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Que. 1 : The last book of Gulliver's Travels is
A.
Voyage to Lilliput
B.
Voyage to Brobdingnag
C.
Voyage to Houyhnhnms
D.
Voyage to Laputa
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Que. 2 : Venus and Adonis is a long narrative poem by
A.
Edmund Spenser
B.
Sydney
C.
Dryden
D.
Shakespeare
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Que. 3 : In Chariotte Bronte's Jane Eyre, the mad woman in the attic is
A.
Blanche Ingram
B.
Celine Varens
C.
Bertha Mason
D.
Grace Poole
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Que. 4 : The author of Leviathan is
A.
Thomas Hobbes
B.
Jonathan Swift
C.
John Lyly
D.
Francis Bacon
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Que. 5 : To which kind of poetry does 'The Canterbury Tales' belong?
A.
Epic
B.
Dramatic
C.
Lyrical
D.
Narrative
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Que. 6 : Dr. Johnson's 'The Lives of the Poets' is an example of
A.
Psychoanalytical criticism
B.
Biographical criticism
C.
Historical criticism
D.
Archetypal criticism
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Que. 7 : A metre in which an unaccented syllable precedes the accented is called
A.
Dactylic
B.
Iambic
C.
Catalectic
D.
Anapaestic
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Que. 8 : Who of the following did the critic Hugh Walker Call 'The Prince among English Essayists'?
A.
Francis Bacon
B.
Joseph Addison
C.
Charles Lamb
D.
Oliver Goldsmith
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Que. 9 : The author of the short story "The Owl who was God" is
A.
George Orwell
B.
James Thurber
C.
Ernest Hemingway
D.
Oscar Wilde
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Que. 10 : "Saki" is the pen name of
A.
Somereset Maugham
B.
K.A. Abbas
C.
Wilkie Collins
D.
Hector Hugh Munro
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Que. 11 : _______ is known as the father of detective stories.
A.
Edgar Allen Poe
B.
Anton Chekov
C.
Arthur Conan Doyle
D.
Judith Wright
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Que. 12 : The author of "Beowulf" is
A.
Caedmon
B.
Cynewulf
C.
John Gower
D.
None of these
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Que. 13 : The pilgrims in the "Canterbury Tales" were going to
A.
Shrine of St. Agnes at Canterbury
B.
Shrine of St. Lucas of Jerusalem
C.
Shrine of St. Thomas at Canterbury
D.
Shrine of St. Mark in Southwark
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Que. 14 : In Langland's Piers the Plowman, Piers finally appears as
A.
King
B.
The Holy Trinity
C.
Jesus
D.
The Good Samaritan
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Que. 15 : The first tragedy written in English is
A.
Edward II
B.
Doctor Faustus
C.
The Jew of Malta
D.
Gorboduc
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Que. 16 : Reflection on the French Revolution is a work by
A.
Matthew Arnold
B.
Edmund Burke
C.
Wordsworth
D.
Edward King
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Que. 17 : _______ is a morality play revieved in the modern age.
A.
Everyman
B.
A Parting
C.
Abraham and Isaac
D.
Shepherd's Garland
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Que. 18 : Thomas Kyd was the founder of
A.
Romantic tragedy
B.
Romantic comedy
C.
Historic tragedy
D.
Restoration comedy
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Que. 19 : The lines "The lunatic, the lover and the poet/Are of imagination all compact" are spoken by
A.
Theseus
B.
Bottom
C.
Pyramus
D.
Thisbey
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Que. 20 : Falstaff is a character in Shakespeare's
A.
Henry I
B.
Measure for Measure
C.
Henry VIII
D.
Henry IV
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Que. 21 : The Fox is the sub-title of
A.
The Alchemist
B.
Volpone
C.
Everyman in His Humour
D.
None of these
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Que. 22 : The Jungle Book is a collection of ______ stories for children.
A.
Ghost stories
B.
Animal stories
C.
Horror stories
D.
Detective
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Que. 23 : The only novel written by Rudyard Kipling is
A.
Lord Jim
B.
The Jungle Book
C.
The Secret Agent
D.
Kim
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Que. 24 : The expression "Ancestral Voices Prophesying War" occurs in
A.
Christabel
B.
Rime of the Ancient Mariner
C.
Kubla Khan
D.
Frost at Midnight
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Que. 25 : The soul of tragedy, according to Aristotle is
A.
Character
B.
Plot
C.
Diction
D.
Spectacle
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Que. 26 : The correct chronological sequence of the following books is
A.
The Medal ; Astrea Redux; Annus Mirabilis; Absalom and Achitophel ; Absalom and Achitophel
B.
Astrea Redux ; Annus Mirabilis ; Absalom and Achitophal ; The Medal
C.
Annus Mirabilis ; Absalom and Achitophel ; The Medal ; Astrea Redux
D.
Astrea Redux ; Annus Mirabilis ; The Medal ; Absalom and Achitophel
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Que. 27 : 'Diction' means
A.
Severity of prose
B.
Devices of metre and rhyme
C.
Syntax and word order
D.
Poetic device
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Que. 28 : Arthur Miller's "The Death of a Salesman" is chiefly about
A.
American dream
B.
American imperialism
C.
American pragmaticism
D.
American transcendentalism
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Que. 29 : The figure of speech used in the expression "Murderous innocence of the sea" is
A.
Onomatopoeia
B.
Personification
C.
Oxymoron
D.
Simile
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Que. 30 : Mrs. Malaprop is a character in
A.
The Dolls House
B.
Pygmalion
C.
The Maid's Tragedy
D.
The Rivals
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Que. 31 : Samuel Butler's "Hudibras" is modelled upon
A.
Astrophel and Stella
B.
Don Quixote
C.
Pilgrims Progress
D.
Volpone
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Que. 32 : "Essays of Elia" are
A.
Political ideology
B.
Social criticism
C.
Personal impressions
D.
Literary criticism
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Que. 33 : 'Dream Play' is a famous work of
A.
Strindberg
B.
Zola
C.
A.C. Swinburne
D.
Amy Lowell
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Que. 34 : Who is not a member of the Bloomsbury Group?
A.
E.M. Forster
B.
Leonard Woolf
C.
Lytton Strachey
D.
G.B. Shaw
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Que. 35 : Who is the Pioneer of the Aesthetic Movement?
A.
Walter Pater
B.
John Henry Newman
C.
Stevenson
D.
Oscar Wilde
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Que. 36 : The Oxford Movement was fundamentally a movement for
A.
Social reform
B.
Religious reform
C.
Political reform
D.
Economic reform
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Que. 37 : The author of "Les Fleurs du mal" is
A.
Flaubert
B.
Mallarme
C.
Baudelaire
D.
Gautier
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Que. 38 : Which novel of Hardy portrays a girl 'Simple, Sensuous and Passionate' who never comes to terms with the world?
A.
The Return of the Native
B.
Tess of the D' Urbervilles
C.
The Mayor of Casterbridge
D.
The Woodlanders
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Que. 39 : Which of the following works by Stevenson illustrates the doubleness of man's nature?
A.
Treasure Island
B.
Kidnapped
C.
Weir of Hermiston
D.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
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Que. 40 : The novel 'The Man Who was Thursday' was written by
A.
Joseph Conrad
B.
G.K. Chesterton
C.
Rudyard Kipling
D.
H.G. Wells
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Que. 41 : In his novels of character, H.G. Wells portrays
A.
Lower middle class
B.
The Ari Mocratic class
C.
Lower Class
D.
The Capitalists
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Que. 42 : 'Weena' is a character in H.G. Wells' novel
A.
The Invisible Man
B.
The Wheels of Chance
C.
Kipps
D.
The Time Machine
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Que. 43 : Joseph Conrad's novels deal with the adventure and romance of
A.
Mountain life
B.
Sea life
C.
City life
D.
Social life
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Que. 44 : Walter de la Mare is a poet of
A.
the Georgian period
B.
the Romantic period
C.
the Victorian period
D.
the Edwardian period
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Que. 45 : In Shaw's play _______ a professor changes the life of a flower girl.
A.
Candida
B.
Widower's House
C.
The Apple Cart
D.
Pygmalion
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Que. 46 : Conrad's novel _______ is set in Tsarist Russia.
A.
Under Western Eyes
B.
Nostromo
C.
Almayer's Folly
D.
The Nigger of the Narcissus
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Que. 47 : In Shaw's St. Joan, Joan tries to free _____ from the English armies.
A.
Italy
B.
Austria
C.
France
D.
Germany
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Que. 48 : "Relations" is a poem by
A.
A.K. Ramanujan
B.
Sarojini Naidu
C.
Toru Dutt
D.
Nissim Ezekiel
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Que. 49 : The story in which Kamala Das .......... to a Lesbian relationship is
A.
Iqbal
B.
The Guest
C.
The Doll for the child prostitutes
D.
In love
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Que. 50 : The author of 'The Home and The World' is
A.
Manmohan Ghose
B.
Sri Aurobindo
C.
Rabindranath Tagore
D.
Mulk Raj Anand
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Que. 51 : In which of the following novels .......... incidents relating to the declaration of ..... emergency in India figure?
A.
Bombay Duck
B.
A Suitable Boy
C.
Such a Long Journey
D.
English, August : An Indian ....
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Que. 52 : "She is inspired but diabolically inspired". Who does this line refer to .......
A.
Candida
B.
Saint Joan
C.
Major Barbara
D.
Ann White Field
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Que. 53 : "American Dream" is the name of the character in Edward Albee's
A.
American Dream
B.
A Zoo Story
C.
The Death of Bessie Smith
D.
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf
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Que. 54 : "Anagnorisis" is a term used by Aristotle for describing
A.
the moment of discovery by the protagonist
B.
the reversal of fortune for the protagonist
C.
the crisis reaching its height
D.
the character giving vent to his emotions
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Que. 55 : Walt Whitman's "O Captain, My Captain" is an elegy on
A.
John F, Kennedy
B.
Abraham Lincoin
C.
Boswell
D.
His father
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Que. 56 : Who of the following is known for aphoristic prose style?
A.
William Hazlitt
B.
Charles Lamb
C.
G.K. Chesterton
D.
Francis Bacon
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Que. 57 : "Imagism" is associated with
A.
D.H. Lawrence
B.
Benedetio Croce
C.
T.S. Eliot
D.
T.E. Hulme
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Que. 58 : "Beyond Interpretation" is a famous essay by
A.
Jonathan Culler
B.
Walter Benjamin
C.
Terry Eagleton
D.
Barthes
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Que. 59 : An "Idyll" is usually a poem about a
A.
Picturesque city life
B.
Panoramic view of nature
C.
Picture of industrial society
D.
Picturesque country life
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Que. 60 : The term "stream of consciousness" in derived from the writing of
A.
Virginia Woolf
B.
William James
C.
Gertrude Stein
D.
D.H. Lawrence
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Que. 61 : The lines "Not that he wished is greatness to create/for politicians neither love nor hate" occur in
A.
Mac Flecknoe
B.
The Rape of the Lock
C.
Absalom and Achitophel
D.
Essay on Man
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Que. 62 : "Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting" is a line from
A.
Preludes
B.
Dejection : An Ode
C.
Immortality Ode
D.
Tintern Abbey
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Que. 63 : U.R. Ananthamurthy's novel Samskara was translated from Kannada into English by
A.
H.S. Shivaprakash
B.
A.K. Ramanujan
C.
G. Parthasarathi
D.
Shiv. K. Kumar
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Que. 64 : "Understanding Poetry" by Brooks and Warren encapsulates the principles of
A.
New Criticism
B.
New historicism
C.
Reader-response theory
D.
Marxist criticism
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Que. 65 : "Imagined Communities" is a concept propounded by
A.
Gayathri Spivak
B.
Ashish Nandy
C.
Benedict Anderson
D.
Walter Benjamin
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Que. 66 : Which of the following novels has the theme of freedom of Muslim Women?
A.
Sunlight on a Broken Column
B.
In Custody
C.
Dark Holds No Terror
D.
The Shadow Lines
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Que. 67 : The phrase, "Monuments of unageing intellect" occurs in Yeats'
A.
Byzantium
B.
Among school children
C.
Adam's Curse
D.
Sailing to Byzantium
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Que. 68 : Who among the following is a Canadian critic?
A.
Terry Eagleton
B.
F.R. Levis
C.
Northrop Frye
D.
Cleanth Brooks
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Que. 69 : "Ripeness is all" is a line from
A.
Macbeth
B.
Julius Ceasar
C.
Hamlet
D.
King Lear
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Que. 70 : The technique used in the line, "Something there is, that doesn't love a wall" is
A.
An epithet
B.
Inversion
C.
Litotes
D.
Neologism
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Que. 71 : "There is nothing outside the text" is an important aspect of
A.
Reader-response theory
B.
New criticism
C.
Deconstruction
D.
Structuralism
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Que. 72 : The letter 'A' at different points in "The Scarlet Letter" stands for the following ideas except
A.
Adultery
B.
Able
C.
Angel
D.
Appetite
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Que. 73 : John Crowe Ransom's "God without Thunder : An Unorthodox defence of Orthodoxy" is an attack on
A.
Politicalization of life
B.
Moral disintegration
C.
Science for destroying the old mystery of God
D.
Science for not bringing man ..... promised happiness
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Que. 74 : "Poetry sheds no tears 'such as Angles weep', but natural and human tears;" are lines by
A.
Wordsworth
B.
Shelley
C.
Coleridge
D.
Keats
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Que. 75 : Arnold was the first English critic to stress upon the necessity of
A.
Dialectical criticism
B.
Comparative criticism
C.
Functional criticism
D.
Classical criticism
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Que. 76 : In his major criticism D.H. Lawrence makes a distinction between
A.
Knowledge and power
B.
Sensitive mind and intellectual awareness
C.
Education and ignorance
D.
Intuition and the mind, instinct of the body and intellect of the mind
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Que. 77 : The phrase "dissociation of sensibility" was first used by Eliot in his
A.
Frontiers of criticism
B.
Tradition and individual talent
C.
Metaphysical poets
D.
Essay on Hamlet
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Que. 78 : "The Principles of Literacy Criticism" is a famous work of
A.
I.A. Richards
B.
Cleanth Brooks
C.
William Empson
D.
John Crowe Ransom
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Que. 79 : The pen name 'Alpha of the Plough' refers to the essayist
A.
W.M. Thackerey
B.
A.G. Gardiner
C.
E.V. Lucas
D.
Oliver Goldsmith
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Que. 80 : 'The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain : The Manifesto of the Harlem Renaissance' is a short essay by
A.
Larry Neal
B.
James Baldwin
C.
Alaine Locke
D.
Langston Hughes
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Que. 81 : Who of the following wrote "Eros and Civilization"?
A.
Jacquer Lacan
B.
Sigmund Freud
C.
Karl Jung
D.
Herbert Marcuse
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Que. 82 : What is the common factor in literature written by Commonwealth writers?
A.
Colonial experience and English Language
B.
Christianity
C.
British influence on Governance
D.
Superiority of English Language
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Que. 83 : "Marg" a reputed Indian journal of arts was edited by
A.
Raja Rao
B.
Mulk Raj Anand
C.
Bhabani Bhattacharya
D.
G. Parthasarathi
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Que. 84 : Which of the following novels by R.K. Narayan has a character called Susila?
A.
Mr. Sarmpath
B.
The Dark Rook
C.
The English Teacher
D.
Grand Mother's Tale
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Que. 85 : Which novel of Kamala Markandaya explores the evil and ugly nature of racial prejudice?
A.
Nectar in a sieve
B.
Possession
C.
Some inner fury
D.
The Nowhere Man
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Que. 86 : _______ is an untouchable in "The God of Small Things."
A.
Father Mulligan
B.
Velutha
C.
Esthappen
D.
Pappachi
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Que. 87 : "Lajja" is a well known work of
A.
Manju Kapur
B.
Kamala Das
C.
Taslima Nasreen
D.
Shashi Deshpande
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Que. 88 : Salman Rushdie's first novel is
A.
Shame
B.
Midnights Children
C.
Grimus
D.
The Satanic Versus
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Que. 89 : Ratan Rathor is a character in Arun Joshi's novel
A.
The Strange Case of Billy Biswas
B.
The Apprentice
C.
The Last Labyrinth
D.
The City and the River
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Que. 90 : The author of "The Great Indian Novel" is
A.
Amitar Gosh
B.
Humayun Kabir
C.
Upamanyu Chatterjee
D.
Shashi Tharoor
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Que. 91 : Ngugi in "Weep Not, Child" calls the Kenyan youth to
A.
Rebel
B.
Protest
C.
Build the nation
D.
Identify and understand the features of their heritage
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Que. 92 : The author of the paradoxical phrase - "To gain his freedom, the author must give up his freedom"
A.
Wole Soyinka
B.
Ngugi
C.
Chinua Achebe
D.
Nadine Gordimer
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Que. 93 : "Diaspora" means
A.
Exile
B.
Movement
C.
Going away from home
D.
The movement of people to a country away from their own
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Que. 94 : What is the chronological sequence of Chinua Achebe's African Triology?
A.
Things Fall Apart - No Longer at Ease - Arrow of God
B.
No Longer at Ease - Things Fall Apart - Arrow of God
C.
Arrow of God - Things Fall Apart - No Longer at Ease
D.
Things Fall Apart - Arrow of God - No Longer at Ease
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Que. 95 : "I am the enemy you killed, my friend/I knew you in this dark" are the lines from
A.
The Soldier
B.
Strange Meeting
C.
Ulysses
D.
To his dead body
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Que. 96 : Periphrasis, which is round about way of speech or writing is also known as
A.
Allusion
B.
Synecdoche
C.
Litotes
D.
Circumlocution
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Que. 97 : Who among the following writers belonged to the American Beat Movement?
A.
Charles Beard
B.
Isaac McCaslin
C.
Allen Ginsberg
D.
Thomas Paine
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Que. 98 : Which of the following is a Parody of Gothic novels?
A.
Frankestein
B.
Northanger Abbey
C.
Mysteries of Udolfo
D.
Jane Eyre
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Que. 99 : Verse that has no theme, no set theme, no regular metre, rhyme or stanzaic pattern is called
A.
Blank Verse
B.
Flexible Verse
C.
Heroic Verses
D.
Free Verse
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Que. 100 : The terms "resonance" and "wonder" are associated with
A.
Willium Empson
B.
Terence Hawkes
C.
Roland Barthes
D.
Stephen Greenblatt
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