Haryana SET English Exam

Which of the following terms describes a novel of fashionable high life in 19th-century English literature ?

What term did Beetroot Brecht use for his mode of drama-writing to distinguish it from traditional theatre ?

Which of the following terms is used to describe spurious words which are the result of inadvertent errors made by copyists, printers and editors ?

Which two of the following are works by I.A. Richards ?
(a) Concepts of Criticism
(b) Science and Poetry
(c) The Philosophy of Rhetoric
(d) English Literature in Our Time and the University
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In "The Function of Criticism at the Present Time" what is propose by Matthew Arnold as the essence of criticism ?

According to Ferdinand de Saussure, language is :
(a) an interlocking structure
(b) a system of constant change
(c) a system of signs
(d) a self-standing formation
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What was the centre set up for studying culture at the University of Birmingham called ?

Which of the following statements are true of English as used in India ?
(a) India is counted among the largest English-speaking communities in the world
(b) No group, community or population of Indians claims English as its mother tongue
(c) More than fifty per cent of Indians speak English fluently
(d) English is the country's principal language of commerce
(e) With the growing stature of Hindi as lingua franca, it has supplanted English as the link language between the central government and the states
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Match List-I with List-II .
     List-I                                                                         List-II
   (Poem)                                                                      (Poet)
(a) "The Road Not Taken"                                      I. Pablo Neruda
(b) "Tonight I can Write the Saddest Lines"           II. Robert Frost
(c) "I hear America Singing"                                  III. Langston Hughes
(d) "I, too, Sing America"                                      IV. Walt Whitman
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Usage in "You have hissed the mystery lectures" is an example of :

Who is the creator of the character, Julien Sorel ?

Arrange the following in their chronological order :
(a) English replaces Persian as official language of the Company
(b) Arrival of Charles Grant in India
(c) Universities established in Calcutta, Bombay and Madras
(d) Construction of Fort William in Calcutta
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Which of the following qualify for the label 'cultural intermediary' in the context of a commercial film ?
(a) The film magazine columnist
(b) The director
(c) Fan clubs
(d) The producer
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Given below are two statements :
Statement I : All research being original and uninspired, it is rare for a researcher to begin a project by deriving ideas from predecessors
Statement II : Studying and documenting past work on a research topic stifles the continual expansion of human knowledge
In the light of the above statements, choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below :

Which of these are true of Raymond Williams' Culture and Society ?
(a) It critiques the idea of high culture
(b) It overlooks the idea of high culture
(c) It defines culture as a way of life
(d) It equates culture with science
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Who is the author of The Truth about Me : A Hijra Life Story ?

Which of these countries does Montaigne's essay, "Of Cannibals, “focus on primarily ?

The set of inflected forms taken by a single word is :

In "The Life of Cowley" which two of the following criticisms were made by Samuel Johnson against a group of writers he termed the 'metaphysical poets' ?
(a) They made an inappropriate combination of wit and imagination
(b) Instead of writing poetry, they only wrote verses
(c) They neither copied nature nor life
(d) They never tried to be singular in their thoughts
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Match List-I with List-II :
      List-I                                              List-II
    (Book)                                           (Author)
(a) English, August                         I. Shyam Selvadurai
(b) In Custody                                II Anita Desai
(c) Such a Long Journey               III. Rohinton Mistry
(d) Funny Boy                                IV. Upamanyu Chatterjee
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Arrange the following groups of poets in their chronological sequence in relation to English literary history :
(a) The Imagist poets
(b) The Cavalier poets
(c) The Movement poets
(d) The Lake poets
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Which of these characters figure in Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot ?
(a) Estragon
(b) Pozzo
(c) Bassanio
(d) Murphy
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Which two of the following poems are by Judith Wright ?
(a) "Meditation on a Bone"
(b) "Imperial Adam"
(c) "Woman to Man
(d) "The Old Prison
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Who, in "The World as India," argues that English can be the only common "unifying language" of India ?

Match List-I with List-II :
     List-I                                    List-II
  (Writer)                                  (Book)
(a) Homi Bhabha                   I. Reading the Popular
(b) T.S. Eliot                          II. The Location of Culture
(c) Roland Barthes               III. Notes towards the Definition of Culture
(d) John Fiske                      IV. Image-Music-Text
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Which among the following are examples of the Kiinstlerroman ?
(a) The Portrait of a Lady
(b) David Copperfield
(c) Tom Jones
(d) A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
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With which of the following movements is Charles Baudelaire's Flowers of Evil generally associated ?
(a) Neo-classical
(b) Symbolist
(c) Modernist
(d) Postmodernist
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Words with the same pronunciation and different meanings are :

The MLA Style Sheet, a compilation of scholarly conventions and directives, was first published in :

Arrange the following journals in the chronological order of publication .
(a) Longman's Magazine
(b) Cornhill Magazine
(c) Blackwood's Magazine
(d) Bentley's Miscellany
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Which of these are generally taken to be true of Cultural Studies ?
(a) It is politically engaged
(b) It privileges text over context
(c) It has a symbiotic relationship with Formalism
(d) It studies the means of production of a text
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Which of the following statements best articulates Frantz Fanon's political position ?

Who among the following says that ideology is "a representation of the imaginary relationship of individuals to their real conditions of existence" ?

Who wrote a postmodern reworking of Charles Dickens's Great Expectations without altering the original title ?

In which book of Paradise Lost does Milton refer to "Agra and Lahore of Great Mogul" ?

Match List-I with List-II :
   List-I                                                                            List-II
   (Text)                                                                        (Author)
(a) Advancement of Learning                                   I.  Susan Sontag
(b) Past and Present                                                II. Francis Bacon
(c) English Traits                                                      III. Thomas Carlyle
(d) Illness as Metaphor                                            IV. R.W. Emerson
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Given below are two statements, one is labelled as Assertion (A) and the other is labelled as Reason (R) :
Assertion (A) : The implied reader shifts attention from the real reading individual to a disembodied dimension of reception, intricately interwoven into the text
Reason (R) : The 'Dear Reader,' invoked in the realist novels, is a fictional representation of the distant reader
In light of the above statements, choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below :

Choose the right chronological sequence of the following books :
(a) Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things
(b) Kiran Desai. The Inheritance of Loss
(c) Shashi Deshpande, That Long Silence
(d) Jhumpa Lahiri, The Namesake
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Which pair of linguists in the following list is associated with speech acts' ?

Which of the following does Urvashi Butalia's The Other Side of Silence primarily seek to do ?
(a) To understand the Partition as something more than a political divide
(b) To foreground a personal history of the Partition
(c) To foreground the Partition as an event more tragic than the Holocaust
(d) To find and unite families separated at the Partition
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Which of these themes best sums up the preoccupation of most of Vijay Tendulkar's plays ?

Match List-I with List-II :
     List-I                                                                         List-II
   (Book)                                                                      (Poet)
(a) Anniversaries                                                       I. Abraham Cowley
(b) The Temple                                                          II. John Donne
(c) The Rehearsal Transpros'd                                 III. George Herbert
(d) Pindarique Odes                                                 IV. Andrew Marvell
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Who is the author of Radiant Textually ?

Which of these may be said to be true of the journal published from Bowling Green University from 1969, which carried essays on Spiderman comics, rock music, and detective films ?
(a) It sought to highlight the importance of popular culture
(b) It sought to highlight the importance of elite culture
(c) It sought to buttress the canon by making it more elitist
(d) It sought to break down the dominance of 'high' culture
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How does T.S. Eliot sum up the peculiar quality of Marvell's "Horatian Ode" ?

Match List-I with List-II :
    List-I                                                                      List-II
   (Novel)                                                                   (Writer)
(a) A Handful of Dust                                              I. E.M. Forster
(b) Brighton Rock                                                   II. Evelyn Waugh
(c) Howard's End                                                   II. D.H. Lawrence
(d) The Plumed Serpent                                        IV. Aldous Huxley
(e) Those Barren Leaves                                       V. Graham Greene
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Given below are two statements :
Statement I : A pidgin is formed by two mutually unintelligible speech communities trying to communicate using the most obvious features of each other's language
Statement II : Notwithstanding the number of years a pidgin is spoken, it can never become the mother tongue of a community
In the light of the above statements, choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below :

Who among the following has coined the term, 'eco-feminism' ?

Who wrote the short story, "The Voter" ?

Which two of the following are fallacious evaluations of poetry according to Matthew Arnold's "The Study of Poetry" ?
(a) contextual estimate
(b) personal estimate
(c) comparative estimate
(d) historic estimate
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In his recasting the canon of English poetry in New Bearings in English Poetry which of the following pairs was downgraded by F.R. Leavis ?

Which of the following fictional characters is believed to be based on the 15th-century reallife character, Vlad the Impaler ?

Arrange in the right sequence the following stages of a child's first language acquisition :
(a) holophrastic                         
(b) babbling
(c) telegraphic speech                   
(d) cooing
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Which of the following is a dead language ?

Which book by J.G. Ballard is about a virus that freezes anything it comes in contact with ?

Who among the following posits the tradition of great writers as an inescapable fact, and takes the ambivalent position of considering it as both a blessing and a curse ?

Who among the following was of the view that poetry was only an imitation of an imitation and therefore trivial ?

Who is the author of "The Typology of Detective Fiction" ?

Which two are the works of Ted Hughes ?
(a) Wildtrack                                     
(b) Wodwo
(c) Lupercal                                      
(d) Jack Straw's Castle
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Arrange the following poems by W. B. Yeats in the chronological order of publication .
(a) "The Wild Swans at Coole"
(b) "The Second Coming"
(c) "Among School Children"
(d) "Adam's Curse"
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Arrange chronologically the following texts in terms of their years of first publication :
(a) Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene
(b) Coleridge and Wordsworth's Lyrical Ballads
(c) Pablo Neruda's Canto General
(d) Charles Baudelaire's The Flowers of Evil
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Which of the following is true of mass media ?

Who wrote the essay "My First Acquaintance with Poets" ?

Who, among these, are songwriters who have been awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature ?
(a) Elton John                                  
(b) Rabindranath Tagore
(c) Bob Dylan                                   
(d) Bob Marley
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Match List-I with List-II .
  List-I                                                                        List-II
(Author)                                                                    (Text)
(a) Robert Browning                                                 I. Queen Mary
(b) S.T. Coleridge                                                     II. The Second Mrs. Tanqueray
(c) A.W. Pinero                                                         III. Remorse
(d) Alfred Tennyson                                                  IV. The Borderers
(e) William Wordsworth                                            V. Strafford
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Who wrote The Labyrinth of Solitude ?

Arrange the following terms in the chronological order as these appeared in literary theory :
(a) phallogocentrism
(b) locutionary act
(c) interpellation
(d) interpretive community
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Which of the following did Owuor Anyumba, Taban Lo Liyong and Ngugi wa Thiongo object to in 1968 ?
(a) the primacy of English literatures and cultures
(b) the centrality of Africa in the Department of English
(c) the primacy of orature in the syllabus
(d) the focus on the study of the historic continuity of English literature
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Which of the following abbreviations refers to a documentation style ?

Who among the following is associated with a 'philosophy of praxis' ?

Given below are two statements :
Statement I : Language is not a reliable tool of communication, says deconstruction, but argues in favors of a theory of sign as a self-sufficient union of signifier and signified 
Statement II : Deconstruction claims that language is non-referential since it refers neither to the things in the world nor to our concepts of things but only to the play of signifiers
In light of the above statements, choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below :

Which of the following are true of the dramatic legacy of Ben Jonson ?
(a) Jonson's physiological interpretation of character and personality did not have any precedent
(b) Taking after the practice of the Moralities and Interludes, Jonson named his dramatis personae aptronymically
(c) Chapman's All Fools and Middleton's A Trick to Catch the Old One belong to the genre of Comedy of Humours that Jonson is said to have pioneered
(d) John Marston and Thomas Dekker collaborated with Jonson in writing for a children's company of players
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Which two of the following are the earliest colonial publishing initiatives that apply to India ?
(a) Andrew Lang Colonial Book Series
(b) Murray Colonial and Home Library Series
(c) Colonial Library Series by Macmillan
(d) Colonial Library Series by Chatto & Windus
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Which of the following are novels by David Lodge ?
(a) The British Museum is Falling down
(b) The Seven Sisters
(c) Changing Places
(d) Nice Work
(e) Empire of the Sun
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Which of the following are books by Noam Chomsky ?
(a) Syntactic Structures
(b) Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior
(c) Language and Society
(d) Aspects of the Theory of Syntax
(e) The Pragmatics of Politeness
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