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1. The essay The Death of the Author is written by:




2. Salman Rushdie s Shame is set in :




3. The Little Minister is a novel by




4. Which Augustan writers epitaph reads: One who strove with all his might to champion liberty?




5. The main character in Gogols Dead Souls is :




6. After Shakespeare made his debut as a London playwright he was described as an Upstart crow by:




7. Which of the following Caribbean novels makes intersexual references to Jane Eyre?




8. Only Connect is the epigraph to a novel by:




9. The expression Thy Hand. Great Anarch occurs in a satire by :




10. In which of the following novels by Graham ne does the little girl Brigitta appear?




11. The author of A Satire Against Reason and Mankind is:




12. The Praise of Chimney-Sweepers is -




13. The subtitle of William Godwins Caleb Williams is -




14. The term Practical Criticism is coined by




15. Victor Shklovskys name is associated with




16. Little Nell is a character in Dickens s




17. Who among the following Indian writers in English has created an identifiable imagined locale?




18. Who among the following is not a formalist critic?




19. The rhyme scheme of the Spenserian sonnet is




20. Prosody studies :




21. Which of the following is a major Jacobean play?




22. Understanding Poetry used to be a classic textbook that encapsulates the principles of _______




23. What century is variously called The Age of Enlightenment the Age of Sensibility The Augustan Age and The Age of Prose and Reason?




24. Who among the following Marlovian character is consumed by greed ?




25. Put the following novels by Charles Dickens in a sequential order with the help of the code:




26. Thomas Kyds The Spanish Tragedy was influenced by




27. In its final published version Eliots The Waste Land contains a total of




28. In Black Venus Angela Carter takes elements?from the poetry of a famous French poet and places them in a very different paradigm. Who is the French poet?




29. Strophe antistrophe and epode form a three-part structure in:




30. A woman drew her long black hair out tight And fiddled whisper music on those strings.From which section of Eliots The Waste Land are the above lines taken ?




31. The lines:Even 1 a dunce of more renown than they Was sent before but to prepare thy way are quoted from:




32. Fanny Burneys Evelina is about:




33. The unexpurgated text of Lady Chatterleys lover was published after Obscenity trial in




34. Sir Andrew Freeport is a character in:




35. In which of the following novels does Stein feature as a significant character.




36. Jabberwocky is a character in ____




37. Which of the following statements is the most accurate regarding Edward Saids thesis in Orientalism ?




38. Assertion (AST) : Literary and historical periodization often has nothing to do with the lifetime of writers. Thus we see two writers born in the same year belonging to two separate periods.Reasoning/ (R) : Thomas Carlyle and John Keats were born in 1795. In standard literary Example histories Keats is a Romantic and Carlyle a Victorian.




39. Byrons The Vision of Judgment is a satire directed against




40. Tom Paines The Rights of Man was published in




41. Which of the following thinker - concept pairs is rightly matched?




42. Which of the following thinker - concept pairs is rightly matched?




43. Chos>se the correct sequence of the following schools of criticism




44. Peripetia means




45. Andrew Marvells An Horatian Ode upon Cromwells Return from Ireland was written in




46. The Empire writes Back was written by :




47. The theatre of cruelty is associated with




48. A particle is:




49. The Rime of Ancient Mariner is about




50. Who among the following is NOT a University Wit ?




51. What is common to the following poems ?Wordsworths The RecluseShelleys The Triumph of LifeByrons Don JuanKeats Hyperion




52. The major contribution of the Restoration period is in the field o f :




53. Which of the following Shakespearean plays are in the correct chronological sequence?




54. The word nature in the eighteenth century literature stands for:




55. Who is given credit for first using the term romantic?




56. Gudrun is a character in a novel by :




57. July s People is a novel by :




58. Hemic Couplet is a pair of : ?




59. Margaret Laurence is a novelist from:




60. The correct chronological order of the following poets is :