. The lines She was a worthy woman ai hir lyve:/ Housbondes at cherche dore she hadde five are an example of
1.blank verse
2.clerihew
3.heroic couplet
4.free verse
A book that faithfully renders a young mans confused images of love and rejection is:
1.A Portrait of the Artist as a Young man
2.Lucky Jim
3.Daisy Miller
4.The brave New World
A curtal sonnet consists of
1.11 lines
2.12 lines
3.13 lines
4.14 lines
A. C. Bradleys Shakespearean Tragedy was published in:
1.1903
2.1904
3.1905
4.1906
Bildungsroman translated literally means:
1. Development novel
2.Psychological novel
3.Autobiographical novel
4.Campus novel
Fancy deals with :
1.Fixities and definities
2.Imagination and Reason
3.Judgement and Memory
4.Structure and Superstructure
For gold in Physique is Cordial/Therefore he loved gold in special relates to Chaucers
1.Friar
2.Monk
3.Doctor
4.Pardoner
Heptameter consists of
1.five metrical feet
2.six metrical feet
3.seven metrical feet
4.eight metrical feet
Heroic quatrain is:
1.a stanza in blank verse
2.eight line stanza in iambic hexameter
3.four line stanza in iambic pentameter
4.six line stanza in iambic pentameter
Hymn To Adversity is a poem by :
1.Thomas Gray
2.Edward Gibbon
3.Alexander Pope
4.William Blake
In formalistic school of criticism art is :
1.Entertainment
2.Preaching
3.Matter
4.Style
On seeing whom does Miranda exclaim O father surely that Is a spirit. Lord! How it looks about ?
1.Caliban
2.Ferdinand
3.Alonso
4.Stephano
Panopticism is the title of a chapter in a well- known book by ?
1.Roman Jakobson
2.Jacques Lacan
3.Michel Foucault
4.Jacques Derrida
Read the following statement and the reason given for it. Choose the right response.
1.Dickenss novels are called Newgate Novels. Reason (R) : They are called so because Dickens adulates in these novels the careers and adventures of criminals.
2.Both (Ai and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation. ? (2) Both (A) and (R) are true but (R) is not the correct explanation.
3.(A) is true but (R) is false.
4. (A) is false but (R) is true.
Rugby Chapel is a poem by Matthew Arnold in the memory of his:
1.Mother
2.Brother
3.Father
4.Sister
Secular influences on the early English drama were:
1.Political squabbles religious sermons and social customs
2.Rural politicking hypocracy of the elite and falsity of aristocracy
3.Village festivals folk plays and minstrels
4.Middle-class life moral beliefs and uprising of the subaltans
Swifts Modest proposal is written in the form of a:
1.Project in political economy
2.Political allegory
3.Social Satire
4.Old-Testament history
Tennysons poem about womens rights and womens sphere is :
1.Maud
2.In Memoriam
3.Idylls of the King
4.The Princess
The author of Nation and Narration is ?
1.Edward Said
2.Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
3.Frantz Fanon
4.Homi Bhabha
The author of The Provoked Husband was:
1.Etherege
2.Colley Cibber
3.Wycherley
4.Vanbrugh
The book Speech Acts is written by
1.John Austin
2.John Searle
3.Jacques Derrida
4.Ferdinand de Saussure
The complete title of Sternes novel Tristram Shandy is :
1.The Strange and Surprising Adventures of Tristram Shandy Gentleman
2.A True Account of The Life of Tristram Shandy Gentleman
3.The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy Gentleman
4.The Strange and Surprising Opinions of Tristram Shandy Gentleman
The earliest woman novelist of significance in the 18th century is :
1.Mary Edgeworth
2.Aphra Behn
3.Mary Russell
4.Mrs Gaskell
The early religious drama is associated with:
1.Superstitions and beliefs
2.Mysteries and histories
3.Interludes and mysteries
4.Miracles and morality
The figure of the Warrior Virgin in Spensers Faerie Queene is represented by the character
1.Britomart
2.Gloriana
3.Cynthia
4.Duessa
The historical novel began in;
1.Restoration Period
2.Augustan Age
3.Victorian Period
4.Romantic Period
The Kelson of creation is love. The line occurs in Walt Whitmans:
1.Paumonak
2. Passage to India
3. O Captain My Captain
4.Song of Myself
The King James Biere was published in :
1.1609
2.1610
3.1611
4.1612
The line I am no Prince Hamlet nor was mean to be....... appears in T. S. Eliots
1.Gerontion
2.The Love Song of J. Alfred Pmfrock
3.Four Quartets
4.The Waste-Land
The loneliness of the long-Distance Runner is a novel by :
1.Alan Sillitoe
2.Paul Scott
3.Peter Porter
4.Muriel Spark
The macabre element in drama was introduced by:
1.Johft Lyly
2.Marlow
3.Ben Jotison
4.John Webster
The main idea of Popes The Dunciad was taken from:
1.Absalom and Achitophel
2.Mac-Flecknoe
3.The Medal
4.An Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot
The most obvious feature of Johnsons The Lives of The Poets is the equipoise between :
1.Language and form
2.Style and content
3.Biography and criticism
4.Myth and archetype
The new humanism school of philosophy and literary criticism was popular in America during:
1.1920-1940
2.1910-1930
3.1930-1940
4.1900-1910
The phrase �Only Connect is associated with
1.D. H. Lawrence
2.James Joyce
3.E. M. Forster
4.Virginia Woolf
The plays of Edward Albee deal with :
1.problems of middle-class
2.hypocracy of aristocracy
3.mechanizations of politics
4.simplicity of lower-class
The term �Campus novel is associated with
1.Graham Green
2.Kingsley Amis
3.Margaret Drabble
4.William Golding
The Unfortunate Traveller has been authored by
1.Robert Greene
2.Thomas Deloney
3.Thomas Nashe
4.Thomas Lodge
Topsy appears in:
1.Uncle Toms Cabin
2.History of the United States
3.Walden
4.Tom Sawyer
Victorian Age witnessed a clash between:
1.faith and reason
2.tradition and modernity
3.oriental and occidental civilization
4.romanticism and neo romanticism
Where Angles Fear to Tread is a novel by :
1.Virginia Woolf
2.E. M. Forster
3.D. H. Lawrence
4.James Joyce
Which of the following author-book pair is correctly matched?
1.Hard Times - George Eliot
2.Heroes and Hero Worship - Walter Patar
3.Sohrab and Rustom - Matthew Arnold
4.Ethics of the Dust - Macaulay
Which of the following books is by Margaret Atwood ?
1.The Stone Angel
2.No Fixed Address
3.The Edible Woman
4.Halfbreed
Which of the following novels has a great impact on the formal experimentation in contemporary fiction ?
1.Thomas Nashes The Unfortunate Traveller
2.Henry Fieldings tom Jones
3.Laurence Sternes Tristram Shandy
4.Samuel Richardsons Pamela
Who among the boys in Goldings Lord of the Flies is associated with Christ?
1.Piggy
2.Ralph
3.Jack
4.Simon
Who among the following is not a practitioner of Jacobean tragedy?
1.George Villiers
2.John Marston
3.John Webster
4.Thomas Middleton
Who among the following women writers famously imagined the plight of Shakespeares sister ?
1.George Eliot
2.Virginia Woolf
3.Irish Murdoch
4.Frances Burney
Who among the following writers does not belong to the group the University Wits ?
1.John Lyly
2.Thomas Nashe
3.George Peele
4.Thomas Kyd
Who amongst the following is not a Jewish American novelist ?
1.J.D. Salinger
2.Henry Greene
3.William Faulkner
4.Philip Roth
With whom was Dr. Johnson intimately associated in his personal life?
1.Boswell
2.Drydeti
3.Alexander Pope
4.Lord Balingbroke