List of top English Questions asked in GATE Humanities and Social Sciences- English

The literary term 'apostrophe' denotes:
Which of the following is NOT part of the Theban trilogy?
In the line, "What's Hecuba to him, or he to Hecuba?" "he" refers to_____.
Dorothea Brooke, Edward Casaubon, Hetty Sorel, Stephen Guest are all characters created by_____.
Charulata is an adaptation of which work by Rabindranath Tagore?
Eric Arthur Blair was born in Motihari, Bihar. He went on to become famous as an author of a dystopian work which introduced the terms 'Newspeak', 'Thoughtcrime', and 'Doublespeak'. He wrote under the pseudonym______.
"I started writing in Gikuyu language in 1977 after seventeen years of involvement Afro-European literature, in my case Afro-English literature ... wherever I have gone, particularly in Europe, I have been confronted with the question: why are you now writing in Gikuyu? Why do you now write in an African language?”
Identify the author of this passage.
The Madwoman in the Attic, the title of Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar's iconic feminist examination of Victorian literature, alludes to which classic novel?
Agatha Christie broke a fundamental rule of detective fiction in____.
On the basis of genre, which of the following does NOT belong in this group?
Match the following pairs of fictional characters with the author who created them:
aPhileas Fogg and Jean Passepartout iWilliam Shakespeare
bDon Quixote and Sancho PanzaiiJules Verne 
cCandide and PanglossiiiMiguel de Cervantes
dDogberry and VergesivVoltaire
"The horror! The horror!" - these are the last words of_____.
"The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" is a/an____.
Which one of the following is a famous detective character created by Edgar Allan Poe?