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M.A. ENGLISH LITERATURE

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 THE ENGLISH AND FOREIGN LANGUAGES UNIVERSITY
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ENTRANCE EXAMINATION - 2018
MA ENGLISH LITERATURE
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A Language Ability

1 Mark the correct answer (25x1)

i When I am in Hyderabad, I ………………………….at the Grand Nizam Hotel.

a. stay
b. halt
c. live
d. dwell

ii The two leaders ……………………………… several key issues.

a. discussed
b. discussed about
c. talked
d. argued

iii This plant is ……………………………… the Night Queen.

a. called
b. called as
c. dubbed
d. known

iv He ………………………………the CA Final exam several times but couldn‟t qualify.

a. gave
b. took
c. obtained
d. appeared

v The group …………………………several leading film personalities.

a. comprises
b. comprises of
c. consists
d. contains

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vi Which of the following sentences is correct?

a. They are celebrating their 25th wedding anniversary

b. They are celebrating their 25th marriage anniversary.

vii Which of the following sentences is correct?

a. There is very less milk in the glass.

b. There is very little milk in the glass.

viii Mark the correct sentence in the pair below:

a. I have been working here since many years.

b. I have been working here for many years.

ix Mark the correct sentence in the pair below:

a. I am having a motorbike
b. I have a motorbike.

x Which of the following pair of sentences is correct?

a. I will do my homework now only.

b. I will do my homework right now.

Choose the appropriate preposition from the following to fill in the blanks and complete the
sentences below
a. in
b. on
c. above
d. by
e. of

xi Ooty is about 2250 metres ......................sea level.

xii There is a supermarket …………………….the corner.

xiii My flight is at 6 o‟clock; it‟s usually …………………….time.

xiv Mr Singh ………..SR Technologies would like an appointment for tomorrow.

xv There isn‟t much traffic on this road, so we should reach there …………..seven.

Choose the appropriate option from the following to fill in the blanks with the correct phrasal
verbs.

a. up

b. down

c. out

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d. into

xvi Ravi hates politics; he walks out of the room whenever his friends
bring…………..politics.

xvii Someone broke………..their house and stole ten thousand rupees and some jewellery.

xviii When he was informed of his grandfather‟s death, Raghu broke …………….

xix Guests must check………….of the hotel by 12 noon.

Choose the meaning of the words from the list of choices below each word.

xx „Fatigue‟

a. Confusion
b. Tiredness
c. Thoughtfulness
d. Laziness

xxi “Complement”

a. to add to something so as to improve it

b. to praise someone
c. to bear someone
d. to remove something

xxii “Flaunt”

a. to display something proudly and showily

b. to express oneself
c. to disregard a rule
d. to pretend to be in love with someone

xxiii „Mitigate‟

a. acting against someone in power

b. making something less severe
c. to convince
d. to file a case against someone in a court of law

xxiv `Proscribe`

a. to authorise the use of a book or a course of medicine

b. to officially refuse permission to something
c. to take a professional writer‟s help
d. to authorize

xxv “Disinterested”

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 a. impartial
b. uninterested
c. Bored
d. keen

B Literary Quiz

2 Mark the correct answer (25 x1)

i “With will will we withstand, withsay..” is an example of

a. Alliteration
b. Eye Rhyme
c. Assonance
d. Dissonance

ii “The expense of spirit in a waste of shame / Is lust in action;" The word `waste` is an
example of

a. Pun
b. Simile
c. Metonymy
d. Metaphor

iii “Where wealth accumulates, men decay" is an example of

a. Alliteration
b. Antithesis
c. Understatement
d. Personification

iv There was considerable collateral damage during the First Gulf War. “collateral damage”
is an example of:

a. Hyperbole
b. Euphemism
c. Apostrophe
d. Understatement

v “Money will buy a fine dog but only kindness will make him wag his tail” is an

a. Aphorism
b. Epithet
c. Dogberryism
d. Malapropism

Vi “You have a sweet ride there!” “Sweet ride” is an example of

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 a. Metaphor
b. Synecdoche
c. Irony
d. Metonymy

vii “Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,

And summer‟s lease hath all too short a date.”
These lines are in:
a. Iambic pentameter
b. Dactylic pentameter
c. Trochaic tetrameter
d. Iambic tetrameter

viii “Oh, great! I have spilled tomato sauce on my expensive white shirt!” is an example of
a. Allegory
b. Irony
c. Analogy
d. Connotation

ix The allegations against the Mayor may not have been proven. But he must resign and get
re- elected. Caesar‟s wife must be above suspicion”. The underlined sentence is an
example of:

a. Allusion
b. Allegory
c. Anecdote
d. Emblem

x The Jabberwock, with eyes of flame,

Came whiffling through the tulgey wood,
And burbled as it came!
“Whiffling” and “burbled‟ are examples of
a. Alliteration
b. Onomatopoeia
c. Euphony
d. Poesy

xi “…the voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses” is an example of

a. Catachresis
b. Neologism
c. Parallelism
d. Truism

xii "I'll love you, dear, I'll love you / Till China and Africa meet, / And the river jumps over
the mountain / And the salmon sing in the street." This is an example of

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 a. Personification
b. Hyperbole
c. Coda
d. Internal Rhyme

xiii O, for a draught of vintage! that hath been

Cool'd a long age in the deep-delved earth,
Tasting of Flora and the country green,
Dance, and Provençal song, and sunburnt mirth!
These lines are a good example of:
a. Sarcasm
b. Synaesthesia
c. Inversion
d. Mixed metaphor

xiv “If a person has ugly thoughts, it begins to show on the face. And when that person has
ugly
thoughts every day, every week, every year, the face gets uglier and uglier until you can
hardly
bear to look at it.” The writer of these sentences has used a device called:
a. Amplification
b. Anagram
c. Analogy
d. Liotes

xv “To hit the nail on the head and put it in a nutshell,…” A famous humourist uses this
utterance to
make his readers laugh at:
a. Clichés
b. Idioms
c. Phrases
d. Ungrammatical English

xvi “If Winter comes can Spring be far behind?” In this line, Winter and Spring are:
a. Symbols
b. Metaphors
c. Similes
d. Paradox

xvii “As one great furnace flamed, yet from those flames
No light, but rather darkness visible”
“Darkness visible” is an example of
a. Anacoluthon
b. Oxymoron

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 c. Asyndeton
d. Asymmetry

xviii “Having one wife is called monotony.” In this sentence, `monotony` is wrongly
substituted for the more appropriate `monogamy`. This is an instance of:
a. Malapropism
b. Spoonerism
c. Antithesis
d. Eggcorn

xix “The Eyes around – had wrung them dry –

And Breaths were gathering firm”
The major trope in these two lines is:
a. Synecdoche
b. Metonymy
c. Intrusion
d. Simile

xx Let me not to the marriage of true minds

Admit impediments. Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove.
“Love” and “remove” of the second and fourth line is an instance of
a. Internal Rhyme
b. Assonance
c. Denotation
d. Eye Rhyme

xxi One tender Sigh of hers to see me languish,

Will more than pay the price of my past anguish:”
These lines form a
a. Closed Couplet
b. Split Couplet
c. Heroic Couplet
d. Non-Rhyming Couplet

xxii “She floats like a laugh from the lips of a dream.” The poetic devices used in this line
are:
a. Metaphor and Personification
b. Simile and Personification
c. Euphony and Foil
d. Metaphor and Symbolism

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xxiii “ The long day wanes: the slow moon climbs: the deep
Moans round with many voices.”
The prominent literary device in these lines is:
a. Analogy
b. Anthropomorphism
c. Consonance
d. Personification

xxiv “Not louder shrieks to pitying Heav'n are cast,

When husbands or when lap-dogs breathe their last,”
The literary device used to underscore the sarcasm in these lines is:
a. Juxtaposition
b. Paradox
c. Nemesis
d. Parallelism
xxv Whitecaps on the bay:
A broken signboard banging
In the April wind.
This short, impressionistic poem is called
a. Haiku
b. Concrete Poem
c. Kigo
d. Tanka

C Domain Knowledge
3 Mark the correct answer (50 x1)

i The Nobel Prize in Literature 2016 was awarded to

a. Michael Jackson
b. Bob Dylan
c. Alice Munro
c. John Denver

ii Tam o’ Shanter is a narrative poem written by

a. Geoffrey Chaucer
b. Robert Burns
c. W. B. Yeats
d. Seamus Heaney

iii Sir Thomas Wyatt and Henry Howard, The Earl of Surrey are known for their translation
of
a. Petrarch‟s Sonnet
b. Aristotle‟s Poetics
c. The Tale of Genji
d. The Arabian Nights

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iv……………………… is a formal type of poetry that expresses personal emotions or
feelings, typically spoken in the first person, popular during the Elizabethan period.
a. Ode
b. Lyric
c. Sonnet
d. Epic

v The Spanish Tragedy is a play written by

a. William Shakespeare
b. Christopher Marlowe
c. Thomas Kyd
d. Eugene Ionesco

vi The first printed anthology of English poetry is called

a. Tottel’s Miscellany
b. The Golden Treasury
c. Songs and Sonnets
d. Poetry and Silence

vii “Was this the face that launched a thousand ships.

And burnt the topless towers of Ilium?”
These famous lines are from the play
a. Dr Faustus
b. Antony and Cleopatra
c. The Jew of Malta
d. All for Love

viii Christopher Marlowe, Robert Greene, Thomas Nashe, John Lyly, Thomas Lodge, and
George Peele were called
a. Historians of Wessex
b. University Wits
c. Renaissance Rakes
d. Restoration playwrights

ix ……………..plays are attributed to William Shakespeare.

a. 38
b. 36
c. 42
d. 37

x An alphabetical list of the principal words used in a book or body of work, listing every
instance of each word with its immediate context is called a
a. Concordance
b. Companion

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 c. Handbook
d. Dictionary

xi Dr Johnson‟s great work, Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, to the Works of the English
Poets is popularly known as
a. Eminent Elizabethans
b. The Lives of the English Poets
c. Biographia Literaria
d. Cyclopedia

xii Sir Roger de Coverley is a fictional character created by

a. Joseph Addison
b. Richard Steele
c. William Lamb
d. Jonathan Swift

xiii Mac Flecknoe is one of the best examples of the

a. Anti-heroic
b. Mock-heroic
c. Farce
d. Mini-epic
xiv An Essay on Man is a poem by
a. Alexander Pope
b. John Dryden
c. Thomas Gray
d. Dr Samuel Johnson

xv The rake is a stock figure in

a. Restoration Comedy
b. Renaissance Tragedy
c. Revenge Tragedy
d. 18th Century satirical poetry

xvi Lilliput and Brobdingnag are imaginary lands created by

a. Daniel Defoe
b. Jonathan Swift
c. John Gay
d. Daniel Defoe

xvii Pamela and Clarissa are famous epistolary novels written by

a. Samuel Pepys
b. Henry Fielding
c. Samuel Richardson
d. Samuel Johnson

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xviii The Rise of the Novel, a famous historical account of the English novel, was written by
a. Forster
b. Ian watt
c. RH Tawney
d. MH Abrams

xix Preface to Lyrical Ballads, a document central to the Romantic revolt against the neo-
classicism
of the mid-eighteenth century English poetry, was written by
a. PB Shelley
b. William Blake
c. William Wordsworth

xx Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience, which depict the two contrary sates of the
soul, were composed by
a. William Blake
b. ST Coleridge
c. Shelley
d. William Wordsworth

xxi “Ten thousand saw I at a glance,

tossing their heads in sprightly dance.”
The things these Wordsworth lines refer to are
a. Daffodils
b. Corn plants
c. Rose
d. Tulips
xxii That thou, light-winged Dryad of the trees
…………………………………………………………….
Singest of summer in full-throated ease.
The `light winged Dryad` of these lines is the
a. Nightingale
b. Wind
c. Albatross
d. Skylark

xxiii“ Like a Sea-beast crawled forth, that on a shelf

Of rock or sand reposeth, there to sun itself;
Such seemed this Man, not all alive nor dead,”
Who is the man these famous lines refer to?
a. The Ancient Mariner
b. The Leech-Gatherer
c. Lucy
d. Michael

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xxiv A Vision in a Dream: A Fragment is the subtitle of which famous poem by ST
Coleridge?
a. Christabel
b. The Ancient Mariner
c. Dejection: An Ode
d. Kubla Khan

xxv “A Dissertation upon Roast Pig” is a famous humorous essay by

a. Charles Lamb
b. Mary Lamb
c. G. K. Chesterton
d. William Hazlitt

xxvi Leaves of Grass is a collection of poems by the American poet

a. RW Emerson
b. Walt Whitman
c. Herman Melville
d. EA Poe

xxvii Walden is a famous memoir of

a. HD Thoreau
b. Theodore Roethke
c. James Baldwin
d. Richard Wright

xxviii Which of the Dickens novels is pervaded by the post-Industrial Revolution

pessimism?
a. Great Expectations
b. Bleak House
c. Hard Times
d. A Christmas Carol

xxix The Castle of Otranto is an example of

a. Gothic Fiction
b. Realism
c. Dystopian Novel
d. Picaresque Novel

xxx “It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune
must be in want of a wife.” This famous opening line is from the novel
a. Pride and Prejudice
b. Jane Eyre
c. Dombey and Son
Wuthering Heights
xxxi Tom and Maggie Tulliver are characters from George Eliot‟s classic
a. Middle March
b. Felix Holt
c. Adam Bede
d. The Mill on the Floss

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xxxii Wide Sargasso Sea was written as a response to which famous Victorian novel?
a. Wuthering Heights
b. Jane Eyre
c. Great Expectations
d. Emma

xxxiii Which of these is Jane Austen‟s parody of Gothic fiction?

a. Northanger Abbey
b. Mansfield Park
c. Pride and Prejudice
d. Sense and Sensibility

xxxiv The Mayor of Casterbridge, Jude the Obscure, Tess of the d'Urbervilles are famous
novels
written by
a. Thomas Hardy
b. Elizabeth Gaskell
c. James Joyce
d. Virginia Woolf

xxxv About which of his famous novels does DH Lawrence say “..[I]t is the tragedy of
thousands of young men in England”?
a. Sons and Lovers
b. Lady Chatterley’s Lover
c. The Rainbow
d. The Plumed Serpent

xxxvi Saturday Night and Sunday Morning is the debut novel of

a. William Faulkner
b. Alan Sillitoe
c. Jack London
d. Stephen King

xxxvii Dante Gabriel Rossetti is known as

a. a minor metaphysical
b. a Pre-Raphaelite poet
c. a realist poet
d. an Imagist poet

xxxviii Four Quartets is the masterpiece of

a. Ezra Pound
b. T S Eliot
c. William Carlos Williams
d. Wallace Stevens

xxxix Which famous poet co-founded the Abbey Theatre?

a. W.B. Yeats
b. Robert Browning
c. Emily Dickinson

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 d. George Russell

xl The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings are the novels of
a. JRR Tolkien
b. CS Lewis
c. JK Rowling
d. Suzanne Collins

xli “Objective Correlative‟ is a literary critical term attributed to

a. T S Eliot
b. Jacques Derrida
c. Paul de Man
d. Walter Benjamin

xlii The Morphology of the Tale is the work of the Russian critic
a. Vladimir Propp
b. Mikhail Bakhtin
c. V Belinsky
d. Dostoevsky

xliii “The Intentional Fallacy” is a famous essay by

a. William K Wimsatt and Monroe Beardsley
b. T S Eliot and Cleanth Brooks
c. Walter Knapp
d. Terry Eagleton

xliv The three unities Aristotle proposes in his discussion of drama are
a. Time, Place and Character
b. Time, Place, and Action
c. Place, Action and Plot
d. Music, Sound and Silence

xlv Slaughterhouse-Five is a satirical novel by

a. Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
b. Philip K Dick
c. Aldous Huxley
d. Bertrand Russell

xlvi Ant Hills of the Savannah is a novel by

a. Chinua Achebe
b. Wole Soyinka
c. NgũgĩwaThiong'o
d. Derek Walcott

Xlvii Bakha is a character from which Mulk Raj Anand novel?

a. Coolie
b. Untouchable
c. The School
d. The Village

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xlviii Which of the following novels of Salman Rushdie was banned in India?
a. The Satanic Verses
b. Shame
c. Midnight’s Children
d. The Moor’s Last Sigh

xlix Sea of Poppies is the 2008 novel of

a. Jhumpa Lahiri
b. Amitav Gosh
c. Chetan Baghat
d. Upamanyu Chatterjee

l Alejo Carpentier‟s novels contributed to which major trend in contemporary fiction?

a. Realism
b. Surrealism
c. Magical Realism
d. Dada

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