In " Tradition and Individual Talent ", according to  T.S. Eliot, the term " Traditional " usually means

Who of the following is a Cavalier poet?

Which of the following is not Jacques Derrida's work?

In Paradise Lost which character narrates the story of the making of Eve from a rib in Adam's side?

A. S. Byatt's Possession attempts the imitation of the work of two Victorian poets, loosely  based on
I.  Alfred  Tennyson
II.  Robert  Browning
III.  Christina  Rossetti
IV.  William Morris
The right combination according to the code is

The Dark Lady of the Sonnets is a short comedy by

John Milton's description of gold as a " precious bane" ( Paradise Lost, Book II,) is best  described as

There is a play on the name of Machiavelli in the prologue to Christopher Marlowe's

Shakespeare famously neglects to observe Aristotle 's rules concerning the three dramatic unities,  and Samuel Johnson undertakes to defend Shakespeare from these criticisms in his Preface to Shakespeare. Which of the Aristotelian dramatic unities does Johnson believe Shakes to observe most successfully

 Who among the following was praised and patronized as a " Ploughman Poet "?

Which novel of Doris Lessing ends with a projection forward in time after a devastating atomic war  ?

Name the dominant meter of the following quatain : The curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea,  The plowman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves the world to darkness and to me.

Which two novels of Buchi Emecheta provide a fictionalized portrait of poor, young Nigerian woman struggling to bring up their children in London?
I.  The Slave Girl
II.  The Joys of Motherhood
III.  Second Class Citizen
IV.  In the Ditch
The right combination according to the code is

In John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress who keeps Christian's head above water in the River of Death?

Childe Harold's Pilgrimage is a

In Thomas More's Utopia which of the following leisure pastimes is not a favorite among Utopians?

Which of the following statements does not describe Michel Foucault 's position?

In which year did the Great Exhibition taken place?

When Fidessa says, " but I fear the fickle freakes..... / of fortune false, and oddes of armes in field " ( Faerie Queene, Book I,  Canto 5 ), this is a fine example of

Match the work with author :
a. " The Excursion "      1.  S. T. Coleridge
b. " Christabel "             2.  P. B. Shelley
c.  Milton                       3.  William Wordsworth
d.  Queen Mab              4.  William Blake                                             
 

Which of the following phrases is not found  in Thomas Gray's "Elegy written in a Country Churchyard "?

Robert Browning 's " Rabbi Ben Ezra "is a defence of

 In Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, the pilgrims, like the medieval society of which  they are a part are made up of three social groups or " estates ". What are the three  estates?

Which novel of Toni Morrison tells the wrenching story of a protagonist who murders her child rather than to allow him/her to live as a slave?

Who among the following translated Homer?

Shyam Selvadurai's Funny Boy is a

When was the English ban on James Joyce's Ulysses lifted?

Who among the following is not an imagist?

Thomas Carew's Poems appeared in print in 1640 and contain a variety of amorous addresses to and reflections on,  a fictional mistress known as

Match the novelists with their work :
a.  William  Golding         1. Grimus
b.  Salman Rushdie          2.  Hawksmoor
c.  Graham  Swift             3. Darkness Visible
d.  Peter Ackroyd             4. Waterlamd

Which of W. M. Thackeray's novel's closing sentence is this?
"  Which of us is happy in this world?  Which of us has desire?  Or, having it, is satisfied? "

Why does Lovewit in Ben Jonson's play The Alchemist leave his house, setting the stage for his servant Face, along with Subtle, a fake  alchemist to fleece people?

By the end of the nineteen fifties novelists like Stan Barstow, Sid Chaplin, Alan Sillitoe and David Storey were routinely lumped together as representatives of " Kitchen - sink realism " Who in  1954 wrote the article " The Kitchen Sink ", calling attention to the gritty and direct realism?

Which of the following is not an allegorical character in the play Everyman?

Who among the following translators is notable as the first translator of Bhagavad Gita into English?
(1)  Charles  English
(2)  Nathaniel  Halhead
(3)  William Jones
(4)  Barbara  Stoler Miller Who among the following translators is notable as the first translator of Bhagavad Gita into English?

In Biographia Literaria S. T. Coleridge defines the imagination as the faculty by which

Why do the Houyhnhnms have so few words in their language?

Identify the title of  A. D. Hope's first published book of poems.

Which of the following is an incorrect assumption in language teaching?

The Bhasmasura myth is used in  R. K. Narayan's.........................  .

During the Middle English period, many words were borrowed from languages :
I.  Celtic
II.  Latin
III. French
IV.  Old Norse
The right combination according to the code  is

Select the right chronological sequence of the date of Bible translations.

The last word in James Joyce's Finnegans Wake is

Assertion (A) : In so far as we are taught how to read, what we engage are not texts but paradigms.
Reason (R) : We appropriate meaning from a text according to  what we need or desire, or in other words, according to the critical assumptions or predis- positions that we bring to it.

One of the key terms in Michel Foucault 's work is discourse. This is best described  as

The narrators of Oroonoko are
I.  a woman
II.  Oroonoko
III.  a purported eyewitness of the events described
IV.  Trefy
The right combination according to the code is

Which character of Henrik Ibsen speaks the following lines : " The life of a normally constituted idea is generally about seventeen or eighteen years, at the most twenty? "

In literary studies structuralism promotes

P. B. Shelley's Julian and Maddalo is a conversation between Julian and Count Maddalo. Who do these two characters represent?

What is practical criticism?

Which of the following does not describe some of the practices /beliefs of feminis literary criticism?

Which work by Franz Kafka is also known as The Man Who Disappeared?

Towards the end of Evelyn Waugh's A Handful of Dust the protagonist Tony Last is trapped in the jungle by the calculating crazy Mr. Todd who forces him to read and reread the novels of a particular author. Waugh has also written a short story dealing with Tony's Singular experience in the jungle. Who is the novelist referred to and what is the title of the short story?

 At the beginning of the Restoration period, there was a seismic shift in the social, political and religious attitudes of the English. Which of the following statements best describes that shift?

The Grammar-Translation Method in English Language Teaching stresses on

"( They)  then heaved out,/away with a will in their wood - wreathed ship. " This line describing Beowulf 's departure from Geatland, is typica of the poem's form and Old English poetic technique because
I.  it features alliteration
II.  it rhymes
III.  it features onomotopoeia
IV.  it has four strong stresses
The right combination according to the code is

Identify the poet, translator, publisher and essayist who founded a press in the  1950s  called Writers ' Workshop and provided a publishing outlet for Indians writing in English.

Antagonised by what considered to be the Provinciality of the Lake Poets, Byron wrote the preface to which of his works as a rebuke to Wordsworth's own introduction to " The Thorn "?

Which of the following theoretical movements claimed that "the device is the only hero of literature "?

In Jean Francois Lyotrad's works the term "  language games ", sometimes also called " phrase regimens " denotes :
I.  the multiplicity of communities of meaning
II.  the breakdown of communities of meaning
III.  the innumerable and incommensurable separate systems in which meaning are produced.
IV.  the singular system in which meaning are dispersed and displaced. The right combination according to the code is

What part of Canada is Alice Munro most famous for depicting?

In John Gay's Beggar's Opera what is Peachum's occupation?
I.  Pimp
II.  Lawyer
III.  Fencer of stolen goods, and master of a gang of thieves
IV.  Impeader of less powerful criminals The right combination according to the code  is

In the opening stanza of " Song of Myself ', Whitman begins his spiritual awakening at the age of........................   .

In which of the following poems does Tennyson describe and condemn the spirit aestheticism whose sole religion is the worship of beauty and of knowledge for their own sake and which ignores human responsibility and obligations of one's fellowmen?

In a poem in memory of Major Robert Gregory, Lady Gregory's son, W. B. Yeats mentions an Irish writer who had found his inspiration " In a most desolate stony place " that he came " Towards nightfall upon a race/ passionate and simple like his heart. " Who is the writer?

Jacques Derrida's work received some criticism from analytical philosophers. Who below was a critic Derrida?

Who among the following bought and renovated the house of the Anglican poet  George Herbert, near Salisbury, England, in  1996 ?

Which pair of novels by Anita Desai take as their subject the suppression and oppression of Indian women?
I.  Where Shall We Go Summer?
II.  The Zigzag Way
III.  Cry, the Peacock
IV.  Baumgartner's Bombay
The right combination according to the code is

From among the following identify the two Indian English authors who received appreciation and encouragement from their British counterparts :
I. R. K. Narayan, Graham Greene
II.  Nirad C. Chaudhuri, Evelyn Waugh
III.  Mulk Raj Anand,  E. M. Forster
IV.  Raja Rao, Iris Murdoch
The right combination according to the code is

This poet was accidently killed in Burma by a pistol shot in 1944. His posthumously published collection of poems Ha ! Ha ! Among the Trumpets is divided into three sections. The first section describes a tense, waiting England and  the second the voyage to the East. In the third section he uncomfortably comes to terms with the alien contours, the harsh light and the dry wastes of India as evident in poems like " The Maratta Ghats ", " Indian Day! " and  " Observation post : Forward Area ". Who is the poet?

As Adam and Eve leave Paradise, " hand in  hand with wand ' ring steps and slow " ( Book  XII, Paradise Lost)  what is their consolation?

In An Essay of Dramatic Poesy to whom does Dryden refer with the phrase " he needed not  the spectacles of books to ready Nature "?

Emily Dickinson's use of " open form " or free verse " is comparable to her contemporary American  poet.

In " A Letter of the Authors " Edmund Spenser writes that two characters in Faerie Queene  represent Queen Elizabeth. Who are they?
I.   Britomart                      II.  Cynthia
III.   Belphoebe                 IV.  The Faerie Queene
The right combination according to the code  is

Who among the following African novelists was a student of philosophy and literature in India  ?

In particular william Blake was influenced  by the religious writings of
I..   Martin Luther
II.   Jacob  Boehme
III.  Emanuel  Swedenborg
IV.   Confucius
The right combination according to the code is

Which British King, having defeated the Viking invaders, consciously used the English language to create a sense of  national identity and retain political control over independent countries?

In " Politics and the English Language " George Orwell provides a list of rules to aid in curing the English language. What is the  final rule?

In his Defence of Poesy what is the " best and most accomplished kind of poetry " in Sidney's estimation?

Which writer of the Romantic period makes the following comment : The poet is far from dealing only with these subtle and analogical truths. Truth of every kind belongs to him, provided it can bud into any kind of beauty, or is capable of being illustrated and impressed by poetic faculty"?

In his poem " Whispers of Immortality " R. S. Eliot says that a dramatist "was much possessed by death / And saw the skul beneath the skin " and a poet " knew the anguish of the narrow / The ague of the skeleton " .Who are the dramatist and the poet referred to by Eliot?

Functional Communicative Approach in English Language Teaching is in opposition to

According to Julia Kristeva, it is the eruption  of the.............. within the.................. that provides the creative and innovative impulse of modern poetic language.

In Crime and Punishment which character speaks the following words. Who / what are they addressed to? "  I waited for you impatiently...... all thus blasted psychology is a double -edged weapon.

What three Germanic tribes invaded Britons in the fifth century  AD,  bringing with them the roots of modern English?

 Which of the following is not a part of the series of poems called Jejuri, written by Arun Kolatkar?

Bertolt Brecht's concept of alienation was a rejection of the idea that realism was the only mode of art a critique of capitalist society should, produce. Alienation is best described as

Ngugi wa Thiongo changed the medium of his writing from English to......  ........ ......    .

Which of the following ancient critics does Alexander Pope commend as exemplary in Essay on Criticism?

Which of the following poem by Philip Larkini is best described as a self - elegy anticipating the poet's death?

To refer to the unresolvable difficulties a text may open up, Derrida makes use of the term.

Who, among the following English play wrights, scripted the film Shakespeare in Love ?

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

Which of the following employs a narrative structure in which the main action is relayed at second hand through an enclosing frame story?

The Irish Dramatic Movement was heralded by such figures as

Which poem by Chaucer was written on the death of Blanche, Wife of John of Gaunt?

The Tragedy of Ferrex and Porrex is the other title of

Who of the following poets is Australian?

"He found it ( English)  brick and left it marble ", remarked one great writer on another. Who were they?

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  :

The predominant tone and thrust of Jonathan  Swift 's '" A Modest Proposal " are

 I sit in one of the dives On Fifty Second Street, Uncertain and afraid As the clever hopes expire,  Of a low dishonest decade. So begins Auden's "  September  1,  1939 ". What is the meaning of the word in italics?

C. K. Ogden and I. A. Richards were reputed in the 1930s for introducing

In which of the following works does Mrs.  Malaprop appear?

Which of the following statements about Christopher Marlowe are true?
1.  Edward II was written in the last year of Marlowe's life.
2.  Many critics consider Doctor Faustus to be Marlowe 's best play.
3.  His Spanish Tragedy comes a close second.
4.  Marlowe was less educated than Shakespeare.

" Art for Art ' s  Sake " because a rallying cry for.

Confessions of an English Opium Eater is a literary work by

Which of the following statements about The Canterbury Tales is true?

Who among the following was a Catholic novelist, an Intelligence Officer, a film critic and set his fictions in far - away places wrecked by political conflicts?

List  --  I                                                            List  --  II 
i.Good sense is the  body of poetic     1. Brooks," The Formalist  Critic "
genius                                                     
II. Poetry is the breath and  a finer       2. Sidney, Defence/An Apology for Poetry
spirit of all Knowledge.                               
III.  Literary  criticism is a description   3. Wordsworth,Preface to Lyrical Ballads
and evolution of its object         
IV. Nature never set forth the earth in as   4. Coleridge, Biographia  Literaria 
rich a tapestry as diverse poets have done 

In which of the following travel books does Mark Twain give an account of his visit to India?

William Blake's famous poems such as " London ", " The Sick Rose " , and " The Ryget " appear in

Who among the following English artists illustrated  the novels of Dickens and Scott?

The last of Gulliver 's Travels is to

Madam Merle is a character in

In which of the following scenes of The Waste Land do we have departure from Standard English?

The words " If it were done when its done, then were well/It  were done quickly.....  "  are uttered by

John Dryden 's Absalom and Achotophel a

The term ' the comedy of menace ' is associated with the early plays of

Examine the following statements and identify  one of them which is not true.

Name the poet who choose his successor and the successor - poet whom Dryden satirises in his famous poem.

" -----------  comes,  can ----- be far behind? " (  Shelley,  " Ode to the West Wind ")

The following passages ate the very first lines of well - know  works,  Match the lines and the works :
I.  Let us go then, you and I........
II.  Call me Ishmael  .........
III.  When shall we three meet again?
IV.  He wish disappeared in the dead of winter
V.  I wish either ..... be got me  .......
1.   Moby  Dick
2.   Macbeth
3. " The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock "
4.    Tristram Shandy
5.   " In Memory of W. B. Yeats "

Which of the following is not a revenge tragedy?

What is a neologism  ?

Which of the following is not true of Edward Said 's Orientalism?

Thomas Love Peacock classified poetry into 4  periods. They are :

Which among the following novels has more than one ending?

" You have seen how a man was made a slave " you shall see how a slave was made a man " is an example of

Which of the following statements is NOT correct?

Material feminism studies inequality in terms of

Who among the following is not an Irish writer?

Entries in The Diary of Samuel Pepys begins after

In a poem, a line may either be end stopped or

Which of the following poets wrote the essay " Naipaul 's India and Mine "?

Match the following :
I.  James Joyce                1.  Peter Ackroyd
II. T. S. Eliot                       2.  James Boswell
III.  Life of Johnson          3.  Samuel  Johnson
IV.  Lives of Poets           4.  Richard  Ellman

" The pen is mightier than the sword " is an  example of

An  epilogue is

In Ben Jonson's Volpone, the animal imagery includes
1.  the fox and the vulture
2.  the fly and the cockroach
3.  the fly,  the crow and the raven
4.  the fox,  the vulture and the goat

Salman Rushdie 's  "Imaginary  Homelands" is  ------------------------  .

Identify the incorrect statement below :
1. BASIC was an experiment initiated by C. K. Ogden and I. A. Richards from  1926  to about  1940 .
2.  Expanded,  BASIC read: Broadly Ascertained Scientific International Course.
3.  BASIC English was an attempt to reduce the number of
essential words to  850 .
4.  While keeping to normal constructions, BASIC failed as as an
experiment because its documents were far too complicated and technical to understand.

Items in a published book appear in the following order .

Match the following  :
I.  James Thomas,  Oliver Goldsmith                                    1.  Metaphysical  poets
William Cowper,  George Crabbe                                   
II.  George Herbert,  Henry Vaughan,
 Andrew Marvell,  Abraham  Cowley  John Donne           2. Transitional Poets
III.  Rupert Brooke,  Wilfred Owen,  
Siegfried Sassoon,  Edmund Blunden,  Robert  Graves   3.  War  Poets
IV.  W. H. Davies,  Walter de la  Mare,
John Drinkwater,  Rupert  Brooke                                         4.  Georgians

The following phrases from Shakespeare have become the
     title of famous works. Identify the correctly matched group.
I.  Pale Fire                                                                     1.  Thomas Hardy
II. The Sound and  the Fury.                                           2.  Somerset Maugham
III.  Rosencrantz and  Guildenstern are  Dead            3.  William  Faulkner
IV.  Under the Greenwood  Tree                                    4.  Tom Stopped
V.  Of Cakes and Ale                                                        5. Vladimir Nabokov

Identify the statement that is NOT TRUE among those that explain " stage directions " in drama.

 The emergence of the concept of " World literature "  is associated with :
1.  Friedrich Schiller
2. Johann Wolfgang von  Goethe
3.  Johann Goltfried Herder
4.  Immanuel Kant

Gunter Grass's Tin Drum is part of a trilogy known as the Danzig trilogy. The other two novels are :

The hostess proudly announces that the family can afford a servant and her daughters have nothing to do with the Kitchen. Who is the proud mother in this Jane Austen novel?

When Keats writes about the " beaker full " of " The blushful Hippocrene ", Hippocrene is :

Which of the following statements on The Prelude by William Wordsworth is / are not true?
1. The Prelude was published posthumously.
2. In this poem, Wordsworth records his development as a post.
3.  The poem runs to 14 books : at  crucial stage the poet celebrates the sublime natural scenery in developing his spiritual, moral and imaginative nature.
4.  Poems like " Michael ", " The Old Cumberland Beggar ", " She dwelt among the untrodden ways ", " Nutting " etc. are the highlights of  this volume.

Assertion (A) : At the end of Heart of Darkness, Marlow tells a lie to the Intended about Kurtz when he tells " The last word he pronounced was  ---- your name ".
Reason (R) : Marlow tells this lie because he is secretly in love with the Intended and tells her what she wants to hear.

Ear - training in ELT is easily achieved by
1.  composition
2.  dictation
3.  cloze tests
4.  listening exercises
5.  precis writing

William Shakespeare 's Julius Caesar, Antony and Cleopatra and Coriolanus are based on ---------- .

The basic concept that creation was ordered  that every species exists in a hierarchy of status, from God to the lowest creature, was prevalent in the Renaissance. In this hierarchical continuum, man occupies the middle position between the animal kinds and the angels. This world view is known as :

 In Virginia Woolf 's To the Lighthouse the lighthouse does not symbolize

." Can one imagine any private soldier, in the nineties or now,  reading Barrack - Room Ballads and feeling that here was a writer to do so. (......) When he is writing not of British but of " " loyal " Indians he carries the ' Salaam, Sahib ' motif to some times disgusting lengths. Yet it remains true that he has far more interest in the common soldier, far more anxiety that he shall get a fair deal, than most of the " liberals " is neglected, meanly underpaid and hypocritically despised by the people whose incomes he safeguards ".

In the well-known poem  "  To his coy mistress ", the word coy means

From the following list, identify " back formation ":. Sulk,  bulk,  stoke,  poke,  swindle,  bundle,.

" It blurs distinctions among literary,  non - literary and cultural texts, showing how all three intercirculate, share in, and mutually constitute each ". What does "it" in this  statement stand for?

For, thought, I 've  no idea. What this accoutred frowsty  ------- is worth, it pleases me to stand in silence here. ( Fill in the blank)

Which of the following novels is NOT a Partition novel?

Of the following characters,  which one does not belong  to A House for Mr. Biswas?

 In English literature, the trope of the Vampire was used for the first time by

Why is " Universal grammar " so called?

Identify the novel with the wrong subtitle listed below.

Match  List  -  I with List  -  II.
          List  --  I.                    List  --  II
I.   David  Malouf          1. The Solid Mandala
II.   Patrick White         2.  Wild Cat Falling
III.  Peter Carey            3. Remembering Babylon
IV  Colin Johnson         4. True History of the Kelly Gang 

The opening sentence of Tolstoy 's Anna Karenina, " Happy families are all alike, every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way ". The specific cause of of the unhappiness in Oblonsky 's house was the husband 's  affair with :

This periodical had the avowed  intention " to enliven morality  .......  to bring philosophy out of the closets and libraries, schools and colleges,  to dwell in clubs assemblies, at tea-tables and coffee houses ". It also promoted family, marriage and courtesy. The periodical under reference is

Assertion (A) : " Tam  O' Shanter " by John Clare is about the
experience of an ordinary human being and became quite popular during that time.
Reason (R) :  John Clare, having suffered bouts of madness, could really feel for the misery of common man. In the context of the two statements, which of the following is correct.?

 What  is  register?

.  Jeremy Collier's Short View of the Immorality and Profaneness of the English Stage  ( 1698 ) attached  ----------------- .

One of the most important themes the speakers debate in Dryden's An Essay on Dramatic Poesy is ---------------  .

Identify the correctly matched pair :

Match the following correctly
 I.   Langue/Parole.                        1. Noam Chomsky
II.  Competence  /  Performance 2.  C. S. Pierce
III.  Ironic / Indexical                       3. Ferdinand de saussure
IV.  Readerly / Writerly                   4.  Roland Barthes

Match the following
I.   Joy Kogawa             1.  Bloody Rites
II.   M. G.                           2.  Obasan Vasanjee
III.  Sky Lee                       3.  The Gunny  Sack
IV. Arnold                          4.  Disappearing  Itwaru Moon Cafe

Why does Jean Baudrillard adopt Disneyland as his own sign?

Which of the following statements is NOT  TRUE of Dante Gabriel Rossetti?

Goethe's Faust ( Part I,   Scene 1 ) opens in

" Is it their single-mind -sized skulls or a trained Body,  or genius, or a nesful of brats  Gives their days this bullet and automatic purpose  ......." ( Thrushes)  In the above lines what does ' their refer to and what quality of ' their ' does the poet speak of?
1.   Human beings and their intelligence
2.  The thrushes and their concentration in achieving what they set out for
3.  The efficiency of the thrushes in getting at their prey
4.   All of the above

Find the odd ( wo) man out Belladonna -- Engenides -- The  Typist -- Marie -- Madame Sosostris - the  ruinbibber -- Tiresias -- the Youngman  Carbuncular

Wilkie Collins's novel,  The Moonstone ( 1868) tells the story of  ----------  .

.  Identify the correctly matched group.
I.   " Because I  could not  stop for death..........   1.  Walt Whitman
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. Robert  Frost

" Now stop your noses,  readers, all and some, For here 's a run of midnight - work to come, Oh, from a treasontavern rolling home. Round as a globe and liquor'd e ' vry chunk,  Goodly and great he rails behind his link ".In the above passage from Absalom and Achitophel, link means

Which among the following is NOT a typical "  Indian English Poem " Nissim Ezekiel?

Match the correct pair :
I.   George  Eliot                1.  Ellis  Bell
II.  Saki                                 2.  Mary  Anne Evans
III.  Emily Bronte                3.  Samuel  Langhorne Clemens
IV.  Mark Twain.                 4. H. H. Munro

In Canto  17  of the Inferno,  the  monster Geryon represents.............

I - A. Richards 's famous experiment with poems and his Cambridge students is detailed in Practical Criticism  :  A  Study of Literary Judgement  ( 1929 ). Richards was astonished by

Based on the following description,  identify the text in reference. This is a play in which no one comes, no one goes, nothing happens. In its opening scene a man struggles hard to remove his boot. The play was originally written in French,  later translated into English. It was first performed in  1953.

One of the following Canterbury Tales is in prose,  identify.

In  his distinction between imagination and fancy, Coleridge identifies the following :
1.  it dissolves,  diffuses,  dissipates,  in order to recreate.
2.   it has aggregative and associative power.
3.   it plays with fixities and definites.
4.  it has shaping and  modifying. The correct combination reads :

 Julia kristeva's ' Intertextuality ' derives from :
1.   Saussure 's signs
2.  Chomsky 's deep structure
3.  Bakhtin's dialogism
4.  Derrida 's difference

Ralph Ellison enjoys subverting myths about white purity through characters  like :
1.   Norton             2.  Bledsoe
3.  Rhinehart.         4.  All of these

 Which of the following is NOT TRUE of Ralph Waldo Emerson?

" Exorcism " is the title of Act III of " Who 's Afraid of Virginia Woolf "? What is the significance of ' exorcism " in the context of the play.

 " Womanist is to feminist as purple is to lavender " This is an important statement defining the womanist perspective advanced by

 Identify the mismatched pair in the following where characters in Golding's Lord of the Flies fit the allegorized pattern of virtues  and vices.

A  Subalten perspective is one where

1." Interlanguage " is a term we owe to  M. A. K. Halliday.
2.    Interlanguage develops an autonomous and selfcontained grammatical system.
3.   It is a distinct stage in a learner's progress in the study of a second language.
4.   It owes nothing at all either to the learner's native ortarget / second language.

In a classic statement that inaugurated Feminist thought in English we read : " A woman writing thinks back through her mothers "Where does this occur?

Identify the correctly matched pair of translators and  translations.
I. A. K. Ramanujan             1. The Ramayana
II. Manmathanath  Dutt     2.  The Bhagavad  Gita
III.  Mohini Chatterjee       3.  Speaking of Shiva
IV.  Romesh Chandra        4.  The Mahabharata Dutt

Assertion (A) : In The Power and the Glory, Greene shows how the Whisky Priest transcends his weakness for drink and his human fears, moving towards martyrdom.
Reason (R) : Transcendence in Greene's novels is generally an outcome of love for humanity, but pride is also an essential ingredient in the Priest's character.

Which of the following statements on John Dryden is incorrect?
1.  John Milton and John Dryden were contemporaries.
2.  Dryden was a Royalist, while Milton fiercely opposed monarchy.
3.  Dryden wrote a play on the Mughal Emperor Humayun.
4.  Dryden was appointed the Poet Laureate of England in  1668 .

" Like walking, criticism is a pretty nearly universal art : both  require a constant intricate shifting and catching of balance : neither can be questioned much in process : and few perform either really well. For either a new terrain is fatiguing and awkward, and in our day most men prefer paved walks and  some form of rapid transport - some easy theory or overmastering dogma. " ( R. P. Blackmur, " A Critic's Job of Work ")
1.  Blackmur compares walking with criticism because he considers both to be " arts " of a similar kind that call  for attention to detail and utmost care.
2.  Blackmur admits that some people do however manage to be good critics and good walkers.
3.  Critics prefer tried and tested approaches for much the same reason as Walkers would look for paved walks and  rapid transport.
4.  Blackmur does not quite give us the equivalents of " Some paved walks and some form of rapid transport " in order to press his companion.

The world dominated by cold and hypocritical materialists is represented by William Blake in the mythological  figure of  ------------------  .

Identify the correctly matched group  :

Which of the following can be best described as :  (i)  the first  statement of Bernard Shaw's idea of Life Force : (ii)  a play dealing with a woman 's pursuit of her mate : and  (iii)  a play whose third act called " Don Juan in Hell" is both unconventional and hilarious?

Identify the untrue statement on the CONTACT ZONE below :

Name the novel in which 
I.     the protagonist is a war veteran called Tayo.
II.   Toya reruns from World War II,  thoroughly disillusioned and haunted by his violent actions of war time.
III.  Toya seeks consolation and counsel from old Betonie.
IV.  The protagonist realizes the importance of harmonizing  humanity and the universe.

One of the following poems in Men and Women is addressed to Elizabeth Barrett Browning by the poet. Identify it.

Match List --  I with List -- II  according to the codes given below :
         List  --  I                        List  --  II
I.  Tennessee Williams      1.   Emperor Jones
II.  Eugene  O'Neill             2. A Streetcar Named Desire
 III.  Lorraine  Hansberry   3. After the Fall
IV.  Arthur  Miller                4. A Raisin in the Sun

In Pinter's Birthday Party, Stanley is given a birthday present. What is it ?

How does Lord Jim end ?

"Where I lacked a political purpose, I wrote lifeless books," To which of the following authors can we attribute the above admission?

Modernism has been described as being concerned with "Disenchantment of our culture with culture itself ". Who is the critic?

"Only that film, which fluttered on the grate, Still flutters there, the sole unquiet thing." The above lines are quoted from

Which one of the following modern poems employs ottava rima?

John Dryden in his heroic tragedy All for Love takes the story of Shakespeare 's

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 :

Samuel Pepys kept his diary from

In the Defence of Poetry, what did Sydney attribute to poetry?

An Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot presents Portraits of the following contemporary individuals :

Which of these plays by Shakespeare does not use ' '  cross-dressing '  as a device?

 Which of the following works cannot be categorised  under postcolonial theory?

Locke's An Essay Concerning Human Understanding is a classic statement of ------------------  Philosophy.

" Power circulates in all directions, to and from all social levels, at all times. " Who said this?

 Which one of the following is not written by an Australian Aboriginal write ?

Sir Thomas Wyatt and the Earl of Surrey jointly brought out Tottel's Miscellany during the Renaissance. Identify the name  of the Earl of Surrey from the following :

 Match the following lists:
 List  --   I                   List  --  II
     ( Novelists)                 (Novel)
I.  Margaret Laurence    1. Surfacing
II.  Margaret Atwood     2. The Stone Angel
III.  Sinclair Ross             3. Medicine River
IV.  Thomas King            4. As for Me and My House
Which is the correct combination according to the codes :

The dramatic structure of Restoration comedies combines  in it the features of
I.  The Elizabethan Theatre
II.  The Neoclassical Theatre of Italy and French
III.  The Irish Theatre
IV . The Greek Theatre
The correct combination according to the codes is :

Which American poet wrote : " I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world "?

The etymological meaning of the word " trope " is

 Who among the following English poets defined poetic imagination as   eternal act of creation in the infinite ' I Am """?

Little Nell is a character in Dickens

 Match the following :
  List  -- A                                                                            List  --  II
( Schools/Concept of                                                         ( Critics)
I.  Formalism                                                                       1. John Crow Random
II. New Critics                                                                       2. The Jungians
III. Psychological Theory of the Value of Literature      3. Victor  Shklovsky 
IV.  Literary art as archetypal  image                               4.  I. A. Richards
The correct combination according to the code is :

 In the late seventeenth century a " Battle of Books" erupted between which two groups?

" Everything that man esteems,  Endures a moment or a day Love's pleasure drives his love away............?  In the above quote the last line is an example of

Match the author with the work:
 List -- I                    List --  II
( Authors)                 (Works)
I.  Kingsley  Amis       1. Saturday and Sunday Morning
II.  Allan Silletoe         2. The Golden Note Book
III.  Doris Lessing        3. The Left Bank
IV.  Jean Rhys            4. Lucky Jim
Which is the correct combination according to the codes :

In which of Hardy's novels does the character Abel Whittle appear?

The phrase " dark Satanic mills " has become the most famous description of the force at the centre of the industrial revolution.  The phrase was used by

Who is the twentieth century poet, a winner of the Nobel Prize for  literature who rejected the label " British " though he has always written in English rather than his regional language?

Which of the following characters from Eliot's Waste Land is not correctly mentioned?

Which one of the following best describes the general feeling  expressed in literature during the last decade of the Victorian era?

Which poem by Shelley bears the alternative title, "  The Spirit of Solitude "?

Which tale in The Canterbury Tales uses the tradition of the Beast Fable?

At the end of Sons and Lovers Paul Moral

When you say " I love her eyes, her hair, her nose, her cheeks, her lips "  you are using rhetorical device of

The following are two lists of plays and characters. Match them.
List --  I                           List  --  II
( Plays)                         ( Characters)
I.   Women Beware       1.  Malevole
II.  The Malcontent       2.  Beatrice
III.  The City Madam     3. Bianca
IV.  The Changeling      4. Doll Tearsheet
Which is the correct combination according to the codes?

With Bacon the essay form is

Evelyn Waugh's Trilogy published together as Sword of Honour is about

Who coined the phrase " The Two Nations " to describe  the disparity in Britain between the rich and the poor?

Milton introduces Satan and the fallen angels in the Book I of Paradise Lost. Two of the chief devils reappear in Book II. They are
I.  Moloch
II.  Clemos
III.  Belial
IV. Thamuz
The correct combination according to the code is :

When Chaucer describes the Friar as a " noble pillar  of order ", he is using.

John Osborne 's Look Back in Anger is an example of

Which character in Jane Eyre uses religion to justify cruelty?