Who among the following is not a diasporic writer  ?

" A text is not a  line of words releasing a single  ' ' theological ' meaning ( the ' message ' of the Author - God)  but a multi - dimensional space in which a variety of writings,  none of them original, blend and clash. The text is a tissue of quotations drawn from the innumerable centers of culture ". Which of the following best expresses the position stated above  ?

In William Congreve's The Way of the World Fairall is Lady Wishfort's :

Match the periodical with the founder /s :
List  ---  I                          List. ---  II
a.  The Egoist                  1. Wyndham Lewis and Ezra Pound
b. The English Review    2.  Harriet Monroe
c.  Blast                            3. Harriet Weaver and Dora Marsden
d. Poetry  :  A                  4. Ford Madox  Ford
Magazine of Verse    

Which statement best expresses the them of Coleridge 's " The Rime of the Ancient Mariner "?

" The Comprehensible Output Hypothesis" was proposed by :

In Tristram Shandy Corporal Trim's brother Tom describes the oppression of a black servant in a sausage shop in Lisbon that he visited. This episode is inspired by a letter Laurence Sterne received from a black man. Sterne's reply became an integral part of  18th  century abolitionist literature. Name the person who wrote the aforemen-tioned letter to Sterne.

In Bertolt Brecht's Mother Courage and Her Children, which song does Yvette sing to Mother Courage and  Katrina  ?

In Gustave Flubert's Madame Bovary,  under what pretext does Emma go every week for her clandestine meeting with Leon in Rouen? 

.  Identify the two books by C. S. Lakshmi ( Ambai)  Published in English translation.
I.  Astride the Wheel              II.  Going Home
III.  A Purple Sea                   IV. In a Forest,  A Deer
The right combination according to the code is  :

Elizabeth Barrett Browning ' s  Sonnet from the Portuguese is  :
I.  a  sequence of forty four Petrarchan sonnets.
II. a rewriting of Popean didactic verse.
III.  a depiction of a contemporary setting and small events of ordinary life.
IV.  a scathing criticism of the British colonial enterprise. The right combination according to the code is :

In The Story of My Experiments with Truth,  M. K. Gandhi covers the narrative of his life from early childhood  through  to  :

In a writing system the minimal unit that can cause a difference of meaning is called  :

Nnu Ego is a character in  :

Match the word with definition :
          List  --  I                   List  -- II
a. Etymon             1. Changing from one language variety ot another in discourses
b.  Code  switching  2. Rules governing the social use of Language
c.  Cognate               3. Etymological  source of a word
d.  Pragmatics          4. Words with a common ancestor

What would help a reader recognize Keats's  " To Autumn " as a poem from the Romantic period  ?

Which of the following is an accurate description of ' heteroglossia '?

In Ulysses Leopold Bloom works for a Dublin :

Which pair of plays belongs to the early career of Harold Pinter?
I.  The Caretaker                     II. One for the Road
III.  Celebration                       IV.  The Room
The right combination according to the code is  :

Who among the following contemporaries of John Donne wrote the following lines on his death  :  " Here lies a king,  that ruled as he thought fit / The universal monarch of wif "?

In his poem " Australia " A. D. Hope says that :
I.  Australia is " with songs,  architecture,  history ".
II. " Her five cities are like five dry rivers".
III.  The poet turns to her " to find / The Arabian desert  of the human mind /Hoping if still from deserts prophets come.
IV. " She is the first of lands, the warmest. "

Basic English, a simplified and fundamental framework of English,  was formulated by :
I.   I. A. Richards             II.  Alastair  Fowler
III.  William Empson        IV. C. K. Ogden
The right combination according to the code is :

Match the Novelist with the work:
          List  -- I                       List  --  II
a.  Anita  Desai               1. Rich Like Us
b. Nayantara Sahgal      2. The Nowhere Man
c. Arun Joshi                    3. In Custody
d.Kamala Markandaya.   4. The Last Labyrinth

Identify the right chronological sequence :

In which of the following senses did Marx and Engels originally use the term " ideology " in the German Ideology?

The plot of this Coetzee novel unravels the narrative of a poor man of colour trying to survive in a civil-war situation, never taking sides.  Identify the novel.

Which of the following lines of T. S. Eliot is used by Anita Desai As the epigraph for her novel,  Baumgartner's Bombay?

In the Gender Prologue to The Canterbury Tales which  two  characters are examples of deep Christian goodness?
I.  the Summoner              II.  the Parson
III.  the Ploughman           IV.  the Pardoner
The right combination according to the code is :

Identify Falstaff 's first words in Henry IV, Part I :

Anna Barbauld,  Laetitia Elizabeth London,  Charlotte Smith,  Mary Robinson and Felicia  Humans are :

Ray Bradbury has title one of his short story collections --- Golden Apples of the Sun - after the last line of a  W. B. Yeats poem. Which poem?

Which play by Tom Stoppard set in Zurich during the First World War presents a character's interactions with James Joyce as he was writing Ulysses,  Tristran Zara during the rise of Dadaism,  and  Lenin leading up  to the Russian Revolution,  all of whom were living in Zurich at that time?

" Most blameless is he,  centered in the sphere of common duties,  decent not to fail :  In offices of  tenderness  ........ " In these lines from " Ulysses ". what does Ulysses suggest about Telemachus?

In Restoration comedies the following is true EXCEPT :

What happens to the character Boy at the end of Luigi Pirandello's play Six Characters in Search of an Author?

Which of the following adjectives will not apply to Becky Sharp,  a major character in Vanity Fair?

Which character in Anton Chekhov 's  play The  Cherry Orchard,  first suggests the selling of the orchard?

Identify the correct chronological sequence of the  founding of the following  18th century English  periodicals :

Who identified " strangled articulateness " as a theme in Canadian  writing  ?

Identify the gynocritics in the following list :
I.  Alice  Jardine            II.  Elaine Showalter
III.  Sandra  Gilbert        IV.  Kate Millett
The right combination according to the code is :

Identify the characters who is not part of the group of three protagonists in Girish  Karnad's  Hayavadana :

Christopher Marlowe's Hero and Leander can be classified as a / an :

Which among the following does not belong to Indo-European  language family  ?

What among the following is ruled out by Longinus as a way of achieving the sublime?

Who among the following is not a beat writer?

This was a masque written by Ben Jonson,  staged on Twelfth Night and it was the first masque in which Prince Charles took part.

Elizabeth Bishop's poems are best remembered for their  :

Which chilling novel of surveillance and entrapment had the alternative title Things as  They Are?

In " My Last Duchess " which of the following is not one of the Duchess's misdemeanors, according to the Duke?

In his essay " From Work to Text " Roland Barthes says the following about the text :
I.  The text is singular.
II.  The text can be held in the hand.
III.  The text  is held in language.
IV.  The text is a methodological field.
The right combination according to the code is :