ENGLISH LITERATURE- PAGE 5
1:-The literary term for transferring the usual perception of an object into the sphere of a new perception to make a unique semantic modification is called
A:-Formalism
B:-Alienation
C:-Defamiliarisation
D:-Aesthetics
Ans: C
2:-__________ was formulated to explain how the Great Consonant Shift happened.
A:-Verner's Law
B:-Grimm's Law
C:-Wave theory
D:-Pedigree theory
Ans: B
3:-The structural device that formed an essential part of versification in Old English is
A:-Alliteration
B:-Assonance
C:-Rhythm
D:-Caesura
Ans: A
4:-The Middle English period begins with the __________ conquest.
A:-Norman
B:-Roman
C:-Anglo Saxon
D:-Jutes
Ans: A
5:-What were the striking differences between Chaucerian and present day pronunciations due to?
A:-The Great Consonant Shift
B:-Spread of Education
C:-Invention of Printing
D:-The Great Vowel Shift
Ans: D
6:-The shifting of stress from the initial syllable was the result of ________ influence.
A:-Greek
B:-French
C:-Latin
D:-Indian
Ans: C
7:-The formation of the word 'atone' from the old usage 'at one' is an example of
A:-Back-formation
B:-Compounding
C:-Syncopation
D:-Telescoping
Ans: D
8:-The word 'pandemonium' is the contribution of
A:-Shakespeare
B:-Milton
C:-Spenser
D:-Chaucer
Ans: B
9:-The ways in which sounds influence each other is called
A:-Elision
B:-Juncture
C:-Assimilation
D:-Aspiration
Ans: C
10:-Transformational Generative Grammar was first introduced by
A:-Halliday
B:-Chomsky
C:-Bloomfield
D:-Zellig Harris
Ans: B
11:-Who is the proponent of the approach called descriptive linguistics ?
A:-Bloomfield
B:-Sapir
C:-Jakobson
D:-Chomsky
Ans: A
12:-"I must work fast, faster than Scheherazade". From which Indian English novel is this quote taken ?
A:-Shadow Lines
B:-God of Small Things
C:-English Patient
D:-Midnight's Children
Ans: D
13:-The narrative cycle in The Bluest Eye begins with the ______ season.
A:-Autumn
B:-Spring
C:-Winter
D:-Summer
Ans: A
14:-To which frost collection does "The Road Not Taken" belong ?
A:-A Boy's Will
B:-North of Boston
C:-New Hampshire
D:-Mountain Interval
Ans: D
15:-What imagery is used in "Daddy" to describe the husband ?
A:-Black shoe
B:-Ghastly statue
C:-Swastika
D:-Vampire
Ans: D
16:-Ezekial's "Poet, Lover, Birdwatcher" is taken from
A:-Hymns in Darkness
B:-The Exact Name
C:-The Unfinished Man
D:-A Time to Change
Ans: B
17:-Who in The Glass Menagerie is the chief spokesperson for the American dream ?
A:-Amanda
B:-Jim
C:-Tom
D:-Laura
Ans: B
18:-From where is the title of Faulkner's The Sound and The Fury taken ?
A:-Tempest
B:-Dr. Faustus
C:-Macbeth
D:-Hamlet
Ans: C
19:-Maya Angelou's "Phenomenal Woman" begins with a scathing attack on
A:-Stereotypes
B:-Men
C:-Society
D:-Women
Ans: A
20:-Which character in Padmanabhan's Harvest tries to appropriate Jaya's body in the final scene ?
A:-Virgil
B:-Zina Anaplioti
C:-Sam Chase
D:-Jeffrey Withers
Ans: A
21:-The setting for Greene's The Heart of the Matter is a British Colony in
A:-South Africa
B:-West Africa
C:-Jamaica
D:-Canada
Ans: B
22:-According to Aristotle ___________ "is very artless and least particular to the art of poetic composition."
A:-Diction
B:-Character
C:-Song
D:-Spectacle
Ans: D
23:-"His tragedy seems to be skill, his comedy to be ____________". Complete the quote by Johnson on Shakespeare.
A:-Instinct
B:-Nature
C:-Competent
D:-Contrived
Ans: A
24:-In Rasa theory, the bodily expression by which emotion is communicated is called
A:-Vyabhicari
B:-Anubhava
C:-Vibhava
D:-Alambana
Ans: B
25:-The two poets on whom Arnold puts the charge of lacking "high seriousness" are
A:-Shakespeare and Dante
B:-Burns and Chaucer
C:-Shelley and Gray
D:-Pope and Dryden
Ans: B
26:-From which collection of essays is Lionel Trilling's "Freud and Literature" taken ?
A:-The Opposing Self
B:-Beyond Culture
C:-The Liberal imagination
D:-Psychoanalysis and literature
Ans: C
27:-The male critic whom Elaine Showalter identifies as a prime example of androcentric criticism in her 1979 essay is
A:-Irving Howe
B:-Lionel Trilling
C:-Malcolm Bradbury
D:-Mark Schorer
Ans: A
28:-To what chemical process does T.S. Eliot compare the poetic process in "Tradition and Individual Talent" ?
A:-Fission
B:-Fusion
C:-Catalytic reaction
D:-Exothermic reaction
Ans: C
29:-In "What is an Author" ? Foucault argues that the author is
A:-An individual
B:-Dead
C:-An author function
D:-Owner of a work
Ans: C
30:-"The Language of Paradox" was first published in
A:-1950
B:-1945
C:-1948
D:-1942
Ans: D
A:-Formalism
B:-Alienation
C:-Defamiliarisation
D:-Aesthetics
Ans: C
2:-__________ was formulated to explain how the Great Consonant Shift happened.
A:-Verner's Law
B:-Grimm's Law
C:-Wave theory
D:-Pedigree theory
Ans: B
3:-The structural device that formed an essential part of versification in Old English is
A:-Alliteration
B:-Assonance
C:-Rhythm
D:-Caesura
Ans: A
4:-The Middle English period begins with the __________ conquest.
A:-Norman
B:-Roman
C:-Anglo Saxon
D:-Jutes
Ans: A
5:-What were the striking differences between Chaucerian and present day pronunciations due to?
A:-The Great Consonant Shift
B:-Spread of Education
C:-Invention of Printing
D:-The Great Vowel Shift
Ans: D
6:-The shifting of stress from the initial syllable was the result of ________ influence.
A:-Greek
B:-French
C:-Latin
D:-Indian
Ans: C
7:-The formation of the word 'atone' from the old usage 'at one' is an example of
A:-Back-formation
B:-Compounding
C:-Syncopation
D:-Telescoping
Ans: D
8:-The word 'pandemonium' is the contribution of
A:-Shakespeare
B:-Milton
C:-Spenser
D:-Chaucer
Ans: B
9:-The ways in which sounds influence each other is called
A:-Elision
B:-Juncture
C:-Assimilation
D:-Aspiration
Ans: C
10:-Transformational Generative Grammar was first introduced by
A:-Halliday
B:-Chomsky
C:-Bloomfield
D:-Zellig Harris
Ans: B
11:-Who is the proponent of the approach called descriptive linguistics ?
A:-Bloomfield
B:-Sapir
C:-Jakobson
D:-Chomsky
Ans: A
12:-"I must work fast, faster than Scheherazade". From which Indian English novel is this quote taken ?
A:-Shadow Lines
B:-God of Small Things
C:-English Patient
D:-Midnight's Children
Ans: D
13:-The narrative cycle in The Bluest Eye begins with the ______ season.
A:-Autumn
B:-Spring
C:-Winter
D:-Summer
Ans: A
14:-To which frost collection does "The Road Not Taken" belong ?
A:-A Boy's Will
B:-North of Boston
C:-New Hampshire
D:-Mountain Interval
Ans: D
15:-What imagery is used in "Daddy" to describe the husband ?
A:-Black shoe
B:-Ghastly statue
C:-Swastika
D:-Vampire
Ans: D
16:-Ezekial's "Poet, Lover, Birdwatcher" is taken from
A:-Hymns in Darkness
B:-The Exact Name
C:-The Unfinished Man
D:-A Time to Change
Ans: B
17:-Who in The Glass Menagerie is the chief spokesperson for the American dream ?
A:-Amanda
B:-Jim
C:-Tom
D:-Laura
Ans: B
18:-From where is the title of Faulkner's The Sound and The Fury taken ?
A:-Tempest
B:-Dr. Faustus
C:-Macbeth
D:-Hamlet
Ans: C
19:-Maya Angelou's "Phenomenal Woman" begins with a scathing attack on
A:-Stereotypes
B:-Men
C:-Society
D:-Women
Ans: A
20:-Which character in Padmanabhan's Harvest tries to appropriate Jaya's body in the final scene ?
A:-Virgil
B:-Zina Anaplioti
C:-Sam Chase
D:-Jeffrey Withers
Ans: A
21:-The setting for Greene's The Heart of the Matter is a British Colony in
A:-South Africa
B:-West Africa
C:-Jamaica
D:-Canada
Ans: B
22:-According to Aristotle ___________ "is very artless and least particular to the art of poetic composition."
A:-Diction
B:-Character
C:-Song
D:-Spectacle
Ans: D
23:-"His tragedy seems to be skill, his comedy to be ____________". Complete the quote by Johnson on Shakespeare.
A:-Instinct
B:-Nature
C:-Competent
D:-Contrived
Ans: A
24:-In Rasa theory, the bodily expression by which emotion is communicated is called
A:-Vyabhicari
B:-Anubhava
C:-Vibhava
D:-Alambana
Ans: B
25:-The two poets on whom Arnold puts the charge of lacking "high seriousness" are
A:-Shakespeare and Dante
B:-Burns and Chaucer
C:-Shelley and Gray
D:-Pope and Dryden
Ans: B
26:-From which collection of essays is Lionel Trilling's "Freud and Literature" taken ?
A:-The Opposing Self
B:-Beyond Culture
C:-The Liberal imagination
D:-Psychoanalysis and literature
Ans: C
27:-The male critic whom Elaine Showalter identifies as a prime example of androcentric criticism in her 1979 essay is
A:-Irving Howe
B:-Lionel Trilling
C:-Malcolm Bradbury
D:-Mark Schorer
Ans: A
28:-To what chemical process does T.S. Eliot compare the poetic process in "Tradition and Individual Talent" ?
A:-Fission
B:-Fusion
C:-Catalytic reaction
D:-Exothermic reaction
Ans: C
29:-In "What is an Author" ? Foucault argues that the author is
A:-An individual
B:-Dead
C:-An author function
D:-Owner of a work
Ans: C
30:-"The Language of Paradox" was first published in
A:-1950
B:-1945
C:-1948
D:-1942
Ans: D
31:-Which play's epilogue is considered as Shakespeare's farewell to theatre ?
A:-Henry VIII
B:-The Winter's Tale
C:-The Tempest
D:-Measure for Measure
Ans: C
32:-In Hamlet who says "The lady doth protest too much" ?
A:-Hamlet
B:-Gertrude
C:-Polonius
D:-Ophelia
Ans: B
33:-Lady Bellaston is a character from the novel
A:-Oliver Twist
B:-The Mayor of Casterbridge
C:-Tom Jones
D:-Joseph Andrews
Ans: C
34:-In Pope's Atticus passage of "Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot", who is Atticus compared to in an attempt to describe his habit of blowing his own trumpet ?
A:-Cato
B:-Cicero
C:-Catellus
D:-Sporus
Ans: A
35:-Name the character in the Duchess of Malfi who may be described as a murderer who speaks poetry ?
A:-Ferdinand
B:-Antonio
C:-Bosola
D:-The Cardinal
Ans: C
36:-In which work of Johnson does he mention the phrase 'discordia concors' to explain the wit of Metaphysical poets ?
A:-Life of Cowley
B:-Life of Milton
C:-Life of Herbert
D:-Life of Addison
Ans: A
37:-Which essay of Bacon starts with a reference to Pilate from the Bible ?
A:-Of Studies
B:-Of Truth
C:-Of Love
D:-Of Death
Ans: B
38:-Who is described in the prologue to the Canterbury Tales as "an outrider who loved hunting" ?
A:-Knight
B:-Squire
C:-Friar
D:-Monk
Ans: D
39:-A School for Scandal was performed for the first time at
A:-Drury Lane
B:-Queen's Theatre
C:-Globe
D:-Playhouse
Ans: A
40:-Who among Shakespeare's characters said, "If music is the food of love, play on" ?
A:-Malvolio
B:-Duke Orsino
C:-Antonio
D:-Sebastian
Ans: B
41:-Which poem inspired Rossetti to pen the "The Blessed Damozel" ?
A:-"The Raven"
B:-"Prophyria's Lover"
C:-"Christabel"
D:-"Lucy Gray"
Ans: A
42:-Name the Feminist critic who read Wuthering Heights as Emily Bronte's myth about creation.
A:-Susan Gubar
B:-Elaine Showalter
C:-Sandra Gilbert
D:-Judith Fetterly
Ans: C
43:-Which quality of his wife's had, according to Henchard done him "more harm than the bitterest temper" ?
A:-Piety
B:-Meekness
C:-Humility
D:-Modesty
Ans: B
44:-Who is the author of Fearful Symmetry ?
A:-C.M. Bowra
B:-M.H. Abrams
C:-Eric Auerbach
D:-Northrope Frye
Ans: D
45:-"Behold the child among his new-born blisses". Whose son is referred to in these lines from "Immortality Ode" ?
A:-Wordsworth's
B:-Coleridge's
C:-Southey's
D:-Shelley's
Ans: B
46:-"If Austen's is an art of the cameo, Dicken's is one of the poster". Which critic said this ?
A:-Terry Eagleton
B:-Arnold Kettle
C:-David Daiches
D:-David Lodge
Ans: A
47:-Ernest is the fictitious identity of __________ in importance of Being Earnest.
A:-Jack Worthing
B:-Algernon
C:-Dr. Frederick
D:-Rev. Chasuble
Ans: A
48:-Which character in Pride and Prejudice stands testimony to Austen's distaste for high aristocracy ?
A:-Catherine Morland
B:-Mrs. Norris
C:-Catherine de Bourgh
D:-Fanny Price
Ans: C
49:-Which poem of Hopkins is dedicated to 'Christ our Lord' ?
A:-"God's Grandeur"
B:-"Pied Beauty"
C:-"The Windhover"
D:-"Inversnaid"
Ans: C
50:-Whom does Lamb describe as "the most irrelevant thing in nature", "a lion in your path", "A Lazarus at your door" and so on in one of his essays ?
A:-A drunkard
B:-Poor relation
C:-A clerk in South Sea House
D:-A bachelor
Ans: B
51:-In the myth of Pygmalion, who brings about the transformation of Galatea ?
A:-Athena
B:-Demeter
C:-Aphrodite
D:-Venus
Ans: C
52:-"I leave you to the pleasures of your higher vices", says the first Tempter in Murder in the Cathedral. What is the "higher vice" mentioned ?
A:-Material glories
B:-Ambition
C:-Spiritual pride
D:-Loyalty to the King
Ans: C
53:-Name the character in Waiting for Godot who can't think without his bowler ?
A:-Estrogen
B:-Vladimir
C:-Pozzo
D:-Lucky
Ans: D
54:-The title "A Game of Chess" which forms the II section of "The Wasteland" is borrowed from the title of which dramatist's play ?
A:-Richard Sheridan
B:-Thomas Middleton
C:-Congreve
D:-Webster
Ans: B
55:-Dylan Thomas' "Poem in October" commemorates his birthday. Which one ?
A:-`30^(th)`
B:-`35^(th)`
C:-`40^(th)`
D:-`39^(th)`
Ans: A
56:-From among the following poets pick out the one who is not a Movement poet ?
A:-John Wain
B:-John Holloway
C:-Kingsley Amis
D:-Peter Porter
Ans: D
57:-Seamus Heaney's "Tollund man" foregrounds his __________ perspective.
A:-Political
B:-Catholic
C:-Archaeological
D:-Mythical
Ans: C
58:-Who is the Christ figure in Lord of the Flies ?
A:-Simon
B:-Ralph
C:-Jack
D:-Piggy
Ans: A
59:-Anna in The Golden Notebook has a rejuvenating experience towards the end with
A:-Saul
B:-Paul
C:-Michael
D:-Tom
Ans: A
A:-Henry VIII
B:-The Winter's Tale
C:-The Tempest
D:-Measure for Measure
Ans: C
32:-In Hamlet who says "The lady doth protest too much" ?
A:-Hamlet
B:-Gertrude
C:-Polonius
D:-Ophelia
Ans: B
33:-Lady Bellaston is a character from the novel
A:-Oliver Twist
B:-The Mayor of Casterbridge
C:-Tom Jones
D:-Joseph Andrews
Ans: C
34:-In Pope's Atticus passage of "Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot", who is Atticus compared to in an attempt to describe his habit of blowing his own trumpet ?
A:-Cato
B:-Cicero
C:-Catellus
D:-Sporus
Ans: A
35:-Name the character in the Duchess of Malfi who may be described as a murderer who speaks poetry ?
A:-Ferdinand
B:-Antonio
C:-Bosola
D:-The Cardinal
Ans: C
36:-In which work of Johnson does he mention the phrase 'discordia concors' to explain the wit of Metaphysical poets ?
A:-Life of Cowley
B:-Life of Milton
C:-Life of Herbert
D:-Life of Addison
Ans: A
37:-Which essay of Bacon starts with a reference to Pilate from the Bible ?
A:-Of Studies
B:-Of Truth
C:-Of Love
D:-Of Death
Ans: B
38:-Who is described in the prologue to the Canterbury Tales as "an outrider who loved hunting" ?
A:-Knight
B:-Squire
C:-Friar
D:-Monk
Ans: D
39:-A School for Scandal was performed for the first time at
A:-Drury Lane
B:-Queen's Theatre
C:-Globe
D:-Playhouse
Ans: A
40:-Who among Shakespeare's characters said, "If music is the food of love, play on" ?
A:-Malvolio
B:-Duke Orsino
C:-Antonio
D:-Sebastian
Ans: B
41:-Which poem inspired Rossetti to pen the "The Blessed Damozel" ?
A:-"The Raven"
B:-"Prophyria's Lover"
C:-"Christabel"
D:-"Lucy Gray"
Ans: A
42:-Name the Feminist critic who read Wuthering Heights as Emily Bronte's myth about creation.
A:-Susan Gubar
B:-Elaine Showalter
C:-Sandra Gilbert
D:-Judith Fetterly
Ans: C
43:-Which quality of his wife's had, according to Henchard done him "more harm than the bitterest temper" ?
A:-Piety
B:-Meekness
C:-Humility
D:-Modesty
Ans: B
44:-Who is the author of Fearful Symmetry ?
A:-C.M. Bowra
B:-M.H. Abrams
C:-Eric Auerbach
D:-Northrope Frye
Ans: D
45:-"Behold the child among his new-born blisses". Whose son is referred to in these lines from "Immortality Ode" ?
A:-Wordsworth's
B:-Coleridge's
C:-Southey's
D:-Shelley's
Ans: B
46:-"If Austen's is an art of the cameo, Dicken's is one of the poster". Which critic said this ?
A:-Terry Eagleton
B:-Arnold Kettle
C:-David Daiches
D:-David Lodge
Ans: A
47:-Ernest is the fictitious identity of __________ in importance of Being Earnest.
A:-Jack Worthing
B:-Algernon
C:-Dr. Frederick
D:-Rev. Chasuble
Ans: A
48:-Which character in Pride and Prejudice stands testimony to Austen's distaste for high aristocracy ?
A:-Catherine Morland
B:-Mrs. Norris
C:-Catherine de Bourgh
D:-Fanny Price
Ans: C
49:-Which poem of Hopkins is dedicated to 'Christ our Lord' ?
A:-"God's Grandeur"
B:-"Pied Beauty"
C:-"The Windhover"
D:-"Inversnaid"
Ans: C
50:-Whom does Lamb describe as "the most irrelevant thing in nature", "a lion in your path", "A Lazarus at your door" and so on in one of his essays ?
A:-A drunkard
B:-Poor relation
C:-A clerk in South Sea House
D:-A bachelor
Ans: B
51:-In the myth of Pygmalion, who brings about the transformation of Galatea ?
A:-Athena
B:-Demeter
C:-Aphrodite
D:-Venus
Ans: C
52:-"I leave you to the pleasures of your higher vices", says the first Tempter in Murder in the Cathedral. What is the "higher vice" mentioned ?
A:-Material glories
B:-Ambition
C:-Spiritual pride
D:-Loyalty to the King
Ans: C
53:-Name the character in Waiting for Godot who can't think without his bowler ?
A:-Estrogen
B:-Vladimir
C:-Pozzo
D:-Lucky
Ans: D
54:-The title "A Game of Chess" which forms the II section of "The Wasteland" is borrowed from the title of which dramatist's play ?
A:-Richard Sheridan
B:-Thomas Middleton
C:-Congreve
D:-Webster
Ans: B
55:-Dylan Thomas' "Poem in October" commemorates his birthday. Which one ?
A:-`30^(th)`
B:-`35^(th)`
C:-`40^(th)`
D:-`39^(th)`
Ans: A
56:-From among the following poets pick out the one who is not a Movement poet ?
A:-John Wain
B:-John Holloway
C:-Kingsley Amis
D:-Peter Porter
Ans: D
57:-Seamus Heaney's "Tollund man" foregrounds his __________ perspective.
A:-Political
B:-Catholic
C:-Archaeological
D:-Mythical
Ans: C
58:-Who is the Christ figure in Lord of the Flies ?
A:-Simon
B:-Ralph
C:-Jack
D:-Piggy
Ans: A
59:-Anna in The Golden Notebook has a rejuvenating experience towards the end with
A:-Saul
B:-Paul
C:-Michael
D:-Tom
Ans: A
60:-What is the social class of Smith in Alan Sillitoe's 'The loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner' ?
A:-Upper class
B:-The under-privileged working class
C:-Middle class
D:-None of the above
Ans: B
61:-Mimesis means------
A:-Imagination
B:-Creation
C:-Imitation
D:-Character
Ans: C
62:-Dr Johnson defended
A:-Shakespeare's settings
B:-Shakespeare's borrowing from history and classical myth
C:-Shakespeare's mixing of comic and tragic genres
D:-Shakespeare's use of pun
Ans: C
63:-Stephen Gosson wrote
A:-School of Abuse
B:-Defence of Poesie
C:-School of Poetry
D:-The Art of Poetry
Ans: A
64:-Lyrical Ballads was first published in
A:-1798
B:-1799
C:-1800
D:-1786
Ans: A
65:-Which work discusses the concept of decorum?
A:-Republic
B:-Ars Poetica
C:-Apology for Poetry
D:-Poetics
Ans: B
66:-Who said "Without poetry our science will appear incomplete."
A:-T.S.Eliot
B:-Aldous Huxley
C:-Matthew Arnold
D:-Ezra Pound
Ans: C
67:-"Poetry is not a turning lose of -----"
A:-feelings
B:-emotion
C:-personality
D:-expressions
Ans: B
68:-" His poetry would not appear to promise many examples of the language of paradox. He usually prefers the direct attack . He insists on simplicity, he distrusts whatever seems sophistical." the above quote is from "The Language of Paradox" by Cleant Brooks. Identify the poet mentioned here
A:-Shelly
B:-Keats
C:-Shakespeare
D:-Wordsworth
Ans: D
69:- Anatomy of Criticsm was written by
A:-Northrop Frye
B:-Cleanth Brooks
C:-Ezra Pound
D:-Raymond Williams
Ans: A
70:-Who among the following is a New Critic
A:-Jacques Derida
B:-Roman Jakobson
C:-Allen Tate
D:-William Burroughs
Ans: C
71:-The Anglo-Saxon Chronicles were written in the ______ dialect
A:-Northumbrian
B:-Mercian
C:-Wessex
D:-Kentish
Ans: C
72:-The following change occured in the transition from Old English to Middle English:
A:-The language acquired grammatical gender
B:-The language became less inflected
C:-Word order became less rigid
D:-None of the above
Ans: B
73:-The Modern English period is generally considered to have begun from ______
A:-1500 A D
B:-1453 A D
C:-1588 A D
D:-1603 A D
Ans: A
74:-When a word loses its pejorative sense, it is called ________
A:-Ascension
B:-Amelioration
C:-Upward shift
D:-Improvement
Ans: B
75:-The dialect spoken by working class people in the east part of London is called _____
A:-Gaelic
B:-Pidgin
C:-Cockney
D:-Londonish
Ans: C
76:-Words in English will have either primary or secondary stress on _______
A:-The first syllable
B:-The first or the third syllable
C:-The second or the third syllable
D:-The first or the second syllable
Ans: D
77:-Chomsky's concept about structural properties common to all languages is called ________
A:-Common Grammar
B:-Structural Synthesis
C:-Universal Grammar
D:-Cosmopolitan Grammar
Ans: C
78:-Transformational Generative Grammar is so called because _______
A:-It generates new transformational rules
B:-It accounts for the transformations of sentences and generates sentences from given patterns
C:-It applies generative rules to transformations
D:-None of the above
Ans: B
79:-The variety of language used in particular discourses or professions is called a ______
A:-Register
B:-Idiolect
C:-Slang
D:-Dialect
Ans: A
80:-The rule which accounts for the presence and pronunciation of the past tense morpheme in English is called a __________ rule
A:-Phonological
B:-Morphemic
C:-Phono-tactic
D:-morphophonemic
Ans: D
81:-Tagore won the Nobel Prize for Literature in the year
A:-1911
B:-1912
C:-1913
D:-1918
Ans: C
82:-Who said "The best poet waits for words."
A:-Nissim Ezekiel
B:-Kamala Das
C:-Sri Aurobindo
D:-Robert Frost
Ans: A
83:-" Blow!Blow!Blow!
Blow up sea-wind along Paumanok's shore;
I wait and I wait till you blow my mate to me "
identify the poem
A:-Because I could not Stop for Death
B:-I Died for Beauty
C:-Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking
D:-Introduction
Ans: C
84:-Name of the native chief in Emperor Jones is ------
A:-Smithers
B:-Brutus
C:-Lin
D:-Lem
Ans: D
85:-Who said this in The Glass Menagerie
"All pretty girls are a trap, a pretty trap, and men expect them to be."
A:-Amanda
B:-Tom
C:-Laura
D:-Jim
Ans: A
86:- "A man is the sum of his misfortunes.One day you'd think misfortune would get tired but then time is your misfortune."
The above quote is from ---
A:-Midnights Children
B:-The Scarlet Letter
C:-The Sound and the Fury
D:-Phenomenal Women
Ans: C
87:- Pecola Breedlove is repeatedly called ---- by nearly everyone in her life.
A:-pretty
B:-ugly
C:-dirty
D:-lazy
Ans: B
88:-Who said "Envy is ignorance , Imitation is Suicide" ?
A:-John Barth
B:-Emerson
C:-Churchill
D:-Aurobindo
Ans: B
89:-Who among the following is not a playwright?
A:-Girish Karnad
B:-Vijay Tendulkar
C:-Mahesh Dattani
D:-Amit Chaudhuri
Ans: D
90:-Judith Wright is from
A:-Australia
B:-Austria
C:-Canada
D:-South Africa
Ans: A
91:-Hetronormativity asserts
A:-Sexual relationship between man and man
B:-Sexual relationship between man and woman
C:-sexual relationship between woman and woman
D:-sexual relationship between both man and man and woman and woman
Ans: B
92:-Occident denotes
A:-Countries of the East
B:-Countries of the West
C:-Countries of the Middle East
D:-Countries of African continent
Ans: B
93:----------- is the cultural logic of late capitalism
A:-Postmodernism
B:-Postcolonialism
C:-New Historicism
D:-New Feminism
Ans: A
94:- Who said, "If Lacan presumes that female homosexuality issues from a disappointed hetrosexuality, as observation is said to show, could it not be equally clear to the observer that hetrosexuality issues form a disappointed homosexuality?"
A:-Judith Wright
B:-Gayatri Spivak
C:-Judith Butler
D:-Tony Morrison
Ans: C
95:-Who is the author of the essay, "Can the Subaltern Speak?"
A:-Judith Butler
B:-Edward Said
C:-Linda Hutchinson
D:-Gayatri Spivak
Ans: D
96:-Historiographic metafiction is a term coined by
A:-Linda Hutcheon
B:-Jorge Louis Borges
C:-Roland Barthes
D:-Homi K Bhabha
Ans: A
97:-The Location of Culture by Homi K. Baba deals with the theoretical development of
A:-Oriental ism
B:-Postmodernism
C:-post colonialism
D:-Hybridity
Ans: D
98:-Humour that leads to horror is called
A:-bleak humour
B:-black humour
C:-gothic humour
D:-gallow humour
Ans: B
99:-Desirable Daughters is a novel written by
A:-Mira Nair
B:-Anita Desai
C:-Bharathi Mukerjee
D:-Kiran Desai
Ans: C
100:-Which postmodern writer used the theory of entropy in his novels?
A:-Joseph Heller
B:-Thomas Pynchon
C:-John Updike
D:-Salman Rushdie
Ans: B
A:-Upper class
B:-The under-privileged working class
C:-Middle class
D:-None of the above
Ans: B
61:-Mimesis means------
A:-Imagination
B:-Creation
C:-Imitation
D:-Character
Ans: C
62:-Dr Johnson defended
A:-Shakespeare's settings
B:-Shakespeare's borrowing from history and classical myth
C:-Shakespeare's mixing of comic and tragic genres
D:-Shakespeare's use of pun
Ans: C
63:-Stephen Gosson wrote
A:-School of Abuse
B:-Defence of Poesie
C:-School of Poetry
D:-The Art of Poetry
Ans: A
64:-Lyrical Ballads was first published in
A:-1798
B:-1799
C:-1800
D:-1786
Ans: A
65:-Which work discusses the concept of decorum?
A:-Republic
B:-Ars Poetica
C:-Apology for Poetry
D:-Poetics
Ans: B
66:-Who said "Without poetry our science will appear incomplete."
A:-T.S.Eliot
B:-Aldous Huxley
C:-Matthew Arnold
D:-Ezra Pound
Ans: C
67:-"Poetry is not a turning lose of -----"
A:-feelings
B:-emotion
C:-personality
D:-expressions
Ans: B
68:-" His poetry would not appear to promise many examples of the language of paradox. He usually prefers the direct attack . He insists on simplicity, he distrusts whatever seems sophistical." the above quote is from "The Language of Paradox" by Cleant Brooks. Identify the poet mentioned here
A:-Shelly
B:-Keats
C:-Shakespeare
D:-Wordsworth
Ans: D
69:- Anatomy of Criticsm was written by
A:-Northrop Frye
B:-Cleanth Brooks
C:-Ezra Pound
D:-Raymond Williams
Ans: A
70:-Who among the following is a New Critic
A:-Jacques Derida
B:-Roman Jakobson
C:-Allen Tate
D:-William Burroughs
Ans: C
71:-The Anglo-Saxon Chronicles were written in the ______ dialect
A:-Northumbrian
B:-Mercian
C:-Wessex
D:-Kentish
Ans: C
72:-The following change occured in the transition from Old English to Middle English:
A:-The language acquired grammatical gender
B:-The language became less inflected
C:-Word order became less rigid
D:-None of the above
Ans: B
73:-The Modern English period is generally considered to have begun from ______
A:-1500 A D
B:-1453 A D
C:-1588 A D
D:-1603 A D
Ans: A
74:-When a word loses its pejorative sense, it is called ________
A:-Ascension
B:-Amelioration
C:-Upward shift
D:-Improvement
Ans: B
75:-The dialect spoken by working class people in the east part of London is called _____
A:-Gaelic
B:-Pidgin
C:-Cockney
D:-Londonish
Ans: C
76:-Words in English will have either primary or secondary stress on _______
A:-The first syllable
B:-The first or the third syllable
C:-The second or the third syllable
D:-The first or the second syllable
Ans: D
77:-Chomsky's concept about structural properties common to all languages is called ________
A:-Common Grammar
B:-Structural Synthesis
C:-Universal Grammar
D:-Cosmopolitan Grammar
Ans: C
78:-Transformational Generative Grammar is so called because _______
A:-It generates new transformational rules
B:-It accounts for the transformations of sentences and generates sentences from given patterns
C:-It applies generative rules to transformations
D:-None of the above
Ans: B
79:-The variety of language used in particular discourses or professions is called a ______
A:-Register
B:-Idiolect
C:-Slang
D:-Dialect
Ans: A
80:-The rule which accounts for the presence and pronunciation of the past tense morpheme in English is called a __________ rule
A:-Phonological
B:-Morphemic
C:-Phono-tactic
D:-morphophonemic
Ans: D
81:-Tagore won the Nobel Prize for Literature in the year
A:-1911
B:-1912
C:-1913
D:-1918
Ans: C
82:-Who said "The best poet waits for words."
A:-Nissim Ezekiel
B:-Kamala Das
C:-Sri Aurobindo
D:-Robert Frost
Ans: A
83:-" Blow!Blow!Blow!
Blow up sea-wind along Paumanok's shore;
I wait and I wait till you blow my mate to me "
identify the poem
A:-Because I could not Stop for Death
B:-I Died for Beauty
C:-Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking
D:-Introduction
Ans: C
84:-Name of the native chief in Emperor Jones is ------
A:-Smithers
B:-Brutus
C:-Lin
D:-Lem
Ans: D
85:-Who said this in The Glass Menagerie
"All pretty girls are a trap, a pretty trap, and men expect them to be."
A:-Amanda
B:-Tom
C:-Laura
D:-Jim
Ans: A
86:- "A man is the sum of his misfortunes.One day you'd think misfortune would get tired but then time is your misfortune."
The above quote is from ---
A:-Midnights Children
B:-The Scarlet Letter
C:-The Sound and the Fury
D:-Phenomenal Women
Ans: C
87:- Pecola Breedlove is repeatedly called ---- by nearly everyone in her life.
A:-pretty
B:-ugly
C:-dirty
D:-lazy
Ans: B
88:-Who said "Envy is ignorance , Imitation is Suicide" ?
A:-John Barth
B:-Emerson
C:-Churchill
D:-Aurobindo
Ans: B
89:-Who among the following is not a playwright?
A:-Girish Karnad
B:-Vijay Tendulkar
C:-Mahesh Dattani
D:-Amit Chaudhuri
Ans: D
90:-Judith Wright is from
A:-Australia
B:-Austria
C:-Canada
D:-South Africa
Ans: A
91:-Hetronormativity asserts
A:-Sexual relationship between man and man
B:-Sexual relationship between man and woman
C:-sexual relationship between woman and woman
D:-sexual relationship between both man and man and woman and woman
Ans: B
92:-Occident denotes
A:-Countries of the East
B:-Countries of the West
C:-Countries of the Middle East
D:-Countries of African continent
Ans: B
93:----------- is the cultural logic of late capitalism
A:-Postmodernism
B:-Postcolonialism
C:-New Historicism
D:-New Feminism
Ans: A
94:- Who said, "If Lacan presumes that female homosexuality issues from a disappointed hetrosexuality, as observation is said to show, could it not be equally clear to the observer that hetrosexuality issues form a disappointed homosexuality?"
A:-Judith Wright
B:-Gayatri Spivak
C:-Judith Butler
D:-Tony Morrison
Ans: C
95:-Who is the author of the essay, "Can the Subaltern Speak?"
A:-Judith Butler
B:-Edward Said
C:-Linda Hutchinson
D:-Gayatri Spivak
Ans: D
96:-Historiographic metafiction is a term coined by
A:-Linda Hutcheon
B:-Jorge Louis Borges
C:-Roland Barthes
D:-Homi K Bhabha
Ans: A
97:-The Location of Culture by Homi K. Baba deals with the theoretical development of
A:-Oriental ism
B:-Postmodernism
C:-post colonialism
D:-Hybridity
Ans: D
98:-Humour that leads to horror is called
A:-bleak humour
B:-black humour
C:-gothic humour
D:-gallow humour
Ans: B
99:-Desirable Daughters is a novel written by
A:-Mira Nair
B:-Anita Desai
C:-Bharathi Mukerjee
D:-Kiran Desai
Ans: C
100:-Which postmodern writer used the theory of entropy in his novels?
A:-Joseph Heller
B:-Thomas Pynchon
C:-John Updike
D:-Salman Rushdie
Ans: B
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