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1. LANGUAGE
1. Language and its Characteristics
2. Human Language and Animal Communication
3. Language and Speech
4. Language Acquisition
5. Multilingualism
6. Language and Culture
7. Causes of Language Change
8. Descriptive and Prescriptive Approach to the Investigation of Language





2. LINGUISTICS
9. Linguistics and its Levels
10. Branches of Linguistics and Their Scope
11. Theories of Linguistics
12. Comparative Linguistics
13. Sociolinguistics and its Significance
14. Psycholinguistics
15. Growth and Development of Historical Linguistics
16. Contribution of Ferdinand de Saussure to the Study of Modern Linguistics





3. PHONETICS & MORPHOLOGY
17. Phonetics and its Main Branches
18. Places and Manners of Articulation
19. Consonants
20. Vowels
21. Plosives and Fricatives
22. Transcription with Examples
23. Morphemes
24. Inflectional and Derivational Morphology





4. SYNTAX & GRAMMAR
25. I.C. Analysis and its Major Flaws
26. Phrase Structure Grammar
27. Generative Grammar
28. Systematic Grammar
29. Tree Diagram Giving P-Markers with Examples
30. Grammar and its Major Kinds
31. Structuralism
32.  Grammatical Units




5. SEMANTICS & STYLISTICS
33. Semantics and Some Types of Meaning
34. Lexical Semantics
35. Structural Semantics
36. Major Semantic Theories
37. Semantic Field Theory
38. Componential Analysis
39. Semantic Structure
40. Stylistics and its Significance


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Philip Larkin Poetry, sTheme
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PHILIP LARKIN's poetry has a variety of themes: such as religion, melancholy, pessimism, realism, isolation, love, nature, social chaos, alienation, boredom, death, time and sex etc. Some critics have pointed out the narrowness of his range of themes, while his admirers have expressed their praise for his distinctive treatment of these themes but his limited work has unlimited depth. There are many themes in his poetry which are as follow:
i. Religion is the most prominent and dominant theme of his poetry. Larkin has composed his poetry in the context of his temperament and of his personal views on life, religion, and religious dogmas. He shares his thoughts about God, religion and the existing scenario of religious beliefs of different classes of society in one of his poems, ‘Church Going’ in a realistic manner. His poem ‘Church Going’ chronicles the account of that time, when people had become suspicious of the existence of God and religion. Larkin’s sarcasm is seen from the very first line of the poem:
“Once I am sure there's nothing going on.”
The description of the church would be familiar to anyone who has visited a small parish church in Britain. The layout is typical of the architecture prevalent in the Church of England, with a central aisle flanked by wooden pews with cushioned kneelers and prayer books placed on small shelves on the backs of the pews. An altar rail separates the sanctuary on the east end from the rest of the church. Behind the altar rail, one sees a pulpit on the left, a lectern on the right, and in the centre a large altar or communion table. Large Bibles are normally kept open to the day's reading from both pulpit and lectern. Although the narrator himself is not an active member of the Church, he nonetheless mounts the lectern and reads the lesson, even closing with the words "Here endeth the lesson," (which would not be in the Bible itself -- suggesting the narrator recalls them from memory) precisely as a lay reader would during a service. He then returns to his persona as a non-religious tourist, dropping a sixpence (roughly equivalent to a quarter in U.S. terms) into the collection box and signing the visitor book. The narrator resolves this contradiction with an understanding that the value of churches and religion lies in what he calls their seriousness, or their long tradition of being a place concerned with the great and meaningful issues of life and death, as opposed to the ordinary and every day. The narrator finally understands his own reason for seeking out churches and the purpose of the churches he seeks in the final two stanzas:

“It pleases me to stand in silence here; / A serious house on serious earth it is, ... / And that much never can be obsolete, / Since someone will forever be surprising / A hunger in himself to be more serious, / And gravitating with it to this ground, / Which, he once heard, was proper to grow wise in ...”
ii. Melancholy which means "a deep feeling of sadness that lasts for a long time and often cannot be explained". Melancholy embraces all his themes. This is also the most prominent and dominant theme of his poetry. It is because of his incurable pessimistic attitude. ERIC HOMBERGER, in 'The Art of the Real ', describes him as:
"The saddest heart in the post-war supermarket".
LARKIN's attitude in his poem "Ambulances" is pessimistic with an atmosphere of pathos and melancholy hovering over it. The poem shows the hollowness and emptiness of a modern man who has no time to show love and sympathy for a sick man, he says:
"And since the solving emptiness / That lays just under all we do."
That modern man is devoid of sympathy, he only pays lip service to the sick man, but no practical solution.
iii. The element of Chaos which means "a state of complete confusion and lack order" and Destruction is distinct in LARKIN's poetry, as his poem MCMXIV(1914).It illuminates the poet's impression of the post-war world. LARKIN fails to come out of the horrors of war. His poetry revolves around the disastrous and chaotic effects of war. He minutely observes the chaotic social, political, economic and theological system. He discusses the chaotic situation in which people were forced to migrate to villages in search of shelter. LARKIN sympathises with the lost generation and criticizes at the craze for war.
iv. His poem, "Church Going" shows Nihilism which means ''a philosophical doctrine that suggests the lack of belief in one or more reputedly meaningful aspects of life'' and Pessimism which means ''a state of mind in which one anticipates undesirable outcomes or believes that the evil or hardships in life outweigh the good or luxuries.'' ANDREW MOTION says that:
"Larkin has often been regarded as a hopeless, inflexible pessimist"
Church Going deals with contemporary agnosticism. The narrator in this poem is very sceptical about churches. LARKIN's dilemma is not whether to believe in God or not, but what a man can replace with God. Though the 'Church' is the symbol of faith, peace and purity yet in the modern age people have lost faith in Church. He says:
"Who will be the last, the very / Last to seek this place for what It was."
And further, he says that:
"Shall we avoid them as unlucky places? "
As for as the nihilism is concerned, LARKIN talks about the negation of life and shows his disgust with the modern civilization

Overall Presentation of the paper:

First of all you need to be cautious of your overall paper presentations. Here are the few things you need to consider:

1. Draw a line on the right and left of of the page with a cut marker
2. Keep your paper neat and clean
3. Giver Proper important headings
4. Fill all the page don't leave any space
5. Stay on the topic will answering the question
6. After finishing the question draw a line at the end of the answer
7. Don't leave extra space at the end of the page.
8. Answer only the number of the question asked don't attempt extra question. But if do attempt extra question, then do not write the word "EXTA QUESTION" with it.

All high achievers and board toppers follow the rules. So, if you want to get higher marks, follow the rules.
Required Material for Effective Paper Presentation

Putting first things first, you need the followings to attempt your paper effectively.

-- A large transparent scale.
-- A blue cut marker
-- A small scale
-- A good blue pen
-- A pencil, an eraser and a sharpener.

Now, it's time how to use the above effectively to win the game:

1. Using large transparent scale

To draw a line, on both sides of the papers, so that your margins are clear and all of your page gives a better look as your writings will be well margined.
2. Use of cut marker

The use of a cut marker effectively is the most important step, as it's the key to get more marks. There are following uses of the cut marker in the exam.

Use the cut marker for headings, question numbers and parts.

-- Main heading on the first two lines should be "Subjective type" at the center of the page.
-- Then give Subheading as "Short Questions" at the center of the page
-- The third heading should be Question number, and it should also written in the center of the page
-- Underline the subheading if you are not writing it with cut marker
Always write question number and part number in the middle of the line.

Use Cut Marker it to write important points, such as dates, names, important words, so that even if the checker doesn't check your paper with full attention, he knows on the first glimpse that you have written every thing and all points necessary to get full marks.

Also write important sentences or Phrases with the cut marker, in all subjects, normally there is one sentence in the question that is most important, and that the checker wants to check. For example, in physics, a very important short question is related to the momentum is why gun recoils when a bullet is fired. You can write the answer normally with a ball point, but the "To conserve Momentum" is the most important phrase in the answer, so write it with the cut marker. Because it's the phrase the checker wants to check whereas the rest of it is not that important.
3. Draw a short line after writing each answer.

And also leave one line after each answer, so that you may have the space available even if you missed anything, and you may write it once you remember. But do not leaver two or more empty lines, as leaving too many empty spaces is considered to be a bad thing in board examinations.
4. USE of A small scale

Small scale is very effective for drawing small lines after each answer so that checker knows that you have completed the answer.
5. Good Pen / Ball point:

It is better to purchase pen/ball points at least a week before the examinations, as the new pens are harder to write, so use the pens for a two to three days so that they can get smoother.
6. Use a pencil, an eraser and a sharpener.

You can draw diagram with a pencil, but if you are good at drawing with a ball point then it's preferable in order to get more marks. However, it is very important to label the diagrams preferably with a cut marker.

7. Order of the Questions:

-- First attempt the question in which you are good at, as at the start of the paper the checker will know that you are good student.

You need to keep that impression for at least three questions,

-- So your best answer should be the second question.

-- Then attempt the question in which you are perfect at, as the checker knows that your 2nd and 3rd questions are even better than the first one. So the impression gets better. Hence he will feel comfortable to give you better marks. It is also important not to attempt the least good question at the end, but mix it in between the good questions, may be at number 7 or 8
-- Your last attempted question should also be good one, as most of the checker know that the last questions are normally the ones that you don't know the answers. So use these tricks cleverly.

-- And then attempt the question in which you are least good at.

Also

Practice attempting the paper by Giving test at colleges and academies.
-- Make a habit of reading the paper after solving it.
-- Before going for exam ready all the stuff required.
-- Practice the designing of the paper before the final exam.

Thanks....

Past papers of waiting for Godot 2012 to 2018

Q : Waiting for GODOT exposes the eternal loneliness, bafflement and ennui suffered by man. Comment

2012 annual

Q : Waiting for godot shows the individual as the product of linguistic forces, a tissue of TEXTUALITIES. COMMENT.

2012 supply

Q : Bring out significance of the TITLE of waiting FOR GODOT

2013 Annual

Q: Waiting for goDOT voices the infinite hope and despair of man about the future of humanity. Do you agree?

2013 supply

Q: Repeated question 2013 supply

2014 annual

Q: Repeated QUESTION 2012 supply

2014 SUPPLY

Q : Discuss waiting for godot it as representative of 20th century issues of anxiety and despair.

2015 annual

Q: Waiting for Godot is the greatest 20th century play aiming to question the religion. Do you agree? Substantiate your answer with appropriate textual quotations.

2015 supply

Q : Bring out the various ways in which language has been exploited waiting for Godot

2016 annual

Q : How does waiting for godot treat the concept of time.

2016 supply

Q : How far Would you agree that waiting for godot highlights the concept of KIERKEGAARD's philosophy of existentialism?

2017 annual

Q : What is the SIGNIFICANCE of little games the characters play in waiting for GODOT? Elaborate Your ANSWER citing examples from the PLAY.

2018 annual

Past papers of waiting for Godot 2012 to 2018

Q : Waiting for GODOT exposes the eternal loneliness,  bafflement and ennui suffered by man. Comment

2012 annual

Q : Waiting for godot shows the individual as the product of linguistic forces, a tissue of TEXTUALITIES. COMMENT.

2012 supply

Q : Bring out significance of the TITLE of waiting FOR GODOT

2013 Annual

Q: Waiting for goDOT voices the infinite hope and despair of man about the future of humanity. Do you agree?

2013 supply

Q: Repeated question 2013 supply

2014 annual

Q: Repeated QUESTION 2012 supply

 2014 SUPPLY

Q : Discuss waiting for godot it as representative of 20th century issues of anxiety and despair.

2015 annual

Q: Waiting for Godot is the greatest 20th century play aiming to question the religion. Do you agree? Substantiate your answer with appropriate textual quotations.

2015 supply

Q : Bring out the various ways in which language has been exploited waiting for Godot

2016 annual

Q : How does waiting for godot treat the concept of time.

2016 supply

Q : How far Would you agree that waiting for godot highlights the concept of KIERKEGAARD's philosophy of existentialism?

2017 annual

Q : What  is the SIGNIFICANCE of little games the characters play in waiting for GODOT? Elaborate Your ANSWER citing examples from the PLAY.

2018 annual

  #ARMS_AND_THE_MAN - George Bernard Shaw

#Plot_Construction_of_Arms_and_the_Man

“I avoid plots like the plague … … My procedure is to imagine character and let them live.”

Shaw reached against “the well-made” conventional play that held the stage at the time, and rejected the Aristotelian dictum of the primacy of plot. Yet, “Arms and the Man” is a well-made play with much in it that is conventional. It may be a “drama of ideas”, but it is also a masterpiece from the purely theatrical point of view.It is the least didactic of the plays of Shaw

The opening of the play is conventional and melodramatic. There is news of war and heroism, sound of shooting in the streets, a fugitive from the field with soldiery at his heels, a lone maiden in her bedroom and the entrance of the fugitive with a pistol aimed at her head. The purpose of the dramatist is to get attention of the audience after which the melodramatic thrills subside and the dramatist settles to more serious purpose. Shaw often expressed himself against the use of chance and accident. He regarded it as a fake device and a serious fault of the conventional drama. It is a sheer chance that Bluntschli enters the room of the betrothed of the ‘hero’ of Slivnitza and tells her the truth about his cavalry charge. The confrontation of Bluntschli and Raina is the confrontation of the romantic and the realistic and is of great psychological interest. Shaw has succeeded in making discussion as interesting as action itself. The discussion ends after the psychological change in Raina. Bluntschli falls asleep as soon as he becomes Raina’s “poor darling”. There is no superfluity, no long speeches or philosophical discussions. There is no dull moment throughout the Act I, suspense is well-maintained through little surprises. Discussion, though psychologically essential, in no way comes in the way of the play’s theatrical effectiveness.

Act I introduces us directly to the principal characters of the play as Raina, Bluntschli, Catherine and Louka and indirectly, through conversation between Catherine and Raina, to Sergius and Major Petkoff. The two basic themes of the play, war and love, are also introduced and it is suggested that it is the romance of war which feeds the romance of love.

Act I is built round the conflict of the romantic and realistic attitudes towards war; Act II is built round the conflict between romantic and realistic attitudes towards love. In Act I, it is Bluntschli who shatters Raina’s romantic notions of war and makes her realize the truth about war; in Act II, it is the practical Louka who exposes the hollowness of romantic love. The love scene between Sergius and Louka is a parody of the scene of higher love between Sergius and Raina. Similarly, Raina’s conversation with her mother soon after reveals the state of her heart. As Eric Bentley points out:

“The play is hung, as it were, on the cunningly told tale of the lost coat with the photograph in its pocket.”

Numerous hints and suggestions bring out the vital importance to the plot of Petkoff’s old coat. It is this coat in which Bluntschli is smuggled out of the house by Raina and Catherine. It provides Bluntschli an excuse for a second visit to Petkoff's. His arrival with the coat is one of the major complications of the play. Catherine gets into a difficult situation. Raina’s arrival and hasty exclamation, “Oh! My chocolate cream soldier” brings in a minor crisis. Yet, the situation is saved by the tact and wits of Catherine, and Raina, too, acts her part well. Discourse is again in danger as Nicola arrives with the bag of the Swiss but his tactfulness saves the situation.

In Act III, the complications are resolved to a satisfactory conclusion. Nigel Alexander says:

“It is the theatrical and farcical device of the Major’s overcoat and the photography in its
packet inscribed, ‘from Raina to her chocolate cream soldier’ which is now used to extricate
his characters from their intellectual confusions and bring the play to a satisfactory conclusion.”

In Act III Shaw introduces three important conversations – between Bluntschli and Raina, Nicola and Louka, Louka and Sergius – which are of great psychological and theatrical interest. There are witty retorts and repartees. The dialogues are quick and lively with characters trying to uphold his or her opinion. The conflict is not of characters or of wills but of ideas. Finally the romantic mask is turn off Raina’s face and she is made to realize the truth about romantic love. Sergius is equally disenchanted. Their romantic ideals are punctured and they come out through the “conflict of ideas” much sadder and wiser. The play revolves round a double love-triangle – Sergius engaged to Raina but flirting with Louka, Louka engaged to Nicola but ambitious to marry Sergius and Raina turning to Bluntschli away from Sergius, her betrothed. In the resolution of this love-triangle, Raina’s photograph plays a crucial role. Failing to find in his pocket the photograph, the Major utters:

“Raina, to her chocolate cream soldier.”

He suspects something black in the bottom. Explanation now becomes necessary and is provided by Bluntschli. Nicola denies his engagement to Louka but by a lucky chance the father of the Swiss died a short while ago and he has ‘inherited his enormous wealth’. Thus a suitable conclusion of the complication becomes possible.

The technical novelty of the play lies in its wide use of bathos. Bluntschli and Louka do not rise to the romantic heights of Sergius and Raina; instead Sergius and Raina drop down to the level of Louka and Bluntschli. Sergius is shown as a romantic fool; Raina is proved as hypocrite and liar, and the realist Bluntschli is shown to have a romantic nature. Bluntschli “is shown an enchanted soul whom nothing will disenchant”. This is resolution by anticlimax which raises the play to the heights of pure comedy despite pure farcical elements.

Those who criticize “Arms and the Man” for lack of action, forget that it is a play of idea, unlike traditional theatre. There is enough action in it but this action is internal rather than external indicated by the clever verbal-exchanges between characters. The chief source of interest lies in the way in which psychological change is induced in Raina and her romantic ideals are punctured. Mentally she moves down to the level of Bluntschli. The play is of psychological interest and theatrically effective arising form its melodramatic opening and its numerous intriguing and farcical situations. It is a successful stage-play and an effective “drama of ideals”. It makes the readers laugh and think. In short, the play has a natural and happy development with numerous little surprises to keep up the interest of the audience.

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SAMPLE PAPER NO 1
MCQs: 100
SUBJECT: ENGLISH LITERATURE
FOR PPCS AND NTS EXAM
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(1) The subjugation of Women (1869) is an
important text of:
(a) George Eliot
(b) Byron
(c) John Mill (Correct)
(d) Hardy
.
(2) Which of the following poems by
Tennyson is a monodrama?
(a) Ulysses
(b) Break, Break, Break
(c) Maud (Correct)
(d) Crossing the Bar
.
(3) The line “she dwells with Beauty – Beauty that must be” occurs in Keats’
(a) Lamia
(b) Ode to a Grecian Urn
(c) Ode on Melancholy (Correct)
(d) Endymio
.
(4) Negative Capability to Keats, means
(a) The ability to sympathize with other
(b) Say bad thing, about others
(c) To empathize (Correct)
.
(5) “Art for arts sake” found its true
adherent in:
(a) Wordsworth
(b) Byron
(c) Browning
(d) Wilde. (Correct)
.
(6) It as the best of times, it was the worst of time, it was the worst – the opening of Dickens’
(a) Hard Times
(b) David Copperfield
(c) Oliver Twist
(d) A Tales of Two Cities (Correct)
.
(7) The character of Little Neil is a creation
of:
(a) Hardy
(b) Eliot
(c) Oscar Wilde
(d) Dickens. (Correct)
.
(8) “Idylls of the King” is illustration of
Tennyson’s deep interest in:
(a) Medieval legends
(b) The role of the king (Correct)
(c) Hero worship
(d) The contemporary condition (Correct)
.
(9) Who believed that poetry is the
spontaneous overflow of emotions?
(a) Blake
(b) Byron
(c) Wordsworth. (Correct)
(d) Keats
.
(10) Who after the publication of a poem,
awoke and found himself famous?
(a) Shelley
(b) Browning
(c) Wordsworth. (Correct)
(d) Keats
.
(11) The image of the femme fatale
dominates the poetry of:
(a) Wordsworth
(b) Keats (Correct)
(c) Byron
(d) Tennyson
.
(12) Little Time is a character in Hardy’s
(a) The return of the native
(b) Jude the Obscure (Correct)
(c) Mayor of Casterbridge
.
(13) Which is the famous elegy written by
Shelley?
(a) In Memoriam
(b) Lycidas
(c) Adonis (Correct)
(d) Thyrsis
.
(14) Moral choice is everything in the works
of:
(a) Dickens (Correct)
(b) George Eliot
(c) Hardy
.
(15) Which of the following is illustrative of
Ruskin’s interest in social economy?
(a) The Seven Lamps
(b) Unto this Last (Correct)
(c) The Stones of Venice
.
(16) Which one of the following poets
named the Romantic poet as the “pond
poets”?
(a) Southey (Correct)
(b) Shelley
(c) Keats
(d) Byron
.
(17) The Charge of the Light
Brigade” (Tennyson) commemorates:
(a) The Boer War
(b) The battle of Trafalgar
(c) The Crimean War (Correct)
.
(18) The Elgin Marbles inspired Keats to
write:
(a) Endymion
(b) Lamia
(c) The Grecian Urn (Correct)
(d) Melancholy
.
(19) Would you tell Sordelo (Browning) as
a:
(a) Dramatic Monologue
(b) Dramatic Lyrics (Correct)
(c) Tragic Drama
.
(20) Which one of the following poets was
appointed Poet Laureate in the year 1813?
(a) Tennyson
(b) Byron
(c) Southey. (Correct)
(d) Wordsworth
.
(21) Shakespeare’s Hamlet is
(a) A tragedy (Correct)
(b) Comedy
.
(22) Earnest Hamingway has written
(a) Old Man and the Sea (Correct)
(b) Mr. Chips
(c) Pride and Prejudice
.
(23) Who wrote Gulliver’s Travels?
(a) Charles Dickens
(b) Chaucer
(c) Jonathan Swift (Correct)
.
(24) Which of the following is not a
dramatist?
(a) Ben Johnson
(b) Byron (Correct)
(c) Eliot
.
(25) Which of the following is not a play by
Shakespeare?
(a) Hamlet
(b) Macbeth
(c) Dr. Faustus. (Correct)
.
(26) E. M. Foster is a
(a) Novelist. (Correct)
(b) Poet
(c) Playwright
.
(27) “The Pickwick Papers” is a novel by:
(a) Jane Austen
(b) Charles Dickens. (Correct)
(c) Thackery
.
(28) Who wrote “Jane Eyre”?
(a) Charlotte Bronte. (Correct)
(b) Emile Bronte
(c) Anne Bronte
.
(29) After whom is the Elizabethan Age
named?
(a) Elizabeth-I (Correct)
(b) Elizabeth-II
(c) Elizabeth Browning
.
(30) What is the name of Wordsworth’s long
poem?
(a) The Canterbury Tales
(b) Don Juan
(c) The Prelude. (Correct)
(31) A poem mourning someone’s death is
called:
(a) Fable
(b) Epic
(c) Elegy. (Correct)

(32) Which of the following is not a tragedy
written by Shakespeare?
(a) Macbeth
(b) Othello
(c) Merchant of Venice (Correct)
.
(33) Who wrote “The Second Coming”?
(a) E. Spencer
(b) Eliot
(c) W. B. Yeats. (Correct)
.
(34) What period in English Literature is
called the “Augustans Age”?
(a) Early 16th Century
(b) 17th Century
(c) Early 18th Century. (Correct)
.
(35) Which play among the following plays
is not blank verse?
(a) Hamlet
(b) The Jew of Malta
(c) Pygmalion. (Correct)
.
(36) Which one of the following writers is
not woman?
(a) Emily Bronte
(b) Jane Austen
(c) Robert Browning (Correct)
.
(37) Who is the villain in “Hamlet”?
(a) Horatio
(b) Iago
(c) Claudius (Correct)
.
(38) Who kills Macbeth in the play
“Macbeth”?
(a) Duncan
(b) Bonquo
(c) Macduff (Correct)
.
(39) Which is the last of Shakespeare’s
great tragedies?
(a) Macbeth
(b) King Lear (Correct)
(c) Othello
(d) Hamlet
.
(40) Who is the heroine of Shakespeare’s
play “Hamlet”?
(a) Cordella
(b) Desdemona
(c) Portia
(d) Ophelia. (Correct)
.
(41) Romanticism (if it can be pinpointed)
is usually assumed to date from:
(a) Publication of "Intimations of
Immortality"
(b) The beginning of Queen Victoria’s reign
(c) The Reform Bill of 1832
(d) Publication of "Lyrical Ballads" and its preface (Correct)
(e) 1800 – 1801
.
(42) Which of the following would a
Romantic Poet be most likely to use?
(a) A "feathered chorister"
(b) A "member of the plumy race"
(c) A "bird" (d) A "tenant of the sky"
(e) An "airy fairy" (Correct)

(43) Wordsworth’s Poetry always reflects:
(a) The creation of abstract concepts
(b) An endorsement of the scientific
tradition
(c) The creation of an original philosophy (Correct)
(d) An examination of extraneous matters
(e) His belief in a world to come.
.
(44) Byron’s Poetry is ambiguous and has a
vividness of phrasing which sometimes
reaches the point of abstraction.
(a) True. (Correct)
(b) False
.
(45) "English Bards and Scotch Reviewers"
is a satirical attack on contemporary
writers who had annoyed Byron.
(a) True. (Correct)
(b) False
.
(46) In 1850, Tennyson succeeded
Wordsworth as poet laureate.
(a) True. (Correct)
(b) False
.
(47) Mary Anne Evans is the same person
as George Eliot.
(a) True. (Correct)
(b) False
.
(48) Keats’ widespread appeal is to the
Reader’s interest in the supernatural.
(a) True
(b) False. (Correct)
.
(49) The literary figure who had the most
pronounced effect on Keats was:
(a) Dante
(b) Shakespeare
(c) Wordsworth (Correct)
(d) Shelley
.
(50) Shelly was a firm believer in all of the
following except:
(a) Personal freedom
(b) The individual’s responsibility to society
(c) The power of love
(d) Human conduct based on conviction. (Correct)
.
(51) Maggie is the central character in
George Eliot’s:
(a) Adam Bede
(b) Middle March
(c) The Mill on the Floss (Correct)
(d) Silas Morner
.
(52) Which of following Books consists of
Ruskin’s lectures:
(a) Modern painters
(b) The Stones of Venice
(c) The Crown of wild olive (Correct)
(d) None of these
.
(53) Who described poetry as “Spontaneous
overflow of powerful feelings”:
(a) Shelley
(b) Wordsworth (Correct)
(c) Coleridge
(d) Arnold
(e) None of these
.
(54) ‘Hero and Hero worship’ was written
by:
(a) Ruskin
(b) Carlyle (Correct)
(c) Mill
(d) None of these
.
(55) The French Revolution took place in:
(a) 1793
(b) 1796
(c) 1798
(d) None of these (Correct)
.
(56) ‘The Metaphysical Poets’ is a critical
essay by:
(a) Arnold
(b) T. S. Eliot (Correct)
(c) Shelley
(d) None of these
.
(57) “David Copperfield” was written by:
(a) Hardy
(b) Dickens (Correct)
(c) Thackeray
(d) None of these
.
(58) Who said this “Poetry is the Criticism
of life”:
(a) Wordsworth
(b) Byron
(c) T.S. Eliot
(d) Arnold (Correct)
.
(59) ‘The Revolt of Islam’ was written by:
(a) Wordsworth
(b) Coleridge
(c) Shelley (Correct)
(d) None of these
.
(60) ‘The Lotos Eaters’ was written by:
(a) Blake
(b) Byron
(c) Tennyson (Correct)
(d) None of these
.
(61) Shelley’s poetry used all of the
following components for themes except:
(a) Worship of God (Correct)
(b) Passion
(c) Narcissism
(d) Emotional self-indulgence
.
(62) The prose of the Romantic period had
a tendency to:
(a) Objectify the issue in terms of a cause (Correct)
(b) Advance a single system to the public
(c) Allow the writer to draw on his
(d) Be brooding and meditative. own
personality
.
(63) Charles Lamb’s "Dream Children" is
notable for its:
(a) Crushing tragedy
(b) Humor
(c) Whimsical Pathos (Correct)
(d) Cynicism
.
(64) The Victorian age can be dated by which of the following events and years:
(a) Mills’s "on liberty’ (1859) to end of
century (1900)
(b) Reform Bill (1832) to end of Boer War
(1902)
(c) Birth of Tennyson (1809) to his death
(1892)
(d) Tennyson’s Poems, Chiefly Lyrical
(1830) to death of Queen Victoria (1901) (Correct)
.
(65) Which of the following works ‘had the
greatest influence on the Victorian Age?
(a) Mill’s "On Liberty"
(b) Tennyson’s "In memoriam" (Correct)
(c) Darwin’s "Origin of Species"
(d) Carlyle’s "Sartor Resartus"
(e) Ruskin’s "The stones of Venice"
.
(66) In which of the following Genres did
Victorian Literature achieve its greatest
success:
(a) Drama
(b) Epic Poetry
(c) Lyric Poetry
(d) The Essay
(e) The Novel (Correct)
.
(67) Identify the sources of the quotations
listed below:
1. "Hail to thee blithe spirit"
2. "Spirit of beauty that dost consecrate"
3. "Paint/Must never hope to reproduce
the- faint Halfflush that dies along her
throat".
4. "Where are the songs of Spring? Ay,-
where are they? Think not of them, thou
hast thy music too
5. "Ah, happy, happy boughs! that cannot
shed your leaves, nor ever bid the
Spring adieu",
6. "Our birth is but a sleep and a
forgetting"
7. "A hand may first and then a lip be kist;
For my part, to such doings I’m a
stranger"
8. "My hair is grey, but not with years, nor
grew it white, In a single night"
(A) "May Last Duchess"
(B) "To a sky Lark"
(C) "Ode to Autumn"
(D) "Don Juan"
(E) "The Prisoner of Chillon"
(F) "Ode on a Grecian Urn"
(G) "Intimations of Immortality’ (Ode)
(H) "Hymn to Intellectual Beauty"
1-B,
2-H,
3-A,
4-C,
5-F,
6-G,
7-D,
8-E
.
(68) Who wrote "Shakespeare’s Later
Comedies’?
(a) A.C. Bradley
(b) Palmer D.J. (Correct)
(c) Dr.Johnsofl
.
(69) Which of the following is not a
dramatist?
(a) Ben Johnson
(b) Eliot (Correct)
(c) S. Backett
.
(70) Which. of the following is not a play by
Shakespeare?
(a) Tempest
(b) Pygmalion (Correct)
(c) King Lear
.
(71) Who is the author of ‘After Strange
Gods’?
(a) Shaw
(b) Robert Frost
(c) Eliot (Correct)

(72) Who is the Villain in ‘Hamlet’?
(a) Horatio
(b) Iago
(c) Claudius (Correct)
.
(73) Who is the heroine of ‘Hamlet’?
(a) Cordelia
(b) Portia
(c) Ophelia (Correct)
.
(74) After whom the Elizabethan Age is
named:
(a) Elizabeth I (Correct)
(b) Elizabeth II
(c) Elizabeth Browning
.
(75) Who wrote ‘Common Pursuit’?
(a) Leavis, F.R. (Correct)
(b) Cecil, D.
(c) E. M. Foster
.
(76) ‘ Paradise Lost is an epic by:
(a). Spenser
(b) Chaucer
(c) Milton (Correct)
.
(77) "After Apple Picking" is written by:
(a) Robert Browning
(b) Robert Frost (Correct)
.
(78) Ernest Hemingway wrote:
(a) Mr. Chips

(b) Pride and Prejudice
(c) Old Man and the Sea (Correct)
.
(79) "Intellectual Beauty" is written by:
(a) Bertrand Russell
(b) Huxley
(c) P.B. Shelley (Correct)
.
(80) Who wrote "20th Century Views"?
(a) Abrahams, M. H. (Correct)
(b) Palmer, D. J.
(c) Bertrand Russell
(81) ‘Desert Places’ is a:
(a) Poem (Correct)
(b) Play
(c) Novel
.
(82) The University Wits were:
(a) Poets
(b) Playwrights (Correct)
(c) Novelists
.
(83) William Shakespeare was Born in:
(a) 1564 (Correct)
(b) 1534
(c) 1616
.
(84) Francis Bacon died in:
(a) 1616
(b) 1626 (Correct)
(c) 1648
.
(85) The period from 1660 to 1750 is
known as:
(a) The Age of Classicism
(b) The Restoration (Correct)
(c) The age of Milton
.
(86) Who wrote "The Pilgrim’s Progress"?
(a) John Bunyan (Correct)
(b) Daniel Defoe
(c) Dryden
.
(87) ‘‘The Conduct of the Allies’ is a
famous work of:
(a) Jonathan Swift (Correct)
(b) Samuel Johnson
(c) Oliver ‘Goldsmith
.
(88) The abstract theory of utilitarianism is
the theme of Dicken’s novel:
(a) Bleak House
(b) A Tale of Two Cities
(c) Hard Times (Correct)
(d) Great Expectations
.
(89) “The one remains, the many change and
pass; Heaven’s light for ever shines, earth’s
shadows fly” These lines occur in:
(a) Keats’ Hyperion
(b) Shelley’s Hymn to Intellectual Beauty
(c) Shelley’s Adonis (Correct)
(d) Keats’ Ode to Psyche
(e) None of these
.
(90) Name the character of a novel of
Thomas Hardy, which is much like Oedipus,
King Lear
and Faust.
(a) Tess (Correct)
(b) Thomasin
(c) Eustacia
.
(91) “She can not fade, though thou hast not
the bliss, For ever wilt thou love, and she be
fair!”
The above two lines have been taken from:
(a) Keats’ Ode to a Nightingale
(b) A Thing of Beauty
(c) La Belle Dame Sans Mercy
(d) Ode on a Grecian Urn (Correct)
.
(92) ‘Withdrawal from an uncongenial world
of escape either to death or more often, to
an
ideal dream world’, is the theme of
Tennyson’s:
(a) Ulysses
(b) The Palace of Arts
(c) The Lotos – Eaters (Correct)
(d) None of these
.
(93) Philip Waken, Aunt Pallet and Tom
Tulliver are the characters of G. Eliot’s
novel:
(a) Silas Manner
(b) Adam Bede
(c) Middle March
(d) The Mill on the Floss (Correct)
.
(94) "In all things, in all natures, in the stars,
This active principle abides,"
Identify the poet and his peculiar belief that
can be understood from the above lines.
Answer: William Wordsworth as he was
of the opinion that in this universe
‘nature’ is the
point of focus for everything.
.
(95) “Thy, Damnation, Slunbreth, Not”
Name the writer, his book and the
character who uttered/wrote these words.
Writer – Thomas Hardy
Book – Tess of the D'Urbervilles
Character – a young man who is
traveling the countryside painting
scripture on the sides of
barns walks
.
(96) In Memoriam by Tennyson is:
(a) an elegy (Correct)
(b) a collection of elegies
(c) a lyric
(d) a dramatic lyric
(e) None of these
.
(97) The poem, “The Marriage of Heaven
and Hell” was written by:
(a) Shelley
(b) Blake (Correct)
(c) Byron
(d) Browning
(e) None of these
.
(98) ‘Unto This Last’ is a book written by:
(a) Mill on economic reforms
(b) Carlyle on moral reforms
(c) Ruskin on moral reforms (Correct)
(d) None of these
.
(99) Mathew Arnold said: “An ineffectual
angel beating in the void his luminous
wings in
vain”, about:
(a) Keats
(b) Byron
(c) Shelley (Correct)
(d) Blake
(e) None of these
.
(100) For whom it is said: “sensuousness is
a paramount bias of his genius”:
(a) Blake
(b) Keats (Correct)
(c) Tennyson
(d) Shelley

(e) None of these