UGC-CBSE ENGLISH NET – 2015 –
PAPER
II – MODEL ANSWER KEY
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1. Who, among the following, advanced the theory
that the mind is a tabula rasa at birth, and acquires all ideas by experience?
(1)
John Locke
(2) John Wesley
(3) Issac Watts
(4) Denis Diderot
Answer – (1) John Locke
Reference – ‘An Essay Concerning Human
Understanding’ (1689) – Book II – Chapter vii
2. Which of the following authors wrote ‘Studies in
the History of the Renaissance’?
(1) Walter Pater
(2) Oscar Wilde
(3) Thomas Carlyle
(4) John Ruskin
Answer – (1) Walter Pater
Explanation
- Studies in the History of the Renaissance (1873)
3. Whom does Harriet Smith finally marry in one of
Jane Austen’s novels?
(1) Knightley
(2) Darcy
(3) Collins
(4) Mr. Martin
Answer – (4) Mr. Martin
Explanation
– Harriet Smith is the character from Jane Austen’s ‘Emma’ (December 1815). She
marries Mr. Martin (Chapter – 55)
Other Marriages - Frank Churchill marries Jane Fairfax
and Emma marries Mr. Knightley.
4. A poet once referred to an old man as ‘A tattered
coat upon a stick’. That is an example
of _____
(1) Metonymy
(2) Sarcasm
(3) Simile
(4) Metaphor
Answer – (4) Metaphor
Explanation
– This line is taken from Yeats’ ‘Sailing to Byzantium (2nd Stanza) , first
published in the 1928 in collection his poetic collection ‘The Tower.’
“An aged man is but a paltry thing,
A tattered coat upon a stick, unless
Soul clap its hands and sing, and louder sing
For every tatter in its mortal dress,
Nor is there singing school but studying
Monuments of its own magnificence;
And therefore I have sailed the seas and come
To the holy city of Byzantium.”
The thorough poem depicts the metaphorical spiritual
journey of a man pursuing his own vision of eternal life as well as his
conception of paradise.
# It is not Metonymy. In metonymy figure of speech –
generalization of a particular word or phrase takes place and is applicable
wider than metaphor. (Metaphor – Particularized / Metonymy – Generalized)
Example of Metonymy –
Crown - in place of a royal person
Eyes - for sight
Ears – for attention (‘Lend me your ears’ – Antony
in Julius Caesar)
5. Which of these is NOT pastoral elegy?
(1) Lycidas
(2) In Memoriam
(3) Thyrsis
(4) Adonais
Answer - (2) In Memoriam
Explanation
– ‘In Memoriam’ is a lyric by Tennyson
in memory of A H Hallam. In pastoral elegy a shepherd charges the
Nature for the death of a fellow shepherd for not taking proper care of his
friend.
6. In Beckett’s ‘Waiting for Godot’ the characters
often use dislocated, repetitious and clichéd speech primarily to:
(1) Illustrate the essentially illogical,
purposeless nature of the human condition
(2) re-create the workings of the subconscious
(3) mock the exaggerated dignity and wisdom of
modern, self-professed intellectuals
(4) reinforce the comic action of farcical plots
Answer – (1) Illustrate the essentially
illogical, purposeless nature of the human condition
Explanation
- Absurdist literature imparts the idea that the existence and actions of human
beings are, in effect, senseless, useless, and therefore absurd. In Theatre of
the Absurd, characters' speech reflects this senselessness, as when in Samuel
Beckett's play Waiting for Godot one of the characters remarks, "Nothing
happens, nobody comes, nobody goes, it's awful."
7. Which of the following sixteenth-century poets
was NOT a courtier?
(1) George Puttenham
(2) Philip Sidney
(3) Walter Raleigh
(4) Thomas Wyatt
Answer – All the options suit to the question. If challenged properly, all the aspirants can
get bonus marks.
The options should be like (for example) –
(1) (a) and (b)
(2) (b) and (c)
(3) (c) and (d)
(4) All the above
Explanation
–
What is a Courtier?
Definition of Courtier - a person who is often in
attendance at the court of a king or other royal personage.
A courtier is a person who is often in attendance at
the court of a king or other royal personage. Historically the court was the
centre of government as well as the residence of the monarch, and the social
and political life were often completely mixed together.
Wyatt, Puttenham, Sidney and Raleigh – all were
directly associated with the Court.
Wyatt was educated at St. John’s, Cambridge, and
became a member of the court circle of Henry VIII,
George Puttenham, English courtier, generally
acknowledged as the author of the anonymously published The Arte of English
Poesie (1589), one of the most important critical works of the Elizabethan age.
Sir Philip Sidney was Elizabethan courtier,
statesman, soldier, poet, and patron of scholars and poets, considered the
ideal gentleman of his day
Sir Walter Raleigh, Raleigh also spelled Ralegh,
English adventurer and writer, a favourite of Queen Elizabeth I, who knighted
(courtier) him in 1585.
8. Patrick White published two novels in the 1950s
giving the eras of pioneering the 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:
(1) (a) and (b)
(2) (b) and (c)
(3) (c) and (a)
(4) (c) and (d)
Answer – (2) (b) and (c) – The
Tree Man (1956), Voss (1957)
Explanation
– The question highlights Patrick White’s
‘Published two novels in 1950s’ – ‘1950s’ means from year 1950 to 1960 .
A Fringe of Leaves (1976)
The Tree of Man (1956)
Voss (1957)
The Aunt's Story (1948)
9. In which
of the following works did Bhaktin propose his widely cited concept of the
‘Carnivalesque’?
(1) “Discourse in the novel”
(2) Dialogic Imagination
(3) Rabelais and his world
(4) “Forms of Time and of the Chronotope in the
Novel”
Answer – (3) Rabelais and his world
Explanation - "Carnivalesque" is a term developed by the
literary critic Mikhail Bakhtin (1895-1975) in his 1968 book Rabelais and His
World, in which Bakhtin analyzed the writings of the French novelist Francois
Rabelais (1532-1564). Although Bakhtin was writing about a 16th century French
novelist, the terms he uses to analyze Rabelais' work have become very
influential over time, so much so that many children's scholars have employed
his terms when talking about children's literature.
10. Match the colums:
(Author) (Texts)
(a) Sebastian Faulks (i)
Amsterdam
(b) Peter Ackroyd (ii)
Changing Places
(c) Ian MacEwan (iii)
Hawksmoor
(d) David Lodge (iv)
Birdsong
Codes;
(a) (b) (c) (d)
(1)
(i) (ii) (iii) (iv)
(2)
(ii) (iii) (i) (iv)
(3)
(iv) (iii) (i)
(ii)
(4)
(iii) (iv) (ii) (i)
Answer – (3) (iv) (iii) (i)
(ii)
Amsterdam is a 1998 novel by British writer Ian
McEwan, for which he was awarded the 1998 Booker Prize.
Changing Places (1975) is the first "campus
novel" by British novelist David Lodge. The subtitle is "A Tale of
Two Campuses", and thus both the title and subtitle are literary allusions
to Charles Dickens' A Tale of Two Cities. It is the first text in Lodge's
'Campus Trilogy' of novels, followed by Small World (1984) and Nice Work
(1988).
Hawksmoor is a 1985 novel by the English writer
Peter Ackroyd. It won Best Novel at the 1985 Whitbread Awards and the Guardian
Fiction Prize. It tells the parallel stories of Nicholas Dyer, who builds seven
churches in 18th-century London for which he needs human sacrifices, and
Nicholas Hawksmoor, detective in the 1980s, who investigates murders committed
in the same churches.Hawksmoor has been praised as Peter Ackroyd's best novel
up to now and an impressive example of postmodernism.
Birdsong is a 1993 novel by English author Sebastian
Faulks. Faulks' fourth novel, it tells of a man called Stephen Wraysford at
different stages of his life both before and during World War I. Birdsong is
part of a trilogy of novels by Sebastian Faulks, together with The Girl at the
Lion d'Or and Charlotte Gray; the three novels are linked through location,
history and several minor characters.
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11. In New Criticism, the key term ‘tension’ is
associated with
(1) Cleanth Brooks
(2) John Crow Ransom
(3) Austin Warren
(4) Allen Tate
Answer – (4) Allen Tate
Explanation
- The Man of Letters in the Modern World, 1955.(Part – II)
12. While compiling what sort of book did Samuel
Richardson conceive of the idea for his Pamela or Virtue Rewarded?
(1) an account of the plague in London
(2) an instruction manual for manners
(3) a book of devotion
(4) a book of model letters
Answer – (4) a book of model
letters
Explanation
– It is an epistolary novel – novel in the forms of letter.
13. Who among the war Poets gained notoriety in
1917, when disenchanted with the way the war was being conducted he drafted his
letter of “willful 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?
(1) Rupert Brooke
(2) Siegried Sassoon
(3) Wilfred Owen
(4) Issac Rosenberg
Answer – (2) Siegriad Sassoon
Explanation
– The Letter Written By Siegriad Sassoon
Transcript (The Original Letter by Sassoon)
Lt. Siegfried Sassoon.
3rd Batt: Royal Welsh Fusiliers.
July, 1917.
I am making this statement as an act of wilful
defiance of military authority because I believe that the war is being
deliberately prolonged by those who have the power to end it. I am a soldier,
convinced that I am acting on behalf of soldiers. I believe that the war upon
which I entered as a war of defence and liberation has now become a war of
agression and conquest. I believe that the purposes for which I and my fellow
soldiers entered upon this war should have been so clearly stated as to have
made it impossible to change them and that had this been done the objects which
actuated us would now be attainable by negotiation.
I have seen and endured the sufferings of the troops
and I can no longer be a party to prolonging these sufferings for ends which I
believe to be evil and unjust. I am not protesting against the conduct of the war,
but against the political errors and insincerities for which the fighting men
are being sacrificed.
On behalf of those who are suffering now, I make
this protest against the deception which is being practised upon them; also I
believe it may help to destroy the callous complacency with which the majority
of those at home regard the continuance of agonies which they do not share and
which they have not enough imagination to realise.
14. If you cannot understand an argument and remark,
“It’s Greek to me”, you are quoting ________
(1) John Milton
(2) Samuel Johnson
(3) William Shakespeare
(4) John Donne
Answer - (3) William
Shakespeare
Explanation
- In Shakespeare's play Julius Caesar, as spoken by Servilius Casca to Cassius
after festival in which Caesar was offered crown:
Cassius: Did Cicero say any thing?
Casca: Ay, he spoke Greek.
Cassius: To what effect?
Casca: Nay, an I tell you that, I'll ne'er look you
i' the face again: but those that understood him smile at one another and shook
their heads; but for mine own part, it was Greek to me. I could tell you more
news too: Marullus and Flavius, for pulling carfs off Caesar's images, are put
to silence. Fare you well. There was more foolery yet, if I could remember it.
(William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of Julius Caesar
(1599)
15. Which of the following works did Walter Scott
compile?
(1) The Lay of the Last Minstre
(2) Marmion
(3) Ivanhoe
(4) The Minstrelsy of Scottish Border
Answer – (3) Ivanhoe
Explanation
–
Compile - produce (a list or book) by assembling
information collected from other sources.
‘Compile’ is a word usually used for ‘gathering of
data related to history’.
Ivanhoe is a historical novel by Sir Walter Scott,
first published in 1820 in three volumes and subtitled A Romance.Ivanhoe, set
in 12th century England
"The Lay of the Last Minstrel" (1805) is a
long narrative poem by Walter Scott.
The Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border is a
collection of Border ballads compiled by Walter Scott, first published in three
volumes in 1802 and 1803. It is not to be confused with his long poem, The Lay
of the Last Minstrel.
Marmion is an epic poem by Walter Scott about the
Battle of Flodden (1513). It was published in 1808.
16. Which of the following is NOT written by Wole
Soyinka?
(1) Home and Exile
(2) Kongi’s Harvest
(3) The interpreters
(4) The Swamp Dwellers
Answer – (1) Home and Exile (Author:
Chinua Achebe Genre: Essays Written: 2000)
Kongi's Harvest is a 1965 play written by Wole
Soyinka. It premiered in Dakar, Senegal, at the first Negro Arts Festival in
April 1966. It was later adapted as a film of the same name, directed by the
American Ossie Davis
The Interpreters is a novel by Wole Soyinka,
published in London in 1965. It is the first and one of the only two novels
written by Soyinka who is principally known as a playwright. The novel was
written in English and later translated into a number of languages.
Swamp Dwellers (1958) Wole Soyinka - The Swamp
Dwellers focuses on the struggle between the old and the new ways of life in
Africa. It also gives us a picture of the cohesion that existed between the
individual and southern Nigerian society. The conflict between tradition and
modernity is also reflected in the play. The play mirrors the socio-cultural
pattern, the pang and the sufferings of the swamp dwellers and underlines the
need for absorbing new ideas. The struggle between human beings and
unfavourable forces of nature is also captured in the play. Soyinka presents us
the picture of modernAfrica where the wind of change started blowing.
17. In the Defense 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 action 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 offer a foil that helps us perceive the beauty of
virtue?
(1) Pastorals
(2) Parody
(3) Comedy
(4) Tragedy
Answer – (3) Comedy
Philip Sidney wrote An Apology for Poetry (or, The
Defence of Poesy) in approximately 1579, and it was published in 1595, after
his death.
An Extract from ‘An Apology for Poetry’ -
No, perchance it is the comic; whom naughty
play-makers and stage—keepers have justly made odious. To the argument of abuse
I will answer after. Only thus much now is to be said, that the comedy in an
imitation of the common errors of our life, which he representeth in the most
ridiculous and scornful sort that may be, so as it is impossible that any
beholder can be content to be such a one. Now, as in geometry the oblique must
be known as well as the 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.
18. John Dryden described a major English poet as “a
rough diamond, and must first be polished ere he shines…” Identify him:
(1) Geoffrey Chaucer
(2) John Gower
(3) George Herbert
(4) Robert Herrick
Answer – (1) Geoffrey Chaucer
Explanation
– The above statement appears in ‘Fables, Ancient and Modern’ which is the
collection of translations of classical and medieval poetry by John Dryden
interspersed with some of his own works. Published in March 1700,
Extract:
“I have almost done with Chaucer, when I have
answer’d some objections relating to my present work. I find some people are
offended that I have turn’d these tales into modern English; because they think
them unworthy of my pains, and look on Chaucer as a dry, old-fashion’d wit, not
worth reviving. I have often heard the late Earl of Leicester say that Mr.
Cowley himself was of that opinion; who having read him over at my lord’s
request, declar’d he had no taste of him. I dare not advance my opinion against
the judgment of so great an author; but I think it fair, however, to leave the
decision to the public: Mr. Cowley was too modest to set up for a dictator; and
being shock’d perhaps with his old style, never examin’d into the depth of his
good sense. Chaucer, I confess, is a rough diamond, and must first be polish’d,
ere he shines.”
19. In
remarkably proleptic insight, a critic wrote the following, anticipating
Benedict Anderson’s definition of the nation as “an imagined political
community”:
“Most novels are in some snese knowable communities.
It is part of a traditional method – an underlying stance and approach – that a
novelist offers to show people and their relationships in essentially knowable
and communicable ways”
Name the critic and the reference:
(1) Van Wyck Brooks, ‘The writer in America’
(2) Raymond Williams, ‘The Country and the
City’
(3) Joseph Wood Krutch, ‘The Modern Temper’
(4) T S Eliot, ‘Notes Towards a Definition of
Culture’
Answer – (2) Raymond Williams
- The Country and the City (1973)
20. “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:
(1) circumlocution
(2) antithesis
(3) anticlimax
(4) bathos
Answer – (4) Bathos
Explanation
–
Bathos,
unsuccessful, and therefore ludicrous, attempt to portray pathos in art,
i.e., to evoke pity, sympathy, or sorrow. The term was first used in this sense
by Alexander Pope in his treatise Peri Bathous; or, The Art of Sinking in
Poetry (1728). Bathos may result from an inappropriately dignified treatment of
the commonplace, the use of elevated language and imagery to describe trivial
subject matter, or from such an exaggeration of pathos (emotion provoked by
genuine suffering) as to become overly sentimental or ridiculous.
Even great poets occasionally lapse into bathos.
William Wordsworth’s attempt to arouse pity for the old huntsman in “Simon Lee”
is defeated by the following lines:
Few months of life has he in store
As he to you will tell,
For still, the more he works, the more
Do his weak ankles swell.
21. In his “Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot” Pope tells us
that as a poet he had benefited from “This saving counsel, ‘keep your piece
nine yeaers’” – which enjoins on writer’s patience and great care before they
rush to print. Whose “counsel” is Pope referring to?
(1) Longinus’s in On the Sublime
(2) Horace’s in Ars Poetica
(3) Quintilian’s Institutio Oratoria
(4) Aristotle’s Poetics
Answer – (2) Horace’s in Ars
Poetica
Explanation
–
In the Ars Poetica, Horace suggested that an
aspiring poet should hold on to his works for nine years before publishing
them.
22. An English architect and stage-designer –
Beginning 1605, 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.
(1) Henry Irving
(2) Inigo Jones
(Henry Arthur Jones
(4) William Inge
Answer – (2) Inigo Jones
Explanation
- Inigo Jones was a British architect best known as the first prominent
architect in England for his work on the Queens House in Greenwich (1616) and
the Banqueting House in Whitehall (1619).
(Banqueting House, Whitehall, designed by
Inigo Jones)
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23) _____ 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.
(1) Poetic License
(2) Poetic Justice
(3) Poetic deviance
(4) Poetic diction
Answer – (1) Poetic License
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24) That Humanities and the sciences were in fact
“two cultures” was suggested by_____
(1) Aldous Huxley in his oxford lectures on poetry
(2) W H Auden in his oxford lectures on poetry
(3) F R Leavis in his book, The Great Tradition
(4) C P Snow in his Rede Lecture
Answer – (4) C P Snow in his
Rede Lecture
The Two Cultures is the title of the first part of
an influential 1959 Rede Lecture by British scientist and novelist C. P. Snow.
Its thesis was that "the intellectual life of the whole of western
society" was split into the titular two cultures — namely the sciences and
thehumanities — and that this was a major hindrance to solving the world's
problems.
25. Chaucer satirizes the Monk because the Monk:
(1) is too concernced with courtesy and matters of
etiquette
(2) cheats the poor peasants by selling them false
religious relics
(3) courts favour of wealthy people but spends no
time with poor people
(4) Spends too much time hunting and too
little time on religious duty
Answer – (4) Spends too much
time hunting and too little time on religious duty
Explanation
– Prologue to the Canterbury Tales – Lines 179 to 191
Ne that a monk, whan he is cloisterlees
Is likned til a fish that is waterlees; (180)
This is to seyn, a monk out of his cloistre.
But thilke text held he nat worth an oistre.
And I seyde his opinioun was good.
What sholde he studie, and make him-selven wood,
Upon a book in cloistre alwey to poure, (185)
Or swinken with his handes, and laboure,
As Austin bit? How shal the world be served?
Lat Austin have his swink to him reserved.
Therfor he was a pricasour aright;
Grehoundes he hadde, as swifte as fowel in flight;
(190)
Of priking and of hunting for the hare
26. Divided into three sections this ground-breaking
work published in 1953 uses as the frame of the spiritual and moral awakening
of a fourteen-year-old during a Saturday night service in a Harlem church.
Identify the work.
(1) Zora Neale Hurston’s ‘Their Eyes Are Watching
God’
(2) James Baldwin’s ‘Go Tell it on the
Mountain’
(3) Toni Morrison’s ‘Song of Solomon
(4) Richard Wright’s ‘Native Son’
Answer – (2) James Baldwin’s
‘Go Tell it on the Mountain’
Go Tell It On The Mountain, first published in 1953,
is Baldwin's first major work, a semi-autobiographical novel that has
established itself as an American classic. With lyrical precision,
psychological directness, resonating symbolic power, and a rage that is at once
unrelenting and compassionate, Baldwin chronicles a fourteen-year-old boy's
discovery of the terms of his identity as the stepson of the minister of a
storefront Pentecostal church in Harlem one Saturday in March of 1935.
Baldwin's rendering of his protagonist's spiritual, sexual, and moral struggle of
self-invention opened new possibilities in the American language and in the way
Americans understand themselves.
27. Chartism, 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 suffrage
(b) equal electoral districks
(c) comprehensive insurance scheme for labour
(d) vote by secret ballot
(e) payment of MPs
(f) no property qualifications for MPs
(g) Annual Parliaments
Codes
(1) (e)
(2) (g)
(3) (c)
(4) (d)
Answer – (3) (c) comprehensive
insurance scheme for labour
The People's Charter – (As It Is)
This document, written in 1838 mainly by William
Lovett of the London Working Men’s Association, stated the ideological basis of
the Chartist movement. The People's Charter detailed the six key points that
the Chartists believed were necessary to reform the electoral system and thus
alleviate the suffering of the working classes – these were:
Universal suffrage (the right to vote)
When the Charter was written in 1838, only 18 per
cent of the adult-male population of Britain could vote (before 1832 just 10
per cent could vote). The Charter proposed that the vote be extended to all
adult males over the age of 21, apart from those convicted of a felony or
declared insane.
No property qualification
When this document was written, potential members of
Parliament needed to own property of a particular value. This prevented the
vast majority of the population from standing for election. By removing the requirement
of a property qualification, candidates for elections would no longer have to
be selected from the upper classes.
Annual parliaments
A government could retain power as long as there was
a majority of support. This made it very difficult to replace of a bad or
unpopular government.
Equal representation
The 1832 Reform Act had abolished the worst excesses
of 'pocket boroughs'. A pocket borough was a parliamentary constituency owned
by a single patron who controlled voting rights and could nominate the two
members who were to represent the borough in Parliament. In some of these
constituencies as few as six people could elect two members of Parliament.
There were still great differences between constituencies, particularly in the
industrial north where there were relatively few MPs compared to rural areas.
The Chartists proposed the division of the United
Kingdom into 300 electoral districts, each containing an equal number of
inhabitants, with no more than one representative from each district to sit in
Parliament.
Payment of members
MPs were not paid for the job they did. As the vast
majority of people required income from their jobs to be able to live, this
meant that only people with considerable personal wealth could afford to become
MPs. The Charter proposed that MPs were paid an annual salary of £500.
Vote by secret ballot
Voting at the time was done in public using a 'show
of hands' at the 'hustings' (a temporary, public platform from which candidates
for parliament were nominated). Landlords or employers could therefore see how
their tenants or employees were voting and could intimidate them and influence
their decisions. Voting was not made secret until 1871.
The Charter was launched in Glasgow in May 1838, at
a meeting attended by an estimated 150,000 people. Presented as a popular-style
Magna Carta, it rapidly gained support across the country and its supporters
became known as the Chartists. A petition, populated at Chartist meetings
across Britain, was brought to London in May 1839, for Thomas Attwood to
present to Parliament. It boasted 1,280,958 signatures, yet Parliament voted
not to consider it. However, the Chartists continued to campaign for the six
points of the Charter for many years to come, and produced two more petitions
to Parliament.
28. These beauteous forms,
Through a long absence, have been to me
As is a landscape to blind man’s eye….
(“Tintern Abbey Lines”)
Which of the following rhetorical terms best suits
these lines?
(1) Apostrophe
(2) Litotes
(3) Hyperbole
(4) Catachresis
Answer – (2) Litotes
Explanation
– These lines are WRONGLY quoted from Tintern Abby – ‘not’ has been omitted in
this quote.
These beauteous forms,
Through
a long absence, have not been to me
As is a
landscape to a blind man's eye:
(Tintern Abby – lines – 23-25)
Let’s see the explanation of the other optional
literary terms.
Apostrophe is
an exclamatory figure of speech and often begin with exclamations like ‘O’ -
"O God! God!" Hamlet, Act 1, Scene 2.
Hyperbole is the use of exaggeration as a rhetorical
device or figure of speech.
Catachresis , originally meaning a semantic misuse
or error—e.g., using "militate" for "mitigate".
These three options don’t suit here for this
question. Now see, what Litotes is and how it can be identified.
Litotes is an understatement with double negations.
For example – not too bad means good. Now read the
above ractified (original) lines carefully.
These beauteous forms,
Through
a long absence, have not been to me
As is a
landscape to a blind man's eye:
Meaning – This stanza goes into a kind of flashback,
describing the way the speaker felt during the "five years" that had
passed. Since his last visit, the memory of the "beauteous forms," or
the awesome view he's just described, has been so present to him that he could
practically see it – not like the description of a "landscape to a blind
man," who wouldn't be able to imagine it fully.
Litotes – Semantically, ‘Double Negation’ is there
in these lines.
But, still, you can challenge this question for quoting
the lines wrongly. It can give you bonus marks.
It is my personal opinion and I suggest you to wait
for authentic key for UGC-CBSE.
29) The ‘monster’ in Frankenstein is NOT responsible
for the death of:
(1) Clerval
(2) Justine
(3) Elizabeth
(4) Alphonse Frankenstein
Answer – (2) Justine, and (4)
Alphonse Frankenstein
Explanation
–
Henry Clerval. Friend and schoolfellow of Victor and
Elizabeth from childhood; murdered by the Creature.
Justine – She was accused (falsely) for the murder
of William Frankenstein. She’s discovered with a picture William had (the
monster planted it on her). She thought that the people are dying because her
extreme love for them. She confess that she murdered William Freankenstein and
had been hanged. The Monster, who planted the picture of William was indirectly
responsible for her death.
Elizabeth Lavenza is the orphan child taken in by
the Frankenstein family, who was lovingly raised with Victor Frankenstein; she
later becomes Victor's wife and is killed by the monster on their honeymoon.
Alphonse Frankenstein dies in fit of agony after
hearing the news of the death of Elizabeth.
This question can give Bonus Mark to all aspirants.
The Monster (Creature) was responsible for the death to Henry Clerval and Elizabeth Lavenza directly, while,
indirectly to the death of Justine and Alphonse Frankenstein. Justine could
refuse the charges against herself and try to save her life. Alphonse Frankenstein died when he hear about
the killing of Elizabeth by the Creature. It was shocking to him.
In fact, the Monster (Creature) was responsible for
the death of all the above four
characters – directly or indirectly.
(Again, it is my personal opinion. Better you should
wait for the authentic key produced by UGC-CBSE)
30. Which of
the following plays of William Shakespeare is NOT directly referred to in T S
Eliot’s ‘The Waste Land’?
(1) Hamlet
(2) King Lear
(3) Coriolanus
(4) The Tempest
Answer – (2) King Lear
Eliot references William Shakespeare many times in
this poem ‘The Waste Land’. He alludes
to the plays The Tempest (Lines - 48, 191, 257), Antony and Cleopatra (Line -
77), Hamlet (Line - 172), and Coriolanus (Line - 417). But no reference to ‘King Lear’
31. Identify the group below which is known as the
“Sons of Ben”
(1) Noel Coward, E.G. Craig, William Macready,
Matheson, Lang
(2) John Dryden, the Earl of Rochester, Samuel
Butler
(3) William Cartwright, Richard Corbett,
Thomas Randolph
(4) William Holman Hunt, John E. Millais, D G
Rossetti, William Morris
Answer – (3) William
Cartwright, Richard Corbett, Thomas Randolph
Sons of Ben has been applied to the dramatists who
were overtly and admittedly influenced by Jonson's drama, his most distinctive
artistic achievement. Joe Lee Davis listed eleven playwrights in this group: Richard
Brome, Thomas Nabbes, Henry Glapthorne, Thomas Killigrew, Sir William Davenant,
William Cartwright, Shackerley Marmion, Jasper Mayne, Peter Hausted, Thomas
Randolph, and William Cavendish.
32.
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?
(1) Edward II
(2) The Jew of Malta
(3) Doctor Faustus
(4) Dido, Queen of Carthage
Answer – (1) Edward II
Explanation
– Actually, we can find treatment to homosexuality not only in Edward II, but
also in Dido, Queen of Carthage and Hero and Leander by Marlow. But Edward II precedes Dido in staging.
Simultaneously, Edward II is more
realistic (historical) character than Dido, Queen of Carthage (Legendary
Character). So, the option of Edward II
suits here more than Dido, Queen of Carthage.
(Still, this question can be challenged with
authentic proofs.)
Who was Edward II?
Edward II (25
April 1284 – 21 September 1327), also called Edward of Caernarfon, was King of
England from 1307 until he wasdeposed in January 1327. He had close
relationship with an English Nobleman Piers Gaveston, 1st Earl of Cornwall. It
was alleged by medieval chroniclers that Edward II and Piers Gaveston were
lovers, a rumour that was reinforced by later portrayals in fiction, such as
Christopher Marlowe's late 16th-century play Edward II. This assertion has
received the support of some modern historians, while others have questioned
it. Marlow deals with certain facts in his play ‘Edward II’
33. “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.
(1) Samuel Beckett
(2) Harold Pinter
(3) Luigi Pirandello
(4) Joe Orton
Answer – (2) Harold Pinter
Explanation
– Harold Pinter’s speech on Silence (1962)
34. The determining feature of ‘syllabic verse’ is
neither_______nor____but the number of syllables in a line.
(1) number, numbers
(2) sounds, silences
(3) stress, quantity
(4) gists, piths
Answer – (3) stress, quantity
Explanation
-
Syllabic verse is a poetic form having a fixed or
constrained number of syllables per line, while stress, quantity, or tone play
a distinctly secondary role — or no role at all — in the verse structure.
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35. 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?
(1) Fra Lippo Lippi – humour
(2) Raphael – Soul
(3) Leonardo da Vinci – Verisimilitude
(4) Botticelli – liveliness
Answer – (2) Raphael – Soul
Explanation
- "Andrea del Sarto (Called "The Faultless Painter")" is a
poem by Robert Browning (1812–1889) published in his 1855 poetry collection,
Men and Women.
Lines – 194-197
“I hardly dare . . . yet, only you to see,
Give the chalk here—quick, thus, the line should go!
Ay, but the soul! he’s Rafael! rub it out!”
36. 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?
(1) “Thalaba”
(2) The Curse of Kehama
(3) “Pitying the wolves”
(4) Country Horrors!
Answer – (2) The Curse of
Kehama (1810 epic poem)
37. 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!”
(1) Yellow Woman (Leslie Mormon Silko)
(2) The Yellow Wallpaper (Charlotte P
Gilman)
(3) Johny Panic and the Bible of Dreams (Sylvia
Plath)
(4) Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? (Joyce
C Oates)
Answer – (2) The Yellow
Wallpaper (Charlotte P Gilman) – Short Story - Published May, 1892.
38. Harriet B Stowe had wanted to write a work based
on the life of an Afro-American writer which was later published as:
(1) Uncle Tom’s Cabin
(2) Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
(3) Cry, The Beloved Country
(4) Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
Answer – (1) Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Explanation
- Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly, is an anti-slavery novel by
American author Harriet Beecher Stowe. Published in 1852.
39. Samuel Johnson’s “Dissertation upon Poetry” is
part of which of his following works?
(1) the final section of his preface to Shakespeare
(2) a chapter of his novel Rasselas
(3) the epilogue of his Lives of Poets
(4) one of his Rambler essays
Answer – (2) a chapter of his
novel Rasselas
Explanation
– Rasselas – Chapter No. 10 - ‘Imlac’s history continued. A dissertation upon
poetry’
40. A new series called “ New Accents” was launched
by Methuen in 1977. The First title to be published in the series was:
(1) the final section of his preface to Shakespeare
(2) Formalism and Marxism
(3) Structuralism and Semiotics
(4) Making and Difference: Feminist Literary
Criticism
Answer – (3) Structuralism and
Semiotics (By Terence Hawkes) – 1977
41. “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 attain their maturity, are less under restraint, 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
poems in the Lyrical Ballads (1800) contradict this statement in the “Preface
to the Lyrical Ballads”, as pointed out by S T Coleridge?
(1) “Ode on the Intimation of Immortality”, Prelude
(2) The Tasks, Seasons
(3) “Michael”, “Ruth”, “The Brothers”
(4) “Elegy Written in a country Churchyard”, “Ode on
the Popular Superstitions of the Highlands.”
Answer – (3) “Michael”, Ruth”,
“The Brothers”
Explanation
– An Extract from Coleridge’s Biographia
Literaria – Chapter No. XVII
“Now it is clear to me, that in the most interesting
of the poems, in which the author is more or less dreamatic, as THE BROTHERS,
MICHAEL, RUTH, THE MAD MOTHER, and others, the persons introduced are by no
means taken from low or rustic life in the common acceptance of those words;
and it is not less clear, that the sentiments and language, as far as they can
be conceived to have been really transferred from the minds and conversation of
such persons, are attributable to causes and circumstances not necessarily
connected with “their occupations and abode.”
Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections
of Early Childhood (also known as Ode, Immortality Ode or Great Ode) is a poem
by William Wordsworth, completed in 1804 and published in Poems, in Two Volumes
(1807). The Prelude or, Growth of a
Poet's Mind; An Autobiographical Poem – Both the poems are not the part of
Lyrical Ballads.
The Task: A Poem, in Six Books is a poem in blank
verse by William Cowper published in 1785.
The Seasons is a series of four poems written by the
Scottish author James Thomson.
Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard is a poem by
Thomas Gray, completed in 1750 and first published in 1751.
‘An Ode on the Popular Superstitions of the
Highlands’ By William Collins (1721–1759)
Published by Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in Vol. 1
(1788).
42. 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:
(1) Virginia Woolf
(2) James Joyce
(3) E M Foster
(4) D H Lawrence
Answer - E.M. Forster - Aspects of the Novel (1927)
An Extract from the Essay –
‘Let us listen to three voices. If you ask one type
of man, "What does a novel do?" he will reply placidly: "Well–I
don’t know–it seems a funny sort of question to ask–a novel’s a novel–well, I
don’t know–I suppose it kind of tells a story, so to speak." He is quite
good-tempered and vague, and probably driving a motor-bus at the same time and
paying no more attention to literature than it merits. Another man, whom I
visualize as on a golf-course, will be aggressive and brisk. He will reply:
"What does a novel do? Why, tell a story, and I’ve no use for it if it
didn’t. I like a story. You can take your art, you can take your literature,
you can take your music, but give me a good story. And I like a story, mind,
and my wife’s the same." And a third man says in a sort of drooping
regretful voice, "Yes–oh, dear, yes–the novel tells a story." I
respect and admire the first speaker. I detest and fear the second. And the
third is myself. . . . A story is the highest factor common to all novels, and
I wish that it was not so, that it could be something different . . .
For the more we look at the story . . . the more we
disentangle it from the finer growths that it supports, the less shall we find
to admire.It runs like a backbone–or may I say a a tapeworm, for tis beginning
and end are arbitrary.’
43. 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 company to return to God (Paradise Lost, Book V)?
(1) Michael
(2) Abdiel
(3) Uriel
(4) Gabriel
Answer – (2) Abdiel
Explanation
– Paradise Lost – Book Five – (Lines - 896-907 – Last Lines of the Book V)
So spake the Seraph Abdiel faithful found,
Among the faithless, faithful only hee;
Among innumerable false, unmov'd,
Unshak'n, unseduc'd, unterrifi'd
His Loyaltie he kept, his Love, his Zeale;
Nor number,
nor example with him wrought
To swerve from truth, or change his constant mind
Though single. From amidst them forth he passd,
Long way through hostile scorn, which he susteind
Superior, nor of violence fear'd aught;
And with
retorted scorn his back he turn'd
On those proud Towrs to swift destruction doom'd.
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44. Which of the following is NOT a school
associated with Romantic Period in English Literature?
(1) The Cockney School
(2) The Fireside School
(3) The Lake School
(4) The Satanic School
Answer – (2) The Fireside
School
Explanation
–
The Fireside School - The Fireside Poets (also known
as the Schoolroom or Household Poets) were a group of 19th-century American
poets from New England.
The Cockney School
- A dismissive name for London-based Romantic poets such as John Keats,
Leigh Hunt, andPercy Bysshe Shelley. The term was first used in a scathing
review in Blackwood’s Magazinein October 1817, in which the anonymous reviewer
mocked the poets’ lack of pedigree and sophistication.
The Lake School
- The Lake Poets were a group of English poets who all lived in the Lake
District of England, United Kingdom at the turn of the nineteenth century. As a
group, they followed no single "school" of thought or literary
practice then known. They were named, only to be uniformly disparaged, by the
Edinburgh Review. They are considered part of the RomanticMovement.
The three main figures of what has become known as
the Lakes School were William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and Robert
Southey. They were associated with several other poets and writers, including
Dorothy Wordsworth, Charles Lamb, Charles Lloyd, Hartley Coleridge, John
Wilson, and Thomas De Quincey.
The Satanic School was a name applied by Robert
Southey to a class of writers headed by Byron and Shelley, because, according
to him, their productions were "characterized by a Satanic spirit of pride
and audacious impiety." The term was, therefore, initially coined in
Southey's A Vision of Judgement (1821) as one of opprobrium and moral
condemnation. Byronic Hero is the product of the Satanic School.
45. The idea of “new ethnicities” in post-war
Britain was advanced by______
(1) Donald Hall
(2) Stuart Hall
(3) Paul Gilroy
(4) Hanif Kureishi
Answer – Stuart Hall
Explanation
– Stuart Hall’s Essay - New Ethnicities 1989
46. Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse begins in a
piece 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______
(1) her father
(2) her nephew
(3) her son
(4) her driver
Answer – (3) her son
Explanation
– To the Lighthouse -Virginia Woolf – Chapter I
Yes, of course, if it’s fine tomorrow,” said Mrs.
Ramsay. “But you’ll have to be up with the lark,” she added.
To her son these words conveyed an extraordinary
joy, as if it were settled, the expedition were bound to take place, and the
wonder to which he had looked forward, for years and years it seemed, was,
after a night’s darkness and a day’s sail, within touch.
47. Match the
phrase with character:
(a) “motiveless malignity” (i) Macbeth
(b) “Reason in Madness” (ii) Hamlet
(c) “Supp’d full of horrors” (iii) Lear
(d) “To be, or not to be” (iv) Iago
Codes :
(a) (b) (c) (d)
(1)
(i) (iii) (ii) (iv)
(2)
(iv) (ii) (iii) (iv)
(3)
(iv) (iii) (i) (ii)
(4)
(iii) (i) (ii) (iv)
Answer – (3) - (iv) (iii) (i) (ii)
Explanation -
1)
“motiveless malignity” – Iago
The famous phrase, "The motive-hunting of
motiveless Malignity," occurs in a note Samuel Taylor Coleridge wrote in
his copy of Shakespeare, as he was preparing a series of lectures delivered in
the winter of 1818-1819. The note concerns the end of Act 1, Scene 3 of Othello
in which Iago takes leave of Roderigo, saying, "Go to, farewell. Put money
enough in your purse," and then delivers the soliloquy beginning
"Thus do I ever make my fool my purse." Here is Coleridge's note:
The triumph! again, put money after the effect has
been fully produced.--The last Speech, the motive-hunting of motiveless
Malignity--how awful! In itself fiendish--while yet he was allowed to bear the
divine image, too fiendish for his own steady View.--A being next to
Devil--only not quite Devil--& this Shakespeare has attempted--
executed--without disgust, without Scandal!--
(Lectures 1808-1819 On Literature 2: 315)
Coleridge's phrase is often taken to mean that Iago has no real motive
and does evil only because he is evil. This is not far from what Coleridge
meant, but he almost certainly wasn't using the word "motive" in the
same way as it's now used. We use it to mean "an emotion, desire,
physiological need, or similar impulse that acts as an incitement to
action" ("Motive"). This definition equates "motive"
and "impulse"; Coleridge, however, thought the two quite different.
He makes this distinction in an entry he wrote for Omniana, a collection of
sayings assembled by his friend Robert Southey and published in 1812.
2) Reason in Madness – King Lear – Act –
IV – Scene - 6
GLOUCESTER - I see it feelingly.
LEAR - What, art mad? A man may see how this world
goes with no eyes. Look with thine ears. See how yon justice rails upon yon
simple thief. Hark in thine ear: change places and, handy-dandy, which is the
justice, which is the thief? Thou hast seen a farmer’s dog bark at a beggar?
GLOUCESTER -Ay, sir.
LEAR - And the creature run from the cur? There thou
mightst behold the great image of authority: a dog’s obeyed in office.
Thou rascal beadle, hold thy bloody hand.
Why dost thou lash that whore? Strip thine own back.
Thou hotly lust’st to use her in that kind
For which thou whipp’st her. The usurer hangs the
cozener.
Through tattered clothes great vices do appear;
Robes and furred gowns hide all. Plate sin with
gold,
And the strong lance of justice hurtless breaks.
Arm it in rags, a pigmy’s straw does pierce it.
None does offend—none, I say, none. I’ll able 'em.
Take that of me, my friend, who have the power
To seal th' accuser’s lips. Get thee glass eyes,
And like a scurvy politician seem
To see the things thou dost not. Now, now, now, now,
Pull off my boots. Harder, harder. So.
EDGAR - (aside) O matter and impertinency mixed! Reason in madness!
3) “Supp’d full of horrors”- Macbeth
SCENE V. Dunsinane. Within the castle.
Enter MACBETH, SEYTON, and Soldiers, with drum and
colours
MACBETH
Hang out our banners on the outward walls;
The cry is still 'They come:' our castle's strength
Will laugh a siege to scorn: here let them lie
Till famine and the ague eat them up:
Were they not forced with those that should be ours,
We might have met them dareful, beard to beard,
And beat them backward home.
A cry of women within
What is that noise?
SEYTON
It is the cry of women, my good lord.
Exit
MACBETH
I have almost forgot the taste of fears;
The time has been, my senses would have cool'd
To hear a night-shriek; and my fell of hair
Would at a dismal treatise rouse and stir
As life were in't: I have supp'd
full with horrors;
Direness, familiar to my slaughterous thoughts
Cannot once start me.
4) ‘To be or
not to be’ – Hamlet - Act III, Scene 1
“To be, or not to be: that is the question:
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,
And by opposing end them? To die: to sleep;
No more; and by a sleep to say we end
The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks
That flesh is heir to, 'tis a consummation
Devoutly to be wish'd. To die, to sleep;
To sleep: perchance to dream: ay, there's the rub;
For in that sleep of death what dreams may come
When we have shuffled off this mortal coil,
Must give us pause: there's the respect
That makes calamity of so long life;
For who would bear the whips and scorns of time,
The oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely,
The pangs of despised love, the law's delay,
The insolence of office and the spurns
That patient merit of the unworthy takes,
When he himself might his quietus make
With a bare bodkin? who would fardels bear,
To grunt and sweat under a weary life,
But that the dread of something after death,
The undiscover'd country from whose bourn
No traveller returns, puzzles the will
And makes us rather bear those ills we have
Than fly to others that we know not of?
Thus conscience does make cowards of us all;
And thus the native hue of resolution
Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought,
And enterprises of great pith and moment
With this regard their currents turn awry,
And lose the name of action.--Soft you now!
The fair Ophelia! Nymph, in thy orisons
Be all my sins remember'd!”
48. In Tristram Shandy the narrator’s presentation
of his life and opinions is ______
(1) linear
(2) digressive
(3) Chronological
(4) rounded
Answer – (2) digressive
Explanation
-
Tristram Shandy is narrated by the title character
in a series of digressions and interruptions that purportedly show the
"life and opinions" — part of the novel's full title — of Tristram.
Composed of nine "Books" originally published between 1759-1767, the
novel has more to do with Shandy family members and their foibles and history
than it seemingly does with Tristram himself.
49. The famous sonnet of John Milton beginning “When
I consider how my light is spent…” ends with_____.
(1) Before me stares a wolfish eye, Behind me creeps
a groan or sigh
(2) They also serve who only stand and
wait
(3) And – which is more – you’ll be a Man, my son!
(4) And bless him for the sake of him that’s gone
Answer – (2) They also serve
who only stand and wait
Sonnet 19: When I consider how my light is spent
BY JOHN MILTON
When I consider how my light is spent,
Ere half my
days, in this dark world and wide,
And that
one Talent which is death to hide
Lodged with
me useless, though my Soul more bent
To serve therewith my Maker, and present
My true
account, lest he returning chide;
“Doth God
exact day-labour, light denied?”
I fondly
ask. But patience, to prevent
That murmur, soon replies, “God doth not need
Either
man’s work or his own gifts; who best
Bear his
mild yoke, they serve him best. His state
Is Kingly. Thousands at his bidding speed
And post
o’er Land and Ocean without rest:
They also
serve who only stand and wait.”
50. Her vision was of several caves. She saw herself
in ne, and she was also outside it, 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?
(1) Mrs. Moore
(2) Mr. McBryde
(3) Fielding
(4) Ronney Heaslop
Answer – (2) Mr. McBryde
Explanation
- Mr. McBryde is the superintendent of police in Chandrapore.
Extract from “A Passage to India” Chapter - 24
She was silent. The court, the place of question,
awaited her reply. But she could not give it until Aziz entered the place of
answer.
“The prisoner followed you, didn’t he?” he repeated
in the monotonous tones that they both used; they were employing agreed words
throughout, so that this part of the proceedings held no surprises.
“May I have half a minute before I reply to that,
Mr. McBryde?”
“Certainly.”
Her vision was of several caves. She saw herself in
one, and she was also outside it, 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.” (Chapter – 24)
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1. – (1) John Locke
2. – (1) Walter Pater
3. – (4) Mr. Martin
4. – (4) Metaphor
5. – (2) In Memoriam
6. – (1) Illustrate the
essentially illogical, purposeless nature of the human condition
7. – All Options Are Correct@
8. – (2) (b) and (c)
9. – (1) “Discourse in the
novel”
10. – (3)(iv)(iii)(i)(ii)
11. – (4) Allen Tate
12. – (4) a book of model
letters
13. – (2) Siegried Sassoon
14. - (3) William Shakespeare
15. - (3) Ivanhoe
16.- (1) Home and Exile
17. - (3) Comedy
18. - (1) Geoffrey Chaucer
19. (2) Raymond Williams, ‘The
Country and the City’
20.- (4) bathos
21. - (2) Horace’s in Ars
Poetica
22. (2) Inigo Jones
23. - (2) Poetic Licence
24. - (4) C P Snow in his Rede
Lecture
25. - (4) Spends too much time
hunting and too little time on religious duty
26.- (2) James Baldwin’s ‘Go Tell it on the
Mountain’
27. - (c) comprehensive
insurance scheme for labour
28. - (2) Litotes @
29. - (2) Justine, and (4)
Alphonse Frankenstein @
30. - (2) King Lear
31. - (3) William Cartwright,
Richard Corbett, Thomas Randolph
32. - (1) Edward II @
33. (2) Harold Pinter
34. - (3) stress, quantity
35. - (2) Raphael – Soul
36. - (2) The Curse of Kehama
37. - (2) The Yellow Wallpaper
(Charlotte P Gilman)
38. - (1) Uncle Tom’s Cabin
39.- (2) a chapter of his novel Rasselas
40.- (3) Structuralism and Semiotics
41. - (3) “Michael”, “Ruth”,
“The Brothers”
42. - (3) E M Foster
43. – (2) Abdiel
44. - (2) The Fireside School
45. - (2) Stuart Hall
46. - (3) her son
47. - (3)(iv)(iii)(i)(ii)
48. - (2) digressive
49. - (2) They also serve who
only stand and wait
50. - (2) Mr. McBryde
@ Question Number – 7,
28, 29 and 32 can be challenged with proper proof.
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