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Which one of the following (author-book) pairs is correctly matched?

  1. Elfride Jelinek - The Pianist

  2. J.M. Coetzee- Shame

  3. Saul Bellow - Herzog

  4. Salman Rushdie - Disgrace


Correct Option: C

Which of the following is written by Samuel Beckett?

  1. Volpone

  2. Mother Courage and Her Children

  3. A Doll's House

  4. Endgame


Correct Option: D

Which novel has a nameless narrator?

  1. Moby Dick

  2. Anna Karenina

  3. Invisible Man

  4. The Grapes of Wrath


Correct Option: C

Willy Loman is a character in

  1. Waiting for Godot

  2. A Doll's House

  3. The Cherry Orchard

  4. The Death of a Salesman


Correct Option: D

The Plough and the 'Stars,' is written by

  1. G.B. Shaw

  2. Sean O'Casey

  3. Lady Gregory

  4. J.M. Synge


Correct Option: B

Who of the following is not a periodical essayist?

  1. Richard Steele

  2. Lancelot Andrews

  3. Joseph Addison

  4. Jonathan Swift


Correct Option: D

John Evellyn and Samuel Pepys were the famous writers of

  1. editorials

  2. letters

  3. essays

  4. diaries


Correct Option: D

“Did he who made the Lamb made thee” appears in

  1. 'Introduction'

  2. 'The Tyger'

  3. 'Chimney Sweeper'

  4. 'London'


Correct Option: C

'Peripeteia' means

  1. tragic flaw

  2. recognition of error

  3. purgation of emotion

  4. reversal of fortune


Correct Option: D

Which of the following (thinker - concept) pairs is rightly matched?

  1. I.A. Richards - Archetypal criticism

  2. Northrop Frye-Practical criticism

  3. Jacqes Devide - New Historicism

  4. Stanley Fish - Reader Response


Correct Option: D

Which of the following (thinker - concept) pairs is rightly matched?

  1. Mamata - Vakrokti

  2. Abhinava Gupta- Kavya Alankar

  3. Bharata - Natya Shastra

  4. Vaman - Dhwanyaloka


Correct Option: C

“Essays of Eila” are

  1. economic disparities

  2. literary criticisms

  3. political ideologies

  4. personal impressions


Correct Option: D

Choose the correct sequence of the following schools of criticism.

  1. Deconstruction, New Criticism, Structuralism, Reader Response

  2. Reader Response, Deconstruction, Structuralism, New Criticism

  3. New Criticism, Structuralism, Deconstruction, Reader Response

  4. Structuralism, New Criticism, Deconstruction, Reader Response


Correct Option: B

'Gynocriticism' focuses on

  1. criticism of male writers by women writers

  2. criticism on women

  3. criticism by women

  4. women as writers


Correct Option: D

The narrative of Raja Rao's Kanthapura is based on

  1. the Ramayana

  2. the Mahabharata

  3. the Puranas

  4. the Shastras


Correct Option: C

Samuel Butler's 'Hudibras' is modeled upon

  1. Don Quixote

  2. Endymion

  3. Annus Mirabilis

  4. Pilgrim's Progress


Correct Option: A

Who was the last of the Christian Humanist?

  1. John Bunyan

  2. Oliver Cromwell

  3. John Milton

  4. Richard Crashaw


Correct Option: A

Who wrote 'A tiger does not proclaim its tigretude'?

  1. Derek Walcott

  2. Soyinka

  3. Achebe

  4. Ngugi


Correct Option: C

Which of the following (author - book) pairs is correctly matched?

  1. Arundhati Roy - Algebra of Infinite Justice

  2. Shashi Tharoor - Trotter's Name

  3. C.L.R. James - The English Patient

  4. David Madouf - The Cityof Djins


Correct Option: A

Jindiworobak Movement relates to the

  1. Caribbean literature

  2. Canadian literature

  3. Australian literature

  4. New Zealand literature


Correct Option: A

The Montreal group of poets championed the cause of

  1. modernist poetry

  2. imagist poetry

  3. symbolist poetry

  4. nature poetry


Correct Option: A

The figure of the 'Abyssinian Maid' appears in

  1. Kubla Khan

  2. Frost at Midnight

  3. Dejection : an Ode

  4. Christabel


Correct Option: A

Who among the following is a writer of historical romances?

  1. Walter Savage

  2. Walter Scott

  3. Jane Austen

  4. Emily Bronte


Correct Option: B

Coleridge's statement that imagination “dissolves, diffuses, dissipates in order to recreate” relates to

  1. secondary imagination

  2. esemplastic imagination

  3. fancy

  4. primary imagination


Correct Option: D
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