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1. Who authored Piers Plowman?
William Langland
2. ____belongs to a relatively small group of creative geniuses whose greatest works were
written after he turned 50?
Milton
3. What characterizes a “metaphysical conceit” a strat a strategy characteristics of John
Donne’s poetry?
The linking of images from very different ranges of experience
4. What is a title to Milton’s blank-verse epic that is written in and critiques the epic
tradition?
Paradise Lost
5. What poets collaborated on the Lyrical Ballads of 1798?
William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge
6. Which poet asserted in practice and theory the value of representing rustic life and
language as well as social outcasts not only in pastoral poetry common before this poet’s
time? But also as the major subject and medium for poetry in general
William Wordsworth
7. Published together in 1609, Shakespeare’s ____Sonnets, in number, are the only direct
expression of the poet’s own feelings that we possess, for his plays are the most
impersonal in all literature.
154
8. Sylvia Plath was the wife of____________
Ted Hughes
9. In the Rime of Ancient Mariner, two figures on the ship cast dice for the Ancient Manner
and the ship ____wins the Mariner.
Life-in-Death
10. Coleridge under subtle states of feelings including depression and irrational sense of guilt
found an outlet in fantasy, supremely in____
The Rime of Ancient Mariner and Kublai Khan
11. Where youth grows pake and sceptre thin and dies who is Keats in his Ode to Nightingale
referring to?
Fanny Brown

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12. Keats was the opinion that some certainties wee best left open to imagination and that the
element of doubt and ambiguity added ___and specially to a concept.
Romanticism
13. Wyatt and Surrey in the 16th century imported the ____into the English Language.

Petrarchan sonnet
14. Adrienne Rich’s Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers contrasts the creative needlwork produced by
Aunt Jenifer with.........
Denizens of a world of green
15. Alexander Pope’s ____reacts a petty high-society scandal as a mythological battle for the
virtue of an innocent
The Rape of the Lock
16. ____was an exile at Eton a revolutionary thinker an intellectual for whom to think was
normally to do.
Shelley
17. The energy vision and music of the most exciting English lyric poets Shelley are
exemplified in _____and elegy for John Keats.
Adonis
18. Fries classifies utterance into___
a) Single minimum free utterance b) single free utterance, not minimum
c) All of these
19. A word/set of words folowed by a pause and revealing an intelligible purpose is___
Sentence
20. The table ____denotes a form a group of words with a subject and predicate
Sentence
21. Lexical unit in which two or more lexical morphemes are juxtaposed are called____
compound
22. ____themselves, myself, himself, hereself, itself, ourselves, are____
Reflective pronouns

23. ____was introduced at the beginning of the century by Ferdinand de Saussure ( 1913) as
a deliberate reaction to the historically oriented lingusitics of the 19th century
structuralism
24. ____are consonants for which the flow of air is stopped or restricted by the two lips
Bilabial
25. On linguistic map a line indicating the degree pf linguistic change is called____
isogloss
26. A contract language a mixture of elements from different natural languages is called____
Pidgin

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27. The smallest parts of expression associated with some meaning are called____
Stems
28. Linguistics which investigates how the people speak and use language in a given speech
community at a given time is called____
Synchronic Linguistic
29. The study of hearing and the preception of speech sounds is called____
Auditory Phonetics
30. Consonant that is produced with a strict is called____
Plosives or stops
31. According to Bloomfield, the organization of sound into patterns is called___
Phonetics
32. Phonemes, phone , Allophone are the concepts of___
Phonology
33. When a pidgin becomes a ligua-franca, it is called a____
Creole
34. The opening slot in the sentence pattrens filled by a noun phrase or other nominal which
functions as the topic of the sentence___
Predicate
35. Mood is related to illocutionary force moods are
a) Speaker oriented b) Subject orinted c) Epistemic d) All of these
36. Sklarier was influential in defining radical
Structrualism
37. A form of teaching writing in which learners are given step-by-step instructions is____
Guided writing
38. Another name for Grammar Translation method is___
Classical Method
39. The set of all possible grammatical sentences in the language is____
Parole
40. The Oral Methods is not a complete method itself ____
Necessary
41. _____was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1948 “for his outstanding pioneer
contribution to present-day poetry”
T. S Eliot
42. Culture and imperialism is a sequel to
Orientalism
43. Voltaire, Pope, Swift, and Kant belonged to the philosophical movement of the
eighteenth century that celebrated reason …….. clarity of thought and statement,
scientific thinking, and a person ability to perfect itself?
Enlightenment

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44. Bacon’s devotedness to _____was responsible for his rapid rise in the British Court whic
one him knighthood
Henry VIII
45. In a Defense of poesy, what did Sydney attribute to poetry?
A realistic power that cannot be made to seem like more illusion and trickery
46. Which of the following Shakespearen play NOT a tragi-comic?
A Winter’s Tale
47. In a delicate visual, called, ____ operates in crystallizing underlying meanings
Imagery
48. Linda in Ibsen’s A House provides a sub-plot by her relations with Krogstad and she
serves a foil and model to ____who recognizes through her that a woman is entitled to
her own judgment and independent throught
Nora
49. G.B. Shaw was influenced by ___as the dramastist’s plays exactly titled every middle
and professional class suburb in Europe
Ibsen
50. Contemporary drama saw Brecht create ___
theatre of absurd
51. Paradise Lost was written to be a justification of as definite at almost as carefully
articulated in accepted from the Summa of Aquinas
the ways of God to man
52. What does the Keats refer to urn to?
An unravished brider of quietness
53. George Eliot put a good deal of her divided feelings about ___into the story of Maggie
and Tom
Her own childhood
54. No 19th century successor in the novel/ theatre developed by formal discipline and
concentration of theme
Economy of words and action
55. The Faerie Queene, and epic peom and fantastical celebrating the Tudor dynasty and
Elizabeth is a/an ___
Allegory
56. Taufiq Rafat’s concern with the ____is one expression of conflict between tradition and
modernism which has been feature of all ex-colonies
Parallelism
57. Sophocles uses the chorus, a group of ___Thebans, to comment on the play’s action and
to foreshadow future events
15
58. Eugene O’Neill argues that there can be “tragedy of the common man”
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59. The three primary characteristics of theatre of the absurd are____
Plot , structure, prose language, and characters who are often noble or royal
60. The literature of____ saw the steady emergence of novel which provided real literature
for children either for their instruction or enterainment. Thus, the child become either the
central subject and / or object of a many of writings.
Romantic age
61. ____the Wife of Bath’’s fame derives from the character’s deft characterization of her as
a brassy woman
Alice
62. Between 1349-1350, England lost nearly half of the population to____
Black Death
63. Keats wrote his six great odes ____
between 1816 to 1819
64. Byron sealed his European reputation as a rebel by his death while supporting the ____
The Greek Revolt
65. Philosophically Shelley was a follower of real than the world of underlying Forms and
Ideas
Plato
66. George Orwell continues the great ironic tradition of___and others
Daniel Defoe
67. The sonnet on ____records a moment of visions in which Wordsworth for once is able to
achieve satisfactory ordering of the complexities of the city
i travelled among unknown men
68. According to ____the novels of the eighteen forties do not reflect the respective society
but they try to define it and in their attempt at defining the society they also participate in
the common social process
T.S Eliot
69. Postcolonial Literature addresses_____
The new cultural identity of the colonies
70. Which literary form developed in the fifteenth century, personified vices and virtues?
morality play
71. A word that sounds like another word but means something quite different is known
as_____
Pun
72. Which of the following is NOT a technique of comedy?
Plot complications
73. Following ____model of pretending to defend the October Revolution, Orwell protests at
the corruption of the Communism’s ideas in the Soviet Union by Stalin
Bolshevik’s

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74. What poem of Frost does the line .....good fences make good neighbours.... remind you of
?
Mendign walls
75. ____represented the feeling of an age anxious about miserable conditions of its children
and inspired others to make a similar protest
Oliver Twist (Charles Dickens)
76. “It is a sort of poetical chronicle. At the end one has the feeling that poetry and daily life
have got parted, and will never come togehter again.... which work of Ahmed is Forster
referning to?
Twilight in Delhi
77. The conflict of life with the forces of experience places Dickens an heir to the____
Neo-Classical poets
78. After graduating in 1931 Ahmed Ali earned his living as a ____
Lecturer
79. The novel as a vehicle for psychological analysis rather than the recounting of events,
became the major literary from in mid ____century
18th Century

Choose the Correct Word/Pair Of Words That Best Fits The Meaning Of The
Following Sentences As A Whole

80. Except for eggs, which rarely go ___in price, the cost of groceries is going ____if sight.
down, out
81. The misunderstanding ____the two parties was ___a scheduling conflict
between, over
82. Fancy the happiness____ Pinocchio ____finding himself free
of , while
83. Paradoxically, the more the details Noor chooses the more able is she to depict her
pirctures to landscapes
fanciful
84. Time files
like wings
85. In the landscape so calm and beautiful, it was hard to believe that anything ____could
occur
untoward
86. You need to consider the ___before you make a decision
87. Pros and cons
88. The ____of the Minister’s statement cannot be verified by people who have no access to
official reports
veracity

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 89. The ____sounded lame to her and she did not want to give in
excuses
90. Which of these sentences does not contain an adverb?
Sara walked to the shops
Choose the correct sentence
you’ll be shocked when i tell you who called me last night

Choose the correct Antonyms of the Following:

91. Patrician
Common ; bourgeous; unrefined; lower- class
92. Acumen
Ignorance; ineptness; stupidity
93. Pull the rug from under
To knock down
94. Grotesque
Graceful
95. Zenith
nadir

Choose the correct Synonyms of the Following:

96. Pique
Arpise
97. Circumvent
Avoid
98. Paradoxical
Contradictory
99. Close Shave
hair’s breadth b) By the skin of one’s teeth c) Narrow escape d) All of
these
100. Spoken
Oral
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