00185--UGC-NET, English Literature Objective Type Question Answers 11 to 20

11)           That moment she was mine, mine, fair,

       Perfectly pure and good: I found

A thing to do, and all her hair

       In one long yellow string I wound

       Three times her little throat around,

And strangled her. No pain felt she;

       I am quite sure she felt no pain. 

These lines stand for the speaker’s:

A.      true love

B.      dilemma

C.       pride

D.     abnormal psychology

Answer: ………………………………………

12)   But oh! that deep romantic chasm which slanted

               Down the green hill athwart a cedarn cover!

               A savage place! as holy and enchanted

               As e'er beneath a waning moon was haunted

               By woman wailing for her demon lover!

These line are taken from:

A.      Christabel

B.      Dejection: An Ode

C.      The Rime Of The Ancient Mariner

D.     Kubla Khan

Answer: ……………………………

13)       In his story Sarrasine Balzac, describing a castrato disguised as a woman, writes the following sentence: 'This was woman herself, with her sudden fears, her irrational whims, her instinctive worries, her impetuous boldness, her fussings, and her delicious sensibility.' Who is speaking thus? Is it the hero of the story bent on remaining ignorant of the castrato hidden beneath the woman? Is it Balzac the individual, furnished by his personal experience with a philosophy of Woman? Is it Balzac the author professing 'literary' ideas on femininity? Is it universal wisdom? Romantic psychology? We shall never know, for the good reason that writing is the destruction of every voice, of every point of origin. Writing is that neutral, composite, oblique space where our subject slips away, the negative where all identity is lost, starting with the very identity of the body writing.

This paragraph advocates:

A.      Structuralism

B.      Post-structuralism

C.      Formalism

D.     Expressionism

Answer: ………………………………………………………….

14)  Match A with B

                        A                                                          B

a. Eugenius                              1.Speaks for the French drama

b. Crites                                   2. Speaks for the English drama

c. Lisideius                               3. Speaks for the ancient drama

d. Neander                              4. Speaks for the modern drama

A.      a-4, b-2, c-1, d-3

B.      a-1, b-2, c-4, d-3

C.      a-4, b-3, c-1, d-2

D.     a-2, b-3, c-4, d-1

Answer: ………………………………..

15)  Match A with B

                        A                                                                 B

            a. Surrealism                                                 1. Lord Byron

            b. Stream of Consciousness                          2. T.S. Eliot

            c. Romanticism                                            3. Dylan Thomas

            d. Modernism                                               4. James Joyce

A. a-1, b-3, c-4, d-2

B. a-3, b-4, c-2, d-1

C. a-3, b-4, c-1, d-2

D. a-1, b-2, c-3, d-4

Answer: ………………………………

16)    

“ Hence all original religions are allegorical, or susceptible of allegory. and, like Janus, have a double face of false and true. Poets, according to the circumstances of the age and nation in which they appeared, were called, in the earlier epochs of the world, legislators, or prophets: a poet essentially comprises and unites both these characters.”

This is from:

A.      Art of Poetry

B.      An Apology for Poetry

C.      An Essay on Criticism

D.     A Defense of Poetry

Answer: ……………………………..

17)  Match the lines with the authors.

a.       The curfew tolls the knell of parting day.

The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea,

The ploughman homeward plods his weary way,

And leaves the world to darkness and to me.

b.      The vale funereal, the sad cypress gloom;

The land of apparitions, empty shades!

c.       Wild shrieks have issued from the hollow tombs;

Dead men have come again, and walked about;

And the great bell has tolled, unrung and untouched.

d.      "When men my scythe and darts supply

How great a King of Fears am I!"

1.      Robert Blair        2. Thomas Parnell       

 3. Thomas Grey           4.Edward Young

A.    a-3, b-1, c-2, d-4

B.     a-3, b-4, c-1. d-2

C.     a-3, b-1, c-2, d-4

D.    a-1, b-2, c-4, d-3

Answer: …………………..

18)  

            “But though it is in terms of structure that we must describe poetry, the term structure is certainly not altogether satisfactory as a term. One means by it something far more internal than the metrical pattern, say, or than the sequence of images. The structure meant is certainly notform in the conventional sense in which we think of form as a kind of envelope which "contains" the "content." The structure obviously is everywhere conditioned by the nature of the material which goes into the poem.”

The author is:

A.      John Crowe Ransome

B.      William Empson

C.      Cleanth Brooks

D.     I.A.Richards

Answer: …………………………….

19)       It will be convenient at this point to introduce two definitions. In a full critical statement which states not only that an experience is valuable in certain ways, but also that it is caused by certain features in a contemplated object, the part which describes the value of the experience we shall call the critical part. That which describes the object we shall call the technical part.

This is taken from:

A.      Seven Types of Ambiguity             B. The Heresy of Paraphrase

C.  The Principles of Literary Criticism                 D. The New Criticism

Answer: ……………………………

20)       The loveliest and the last,
The bloom, whose petals nipped before they blew
Died on the promise of the fruit.

The context is:

A.      The death of Edward Young

B.      The death of Mary Shelley

C.      The death of Fanny Brawne

D.     The death of Keats

Answer: ………………………………

ANSWERS:

11-D

12-D

13-B

14-C

15-C

16-D

17-B

18-C

19-C

20-D

00184--UGC-NET, English Literature Objective Type Question Answers 1 to 10 [English Literature free notes]

1) “That praises are without reason lavished on the dead, and that the honors due only to excellence are paid to antiquity, is a complaint likely to be always continued by those, who, being able to add nothing to truth, hope for eminence from the heresies of paradox; or those, who: being forced by disappointment upon consolatory expedients, are willing to hope from posterity what the present age refuses, and flatter themselves that the regard which is yet denied by envy, will be at last bestowed by time.”

Who wrote this, and in which work?

A.      Longinus -- On The Sublime               

B.       Sir Philip Sidney -- An Apology For Poetry

C.      Samuel Johnson – Preface To Shakespeare

D.     John Dryden – An Essay Of Dramatic Poesy

Answer:…………………..

2)   Match A with B

                        A                                                          B

a. The Friar                                         1. Theseus

            b. The Host                                          2. Nicholas

c. THE KNIGHT'S TALE                         3. Hubert

d. THE MILLER'S TALE                         4. Harry Bailey

A.      a-3, b-4, c-2, d-1

B.      a-1, b-4, c-3, d-2

C.      a-2, b-3, c-4, d-1

D.     a-3, b-4, c-1, d-2

Answer:……………………..

3)  The following are extracts from the works of literary critics and theorists.  Find out the titles of the works from the options given.

a.      “But criticism, real criticism is essentially the exercise of this very quality. It obeys an instinct prompting it to try to know the best that is known and thought in the world, irrespectively of practice, politics, and everything of the kind; and to value knowledge and thought as they approach this best, without the intrusion of any other considerations whatever. […]Its business is, as I have said, simply to know the best that is known and thought in the world, and by in its turn making this known, to create a current of true and fresh ideas.”

b.      “The all-important fact for the study of literature-or any other mode of communication-is that there are several kinds of meaning. Whether we know and intend it or not, we are all jugglers when we converse, keeping the billiard balls in the air while we balance the cue on our nose. Whether we are active, as in speech or writing, or passive,  as readers or listeners, the total meaning we are engaged with is, almost always, a blend, a combination of several contributory meanings of different types.“

c.       “FANCY, on the contrary, has no other counters to play with, but fixities and definites. The Fancy is indeed no other than a mode of Memory emancipated from the order of time and space; and blended with, and modified by that empirical phenomenon of the will, which we express by the word CHOICE. But equally with the ordinary memory it must receive all its materials ready made from the law of association.”

d.      “One remark in passing: when semiology becomes organized as a science, the question will arise whether or not it properly includes modes of expression based on completely natural signs, such as pantomime. Supposing that the new science welcomes them, its main concern will still be the whole group of systems grounded on the arbitrariness of the sign.”

1.      Practical Criticism                         2. Course in General Linguistics

     

3. The Function of Criticism at the Present Time       4 Biographia Literaria.

A.      a-1, b-3, c-4, d-2

B.      a-2, b-1, c-4, d-3

C.      a-3, b-1, c-4, d-2

D.     a-4, b-3, c-2, d-1

Answer:………………………………………

4)  Find the related terms from the options given below.

a. “… is, when man is capable of being in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact and reason.”

b. A term applied to language which strikes the ear as smooth, pleasant, and musical.

c. “at the bridal chamber"

d.“seize the day”

1. Carpe Diem    2. Euphony  3. Negative Capability                          4. Epithalamion 

A. a-3, b-2, c-4, d-1

B. a-3, b-1, c-4, d-2

C. a-3, b-2, c-1, d-4

D. a-2, b-3, c-4, d-1

Answer:……………………………………..

5) The following statements are about The Faerie Queene  .  Find out the statements that are TRUE.

1. The Faerie Queene addresses itself to 12 great virtues, which are anatomized in 12 books, arranged in 6 Cantos per book.

2. Britomart is the embodiment of ‘true Christianity’.

3. Malbecco is the protective husband of the lascivious Hellenore.

4. Duessa represents the ‘False’ Catholic Church.

5. The Red Crosse Knight bears the emblem of Saint Patrick. 

A. 1, 2, 3 and 4

B. 3 and 4

C.1, 2 and 3

D. 2, 3, 4 and 5

Answer:…………….

6)  Match A and B

            A                                                              B

a.       Daniel Defoe                                      1. Dr.Slop

b.      Samuel Richardson                             2. Squire Allworthy

c.       Henry Fielding                                     3. Friday

d.      Laurence Sterne                                  4. Mr. B

A.      a-3, b-4, c-2, d-1

B.      a-4, b-3, c-2, d-1

C.      a-1, b-2, c-3, d-4

D.     a-2, b-1, c-4,d-3

Answer: ………………………………

7)  Who is the author of the passage given below?

“He shows, however, in the Odyssey (and this further observation deserves attention on many grounds) that, when a great genius is declining, the special token of old age is the love of marvelous tales.  It is clear from many indications that the Odyssey was his second subject. A special proof is the fact that he introduces in that poem remnants of the adventures before llium as episodes, so to say, of the Trojan War. And indeed, he there renders a tribute of mourning and lamentation to his heroes as though he were carrying out a long-cherished purpose. In fact, the Odyssey is simply an epilogue to the Iliad.”

A.      Aristotle

B.      Longinus

C.      Sir Philip Sidney

D.     Matthew Arnold

Answer: ………………….

8)  Match A with B

a.      Lake Poets                               1. Richard Lovelace

b.      Cavalier Poets                         2. Sylvia Plath

c.       Metaphysical Poets                 3. Robert Southey

d.      Confessional Poetry                4. Andrew Marvell

A.      a-4, b-1, c-3, d-2

B.      a-3, b-1, c-4, d-2

C.      a-1, b-3, c-4, d-2

D.     a-3, b-4, c-2, d-1

Answer: ……………………….

9)  "Courage!" he said, and pointed toward the land,

"This mounting wave will roll us shoreward soon."

In the afternoon they came unto a land

In which it seemed always afternoon.

All round the coast the languid air did swoon,

Breathing like one that hath a weary dream.

These lines are taken from which of the following poems?

A.      The Lotos Eaters

B.      Idylls of the King

C.      Tithonus

D.     The Eagle

Answers: …………………………………………

10)  Find out the sources of the quotes.

a.   "Time shall unfold what plaited cunning hides."

b.   Frailty, thy name is woman!

c.    O! beware, my lord, of jealousy;
It is the green-ey'd monster which doth mock
The meat it feeds on.

d.     Full fathom five thy father lies;
Of his bones are coral made;
Those are pearls that were his eyes;
Nothing of him that doth fade,
But doth suffer a sea-change
Into something rich and strange.

1.      Hamlet                  2. The Tempest           3.  Othello       4. King Lear

A.      a-4, b-1, c-3, d-2

B.      a-2, b-3, c-1, d-4

C.      a-3, b-2, c-1, d-4

D.     a-3, b-2, c-4, d-1

Answer:……………………………………..

Answers:

1. C
2. D
3. C
4. A
5. B
6. A
7. B
8. B
9. A
10. A