In his introduction to The Oxford Book of Twentieth -Century English Verse ( 1973), Philip Larkin underlines the importance of a native tradition with.......... seen as the major poet of the Modern Period.

Philip Sidney defended poetry against such descriptions of it as " the mother of lies " and  " the nurse of abuse. " His main argument hete is.......................   

Chapter III  of Oliver Twist opens with a narratorial remark about Oliver being punished for " the commission of the impious and profane offence of asking for more. " What did Oliver ask for more?

Edmund Spenser's Epithalamion is a carefully structured poem carrying.................................. corresponding to the.......... . 

Choose the right chronological sequence below :

 " That woman 's days were spent In ignorant good -  will, Her nights in argument Until her voice grew shrill " ( W. B.  Yeats : " Easter 1916 ")
Who is the poet referring to?

 communicative Language Teaching?

To whom does Francis Bacon offer the following piece of advice?
" Let him sequester himself from the Company of his Countrymen, and died in such Places, where there is good company of the Nation................. Let him upon his Removes,.....   Procure Recommendation, to some person of Quality, residing in the Place, whither he removeth....... "

In his masterpiece, of the Lowes of Ecclesiasticall Politie, Richard Hooker affirmed the Anglican tradition as that of a " threefold cord not quickly broken." He specifically referred to the following EXCEPT..................   .

Match the following :
List  -  I
a.  Christina Rossetti :   Goblin Market
b.  Matthew Arnold  :    Sohrab and Rustom
c.  Robert Browning  :   The Ring and the Book
d.  Arthur Hugh Clough :  The Bothie of Tober - na- Vuolich
List  -  II
1. The tale of a father who inadvertently destroys his son
2. Gently satiric account of an Oxford student on vacation
3.  Story of pleasure - seeking Laura and the conventionally moral Lizzie who resists temptations
(4)  A sensational  17th  century murder presented through multiple dramatic monologues
The right matching according to the code is :

" Beneath them sit the aged men, wise guardians of the poor,.
Then cherish pity, lest you drive an angel from your door, "
These concluding lines of William Blake's Innocence poem called " Holy Thursday " allude to a Biblical passage. Identify the passage.

Direct Method of Language Teaching involves :
a.     the use of Target Language only
b.    repetition of exercises
c.    linguistic correctness
d.   problem solving exercises
In relation to the above which of the following is correct?

In which of the following works does the narrator proclaim, " either I'm nobody, or I'm the nation "?

Like Cordelia, the Fool in King Lear is.............

Sindi Oberoi, the narrator hero in Arun Joshi's The Foreigner says  :  " My foreignness lay within me and I couldn't leave myself behind wherever I went. " Identify the countries which Sindi Oberoi went to.

Assertion (A) : The world does not become reckless or will not become unracialized by assertion. The act of enforcing racelessness in literary discourse is itself a racial act.
Reason (R) : Pouring rhetorical acid on the fingers of a black hand may indeed destroy the prints, but not the had. Besides, what  happens, in that violent, self - serving act of erasure, to the hands, the fingers, the fingerprints of the one who does the pouring?  Do they remain acid - free?  The literature itself suggests otherwise.
In the context of the statements above,

A poet laureate said " I do not think that since Shakespeare there has been such a master of the English language as I. Who is the poet?

Who among the following was a  contemporary of John Milton and wrote The Worthy Communication?  It is said that his prose " can be read easily, when Milton's must be studied. "

In 1668 ,Dryden wrote of Dramatic Poesie : An Essay which uses...................... separate characters to dramatise the conflicting viewpoints which new theatrical activity had  produced.

Writing his most influential play, August Strindberg called it " My most beloved drama,  the child of greatest suffering. " The play is  :

In which essay does Virginia Woolf observe that "if a writer a free man ( sic ) and not a slave" to the conventions of the literary market - place, there would be "no plot, no comedy, no tragedy, no love interest, or catastrophe in the accepted style, and perhaps not a single button sewn on as the Bond Street tailors would have it "?

In his famous letter to Benjamin Bailey ( November  22 , 1817 ) John Keats wrote :" I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the Heart's affections and the truth of Imagination --- What the imagination seizes as Beauty must be truth. Which of the following sentences follows this passage?

Which of the following pair best describesthe characteristic features of Marlowe's portrait of Tamburlaine?
(1)  ambition                 (2)  apathy
(3)  cruelty                   (4)  sympathy
The right combination according to the code  is.........................   .

Who is the author of the statement  :  " The nineteenth century dislike of Realism is the rage of Caliban seeing his own face in the glass "?

Which of the following statements about Thomas Mann's novels is true?
(1)  Buddenbrooks is a family saga set in the the early decades of the twentieth century.
(2)  Aschenbach, the writer protagonist in Death in Venice, is preoccupied with classicism, especially with classical ideals of male beauty.
(3)  In his second winter at the sanatorium, Hans Castorp, protagonist of The Magic Mountain gets lost in a blizzard during a  solitary skiing expedition.
(4)  Adrian Leverkuhn, the modern day Faustus in Mann's Doctor Faustus is a musician. The right combination according to the code is  :

To whom did Raja Ram Mohan Roy write in 1823  his letter seeking the introduction of English education in India?

Listed below are the seemingly friendly characters in The Pilgrim's Progress who give Christian dangerous advice. Among them is one who does not belong to this group. Identify this odd character.

Aristotle argued that poetry provides a/an  ............................... outlet for the release of  intense emotions.

The direct French influence on the English language during the Middle English period was in the form of  ................  .

A significant development in 1662 was the establishment of The Royal Society in English.The main purpose of the society was.............

William Cowper wrote in The Task (IV. 681-82) about those who "Build factories with blood,  conducting trade/At the sword's point..........  These lines allude to  :

The Commedia  Dell' arte originated in Italy in the sixteenth century. Which of the following descriptions are the most appropriate?
a.  Tears alternating with crude language
b. Comedy of the guild or by the professionals in the " art "
c.  Plautine comedy alternating with ritualistic manoeuvres
d.  Improvised comedy that follows a scenario rather than written dialogue.The right combination according to the code
  is :

" Nature and Nature's Laws lay hid in Night, God said Let Newton be ! And all was Light. "  Alexander Pope's famous couplet impressively captures..............................

What was the name of the experimental theatre group founded in  1915 by Susan  Glaspell, Eugene O'Neill and other dramatists in order to challenge Broadway's control over American  drama?

After his return from the land of Houyhnhnms, Gulliver refused to let his wife and children .......................  .

In which of the following volumes do you  find a charming appreciation of the Wordsworth household by Thomas de Quincy?

One of the most highly revered, scholarly, and passionate interpreters of English and world literatures, he was appointed the Lord Northcliffe Professor of Modern English Literature at University College, London in 1967, and later as King Edward VII Professor of 1974 , an appointment made by the Crow at the suggestion of the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. He was knighted by Queen Elizabeth in 1991. Entitled to designate himself as " Sir ", he never did, but wrote and autobiography entitled Not Entitled in 1995. The epigraph to this book came from Coriolanus  : " He was a kind of nothing, titleless. "Who among the following is this writer/critic ?

Which of the following provided theoretical basic for Audio - Lingual Method of Language Teaching?

Who among the following characters of The Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekhov dies in the final scene?

In tracing the history of English poetry, Thomas Cray's " Progress of Poesy "  invokes a major poet as follows :
"   Nor second He, that rode sublime Upon the seraph-wings of Ecstasy,The secrets of th' Abyss to spy. " Who is " He"?

" I suffered from impaired eye sight, depression and poverty and left Oxford without a degree. After a period as a teacher and my marriage to a widow twice my age. I  left for London, to begin writing for magazine, I produced my own journal. " Choose the correct answer, identifying the writer, the magazine and the journal.

Which of the following American novelists is associated with the series of five books about Natty  Bumppo, an old hunter, also called  Leatherstocking?

In John Dryden's Essay on Dramatic Poesy Neander defends the English invention of  ................................  .

Who wrote The History of Australian Literature in  1961 ?

Match the following :
 Theorist                            Theories
a.  Bharata                       1.   Vakrokti
b. Kuntaka                        2.   Riti
c. Bhamaha.                     3. Dhvani
d.  Anandavardhana          4. Rasa
The right matching according to the code is :

What is " Forster Collection "?

What was remarkable about the poet F. T. Marinetti's first Futurist Manifesto in Le Figaro?

How would one best describe Thomas Carlyle's Sartor Resartus ( 1833) ?

An  Indian English poet once remarked that his discipline and education gave him his " outer " whereas his Indian origin gave his  " inner " form. Reflecting a part of this claim is a famous essay he called.

In the remarkably crucial courtroom scene of Their Eyes Were Watching God, Janie is calle upon to speak. Whose voice do we hear in the  rarrative?

Who is the author of the statement " A prophet  is a Seer ,not an Arbitrary Dictator "?

The word order in Modern English became relatively fixed because......................   .

Julia kristeva's ' intertextuality ' derives from  ......................... 
a.  Noam Chomsky 's deep structure
b. Mikhail Bakhtin ' s dialogism
c. Jacques Derrida 's differance
d.  Ferdinand de Saussure's sign
The right combination according to the code is :

 Dylan Thomas's famous poem " Fern Hill, " is  named after..................   .

" In the seventeenth century, " writes T. S. Eliot in " The Metaphysical Poet, " a dissociation of sensibility set in, from which we have never recovered,  and  this dissociation, as is natural, was  aggravated by the influence of the two most powerful poet of the century, and  ............................................

The label ' material feminism ' refers to the  work of those thinkers who study inequality  in terms of  ............................ .

Who among the following displays in her  best work the dual influence of feminism  and magic realidsm?

Identify the group of British poet who evidently draw upon new trends in literary theory ( such as postsyructuralism)  and wrote poems that reflect on themselves and the language used in/by them.

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

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

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

Which two of the following are works by I.A. Richards ?
(a) Concepts of Criticism
(b) Science and Poetry
(c) The Philosophy of Rhetoric
(d) English Literature in Our Time and the University
Choose the correct answer from the options given below :

In "The Function of Criticism at the Present Time" what is propose by Matthew Arnold as the essence of criticism ?

According to Ferdinand de Saussure, language is :
(a) an interlocking structure
(b) a system of constant change
(c) a system of signs
(d) a self-standing formation
Choose the correct answer from the options given below :

What was the centre set up for studying culture at the University of Birmingham called ?

Which of the following statements are true of English as used in India ?
(a) India is counted among the largest English-speaking communities in the world
(b) No group, community or population of Indians claims English as its mother tongue
(c) More than fifty per cent of Indians speak English fluently
(d) English is the country's principal language of commerce
(e) With the growing stature of Hindi as lingua franca, it has supplanted English as the link language between the central government and the states
Choose the correct answer from the options given below :

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 :

Usage in "You have hissed the mystery lectures" is an example of :

Who is the creator of the character, Julien Sorel ?

Arrange the following in their chronological order :
(a) English replaces Persian as official language of the Company
(b) Arrival of Charles Grant in India
(c) Universities established in Calcutta, Bombay and Madras
(d) Construction of Fort William in Calcutta
Choose the correct answer from the options given below :

Which of the following qualify for the label 'cultural intermediary' in the context of a commercial film ?
(a) The film magazine columnist
(b) The director
(c) Fan clubs
(d) The producer
Choose the correct answer from the options given below :

Given below are two statements :
Statement I : All research being original and uninspired, it is rare for a researcher to begin a project by deriving ideas from predecessors
Statement II : Studying and documenting past work on a research topic stifles the continual expansion of human knowledge
In the light of the above statements, choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below :

Which of these are true of Raymond Williams' Culture and Society ?
(a) It critiques the idea of high culture
(b) It overlooks the idea of high culture
(c) It defines culture as a way of life
(d) It equates culture with science
Choose the correct answer from the options given below :

Who is the author of The Truth about Me : A Hijra Life Story ?

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

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

In "The Life of Cowley" which two of the following criticisms were made by Samuel Johnson against a group of writers he termed the 'metaphysical poets' ?
(a) They made an inappropriate combination of wit and imagination
(b) Instead of writing poetry, they only wrote verses
(c) They neither copied nature nor life
(d) They never tried to be singular in their thoughts
Choose the correct answer from the options given below :

Match List-I with List-II :
      List-I                                              List-II
    (Book)                                           (Author)
(a) English, August                         I. Shyam Selvadurai
(b) In Custody                                II Anita Desai
(c) Such a Long Journey               III. Rohinton Mistry
(d) Funny Boy                                IV. Upamanyu Chatterjee
Choose the correct answer from the options given below :

Arrange the following groups of poets in their chronological sequence in relation to English literary history :
(a) The Imagist poets
(b) The Cavalier poets
(c) The Movement poets
(d) The Lake poets
Choose the correct answer from the options given below :

Which of these characters figure in Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot ?
(a) Estragon
(b) Pozzo
(c) Bassanio
(d) Murphy
Choose the correct answer from the options given below :

Which two of the following poems are by Judith Wright ?
(a) "Meditation on a Bone"
(b) "Imperial Adam"
(c) "Woman to Man
(d) "The Old Prison
Choose the correct answer from the options given below :

Who, in "The World as India," argues that English can be the only common "unifying language" of India ?

Match List-I with List-II :
     List-I                                    List-II
  (Writer)                                  (Book)
(a) Homi Bhabha                   I. Reading the Popular
(b) T.S. Eliot                          II. The Location of Culture
(c) Roland Barthes               III. Notes towards the Definition of Culture
(d) John Fiske                      IV. Image-Music-Text
Choose the correct answer from the options given below :

Which among the following are examples of the Kiinstlerroman ?
(a) The Portrait of a Lady
(b) David Copperfield
(c) Tom Jones
(d) A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
 Choose the correct answer from the options given below :

With which of the following movements is Charles Baudelaire's Flowers of Evil generally associated ?
(a) Neo-classical
(b) Symbolist
(c) Modernist
(d) Postmodernist
Choose the correct answer from the options given below :

Words with the same pronunciation and different meanings are :

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

Arrange the following journals in the chronological order of publication .
(a) Longman's Magazine
(b) Cornhill Magazine
(c) Blackwood's Magazine
(d) Bentley's Miscellany
Choose the correct answer from the options given below :

Which of these are generally taken to be true of Cultural Studies ?
(a) It is politically engaged
(b) It privileges text over context
(c) It has a symbiotic relationship with Formalism
(d) It studies the means of production of a text
Choose the correct answer from the options given below :

Which of the following statements best articulates Frantz Fanon's political position ?

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

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

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

Match List-I with List-II :
   List-I                                                                            List-II
   (Text)                                                                        (Author)
(a) Advancement of Learning                                   I.  Susan Sontag
(b) Past and Present                                                II. Francis Bacon
(c) English Traits                                                      III. Thomas Carlyle
(d) Illness as Metaphor                                            IV. R.W. Emerson
Choose the correct answer from the options given below :

Given below are two statements, one is labelled as Assertion (A) and the other is labelled as Reason (R) :
Assertion (A) : The implied reader shifts attention from the real reading individual to a disembodied dimension of reception, intricately interwoven into the text
Reason (R) : The 'Dear Reader,' invoked in the realist novels, is a fictional representation of the distant reader
In light of the above statements, choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below :

Choose the right chronological sequence of the following books :
(a) Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things
(b) Kiran Desai. The Inheritance of Loss
(c) Shashi Deshpande, That Long Silence
(d) Jhumpa Lahiri, The Namesake
Choose the correct answer from the options given below :

Which pair of linguists in the following list is associated with speech acts' ?

Which of the following does Urvashi Butalia's The Other Side of Silence primarily seek to do ?
(a) To understand the Partition as something more than a political divide
(b) To foreground a personal history of the Partition
(c) To foreground the Partition as an event more tragic than the Holocaust
(d) To find and unite families separated at the Partition
Choose the correct answer from the options given below :

Which of these themes best sums up the preoccupation of most of Vijay Tendulkar's plays ?

Match List-I with List-II :
     List-I                                                                         List-II
   (Book)                                                                      (Poet)
(a) Anniversaries                                                       I. Abraham Cowley
(b) The Temple                                                          II. John Donne
(c) The Rehearsal Transpros'd                                 III. George Herbert
(d) Pindarique Odes                                                 IV. Andrew Marvell
Choose the correct answer from the options given below :

Who is the author of Radiant Textually ?

Which of these may be said to be true of the journal published from Bowling Green University from 1969, which carried essays on Spiderman comics, rock music, and detective films ?
(a) It sought to highlight the importance of popular culture
(b) It sought to highlight the importance of elite culture
(c) It sought to buttress the canon by making it more elitist
(d) It sought to break down the dominance of 'high' culture
Choose the correct answer from the options given below :

How does T.S. Eliot sum up the peculiar quality of Marvell's "Horatian Ode" ?

Match List-I with List-II :
    List-I                                                                      List-II
   (Novel)                                                                   (Writer)
(a) A Handful of Dust                                              I. E.M. Forster
(b) Brighton Rock                                                   II. Evelyn Waugh
(c) Howard's End                                                   II. D.H. Lawrence
(d) The Plumed Serpent                                        IV. Aldous Huxley
(e) Those Barren Leaves                                       V. Graham Greene
Codes : 

Given below are two statements :
Statement I : A pidgin is formed by two mutually unintelligible speech communities trying to communicate using the most obvious features of each other's language
Statement II : Notwithstanding the number of years a pidgin is spoken, it can never become the mother tongue of a community
In the light of the above statements, choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below :

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

Who wrote the short story, "The Voter" ?

Which two of the following are fallacious evaluations of poetry according to Matthew Arnold's "The Study of Poetry" ?
(a) contextual estimate
(b) personal estimate
(c) comparative estimate
(d) historic estimate
Choose the correct answer from the options given below :

In his recasting the canon of English poetry in New Bearings in English Poetry which of the following pairs was downgraded by F.R. Leavis ?

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

Arrange in the right sequence the following stages of a child's first language acquisition :
(a) holophrastic                         
(b) babbling
(c) telegraphic speech                   
(d) cooing
Choose the correct answer from the options given below :

Which of the following is a dead language ?

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

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

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

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

Which two are the works of Ted Hughes ?
(a) Wildtrack                                     
(b) Wodwo
(c) Lupercal                                      
(d) Jack Straw's Castle
Choose the correct given below: answer from the options :

Arrange the following poems by W. B. Yeats in the chronological order of publication .
(a) "The Wild Swans at Coole"
(b) "The Second Coming"
(c) "Among School Children"
(d) "Adam's Curse"
Choose the correct answer from the options given below :

Arrange chronologically the following texts in terms of their years of first publication :
(a) Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene
(b) Coleridge and Wordsworth's Lyrical Ballads
(c) Pablo Neruda's Canto General
(d) Charles Baudelaire's The Flowers of Evil
Choose the correct answer from the options given below :

Which of the following is true of mass media ?

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

Who, among these, are songwriters who have been awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature ?
(a) Elton John                                  
(b) Rabindranath Tagore
(c) Bob Dylan                                   
(d) Bob Marley
Choose the correct answer from the options given below :

Match List-I with List-II .
  List-I                                                                        List-II
(Author)                                                                    (Text)
(a) Robert Browning                                                 I. Queen Mary
(b) S.T. Coleridge                                                     II. The Second Mrs. Tanqueray
(c) A.W. Pinero                                                         III. Remorse
(d) Alfred Tennyson                                                  IV. The Borderers
(e) William Wordsworth                                            V. Strafford
Choose the correct answer from the options given below :

Who wrote The Labyrinth of Solitude ?

Arrange the following terms in the chronological order as these appeared in literary theory :
(a) phallogocentrism
(b) locutionary act
(c) interpellation
(d) interpretive community
Choose the correct answer from the options given below :

Which of the following did Owuor Anyumba, Taban Lo Liyong and Ngugi wa Thiongo object to in 1968 ?
(a) the primacy of English literatures and cultures
(b) the centrality of Africa in the Department of English
(c) the primacy of orature in the syllabus
(d) the focus on the study of the historic continuity of English literature
Choose the correct answer from the options given below :

Which of the following abbreviations refers to a documentation style ?

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

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

Which of the following are true of the dramatic legacy of Ben Jonson ?
(a) Jonson's physiological interpretation of character and personality did not have any precedent
(b) Taking after the practice of the Moralities and Interludes, Jonson named his dramatis personae aptronymically
(c) Chapman's All Fools and Middleton's A Trick to Catch the Old One belong to the genre of Comedy of Humours that Jonson is said to have pioneered
(d) John Marston and Thomas Dekker collaborated with Jonson in writing for a children's company of players
Choose the correct answer from the options given below :

Which two of the following are the earliest colonial publishing initiatives that apply to India ?
(a) Andrew Lang Colonial Book Series
(b) Murray Colonial and Home Library Series
(c) Colonial Library Series by Macmillan
(d) Colonial Library Series by Chatto & Windus
Choose the correct answer from the options given below :

Which of the following are novels by David Lodge ?
(a) The British Museum is Falling down
(b) The Seven Sisters
(c) Changing Places
(d) Nice Work
(e) Empire of the Sun
Choose the correct answer from the options given below :

Which of the following are books by Noam Chomsky ?
(a) Syntactic Structures
(b) Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior
(c) Language and Society
(d) Aspects of the Theory of Syntax
(e) The Pragmatics of Politeness
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Which two of the following conform to the documentation style prescribed by the eighth edition of the MLA Handbook ?
(a) Puig, Manuel, Kiss of the Spider Woman, translated by Thomas Colchie, Vintage Books, 1991
(b) Kincaid, Jamaica. "In History." Callao, vol. 24, no. 2, Spring 2001, pp. 620-26
(c) Nurnberg, Geoffrey, editor. The Future of the Book. U of California P, 1996
(d) Wellek, Rene. A History of Modern Criticism, 1750-1950, Yale UP, 1986
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Which of these departments did the Wood's Despatch of 1854 recommend setting up in the universities ?
(a) Arabic                                                      
(b) English
(c) French                                                     
(d) Law
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Which character in Hamlet utters the line: "Something is rotten in the state of Denmark" ?

Match List-I with List-II .
    List-I                                                                       List-II
   (Text)                                                                     (Author)
(a) The Lie of the Land                                            I. Alok Mukherjee
(b) Masks of Conquest                                            II. Rajeswari Sunder Rajan
(c) Rethinking English                                             III. Gauri Viswanathan
(d) This Gift of English                                            IV. Svati Joshi
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Match List-I with List - II :
     List -I                                                                  List -II
  (Library/Institute)                                                (Location)
(a) Connemara Public Library                               I. Kolkata
(b) Dhvanyaloka                                                    II. Chennai
(c) Bhandarkar Oriental Institute                           III. Mysore
(d) Asiatic Society                                                  IV. Pune
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Which two of the following essays form part of Mikhail Bakhtin's The Dialogic Imagination: Four Essays ?
(a) "From the History of Novelistic Discourse"
(b) "Discourse in the Novel"
(c) "Romance and Novel"
(d) "Forms of Time and the Chronotope in the Novel"
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Which Shakespearean comedy is structured as a play within a play ?

Which of these is identified by Ariel Dorfman and Armand Mattel art as having been deployed in Walt Disney comic books to propagate imperialist ideology ?

Which of the following narrative cycles is referred to in Michel Foucault's "What is an Author" ?

Which two among the following condemned the transportation of 50000 slaves into England in 1771 ?
(a) Samuel Johnson                                  
(b) Alexander Pope
(c) Horace Walpole                                     
(d) Thomas Gray
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Arrange the following characters in the chronological order in which they appeared in Indian literature .
(a) Praneshacharya (Samsara)                
(b) Sakuni (Mahabharata)
(c) Rusty (The Room on the Roof)           
(d) Gobar (Godan)
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Given below are two statements :
Statement I : The opening and closing lines of Waiting for Godot are spoken by Estragon
Statement II : Towards the end of the play Waiting for Godot, Estragon echoes Pozzo's statement, "They give birth astride of a grave ..."
In light of the above statements, choose the correct answer from the options given below :

Match List-I with List-II .
   List-I                                                         List-II
  (Plays)                                                     (Playwrights)
(a) Madmen and Specialists                      I. Dennis Scott
(b) The Sea at Dauphin                             II. Wole Soyinka
(c) The Trial of Dedan Kimathi                  III. Derek Walcott
(d) An Echo in the Bone                            IV. Ngugi wa Thiong's
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Arrange the following terms in their chronological sequence of appearance :
(a) dissociation of sensibility
(b) unreliable narrator
(c) theatre of cruelty
(d) egotistical sublime
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Who is the author of The Otherness of English: India's Aunty Tongue Syndrome ?

The deductive method differs from the inductive method in drawing its conclusions from :

Which one of the following journals publishes articles related to critical theory exclusively ?

Which one of the following assumptions best expresses the position of Post-Structuralist criticism ?

Which one of the following is correct about Saussure's analysis of language ?

Who among the following theorists particularly emphasized the social and historical dimensions of a text's reception ?

Which one among the following is a set of the Metaphysical Poets ?

Which one of the following statements is true about Aristotle's poetics ?

Who said of the blank verse, quoting an unnamed critic, that it is ".....verse only to the eye", adding further that it has neither the easiness of prose, nor the melody of numbers" ?

Poetry according to Sir Philip Sidney is of three kinds. They are :

In Anxiety of Influence which of the following definitions is given by Harold Bloom to explain the term, 'clinamen' ?

Who among the following is known to have popularized the term 'glocalization' ?

Who among the following coined the dictum, "the medium is the message" ?

Who among the following presented the concept of 'multi-accentually' of the sign, saying that signs possess an 'inner dialectical quality' and evaluative accent' ?

On December 11, 1823, Ram Mohan Roy addressed a letter to the British authority which pleaded for modern western education and is considered historically important for the introduction of English education in India. Who was the letter addressed to ?

Which British administrator sought "to make everything as English as possible in a country which resembles England in nothing", as recorded by Sir Thomas Munro ?

Who among the following was the first Director of the Central Institute of English and Foreign Languages, Hyderabad (now EFL University) ?

Which one of the following best explains the term 'paralanguage' ?

Which two of the following oppositions are best evoked by Hamlet's utterance-"To be or not to be" ?
(a) Between life and death
(b) between action and emotion
(c) between affirmation and confirmation
(d) between doing and abstaining from doing
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Who among the following linguists proposed the terms, 'competence' and 'performance' ?

Which one of these statements defines the scope of semiotics ?

Which according to Thomas Hobbes is the only 'science' God has bestowed on mankind, that informs the structure of his monumental work, Leviathan ?

As mentioned in "My First Acquaintance with Poets" which poet does William Hazlitt describe as the "only person I ever knew who answered the idea of a man of genius" ?

Which one of the following essays holds that "As a method, realism is a complete failure" ?

Which of the following novels is structured into a poem of 999 lines, preceded by a Foreword, followed by a Commentary and an Index ?

Which among the following novels includes a questionnaire for the reader such as "Do you like the story so far" Yes ( ) No ( ) ?

What is the subject of Ivan's controversial essay in Brothers Karamazov ?

Which one of the following Sherlock Holmes stories refers to a significant event in English history ?

Harold Skim pole is a character in : 

Who is the author of "A Fragment" (1819), one of the earliest vampire stories in English ?

Lala Kanshi Ram is a character in :

Which of the following poems by Philip Larkin deals with the trauma of a rape victim who says "Even so distant, I can taste the grief" ?

In which of the Bog poems does Seamus Heaney speak about the "perishable treasure" of a body "Murdered, forgotten, nameless, terrible" ?

Which book of Paradise Lost incorporates the speech rhythms of Adam and Eve's marital quarrel ?

Who among the following wrote Mazeppa, a long narrative poem about a seventeenth century military leader of Ukraine ?

Which one of the following statements is appropriately true of Harold Pinter's plays ?

To which mythological character is Faustus compared in the Prologue of Dr. Faustus ?

Who makes the following speech in Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot ?
​"Astride of a grave and a difficult birth, Down in the hole, lingeringly, the grave-digger puts on the forceps ."

Which of the following are the major themes in William Congreve's The Way of the World ?

What game do the characters play in Act II of Harold Pinter's The Birthday Party ?

The Duchess of Malfi is based on :

Which two of the following strictly follow the parameters of documentation prescribed by the eighth edition of the MLA Handbook ?
(a) Nurnberg, Geoffrey, editor, The Future of the Book, U of California P, 1996
(b) Puig, Manuel. Kiss of the Spider Woman. Trans. Thomas Colchie, London: Vintage, 1991
(c)  Nurnberg, Geoffrey, ed. the Future of the Book. Berkeie: U of California P, 1996
(d) Puig, Manuel. Kiss of the Spider Woman. Translated by Thomas Colchie, Vintage Books, 1991
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A research hypothesis is :
(a) a proposition which is always true
(b) a provisional explanation of anything
(c) a theory which will be disproved by evidence
(d) a statement which is assumed to be true for the sake of argument
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Which two of the following aspects are to be scrupulously followed to avoid the trap of plagiarism ?
(a) subjectivity
(b) acknowledgement
(c) citation
(d) interpretation
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Which two texts among the following are linked to literary feminism ?
(a) A Small Place
(b) The Yellow Wallpaper
(c) Emma
(d) A Room of One's Own
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Who among the following feminist theorists posited a separate realm of female experience captured in a style of writing different from men's ?
(a) Elaine Showalter
(b) Luce Irigaray
(c) Kate Millett
(d) Simone de Beauvoir
(e) Helene Cixous
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Which of these statements describe correctly the basic assumption of Structuralism ?
(a) Structuralism is concerned with signs and signification
(b) A structuralise theory considers only verbal conventions and codes
(c) Structuralism began in the works of Jacques Derrida that influenced the 20^th century literary criticism
(d) Structuralism challenges the long-standing belief that literature reflects a given reality
(e) All signs are arbitrary but without them we cannot comprehend reality
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Which two terms among the following are associated with formalist criticism ?
(a) aura
(b) actant
(c) narratee
(d) defamiliarization
(e) foregrounding
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Who among the following believed that rhyme is not an integral part of poetry ?
(a) William Wordsworth
(b) Horace
(c) Samuel Daniel
(d) Philip Sidney
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Who among the following are the two great masters of the French language that T.S. Eliot contrasts with Dryden and Milton in "The Metaphysical Poets" ?
(a) Francois Villon
(b) Jean Racine
(c) Charles Baudelaire
(d) Arthur Rimbaud
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Which two terms from among the following are specifically linked to the work of Pierre Bourdieu ?
(a) habitus
(b) consciousness
(c) desire
(d) distinction
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Macaulay's Minute of 1835 sought to :
(a) promote European literature and science among the natives
(b) impart knowledge of English literature and science through translated texts
(c) encourage branches of native learning by more useful studies
(d) stop expenditure on the publication of oriental works and spend funds only on English education
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Which two of the following statements are applicable to met language' ?
It is :
(a) a technical language which describes the properties of language
(b) known as a 'first-order' language
(c) a 'second-order' language that replaces a first-order' language with metaphors
(d) a 'second-order' language
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"Hari wrote a poem on the mountains". Which two of the following are admissible statements about the above sentence ?
(a) The sentence is an example of lexical ambiguity
(b) The sentence is an example of structural ambiguity
(c) The sentence involves two deep structures
(d) The sentence involves two surface structures
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Which two of the following events are described in Samuels Pepys's Diary ?
(a) The Plague in London
(b) The Great Fire of London
(c) The War of Spanish Succession
(d) Essex Rebellion
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Which two of the following inspired the rise of the periodical essay ?
(a) Robert Burton
(b) Francois Rabelais
(c) Francis Bacon
(d) Michel de Montaigne
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Which two of the following works does Walter Pater regard as examples of "great art" in his essay "Style" ?
(a) Iliad
(b) The Divine Comedy
(c) Les Miserable
(d) Faust
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According to his essay “Civil Disobedience”, what two things did Thoreau learn from the night he spent in jail ?
(a) He concluded that the State is ultimately weak
(b) He realized that captivity inspires courage
(c) He realized that the neighbours are only friends during good times
(d) He concluded that captivity brings wisdom about human affairs
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Which two of the following are the titles of the sections in Thomas De Quincy’s "The English Mail-Coach" ?
(a) The Glory of Mobility
(b) The Vision of Sudden Death
(c) The Glory of Motion
(d) The Vision of Unexpected Truth
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Which two of the following books are explorations of the art of the novel by novelists ?
(a) The Brief Compass
(b) The Naive and the Sentimental Novelist
(c) The Visionary Company
(d) Testaments Betrayed
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The lives of which of the following writers have been the subject matter of novels by Anthony Burgess  ?
(a) Milton
(b) Marlowe
(c) Shelley
(d) Keats
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Which two rivers are mentioned by Andrew Marvell at the beginning of "To His Coy Mistress" ?
(a) The Ganges                               
(b) Thames
(c) Humber
(d) The Jhelum
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Which two poems in the following list are examples of dramatic monologue ?
(a) Alfred Tennyson, "Ulysses"
(b) Philip Larkin, "Church Going"
(c) Carol Ann Duffy, "Medusa"
(d) Katherine Philips, "A Married State"
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Which two of the following poems are by Robert Browning ?
(a) "Locksley Hall"
(b) "The Pied Piper of Hamelin"
(c) "The Lady of Shalott"
(d) "Two in the Campagna"
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Which two of the following dramatists are associated with the Epic Theatre ?
(a) Fernando Arrabal
(b) Bertolt Brecht
(c) Arnolt Bronnen
(d) James Saunders
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Which two characters/speakers among the following exhibit the studious abstraction of scholars ?
(a) Shylock                                                   
(b) Hamlet
(c) II Penseroso                                           
(d) Mosca
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Match List-I with List-II .
   List-I                                                              List-II
  Terms                                                            Theorists
(a) arche-ecriture                                         I. Julia Kristeva
(b) cyborg                                                    II. Donna Haraway
(c) genotext                                                 III. Friedrich Schleiermacher
(d) hermeneutic circle                                 IV. Jacques Derrida
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Match List-I with List-II .
     List-I                                                                          List-II
   Terms                                                                         Theorists
(a) Superreader                                                       I. Michel Foucault
(b) Biopower                                                            II. Mikhail Bakhtin
(c) Bricolage                                                            III. Michael Riffaterre
(d) Chronotope                                                        IV. Claude Levi-Strauss
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Match List-I with List-II .
    List-I                                                          List-II
   Critics                                                         Text
(a) Horace                                                    I. A Defence of Rhyme
(b) John Dryden                                           II. Timber: or, Discoveries
(c) Samuel Daniel                                        III. Ars Poetica
(d) Ben Jonson                                            IV. Of Dramatic Poesy
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Match List-1 with List-II .
    List-I                                                                      List-II
   Author                                                                    Text
(a) Michel de Certeau                                             I. Distinction
(b) John Fiske                                                          II. Reading the Romance
(c) Pierre Bourdieu                                                  III. Understanding
(d) Janice Radway                                                   IV. The Practice of Everyday Life
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Match List-1 with List-II .
    List-I                                                  List-II
   Linguist                                             Concept
(a) Paul Grice                                   I. language death
(b) Edward Sapir                              II. linguistic signs
(c) Ferdinand de Saussure              III. linguistic relativity
(d) Nancy Dorian                             IV. cooperative principle
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Match List-I with List-II .
   List-I                                                                         List-II
  Word Borrowed                                                       Source Indian Language
(a) mongoose                                                             I. Tamil
(b) loot                                                                        II. Malayalam
(c) curry                                                                      III. Hindi/Urdu
(d) betel                                                                      IV. Marathi
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Match List-I with List-II .
  List-I                                                               List-II
  Essayist                                                        Essay
(a) George Orwell                                       I. "On the Artificial Comedy of the Last Century"
(b) Michel de Montaigne                             II. "Why I Write"
(c) Charles Lamb                                       III. "A Modest Proposal"
(d) Jonathan Swift                                     IV. "On the Cannibals"
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Match List-1 with List-II .
  List-I                                                                                   List-II
  Author                                                                                 Text
(a) Thomas Pynchon                                                          I.  G
(b) Howard Jacobson                                                         II.  V
(c) Anthony Burgess                                                          III. J
(d) John Berger                                                                 IV. M/F
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Match List-I with List-II .
    List-I                                                                               List-II                          
   Lines                                                                              Poems
(a) "Monuments of   unaging intellect"                             I. "Leda and the Swan"
(b) "In the foul rag    and-bone shop of the heart"           II. "Adam's Curse"
(c) "So mastered by the brute blood of the air"               III. "Sailing to Byzantium"
(d) "As weary hearted as that hollow moon"                   IV. "The Circus Animals' Desertion"
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Match List-I with List-II .
    List – I                                                                                 List - II
   (Author)                                                                               (Work)                                  
(a) John Keats                                                                     I.  Alastor
(b) William Wordsworth                                                       II. Songs of Experience
(c) P.B. Shelley                                                                   III. Lamia
(d) William Blake                                                                IV. The Excursion
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Arrange the following terms in the chronological order of emergence :
(a) Heresy of Paraphrase
(b) Stream of Consciousness
(c) Practical Criticism
(d) DE familiarization
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Arrange the following critical works in their chronological order of publication :
(a) "Preface to Lyrical Ballads"
(b) A Defence of Rhyme
(c) "Life of Cowley"
(d) "The Frontiers of Criticism"
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Arrange the following in the chronological order of publication :
(a) Aspects of the Theory of Syntax
(b) Course in General Linguistics
(c) Semiotics and the Philosophy of Language
(d) How to Do Things with Words
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Arrange the following in the chronological order of publication :
(a) Advancement of Learning
(b) The Origin of Species
(c) On Heroes and Hero Worship
(d) The Lives of the Poets
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Arrange the following 18th-century magazines in the chronological order of publication :
(a) The Critical Review
(b) The Monthly Review
(c) The Gentleman's Magazine
(d) The Rambler
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Arrange the following in the chronological order of publication :
(a) Chrome Yellow
(b) Sons and Lovers
(c) Mrs Dalloway
(d) A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
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Arrange the following women novelists in the chronological order (by date of birth) :
(a) Anne Bronte
(b) Jane Austen
(c) Ann Radcliffe
(d) Fanny Burney
(e) Maria Edgeworth
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Arrange the following authors in the chronological order of their birth :
(a) Oscar Wilde
(b) William Langland
(c) Geoffrey Chaucer
(d) John Dryden
(e) Alexander Pope
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Arrange the following plays in their chronological order :
(a) The Country Wife
(b) Cymbeline
(c) The Spanish Tragedy
(d) The Rivals
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Arrange the following plays in chronological order of publication :
(a) All for Love
(b) Venice Preserved
(c) The School for Scandal
(d) The Country Wife
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Given below are two statements: one is labelled as Assertion (A) and the other is labelled as Reason (R) .
Assertion (A) : Research methods are a range of tools that are used for different types of inquiry
Reason (R) : The tools used in research are products of the situations in which they are applied
In light of the above statements, choose the correct answer from the options given below :

Given below are two statements: one is labelled as Assertion (A) and the other is labelled as Reason (R) .
Assertion (A) : Signs are never neutral or innocent
Reason (R) : In all cases signs are organized into systems that convey some meaning
In light of the above statements, choose the correct answer from the options given below :

Given below are two statements :
Statement I : Consumption is an outcome of self-interest and a maximization of personal pleasure
Statement II : There are strong correlations between social status and such things as housing styles, musical tastes and food preferences
In light of the above statements, choose the correct answer from the options given below :

Given below are two statements :
Statement I : The Orientalists in British India were not sympathetic towards India's ancient learning
Statement II : William Jones thought that in "imagination", "ratiocination", and philosophy, Indians were by no means inferior to Europeans
In light of the above statements, choose the correct answer from the options given below :

Given below are two statements: one is labelled as Assertion (A) and the other is labelled as Reason (R) .
Assertion (A) : The introduction of English in India was primarily for the benefit and consolidation of British power
Reason (R) : English catered to the social and economic aspirations of the emerging middle class and urban elites in India
In light of the above statements, choose the correct answer from the options given below :

Which of the following stylistic features characterise spoken discourse ? 
(a) Greater use of explicit connectives
(b) Greater dependence on non-verbal connectives
(c) Greater syntactic embedding
(d) Greater use of fillers and repetitions
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Which of the following set of characters in Charles Dickens' novels is in the right chronological order ?

Which of the following descriptions delineate Roman a Clef (Novel with key) ?

Which of the following periods of English Literature is also called 'Puritan Interregnum' ?