The Uncertainty Principle is attributed to :

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

Who are Didi and Gogo?

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

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

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

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

Which of the following writers writes from Canada?

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

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

Who among the following advanced the theory that the mind is a tabula rasa at birth and acquires all ideas by experience?

Which of the following authors wrote Studie in the History of the Renaissance?

Whom does Harriet Smith finally marry in one of Jane Austen's novels?

A poet once referred to an old man as " A tattered coat upon a stick ". That is an example of......................   .

Which of these is not a pastoral elegy ?

In Beckett's Waiting for Goddot the characters often use dislocated, repetitious and cliched speech primarily to :

Which of the following sixteenth - century poets was NOT a courtier?

Patrick White published two novels in the 1950s  giving the eras of pioneering and exploration in Australian history an epic,
 ironic and psychological dimension. The  novels are :
(a)  A Fringe of Leaves
(b)  The Tree of Man
(c)  Voss
(d)  The Aunt's Story
The right combination according to the code is :

In which of the following works did Bakhtin Propose his widely cited concept of the ' Carnivalesque '?

Match the  columns :
      (  Author)                       (Text)
a.  Sebastian Faulks        1. Amsterdam
b.  Peter Ackroyd             2. Changing Places
c.  Ian McEwan                3. Hawksmoor
d.  David Lodge               4. Birdsong

 In New Criticism, the key term ' tension ' is associated with :

While compiling what sort of book did Samuel Richardson conceive of the idea for his Pamela or  virtue  Rewarded?

Who among the war poets gained notoriety in  1917 ,when disenchanted with the way the war was being conducted he drafted his letter of " wilful defiance of the military authority  which captured attention in the House of Commons,  and was forcibly admitted to the war hospital at Craiglockhart, primarily to avoid his being court - martialled?

If you cannot understand an argument and remark, " It's Greek to me ", you are quoting.

Which of the following works did Walter Scott compile?

Which of the following is NOT written by Wole Soyinka?

In the Defence of poesy Sidney says : " Now as in geometry the oblique must be known as well as right and in arithmetic, the odd as well as the even, so in the actions of our life who seeth not the filthiness of evil wanteth a great foil to perceive the beauty of virtue " Which of the following forms of poesy offers a  foil that helps us perceive the beauty of virtue?

John Dryden described a major English poet as " a rough diamond,  and must first be polished ere he shines...... " Identify him :

In a remarkably proleptic insight, a critic wrote the following, anticipating Benedict Anderson 's definition of the nation as " animagined political community "  : "  Most novels are in sense knowable  Communities, It is of a traditional method - an underlying stance and aproachy-that a novelist offers to show people and their relationship in essentially knowable and communicable ways "  :
Name the critic and the reference. :

 ." Fair is my love, and cruel as she's fair, ' Her brow - shades frown, although her eyes are sunny " , The above lines are characterized by  : 

In his " Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot " Pope tells us that as a poet he had benefited from " This saving counsel ,'keep your piece nine years ' " --  which enjoins on writer 's patience and great are before they rush to print. Whose  "  counsel " is Pope referring to?

An English architect and stage-designer - Beginning  1605s,  joined Jacobean court to design masques - contributed significantly to
the spectacular theatre which succeeded the commonwealth after his death - the first designer to use revolving screens to indicate
scene - changes on the English stage. Identify this artist / designer.

..................may be defined as any departure   from the rules of pronunciation or diction,  for the sake of rhyme or metre, or an unjustifiable departure from fact.

That Humanities and the science were in fact " two cultures " was suggested by .......................    ..

Chaucer satirizes the Monk because the Monk :

Divided into three sections this ground - breaking work published in  1953 uses as the frame of the spiritual and moral awakening of a fourteen - old during a Saturday night service in a Harlem church. Identify the work.

Charisma,  a political movement that took its  name from the People's Charter had six points. Identify the one point on the following list that was NOT Chartist :
a. Universal manhood sufferage
b. equal electoral districts
c. comprehensive insurance scheme for labour
d. vote by secret ballot
e. payment of MPs
f. no property qualifications for MPs
g. annual parliament

These beauteous forms, Through a long absence, have been to me As is a landscape to a blind man's eye........ ("Tintern Abbey Lines " )
Which of the following rhetorical terms best suits these lines?

The ' monster ' in Frankenstein is NOT responsible for the death of :

Which of the following play's of William Shakespeare is NOT directly referred to in T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land?

Identify the group below which is known as the "  Sons of Ben ".

Christopher Marlowe was one of the first major writers to affirm what can be identified as a clearly homosexual sensibility. Which drama of his deals with it?

." When true silence falls we are still left with echo but are nearer nakedness. One way of looking at speech is to say that it is a constant stratagem to cover nakedness ". Identify the playwright who underlines the significance of silence thus.

The determining feature of syllabic verse is neither............. nor.................... but the number of syllables in a line.

 In Robert Browning's  dramatic monologue,  which painter does Andrea del Sarto compare himself to?  What does he find lacking in his own work in comparison?

In which of the following does Robert Southey detail the Indian superstitions as an idolatry to be suppressed by a civilizing protestant form of colonialism?

The following is the classic ending of a celebrated novella in English  : " I kept on creeping just the same, but I looked at him over my shoulder. 'I've got out at last ', said I,  " in spite of you and Jane. And I've pulled off most of the papers, so you can't put me back! "
Now why should that man have fainted? But he did, and right across my path by the wall, so that I had to creep over him every time! "

Harriet B. Stowe had wanted to write a work based on the life of an Afro -American writer which was later published as:

Samuel Johnson's " Dissertation upon Poetry " is part of which of his following works?

A new series called "New Accents "was launched by Methuen in 1977. The first title to be published in the series was  :

" Humble and rustic life was generally chosen, because in that condition, the essential passions of the heart find a better soil in which they can their maturity, are less unde rrestraint, and speak a plainer and more emphatic language........ The language, too, of these men has been adopted...... because such men hourly  communicate with the best objects from which the best part of Language is originally derived ". Which of the following groups of the author's poem in the Lyrical Ballads ( 1800) contradict this statement in the " Preface to the Lyrical Ballads ", as pointed out by S. T. Coleridge?

A remarkable novelist of the English Modernist phase who wrote a short book on what the novel is ( and why it matters) remarked,  " Oh dear, yes - the novel tells a story ", Identify the novelist :

What is the name of the angel, who of those who owed allegiance to Satan, dared to protest against his impious doctrine and left his compan to return to God ( Paradise Lost, Book V)?

Which of the following is NOT a school associated with Romantic period in English literature?

The idea of "new ethnicities " in post -war Britain was advanced by......................

Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse begins in a piace of dialogue : 
" Yes of course, if it's fine tomorrow ", said Mrs. Ramsay. " But you'll have to be up with lark ", she added. Present among the listeners of her remark is .....   ....................

Match the phrase with character :
a. " Motiveless  malignity "           1. Macbeth
b. " Reason in Madness "              2. Hamlet
c. " Supp'd full of horrors "           3. Lear
d. " To be, or not to be "               4. Iago

In Tristram Shandy the narrator's presentation of his life and opinions is.......................

The famous sonnet of John Milton beginning '" When I consider how my light is spent...... ends with..............

He vision was of several caves. She saw herself in one, and she  watching its entrance, for Aziz to pass in. She failed to locate him. It was the doubt that had often visited her, but solid and attractive, like the hills." I am not -" speech was more difficult than vision. " I am not quite sure ". The above extract from A Passage to India is about Adela's cave experience. Who is questioning Adela?

Thomas and Henrietta Bowdler's edition of The Family Shakespeare gave rise to the word " Bowdlerize". What does it mean?

First follow..................  and your judgement  frame. By her just.............., which is still the same. Supply the appropriate words to fill in  the blanks.

Preparation of vocabulary list for the purpose of English language teaching was carried out by.............   .

Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri prefer to use " Empire " rether than imperialism. According to them :

Who among the following critics discerned in the Shelleyan Lyric the signs " of  adolescence "?

Two among the following critical journals because strongly associated with New Criticism.
a.  Partisan Review
b.  Southern Review
c.  Kenyon Review
d.  Hudson Review
The right combination according to the code  is :

Match the columns :
a.  Robert Burton             1. Urn Butrial
b.  Richard Hooker          2. The Unfortunate Traveller
c.  Thomas Browne          3. The Anatomy of Melancholy
d.  Thomas Nashe           4. Of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Politie
                                                

Which of the following characters in The White Devil described the glory of great me as : " Glories, like glow worms a far off shine bright / But looked to near have neither heat nor light ".

In which of Philip Larkin's poem does he refer to " long uneven lines " of men waiting to be enlisted for the war? (" Never such innocence again " concludes the poem)

In Franz Kafka's Metamorphosis, Gregor Samsa one morning found himself changed in his bed to a monstrous kind of vermin. The most difficult thing for Samsa was :