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Kerala SET English Exam - English
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English
1
Identify the work below that does not belong to the literature of the eighteenth century :
2
Which, among the following is a place through which John Bunyan 's Christian does not pass?
3
The period of Queen Victoria 's reign is :
4
Which of the following statements about The Lyrica Ballads is not true?
5
One of the following texts was published earlier than 1995 . Identify the text.
6
Who among the poets in England during the 1930s had left -- leaning tendencies?
7
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
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
8
Name the theorist who divided poets into " strong " and " weak " and popularized the practice of misreading :
9
In The Rape of the Lock Pope repeatedly compares Belinda to
10
Which of the following awards is not given to Indian - English writers?
11
------ the very word is like a bell To toll me back from thee to my sole self which word ?
12
In poems like "The Altar" and "Easter Wings" --------------------- exploits ----------------- .
13
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?
14
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 ---------------------- .
15
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 :
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 :
16
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?
17
Who among the following was NOT a member of the Scriblerus Club?
18
-------------- is a theological term brought into literary criticism by ----------------.
19
----------------- 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 :
20
Which of the following works does not have a mad woman as a character in it?
21
Laurence Sterne's Tristram Shandy contains :
22
Which of the following statements is NOT true of Areopagitica ?
23
Thomas Hardy's last major novel was........... .
24
The Hind and the Panther Transvers'd to the Story of the Country Mouse and the City Mouse is a satire on :
25
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
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
26
In King Lear, who among the following speaker in the voice of Poor Tom?
27
In Wordsworth 's Prelude, the Boy o Winander is affected by :
28
Which of the following is NOT mentioned a as part of the London local in The Waste Land?
29
Which of the following novels is NOT written by Jean Rhys?
30
The first official royal Poet Laureate in English literary history was...........
31
Who among the following advanced the theory that the mind is a tabula rasa at birth and acquires all ideas by experience?
32
Which of the following authors wrote Studie in the History of the Renaissance?
33
Whom does Harriet Smith finally marry in one of Jane Austen's novels?
34
A poet once referred to an old man as " A tattered coat upon a stick ". That is an example of...................... .
35
Which of these is not a pastoral elegy ?
36
In Beckett's Waiting for Goddot the characters often use dislocated, repetitious and cliched speech primarily to :
37
Which of the following sixteenth - century poets was NOT a courtier?
38
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 :
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 :
39
In which of the following works did Bakhtin Propose his widely cited concept of the ' Carnivalesque '?
40
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
( Author) (Text)
a. Sebastian Faulks 1. Amsterdam
b. Peter Ackroyd 2. Changing Places
c. Ian McEwan 3. Hawksmoor
d. David Lodge 4. Birdsong
41
Identify from the following the work Nirad C. Chaudhuri Called "The finest novel in the English language with an Indian theme" .
42
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 ?
43
Who among the following theorists holds that metaphor and metonymy are the two fundamental structures of language ?
44
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 :
(I) Elinor (II) Marianne
(III) Mary (IV) Amanda
The right combination according to the code is :
45
Which among the following texts can be characterised as a lesbian Bildungsroman ?
46
Identify the correct chronological sequence of piblication.
47
Poe's "The Raven" mourns the death of Poe's :
48
In Shakespeare's Macbeth who was "untimely ripped" from his mother's womb ?
49
Alexander Pope revised The Rape of the Lock three times. In the final revision of the poem in 1717 he inserted a speech by :
50
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 :
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 :
51
Which British University figures in William Wordsworth 's Prelude ?
52
Who is the author of A Woman Killed with Kindness ?
53
In William Congreve's The Way of the World identify the speaker of the line :"One's cruelty is one's power, and when one parts with one's cruelty, one parts with one's power".
54
T. S. Eliot found spiritual support in
55
By what name is Gulliver know in Brobdingag?
56
Who among the following was born in India?
57
What metaphor does Edmund Spenser employ (Faerie Queene Book 1 Can to 12) to frame his tale and to describe the relationship
between the tale and its readers?
between the tale and its readers?
58
Who among the following is not associated with Russian formalism?
59
Which character in Dickens keeps on hoping that "something will turn up"?
60
What is the name of the boat that tescues Ishmael in Herman Melville's Moby Dick?
61
To refer to the unresolvable difficulties a text may open up, Derrida makes use of the term.
62
Who, among the following English play wrights, scripted the film Shakespeare in Love ?
63
Arrange the following in the chronological order.
1. Mary Wollstonecraft's Vindication of the Rights of Women.
2. Lyrical Ballads
3. French Revolution
4. Percy's Reliques of Ancient English Poetry
1. Mary Wollstonecraft's Vindication of the Rights of Women.
2. Lyrical Ballads
3. French Revolution
4. Percy's Reliques of Ancient English Poetry
64
Which of the following employs a narrative structure in which the main action is relayed at second hand through an enclosing frame story?
65
The Irish Dramatic Movement was heralded by such figures as
66
Which poem by Chaucer was written on the death of Blanche, Wife of John of Gaunt?
67
The Tragedy of Ferrex and Porrex is the other title of
68
Who of the following poets is Australian?
69
"He found it ( English) brick and left it marble ", remarked one great writer on another. Who were they?
70
List -- I List -- II
I. "Because I could not stop for death....." 1. Robert Frost
II. "O Captain ! My Captain !" 2. William Carlos Williams
III. " Two roads diverged in a wood.........." 3. Emily Dickinson
IV."So much depends / upon " 4. Walt Whitman
The correctly matched series would be :
I. "Because I could not stop for death....." 1. Robert Frost
II. "O Captain ! My Captain !" 2. William Carlos Williams
III. " Two roads diverged in a wood.........." 3. Emily Dickinson
IV."So much depends / upon " 4. Walt Whitman
The correctly matched series would be :
71
In Pinter's Birthday Party, Stanley is given a birthday present. What is it ?
72
How does Lord Jim end ?
73
"Where I lacked a political purpose, I wrote lifeless books," To which of the following authors can we attribute the above admission?
74
Modernism has been described as being concerned with "Disenchantment of our culture with culture itself ". Who is the critic?
75
"Only that film, which fluttered on the grate, Still flutters there, the sole unquiet thing." The above lines are quoted from
76
Which one of the following modern poems employs ottava rima?
77
John Dryden in his heroic tragedy All for Love takes the story of Shakespeare 's
78
Arrange the following works in the order in which they appear. Identify the correct code :
I. No Longer at Ease
II. Things Fall apart
III. A Man of the People
IV. Arrow of God
The correct combination according to the code is :
I. No Longer at Ease
II. Things Fall apart
III. A Man of the People
IV. Arrow of God
The correct combination according to the code is :
79
Samuel Pepys kept his diary from
80
In the Defence of Poetry, what did Sydney attribute to poetry?
81
The just man justices. What kind of foregrounding do you find in the above lines ?
82
Match the items in List - I with items in List - II according to the code given :
List - I List - II
(a) Lambic 1. An unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable
(b) Anapaestic 2. A stressed is followed by two unstressed syllables.
(c) Dactylic 3. An unstressed syllable is followed by a stressed syllable.
(d) Trochaic 4. A stressed syllable is followed by an unstressed syllable.
List - I List - II
(a) Lambic 1. An unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable
(b) Anapaestic 2. A stressed is followed by two unstressed syllables.
(c) Dactylic 3. An unstressed syllable is followed by a stressed syllable.
(d) Trochaic 4. A stressed syllable is followed by an unstressed syllable.
83
The separation of styles in accordance with class in medieval works of literature and art.
84
"Had we but world enough, and time, This coyness, lady, were no crime." This statement is an example of
85
A Spencerian stanza has
86
Match the items in List - I with items in List - II according to the code given below :
List - I List - II
( Critic) (Theory)
(a) Cleanth Brooks 1. Ambiguity
(b) William Empson 2. Paradox
(c) Mark Schorer 3. Archetypal patters in poetry
(d) Maud Bodkin 4. Techniques discovery
List - I List - II
( Critic) (Theory)
(a) Cleanth Brooks 1. Ambiguity
(b) William Empson 2. Paradox
(c) Mark Schorer 3. Archetypal patters in poetry
(d) Maud Bodkin 4. Techniques discovery
87
"The artist may be present in his work like God in creation, invisible and almighty, everywhere felt but nowhere seen. " Henry James is talking here about the artist's
88
Match the items in List - I with items in List - II according to the code given below :
List - I List - II
( Theorist) (Book)
(a) Michel Foucault 1. Gender Trouble
(b) Judith Butler 2. Epistemology of the Closet
(c) Alan Sinfied 3. History of Sexuality
(d) Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick 4. Cultural Politics- Queer Reading
Which is the correct combination according to the code :
List - I List - II
( Theorist) (Book)
(a) Michel Foucault 1. Gender Trouble
(b) Judith Butler 2. Epistemology of the Closet
(c) Alan Sinfied 3. History of Sexuality
(d) Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick 4. Cultural Politics- Queer Reading
Which is the correct combination according to the code :
89
" The greatness of a poet ", Arnold says, " lies in his powerful and beautiful application of ideas to life ", But a critic pointed out it was
" not a happy way of putting it, as if ideas were a lotion for the inflamed skin of suffering humanity ".Who was this critic?
" not a happy way of putting it, as if ideas were a lotion for the inflamed skin of suffering humanity ".Who was this critic?
90
Derrida 's American disciples were
91
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?
92
Samuel Pepys began his diary on................
93
On which of the following authors has Peter Ackroyd not written a biography ?
94
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?
95
When one line of poetry runs into the next, with no punctuation to slow the reading, it is a case of........................... .
96
Which of the following is NOT a characteristic to the Victorian Age?
97
In The Heart of Midlothian, Walter Scott deals with real political and but notable among his characters is the depiction of.................... ...
98
Chaucer's first work, The Book of the Duchess is a dream poem on the death of.................
99
What was Charles Lamb's connection with India?
100
Find the odd one among the Marxist critics below :
101
I go to Madurai by —– Vaigai Express
102
Have the car stolen!
103
The payment was collected by the hardworking salesman.
104
I had to stop all my work to complete this project.
105
They have published the names of all the successful candidates.
106
The online shopping site lowered the prices.
107
Who taught you to drive a truck ?
108
We shall invite Suresh.
109
Dark clouds have overcast the evening sky.
110
The partners will celebrate their triumph tomorrow.
111
Which of the following terms describes a novel of fashionable high life in 19th-century English literature ?
112
What term did Beetroot Brecht use for his mode of drama-writing to distinguish it from traditional theatre ?
113
Which of the following terms is used to describe spurious words which are the result of inadvertent errors made by copyists, printers and editors ?
114
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
Choose the correct answer from the options given below :
(a) Concepts of Criticism
(b) Science and Poetry
(c) The Philosophy of Rhetoric
(d) English Literature in Our Time and the University
Choose the correct answer from the options given below :
115
In "The Function of Criticism at the Present Time" what is propose by Matthew Arnold as the essence of criticism ?
116
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
Choose the correct answer from the options given below :
(a) an interlocking structure
(b) a system of constant change
(c) a system of signs
(d) a self-standing formation
Choose the correct answer from the options given below :
117
What was the centre set up for studying culture at the University of Birmingham called ?
118
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
Choose the correct answer from the options given below :
(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
Choose the correct answer from the options given below :
119
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
Choose the correct answer from the options given below :
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
Choose the correct answer from the options given below :
120
Usage in "You have hissed the mystery lectures" is an example of :