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1.She should have died hereafter;
There would have been a time for such a word.
To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day
To the last syllable of recorded time,
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage
And then is heard no more: it is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing. Act V, Sc V**

(A) Hamlet (B) Macbeth

(C) The Tempest (D) King Lear 

Ans:B

a number of English intellectuals prominent in the first quarter of the 20th century, all of whom were individually known for their contributions to the arts or to social science.  The name of the group is derived from a residential district near the British Museum in central London where most of the members lived. They included the writers Virginia Woolf and her husband, Leonard Sidney Woolf; the art critics Roger Fry and Clive Bell; the economist John Maynard Keynes; the biographer Lytton Strachey; the literary and drama critic Desmond MacCarthy; the novelist and essayist E. M. Forster; and the painters Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant.The group is known as

A)    Bloomsbury

B)    Manchester

C)    Leftiest

D)    None

Ans:A

In Part I, “Voyage to Lilliput” :Lemuel Gulliver describes how he began undertaking voyages as ship’s surgeon, and ended up during one voyage shipwrecked in Lilliput, a land where the people are twelve times smaller than in England.

In Part II, “Voyage to Brobdingnag” : Gulliver lands where every living being is twelve times larger than in England.

Part III, “Voyage to Laputa”:   Gulliver visits the islands of Laputa, Balnibarbi, Luggnagg, Glubbdubdribb, and Japan. Here, Laputa, the Flying Island, is an allegory of the court and government of George I. 

In Part IV, “Voyage to Houyhnhnms”: Gulliver journeys to the land of the Houyhnhnms, rational horses, and the Yahoos, appallingly irrational humans.

The book is

A)Tale of a tube

B)Gulliver’s traveller

C)Battle of book

D)None

Ans:B

An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1690).   According to him, Human mind to be a blank slate at birth that gathered all its information from its surroundings—starting with simple ideas and combining these simple ideas into more complex ones.  Locke believes that education should begin in early childhood and should proceed gradually as the child learns increasingly complex ideas. The writer is—

(A) Steele and John Locke

 (B) Addison and Dryden

(C) Addison and Blackmore 

D) John Locke

Ans:D

a Canadian- Nigerian writer, Her books, mostly women's   self-realization in a male-dominated world, are as such novels asThis Side Jordan , The Stone Angel , A Jest of God , The Fire Dwellers ,Heart of a Stranger ,she is

(A) Margaret Laurence (B) David Malauf

(C) Mudooroo Narogin (D) Peter Carey 

Ans:A

The Anatomy of Melancholy, was published under the pseudonym Democritus Junior in 1621; he enlarged it several times. This ambitious book was characterized by wide learning and a quaint and penetrating style, ranks among the most important prose works in English literature. The work analyzes the medical, historical, and social causes and cures of melancholy, covering a vast scope of scholarship in numerous fields, such as classical studies, theology, philosophy, science, and politics. Burton's work influenced other writers in England, including John Milton in the 17th century and Charles Lamb in the 19th century.

The writer is—

(A) Arundhati Roy - The Autumn of the Patriarch

B) Robert Burton

(C) Umber to Eco - The Tin Drum 

(D) Jhumpa Lahiri – Beloved

Ans:B

the greatest English historian of his time and author of The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (1776-1788). Despite the availability of new factual data and a recognition of Gibbon's Western bias, which placed moral judgments on the material decadence of Roman times, Decline and Fallis still read and enjoyed. The historian is—

(A)  Peacock

(B)   (B) De Quincey

(C)   (C) Hazlitt

D)Edward Gibbon 

Ans:D

11)With the publication of Writing and Difference, French philosopher Jacques Derrida pioneers the method of literary criticism known as deconstruction. Under deconstruction, texts are subjected to new methods of analysis that reveal hidden layers of meaning. The analysis examines the intent of the author, as well as how the concepts, language, and images of the text have been previously used.  **Which of the following thinker-concept pairs is correctly matched?

(A) Frye ........... Mysticism

(B) Derrida ............. Deconstruction

(C) I. A. Richards ........... Archetypal Criticism

(D) Eagleton ............... Psychological Criticism

Ans:B

23. Choose the correct sequence of the following schools of criticism:

(A) Structuralism, Deconstruction, Reader-Response, New Historicism

(B) New Historicism, Reader-Response, Deconstruction, Structuralism

(C) Deconstruction, New Historicism, Structuralism, Reader-Response

(D) Reader-Response, Deconstruction, New Historicism, Structuralism

** Now remember all these theories are interrelated:

Formalism: A text-based critical method known as formalism was developed by Victor Shklovsky, Vladimir Propp, and other Russian critics early in the 20th century.  

Structuralism: Structuralism attempted to investigate the “structure” of a culture as a whole by “decoding,” or interpreting, its interactive systems of signs. These systems included literary texts and genres as well as other cultural formations, such as advertising, fashion, and taboos on certain forms of behavior.

Deconstruction: Deconstruction shows the multiple layers of meaning at work in language.

Reader-Response: 1960s onwards

 New Critics: The text-centered methods of the formalist critics who focused on the overall structure and verbal texture of literary works.  Many New Critics looked at metaphor, imagery, and other qualities of literary language apart from both a work’s historical setting and any detailed biographical information that might be available about the author.

New Historicism: Many New Critics were more historically or philosophically inclined. ** 

Robert Burton (1577-1640)’s masterpiece, The Anatomy of Melancholy, was published under the pseudonym -------- in 1621; he enlarged it several times. This ambitious book was characterized by wide learning and a quaint and penetrating style, ranks among the most important prose works in English literature. The work analyzes the medical, historical, and social causes and cures of melancholy, covering a vast scope of scholarship in numerous fields, such as classical studies, theology, philosophy, science, and politics. Burton's work influenced other writers in England, including John Milton in the 17th century and Charles Lamb in the 19th century.Ostensibly a musical treatise, The Anatomy of Melancholy is a reflection on human learning and endeavour published under the pseudonym

(A) Vox Populi

(B) Epicurus Senior

(C) Democritus Junior

(D) Jesting Pilate

Ans:C

 26. Which is the correct sequence?

(A) D. G. Rossetti, George Eliot, Bronte Sisters, Thackeray

(B) George Eliot, D. G. Rossetti, Bronte Sisters, Thackeray

(C) Thackeray, Bronte Sisters, George Eliot, D. G. Rossetti

(D) Bronte Sisters, George Eliot, Thackeray, D. G. Rossetti

* *If this type of questions appears, you should remember the sequence of their writing and popularity, not their birth. Here all the writers belong to Victorian period, but their literary birth and recognitions were different.

William Makepeace Thackeray (1811-63)- English novelist and humorist, one of the foremost exponents of the 19th-century realistic novel. <Vanity Fair early in 1847, quickly establishing a reputation as one of the major literary figures of his time.>

Bronte Sisters- Brontë, name of three English novelists, also sisters, whose works, transcending Victorian conventions, have become beloved classics. The sisters Charlotte Brontë (1816-1855), Emily (Jane) Brontë (1818-1848), and Anne Brontë (1820-1849) < Bronte Sisters were somewhat popular in early half of 1850s>

George Eliot (1819-1880)- pseudonym of Mary Ann or Marian Evans,English novelist< George Eliot’s major literary outputs are in 1860s>

Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-1882)- English poet and painter who was a leading member of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood . < Dante Gabriel Rossetti and Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood was in vague in later half of 1860s and 1870s