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 PREVIOUS YEAR QUESTIONS ANALYSIS
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II II Nill II Nill II III II III II III II III
1 Chaucer 4 6 2 4 3 6 6 6 3 6 3
2 Jacobean 6 3 6 2 3 5 3 6 8 3 4
3 Augustan Age 6 3 4 0 1 3 2 1 3 4 3
4 Romantic 5 5 3 5 4 4 4 5 4 5 4

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5 Victorian Age 3 5 4 0 3 5 3 4 7 1 1
6 Modern Period 7 7 9 7 7 7 6 6 6 9 3
7 Contemporary 4 3 2 3 3 2 6 0 7 3 14
8 American Litrature 5 5 7 4 15 5 11 9 17 2 10
9 Literary Theory
Criticism 5 3 8 4 10 4 13 4 11 5 3
10 Rhetoric 5 2 4 10 7 4 9 3 8 4 12
11 General 0 8 1 11 19 5 12 6 1 8 18
Total 50 50 50 50 75 50 75 50 75 50 75
Note: This paper contains objective type questions of two (2) marks each.
All questions are compulsory.
1. ____ the very word is like a bell not only meant to be read, but its
To toll me back from thee to my shape is meant to be appreciated: In
sole self ! Which word ? this case, the poem was printed
(a) Bird (b) Immortal (original image here shown) on two
(c) Forlorn (d) Fancy pages of a book, sideways, so that the
lines suggest two birds flying
Exp: Ode to a Nightingale is a poem
upward, with wings spread out).
by John Keats written in May 1819
in either the garden of the Spaniards Ans: (d)
Inn, Hampstead, London, or, 3. No, no thou hast not felt the
according to Keats’ friend Charles lapse of hours ! For what wears
Armitage Brown, under a plum tree out the life of mortal men ?
in the garden of Keats House, also ‘Tis that repeated shocks, again,
in Hampstead. Ode to a Nightingale again,
is a personal poem that describes
Exhaust the energy of strongest
Keats’s journey into the state of
souls
Negative Capability. The tone of the
poem rejects the optimistic pursuit And numb the elastic powers …
of pleasure found within Keats’s Who does the poet address here?
earlier poems and explores the (a) The Scholar Gipsy
themes of nature, transience and (b) Telemachus
mortality, the latter being
(c) The Nightingale
particularly personal to Keats.
(d) The Poet’s Sister, Dorothy
Ans: (c)
Exp: The Scholar Gipsy(1853) is a
2. In poems like “The Altar” and poem by Matthew Arnold, based on
“Easter Wings” ________ a 17th- century Oxford story found
exploits_______. in Joseph Glanvill’s The Vanity of
(a) John Donne, alliteration Dogmatizing (1661, etc.). It has often
(b) Robert Herrick, trimetre been called one of the best and most
popular of Arnold’s poems, and is
(c) G.M. Hopkins,
also familiar to music-lovers
sprungrhythm
through Ralph Vaughan Williams’
(d) George Herbert, choral work An Oxford Elegy, which
typographic space sets lines from this poem and from
Exp: Herbert’s religious poetry is its companion-piece, “Thyrsis”.
The Altar. A “pattern poem” in which Ans: (a)
the words of the poem itself form a
4. The roman a clef (French for
shape suggesting an altar, and this
“novel with a key”) uses
altar becomes his conceit for how one
contemporary historical figures
should offer himself as a sacrifice to
as its chief characters. They are
the Lord. Herbert’s Easter Wings, a
of course given fictional names.
pattern poem in which the work is
One example is Aldous Huxley’s
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 Point Counter Point. reason and intellect, and
Its Mark Rampion is modelled Arthur, the innocent half-wit,
on _______. the way their lives are
(a) D.H. Lawrence inextricably intertwined.
(b) E.M. Forster Which is the novel ?
(c) Wyndham Lewis (a) The Tree of Man
(d) Arnold Bennett (b) Voss
Exp: Point Counter Point is a novel (c) The Solid Mandala
by Aldous Huxley, first published in
(d) The Vivisector
1928. It is Huxley’s longest novel,
and was notably more complex and Exp: The Solid Mandala, the
serious than his earlier fiction.Mark seventh published novel by
Rampion, a writer and painter. Australian author Patrick White,
Based on D. H. Lawrence, whom Nobel Prize winner of 1973, first
Huxley admired greatly, Rampion is published in 1966. It details the
a fierce critic of modern society. A story of two brothers, Waldo and
full chapter in flashback shows Arthur Brown, with a focus on the
Rampion’s courtship and marriage facets of their symbiotic
to his wife, Mary (based on relationship. The book is typical of
Lawrence’s wife Frieda). White’s writing style, and is slow
Ans: (a) paced, with little considerable
action, instead focusing upon the
5. She was a worthy woman al hir inner turmoils of the
lyve, aforementioned characters.
Housbondes at chirche-dore she
Ans: (c)
hadde fyve, In the ‘Prologue’
Chaucer represents the Wife of 7. Who among the following was
Bath as : NOT a member of the Scriblerus
Club ?
I. crude and vulgar
II. outspoken and boastfully (a) Thomas Parnell
licentious (b) Alexander Pope
III. a witness to masculine (c) Joseph Addison
oppression (d) John Gay
IV. bubbling with vitality Exp: The Scriblerus Club was an
Find the correct combination informal group of friends that
according to the code : included Jonathan Swift, Alexander
(a) I, II and III are correct. Pope, John Gay, John Arbuthnot,
(b) I, II and IV are correct. Henry St. John and Thomas Parnell.
(c) I, III and IV are correct. The group was founded in 1714 and
(d) II, III and IV are correct. lasted until the death of the
founders, starting in 1732 and
Ans: (b)
ending in 1745, with Pope and Swift
6. The novel tells the story of twin being the culturally most prominent
brothers, Waldo, the man of
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authors. Joseph Addison Doesn’t Imagination, published in 1979,
belong to this group. examines Victorian literature from
Ans: (c) a feminist perspective. Authors
8. _______ is a theological term Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar
brought into literary criticism draw their title from Charlotte
by _______. Bronte’s Jane Eyre, in which
(a) Entelechy, St. Augustine Rochester’s wife Bertha Mason is
kept locked in the attic by her
(b) Ambiguity, William
husband.
Empson
(c) Adequation, Fr Walter Ong Ans: (b)
(d) Epiphany, James Joyce 11. Which of the following is NOT
Exp: Joyce also used epiphany as a aquest narrative ?
literary device within each short (a) Shelley’s “Alastor”
story of his collection Dubliners as (b) Byron’s “Manfred”
his protagonists came to sudden (c) Coleridge’s “Christabel”
recog nitions that changed their (d) Keats’s “Endymion”
view of themselves or their social Exp: Christabel is a long narrative
condition and often sparking a poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, in
reversal or change of heart. two parts. The first part was
Ans: (d) reputedly written in 1797, and the
9. ________ the Almighty Power second in 1800. Coleridge planned
Hurled headlong flaming from three additional parts, but these
th’ Ethereal Sky,With hideous were never completed. Coleridge
ruin and combustion down To prepared for the first two parts to be
bottomless perdition, there to published in the 1800 edition of
dwell In Adamantine Chains Lyrical Ballads, but on the advice of
and penal Fire William Wordsworth it was left out;
Who durst defy th’ Omnipotent the exclusion of the poem, coupled
to Arms. (Paradise Lost, I.44-49.) with his inability to finish it, left
Choose the appropriate word : Coleridge in doubt about his poetical
power. It was published in a
(a) Him (b) He
pamphlet in 1816, alongside “Kubla
(c) Satan (d) The Fiend
Khan” and “The Pains of Sleep”.
Ans: (a) Coleridge aimed to write Christabel
10. Which of the following works using an accentual metrical system,
does not have a mad woman as based on the count of only accents:
a character in it ? even though the number of syllables
(a) The Yellow Wallpaper in each verse can vary from four to
(b) The Mad Woman in the Attic twelve, the number of accents per
(c) Jane Eyre line never deviates from four.
(d) Wide Sargasso Sea Ans: (c)
Exp: The Madwoman in the Attic: 12. The novel has a scene where
The Woman Writer and the African American students are
Nineteenth- Century Literary made to compete and fight with
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 each other as they rush for the Manley Hopkins. Hopkins dedicated
gold coins tossed on an electric the poem “to Christ our Lord”.
blanket. Identify the novel. Ans: (b)
(a) Richard Wright : Native Son 14. Match List – I with List – II
(b) James Baldwin : Another according to the code given below:
Country
List – I (Authors)
(c) Ralph Ellison : Invisible
Man i. Ted Hughes
(d) Toni Morrison : Bluest Eye ii. Seamus Heaney
Exp: Invisible Man is a novel by iii. W.H. Auden
Ralph Ellison, published by Random iv. D.H. Lawrence
House in 1952. It addresses many List – II (Poems)
of the social and intellectual issues
1. “The Otter”
facing African- Americans early in
the twentieth century, including 2. “Snake”
black nationalism, the relationship 3. “Ghost Crabs”
between black identity and 4. “Prevent the Dog from
Marxism, and the reformist racial Barking with a Juicy Bone.”
policies of Booker T. Washington, as
well as issues of individuality and Codes :
personal identity. Invisible Man won i ii iii iv
the U.S. National Book Award for (a) 1 2 4 3
Fiction in 1953. In 1998, the Modern (b) 2 3 1 4
Library ranked Invisible Man
nineteenth on its list of the 100 best (c) 3 1 4 2
English-language novels of the 20th (d) 3 2 1 4
century. Time magazine included Ans: (c)
the novel in its TIME 100 Best 15. His cooks with long disuse their
English-language Novels from 1923 trade forgot; Cool was his kitchen,
to 2005 though his brains were hot.
Ans: (c) Who is this character whose
13. G.M. Hopkins’s “Windhover” is stinginess passed into a
dedicated : proverb?
(a) To Christ, our Lord (a) Corah (b) Shimei
(b) To Christ our lord (c) Zimri (d) Achitophel
(c) to no one Exp: Slingsby Bethel, the Sheriff of
(d) to Christ, the Lord Londone is greedy for money.He is
Exp: “The Windhover” is a sonnet a man of zeal, piety and wisdom, but
by Gerard Manley Hopkins the ends to which he uses these
(1844–1889). It was written on May deflate the man most affectively. He
30, 1877,but not published until kept the Sabbath and broke it only
1918, when it was included as part if he could gain out of it. He was so
of the collection Poems of Gerard stingy that his kitchens were cold
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and the cooks had forgotten their for writing fiction, responding that
culinary skills. He was so miserly “no good novel will ever proceed from
that his cooks had quite forgotten a superficial mind.”
their trade. He fed his servants on Ans: (c)
spiritual diet.
17. Identify the correctly matched
Ans: (b) set below :
16. “The story and the novel, the (a) The Norman Conquest –
idea and the form, are the 1066 William Caxton and
needle and thread, and I never the introduction of printing
heard of a guild of tailors who – 1575
recommended the use of the
The King James Bible –
thread without the needle, or
1611
the needle without the thread.”
Dr. Johnson’s English
This famous passage describing
Dictionary – 1755
the relation of idea to form is
found in The Commonwealth Period/
the Protectorate – 1649-
(a) Sir Philip Sidney, An
1660
Apology for Poetry
(b) The Norman Conquest –
(b) Samuel Taylor Coleridge,
1066
Biographia Literaria
William Caxton and the
(c) Henry James, “The Art of
introduction of printing –
Fiction”
1475
(d) I.A. Richards, Principles of
The King James Bible –
Literary Criticism
1611
Exp: “The Art of Fiction”, critical
Dr. Johnson’s English
essay by Henry James, published in
Dictionary - 1755
1884 in Longman’s Magazine. It was
written as a rebuttal to “Fiction as The Commonwealth Period/
One of the Fine Arts,” a lecture given the Protectorate – 1649-
by Sir Walter Besant in 1884, and is 1660
a manifesto of literary realism that (c) The Norman Conquest –
decries the popular demand for 1016 William Caxton and
novels that are saturated with the\ introduction of
sentimentality or pessimism. It was printing- 1475
published separately in 1885. In “The The King James Bible –
Art of Fiction”, James disagrees with 1564
Besant’s assertions that plot is more
Dr. Johnson’s English
important than characterization,
Dictionary -1780 The
that fiction must have a “conscious
Commonwealth Period/ the
moral purpose,” and that experience
and observation outweigh Protectorate – 1649-1660
imagination as creative tools. James (d) The Norman Conquest –
argues against these restrictive rules 1013
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 William Caxton and the also by the increasing commo-
introduction of printing – dification and industrialisation of
1575 ever more inclusive sectors of hu
The King James Bible – man life. Mandel was insistent that
1627 “Far from representing a ‘post-indus
trial society’, late capitalism thus
Dr. Johnson’s English
con stitutes generalized universal
Dictionary – 1746
indus trialization for the first time
The Commonwealth Period/ in his tory”.
the Protectorate – 1624- Ans: (b)
1660
20. Which of the following
Ans: (b) arrangements is in the correct
18. Leopold Bloom in Ulysses is chronological sequence ?
(a) a Great War veteran (a) Native Son by Richard
(b) a Dublin bar owner Wright – Invisible Man by
(c) a Jewish advertising agent Ralph Ellison – Their Eyes
Were Watching God by Zora
(d) an Irish nationalist
Neil Hurston – Another
Exp: Leopold Bloom functions as a
Country by James Baldwin
sort of Everyman—a bourgeois
(b) Their Eyes Were Watching
Odysseus for the twentieth century.
At the same time, the novel’s God by Zora Neil Hurston –
depiction of his personality is one of Native Son by Richard
Wright – Invisible Man by
the most detailed in all literature.
Bloom is a thirty- eight-year-old Ralph Ellison – Another
Country by James Baldwin
advertising canvasser.
(c) Invisible Man by Ralph\
Ans: (c)
Ellison – Native Son by
19. “Late capitalism”, by which is Richard Wright – Another
meant accelerated technological Country by James Baldwin
development and the massive – Their Eyes Were Watching
extension of intellectually God by Zora Neil Hurston
qualified labour, was first (d) Their Eyes Were Watching
popularised by ______. God by Zora Neil Hurston –
(a) Terry Eagleton Another Country by James
(b) Ernst Mandel Baldwin – Native Son by
(c) Raymond Williams Richard Wright – Invisible
(d) Stanley Fish Man by Ralph Ellison
Exp: According to the Marxist Exp: Their Eyes Were Watching God
economist Ernest Mandel, who is a 1937 novel and the best known
popularised the term with his 1972 work by African-American writer
PhD dissertation, late-stage Zora Neale Hurston. Native Son
capitalism will be domi nated by the (1940) is a novel by American author
machinations-or per haps better, Richard Wright. Invisible Man is a
fluidities-of financial capital;and novel by Ralph Ellison, published by
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Random House in 1952. Another Ans: (d)
Country is a 1962 novel by James 23. The tramp in Pinter’s first big
Baldwin. hit,
Ans: (b) The Caretaker, often travels
21. Metaphor is so widespread that under an assumed name. It is
it is often used as an umbrella (a) Bernard Jenkins
term to include other figures of (b) Roly Jenkins
speech such as metonyms which (c) Jack Jenkins
can be technically distinguished (d) Peter Jenkins
from it in its narrower usage.
Exp: The Caretaker is a play in three
Identify the metaphorical acts by Harold Pinter. In then play
phrase in this sentence : When Aston offers Davies money,
(a) narrower usage however, accepts it, insisting that he
(b) technically distinguished has to “get down to Sidcup,” where
(c) figures of speech he can get his papers and resume
(d) umbrella term his true identity as Mac Davies,
Ans: (d) instead of living as he was under the
assumed name of Bernard Jenkins.
22. Along the shore of silver
streaming Thames; Ans: (a)
Whose rutty bank, the which his 24. Here is a list of early English
river Thems, plays imitating Greek and Latin
plays. Pick the odd one out :
Was painted all with variable
flowers, … (a) Gorboduc
(b) Tamburlaine
Fit to deck maidens’ bowers
(c) Ralph Roister Doister
And crown their paramours (d) Gammer Gurton’s Needle
Against their bridal day, which Exp: Tamburlaine the Great is a
is not long; play in two parts by Christopher
Sweet Thames ! run softly till I Marlowe. It is loosely based on the
end my song. life of the Central Asian emperor,
(Spenser’s Prothalamion) Timur “the lame”. Written in 1587
or 1588, the play is a milestone in
Another poet fondly recalls
Elizabethan public drama; it marks
these lines but cannot conceal
a turning away from the clumsy
their heavily ironic tone in :
language and loose plotting of the
(a) Marianne Moore’s earlier Tudor dramatists, and a new
“Spenser’s Ireland” interest in fresh and vivid language,
(b) Sylvia Plath’s “Morning memorable action, and intellectual
Song” complexity.
(c) W.H. Auden’s “In Praise of Ans: (b)
Limestone” 25. Where does Act I Scene 1 of
(d) T.S. Eliot’s Waste Land William Congreve’s Way of the

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 World open ? first European civilization;
(a) A Chocolate-House his excavations in Crete
(b) A Pub revealed a culture that was
(c) A Carrefour far older than either Attic
Greece or Ancient Rome.
(d) The drawing room of Sir
Willfull’s mansion 2. Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch
published the Oxford Book of
Exp: The Way of the World is a play
English Verse.
written by English playwright
William Congreve. The play is based 3. Pablo Picasso stepped off the
around the two lovers, Mirabell and Barcelona train at Gare d’
Millamant. In order for the two to Orsay, Paris.
get married and receive Millamant’s 4. Max Planck unveiled the
full dowry, Mirabell must receive Quantum Theory.
the blessing of Millamant’s aunt, 5. Hugo de Vries identified
Lady Wishfort. Unfortunately, she what would later come to be
is a very bitter lady, who despises called genes.
Mirabell and wants her own 6. Sigmund Freud published
nephew, Sir Wilfull, to wed The Interpretation of
Millamant. Dreams.
Ans: (a) 7. Coca-cola arrived in Britain.
26. While “a well-boiled icicle” for Identify the year :
“a well- oiled bicycle” is an (a) 1899 (b) 1900
example of Spoonerism, (c) 1901 (d) 1903
someone saying “Congenital Ans: (b)
food” for ‘Continental food’ is an 28. Brother to a Prince and fellow
example of ______. to a beggar if he be found worthy.
(a) Malaproprism This is the epigraph to
(b) Pleonasm
(a) T.S. Eliot’s “The Hollow
(c) Neologism
Men”
(d) Archaism
(b) Rudyard Kipling’s “The
Exp: A malapropism (also called a
Man Who Would be the King”
Dogberryism) is the use of an incor
rect word in place of a word with a (c) George Eliot’s Silas Marner
similar sound, resulting in a nonsen (d) E.M. Forster’s Howard’s
sical, often humorous utterance. An End
example is Yogi Berra’s statement: Exp: “The Man Who Would Be
“Texas has a lot of electrical votes,” King”(1888) is a novella by Rudyard
rather than “electoral votes”. Kipling. It is about two British
Ans: (a) adventurers in British India who
27. It is unimaginable that all the become kings of Kafiristan, a remote
following events happened in part of Afghanistan. The story was
one year : inspired by the exploits of James
Brooke, an Englishman who became
1. Arthur Evans discovered the
the first White Rajah of Sarawak in
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Borneo; and by the travels of emotion and conduct to all aspects
American adventurer Josiah within nature.It is a kind of
Harlan, who was granted the title personification that is found in
Prince of Ghor in perpetuity for poetic writing when, for example,
himself and his descendants. It clouds seem sullen, when leaves
incorporates a number of other dance, when dogs laugh, or when
factual elements such as the rocks seem indifferent.
European-like appearance of many Ans: (a)
Nuristani people, and an ending
31. At the end of The Great Gatsby,
modelled on the return of the head
the narrator Nick Carraway
of the explorer Adolf Schlagintweit
observes :
to colonial administrators.
“They were careless people”.
Ans: (b)
Who were they ?
29. Robert Graves’s “In Broken
(a) Tom and Daisy
Images” ends thus :
(b) The Wilsons
He in a new confusion of his (c) Gatsby and his friends
understanding; (d) The people of East Egg
I in a new understanding of my Exp: The Great Gatsby is a 1925
confusion. novel written by American author F.
The figure of speech here is Scott Fitzgerald that follows a cast
_______. of characters living in the fictional
(a) Chiasmus town of West Egg on prosperous
(b) Catachresis Long Island in the summer of 1922.
(c) Inversion The story primarily concerns the
(d) Zeugma young and mysterious millionaire
Jay Gatsby and his quixotic passion
Exp: In rhetoric, chiasmus (from the
for the beautiful Daisy Buchanan.
Greek: “to shape like the letter ×”)
Considered to be Fitzgerald’s
is the figure of speech in which two
magnum opus, The Great Gatsby
or more clauses are related to each
explores themes of decadence,
other through a reversal of
idealism, resistance to change,
structures in order to make a larger
social upheaval, and excess, creating
point; that is, the clauses display
a portrait of the Jazz Age or the
inverted parallelism.
Roaring Twenties that has been
Ans: (a) described as a cautionary tale
30. The phrase “leaves dancing” is regarding the American Dream.
an example of ________. Ans: (a)
(a) pathetic fallacy 32. William Wordsworth’s
(b) hyperbole statement of purpose in
(c) pun publishing the Lyrical Ballads
(d) conceit carries the following phrase.
Exp: Pathetic fallacy is a literary (Complete the phrase correctly).
term for the attributing of human “to choose incidents from
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 common life and to relate or (b) 3 2 4 1
describe them, throughout, as (c) 3 1 4 2
far as possible, ______.” (d) 2 3 1 4
(a) in a selection of language Ans: (c)
really used by men. 34. Identify the incorrect
(b) in a relation to language description/s of “Sprung
really used by men. Rhythm” from the following :
(c) in a selection of language 1. This rhythm causes ideas to
really used by common man. spring in our minds – hence
(d) in deference to language Sprung Rhythm.
actually used by men. 2. In Sprung Rhythm the feet
are of equal length.
Ans: (a)
3. A foot may have one to four
33. Match List – I with List – II syllables in Sprung
according to the code given Rhythm.
below :
4. Its metre is derived from the
List – I (Novels) metre of Anglo-Saxon
i. Lord Jim poetry
ii. To the Lighthouse which was based on accent and
iii. A Passage to India linked by alliteration.
(a) 4 is incorrect.
iv. A Portrait of the Artist as a
(b) 1 & 4 are incorrect.
Young Man
(c) 3 is incorrect.
List – II (Last lines) (d) 1 is incorrect.
1. ‘It was done; it was finished. Ans: (d)
Yes, she thought laying 35. Who among the following
down her brush in xtreme proposes that the unconscious
fatigue, I have had my ision.’ comes into being only in
2. ‘April 27. Old father, old language ?
artificer, stand me now and (a) Sigmund Freud
ever in good stead…’ (b) Jacques Lacan
3. ‘He feels it himself and says (c) Stuart Hall
often that he is “preparing (d) Paul de Man
to leave all this; preparing Exp: Jacques Marie Emile
to leave,...”, while he waves Lacan was a French
his hands sadly at his psychoanalyst and psychiatrist
butterflies.’ who has been called “the most
4. “No not yet,” and the sky controversial psycho-analyst
said, “No, not there”.’ since Freud”
Codes : Ans: (b)
i ii iii iv 36. The Elizabethan Settlement
(a) 2 4 3 1 established during the reign of

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 Elizabeth I common way,
I. ensured the supremacy of In cheerful godliness… . Whose
the Church of England. lines are these ? To whom are
II. allowed Christians to they addressed ?
acknowledge the authority (a) W.H. Auden – W.B. Yeats
of the Pope. (b) P.B. Shelley – William
III. allowed the extremer Blake
Protestants to be part of the (c) William Wordsworth – John
Anglican church. Milton
IV. created a group known as (d) Ben Jonson – William
the Roundheads. Shakespeare
The correct combination Ans: (c)
according to the code is :
39. Samuel Johnson’s Lives of
(a) I and III are correct. Poets\ (1781) was originally a
(b) I and II are correct. series of introductions to the
(c) II and III are correct. poets he wrote for a group of
(d) III and IV are correct. London publishers.
Ans: (a) They were collected as :
37. Which of the following poems by (a) Lives of English Poets :
Tennyson does NOT speak of old Critical and Biographical
age and death ? Essays.
(a) “The Beggar Maid” (b) Prefaces, Biographical and
(b) “The Lotus-Eaters” Critical, to the Works of
(c) “Ulysses” English Poets.
(d) “Tithonus” (c) Notes, Biographical and
Exp: The King and the Beggar- Critical, on the Works of
maid is a Medieval romance by English Poets.
Alfred Lord Tennyson, which (d) Lives of English Poets :
tells the legend of the prince Biographical and Critical
Cophetua and his unorthodox Notes.
love for the beggar Penelophon. Ans: (b)
Ans: (a)
38. One English poet addressing
40. Which of the following is NOT
another : mentioned in Northrop Frye’s
four ‘generic plots’ ?
Thy soul was like a Star, and
dwelt apart; (a) The comic
Thou hast a voice whose sound (b) The tragic
was like the sea: (c) The lyric
Pure as the naked (d) The ironic
heavens,majestic, free,
Ans: (c)
So didst thou travel on life’s
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