Mathew Arnold's "touchstones" were "short passages, even single lines" of classic poetry beside which the lines of other poets may be placed in order to detect the presence or absence of high poetic quality. In his "Study of Poetry " Arnold cited "touchstones" from poets as Homer and Dante and also from the English poets, Shakespeare and Milton. Which English poet did he disapprovingly call "not one of the great classics" in the list below?

Samuel Pepys began his diary on................

On which of the following authors has Peter Ackroyd not written a biography ?

Which group of the following poets was called the Auden Group because they developed a style and viewpoint similar to that of W. H. Auden?

When one line of poetry runs into the next, with no punctuation to slow the reading, it is a case of...........................   .

 Which of the following is NOT a characteristic to the Victorian Age?

 In The Heart of Midlothian, Walter Scott deals with real political and but notable among his characters is the depiction of....................  ...

Chaucer's first work, The Book of the Duchess is a dream poem on the death of.................

What was Charles Lamb's connection with India?

Find the odd one among the Marxist critics  below :

In the lines " With gold jewels cover every part, / And hide with ornaments their want of art " ( Essay on Criticism) , Pope rejects

The opposite of hyperbole is....................  .

What significance do we attach to the publication of  I Am an Indian in Canada?

What is the moral of " The Nun's Priest's Tale"?

The author of the essay " Silly Novels by Lady Novelists " is......................   .

The unquenchable spirit of Robinson Crusoe struggling to maintain a substantial existence on a lonely island reflects....................   .

Who is the author of the collection The Celtic Twilight?

In medieval England a ------------------was understood to be a trained craftsman,  one who worked under a master who owned the business.

Christopher Marlowe's heroes are said to be larger than life, exaggerated both in their faults and in their qualities. They have a desire for everything in extreme. In one of his plays the hero wants to conquer the whole world. The name of the play is.....................  .

With what does the speaker claim to be half in love in " Ode to a Nightingale "?

In which chapter of Poetics does Aristotle use the word ' catharsis ' in his definition of tragedy?

Match the following  :
(a) " The Function of  Criticism "                                         1. Terry Eagleton
(b) " The Function of Criticism at                                         2. Richard Ohmann
the  Present Time "     
(c). The Function of  Criticism  :                                          3. Matthew Arnold 
Poststructuralism
From  ' The Spectator ' to 
(d)  " The Function of the                                                     4. T. S.  Eliot  
English at Present Time "
The right matching according to the code is  :

Identify the TRUE statement on Thomas More's Utopia.

In " The Time of the Ancient Mariner" what  disaster befalls the ship and the crew?

Falstaff is a character in.....................   .
1. Henry IV Part  I
2.  The Merry Wives of Windsor
(3)  The Comedy of Errors
(4)  Titus Andronicus
The right combination according to the code is :

In her essay " Professions for Women " Virginia Woolf finds an analogy between the act of  writing and..........................

The ascension of King James I in.................. inaugurated the Jacobean age.

Which of the following is NOT true of the Byronic hero?

Like many other novelists, Hardy employed language variation ( dialect and standard)  with  a purpose. In this respect which of the following statements is correct?

" It used to be said, " began a famous English writer, " everyone had a novel in them..... Just now, though, in  1999 , you would probably be obliged to doubt the basic proposition : What everyone has in them, these days, is not a novel but a memoir ". Identify the source :

The opening sixteen lines of Paradise Lost comprise :

Who among the following poets compared human tears to " love's wine "?

Ernest Pontifex is a character in...............   .

In which of the following stories does Rudyard Kipling present a newspaper editor who recounts his dealings with a couple of " loafers "?

Trying to capture the update mood of  1964-65 , the poet Thom Gunn said : " They stood for a great optimism, barriers seemed to be coming down all over, it was as if World War II had finally drawn to close, there was an openness and gigh-spiritedness and relaxation of mood, "Who were " they "?

In Paradise Lost Milton presents the action   of the fall man in to two stages in Books...........  .

In Gulliver's Travels Struldbruhggs are.............   .

Margaret Atwood has tried a revisionist writing of a crucial scene in Hamlet called " Gertrude Talks Back ".The scene in Atwood opens with a reference to the name of an implied listener. Who is this implied listener?

Samuel Johnson were London in imitation of.......................   .

Which of the following is NOT written by Buchi Emecheta?

Samuel Johnson's use of the term " metaphysical " in a piece criticism was  ...................... .

" I am not an angel..........  and I will not be one till I die : I will be myself, " This is...................

Who among the following playwrights was the son of a gardener?

" He is the very pineapple of politeness! "This sentence is an example of...............

Ferdinand de Sausure argued that meaning is generated through........................

Identify the group know as " The Wesker Trilogy?

Who is the central character of Derek Walcott 's Dream on the Monkey Mountain?

The phrase " darkness visible " ( Paradise Lost, 1.63 ) is an example of  .................  .

What is common to writers such as Sam selvon ( The Lonely Londoners),  Timothy MO ( Sour Sweet),  and Hanif Kureishi ( The Black Album)?

F. R. Leavis and Q. D.  Leavis launched a critical journal devoted to the moral centrality of English Studies. Name the Journal.

Identify the work below that does not belong to the literature of the eighteenth century :

Which, among the following is a place through which John Bunyan 's Christian does not pass?

The period of Queen Victoria 's reign is :

Which of the following statements about The Lyrica Ballads is not true?

One of the following texts was published earlier than 1995 . Identify the text.

Who among the poets in England during the 1930s had left -- leaning tendencies?

Match the following :
I.  The Sage of Concord          1. Emily Dickinson
II.  The Num of Amherst         2. R. W. Emerson
III.  Mark Twain                        3. T. S. Eliot
IV. Old Possum                        4. Samuel L. Clemens

Name the theorist who divided poets into " strong " and " weak " and  popularized the practice of misreading :

In The Rape of the Lock Pope repeatedly compares Belinda to

Which of the following awards is not given to Indian - English writers?

------  the very word is like a bell To toll me back from thee to my sole self which word ?

In poems like "The Altar" and "Easter Wings" ---------------------  exploits ----------------- .

 No, no thou hast not felt the lapse of hours ! For what wears out the life of moral men?'  Tis that repeated shocks, again and numb the elastic powers.............. Who does the poet address here?

The roman a clef ( French for "novel with a key") uses contemporary historical figures as its chief character. They are of course given fictional names. One explain is Aldous Hixley's point Counter Point. Its Mark Rampion is modelled on  ---------------------- .

She was a worthy woman al hir lyve, Housbondes at chirche - dore she hadde fyve, In the  'Prologue' Chaucer represents the Wife of Bath as :
I.   crude and Vulgar
II.   outspoken and boastfully licentious
III.   a witness to masculine oppression
IV.   bubbling with vitality
Find the correct combination according to the code :

The novel tells the story of twin brothers, Waldo, the man of reason and intellect, and Arthur, the innocent half - wit, the lives are inextricably intertwined. Which is the novel?

Who among the following was NOT a member of the Scriblerus Club?

--------------  is a theological term brought into literary criticism by ----------------.

----------------- the Almighty Power Hurled heading flaming from th' Ethereal Sky, With hideous ruin and combustion down To bottomless perdition, there to dwell In Adamantine Chains and penal Fire Who durst defy th' Omnipotent to Arms. (Paradise Lost, 1.44-49. Choose the appropriate word :

Which of the following works does not have a mad woman as a character in it?

Laurence Sterne's Tristram Shandy contains :

Which of the following statements is NOT true of Areopagitica ?

Thomas Hardy's last major novel was...........   .

The Hind and the Panther Transvers'd to the Story of the Country Mouse and the City Mouse is a satire on :

Match the  columns :
   Terms                                   Theorists
I. Apollonian - Dionysian         1. Matthew Arnold 
II.  Fancy - Imagination           2. Friedrich Nietzsche
III.  Hellenism - Hebraism        3. G. H. Hopkins
IV. Inscape - Instress              4. S. T. Coleridge

In King Lear,  who among the following speaker in the voice of Poor Tom?

 In Wordsworth 's Prelude,  the Boy o Winander is affected by :

Which of the following is NOT mentioned a as part of the London local in The Waste Land?

Which of the following novels is NOT written by Jean Rhys?

The first official royal Poet Laureate in English literary history was...........

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

Which of the following authors wrote Studie in the History of the Renaissance?

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

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

Which of these is not a pastoral elegy ?

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

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

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)  A Fringe of Leaves
(b)  The Tree of Man
(c)  Voss
(d)  The Aunt's Story
The right combination according to the code is :

In which of the following works did Bakhtin Propose his widely cited concept of the ' Carnivalesque '?

Match the  columns :
      (  Author)                       (Text)
a.  Sebastian Faulks        1. Amsterdam
b.  Peter Ackroyd             2. Changing Places
c.  Ian McEwan                3. Hawksmoor
d.  David Lodge               4. Birdsong

Identify from the following the work Nirad C. Chaudhuri Called "The finest novel in the English language with an Indian theme" .

Who is the author of the poem "The Defence of Lucknow" dealing with the siege of Lucknow, one of the terrible incidents of the Indian Mutiny ?

Who among the following theorists holds that metaphor and metonymy are the two fundamental structures of language ?

From among the following, who are the Dashwood sisters in Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility ?
(I) Elinor         (II) Marianne
(III) Mary         (IV) Amanda
The right combination according to the code is :

Which among the following texts can be characterised as a lesbian Bildungsroman ?

Identify the correct chronological sequence of piblication.

Poe's "The Raven" mourns the death of Poe's :

In Shakespeare's Macbeth who was "untimely ripped" from his mother's womb ?

Alexander Pope revised The Rape of the Lock three times. In the final revision of the poem in 1717 he inserted a speech by :

Identify, from the following list, two plays written by John Webster.
I. A Woman Killed with Kindness    II. The Revenger's Tragedy
III. The White Devil             IV. The Ducchess of Malfi  
The right combination according to the code is :