Sunday 13 January 2019

Unit-VI Part-VIII


1.    Which novel did T. S. Eliot praise for utilizing a new "mythical method" in place of the old "narrative method" and demonstrates the use of ancient mythology in modernist fiction to think about "making the modern world possible for art"?
                        a.  Virginia Woolf's The Waves  
                        b. Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness 
                        c. James Joyce's Finnegan's Wake  
                        d. E. M. Forster's A Passage to India    
                        e. James Joyce's Ulysses
2.    With which enormously influential perspective or practice is the early-twentieth-century thinker Sigmund Freud associated?
                        a.  eugenics    
                        b. psychoanalysis       
                        c. phrenology         
                        d. anarchism  
                        e. all of the above
3.    Which of the following authors promoted versions of socialism?
                        a.  William Morris 
                        b. John Ruskin 
                        c. Edward FitzGerald
                        d. Karl Marx       
                        e. all but c
4.    Which of the following is a typically Romantic poetic form?
                        a.  the fractal     
                        b. the figment    
                        c. the fragment  
                        d. the aubade             
                        e. the comedy of manners
5.    Which philosopher had a particular influence on Coleridge?
                        a.  Aristotle     
                        b. Duns Scotus   
                        c. David Hume    
                        d. Immanuel Kant          
                        e. Bertrand Russell
6.    Wordsworth described all good poetry as :
                        a.  the rhythmic expression of moral intuition     
                        b. the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings    
                        c. the polite patter of a corrupted age    
                        d. the divine gift of grace     
                        e. the foul rag and bone shop of the heart.
7.    In which of the following works is the social outcast represented and addressed?
                        a.  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley's Frankenstein   
                        b. William Worsworth's Lyrical Ballads                
                        c. Samuel Taylor Coleridge's The Rime of the Ancient Mariner                             
                        d. John Keats's "To Autumn"       
                        e. all but d
8.    What is the term we now use for what the Romantics called "mesmerism," one of the "occult" practices that allowed people to explore altered states of consciousness?
                        a.  smoking opium  
                        b. hypnotism               
                        c. psychoanalysis        
                        d. dream interpretation              
                        e. Satanism
9.    Which poets collaborated on the Lyrical Ballads of 1798, thus demonstrating the "spirit of the age," which, in an era of revolutionary thinking, depended on a belief in the limitless possibilities of the poetic imagination?
                        a.  Mary Wollstonecraft and William Blake    
                        b. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley and Percy B. Shelley       
                        c. William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge          
                        d. Charles Lamb and William Hazlitt                   
                        e. Dorothy Wordsworth and Sally Ashburner
10.  Whose great Dictionary, published in 1755, included more than 114,000 quotations?
                        a.  William Hogarth 
                        b. Jonathan Swift       
                        c. Samuel Johnson        
                        d. Ben Jonson                              
                        e. James Boswell
11.   The "father of humanism" is :
                        a.  Petrarch       
                        b. Dante         
                        c. Boccaccio            
                        d. Pico della Mirandola
12.   Who has defined 'poetry' as a fundamental creative act using languages?
                        a.  H. W. Longfellow      
                        b. Ralph Waldo Emerson 
                        c. Dylan Thomas           
                        d. William Wordsworth
13.   What is the difference between a simile and a metaphor?
a. No difference. Simply two different ways in referring to the same thing.
b. A simile is more descriptive.
c. A simile uses ‘as’ or ‘like’ to make a comparison and a metaphor doesn't.
d. A simile must use animals in the comparison.
14.  Oedipus Complex is :
                        a. a kind of physical ailment  
                        b. a kind of vitamin       
                        c. a brother’s attraction towards his sister                 
                        d. a son’s attraction towards his mother
15.  In 1905, Virginia Woolf began to write for which publication?
                        a. The Time's Literary Supplement     
                        b. The Lady's Home Journal 
                        c. Strand Magazine  
                        d. Reader Magazine
16.  A "classic" book is usually one that possesses what quality?
                        a. It has universal appeal       
                        b. It can stand the test of time     
                        c. It makes connections        
                        d. All of the above
17.  For what do Matthew Arnold's moral investment in nonfiction and Walter Pater's aesthetic investment together pave the way?
                        a. a renewed secularism in the twentieth century 
                        b. modern literary criticism           
                        c. late–nineteenth-century and early–twentieth-century satirical drama          
                        d. the surrealist movement        e. none of the above
18.  Which phrase indicates the interior flow of thought employed in high-modern literature?
                        a. automatic writing   
                        b. confused daze         
                        c. total recall  
                        d. stream of consciousness 
                        e. free association
19.  Plato’s most systematic comments on poetry appear in the texts ………….. and ……………
                        a.  Symposium and Republic    
                        b. Symposium and Ion   
                        c. Ion and Republic        
                        d. Apology and Republic
20.  Aristotle insisted that the source of knowledge is the ………….
                        a.  intellect         
                        b. sense 
                        c. universals     
                        d. reason
21.  For Aristotle, the most important feature of the Plot is that …………..
                        a.  it excites pity and fear  
                        b. it is complex  
                        c. it is moral       
                        d. it is unified
22.  Whom did Aristotle regard to be the most tragic of the poets?
                        a.  Aeschylus    
                        b. Sophocles    
                        c. Euripides       
                        d. Homer
23.  I.A.Richards stated that the …………. meaning arises from the inter relations of sense, tone, feeling and intention.
                        a.  organic         
                        b. metaphorical       
                        c. pragmatic    
                        d. referential
24.  Which of the following is NOT true about F.R.Leavis?
                        a. He was greatly influence by Matthew Arnold   
                        b. His formalism had a moral orientation         
                        c. In a later essay Leavis changed his views on Hardy and included him in the English canon.
                        d. His Scrutiny was a quarterly review.                                        
25.  Which of the following 18th century writers were the Formalists fond of citing?
                        a.  Samuel Richardson    
                        b. Jonathan Swift   
                        c. Henry Fielding     
                        d. Dr. Johnson
26.  Jakobson’s analysis of metaphor and metonymy anticipates …………’s analysis of condensation and displacement.
                        a.  Derrida       
                        b. Barthes       
                        c. Saussure       
                        d. Lacan
27.  Shklovsky introduced the concept of ……… in the essay “Art as Technique” published in 1917.
                        a.  ostranenie
                        b. literaturnost       
                        c. fabula        
                        d. syuzet
28.  I.A.Richards articulated the special character of literary language by differentiating the emotive (or evocative) use of language from the ……….
                        a.  indexical        
                        b. stylistic   
                        c. referential  
                        d. none of these
29.  ……….., the author of “ Three Aspects of Language and Two Types of Aphasic Disturbances”, stands as a link between formalism and structuralism.
                        a.  Roman Jakobson     
                        b. Jan Mukarovsky     
                        c. Viktor Shklovsky      
                        d. Boris Eichenbaum
30.  While for Aristotle, mythos is the “arrangement of the incidents”, Shklovsky’s analysis of Tristram Shandy shows that for the Formalists, ……… is actually the violation of the formal arrangements of incidents.
                        a.  fabula          
                        b. sjuzet      
                        c. ostranenie   
                        d. none of these
31.  The Formalists anticipated postmodernist self-reflexivity by preferring …………. to mimesis.
                        a.  diegesis       
                        b. aesthetics 
                        c. both a and b         
                        d. poiesis
32.  Wordsworth’s primary concern in the Lyrical Ballads was with ……….
                        a.  the subject matter of poetry  
                        b. the language of poetry     
                        c. the rejection of neoclassical principles       
                        d. to formulate a new genre of poetry
33.  Mary Wollstonecraft’s A Vindication of the Rights of Woman has …………. chapters.
                        a.  9   
                        b. 10  
                        c. 13       
                        d. 15
34.  What according to Coleridge co-exists with the conscious will?
                        a.  fancy 
                        b. primary imagination
                        c. secondary imagination          
                        d. none of these
35.  Wordsworth states that the central aim of the poems in the Lyrical Ballads is to” choose incidents and situations from ………… life”.
                        a.  everyday      
                        b. rustic       
                        c. common     
                        d. ordinary
36.  What does Coleridge define as “ the living power and prime agent of all human perception”?
                        a.  fancy 
                        b. primary imagination  
                        c. secondary imagination         
                        d. none of these
37.  Which critic made scathing attacks on T.S.Eliot in the 1920s, wrote a standard introduction to Aristotle’s Poetics, and is the author of The Decline and Fall of the Romantic Ideal?
                        a.  J.L.Lowes     
                        b. F.L.Lucas     
                        c. F.R.Leavis     
                        d. L.C.Knights
38.  “He was the man who of all modern, and perhaps ancient poets, had the largest and most comprehensive soul.” Who said this about whom?
                        a.  Johnson on Milton  
                        b. Dryden on Shakespeare
                        c. Quillercouch on Keats         
                        d. Coleridge on Donne
39.  Who said, “The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice”?
                        a.  D.H.Lawrence   
                        b. Walt Whitman        
                        c. Ezra Pound     
                        d. T.S.Eliot
40.  Eliot declared himself a ……… in literature, an Anglo Catholic in religion and a Royalist in politics.
                        a.  modernist
                        b. classicist 
                        c. reformist     
                        d. futurist
41.  In which country was Romanticism, in the late 19th century, associated with an innovatory aesthetic creed?
                        a.  England        
                        b. Italy        
                        c. France       
                        d. Germany
42.  Which of the following was termed “mythos” by Aristotle?
                        a.  history        
                        b. diction of poetry 
                        c. character     
                        d. plot
43.  Expressionism originated in …………..
                        a.  France     
                        b. Germany      
                        c. Italy        
                        d. England
44.  “Linguistics and Poetics” is an influential formalist essay by :
                        a.  Jonathan Culler    
                        b. Roman Jakobson     
                        c. Robert Penn Warren    
                        d. John Crowe Ransom
45.  Who advocated a “Dalitization” of Indian culture in Why I Am Not A Hindu?
                        a. Limbale  
                        b. Ambedkar     
                        c. Kancha Iliah      
                        d. Baburao Bagul
46.  In Search of Our Mothers’ Gardens is the defining essay of …………
                        a.  Womanism      
                        b. Third World Feminism 
                        c. Ecofeminism          
                        d. Postfeminism
47.  Who among the following is commonly referred as structural Marxist?
                        a. Louis Althusser    
                        b. Antonio Gramsci     
                        c. Friedrich Engels      
                        d. Raymond Williams
48.  Which of the following is the autobiography of Betty Frieden?
                        a.  The Second Stage   
                        b. Beyond Gender       
                        c. The Fountain of Age         
                        d. Life So Far
49.  Match the following :
                 i.          Towards an Aesthetics of Dalit Literature         -              (a)B.R. Ambedkar
                ii.          The Outcaste                                                       -              (b) Mulk Raj Anand
               iii.          An Anthology of Dalit Literature                       -              (c) Sharankumar Limbale
               iv.          Essays on Untouchables and Untouchability    -              (d) Akkarmashi
                  a.  (i)-d,(ii)-a,(iii)-b,(iv)-c     
                    b. (i)-c,(ii)-d,(iii)-b,(iv)-a         
                    c. (i)-b,(ii)-d,(iii)-a,(iv)-c             
                    d. (i)-b,(ii)-c,(iii)-a,(iv)-d
50.  The association, ASLE is related to :
                        a.  Ecocriticism      
                        b. Marxcism            
                        c. Feminism           
                        d. Russian Formalism
51.  T.S.Eliot wrote the essay ‘The Functions of Criticism’ as a response to which of the following writer’s work?
                           a.  Mathew Arnold      
                           b. John Middleton Murry 
                           c. Francis Bacon         
                           d. John Dryden
52.  Marx’s superstructure is divided into political society and civil society by :
                        a. Max Weber    
                        b. Althusser 
                        c. Gramsci        
                        d. Nicos Poulantzas
53.  Which one of the statement is true?
a. Cathexis is defined as the process of investment of mental or emotional energy in a person, object, or idea.
b. Electra complex is a girl's psychosexual competition with her mother for possession of her father.
c. Seduction Theory  states that a repressed memory of an early childhood sexual abuse or molestation experience was the essential precondition for hysterical or obsessional symptoms.
d. All of them
54.  The study of issues relating to sexual orientation and gender identity is called :
                         a.  Semiotics  
                         b. Queer Studies 
                         c. Gender Play            
                         d. Psychoanalysis
55.  In Dr. Johnson’s poem ‘London’, which character departs to Cambria(Wales) in order to escape the problems of London?
                        a.  Thales       
                        b. Philotus          
                        c. Persius     
                        d. Lucilius
56.  The only long fiction written by Samuel Johnson is :
                        a.  Rasselas    
                        b. Isabella     
                        c. Emily          
                        d. Stella
57.  William Empson is best suited in :
                        a.  New Criticism 
                        b. Practical Criticism   
                        c. Marxist Criticism      
                        d. Romantic Criticism
58.  Which of the following is a work of Sigmund Freud?
                        a.  The Second Sex    
                        b. The Dialectic Sex      
                        c. On Aphasia   
                        d. Sexual Personae
59.  Match the following :
                 i.          Homi K Bhabha                         -              (a)Psychoanalysis
                ii.          Jacques Derrida                        -              (b)Third Space
               iii.          Jacques Lacan                           -              (c)Discursivity
               iv.          Michael Foucault                      -              (d)Deconstruction
                  a.  (i)-d,(ii)-a,(iii)-b,(iv)-c          
                    b. (i)-c,(ii)-d,(iii)-b,(iv)-a         
                    c. (i)-b,(ii)-d,(iii)-a,(iv)-c         
                    d. (i)-b,(ii)-c,(iii)-a,(iv)-d
60.  Match the following :
                 i.          Alankarwad                               -              (a)Kuntaka
                ii.          Ritisiddhant                               -              (b)Khemindra
               iii.          Dhwani Siddhant                      -              (c)Bhamaha
               iv.          Vakrokti                                     -              (d)Vamana
                v.          Auchitya Vada                           -              (e)Anandavardhana
                  a.  (i)-d,(ii)-e,(iii)-b,(iv)-c, (v)-a       
                    b. (i)-c,(ii)-d,(iii)-e,(iv)-a, (v)-b    
                    c. (i)-e,(ii)-d,(iii)-a,(iv)-c, (v)-b              
                    d. (i)-b,(ii)-c,(iii)-a,(iv)-e, (v)-d
61.  Vindication of The Rights of Woman’ was written by :
                        a.  Mary Wollstonecraft      
                        b. William Godwin      
                        c. Aphra Behn          
                        d. J.S.Mill
62.  Coleridge describes the creative imagination as :
                        a.  Primary Imagination    
                        b. Secondary Imagination        
                        c. Fancy        
                        d. The Dionysian imagination
63.  The following is NOT referred by Wordsworth in his Preface to Lyrical Ballads :
                        a.  Popular fiction            
                        b. Political ideology                
                        c. Expression of emotions                         
                        d. The diction of the neo-classical poets
64.  Mathew Arnold refers to the English middle-class as :
                        a.  Barbarians     
                        b. Populace       
                        c. Philistines 
                        d. Traders
65.  ‘Residual’ and ‘emergent’ are terms introduced by :
                        a. Raymond Williams     
                        b. Antonio Gramsci    
                        c. Louis Althusser         
                        d. Lucien Goldman
66.  Can the subaltern speak?” by Gayathri Spivak discusses Sati from the perspective of :
                        a.  Representation     
                        b. Liberal politics         
                        c. The ethics of intervention       
                        d. All the above
67.  In a metaphor, the metaphoric word is called :
                        a.  Trope            
                        b. Tenor        
                        c. Register    
                        d. Vehicle
68.   Which of these novels did F.R.Leavis call a ‘Sport’?
                        a.  Emma        
                        b. Wuthering Height        
                        c. Great Expectations 
                        d. Middle March
69.  Raymond Williams says that Jane Austen used the ‘Modern’ to indicate :
                        a.  Contemporary and real   
                        b. Novel and Strange
                        c. Updating and Improving      
                        d. A State of alteration
70.  Match the following :
                 i.          W.K.Wimsatt and Beardsley                 -              (a)Feminist Poetics
                ii.          Elaine Showalter                                    -              (b)Reader Response Theory
               iii.          Derrida                                                   -              (c)International Fallacy
               iv.          Stanley Fish                                            -              (d)Deconstruction
                  a.  (i)-c,(ii)-a,(iii)-d,(iv)-b        
                    b. (i)-c,(ii)-d,(iii)-b,(iv)-a         
                    c. (i)-b,(ii)-d,(iii)-a,(iv)-c                
                    d. (i)-b,(ii)-c,(iii)-a,(iv)-d
71.  In which theory is the term ‘Mimicry’ used?
                        a.  Post Colonialism         
                        b. Feminism     
                        c. Deconstruction          
                        d. Formalism
72.  “……..The truth is that spectators are always in their senses, and know, from the first scene to the last, that the stage is only a stage…….” This argument was made by :
                        a.  Dryden          
                        b. Philip Sydney        
                        c. Dr. Johnson        
                        d. Sheridan
73.  ‘Sensibility’ was an 18th century movement which :
                        a.  Stressed the importance of urbane civility          
                        b. Stressed the importance of emotions and feeling in human relationships          
                        c. Emphasized the dangers of emotions       
                        d. Supported the cultivation of a critical literary sensibility
74.  In ‘Culture and Anarchy’ Matthew Arnold uses terms “Hellenic” and “Hebraic” to describe :
                        a.  The dominant classes in British society    
                        b. Characteristics of European and non-European races
                        c.  The aesthetics and ethical attitudes      
                        d. Two aspects of contemporary politics
75.  Which critic begins his well-known book with the statement ‘I want to speak with the dead’?
                        a.  Catherine Belsey       
                        b. Stephen Greenblatt           
                        c. Alan Sinfield        
                        d. Terry Eagleton
76.  ‘There is nothing outside the text’ this statement by Derrida means :
                        a.  The text is a repository of meanings      
                        b. Our interpretation should be textual
                        c.  Reality is mediated through texts      
                        d. The written text is superior to speech
77.  According to Aristotle, tragedy consists of :
                        a.  4 parts          
                        b. 3 parts       
                        c. 6 parts      
                        d. 5 parts
78.  ‘Gynocriticism’ was a term coined by :
                        a.  Simone de Beauvoir    
                        b. Kate Millet           
                        c. Virginia Woolf        
                        d. Elaine Showalter
79.  In ‘Tradition and Individual Talent’, Eliot presents the theory of :
                        a.  Personality      
                        b. Impersonality 
                        c. Impressionism         
                        d. Expressionism
80.  The only play were Shakespeare adheres to all three unities as specified by Aristotle is :
                        a.  Hamlet       
                        b. Macbeth     
                        c. King Lear     
                        d. The Tempest
81.  In his famous essay ‘Literature and Society’ F.R.Leavis offers a critique of Marxism and :
                        a.  Classicism          
                        b. Romanticism         
                        c. Modernism          
                        d. Feminism
82.  The intellectual who collaborated with Marx was :
                        a.  Frederick Engels 
                        b. Sartre         
                        c. Ruskin      
                        d. J.S.Mill
83.  Raymond Williams is a well-known critic belonging to :
                        a.  Structuralism         
                        b. Formalism           
                        c. Deconstruction        
                        d. Marxism
84.  The essay ‘Death of the Author’ is associated with which French critic?
                        a.  Michael Foucault      
                        b. Roland Barthes       
                        c. Jacques Derrida        
                        d. Jacques Lacan
85.  Who said that “Shakespeare approximates the remote and familiarizes the wonderful”?
                        a.  Matthew Arnold 
                        b. Dr. Johnson        
                        c. Ben Johnson       
                        d. Eliot
86.  Match the following :
                 i.          Elaine Showalter                      -              (a)Thinking about Women
                ii.          Kate Millett                              -              (b)A Literature of their own
               iii.          John Stuart Mill                      -              (c)Sexual Politics
               iv.          Mary Ellman                            -              (d)The Subjection of Women
                  a.  (i)-c,(ii)-a,(iii)-d,(iv)-b           
                    b. (i)-c,(ii)-d,(iii)-b,(iv)-a      
                    c. (i)-b,(ii)-d,(iii)-a,(iv)-c             
                    d. (i)-b,(ii)-c,(iii)-d,(iv)-a
87.  Identify the anthropological work that contributed to the development of the Archetypal School of Criticism :
                        a.  Quest for Myth  
                        b. From Ritual to Romance    
                        c. The Golden Bough      
                        d. The Anatomy of Criticism
88.  In ‘Tradition and the Individual Talent’ T.S.Eliot offers a critique of :
                        a.  Romantic position   
                        b. Historical position 
                        c. Classical position   
                        d. Aristotle’s position
89.  The book ‘The Prison House of Language’ is authored by :
                        a.  Terry Eagleton        
                        b. Chomsky      
                        c. Frredric Jameson   
                        d. Raymond Williams
90.  The first critic to theorise on feminism among the following was :
                        a.  Julia Kristeva   
                        b. Toni Morrison       
                        c. Simone de Beauvoir         
                        d. Linda Hutcheon
91.  Wordsworth argues that there is no essential difference between :
                        a.  Comedy and Tragedy   
                        b. Epic and novel      
                        c. Romantic poetry and classical poetry                  
                        d. The language of prose and metrical composition
92.  Matthew Arnold’s “Thyrsis” is an elegy on :
                        a.  Sohrab       
                        b. Edward King         
                        c. Arthur Hugh Clough          
                        d. James Thomson
93.  Identify the critic who said, ‘The only method is to be very intelligent’ :
                        a.  Cleanth Brooks     
                        b. T.S.Eliot      
                        c. F.R.Leavis            
                        d. Kenneth Burke
94.  Is there A Text in the class?’ is an example of :
                        a.  The New Historicism   
                        b. Reader Response Theory   
                        c. Formalist Criticism         
                        d. Feminist Theory
95.  Which of the following was NOT written by Roland Barthes?
                        a.  S/Z 
                        b. Mythologies         
                        c. Critical Practice        
                        d. Writing Degree Zero
96.  The Country and The City’ is a work by :
                        a.  Terry Eagleton       
                        b. E.P. Thomson         
                        c. Raymond Williams      
                        d. Frederick Jameson
97.  The critics have faulted Edward Said on the following ground :
                        a.  misreading imperialism        
                        b. incorrect sources    
                        c. not recognizing agency of the colonized       
                        d. admiring Europe’s progress
98.  Stuart Hall is a powerful proponent of :
                        a.  Cultural studies       
                        b. Reader Response Theory
                        c. Post-Colonial Theory   
                        d. Queer Theory
99.  The Location of Culture’ is a seminal work by :
                        a.  Homi Bhabha         
                        b. Catherine Belsey   
                        c. Gayathri Spivak        
                        d. Edward Said
100.  ‘Catharsis’ in Aristotle is :
              a.  Purification     
              b. Purgation       
              c. Release  
              d. All the three
101. Karukku’ is a dalit life narrative by :
              a.  Shivakami        
              b. Sarah Joseph     
              c. Bama      
              d. Urmila Pawar
102.  The philosopher ‘Plato’ says that in the Ideal Republic :
              a.  Poets should be made administrators   
              b. Poets should be honored and then banished
              c.  Poets should be in prison         
              d. Poets should not be allowed to write disturbing tragedies
103.  Aristotle says that there cannot be  a tragedy without :
              a.  Character   
              b. Plot        
              c. Embellishment   
              d. Spectacle
104. The concept of hegemony was introduced by :
              a.  Michel Foucault   
              b. Edward Said        
              c. Antonio Gramsci     
              d. Raymond Williams
105. Which of these statements best discusses romanticism?
                 i.           Romanticism was a product of the Spanish wars of succession.
                ii.          It was a protest against aristocratic, social and political norms.
               iii.          It was an artistic, literary and intellectual movement.
               iv.          It validated emotion and subjectivity.
                  a.  (i),(ii) and (iii) only 
                  b. (i),(ii) and (iv) only     
                  c. (i),(iii) and (iv) only      
                  d. (ii),(iii) and (iv) only
106. William Wordsworth wrote the ‘Preface to The Lyrical Ballads’ because he wished to:
                 i.          Justify living amidst nature                   ii. Create a revolution      iii. Put forth new guidelines for the writing of poetry    iv. Justify philosophical and emotional involvement with daily life
                  a.  (i) and (ii) only     
                  b. (iii) and (iv) only      
                  c. (ii) and (iii) only       
                  d. (i) and (iv) only
107. Which one of these statements does NOT characterize the Stream of Consciousness technique?
a. The term was introduced by William James in his Principles of Psychology(1890).
b. It is a literary style in which a character’s thoughts, feelings and reactions are depicted in a continuous flow uninterrupted by objective description or conventional dialogue.
c. The writer incorporates snatches of coherent thought, proper grammatical constructions, and precise use of ideas, image and words.
d. It is thought to be a form of interior monologue.
108. Match the terms with the concept :
                 i.          Multiculturalism                       -              (a)existence of a variety of cultural groups
                ii.          Diaspora                                    -              (b)state of belonging to a common social group
               iii.          Cultural Diversity                      -              (c)dispersal and spread of people
               iv.          Ethnicity                                     -              (d)Inclusive Citizenship
                  a.  (i)-c,(ii)-a,(iii)-d,(iv)-b    
                    b. (i)-c,(ii)-d,(iii)-b,(iv)-a        
                    c. (i)-b,(ii)-d,(iii)-a,(iv)-c                   
                    d. (i)-d,(ii)-c,(iii)-a,(iv)-b
109. The terms, the monoglossic, the diglossic and the polyglossic by Bill Ashcroft et al. in ‘The Empire Writes Back’ refers to ………..
              a.  Cultural identity
              b. Difference in glossary  
              c. Variations in Speech    
              d. Linguistic Communities
110. “The Greeks called him ‘a poet’, which name hath, as the most excellent, gone through other languages. It cometh of this word Poiein, which is "to make": wherein, I know not whether by luck or wisdom, we Englishmen have met with the Greeks in calling him ‘a maker’: which name, how high and incomparable a title it is, I had rather were known by marking the scope of other sciences than by my partial allegation”. This is a statement in :
              a.  Dr. Johnson’s Preface to Shakespeare      
              b. Philip Sidney’s Apology for Poetry
              c.  Longinus’ On the Sublime             
              d. Aristotle’s Poetics
111. The series of essays ‘ The Idler’ is associated with :
              a.  Alexander Pope       
              b. Samuel Johnson    
              c. Joseph Addison    
              d. Dr. Robert James
112. Match the following :
                 i.          Edward Said                              -              (a) Irony as a Principle of Structure
                ii.          Chinua Achebe                          -              (b) Truth and Power
               iii.          Michel Foucault                        -              (c) Colonialist Criticism
               iv.          Cleanth Brooks                         -              (d) The World, the Text, and the Critic
                  a.  (i)-d,(ii)-c,(iii)-b,(iv)-a       
                    b. (i)-c,(ii)-d,(iii)-a,(iv)-b        
                    c. (i)-b,(ii)-d,(iii)-a,(iv)-c                 
                    d. (i)-b,(ii)-c,(iii)-d,(iv)-a
113. Who among the following is considered as the grandmother of British feminism :
              a.  Mary Wollstonecraft  
              b. Virginia Woolf  
              c. Simone de Beauvoir         
              d. Betty Friedan
114. Match the following autobiographies with their authors :
                 i.          Confessions of an English Opium-Eater            -              (a) Thomas Carlyle
                ii.          Autobiographical Fragment                                -              (b) Thomas De Quincey
               iii.          Reminiscences                                                     -              (c) Charles Dickens 
               iv.          A Small Boy and Others                                      -              (d) Henry James
                a.  (i)-d,(ii)-a,(iii)-b,(iv)-c       
                  b. (i)-c,(ii)-d,(iii)-b,(iv)-a    
                  c. (i)-b,(ii)-d,(iii)-a,(iv)-c                 
                  d. (i)-b,(ii)-c,(iii)-a,(iv)-d
115. What is defined as “any verbal nuance, however slight, which gives room for alternative reactions to the same piece of language”?
           a.  Irony       
           b. Paradox     
           c. Ambiguity     
           d. Parody
116.  Which one of the following is NOT a work of F.R.Leavis?
           a.   Nor Shall my Sword  
           b. Thought, Words and Creativity: Art and Thought in Lawrence                           
           c. Revaluation 
           d. All of them
117.    A type of uncertainty of meaning in which several interpretations are plausible is called :
             a. Sublimity       
             b. Ambiguity     
             c. Formalism     
             d. Negative Capability
118.   'A Room of One's Own' is a work of :
             a.  Mary Wollstonecraft   
             b. Virginia Woolf       
             c. Simone de Beauvoir     
             d. Betty Friedan
119. 'A Jury of Her Peers: American Women Writers from Anne Bradstreet to Annie Proulx' is a book written by :
             a. Virginia Woolf       
             b. Mary Wollstonecraft
             c. Elaine Showalter      
             d. Simone de Beauvoir
120.   The four kinds of Abhinaya  - Angika, Vacika, Aharya, Sattvika – are explained in :
             a. Rasa Siddhanta       
             b. Alamkara Siddhanta
             c. Riti Siddhanta      
             d. Dhvani Siddhanta

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  1. 1. E
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