List of top English Questions asked in CUET (PG)

Who defined poetry as the "speaking picture"?

Given below are two statements :
Statement I : Poetry according to Plato is thrice removed from reality.
Statement II : Poetry according to Plato is the mother of all lies.
In the light of the above statements, choose the correct answer from the options given below:

The word "translation" is derived from :

Identity the group of words that has the odd one out :

The term "translation studies" was put forward by :

Who said "Poetry is what gets lost in translation?"

The essay "The Task of the Translator" is written by :

'Comparative Literature : Indian Dimensions',

Match List I with List II :

List I		List II
(A)	New Criticism	(I)	A literary text is situated within the totality of the institutions and social practices of a particular time of and place
(B)	New Historicism	(II)	A positive programme which has undertaken to connect formal aspects of literature to the historical, political and worldly concerns.
(C)	New Formalism	(III)	It argues for a return to humanistic education.
(D)	New Humanism	(IV)	The concern of literary criticism with the detailed consideration of the work itself.

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

Given below are two statements: One is labelled as Assertion (A) and the other is labelled as Reason (R).
Assertion (A) : Discourse analysis (developed in the 1970s) concerns itself with the use of language in a running discourse continued over a number of sentences and involving the interaction of the speaker (writer) and the auditor (reader) in a specific context.
Reasons (R) : In Discourse analysis, the meaning of a discourse is dependent on specific cultural condition and circumstances.
In the light of the above statements, choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below:

Match List I with List II :

List I		List II
(A)	Augustan Period	(I)	1798-1830
(B)	Modern Period	(II)	1832-1901
(C)	Romantic Period	(III)	1700-1745
(D)	Victorian Period	(IV)	1901-1945

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

Match List I with List II :

List I		List II
(A)	Alliteration	(I)	Repetition of a sequence of two or more consonants.
(B)	Assonance	(II)	Repetition of a speech some in a sequence of nearby words.
(C)	Consonance	(III)	A passing reference to a literary/ historical person, work, place or event.
(D)	Allusion	(IV)	Repetition of identical or similar vowels.

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John Bunyan's "The Pilgrim's Progress' in an example of:

____translated Bhisham Sahni's TAMAS from Hindi.

Ecocriticism is ___.

What were the new criticisms reacting against?

Who is the author of Romantic Ecology: Wordsworth and the Enviromental Tradition?

What is the rhyme scheme of Shakespearean sonnet?

Who called the poets as vates?

Savitri, a literary epic in English, was written by ___

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Who wrote the seminal critical work 'Principles of Literary Criticism'?

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In which of the following poems does Belinda, a famous character appear?

Pick the odd one out with regard to William Shakespeare: