Past Papers (Excercise 2)

Which of the following book by V.S. Naipaul is subtitled The Caribbean Revisited?

‘Fluency’ in language is the same as:

Which of the following statements on Pathetic-Fallacy is NOT TRUE?

Identify the correctly matched group:

List – I                                                                                                     List – II

(i) ‘L’ Allegro and ‘Il Pensoro so’                                                       1. Pastoral elegy

(ii) ‘Lycidas’                                                                                          2. Masque

(iii) Comus                                                                                            3. Sonnet

(iv) ‘On His Blindness’                                                                        4. Prose tract

(v) Areopagitica                                                                                  5. Companion                                                                                                                         poems in octo-                                                                                                                   syllabiccouplets                                                                                                                    Codes:

The Pre-Raphaelite brotherhood – The University Wits – The Rhymers’ Club – The Transitional Poets – The Scottish Chaucerians. The right chronological sequence would be

‘Aucitya’ refers to:

I. Decorum                                                   II. Propriety

III. Proportion                                            IV. Accuracy

In the closing paragraph of The Trial two men accompany Joseph K to a part of the city to eventually execute him. The place is

Match List – I with List – II according to the code given below:

List – I (Character)                                                      List – II (Work)

(i) Telemachus                                                           1. Notes from underground     

(ii) Anya                                                                      2. Old Goriot

(iii) Zverkov                                                                3. The Cherry Orchard

(iv) Rastignac                                                             4. The Odyssey Codes:  

This renowned German poet was born in Prague and died of Leukaemia. When young he met Tolstoy and was influenced by him. The titles of his last two works contain the words “sonnets” and “elegies”. He is

Which of the following plays gained notoriety for its caricature of the philosopher Socrates?

Raskolnikov murders the old lady:

I. to achieve his political goal as an extremist and a nihilist

II. to get her money and achieve his ambition in life.

III. to prove his superiority over other young men of the time.

IV.  All of the above

Find the correct combination according to the code:

In his preface to The Order of Things, Foucault mentions being influenced by a Latin American writer and his work. Choose the correct answer:

Here is a list of Partition novels which have ‘violence on the woman’s body’ as a significant theme. Pick the odd one out:

The novelist Ahmed Ali was born in:

In his poem “A Morning Walk” Nissim Ezekiel talks about a Barbaric City sick with slums / Deprived of seasons, blessed with rains/Its hawkers, beggars, ironlunged/ Processions led by frantic drums. Identify the city:

In Practical Criticism I.A. Richards links four kinds of meanings in most human utterances to four aspects. These are

In ‘Christabel’ after Geraldine enters Sir Leoline’s castle on her way to Christabel’s chamber there are several ill omens which warn the reader about Geraldine. Pick out the phrase which does not serve as an omen:

The word resurrect is

Match List – I with List – II according to the code given below:

List – I                                                              List – II

(i) Annie John                                                1. Picaresque

(ii) Tom Jones                                                2. Bildungsroman

(iii) The Sorrows of Young                           3. Gothic Werther

(iv) Vathek                                                      4. Epistolary Codes:

Ted Hughes’s poem ‘The Thought-Fox’ is