Expected Questions Series
The New Humanism school of philosophy and literary criticism was popular in America during: 1910-1930
What does “I” stand for in “To Carthage then I came”: St. Augustine (Eliot’s The Waste Land)
Estella is the daughter of? Joe Gargery, who also is guardian of Pips
Who coined the phrase “egotistical sublime”? Coleridge
The novel The Power And The Glory is set in? Mexico
The sub-title of Twelfth Night: What You Will
The line “The kelson of creation is love” occurs in Walt Whitman’s: Song of Myself
Who wrote the poem “The Defence of Lucknow?” Tennyson
A verse form using stanza of eight lines, each with eleven syllables, is known as? Ottavarima
The tale of two cities has: a romantic hero with a weakness
The character in The Tempest is referred to as an honest old counsellor: Ginzolo
July’s People (1981) is a novel by : Nadine Gordimer
Gudrun Bragwen is a character in a novel by : DH Lawrence (Women in Love)
Who is given the credit of using the term “romantic”: Freidrich Schlegal
“The Figure a Poem Makes” is an essay by Robert Frost
“Ripeness is all” occurs in: King Lear (Shakespeare)
A Dance of The Forest (1960) is written by: Wole Soyinka (at Nigeria’s independence)
The work by Swinburne which begins when the hounds of spring are on winters traces? Atalanta In Calydon
Sartor Resartus (1836) is a novel by: Thomas Carlyle
The character who is a supporter of women’s rights in Sons And Lovers? Mrs. Morel
In Sons And Lovers, Paul Morel’s mothers name is? Gertrude
The twins in Lord Of The Flies are? Sam and Eric (or Samneric)
The macabre element in drama was introduced by: Lyly
“For gold in physique is cordial/therefore, he loved gold in special” relates to: Chaucer’s Doctor
Who derided Hazlitt as one of the members of the cockney school of poetry? Eliot
Graham Greene’s novels are marked by? Catholicism
In Pride And Prejudice, Lydia elopes with? Wickham
The work by Ruskin which began as a defence of contemporary landscape artist especially turner? The Modem Painters
The second series of Essays Of Elia by Charles Lamb was published in? 1833
‘gestalt’ theory of literature considers text as: A unified whole
‘bliss was it in that dawn to be alive, but to be young was very heaven’: Wordsworth’s “French Revolution”
“Hymn to Adversity” is a poem by Thomas Gray
The first Canadian poet is: Charles Heavysege
Heroic quatrain is: four line stanza in iambic pentameter
A book that faithfully renders a young man’s confused images of love and rejection is: A Portrait of Artist as a Young Man
Swift’s Modest Proposal is written in the form of a : project in political economy social satire
Anti-sentimental comedy is a criticism of: Excess of emotion
Tennyson’s poem about women and women’s sphere is: The Princess
Which inns of court did John Donne join in 1592? Lincolns Inn
Who was Donne’s chief patron 1610 onwards? Sir Robert Drury
Who said about Donne, he affects the metaphysics, not only in his satires, but in his amorous verses, where nature only should reign; and perplexes the minds of the fair sex with nice speculations of philosophy, when he should engage their hearts, and entertain them with the softnesses of love? John Dryden
The title of the poem “The Second Coming” is taken from? The German mythology
One important feature of Jane Austen’s style is? Humour And Pathos
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