List of top English Questions

Which of the following is an ancient book of grammar?

Who is considered the 'compiler' of the Vedas?

Match List-I with List-II
\[\begin{array}{|l|l|} \hline \textbf{List-I} & \textbf{List-II} \\ \text{Writer} & \text{Nationality} \\ \hline \hline \text{(A). Arvind Adiga} & \text{(I). Canada} \\ \hline \text{(B). R. K. Narayan} & \text{(II). USA} \\ \hline \text{(C). Rohinton Mistry} & \text{(III). Australia} \\ \hline \text{(D). Jhumpa Lahiri} & \text{(IV). India} \\ \hline \end{array}\]
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Which ONE of the following authors is not from the Caribbean region?

Arrange these Indian writers in chronological order with reference to their year of birth, starting with the earliest:
(A). Ismat Chugtai
(B). Gurdial Singh Rahi
(C). Harivansh Rai Bachchan
(D). Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay
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Sequence these Nobel Prize winners in chronological order of they having received the award:
(A). T.S. Eliot
(B). Samuel Beckett
(C). Bob Dylan
(D). W.B. Yeats
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"Shimmering snow on the southern slope of the Simla hills," is an example of:

Arrange the following literary periods/movements in chronological order, beginning with the earliest:
(A). Restoration age
(B). Art for Art's Sake
(C). Age of Sensibility
(D). Harlem Renaissance
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Which of the following statements is incorrect?

Which of the following are American transcendentalist writers?
(A). Ezra Pound
(B). T.S. Eliot
(C). Ralph Waldo Emerson
(D). Henry David Thoreau
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Match List-I with List-II
\[\begin{array}{|l|l|} \hline \textbf{List-I (Literary Genre)} & \textbf{List-II (Text)} \\ \hline \text{(A). Fiction} & \text{(I). Prometheus Unbound} \\ \hline \text{(B). Poetry} & \text{(II). Moll Flanders} \\ \hline \text{(C). Drama} & \text{(III). On the Subjection of Women} \\ \hline \text{(D). Non-fiction} & \text{(IV). Intimations of Immortality} \\ \hline \end{array}\]
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Which of the following is NOT a work by R. K. Narayan?

Which of the following is NOT an autobiography?

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\[\begin{array}{|l|l|} \hline \textbf{List-I} & \textbf{List-II} \\ \textbf{SONNETEER} & \textbf{RHYME SCHEME} \\ \hline \hline \text{(A). Petrarch} & \text{(I). abab cdcd efef gg} \\ \hline \text{(B). John Milton} & \text{(II). abab bcbc cdcd ee} \\ \hline \text{(C). Spenser} & \text{(III). abbaabba cdcdcd/cddccd/cdecde} \\ \hline \text{(D). Shakespeare} & \text{(IV). abbaabba cdecde} \\ \hline \end{array}\]
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Which of the following statements are true with respect to Aristotle's classic analysis of Tragedy in his Poetics?
(A). Tragedy is mimesis.
(B). Tragedy intends to accomplish the catharsis of emotions like pity and fear.
(C). The tragic hero is an everyday person with ordinary moral worth.
(D). It is hamartia, which often leads the tragic hero into a state of suffering.
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Match List-I with List-II
\[\begin{array}{|l|l|} \hline \textbf{List-I} & \textbf{List-II} \\ \text{Playwright} & \text{Play} \\ \hline \hline \text{(A). John Osborne} & \text{(I). Chicken Soup with Barley} \\ \hline \text{(B). Arnold Wesker} & \text{(II). Look Back in Anger} \\ \hline \text{(C). Harold Pinter} & \text{(III). The Glass Menagerie} \\ \hline \text{(D). Tennessee Williams} & \text{(IV). The Birthday Party} \\ \hline \end{array}\]
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Which figure of speech is used in the opening line of Spenser's sonnet LVII (57) - 'Sweet Warrior! When Shall I Have Peace with Thee?'

Which of the following are Nissim Ezekiel's poems?
(A). Enterprise
(B). My Grandmother's House
(C). Goodbye Party for Miss Pushpa T S
(D). On Killing a Tree
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Which of the following statements are correct in the context of Coleridge's understanding of the terms 'Fancy' and 'Imagination'?
(A). Fancy is a mechanical faculty of the human mind.
(B). Imagination is an organic faculty of the human mind that dissolves dialectical oppositions.
(C). Fancy is Mimetic, and Imagination is creative.
(D). Fancy is the real poetic creativity.
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The central doctrines of the Enlightenment were inimical to which of the following:

Which among the following autobiographies by Indian women is the earliest?

Arrange the following Indian writers in the chronological order (beginning with the earliest) of their date of birth:
(A) Jaishankar Prasad
(B) Dushyant Kumar
(C) Premchand
(D) Amrita Pritam
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Match List-I with List-II
\[\begin{array}{|l|l|} \hline \textbf{List-I} & \textbf{List-II} \\ \text{Theory, Title etc.} & \text{Thinker} \\ \hline \hline \text{(A). Utilitarianism} & \text{(I). Immanuel Kant} \\ \hline \text{(B). Father of Modern Philosophy} & \text{(II). Baruch Spinoza} \\ \hline \text{(C). Empiricism and Rationality} & \text{(III). J.S. Mill} \\ \hline \text{(D). Pantheism} & \text{(IV). Rene Descartes} \\ \hline \end{array}\]
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Arrange the following in the chronological order (beginning with the earliest):
(A) Pre-Raphaelites
(B) Edwardian
(C) The Graveyard School of poetry
(D) Sturm and Drang
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Which of the following books is not a part of the Tamil text Cilapattikaram?