List of practice Questions

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 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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Match List-I with List-II
\[\begin{array}{|l|l|} \hline \textbf{List-I} & \textbf{List-II} \\ \textbf{SONNETEER} & \textbf{RHYME SCHEME} \\ \hline \hline \text{(A). Petrarch} & \text{(I). abab cdcd efef gg} \\ \hline \text{(B). John Milton} & \text{(II). abab bcbc cdcd ee} \\ \hline \text{(C). Spenser} & \text{(III). abbaabba cdcdcd/cddccd/cdecde} \\ \hline \text{(D). Shakespeare} & \text{(IV). abbaabba cdecde} \\ \hline \end{array}\]
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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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The central doctrines of the Enlightenment were inimical to which of the following:

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

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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Which of the following books is not a part of the Tamil text Cilapattikaram?

Which of the following books relate to the Partition of India?
(A) The Broken Mirror
(B) Coolie
(C) Midnight's Furies
(D) Ice Candy Man
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Who among the following is a science fiction writer?

Which ONE of the following female characters does not figure in the works by Kalidasa?

At whose request during the Nagyagnya was The Mahabharata narrated ?

Arrange the following Nobel Prize winners in chronological order of they being awarded, beginning with the earliest.
(A) Doris Lessing
(B) William Golding
(C) J. M. Coetzee
(D) Wole Soyinka
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Arrange the following movements/prominent literary genres in chronological order, beginning with the earliest:
(A) Gothic Novel
(B) The Newgate Fiction
(C) Expressionism
(D) Metaphysical Poetry
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The 'Wars of the Roses' is used to describe which of the following:

'Poetry is a spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings and emotions recollected in tranquility', as a poetic philosophy is ascribed to:

Match List-I with List-II
\[\begin{array}{|l|l|} \hline \textbf{List-I (Movie Adaptation)} & \textbf{List-II (Text)} \\ \hline \text{(A) Omkara} & \text{(I) Mricchkatikam} \\ \hline \text{(B) Maqbool} & \text{(II) Othello} \\ \hline \text{(C) Utsav} & \text{(III) White Nights} \\ \hline \text{(D) Saawariya} & \text{(IV) Macbeth} \\ \hline \end{array}\]
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The first Indian writer to write a novel in English was:

The first woman to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature was:

Blank verse is:

Naturalism is:

What is Intentional Fallacy?