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?

The just man justices. What kind of  foregrounding do you find in the above lines ?

Match the items in List - I with items in List - II according to the code given :
List - I                     List - II
(a)   Lambic        1. An unstressed syllable  followed by a stressed syllable 
(b)  Anapaestic   2. A stressed is followed by two unstressed syllables.
(c)  Dactylic       3. An unstressed syllable is  followed by a stressed syllable.
(d)  Trochaic       4. A stressed syllable is followed by an unstressed syllable.

The separation of styles in accordance with class in medieval works of literature and art.

"Had we but world enough, and time, This coyness, lady, were no crime." This statement is an example of

A Spencerian stanza has

Match the items in List - I with items in List - II according to the code given below :
 List - I                              List - II
( Critic)                            (Theory)
(a)  Cleanth Brooks          1. Ambiguity
(b)  William Empson        2. Paradox
(c)  Mark Schorer            3. Archetypal  patters in poetry
(d)  Maud Bodkin             4. Techniques  discovery
                                                  

"The artist may be present in his work like God in creation, invisible and almighty, everywhere felt but nowhere seen. " Henry James is talking here about the artist's

Match the items in List - I with items in List - II according to the code given below :
List - I                                       List - II
( Theorist)                                 (Book)
(a) Michel Foucault                  1. Gender Trouble
(b)  Judith Butler                       2. Epistemology of  the Closet
(c)  Alan Sinfied                        3. History of Sexuality
(d)  Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick      4. Cultural Politics- Queer Reading
Which is the correct combination according to the code :

" The greatness of a poet ", Arnold says,  " lies in his powerful and beautiful application of ideas to life ", But a critic pointed out it was
" not a happy way of putting it, as if ideas were a lotion for the inflamed skin of suffering humanity ".Who was this critic?

Derrida 's American disciples were

Mathew Arnold's "touchstones" were "short passages, even single lines" of classic poetry beside which the lines of other poets may be placed in order to detect the presence or absence of high poetic quality. In his "Study of Poetry " Arnold cited "touchstones" from poets as Homer and Dante and also from the English poets, Shakespeare and Milton. Which English poet did he disapprovingly call "not one of the great classics" in the list below?

Samuel Pepys began his diary on................

On which of the following authors has Peter Ackroyd not written a biography ?

Which group of the following poets was called the Auden Group because they developed a style and viewpoint similar to that of W. H. Auden?

When one line of poetry runs into the next, with no punctuation to slow the reading, it is a case of...........................   .

 Which of the following is NOT a characteristic to the Victorian Age?

 In The Heart of Midlothian, Walter Scott deals with real political and but notable among his characters is the depiction of....................  ...

Chaucer's first work, The Book of the Duchess is a dream poem on the death of.................

What was Charles Lamb's connection with India?

Find the odd one among the Marxist critics  below :

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

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

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

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

According to Ferdinand de Saussure, language is :
(a) an interlocking structure
(b) a system of constant change
(c) a system of signs
(d) a self-standing formation
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
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Which of these are generally taken to be true of Cultural Studies ?
(a) It is politically engaged
(b) It privileges text over context
(c) It has a symbiotic relationship with Formalism
(d) It studies the means of production of a text
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 :

Who wrote the epic poem "Paradise Lost"?

Which novel features the character Mr. Rochester and the protagonist Jane Eyre?

Who wrote the poem "The Waste Land," often regarded as one of the most important poems of the 20th century?

Which Shakespearean play features the character Hamlet?

Who wrote the novel "1984," a dystopian masterpiece set in a totalitarian regime?

Which poet is known for his "Songs of Innocence" and "Songs of Experience"?

Who wrote the poem "Dover Beach," which reflects on the erosion of faith in the modern world?

In which novel would you find the character Elizabeth Bennet?

Who wrote the poem "To His Coy Mistress," a persuasive argument for seizing the day?

Which poet is known for his "Ode to a Nightingale" and "Ode on a Grecian Urn"?

"Lyrical Ballads," co-written by William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, is considered a landmark work of which literary movement?

What is the focus of William Blake's poetry, such as "Songs of Innocence and of Experience"?

"I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud" is a famous poem by which Romantic poet?

Who wrote the satirical novel "Gulliver's Travels"?

What is the narrative style used in Daniel Defoe's "Robinson Crusoe"?

"The Rape of the Lock" by Alexander Pope is an example of which poetic form?

What is a major theme explored in Samuel Richardson's epistolary novel "Pamela"?

What is the predominant form used by Shakespeare for his plays?

"To be or not to be" is a famous soliloquy from which Shakespearean play?

What is the genre of Christopher Marlowe's play "Doctor Faustus"?

"Carpe diem" is a Latin phrase meaning "seize the day" and is a central theme in the poems of which poet?

Who wrote "The Canterbury Tales"?

What is the social satire in "The Canterbury Tales" primarily focused on?

"Utopia" by Thomas More is an example of which literary genre?

What is a major theme explored in Edmund Spenser's "The Faerie Queene"?

Who wrote the novel "Frankenstein," often considered one of the earliest examples of science fiction?

In which novel would you find the character Heathcliff?

Who wrote the poem "Ozymandias," exploring the theme of the transient nature of power?

Which Shakespearean play features the character Lady Macbeth?

Who wrote the novel "Dracula," introducing the famous vampire Count Dracula?

Which poet is known for his "Lyrical Ballads" collaboration with William Wordsworth?

Who wrote the novel "Sense and Sensibility"?

Which poet wrote "Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night"?

Who wrote the novel "Middlemarch," often considered one of the greatest novels in the English language?

Which poet wrote "The Prelude," an autobiographical poem about the development of the poet's mind?

"Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austen is a classic example of which genre?

"Things Fall Apart" by Chinua Achebe is a novel that critiques the impact of colonialism on traditional Igbo society in Nigeria. What literary movement is it associated with?

"One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel García Márquez is a magical realist novel that blends fantasy and reality to explore the history of a Colombian town. What is a key element of magical realism?

"The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy is a novel that explores themes of caste, family secrets, and forbidden love in India. What is a major concern in postcolonial literature?

"Nervous Conditions" by Tsitsi Dangarembga is a coming-of-age novel that explores the experiences of a young woman in colonial Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe). What is a Bildungsroman?

"Interpreter of Maladies" by Jhumpa Lahiri is a collection of short stories that explores the lives of Indian immigrants in the United States. What is a common theme in immigrant literature?

What is a major focus of postcolonial literature?

What is a characteristic of magical realism?

Who wrote the novel "To Kill a Mockingbird," which explores themes of racial injustice and moral growth in the American South?

Which American author is known for his works "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" and "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer"?

Who wrote the novel "The Great Gatsby," a classic portrayal of the Jazz Age in America?

In which novel would you find the character Atticus Finch?

Who wrote the novel "The Catcher in the Rye," a seminal work in American literature?

Which American author is known for his novels "The Old Man and the Sea" and "A Farewell to Arms"?

Who wrote the novel "Of Mice and Men," depicting the lives of migrant workers during the Great Depression?