💠 In Pinter's Birthday Party, Stanley is given a birthday present. What is it?
Ans. A drum
💠 How does Lord Jim end?
Ans. Jim is shot through chest by Doramin.
💠 "Where I lacked a political purpose, I wrote lifeless books.” To which author can we attribute the above admission?
Ans. George Orwell.
💠 Modernism has been described as being concerned with “disenchantment of our culture with culture itself” Who is the critic?
Ans. Lionel Trilling.
💠 “Only that film, which fluttered on the grate, still flutters there, the sole unquiet thing.” The above lines are quoted from:
Ans. Frost at Midnight”
💠 Which one of the following modern poems employ ottava rima?
Ans. Among School Children.
💠 John Dryden in his heroic tragedy All for Love takes the story of Shakespeare's:
Ans. Antony and Cleopatra.
💠 Samuel Pepys kept his diary from:
Ans. 1660 to 1669.
💠 In the Defence of Poetry, what did Sydney attribute to poetry?
Ans. A moral power whereby poetry encourages the reader to evaluate virtuous models.
💠 An Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot presents portrait which contemporary figures:
Ans. Addison and Lord Hervey.
💠 Name two plays by Shakespeare which uses ‘cross-dressing’ as a device?
Ans. As You Like It and Cymbeline.
💠 Name two works which can be categorised under postcolonial theory?
Ans. Nation and Narration and Orientalism and White Mythologies.
💠 Locke's Essay Concerning Human Understanding is a classic statement of which Philosophy?
Ans. Empiricist.
💠 Power circulates in all directions, to and from all social levels, at all times.” Who said this?
Ans. Michel Foucault.
💠 In the late 17th century, A Battle of Books erupted between which two groups?
Ans. Champions of Ancient and Modern Learning.
💠 Everything that man esteems Endures a moment or a day Love's pleasure drives his love away…” In the above quote, the last line is an example of:
Ans. Paradox.
💠 The phrase “dark satanic mills” has become the most famous description of the force at the centre of the industrial revolution. The phrase was used by:
Ans. William Blake.
💠 "Five miles meandering with a mazy motion through wood and dale, the scared river ran.” Where does this ‘sacred river’ directly run to?
Ans. The caverns measureless
💠 Who is the 20th century poet, a winner of the Nobel Prize for literature who rejected the label “British” though he has always written in English rather than his regional language?
Ans. Seamus Heaney.
💠 Sir. Thomas Browne's Religion Medici emphasizes on:
Ans. It emphasizes Browne's love of mystery and wonder.
💠 Which one of the following best describes the general feeling expressed in literature during the last decade of the Victorian era?
Ans. Studied melancholy and aestheticism.
💠 Which poem by Shelley bears the alternative title, “The Spirit of Solitude”?
Ans. Alastor.
💠 Which tale in The Canterbury Tales uses tradition of the Beast Fable?
Ans. The Nun's Priest's Tale
💠 At the end of Sons and Lovers, Paul Morel:
Ans. Sets off in quest of life away from his mother.
💠 When you say “I love her eyes, her hair, her nose, her cheeks, her lips,” you are using a rhetorical device of:
Ans. Enumeration
💠 Evelyn Waugh's Trilogy published together as Sword of Honour is about:
Ans. The English at War
💠 Who coined the phrase “The Two Nations” to describe the disparity in Britain between the rich and the poor?
Ans. Benjamin Disraeli
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