of several caves. She saw herself in one, and she was also outside it, watching its entrance, for Aziz to pass in. She failed to locate him. It was the doubt that had often visited her, but solid and attractive, like the hills. "I am not speech was more difficult than vision. "I am not quite sure".
The above extract from A Passage to India is about Adela's cave experience. Who is questioning Adela

Mrs. Moore

Mr. McBryde

Fielding

Ronney Heaslop