00186--UGC-NET, English Literature Objective Type Question Answers 21 to 30

21)      Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks
Within his bending sickle's compass come:
Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,
But bears it out even to the edge of doom.

These lines are taken from Shakespeare’s:

A.      Sonnet 116

B.      Sonnet 117

C.      Sonnet 118

D.     Sonnet 119

Answer: ………………………..

22) “An ambiguity, in ordinary speech, means something very pronounced, and as a rule witty or deceitful. I propose to use the word in an extended sense, and shall think relevant to my subject any verbal nuance, however slight, which gives room for alternative reactions to the same piece of language.”

This extract is from the work of:

A.      I.A.Richards

B.      John Crowe Ransome

C.      William Empson

D.     Cleanth Brooks

Answer: …………………………………………….

23) Find out the sources of the following lines.

a.      Too long a sacrifice
Can make a stone of the heart.

b.      Turning and turning in the widening gyre
    The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
    Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
    Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world.

c.       An aged man is but a paltry thing,

A tattered coat upon a stick, unless

Soul clap its hands and sing

d.      That the future years had come,

Dancing to a frenzied drum,

Out of the murderous innocence of the sea.

1.      The Second Coming          2. A Prayer for My Daughter  3. Easter 1916

4. Sailing to Byzantium

A.      a-4, b-3, c-1, d-2

B.      a-3, b-1, c-4, d-2

C.      a-2, b-1, c-4, d-3

D.     a-2, b-4, c-1, d-3

Answer: ……………………………………….

24)  Match A with B

            A                                                          B

a. Mock heroic poem                          1. Thyrsis

b. Elegy                                               2. The River Duddon

c. Sonnet                                             3. The Love Song of J.Alfred Prufrock

d. Dramatic Monologue                     4. The Rape of the Lock

A.      a-1, b-4, c-3, d-2

B.      a-4, b-1, c-2, d-3

C.      a-4, b-3, c-1, d-2

D.     a-4, b-2, c-1, d-3

Answer: ………………………………….

25) Find out the examples for “Byronic Hero” from the following characters.

1.      Edward Rochester

2.      Heathcliff

3.        Godwin

4.      Mr. Collins

A.      Only 1 and 2

B.      Only 2

C.      Only 1,2 and 4

D.     Only 2 and 4

Answer: …………………………………………..

26) Who authored the following paragraph?

            Judging a poem is like judging a pudding or a machine.  One demands that it work. It is only because an artifact works that we infer the intention of an artificer. "A poem should not mean but be."   A poem can be only through its meaning-since its medium is words-yet it is, simply is, in the sense that we have no excuse for inquiring what part is intended or meant.

1.      John Crowe Ransom

2.      Cleanth Brooks

3.      W.K. Wimsatt

4.      Monroe C. Beardsley

A.      Only 1

B.      Only 3 and 4

C.      Only 1 and 2

D.     Only 4

Answer: ……………………

27) Which are the Dark Comedies of Shakespeare?

1.      All’s Well That Ends Well

2.      Measure for Measure

3.      Troilus and Cressida

4.      As You Like It

A.      Only 3 and 4

B.      Only 2, 3, and 4

C.      Only 1, 2, and 3

D.     Only 1 and 2

Answer: …………………………..

28)   

 "To begin, then, with Shakespeare. He was the man who of all modem, and perhaps ancient poets, had the largest and most comprehensive soul. All the images of nature were still present to him, and he drew them, not laboriously, but luckily; when he describes anything, you more than see it, you feel it too. Those who accuse him to have wanted learning, give him the greater commendation: he was naturally learned; he needed not the spectacles of books to read nature; he looked inwards, and found her there.”

This extract is from…

A.      An Essay of Dramatic Poesy

B.      An Essay on Criticism

C.      On the Pleasures of the Imagination

D.     Preface to Shakespeare

Answer: …………………………………..

29)  Which are the Problem Plays of Shakespeare?

1.      All’s Well That Ends Well

2.      Measure for Measure

3.      Troilus and Cressida

4.      As You Like It

A.      Only 3 and 4

B.      Only 2, 3, and 4

C.      Only 1, 2, and 3

D.     Only 1 and 2

Answer: …………………………..

30) Which of the following quotes is held by Matthew Arnold as an example of Shakespeare’s Grand Style?

A.      If thou didst ever hold me in thy heart
Absent thee from felicity awhile,
And in this harsh world draw thy breath in pain,
To tell my story.

B.      Cowards die many times before their deaths

The valiant never taste of death but once.

C.      Infirmity doth still neglect all office

Whereto our health is bound; we are not ourselves

When nature, being oppressed, commands the mind

To suffer with the body.

D.     My conscience hath a thousand several tongues,

And every tongue brings in a several tale,

And every tale condemns me for a villain.

Answer: ……………………………………..

ANSWERS:

21- A

22- C

23- B

24- B

25- A

26- B

27-C

28- A

29- C

30- A

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

00180—How does Matthew Arnold evaluate Chaucer’s greatness?

Matthew Arnold is an admirer of Chaucer’s poetry.  He remarks that Chaucer’s power of fascination is enduring.  “He will be read far more generally than he is read now.”  The only problem that we come across is the difficulty of following his language.  Chaucer’s superiority lies in the fact that “we suddenly feel ourselves to be in another world”.  His superiority is both in the substance of his poetry and in the style of his poetry.  “His view of life is large, free, simple, clear and kindly.  He has shown the power to survey the world from a central, a human point of view.”  The best example is his Prologue to the Canterbury Tales.  Matthew Arnold quotes here the words of Dryden who remarked about it; “Here is God’s plenty”.  Arnold continues to remark that Chaucer is a perpetual fountain of good sense.  Chaucer’s poetry has truth of substance; “Chaucer is the father of our splendid English poetry.”   By the lovely charm of his diction, the lovely charm of his movement, he makes an epoch and founds a tradition.  We follow this tradition in Spenser, Shakespeare, Milton and Keats.  “In these poets we feel the virtue.”  And the virtue is irresistible.

In spite of all these merits, Arnold says that Chaucer is not one of greatest classics.  He has not their accent.  To strengthen his argument Arnold compares Chaucer with the Italian classic Dante.  Arnold says that Chaucer lacks not only the accent of Dante but also the high seriousness.  “Homer’s criticism of life has it, Shakespeare has it, Dante has it, and Shakespeare has it.”  Thus in his critical essay “The Study of Poetry” Matthew Arnold comments not only on the  merits of Chaucer’s poetry, but also on the short comings.  He glorifies Chaucer with the remark, “With him is born our real poetry.”