51
Yeats' poem "Easter 1916" refers to ...............
Answer
C. The uprising of Irish freedom fighters on Easter, 1916.
52
Why is the poet sure that the unknown citizen in the poem "The Unknown Citizen" lived a happy life?
Answer
B. Because we would have known if there had been anything wrong
53
What does Phillip Larkin mean by the expression 'Another church' in the poem "Church Going"?
Answer
A. A church like any other
54
What according to the poet are the praying women in "In Santa Maria Del Popolo" incapable of?
Answer
B. The grand gesture of the solitary man
55
Virginia Woolf considered the fiction of her contemporaries ................
Answer
C. Only different from that of their predecessors
56
Which of the following notions does Bernard Shaw seem to support in Pygmalion?
Answer
D. Correct pronunciation is necessary for social success
57
Samuel Beckett's play Waiting for Godot was first published in ..............
Answer
D. French
58
The Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man can be described as ................
Answer
C. A kunstlerroman
59
Graham Greene's Heart of the Matter is set in ..................
Answer
B. Sierra Leone
60
Allan Sillitoe, author of the novel The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner has been described as ...............
Answer
A. A proletarian fictionist
61
Who brought forth the 'Rasa-Dhwani Siddhanta'?
Answer
D. Abhinavagupta
62
Aristotle defined poetry as:
Answer
B. Medium of imitation
63
Which of the following is a 'Vice of Style' opposed to the 'Sublime' according to Longinus?
Answer
D. Affectation
64
Who is called 'The Father of English Criticism' by Dr. Johnson?
Answer
A. John Dryden
65
Who stated that "Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings"?
Answer
D. Wordsworth
66
Arnold's 'Touchstone Method' is modelled on:
Answer
C. Longinus 'Test of Poetic Greatness'
67
Which of the following movement was initiated with Derrida's paper 'The Structure, Sign and Play in the Human Sciences'?
Answer
D. Post-structuralism
68
What according to 'Elain Showalter' is the reason for the impasse that feminist criticism had reached in the 1970s
Answer
A. The 'Male' character of 'Theory' itself
69
Which of the following is NOT one of the main points in Lacan's 'Insistence of the letter in the unconscious'?
Answer
B. Human self or soul transcends the limits of language
70
'Michel Foucault' elaborated upon the relationship between knowledge and power propounded by:
Answer
D. Nietzsche
71
Syntactic Structures was published by
Answer
B. Noam Chomsky
72
A simplified form of speech formed out of one or more existing languages used by people who have no other language in common is called .............
Answer
A. Pidgins
73
The language variety unique to a single speaker of a language is called ...............
Answer
B. Idiolect
74
The King James Bible was first published in ..................
Answer
A. 1611
75
Grimm's law states the
Answer
A. consonant shift
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