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‘The capital city of Scotland in Macbeth was
known as
(2) Alaska
(@) Auburn
(3) Scone
(4) Sicily
“Fits of dreaminess back to reality” is from
Wordsworth’s
(1) ‘The Immortality Ode’
(2) “The Tintern Abbey’
(3) “The Prelude’
(4) ‘Guilt and Sorrow’
‘The phrase ‘Negative Capability’ is associated
with
() TS. Eliot
(2) Matthew Arnold
(3) John Keats
(4) PB. Shelley
‘The title ‘Shakespeare of the English Novel’
goes with
()__D.H. Lawrence
(2) Thomas Hardy
ey
(4) George Eliot
Charles Dickens
“The second part of the sentence contrasts
with the first’ is the case with
(1) Paradox
(2) Anti-thesis
(3) Hyperbole
(4) Confliet
(3)
6.
9.
10.
‘The concept of ‘store house of images’ is
known with a special term called
(1) Gyre
(2) The High Throne
(3) Faleon
(4) Spiritus Mundi
History of Rome dealing with the struggle of
Monarchy and Republicanism is found in
() Hamlet
(2) Macbeth
(3) Romeo and Juliet
(4) Julius Caesar
Keats’ sonnets appeared in the journal
() The Examiner
(2) The Kgoist
(3) The English Review
(A) The Criterion
According to Wordsworth, the internal beauty
of Nature symbolizes
(1) gladness
(2) devotion
(3) love :
(4) attraction
Nataraj is a character in R.K. Narayan's
novel
(1) The Vendor of Sweets
(2) My Days
(8) My Dateless Diary
(4) ‘The Man Eater of Malgudi1/801 (4)
4.
12.
13,
14.
15.
‘The first Freudian novel in English is 16.
(1) Great Expectations
(2) Romolo
(3) St. Mawr
(4) Sons and Lovers
‘The figure Umbriel figures in of
‘The Rape of the Lock
17.
(1) Canto T
(2) Canto II
(3) Canto 111
(4) Canto IV
One of the great Indian English writers Mulk
Raj Anand died in the year
(a) 2004
18.
(2) 2003
(3) 2005
(4) 2002
‘The Great Plague in London broke out in
a) 1666
(2) 1665
(3) 1664
(4) 1667 18.
Hecate with reference to Shakespeare's
Macbeth is the name of the goddess of
(2) moon
(2) sun
(3) earth
(4) air
fe
‘The labyrinth of passion is found in the novel’
(1) The Big Heart
(2) Pride and Prejudice
(3) The Man Kater of Malgudi
(4) Sons and Lovers
‘The phenomenon of ‘Resurrection’ felt by the
character in The Tale of Two Cities is
() Charles Damay
(2) Dr, Manette
(3) Lucie
(4) Sydney Carton
Certain rudimentary comedy for short
entertainment in between a play is
understood to be
(2) Opera
(2) Irony
(3) Burlesque
(4) Interlude
“Shakespeare's tragedy scems to be skill and
his comedy instinct” was expressed by
(1) Dr. Johnson
(2) Ben Jonson
(3) Christopher Marlowe
(4) TS. EliotLu/01
27.
28.
(6)
The Round able, Table Talk, The Plain |31.
Speaker are but volumes of essays of
(1) William Hazlitt
(2) Leigh Hunt
(3) William Cobbett
(4) Charles Lamb
Henchard sells his wife just for _____ in
‘The Mayor of Casterbridge 30,
(1) 5 guineas
(2) 85 guineas
(8) 500 guineas
(4) 50 guineas
‘The one who scissors the locks of Belinda in
‘The Rape of the Lock is had
(Ariel
2) Clarissa
(3) Lord Peter
(4) Betty
Dr. Manette was imprisoned in the cell at
34.
___ in A Tale of Two Cities.
(1) 420, The Rambler
(2) 10, The Dungeon
(3) Blackwell's Island
(4) 105, North Tower
“Think you 1 am no stronger than my sex,
Being so father’d and so husband’d ?”
Who uttered these words in Julius Caesar?
(2) Brutus and Portia
(2) Caesar and Calpurnia
Cassius and Pindarus
@)
(4) None of these pairs
‘The novel, Pride and Prejudice, was
published in
q) isi
(2) 1812 i
(3) 1813
(4) 1814
Saint Mary Woolworth is a reference in The
Waste Land that signifies
(1) a pious priest
(2) church
(8) Philomela
4)
fire-place
“Some natural tears they dropped, but wiped
‘them soon,” is from
(1) Paradise Lost
(2) The Mayor of Casterbridge
(3) The Big Heart
(4) The Man Eater of MalgudiLW/801
20.
21.
22,
“A single man of large fortune : four of five
thousand a year! What a fine thing for our
girls.” is in
(1) Sense and Sensibility
(2) Pride and Prejudice
@) Emma
@
Persuasion
X-: “I do not like your faults.”
Y : “A friendly eye could never see such
faults.”
‘The above conversation is from a play by
Shakespeare. Identify it.
(1) Hamlet
(2) King Lear
(3) Julius Caesar
(4) Macbeth
“Judge me on the basis of your feelings, and
be not carried away by the views of critics”
was said by
(1) William Wordsworth
(2) Matthew Arnold
(3) Sir Philip Sidney
(A) Coleridge
(5)
23,
24.
Cl
“Poetry is indeed something divine. It is at
once the centre and circumference of
knowledge; it is that which comprehends all
science and that to which all science must. be
referred. It is at the same time the root and
the blossom of all other systems of thought.”
is an inspired eulogy on poetry by
a
@)
@
@
Wordsworth
TS. Eliot
P.B. Shelley
Dr. Johnson
George Eliot, a Victorian novelist, is
associated with the novel
(1) Candida
(2) Mrs. Dalloway
(3) Hard Times
(4) The Mill on the Floss
“Silence is the perfectest herald of joy. I wax
hut little happy if I could say how much,
Lady ... us you are mine, I am yours. I give
away myself for you and dote upon the
exchange.” was said by
(1) Dr. Johnson
(2) William Shakespeare
(3) Ben Jonson
(4) Christopher Marlowe
“All access was thronge
And porches wide .... with the kiss of rustling
wings.” is a poetic package from the resource
called
(1) Paradise Lost
(2) Comus
(3) Lycidas
(4) Ode on the Morning of Christ's Nativity1/801
35.
36.
37.
38.
“Unmixed with baser matter. Yes, by heaven!
, most pernicious woman!” These words were
uttered by
(1) Ferdinand
(2) Hamlet
(3) Caesar
(4) Anantha
“O Judgement! Thou art fled to brutish
beasts,
And men have lost their reason.”
‘The above lines are extracted from
(1) Julius Caesar
(2) King Lear
(3) The Tempest
(A) Macbeth
Dickens lashes out at the insolence of office,
of law’s delay and the corruption in the Court
of Chancery, In which of his works do we
perceive this truth ?
a
@
(3)
Little Dorrit
Bleak House
Nicholas Nickleby
(4) The Old Curiosity Shop
“Stars, hide your fires :
Let not light see my black and deep desires.”
‘The character that cries to itself in Macbeth is
(Malcolm
(2) Macbeth
(3) Banquo
(4) Macduff
m
39.
40.
41.
42.
c
‘The catastrophic death of Lucetta in The
Mayor of Casterbridge was due to
(1) Burning of Bonfires
(2) Skimmity Ride
(3) Turning Astray
(4) Morphine
“The rarer action is
In virtue than in vengeance.”
‘The above lines can be applied to in
‘The Tempest.
ay
@
@)
Prospero
Miranda
‘The Ariel
(4) Gonzalo
“And haply the Queen-Moon is on her throne,
Cluster’d around by all her starry Fays.”
are the lines from John Keats’
(1) ‘Ode on a Grecian Urn’
(2) ‘Ode to a Nightingale’
(8) ‘Ode to Payche’
(4) ‘Ode to Fancy’
“The grandeur of language befits the
grandeur of theme’ is a criticism against
Wordsworth's
(1) ‘The Tintern Abbey’
(2) ‘The Prelude’
(3) ‘The Immortality Ode!
(4) ‘Ode to Duty’Luo1
43.
‘Spring is regarded as the sister of Autumn’
can be felt with regard to the poetry of
(1) John Keats
(2) William Wordsworth
(3) 8.7. Coleridge
(4) PB. Shelley
“Let us go then, you and I
When the evening is spread out against the
sky
Like a patient etherized upon a table.”
‘The image in the above metaphysical conceit
isa brain wave of
(1) John Donne
(2) George Herbert
(3) TS. Eliot
(4) Henry Vaughan
“Poets are unacknowledged legislators of the
world” is a statement from
(2) Alexander Pope
(2) Matthew Arnold
(3) P.B, Shelley
(4) John Dryden
‘The poet who is known as ‘Grand Old Man of
English Letters’ is
a
@
John Keats
S.T. Coleridge
(3) William Wordsworth
(4) John Milton
(8)
\47.
48.
\49.
50.
51.
Cc
Milton's Paradise Lost has its roots in one of
the following works. Identify it
@) Grotimus
(2) Adamus Exsul
(3) iad
(4) Odyssey
“Be thou familiar, but by no means vulgar” is,
a dialogue of ____ in Hamlet.
(1) Polonius
(2) Laertus
(3) Claudius
(4) Hamlet
‘TS. Eliot worked as Assistant Editor for
__ during 1917 - 1919.
(1) The Criterion
(2)
@)
4)
The Athenaeum
The Egoist
‘The Spectator
‘The dog driven cart referred to in The Waste
Land, 1922 was termed as
(2) hackney
(2) impala
(8) carriage
(4) sledge
One of the following works does not belong to
John Keats. Identify it.
(1) Lines on Seeing a Lock of Milton’s Hair
(2) To Neptune
(3) Epithalamion
(4) Hymn to Apollo1/801
53.
X = “Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this
blood ?”
Y : “Yes... A little water clears us of this
deed.
‘The conversation is from
(1) Hamlet
(2) Romeo and Juliet
(3) Coriolanus
(4) Macbeth
The Man Eater of Malgudi is considered to
be
(1) Anti-climax
(2) Anti-thesis
(3) Anti-play
(4) Dramatic Irony
“She seemed to be wilting like a pale white
motia flower under the stress of the
afternoon heat and her illness” is a quote
from Anand’s
@
@
@)
a
Coolie
Two Leaves and a Bud
Untouchable
The Big Heart
A subsidiary action in a play coinciding with
the main action is called
a
@
@
“
Subplot.
Subtext
Comic relief
Mousetrap
9)
56.
57.
58.
CI
A short statement on the value system in a
work of ait and literature is known as
() Plot
(2) Principle of three unities
(3) Theme
(4) Stream of consciousness
‘The unfinished novel of Charles Dickens was,
(1) Our Mutual Friend
(2)
@)
a)
Hard Times
The Mystery of Edwin Drood
Little Dorrit
A brooding paralysis of action is one of the
characteristics of the poetry of
a
@)
@)
“)
John Dryden
8.7. Coleridge
Matthew Arnold
Alexander Pope
Byron was born in the year
q) 1789
(2) 1798
(3) 1802
(4) 1788
Belief in the organic unity of a literary
composition, especially a poem was
advocated by
a
@
oo)
)
Coleridge
Dryden
Arnold
PopeLu/801
61.
2.
“My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness
pains.” Keats felt so ‘Ode to
Nightingale’ because of
in his
(2) overflowing joy
(2) nightingale was no more
(3) the sign of his death
(4) no response from the bird
Name the spy in A Tale of Two Cities.
(Gaspard
(2) Charles Damay
(3) Barsad
(4) Gabrielle
‘The heart that is referred to in the novel The
Big Heart is
(2) Janaki's
(2) Satyapal’s
(3) Ananta's
(4) Ralia’s
Henchard meets Susan in the later part of
his life at a place called
(1) The Chapel
(2) The Cathedral
(8) The Ring
(4) Warwickshire
(10)
65.
66.
67.
68.
c
“Shakespeare's characters are understood
differently by different persons, when read.”
This is the criticism of
(1) Coleridge
(2) Johnson
(3) William Hazlitt
(4) William Richardson
‘The longest Act in the play Julius Caesar is,
(1) Act 1
(2) Act I
(3) Act IIT
(4) Act IV
Milton’s anthropomorphic image of the deity
is derived from
(1) Biblical tradition
(2) Thematic concerns
(3) Transcendentalism
(4) Catharsis
“If Pope be not poet, where is poetry to be
found”
It is the comment made by
(1) Dr. Johnson
(2) Pope himself
(8), Wordsworth
(4) Coleridge1/801
70.
n.
2.
A metaphysical doctrine having sufficient
foundation in humanity is the sole soul of
(1) ‘The Prelude?
(2) “The Tintern Abbey’
(3) ‘Ruth’
(4) ‘The Immortality Ode’
“Keats had flint and iron in him.” Who
remarked thus ?
(1) Matthew Arnold
@) TS. Eliot
(8) Coleridge
(4) Shelley
“Strange panacea in a crystal bowl” was said
by
(2) P.B. Shelley
(2) John Keats
(3) TS. Eliot
(4) Wordsworth
‘The letters T.S. in the name of T.S. Eliot
represent,
(2) Thomas Stearns
(2) Timothy Simpson
(3) Tiresiae Solemn
(4) Tristram Shandy
a)
73.
74,
75.
76.
77.
c
‘The endless battle between sophistication and
coarseness is seen between the parents of
(1) DH. Lawrence
(2) Jane Austen
(3) Dr. Johnson
(4) P.B. Shelley
Lennox figures as a character in
Shakespeare's
a)
(2)
Hamlet
King Lear
(8) Julius Caesar
(4) Macbeth
Yorick in the play Hamlet is a
(court jester
(2) courtier
(3) chieftain
(4) minister
‘The Parley Scene in Julius Caesar takes
place at a place known as
(Philippi
@) Sparta
(3) Ithaca
(A) Venice
The Epilogue of The Tempest consists of
Shakespeare’
a
@
(8) confession
@)
entreaty
declaration
apologyLw/s01 (12)
78. ‘The first ode was written by 82.
(1) Horace
(2) Keats
(3) Spenser
(4) Pindar
83.
79. “Both of her beauty and submissive charms
81.
‘Smiled-with superior love”
‘The above lines have the uniqueness of
(1) Dryden
(2) Pope
(3) Spenser
84.
(4) Milton
Critics called him a ‘cockney poet”. Who is it
among the following ?
() Homer
@) TS. Bliot as.
(3) Keats
(4) Shelley
“Follies and nonsense, whims and
inconsistencies, do divert me” indicate
Austen's
(4) flashback
(2) opinion towards her Age
(3) firm belief
(4) attitudinal tendency
William Butler Yeat's life period is.
(1) 1889 ~ 1893
(2) 1865-1939
(3) 1801-1854
(4) 1989 - 1965
FR. Leavis feels as if society had lost
‘intelligence, memory and moral purpose’
while judging
(1) Sons and Lovers
(2) The Duchess of Malfi
(8) The Man Eater of Malgudi
(4) Pride and Prejudice
“The readiness is all” is a comment pregnant
with high voltage thought in
(1) Merry Wives of Windsor
(2) All Is Well That Ends Well
(3) Pericles
(4) Hamlet
“Liberty! Freedom! Tyranny is dead!" is the
ery of Ginna, a character in
(X) Richard 17
(2) Othello
(3) Antony and Cleopatra
(4) Julius Caesar
The poem that is concluded with an address
to the sister from her brother is
(1) ‘French Revolution’
(2) ‘Toa Skylark’
(3) ‘Tintern Abbey’
(4) ‘The Immortality Ode’1/801
87.
88.
Sin and Death are allegorical figures that
appear in
a
@
@)
4)
Paradise Lost I
Paradise Lost I
Paradise Lost XII
Paradise Lost V
“If you can look into the seeds of time,
‘And say which grain will grow and which will
not
Speak then to...”
"The above lines make an example of
@) Style
@
@
w
Epiphany
Imagery
Connotation
“True wit is nature to advantage dressed,
What oft was thought, but never so well
expressed.”
‘This beauty of expression is expected of
(2) John Dryden
@
@
w
William Shakespeare
Mary Shelley
Alexander Pope
“The things which I have seen I now can see
no more” is extracted from
(2) ‘Tintern Abbey"
(2) ‘The Recluse’
@)
@
“The Immortality Ode"
"The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock’
(13)
jo.
95.
c
‘The unberoic-hero in the novel, The Man
Eater of Malgudi, is
() Nataraj
2) Vasu, MA
(3) Shastri
(4) Kumar
According to Aristotle, Catharsis means
(1) purification
(2) a feeling of pity
(3) inexpressible fear
(4) ardent love
‘A quibble was to him the fatal Cleoptra for
which he lost the world, and was content to
lose it’ was the criticism against
(1) Matthew Arnold
@)
eo)
@)
Ben Jonson
‘TS. Eliot
William Shakespeare
Maintaining an aesthetic distance of being in
uncertainties, mysteries, doubts without any
irritable reaching after fact and reason is
called
(1) objective co-relative
(2) negative capability
(3) willing suspension of disbelief
(4) dissociation of sensibility
‘Touchstone method is,
(1) a valid criterion for the assessment of
poetry
(2) an estimation of the excellence of poetry
(3) a separate discourse with the entire
universe of discourses
(4) the expression that predominates over
action1/801
96.
97.
98.
99.
100.
‘Life is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound
and fury, signifying nothing’ is an extract of
(D The Tempest
(2) Hamlet
(3) Romeo and Juliet
(4) Macbeth
‘The view ‘Better to reign in Hell than serve
in Heaven’ was expressed by
(1) Belial
(2) Chemos
(3) Mammon
(4) Satan
Which 20" century poet alluded to the month
of April in one of his poems ?
(1) WH, Auden
(2) Spenser
(3) WB. Yates
(4) TS. Bliot
“The person the story is about’ is known as
(1) Theme
(2) Protagonist
(3) Flat Character
(4) Round Character
Name the meter used in Paradise Lost.
(1) Pentameter of blank verse
(2) Hexameter of Aeneid
(3) Alexandrine
(4) None of these
(14)
101.
102.
103.
104.
Which play by Shakespeare possesses an
element of colonialism ?
(1). King Lear
(2) Cymbeline
@)
a)
‘The Tempest
Richard IIT
‘A sigh for the vanished glory of the past? and
‘diagnosis of the spiritual distemper of the
age’ are the statements of criticism on T.S.
Eliot's
(1) Portrait of a Lady
(2) The Waste Land
(3) Journey of the Magi
(4) Four Quartets
“Spare me the strength to leave you
Now you are dead.
T must go, but my soul lies helpless
Beside your bed.”
‘The dialogue goes in apposition of
(1) Bronte's Wuthering Heights
(2) D.H. Lawrence's Sons and Lovers
(3) Hardy's The Mayor of Casterbridge
(4) Shakespeare's Julius Caesar
‘The word ‘knell’ that occurs in Macbeth
refers to
(1) death-bell
(2) siren's song
(3) blood-dimmed dagger
(4) whisperLuyeo1
105.
106.
107.
108.
109.
“No, no, the drink —O my dear Hamlet ~The
drink, the drink ! I'm poisoned «
‘These words are uttered by
(1) King Claudius
(2) Gertrude
(3) Ophelia
(4) Polonius
Who is regarded as a ‘novelist in a hurry’ ?
(1) RK. Narayan
@
3)
@
Mulk Raj Anand
Raja Rao
Vikram Seth
‘The writer of The Man Eater of Malgudi was
compared with
a
@
@)
co)
Rodyard Kipling
Jane Austen
William Shakespeare
‘Thomas Hardy
Which of the following is known as “The
Father of English Criticism’ ?
@
@
(3)
a)
TS. Bliot
Charles Lamb
Dr. Johnson
John Dryden
‘I don’t call him a villain because it would be
unparliamentary to do so’ is an example of
a
@)
a)
@
Irony
Paradox
Euphemism
Litote
(15)
110,
uu.
112,
113,
114,
‘The term ‘Sslamander’ occurs in the work of
Alexander Pope signifying a spirit of
@
(2)
(3)
@
water
fire
earth
“The Immortality Ode is the high water-mark
of poetry in the 19" century” was said by
a
@
@
Co)
Dr. Johnson
Coleridge
Arnold
RW. Emerson
When did William Wordsworth revisit the
‘Tintern Abbey ?
a
@
@)
a)
1795
1798
1783
1793
Belladona in The Waste Land is also called
(1) The Lady of the Rock
@)
@)
‘The Lady with the Lamp
‘The Lady of Christ
(4) None
Longborough a village in the county of
Hertfordshire is seen in the novel
a
2)
3)
@
Sons and Lovers
Pride and Prejudice
Wuthering Heights
PersuasionLuo1
115.
116.
117.
118.
119.
120,
Puran Singh Bhagath appears in
(1) The Village
(2) The Sword and the Sickle
(3) The Big Heart
(4) Untouchable
‘The news of the death of Vasu in The Man
Eater of Malgudi is conveyed by
(1) Muthu
@
@
w
‘The Postman
The Poet
Rangi
‘And all Arabia breathes from her yonder box’
isa line from
(1) ‘The Rape of Lucrece’
(2) ‘The Rape of the Lock’
(3) ‘The Flea’
(4) ‘The Pulley’
Gyp is a female character found in
(1) Coolie
(2) The Vendor of Sweets
(8) Sons and Lovers
(4) The Guide
‘The bi-sex figures as a character called
in The Waste Land.
(1) Tiresias
(2) Titus Oates
(3) Sphinx
(4) Zimri
Gonzalo is an honest old counsellor to
in The Tempest.
() Prospero
(2) Sebastian
(3) Ferdinand
(4) Alonso
(16)
121.
122.
123,
124,
125.
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“Speech is great, but silence is greater” has
become a saying. Who said it ?
(1) Thomas Carlyle
(2) Thackeray
(3) Ruskin
(4) Dr. Johnson
‘Not that I loved Caesar less, but I love Rome
more’ are the words from Julius Caesar
spoken by
(2) Brutus
(2) Cassius
(3) Cinna the poet
(4) Lucillus
Who preached in his poetry “The human
perceptibility and emancipation of the
spirit” ?
(1) John Keats
(2) William Wordsworth
(3) Coleridge
(4) Shelley
Which critical writing has justly been called
“The Magna Carta of Romanticism’ ?
(1) My First Acquaintance with Poets
(2) Lyrical Ballads
(3) Biographia Literaria
(A) Defense of Poetry
The phrase ‘darkness visible’ contains the
figure of speech called
(1) Paradox
(2) Oxymoron
(3) Antithesis
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126.
127.
128.
129.
130.
“Hell is a city much like London” is the
opinion by
Q) TS. Eliot
(2) Shelley
(8) Ruskin
(4) Coleridge
“And mid-May’s eldest child,
‘The coming musk-rose, full of dewy wine.”
‘These lines are from
(1) ‘Ode to the West Wind’
(2) ‘Toa Skylark’
(3) ‘Ode to the Nightingale’
(4) ‘To Fanny’
‘The character Messala is from
() King Lear
(2) The Tempest
(3) Hamlet
(4) Julius Caesar
‘Sometimes as they were walking together,
she slipped her arm timidly into his.’ Who is
she?
@) Clara
(2) Miriam
(8) Gertrude
(4) Anne
“Llong
‘To hear the story of your life, which must
‘Take the ear strangely.”
‘Name the speaker of the above lines from The
Tempest.
(1) Prospero
(2) Alonso
(3) Sebastian
(4) Trinculo
(17) c
181. “Turning our tortures into horrid arms
Against the torturer.”
‘The above lines in Paradise Lost are uttered
by
(1) Beelzebub
(2) Belial
(3) Mammon
(4) Moloch
132, “Tomorrow, and Tomorrow and Tomorrow” is
from a soliloquy of
(1) Hamlet in Hamlet
(2) Caesar in Caesar
(2) Macbeth in Macbeth
(4) Lear in Lear
133, At all its greatest moments we are conscious
of the rhythms of Shakespeare and Milton.
‘The word St’ in the statement refers to
(1) The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
(2) The Waste Land
(3) Paradise Lost
(4) The Prelude
134, “Complete absence of the graces of good
writing” is a glaring demerit of
(1) Ruskin
(2) Thomas Carlyle
(3) Newman
(4) Munera Pulveris
135. Who is called ‘the last of the Great
Victorians’ ?
(1) George Meredith
(2) Charles Dickens
(8) William Thackeray
(4) Thomas Hardy1/801
136.
137.
138.
139.
140.
George Eliot's last novel was
(1) Silas Mariner
(2) The Mill on the Floss
(3) Middlemarch
(4) Daniel Deronda
“As Caesar loved me, I weep for him; but as
he was ambitious, I slew him” is an
‘observation from Shakespeare himself. His
statement is an example of
(1) Climax
(2) Anti-climax
(3) Epigram
(4) Irony
‘The duration of the play Julius Caesar
spread over a period of
() six weeks
(2) ten days
(3) a fortnight
(4) six days
Who wrote the following lines ?
“Next to, of course God, America, I love you,
land of pilgrims and so forth, Oh!”
@
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(3)
(4)
‘TS, Eliot
WH. Auden
Robert Lowell
EE. Cummings
“A heavy weight of hours has chained and
bowed. One too like thee ; tameless, and
swift, and proud” is by
(1) P.B. Shelley
(2) John Keats
(3) Byron
(4) William Wordsworth
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142.
143,
144,
145.
The Waste Eliot was
dedicated to
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Camae
James Frazer
Ezra Pound
Jessie Watson
‘The poetry of Alexander Pope is typified by
its
(2) informal outlook
(2) formal outlook
(8) lack of polish
(4) being full of imagination
Which of Shakespeare's plays is performed at
9 p.m. on June 23 every year? :
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(2)
@)
A Midsummer Night's Dream
The Tempest
Twelfth Night
(4) Hamlet
‘An anti-novel is one in which there is
wo
no plot
(2) no characterization
(8) no relations of time and space
(4) All these
William Wordsworth propounds the theory of
in his Preface to Lyrical Ballads.
(1) Faney
(2) Imagination
(3) Prose
(4) Poetic Diction1/801
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146. The commonest poetic quality between Keats |149. ‘Axioms in philosophy are not axioms until
and Tennyson is
(1) Miltonism
(2) Dramatic Irony
(3) Pictorial elegance
(4) Elegiac nature
147. Anantha in The Big Heart resembles
()_ Good Samaritan
(2) Christ's Figure
(8) Apostle
(4) Demi-God
148. “Arise and fly
‘The reeling faun, the sensual feast,
Move upward, working out the beast,
And let the ape and the tiger die.”
‘These lines are by
(2) William Blake
@) WB. Yeats
(3) Alfred Tennyson
(4) T. Eliot
150.
they are proved upon our pulses’ is from
(2). Shelley
(2) Keats
(3) Coleridge
(4) Byron
‘The word ‘picaresque’ is basically a
word.
Q) Spanish
(2) Latin
(3) Greek
(4) Scandinavian(20)
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