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 CONTENTS
● Periods of English Literature
● The English Sovereigns
● Previous Years’ Solved Papers
Chapter 1 : From Chaucer to Shakespeare 3–52
— Some Important Years with Social, Political and Literary Events ……………… 3
— Major Literary Figures and their Works ………………………………………… 3
— The Age of Chaucer …………………………………………………………….. 6
— Main Poetical Works of Chaucer ……………………………..………………… 7
— Chaucer as the Father of English Poetry………………………………………… 10
— Chaucer’s Contribution to English Language and Versification ………..……… 11
— Chaucer’s place in English Literature………………………………………………… 12
— Development of Poetry in the Age of Chaucer ………………………………… 13
— The Fifteenth Century : A Barren Period (1400–1515) ………………………… 20
— The Age of Shakespeare (1516–1600) ………………………………………… 21
— Sir Thomas Wyatt and Henery Howard, Earl of Survey (1516–47) ……….…… 24
— Spenser’s Faierie Queen as an Epic ………………………………………..…… 25
— Songs and Lyrics in Shakespeare’s Age …………………………………..…… 26
— Sonnets and Sonneteers ………………………………………………………… 27
— The University Wits ………………………………………………………..…… 30
— Shakespeare’s Life (1564–1616) ……………………………………..………… 32
— The Elizabethan Theatre …………………………...…………………………… 32
— Multiple Choice Type Questions (Set 1–7) ………………………………..…… 32–52
Chapter 2 : From Jacobean to Restoration 53–92
— Some Important Years with Social, Political and Literary Events ……………… 53
— Major Literary Figures and their Works ………………………………………… 53
— The Contribution of the post-Shakespearean Dramatists of
the Jacobean Period ………………………………………………………..…… 56
— The Puritan Age : Social Background ……………………………………..…… 64
— Restoration Literature …………………………………………………………… 66
— Restoration Comedy ………………………………………………………..…… 66
— Literary Background ……………………………………………………….…… 67
— The Age of French Influence …………………………………………………… 70
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— Eminent Writers of the Comedy of Manners …………………………………… 76

— Multiple Choice Type Questions (Set 1–5)……………………………………… 77–92
Chapter 3 : Augustan Age : The 18th Century Literature 93–129
— Some Important Years with Social, Political and Literary Events ……………… 93
— Major Literary Figures and their Works ………………………………………… 93
— Augustan Age …………………………………………………………………… 96
— Minor Poets of the Revival ……………………………………………………… 99
— The First English Novelists ……………………………………...……………… 102
— Daniel Defore (1661–1731) ……………………………………..……………… 104
— Samuel Richardson (1689–1761) ………………………………..……………… 107
— Henry Fielding (1707–1754) …………………………………………………… 108
— Multiple Choice Type Questions (Set 1–7)……………………………………… 109–129
Chapter 4 : Romantic Period (1798–1832) 130–167
— Some Important Years with Social, Political and Literary Events ……………… 130
— Major Literary Figures and their Works ………………………………………… 130
— Romantic Period ………………………………………………………………… 132
— The Poets of Romanticism
* William Wordsworth (1770–1850) ………………………………………… 137
* Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834) ……………………………….…… 140
* Robert Southey (1774–1843) ……………………………………………… 141
* Walter Scott (1771–1832) ………………………………….……………… 142
* George Gordon, Lord Byron (1788–1824) ………………………………… 143
* Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822) ………………………………………… 145
* John Keats (1795–1821) …………………………………………………… 146
— Prose Writers of the Romantic Period
* Charles Lamb (1775–1834) ………………………………………………… 149
* Thomas De Quincey (1785–1859) …………………….…………………… 150
* Walter Savage Lander (1775–1864) …………………..…………………… 152
— Women Novelists of the Romantic Age …………….…………………… 153
* Jane Austen (1775–1817) as a Novelist……………………………………… 153
— Multiple Choice Type Questions (Set 1–4)……………………………………… 155–167
Chapter 5 : Victorian Period (1837–1901) 168–192
— Some Important Years with Social, Political and Literary Events ……………… 168
— Major Writers and their Works …………………………………………………. 168
— Literary Tendencies of the Victorian Age ……………………………………… 174
— Literary Characteristics …………………………………….…………………… 176
— Multiple Choice Type Questions (Set 1–5) ………………..…………………… 177–192
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Chapter 6 : Modern and Contemporary Period (1901 onwards) 193–239

— Some Important Years with Social, Political and Literary Events ……………… 193
— Major Literary Figures and their Works (1880 onwards) ….…………………… 193
— Some Other Important Works…………………………………………………… 198
— Trends in the Modern Novel …………………………………………………… 202
— Trends in Modern Drama ………………………………….…………………… 204
— Trends in Modern Literary Criticism …………………………………………… 205
— Modern Poetry ……………………………………………..…………………… 206
— Modern Novel …………………………………………………………………… 216
— Twentieth Century Drama ……………………………………………………… 222
— Multiple Choice Type Questions (Set 1–4)……………………………………… 225–239
Chapter 7 : American Literature 240–270
— Major Writers and their Works …………………………………………………. 240
— American Literature ………………………………………..…………………… 241
— Nineteenth Century American Literature ……………………………………… 242
— American Literature in the Twentieth Century ………….……………………… 252
— Multiple Choice Type Questions (Set 1–2)……………………………………… 261–270
Chapter 8 : Indo-Anglican Literature 271–319
— Major Literary Figures and their Works ………………………………………… 271
— Indian English Literature ………………………………………………..……… 272
— The Era of Political Awakening (1901–1947) ………………………..………… 275
— The Development of Poetry …………………………………………..………… 276
— Rabindra Nath Tagore (1861–1941) ………………………………….………… 277
— Sarojini Naidu (1879–1948) …………………………………………..………… 278
— Sri Aurobindo (1872–1950) …………………………………………..………… 280
— Harindra Nath Chattopadhyaya ………………………………………………… 283
— Other Poets ……………………………………………………………………… 283
— Eminent Poets of the Seventies and Eighties……………………………………… 288
— Indian English Poetry from 1990–2005 ………………………………………… 291
— The Pioneers of Prose (1820–1900) ………………………..…………………… 294
— Towards the Dawn (1901–1947)………………………………………………… 295
— The Era of Independence …………………………………………..…………… 298
— Some Contemporary Writers …………………………………………………… 300
— The Era of Awakening or Freedom Struggle……………………………………… 301
— The Dawn of Independence ………………………………………..…………… 303
— Women Novelists …………………………………………………..…………… 308
— Multiple Choice Type Questions …………………………………...…………... 310–319
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Chapter 9 : Other Non-British Literature 320–332

— Commonwealth Literature ……………………………………………………… 321
— Canadian Literature ………………………………………...…………………… 321
— Australian Literature ……………………………………….…………………… 324
— African Literature ………………………………………….…………………… 326
— New Zealand Literature …………………………………….…………………… 328
— Multiple Choice Type Questions …………………………..…………………… 329–332
Chapter 10 : Literary Theory and Criticism 333–374
— Greek and Roman Critics and their Works ……………………………………… 333
— Major English Critics and their Works …………………………………………. 333
— Plato (427 B.C.–347 B.C.) ……………………………………………………… 334
— Aristotle (384 B.C.–322 B.C.) …………………………..……………………… 335
— Longinus, ‘‘The First Romantic Critic’’………………………………………… 338
— On the Sublime : An Analysis …………………………..……………………… 338
— Dante (1265–1321) ……………………………………………………………… 340
— The Renaissance Criticism in England ………………………………………… 341
— Neo-classicism in English Literary Criticism ………………………..………… 342
— The Romantic Criticism ………………………………………………………… 347
— Victorian Criticism ……………………………………………………………… 350
— Metthew Arnold ………………………………...………….…………………… 351
— Modern Criticism …………………………………………..…………………… 353
— Contemporary Criticism ………………………………………………………… 357
— Structuralism and Post-structuralism …………………………………………… 359
— Feminist Criticism ……………………………………………………………… 360
— Multiple Choice Type Questions ……………………………………………….. 361–374
Chapter 11 : Rhetoric and Prosody 375–391
— Important Terms ………………………………………………………………… 375
— Rhetoric …………………………………………………….…………………… 378
— Prosody ……………………………………………………..…………………… 379
— Multiple Choice Type Questions ……………………………………………….. 380–391
 Syllabus
Paper–II Unit–IV
Paper–II will cover 50 Objective Type Augustan Age : 18th Century Literature
Questions (Multiple Choice, Matching Type, Unit–V
True/False, Assertion–Reasoning Type) carrying Romantic Period
100 marks. Unit–VI
11. Chaucer to Shakespeare Victorian and Pre-Raphaelites
12. Jacobean to Restoration Periods Unit–VII
13. Augustan Age : 18th Century Literature Modern British Literature
14. Romantic Period Unit–VIII
15. Victorian Period Contemporary British Literature
16. Modern Period Unit–IX
17. Contemporary Period Literary Theory and Criticism upto T.S. Eliot
18. American and Other Non-British Litera- Unit–X
tures Contemporary Theory
19. Literary Theory and Criticism Paper–III (B)
10. Rhetoric and Prosody [Elective/Optional]
Elective–I
Paper–III (A)
History of English Language, English
[Core Group] Language Teaching
1. British Literature from Chaucer to the Elective–II
present day European Literature from Classical Age to the
2. Criticism and Literature Theory 20th Century
Unit–I Elective–III
Literary Comprehension (with internal choice Indian writing in English and Indian
of poetry stanza and prose passage). Literature in English translation
Elective–IV
Unit–II
American and Other Non-British English
Upto the Renaissance Literatures
Unit–III Elective–V
Jacobean to Restoration Periods Literature Theory and Criticism
 Periods of English Literature
1450—1066 Old English or Anglo Saxon Period 1740—1800 Transition Age, The Age of Johnson
1066—1500 Middle English Period 1798—1837 The Romantic Period
1500—1600 The Renaissance Period 1837—1903 The Victorian Period
1521—1603 Reformation 1848—1860 The Pre-Raphaelites
1558—1603 Elizabethan Age 1890—1914 Aesthetic Movement
1603—1625 Jacobean Age 1912—1914 Imagist Movement
1625—1649 Caroline Period 1910—1936 The Georgian Period
1625—1660 Commonwealth, Puritanism Age 1901—1945 The Modern Period
1660—1700 The Restoration Period 1914—1918 War Poetry
1700—1740 Neo-Classical Age 1945……… The Post Modern Period

The English Sovereigns

(i) The Norman Kings 21. Edward VI (1547—1553)
1. William I (1066–1087) 22. Mary (1553—1558)
2. William II (1087—1100) 23. Elizabeth I (1558—1603)
3. Henry I (1100—1135) (vi) The Stuart Dynasty
4. Stephen (1135—1154) 24. James I (1603—1625)
(ii) Plantagent Kings 25. Charles I (1625—1649)
5. Henry II of Anjou (1154—1189) Commonwealth and the Protectorate
6. Richard I (1189—1199) (1649–1660)
7. John (1199—1216) 26. Charles II (1660—1685)
8. Henry III (1219—1272) 27. James II (1685—1688)
9. Edward I (1272—1307) 28. William III and Mary (1689—1702)
10. Edward II (1307—1327) 29. Anne (1702—1714)
11. Edward III (1327—1377) (vii) The House of Hanover
12. Richard II (1377—1399) 30. George I (1714—1727)
(iii) The House of Lancaster 31. George II (1727—1760)
13. Henry IV (1399—1413)
32. George III (1760—1820)
14. Henry V (1413—1422)
33. George IV (1820—1830)
15. Henry VI (1422—1461)
34. William IV (1831—1837)
(iv) The House of York
35. Queen Victoria (1837—1901)
16. Edward IV (1461—1483)
17. Edward V (1483) 36. Edward VII (1901—1910)
18. Richard III (1483—1485) 37. George V (1910—1936)
(v) The Tudor Dynasty 38. Edward VIII (1936)
19. Henry VII (1485—1509) 39. George VI (1936—1952)
20. Henry VIII (1509—1547) 40. Elizabeth II (1952—)
 UGC-NET/JRF-Exam., June 2014 Solved Paper
English
(Paper II)
Note—This paper contains fifty (50) objective 5. A Spenserian stanza has—
type questions of two (2) marks each. All (A) four iambic pentameters
questions are compulsory. (B) six iambic pentameters
1. “The just man justices. What kind of fore- (C) eight iambic pentameters
grounding do you find in the above lines ?
(D) ten iambic pentameters
(A) Syntactic (B) Semantic
(C) Collocation (D) None of the above 6. Match the items in List-I with items in List-II
according to the code given below—
2. Match the items in List-I with items in List-II List-I (Critic)
according to the code given—
(a) Cleanth Brooks (b) William Empson
List-I
(c) Mark Schorer (d) Maud Bodkin
(a) Lambic (b) Anapaestic
List-II (Theory)
(c) Dactylic (d) Trochaic
1. Ambiguity
List-II
2. Paradox
1. An unstressed syllable followed by a
stressed syllable. 3. Archetypal patterns in poetry
2. A stressed is followed by two unstressed 4. Techniques as discovery
syllables. Codes :
3. An unstressed syllable is followed by a (a) (b) (c) (d)
stressed syllable. (A) 2 1 4 3
4. A stressed syllable is followed by an (B) 3 2 1 4
unstressed syllable.
(C) 1 2 3 4
Codes :
(D) 2 3 4 1
(a) (b) (c) (d)
(A) 2 1 3 4 7. “The artist may be present in his work like
(B) 3 2 1 4 God in creation, invisible and almighty,
(C) 4 1 2 3 everywhere felt but nowhere seen.” Henry
(D) 3 1 2 4 James is talking here about the artist’s—
3. The separation of styles in accordance with (A) impersonality (B) absence
class appears more consistently in .......... than (C) presence (D) creativity
in medieval works of literature and art. 8. Match the items in List-I with items in List-II
(A) Ben Jonson (B) Shakespeare according to the code given below—
(C) Philip Sidney (D) Edmund Spenser List-I (Theorist)
4. “Had we but world enough, and time, This (a) Michel Foucault
coyness, lady, were no crime.” This statement
is an example of— (b) Judith Butler
(A) Irony (B) Paradox (c) Alan Sinfield
(C) Hyperbole (D) Euphemism (d) Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
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List-II (Book) (C) The Duke and Senators

1. Gender Trouble (D) Montano and Cassio
2. Epistemology of the Closet 13. Act V of Marlowe’s Edward the Second
3. History of Sexuality shows the murder of the king. Where does it
4. Cultural Politics-Queer Reading take place ?
Which is the correct combination according to (A) Westminster, a room in the palace
the code— (B) A room in Berkeley Castle
Codes : (C) A room in Killingworth Castle
(a) (b) (c) (d) (D) Within the Abbey of Neath
(A) 3 1 2 4 14. Identify the correctly matched set—
(B) 3 1 4 2 (A) “The Shepheards Calender” — 1579
(C) 4 2 1 3 Tottels Miscellany — 1557
(D) 4 3 1 2 Astrophel and Stella — 1591
9. “The greatness of a poet”, Arnold says, “lies The Spanish Tragedie — about 1585
in his powerful and beautiful application of (B) “The Shepheards Calender” — 1559
ideas to life”. But a critic pointed out it was
Tottels Miscellany — 1579
“not a happy way of putting it, as if ideas
were a lotion for the inflamed skin of Astrophel and Stella — 1585
suffering humanity”. Who was this critic ? The Spanish Tragedie — about 1591
(A) T.S. Eliot (B) F.R. Leavis (C) “The Shepheards Calender” — 1585
(C) David Lodge (D) Allen Tate Tottels Miscellany — 1591
Astrophel and Stella — 1579
10. Derrida’s American disciples were—
The Spanish Tragedie — about 1557
(A) Geoffrey Hartman, Paul de Man, J. Hills
Miller (D) “The Shepheards Calender” — 1579
(B) Gertrude Stein, Barbara Johnson, Tottels Miscellany — 1591
Michael Ryan Astrophel and Stella — 1585
(C) Barbara Johnson, Michael Ryan, Mary The Spanish Tragedie — about 1557
Ellman
15. Match the items in List-I with items in List-II
(D) Jean Baudrillard, Gilles Deleuze, Felix
according to the code given below—
Guattari
List-I (Authors)
11. Identify the correct group of playhouses in late (a) Lucy Hutuchinson
sixteenth century London from the following
groups— (b) John Bunyan
(c) John Evelyn
(A) Curtain, Rose, Swan, Globe, Hope
(d) Margaret Cavendish
(B) Curtain, Rose, Swan, Globe, Sejanus
List-II (Works)
(C) Hope, Curtain, Rose, Swan, Globe
1. The Life and Death of Mr. Badman
(D) Swan, Curtain, Rose, Globe, Thames 2. Sylva : or a Discourse of Forest Trees
12. “Keep up your bright swords, for the dew will 3. Natures Pictures
rust them— 4. Memories of the Life Colonel Hutchinson
Good Signior, you shall more command with Codes :
years. (a) (b) (c) (d)
Than with your weapons.” The above lines (A) 2 3 1 4
are addresses by Othello to— (B) 4 3 2 1
(A) Roderigo and Officers (C) 4 1 2 3
(B) Brabantio, Roderigo and Officers (D) 4 2 1 3
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16. “But deeds, and language, such as men do modern letters for those who could not write
use; for themselves. This humble task taught him
And persons, such a comedy would choose, the art of expressing himself in letters. Who is
When she would show an image of the time, the novelist ?
and sport with human follies, not with crime.” (A) Daniel Defoe
In the above lines Jonson— (B) Samuel Richardson
I. Oppose the artificiality of the romantic (C) Henry Fielding
tragic-comedy. (D) Tobias Smollett
II. Initiates the use of realism. 21. “Where ignorance is Bliss Tis folly to be
III. Considers analysis of moral short wise.” Who wrote the following lines ?
comings more important. (A) Pope (B) Gray
IV. Encourages the use of farce with (C) Collins (D) Southey
melodrama.
22. Which of the following works is not actually
Find out the correct combination according to a prose essay ?
the code—
(A) Essay of Dramatic Poesy
(A) I, II and III are correct
(B) Essay of Man
(B) I, II and IV are correct
(C) An Essay Concerning Human Under-
(C) I, III and IV are correct standing
(D) II, III and IV are correct (D) An Essay Towards a New Theory of
17. “And if no peece of chronicle we prove, Vision
We’ll build in ............ pretty roomes.” 23. Whom does Mirabell deceive into believing
(A) lyrics (B) epics that he loves her in The Way of the World ?
(C) sonnets (D) stanzas (A) Millamant (B) Lady Wishfort
18. “That glory never shall his wrath or might (C) Mrs. Marwood (D) Mrs. Fainall
extort from me.” (Paradise Lost, Book I) 24. “Competence to age is supplementary to
What ‘glory’ is being referred to by Satan ? youth, a sorry supplement indeed, but I fear
(A) The courage never to submit or yield the best that is to be had. We must ride where
we formerly walked : live better and be softer
(B) To reign in Hell
and shall be wise to do so than we had means
(C) To defeat God to do in the good old days you speak of.”
(D) To spread evil Who speaks these words and to whom ?
19. It has been described as a “novel without (A) Lamb to Bridget
predecessors”, the product of an original mind (B) Wordsworth to Dorothy
and became immediately popular. It is a (C) Dorothy to Bridget
peculiar blend of pathos and humour, though (D) Lamb to Dorothy
the pathos is sometimes overdone to the point
of becoming offensively sentimental— 25. The Prelude although begun as early as 1799
The novel was published in 1760. What is the and finished in its first version in 1805, was
name of the novel ? not published until ..........
(A) Gulliver’s Travels (A) 1815 (B) 1820
(B) The Castle of Otranto (C) 1830 (D) 1850
(C) Tristram Shandy 26. “A rosy sanctuary will I dress
(D) A Tender Husband With the wreathed trellis of a working brain.”
The above lines are quoted from—
20. The son of a joiner, he was apprenticed as a
printer. He remained a printer throughout his (A) ‘Adonais’
life. He was asked to prepare a series of (B) ‘Ode to Psyche’
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(C) ‘Eve of St. Agnes’ Who is the author of the above lines ?
(D) ‘Endymion’ (A) W.B. Yeats (B) T.S. Eliot
27. “Love seeketh only self to please, (C) W.H. Auden (D) D.H. Lawrence
To bind another to its delight.” 33. “Consume my heart away; sick with desire—
This selfish and possessive nature of love is And fastened to a dying animal.”
illusrated in Blake’s— The above lines are taken from—
(A) ‘The Clod and the Pebble’ (A) “Felix Randal”
(B) ‘The Sick Rose’ (B) “Sailing to Byzantium”
(C) ‘A Poison Tree’ (C) “Coole and the Ballylee, 1931”
(D) ‘Ah Sunflower’ (D) “The Second Coming”
28. Who is the author of Mary and the unfinished 34. Who among the following is not a surrealist
The Wrongs of Woman ? poet ?
(A) Mary Wollstonecraft (A) Hugh Sykes Dykes
(B) William Godwin (B) David Gascoyne
(C) Mary Hay (C) Kenneth Allot
(D) Elizabeth Inchbald (D) C. Day Lewis
29. Identify the incorrect factor in Henry James’ 35. The protagonist returns with an admonition,
theory of the novel— the diamond sent to him for smuggling out a
(A) It should be sentimental packet of diamonds as bribe—
(B) It should be objective This scene occurs in one of the novels of
(C) It should be realistic Graham Greene-Identify the novel—
(D) It should be viewed as an artistic form (A) The End of the Affair
30. Match the items in List-I with items in List-II (B) The Heart of the Matter
according to the code given below— (C) The Ministry of Fear
List-I List-II (D) Our man in Havana
(Novels) (Characters)
(a) Ulysses 1. Mrs. Moore 36. Samuel Beckett’s trilogy published together
in London in 1959 under the English titles
(b) A Passage to India 2. Molly Bloom is—
(c) To the Lighthouse 3. Gerald Crich
(A) More Pricks than Kicks, Murphy, Molloy
(d) Women in Love 4. Lily Briscoe
(B) B. Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable
Codes :
(C) Molloy, Murphy, Malone Dies
(a) (b) (c) (d)
(A) 3 1 2 4 (D) The Unnamable, More Pricks than Kicks,
Murphy
(B) 2 1 4 3
(C) 4 2 1 3 37. Among the following playwrights, who was
awarded the Pulitzer prize in 1920 ?
(D) 1 3 2 4
(A) Eugene O’ Neill
31. Which among the following novels was not
written in 1922 ? (B) Sean O’Casey
(A) Ulysses (B) Jacob’s room (C) William Somerset Maugham
(C) Aaron’s Rod (D) A Passage to India (D) J.B. Priestly
32. “A sudden blow : the great wings beating still 38. D.H. Lawrence popularized the concept of
Above the staggering girl, her thighs caressed .......... in his novels.
By the dark webs, her nap caught in his bill, (A) Realism (B) Naturalism
He holds her helpless breast upon his breast.” (C) Primitivism (D) Expressionism
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39. Who among the following is not an American 44. Which of the following is true ?
modernist poet ? (A) ‘Aurora Leigh’ is a poem in nine books
(A) William Carlos Williams (B) ‘Aurora Leigh’ is a collection of sonnets
(B) Ezra Pound from the Portuguese
(C) William Ellery Channing, the younger (C) ‘Aurora Leigh’ is a nursery rhyme book
(D) Marianne Moore (D) ‘Aurora Leigh’ is “the Seeds and Fruits
40. An important poet and playwright who in the of English Poetry”
1960s led the Black Arts Movement, in the 45. “The old order changeth yielding place to
spirit of negritude, posited a ‘Black Aesthetic’ new,
that expressed a pan-African, organic and
whole sensibility— And God fulfils himself in many way.”
(A) Henry Louis Gates Jr. In which of the following poems do these
lines appear ?
(B) Amiri Baraka
(A) ‘Locksley Hall’
(C) Ishmael Reed
(B) ‘Two Voices’
(D) Bell Hooks
(C) ‘Morte d’ Arthur’
41. Match the items in List-I with items in List-II (D) ‘Ulysses’
according to the code given below—
List-I (Authors) 46. George Eliot’s attempt to write a historical
novel of the Italian Renaissance was not
(a) V.S. Naipaul (b) Jean Rhys successful. Which was this novel ?
(c) Marina Warners (d) J.M. Coetzee (A) Adam Bede (B) Felix Holt
List-II (Books) (C) Silas Marner (D) Romola
1. Foe
47. In which novel, does the hero, driven by
2. Indigo or Mapping the Waters passion and revenge, add a new dimension to
3. Wide Sargasso Sea the concept of suffering ?
4. Mimic Men (A) Wuthering Heights
Codes : (B) Jude the Obscure
(a) (b) (c) (d) (C) Mill on the Floss
(A) 4 2 3 1 (D) Hard Times
(B) 4 1 2 3 48. From the following women characters in
(C) 4 3 2 1 Hardy’s novels choose the odd one out—
(D) 1 3 4 2 (A) Bathsheba Everdene
42. Yasmine Gooneratne’s The Pleasures of (B) Eustacia Vye
Conquest termed as a postcolonial novel of (C) Elizabeth Jane
the nineties is ironically enough set in the (D) Lucetta
tropical island nation of—
49. “Out of the gosple he tho wordes caughte
(A) Sri Lanka (B) Fiji
And this figure he added eek therto,
(C) The Caribbean (D) Amnesia That if gold ruste, what shal iren do ?”
43. Which of the following is not an Asian- In the Prologue the Parson is represented as
Canadian writer ? man—
(A) Shauna Singh Badlwin 1. who loved money
(B) Himani Banerjee 2. who criticized the corrupt clergy
(C) Joy Kogawa 3. who practiced what he preached
(D) Meena Alexander 4. who was a poor but honest clerk
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Find the correct combination according to the 9. (A) Eliot attracted widespread attention for
code— his poem The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
(A) 1, 2 and 3 are correct (1915), which is seen as a masterpiece of the
(B) 1, 2 and 4 are correct Modernist movement. It was followed by
some of the best-known poems in the English
(C) 2, 3 and 4 are correct language.
(D) 1, 3 and 4 are correct 10. (A) Jacques Derrida was a French philosopher,
50. Match the items in List-I with items in List-II born in French Algeria. Derrida is best known
according to the code given below— for developing a form of semiotic analysis
List-I (Plays) known as deconstruction. He is one of the
(a) White Devil major figures associated with post-structura-
lism and post-modern philosophy.
(b) Maids Tragedy
11. (A)
(c) Every Man in his Humour
12 (B) The Tragedy of Othello, the Moor of
(d) The Spanish Tragedie Venice is a tragedy by William Shakespeare,
List-II (Characters) believed to have been written in approxi-
1. Hieornimo mately 1603 and based on the Italian short
2. Old Knowell story Un Capitano Moro.
3. Vittoria Corombona 13. (B) 14. (A) 15. (C) 16. (A) 17. (C)
4. Aspatia 18. (A)
Codes : 19. (C) Travels into Several Remote Nations of
(a) (b) (c) (d) the World. In Four Parts. By Lemuel
Gulliver, First a Surgeon and then a Captain
(A) 4 3 1 2
of Several Ships, better known simply as
(B) 2 1 3 4 Gulliver’s Travels is a novel by Anglo-Irish
(C) 3 4 2 1 writer and clergy man Jonathan Swift, that is
(D) 4 3 2 1 both a satire on human nature and a parody of
the ‘travellers’ tales’ literary sub-genre. It is
Answers with Explanation Swift’s best known full-length work and a
classic of English literature.
1. (A) A syntactic category is a set of words
and/or phrases in a language which share a 20. (B) Samuel Richardson was an 18th-century
significant number of common characteristics. English writer and printer. He is best known
for his three epistolary novels : Pamela : Or,
2. (D) 3. (B)
Virtue Rewarded (1740), Clarissa : Or the
4. (A) Irony meaning ‘dissimulation, feigned History of a Young Lady (1748) and The
ignorance’ in its broadest sense, is a rhetorical History of Sir Charles Grandison (1753).
device, literary technique, or event
21. (B)
characterized by an incongruity, or contrast,
between what the expectations of a situation 22. (B) An Essay on Man is a poem published by
are and what is really the case, with a third Alexander Pope in 1734. It is a rationalistic
element, that defines that what is really the effort to use philosophy in order to “vindicate
case is ironic because of the situation that led the ways of God to man” a variation of John
to it. Irony may be divided into categories Milton’s claim in the opening lines of
such as : verbal, dramatic and situational. Paradise Lost, that he will “justify the ways of
5. (C) The Spenserian stanza is a fixed verse God to men”.
form invented by Edmund Spenser for his 23. (B) The play is based around the two lovers,
epic poem The Faerie Queene. Each stanza Mirabell and Millamant. In order for the two
contains nine lines in total : eight lines in to get married and receive Millamant’s full
iambic pentameter followed by a single dowry, Mirabell must receive the blessing of
‘alexandrine’ line in iambic hexameter. Millamant’s aunt, Lady Wishfort.
6. (A) 7. (A) 8. (B) 24. (A)
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25. (D) The Prelude or, Growth of a Poet’s Mind; 32 (A) William Butler Yeats was an Irish poet
An Autobiographical Poem is an autobio- and one of the foremost figures of 20th
graphical conversation poem in blank verse century literature. A pillar of both the Irish
by the English poet William Wordsworth. and British literary establishments. In 1923 he
Intended as the introduction to the more was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature as
philosophical Recluse, which Wordsworth the first Irishman so honoured for what the
never finished, The Prelude is an extremely Nobel Committee described as “inspired
personal and revealing work on the details of poetry”.
Wordsworth's life. Wordsworth began The 33. (B) “Sailing to Byzantium” is a poem by
Prelude in 1798 at the age of 28 and William Butler Yeats, first published in the
continued to work on it throughout his life. 1928 collection The Tower. It comprises four
He never gave it a title; he called it the “Poem stanzas in ottava rima, each made up of eight
(title not yet fixed upon) to Coleridge” and in tensyllable lines. It uses a journey to
his letters to Dorothy Wordsworth referred to Constantinople (Byzantium) as a metaphor
it as “the poem on the growth of my own for a spiritual journey.
mind”. The poem was unknown to the general
public until published three months after 34. (D) Cecil Day-Lewis was an Anglo-Irish poet
Wordsworth’s death in 1850, its final name and the Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom
given to it by his widow Mary. from 1968 until his death in 1972. He also
wrote mystery stories under the pseudonym of
26. (B) “Ode to Psyche” is a poem by John Keats Nicholas Blake.
written in spring 1819. The poem is the first
35. (B) The Heart of the Matter (1948) is a novel
of his 1819 odes, which include “Ode on a
by English author Graham Greene. The book
Grecian Urn” and “Ode to a Nightingale”.
details a life-changing moral crisis for Henry
“Ode to Psyche” is an experiment in the ode
Scobie. Greene, a British intelligence officer
genre and Keats’s attempt at an expanded
in Freetown, Sierra Leone, drew on his
version of the sonnet format that describes a
experience there.
dramatic scene.
36. (B)
27. (A) The Clod and the Pebble is a poem
written by the English poet William Blake. It 37. (A) Eugene Gladstone O’Neill was an Irish
was published as part of his collection Songs American playwright and Nobel laureate in
of Experience in 1794. The poem seeks to Literature. O’Neill’s first published play,
form a comparison between disorganised love Beyond the Horizon, opened on Broadway in
1920 to great acclaim and was awarded the
and strict, controlled love which is represented
by the Pebble. Pulitzer Prize for Drama.
38. (C) Primitivism is a Western art movement
28. (A) Mary Wollstonecraft was an eighteenth- that borrows visual forms from non-Western
century English writer, philosopher and or prehistoric peoples, such as Paul Gauguin’s
advocate of women’s rights. During her brief inclusion of Tahitian motifs in paintings and
career, she wrote novels, treatises, a travel ceramics. Borrowings from primitive art has
narrative, a history of the French Revolution, been important to the development of modern
a conduct book and a children’s book. art.
Wollstonecraft is best known for A
Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792), 39. (C) William Ellery Channing was a
in which she argues that women are not Transcendentalist poet, nephew of the
naturally inferior to men, but appear to be Unitarian preacher Dr. William Ellery
only because they lack education. Channing. (His namesake uncle was usually
known as ‘Dr. Channing’, while the nephew
29. (A) 30. (B) was commonly called ‘Ellery Channing’, in
31 (D) A Passage to India (1924) is a novel by print.)
English author E. M. Forster set against the 40. (B) Amiri Baraka formerly known as LeRoi
backdrop of the British Raj and the Indian Jones and Imamu Amear Baraka, was an
independence movement in the 1920s. African-American writer of poetry, drama,
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fiction, essays and music criticism. He was the legendary King Arthur, Guinevere,
the author of numerous books of poetry and Lancelot and the Knights of the Round Table.
taught at a number of universities. Malory interprets existing French and English
41. (C) 42. (D) stories about these figures and adds original
43. (D) Meena Alexander (born 1951) is an material.
internationally acclaimed poet, scholar and 46. (D) Romola is a historical novel by George
writer. Born in Allahabad Alexander lives and Eliot set in the fifteenth century and is “a
works in New York City, where she is deep study of life in the city of Florencefrom
Distinguished Professor of English at Hunter an intellectual, artistic, religious and social
College. point of view”.
44. (A) Aurora Leigh (1856) is an epic novel/ 47. (A) Wuthering Heights is a novel by Emily
poem by Elizabeth Barrett Browning. The Brontë, written between October 1845 and
poem is written in blank verse and encom- June 1846 and published in 1847 under the
passes nine books (the woman’s number, the pseudonym Ellis Bell. It was her first and
number of the prophetic books of the Sibyl). only published novel : she died the following
45. (C) Le Morte d’Arthur is a compilation by year, aged 30.
Sir Thomas Malory of romance-era tales about 48. (C) 49. (C) 50. (C)


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June 2014
English
(Paper – III)
Directions—This paper contains seventy five (B) Una – Pride
(75) objective type questions of two (2) marks Guyon – Deceit
each. All questions are compulsory. Duessa – Temperance
1. Where Sir Thomas Wyatt adapted Petrarch Orgoglio – Truth
and Petrarchanism to English sounds and (C) Una – Deceit
metres, Survey’s verse tends to look back Guyon – Pride
beyond Petrarch to the— Duessa – Temperance
(A) French verse (B) Italian Verse Orgoglio – Truth
(C) Spanish verse (D) Latin Verse (D) Una – Temperance
2. How are some characteristics of Morality Guyon – Truth
Plays— Duessa – Pride
1. They are dramatized allegories of the life Orgoglio – Deceit
of man. 4. “Fop at the toilet, flatt’rer at the board
2. They depict man’s temptation and Now trips a lady, a now struts a lord.”
sinning, his quest for salvation and his
The above lines are quoted from
confrontation with Death.
(A) McFlecknoc
3. Though the hero represents Mankind, the
other characters are by not means (B) The Rape of the Lock
personifications, of virtues, vices and (C) Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot
death. (D) Absalom and Achitrphel
4. A character known as the Vice often 5. Which of the following arrangements is in the
plays the role of the hero, a predecessor correct chronological sequence ?
of the Villian-hero in Elizabethan drama. (A) Every Man in His Humour
Find the correct combination according to the The Shoemaker’s Holiday
code—
Antonio’s Revenge
(A) Only 1 and 2 are correct
The Changeling
(B) Only 1 and 3 are correct
(B) The Shoemaker’s Holiday
(C) Only 1 and 4 are correct
Every Man in His Humour
(D) Only 2 and 3 are correct
The Changeling
3. In Spenser’s Re Faerie Queene there are the
Antonio’s Revenge
allegorized moral and religious virtues with
their counterparts in the vices. Identify the (C) The Changeling
correctly matched set— Antonio’s Revenge
(A) Una – Truth Every Man in His Humour
Guyon – Temperance The Shoemaker’s Holiday
Duessa – Deceit (D) Antonio’s Revenge
Orgoglio – Pride Every Man in His Humour
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The Changeling 10. In which poem of Donne’s is the lover’s face

The Shoemaker’s Holiday reflected in the eyes of his beloved ?
(A) “The Good Morrow”
6. Though Coleridge refers to “Motive-hunting
of a motiveless malignity”, the ‘human villain’ (B) “The Canonization”
Iago is far from ‘motiveless’. His motives (C) “The Apparition”
are— (D) “A Valediction : Forbidding Mourning”
I. He has been disappointed of military 11. Match List-I with List-II accoding to the
promotion. codes given below—
II. He suspects Othello of cuckolding him. List–I (Dramatists)
III. He has been in love with Desdemona. (a) Thomas Otway
IV. He wants to become Othello. (b) William Wycherley
Find the most appropriate combination ac- (c) Colley Cibber
cording to the code— (d) George Farquhar
(A) I and II are correct List–II (Plays)
(B) I and III are correct 1. The Provok’d Husband
2. The Recruiting Officer
(C) I and IV are correct
3. The Country Wife
(D) II and IV are correct
4. The Orphan, or the unhappy marriage
7. In ‘The Prologue’ to Dr. Faustus, the chorus Codes :
proposes that the theme should be—
(a) (b) (c) (d)
I. “cursed necromancy”
(A) 4 3 1 2
II. “audacious deeds”
(B) 3 2 1 4
III. “dalliance of love”
(C) 4 2 3 1
IV. “self-conceit”
(D) 3 1 2 4
The correct combination according to the
code is— 12. “Thou wast no born for death immortal Bird.”
(A) I and II are correct In what sense is the Bird “immortal” as
compared to mortal man ?
(B) II and III are correct
I. Here man as an individual is unfairly
(C) I and IV are correct
compared to a bird as a species.
(D) III and IV are correct II. The word ‘Bird’ stands for the nightin-
8. The centre of his plays is a proud character gale’s song.
on Marlowe’s model, with a bold licence in III. When considered as a species man is
speech and action, full of elaborate metaphors, equally ‘immortal’ as the ‘Bird’.
phrase tumbling after phrase, as he asserts IV. The ‘Bird’ is ‘Immortal’ because songs of
himself in the French Court. Dryden unjustly birds have given pleasure to man through
described his style as “a dwarfish thought, the ages.
dressed up in gigantic words”. Who is this Find the correct cobination according to the
Jacobean playwright ? code—
(A) John Fletcher (B) John Webster (A) Only I and III are correct
(C) George Chapman (D) John Marston (B) Only IV is correct
9. In Paradise Lost BK IX Milton writes that (C) Only II and IV are correct
Adam was overcome with “………” and so (D) Only I and IV are correct
ate the forbidden fruit against his “better 13. Coleridge’s “The Rime of the Ancient Mari-
knowledge”. ner” is a poem in ………
(A) “female charm” (B) “exceeding love” (A) 8 parts (B) 9 parts
(C) “faithful love” (D) “taste so divine” (C) 7 parts (D) 6 parts
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