Which of the following book by V. S. Naipaul is subtitled The Caribbean Revisited ?

 "Fluency" in language is the same as :

Which of the following statements on Pathetic Fallacy is NOT TRUE?

Identify the correctly matched group :  
 List -- I                                                     List --  II
I.  ' L' Allegro and â€‹' II Pensoro so '      1.  Pastoral elegy
II.  ' Lycidas '                                          2.  Masque
III.  Comus                                             3.  Sonnet
IV.  ' On His Blindness '                    4. Prose tract
V.  Areopagitica                               5. Companion poems in octo-syllabic couplets

The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood  ---  The University Wits ---  The Rhymers' Club --  The Transitional Poets -- The Scottis Chaucerians. The right chronological sequence would be :

' Aucitya ' refers to :
1.  Decorum
2.  Propriety
3.  Proportion
4.  Accuracy

In the closing paragraph of The Trial two men accompany Joseph K to a part of the city to eventually execute him. The place is :

Match List  --  I with List  --  II according to the codes given below :
List  --  I                              List  --  II
( Character)                     ( Work)
I.   Telemachus             1.  Notes from underground
II.  Anya                          2.  Old Goriot
III.   Zverkov                   3.  The Cherry Orchard
IV.  Rastignac               4.  The Odyssey

This renowned German poet was born in Prague and died of Leukemia. When young he met Tolstoy and was influenced by him. The titles of his last two works contain the words " sonnets "  and  " elegies ". He is :

Which of the following plays gained notoriety for its caricature of the philosopher Socrates?

Raskolnikov murders the old lady :
1. to get her money and achieve his ambition in life.
2. to achieve his political goal as an extremist and a nihilist.
3.   to prove his superiority over other young men of the time.
4.   All of the above
Find  the correct combination according to the codes :

Here is a list of Partition novels which have ' violence on the woman 's body ' as a significant theme. Pick the odd one out :

Match the translators in List -- I with the English translations of Indian Literature texts in List -- II according to the code given below :
 List -- I                               List  -- II
I.    K. B. Vaid                    1. Says Tuka
II. O. V. Vijayan                2.  The Diary of a Maid Servant
III.  Dilip Chitre                 3. Samskara
IV. A. K. Ramanujan       4.  Saga of Dharmapuri

In his poem " A Morning Walk " Nissim Ezekiel talks about a  ' Barbaric City sick with slums / Deprived of seasons, blessed with rains / its  hawkers,  beggars, iron - lunged / Processionsled by frantic drums. ' Identify the city :

In Practical Criticism  I. A. Richards links four kinds of meanings in. Most human utterances to four aspects . These are :

In ' Christabel ' after Geraldine enters Sir Leoline 's castle on her way to Christabel 's chamber there are several ill  omens which warn the reader about Geraldine. Pick out the phrase which does not serve as an omen :

The word resurrect is :

Match  List -- I with List -- II according to the code given below :
List  --  I                       List   --  II
I . Annie  John          1. Picaresque
II. Tom Jones            2.  Bildungsroman
III.The Sorrows of    3. Gothic Young Werther
IV.  Vathek              4. Epistolary

Ted Hughes's poem ' The Thought - Fox is :
1.   About Thought as Fox
2.   About the Fox as Thought
3.  About the process of writing poetry
4.  About Thought entering the poet 's brain like the Fox emerging from darkness
Find the most appropriate combination according to the codes :

In Aristotle 's Poetics we read that it is the imitation of an action that is complete and whole, and of a certain magnitude.......  having a beginning, a middle, and an end '.  What is ' it '?

According to Matthew Arnold,  ' touchstones ' help us test truth and seriousness that constitute the best poetry. What are the ' touchstones '?

' An extremely simplified form of language used fororal,  verbal contact among a community whose members speak different language but do not share a  common language in order to fulfil the essential needs of communication. Which of the following is best describes by this definition?

What do the prosodic features of a language tell us?

What novel answers to the following descriptions? This was a  1990 best - seller by a British writer. The work incorporates many genres such as letters, diaries and poetry as also third - person narratives. The plot here involves two time - periods --- contemporary  and
Victorian. The work is subtitled A Romance.

The following words and phrases, 'peace makers ', help-meet ', ' the fat of the land ',' a labour of love ', ' the eleventh hour ' and ' the shadow of death ' were made current by :

Who among the following writers asserted ' Commonwealt Literature ' does not exist?

Identify the one in correct chronological sequence :

Which of the following arrangements is in the correct chronological sequence?

Who is John Keats 's Sylva Historian'?

This periodical was stared in 1709 with a motive ' to expose the false arts of life, to pull the disguise of cunning, vanity and affectation and to recommend a general our behaviour. The founder of the periodical wrote under the pseudonym of Isaac Bickerstaff. The periodical described above is :

Arrange the following in the order in which the details of a research article /essay appear in your bibliography.

From the following indicate the work which is not a Dystopian :

' Unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a man as kill a good book. Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image, nut he who destroyers a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God as it were in the eye. Many a man lives a burden to the earth :but a good book is the previous life - blood of a master spirit..........., Where is the passage from?

Virginia Woolf rubbished the idea of characterand the understanding of realism of writers like Arnold Bennett, John Galsworthy and H. G. Wells. Her  famous essay is called ' Mr. Bennet and Mrs. Brown. Who is Mrs. Brown  ?

 E. M. Forster uses some recurrent images in A Passage to India.  Pick the odd one out :

' Now stop your noses, readers all and some, For here's a run of midnight - work to come, Og, from a treason - tavern rolling home.Round as a globe, and liquour'd ev'ry chink Goodly and great he rails behind his link. In the above extract from Absalom and Achitophel Og is :

D. H. Lawrence uses the expression a bright book of life ' to describe :

Identify the correctly matched group :
List  -- I                                              List  --  II
I. Where Angles                             1. Malay Fear to Tread
II. A Portrait of the Artist              2.  Russia as a Young Man 
III.  The Plunged Serpent            3. Italy
IV. An Outcast of the Islands      4.  Mexico
V. Under Western  Eyes              5. Dublin

Given below are two statements, one labelled as Assertion (A) and the other labelled as Reason (R).
Assertion (A) : Chaucer describes ' Madame Eglentyne '  thus : ' She was so charitable and so pitous ,  She Wolde  wepe,  if that she sawe a mouse caught in a trapper.
Reason (R) : On her ' broche of gold full Shane ' was written Amor Vincit Omnia.  In the context of the two statements, which one of the following is correct?

Identify the correct statements on system, and Parole below :
1.  Langue is the abstract language system the grammar of a language.
2.  Parole is the language actually produced by its user following langue.
3. Langue is the language actually produced by its user following parole.
4.  Parole is the abstract language system, the grammar of a system.

In Monica Ali's Brick Lane which among the following characters has ' a face like a frog?

' The grey - eyed morn smiles on the frowning night, Check ' ring the eastern clouds with steaks of light, And flecked darkness like a drunkard reels From forth day's path and Titan's  burning wheels.
(Romeo and Juliet II 3, 1 --  4 )       The speaker describes :

' How noble in reason!  how infinite in faculty  ! in form and moving how express and admirable  ! In action how like anange ! in apprehension how like a God  !' What does Hamlet marvel at in this passage  ?

 Said identifies Orientalism as :
1.  What an Orientalist does.
2.  A style of thought based on an onto - logical and epistemological distinction made between the Orient and the Occident.
3.  a discourse dealing with the Orient.
4. a fact of nature rather than one of human production. In the light of the statement above :

Identify the period during which the puritans under the rule of Oliver Cromwell and his Commonwealth shut down all English theatres on religious and moral grounds :

 ." To tell the truth Shug act more manly than rest,  men. I  mean she upright, honest, speak her mind............ " What light does the quotation throw on Shug Avery?

1.  A content word is not a function word.
2.  A content word has lesser meaning than a function word.
3.  A content word has no function.
4.  A. content word bears lexical meaning whereas a function word just about means functionally.
Which of these statements are correct  ?

The year  1828  is a landmark in the history of American language and literature. Identify the reason from the following :

What alternative title to her Frankenstein did Marry Shelley give?

Which of the following statements on George Lamming 's In the Castle of  My Skin  ( 1953 ) is not true?

------  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?

Which of the following is NOT a quest narrative?

The novel has a scene where African - American  students are made to compete and fight with each other as they rush for the gold coins tossed on an electric blanket . Identify the novel.

Match  List  - I  with  List  - II according to the code given below :
List  -  I                         List  -  II
( Authors)                    ( Poems)
a .  Ted Hughes         1. " The Otter "
b.   Seamus Heaney  2. " Snake"
c.  W. H. Auden          3. " Ghost Crabs "
d.  D. H. Lawrence     4. " Prevent the  Dog  from Barking with a Juicy Bone. "

His cooks with long disuse their trade forgot '.Cool was his kitchen, through his  brains were hot. Who is this character whose stinginess passed into a proverb?

" The story and the novel, the idea and the form, are the needle and thread, and I  never heard of a guild of tailors who recommended the use of the thread without the needle, or the needle without the thread ".This famous passage describing the relation of idea to form is found in

Identify the correctly matched set below :

Leopold Bloom in Ulysses is

" Late capitalism", by which is meant accelerated  technological development and the massive extension of intellectually qualified labour, was first popularised by ------------  .

Which of the following arrangements is in the correct chronological sequence?

Along the shore of silver steaming Thames :Whose ruthy bank, the which his river herms, Was painted all with variable flowers,............. Fit to deck maidens,  bowers And crow their paramous Against their bridal day, which is not long : Sweet Thames!  run softly till end my song. ( Spenser's Prothalamion) Another poet fondly recalls these lines but cannot conceal their heavily ironic tone in :

The tramp in Pinter's first big hit, The Caretaker, often travels under an assumed name. It is

Here is a list of early English plays imitating Greek and Latin plays. Pick the odd one out :

Where does Act I Scene I  of William Congreve's Way of the World open?

While " a well - boiled icicle " for " a well - oiled bicycle " is an example of Spoonerism, someone saying " Congenital food " for ' Continental food ' is an example of  ------------- .

 It is unimaginable that all the following events happened  in one year :
1. Arthur Evans discovered the first European civilization : his excavations in Crete revealed a culture that was far older than either Attic Greece or Ancient Rome.
(2)  Sir Arthur Quiller - Couch published the Oxford Book of English Verse.
(3)  Pablo Picasso stepped off the Barcelona train at Gare 'd  Oray, Paris.
(4)  Max Planck unveiled the Quantum Theory.
(5)  Hugo de Vries identified what would later come  to be called genes.
(6)  Sigmund Freud published The Interpretation of Dreams.
(7)   Coca-Cola  arrived in Britain. Identify the year :

Brother to a Prince and fellow to a beggar if he be found worthy. This is the epigraph to

Robert Graves's " In Broken Images" ends thus : He in a new confusion of his understanding : I in a new understanding of my confusion. The figure of speech here is ------------ .

The phrase " leaves dancing " is an example of  ------------- .

At the end of The Great Gatsby, the narrator Nick Carraway observes: " They were careless people ". Who were they?

William Wordsworth 's statement of purpose in publishing the Lyrical Ballads carries the following phrases. ( Complete the phrase correctly). " to choose incidents from common life and to relate or describe them, throughout, as far as possible, -----------------."

 Match  List  - I  with  List - II according to the code given below :
 List  - I               List  - II
 (.Novels)            ( Last lines)
a. Lord Jim           1. It was done, it was finished. Yes she thought laying
                                    down her brush in extreme fatigue, I have had my vision.
b.  to the              2. ' April  27. Old father old artificer, stand me now and ever
Lighthouse             In good stead...... '
c.  A passage       3. ' He feels it himself and says often that he is " preparing
to India                   to leave all this, preparing to leave,... 
                                    While he waves his hands sadly at his butterflies.
d. A Portrait of       4. " No not yet " and  the sky said,  " No, not there ".
the Artist as
a Young Man

Identify the incorrect description /s of " Sprung Rhythm " from the following :
(1)   This rhythm causes ideas to spring in our minds -hence Sprung Rhythm.
(2)  In Sprung Rhythm the feet are of equal length.
(3)    A foot may have one to four syllables in Sprung Rhythm.
(4)   Its metre is derived from metre of Anglo-Saxon poetry which was based on accent and linked by alliteration.

Who among the following propose that the unconscious comes into being only in language?

The Elizabethan Settlement established during the reign of Elizabeth  I
I.   ensured the supremacy of the Church of England.
II.  allowed Christians to acknowledge the authority of the Pope.
III.  allowed the extremer Protestants to be part of the Anglican Church.
IV.  created a group know as the Roundeads The correct combination according to the code is :

Which of the following poems by Tennyson does NOT speak of old age and death?

One English poet addressing another : They soul was like a Star, and dwelt apart : Thou hast a voice whose sound was like the sea: Pure as the naked heavens, majestic,  free So didst thou travel on life's common way, In cheerful godliness.....  Whose lines are these?  To whom  are they addressed?

Samuel Johnson's Lives of Poets ( 1781)was originally a series of introductions to the poets he wrote for a group of London publishers. They were collected as :

Which of the following is NOT mentioned in Northrop Frye's four generic plots '?

Arrange the sections of The Waste Land in the order in which they appear in the poem :
(1)  The Fire Sermon
(2)  Death by Water
(3)  A Game of Chess
(4)  What the Thunder Said
(5)  The Burial of the Dead

Sir Plume is a character in -----------  sa

Steeling herself to the murder, Lady Macbeth call on ------------- to " unsex me here ".  ( Macbeth  1.5.39 ) Choose the right option to fill in the blank :

You will find the following lines in an English poem : Thou by the India Ganges ' side Shouldst rubies find '. I by the side Of Humber would complain. Which poem?  Who is the poet? 

Teach me half the gladness That they brain must know, Such harmonious madness From my lips would flow The world should listen then, as I am listening now. Whose lines are these?  To whom are they addressed?

Match  List  - I  with  List  -  II  according to the code given below :
List -  I                                           List  -  II
( Novel)                                      ( Major symbol)
a.   Dombey and Son                   1. fog
b.   The Return of the Native      2. train
c.  Bleak  House                           3. heath
d.  Tess                                           4. mist

The following postmodernist novel has an unusual protagonist whose gender is not revealed. So much so, that we keep wondering whether that person 's relationships are homo-/ hetero - sexual :

Which novel of Graham Greene in the following list does NOT end in some form of suicide by the protagonist?

Who among the following gave a happy ending to King Lear?

Jane Austen 's Pride and Prejudice starts with the famous statement : " It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single
man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a life ".
As we get to read the novel this statement seems to be made from
 the point of view of :
I.  the surrounding families
II.  Mrs. Bennet
III.  Mr. Bennet
IV.  The woman of Jane Austen 's age and society
Find out the correct combination according to the code :

In which of the following novels Harikatha is strategically used as a medium of  'consciousness raising'?

Identify the text in the following list which offers a fictionalized survey of English Literature from Elizabethan times to 1928 :

Match  List  - I with List - II according to the code given below :
       List  --  I                           List  --  II
a.  John Ruskin          1. London Labour and the London Poor
b. Henry Mayhew       2.  The Gloden Bough
c.  Sir Charles Lyell      3. Unto The Last
d.  Sir James                4. The Principles of
George Frazer              Geology

Which of the following poems DOES NOT begin in the first person pronoun?

In his Anatomy of Melancholy Robert Burton proposes the following two principal kinds :=
I.  Love                  II.   Death
III.  Spiritual          IV.  Religious
The correct combination according to the code is :

Listed below are some English journals widely read by professionals : Screen, Critical Quarterly, Review of English, Wasafiri. One of the above founded by C. B. Cox, and now being
edited by Colin MacCabe, carries not only critical and scholarly essays in English Studies but reviews film,culture, language and contemporary political issues. Identify the journal :

In Marvell 's " A Dialogue between Soul and Body ", who / which of the following has the last word?

In Blake's poem " A Poison Tree "the speaker 's anger grows and becomes ----------------- .

Given below two statements, one labelled as Assertion (A) and other as Reason (R).
Assertion ( A) : For deconstructive critics how human beings read and interpret signs they receive will determine their modes of knowing and being  whether those signs come in the form of literary texts or bank statements.
Reason (R) : The fact of the matter is that human beings use signs to function in the world and are always likely to do so.
In the context of the two statements, which one of the following is correct?

 Ian McEwan's Saturday spans one day in the life of

The author of the book observes " I have attempted  through the medium of biography, to present some Victorian to the modern eye ". The four main character in this book are Cardinal Manning Florence Nightingale, Dr. Arnold and General Gordon. Who is this author  ?

In his attack delivered on the theatre in A Short View of the Immorality and Profaneness of the English Stage, Jeremy  Collier specially arraigned ----------- and  ------------.

I. A. Richards Practical Criticisms ( 1929 ) inaugurated a new phase in the history of English critical thought. What was this book's subtitle?

Which of the following arrangements is in the correct Chronological sequence?

Select from among the following plays, the one that best suits the description below :
I.   Alyque Padamsee invited its author to write it.
II.  The play had communalism as its theme.
III.  This play was banned from the Deccan Herald
       Theatre Festival for dealing with a sensitive issue.
IV.  The play, however, was produced by Playpen in  Bangalore on July  1993 .The play is  -----------------  .

I have known three generations of John Smiths. The type breeds true. John Smith II and III went to the same school university and learned profession as John Smith I. Yet John Smith I wrote pseudo - Swinburne '. John Smith II wrote pseudo - Brooke '. and John Smith III is now writing pseudo - Eliot. But unless John Smith can write John Smith, however unfashionable the result, why does he bother to write at all?  Surely one Swinburne : one Brooke, and one Eliot are enough in any age?
( Robert Graves, " The Poet and his Public ")
1. Graves is critical of blind adulation and imitation of  successful poets.
2. Graves is critical of blind conformity to standards set by Swinburne, Brooke, and Eliot.
3. Swinburne, Brooke, and Eliot represent the movements Decadence, the Georgian, and Modernist respectively.
4. The poets in question are Algernon Charles Swinburne, Stopford Brooke, and Thomas Stearns Eliot.

During the colonial era, the British used to call the Indian Languages vernacular. We do not use this word for bhashas because :
I.  we consider English to be equally vernacular.
II.  verna is, literally a home - born slave.
III.  not all Indian language are languages of the Indo-European family, and therefore not all vernacular.
IV.  the natives of India were never slaves.

More's Utopia displays strong influence of
I.  The Arthurian legends
II.  Ploto's Republic
III.  Amerigo Vespucci 's account of the travels
IV.  The teaching of John Wycliffe
The correct combination according to the code is :

By ' language transfer ' is meant

Which of the following descriptions is NOT true of Peter  Carey's The True History of the Kelly Gang?

Identify the poem that opens with the lines : I  walk through the long schoolroom questioning. A kind old nun in a white hood replies : The children learn to cipher and to sing  .............

Which of the following statements is NOT true of Foucault 's position in History of Sexuality?e '.

The following is an exchange between two characters, husband
and wife, in a famous play. The lines appear at the very end of an
emotionally - charged sequence of the last scene:
 " ..... I've stopped believing in miracles. " " But I'll believe. Tell me !
 Transform ourselves to the point that  ........... ?  " That our living together could be a true marriage. " (  She goes out down the hall.)
Which play?  Name the characters.

The following statements relate to the early history of the English language. Identify the set that given INCORRECT statements :
(1)  English has borrowed words such as sky. give,  law,  and  leg. from  Norse.
(2)  English has also borrowed some pronouns like they, their, them from Norse.
(3)  In grammar, Modern English is much more highly inflected than Old English.
(4)  After the Norman Conquest, French became the language of the court, the language of nobility and polite society,  and literature.
(5)  Following the Norman Conquest, French virtually replaced English as the language of the people.
(6)  Among the French words that came into English are : study, logic, grammar, noun, etc.

Choices of linguistic forms in using a language, or how a language is actually spoken/written, especially one that differs from its prescription grammar, is called .

Jamaica Kincaid 's narrative A Small Place

Identify the correctly - matched poets and  their works from the following :

William Wordsworth had a deep influence on Thomas Hardy. According to Hardy a particular poem by Wordsworth was his ' best cure for despair '. Which is that poem?

In Henry James 's Ambassadors, there is a character who never appears in the novel. We get to know about this significant person, however, from the other characters. Who is this character?

Why are Scott 's novels called " Waverly Novels "?

Which of these descriptions / statements best suits the idea of the ' Renaissance Man '?
I.  A fop, a scoundrel, who enjoys enormous power in  Renaissance courts and aristocratic families.
II.  A near - mythical figure : a knight, courtier, musician, poet, scholar and statesman.
III.  One who ploughs a lonely furrow and keeps away from politicking and scandals.
IV. Someone like Sir Philip Sydney  best suits the ideal of the Renaissance Man.

Maxim Gorky, the great Russian writer of fiction and drama, was in real life a man called  ---------- .

After the prediction of the Oracle that he was destined to Kill his father, Oedipus could have avoided patricide.
I.  had he not determined in horror never to return to the only parents he knew.
II.  had he been a man of unusual self - control.
III.  had he remembered the prediction and had he been more cautious having recognized that possible after all Polybos was not his father.
IV.  had he never struck any man who was older than himself says at the moment of provocation, ' This insolent man is grey - haired '. let him have the road '.
Find the correct combination according to the code :

 Identify the Post -  Apartheid novel by Nadine Gordimer.

The Duchess of Malfi married her steward,  Antonio. For the Elizabethan audience her marriage was a triple offence. Which of the following is NOT one?

Who among the following has written the essay, " The Indian Jugglers "?

How would you best describe George Meredith 's  Modern Love  (1862) ?

The play was written in  1881 when its author was in Italy. This is considered to be his most remarkable intellectual effort. The softening of the brain as a result of a disease inherited from his  father is the subject. Which is the play?

In many ways, grammatical categories remain mysterious. What does it mean to speak a language that in every sentence requires You to locate yourself in time, or specify your source of knowledge, or the shape of what you are talking about?  We still don't know But putting the question like this suggests a clear and limited way of interpreting the idea that different language represent different worlds.Which of the following statements on this passage interprets it most accurately?

Tolstoy 's War and Peace carries a lengthy discussion of determinism and free will in  ---------------------  .

Which from among the following is NOT true of Nagmandala?

Pick out the two relevant and correct descriptions of Caryl Churchill's Serious Money ( 1987 ) :
1. This play proposes the foundation of a monastery for the education of British gentlewoman.
2. This narrative deals with children who are sick of their " enforced idleness "
3.  This play is subtitled " City Comedy ".
4.  In this play, the state of the British economy is symbolized by a takeover bid by an international cartel.
5. This narrative details the adventures of an Anglo - Indian orphan.
6. Money is the only criterion for success for the players in this play's share-market.

Identify from among the following FALSE statements :
1.Eric Arthur Blair because the famous British novelist, George Orwell.
2.  Orwell was conversant in Hindustani and fond of Indian food.
3. Young Eric Blair lived in Mynmar's trading town, Katha.
4. This town gave him the model for the fictional district  of Kyauktada in Burmese Days.
5.  Orwell was born on June  25,  1903 in Motihari,  Bihar.
6.  The Orwell Commemorative Committee in Motihari has been demanding a restoration of Orwell 's birthplace as a heritage site.
7.  Orwell never returned to his birth place.
8.  The British journalist Ian Jack was mainly responsible for our knowledge of Orwell 's antecedents relating to Katha and Motihari.

Virginia Woolf borrowed the idea of the common reader from Dr.  Johnson. To which particular work of Johnson 's  she remain indebted?

J. M. Coetzee was the first writer to be awarded the Booker Prize twice. He won the prize for

After the Norman Conquest English because a three - language nation for at least two centuries. The three language were

Here are sentences labelled Assertion (A)  and  Reason (R) :
Assertion (A) : In Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?  George and Martha's blue and green-eyed  son is a myth.
Reason (R) : He is a creation of the couple's imagination originating from their sense of sterility and vacuum in life. In the light of (A)  and (R), which of the following is correct?

In the word rapidly, ' ly ' is an adverbial suffix indicating manner while
 rapid is a --------------------  .
 ly is a  -------------------------- .

The poet's remark on ' rhyme ' is ------------ .

The poem is cast in the form of a  -------------- .

What is the " fault " to which the speaker refers here?

What tone is most appropriate for reading this poem?

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 does Alexander Pope refer to in the following lines?
  "  Born to no pride. inheriting no strife, Nor marrying discord in a noble wife Stranger to civil and religious rege, The good man walked innoxious through his age. "

The Theory of Natural Selection is attributed to --------------------  .

Which character in William Golding 's Lord of the Flies maintains, "Life is scientific"?

Match the authors under List - I with the titles under List - II :
              List - I                               List  - II
I.  Claude Levi-Strauss      1. Of Grammatology
II. Jacques Derrida            2. The Archaeology  of Knowledge
III. Northrop  Frye             3. Structural Anthropology
IV. Michel Foucault           4. Anatomy of  Criticism 
                                                 

How did Chaucer 's Pardoner make his living?

From among the following identify Coleridge 's companion in a fanciful scheme to establish a Utopian community of free love on the banks of the Susquehaina river?

Which of the following novels by H. G. Wells is about the condition of England as Empire?

Joothan by Om Prakash Valmiki is :

Listed below are some English plays across several centuries :
Twelfth Night, She Stoops to Conquer, The Importance of Being Earnest, Pygmalion and Blithe Spirit. What is common to them,?

Who among the following wrote a poem  comparing a lover's heart to a hand grenade?

The Uncertainty Principle is attributed to :

" Jabberwocky " is a creation in  ---------------- .

Who are Didi and Gogo?

Who among the following theorists talks about " The circulation of social energy "?

How many  legends of good women could Chaucer complete in his The Legend of Good Women?

The Round Table is a collection of essays  jointly written by ------------------- .

Dylan Thomas is associated with the group  --------------------- .

Which of the following writers writes from Canada?

" The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power, And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave, Awaits alike the inevitable hour The paths of glory lead but to the grave. " What is the subject of awaits?

 " Heav'n has no rage, like love to hatred turn'd / Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd " Identify the text in which the above quote occurs :

A Young Lady's Entrance into the World is the sub-title of  ------------------- .

" The old order changeth, yielding place to new " is from  ------------------- 

Which of the following cannot be classified as fantasy fiction?

Philosophy of Symbolic Forms is a work associated with  ------------- .

Which  of the following facts is NOT true of Spenser?

William Blake developed the ideas of" Prolifics " and  " Devourers " in

Surrealism is associated with :

" And miles to go before I sleep " is a line  from a poem by :

What common link do you find among " The Disquieting Muses " by Sylvia Plath  , " The Starry Night " by Anne Sexton," Mourning Picture " by Adrienne Rich, and " Musee Des Beaux Arts " by w. H. Auden?

" All Rising to Great Place is by a -------------- staire. " ( Francis Bacon)

 In Jeremy Collier's  1698 pamphlet attacking the immorality and profaneness of the English stage, who among the following was the principal target?

Charles Dickens's visit to the United States produced ------------------- .

Who among the following is a working - class  poet?

New Science is a work associated with ----------------- .

Identify Petrarch's sonnet sequence from among the following :

The island setting of Latmos figures in Keats's :

The Artist Hero is a theatrical creation emphasized by  ---------------- .

Which of the following African writers won the Nobel Prize for Literature?

" My lute,  be as thou wert when thou didst grow
 With they green mother in some shady groove " ------  William Drummond The above quite is an example of  ------------------- .

This work was a satire in Ottava rima ,attacking George III and Robert Southey. Identify the poem :

Here's a famous exchange from Arthur Conan Doyle's Silver Blaze:
' Is there any point to which you would wish to draw my attention?  ' To the curious incident of the dog in the night - time.'  The dog did nothing in the night - time. 'What was Sherlock Holmes ' response?

" The shrill, demented choirs of waiting shells, And bugles calling for them from sad shires. " These lines are from Wilfred Owen's :

In Aphra Behn's Oronooko, how does the titular character die?

The narrative of this novel is a meticulous, present - tense account of a woman with a death - wish who plots the circumstances of her own violent murder Identify the novel.

The library where the " Battle of Books " takes Place is ------------------- .

In Sophocles ' Oedipus Rex the first scene finds Oedipus :

Who among Shakespeare's contemporaries did not write tragedies?

The Kite Runner a novel by Khaled Hosseini tells the story of ----------------.

Thomas Babington Macaulay, the write of the infamous Minute of 1835 , finds a mention in Salman Rushdie 's :

The issue of privileging speech over writing was taken up for discussion in Plato 's :

 ' The Medium is the Message 'is a concept given by :

Seamus Heaney's famous poem " Digging " forms a path of his celebrated collection called

The first major report on  The Teaching of English in England was published in 1921. It is known as -------------, named after the Chair, Board of  Education,  -------------------.

Who first developed the notion of ' competence ' in language studies?

The fruit was eaten. The fruit is ripening. Which of the following statement (s)  is/are Correct?
1. English has two kinds of participle : the  present and the past.
2.  English has three kinds of participle : the present, the past and the future.
3.  The first sentence here is an example of a verb in past participle.
4. The first sentence here is an example of a verb in the perfect tense.
5. The second sentence here is an example of a verb in present participle.
6. The second sentence here is an example of a verb in the continuous tense.

In  1722 the Crown awarded a certain English merchant a patent to manufacture copper coins for Ireland. Jonathan Swift intervened by way of composing a series of letters in response, better Know as The Drapier's Letters. Who was the merchant?

" While the world moves In appentency on its metalled way of time past and time future " These lines are from :

The following is the stage - description of an opening scene of a famous modern play : A basement room. Two beds, flat against the back wall. A serving hatch, closed, between the beds. A door to the kitchen and lavatory,left. A door to a passage, right.

 ' Homonyms ' are words that --------------------

Match the columns :
Shakespearean Actors              Period
I.   David  Garrick              1. The  19th  century
II.  John  Gielgud              2.  The 18th  century
III.  Henry Irving                3.  The Restoration
IV.  Thomas Betterton      4. The  20th  century

In his " Structure, Sign, and  play in the Discourse of the Human Sciences, " Derrida is all praise for the bricoleur whom Levi- Strauss sees as a supreme methodologist,"  someone who uses ' the means at hand '".,Who does Levi-Strauss contrast bricoleur with in terms of method and approach?

Heinrich Boll has something to say, and not of course merely something about the Germans. He says it several times. A common weakness of writers with something to say is their inability to understand that saying it four times is not necessarily four times as effective as saying it once. But to have something to say  ----- how rare this is  ! -----  D. J. Enright, " Three New Germans " From a reading of the above, the reader can deduce :
I.  Enright mildly disapproves of Heinrich Boll's saying not merely something about Germans.
II.  Enright is disappointed that Heinrich Boll has practically nothing to say about people other than Germans.
III.  Enright agrees that Heinrich Boll shares a weakness with writers who prefer saying something four times to saying it once.
IV. Enright does not believe that saying something four times will necessarily make the same effective. The right combination, according to the code is: 

Michel Foucault 's earlier " archaeological " study is found in :

Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison is widely  recognized as a masterpiece. It is also one of the finest examples of :

Match the following correctly :
  List  -  I                                 List  -  II
I.  Mulk Raj Anand            1. Premashram
II.  Raja Rao                       2. The Cat and Shakespeare
III. Prem Chand               3. Coolie
IV. Girish Karnad            4. Nagamandala

From which of Sheridan's plays the followingextract is taken?
Lady Sneerwell  :  Why truly Mrs. Clackitt has a very pretty talent and a great deal of industry.
Snake  :   True, Madam, and has been tolerably successful in her day. To my knowledge she has been the cause of six matches being broken off and three sons disinherited, of four forced elopements ................
Lady Sneerwell :   She certainly has talents be her manner is gross.

Who, from among the following, has NOT been discussed by Simon-de-Bevior in " The Myth of Woman in Five Authors" in The Second Sex?

In a collection of essays Orhan Pamuk share how he writes his novels, tells about his friendship with his daughter, talks about his loneliness and happiness. Identify the text :

Two of the following plays won the Sultan Padamsee Prize for Indian plays in English :
I.  Princess
II.  Where There's a Will
III.  Larins Sahib
IV.  Doongaji House
The right combination according to the code is:

Who among the following is NOT an Australian writer?

After Independence, Mulk Raj Anand, wrote a number of semi-autobiographical works to narrate chunks of his own life through a fictional persona. The name he gave this persona is  -------------------- .

What a mockery this. Of history, the past and that to come  ! Now do feel how all men are deceived,Reading of nations and their, in faith, Faith given to vanity and emptiness..... The prelude The above extract is from

While foregrounding the marginal presence of women in history in A Room of One's Own, Virginia Woolf refers to -----------  History of England.

Salonie is a play written by Oscar Wilde written in :

In More's Utopia, the fictional traveller Raphael Hythloday's second name in Greek means :
(1)  Dispenser of Justice
(2)  Dispenser of Nonsense
(3)  Dispenser of Grace
(4)  Dispenser of Mercy 

" you do not dwell in me nor I in you however much I pander to your name These lines from Geoffrey Jill's " Lachrimae" address :

The author of Black Skin, White Masks is :

Match the following :
       Poet                       Bird
I.  John Keats             1. Hawk
II.  P. B. Shelley          2. Falcon
III.  G. H. Hopkins       3. Skylark
IV.  Ted  Hughes        4.  Nightingale

Who of the following has written the novel The Return?

Who among the following is a well - know Neo - Aristotelian critic?

Assertion (A)  : The act of reading a text is  both determinate and indeterminate.
Reason (R) : Since our reading includes both a sense of the unity the narrative held in place at the end and the different wishes and guesses made along the way.

Girish Karma's Hayavadana, originally in Kannada, has been translated into English by

Edward Said's well - know book Orientalism was published in :

" To the Memory of my Beloved, the Author Mr. William Shakespeare : And What He Hath Left Us" is an ode composed by :

Call me Ishmail Tonight is written by :

" All fiction for me is a kind of magic or trickery --  a confidence trick. " The statement has been made by :

Here is a list of American words and word - makers, Match the following :
I.     H. L. Mencken           1. Babbit
II.    Philip Wylie                 2. Yes man
III.    Jack Conway          3. Bible belt
IV.    Sinclair Lewis         4. Monism

Which of the following in Jacques Derrida 's epigraph to his "Structure, Sign and play in the Discourse of the Human Science "?

In Mann's Death in Venice, death of the protagonist occurs :

Two among the following poets wrote the  " Village "poems that address the perennial theme of rural poverty :
I.   Oliver Goldsmith
II.  William  Collins
III.  Samuel Johnson
IV.  George Gabbe
The right combination according to the code is :

In which of the following works Yeats developed his theory of ' gyres'?

Mystery and Miracle plays in English were based on  --------------------- .

When we rewite a piece of discourse from one script into another  it is called  ------------ .

" No wonder then. " Explain.

The term " womanism " was first used by :