51
In the myth of Pygmalion, who brings about the transformation of Galatea?
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C. Aphrodite
52
"I leave you to the pleasures of your higher vices", says the first Tempter in Murder in the Cathedral. What is the "higher vice" mentioned?
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C. Spiritual pride
53
Name the character in Waiting for Godot who can't think without his bowler?
Answer
D. Lucky
54
The title "A Game of Chess" which forms the II section of "The Wasteland" is borrowed from the title of which dramatist's play?
Answer
B. Thomas Middleton
55
Dylan Thomas' "Poem in October" commemorates his birthday. Which one?
Answer
A. 30th
56
From among the following poets pick out the one who is not a Movement poet?
Answer
D. Peter Porter
57
Seamus Heaney's "Tollund man" foregrounds his ................ perspective.
Answer
C. Archaeological
58
Who is the Christ figure in Lord of the Flies?
Answer
A. Simon
59
Anna in The Golden Notebook has a rejuvenating experience towards the end with
Answer
A. Saul
60
The setting for Greene's The Heart of the Matter is a British Colony in
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B. West Africa
61
According to Aristotle ............... "is very artless and least particular to the art of poetic composition."
Answer
D. Spectacle
62
"His tragedy seems to be skill, his comedy to be ..................". Complete the quote by Johnson on Shakespeare.
Answer
A. Instinct
63
In Rasa theory, the bodily expression by which emotion is communicated is called
Answer
B. Anubhava
64
The two poets on whom Arnold puts the charge of lacking "high seriousness" are
Answer
B. Burns and Chaucer
65
From which collection of essays is Lionel Trilling's "Freud and Literature" taken?
Answer
C. The Liberal imagination
66
The male critic whom Elaine Showalter identifies as a prime example of androcentric criticism in her 1979 essay is
Answer
A. Irving Howe
67
To what chemical process does T.S. Eliot compare the poetic process in "Tradition and Individual Talent" ?
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C. Catalytic reaction
68
In "What is an Author"? Foucault argues that the author is
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C. An author function
69
"The Language of Paradox" was first published in
Answer
D. 1942
70
The literary term for transferring the usual perception of an object into the sphere of a new perception to make a unique semantic modification is called
Answer
C. Defamiliarisation
71
.................... was formulated to explain how the Great Consonant Shift happened.
Answer
B. Grimm's Law
72
The structural device that formed an essential part of versification in Old English is
Answer
A. Alliteration
73
The Middle English period begins with the .............. conquest.
Answer
A. Norman
74
What were the striking differences between Chaucerian and present day pronunciations due to?
Answer
D. The Great Vowel Shift
75
The shifting of stress from the initial syllable was the result of ................ influence.
Answer
C. Latin
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