SET Model question paper 1

1) “Landscape plotted and pieced- fold, fallow,
and plow;”— is an instance of
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2) Whichcritic changes Horace’s title Epistula
ad Pisones into Ars Poetica?

3) From the varieties of English which one is
not used in the spoken form?

4) “You are about to begin reading Italo
Calvino’s new novel, If on a winter’s night a
traveller. Relax. Concentrate…”
This is an address by

5) Which of the following texts may be
regarded as an introduction to Canadian literary
identity?

6) From which poem are the following lines
taken?
“I’sit in the top of the wood, my eyes closed.
Inaction, no falsifying dream…”
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7) From the following, pick out what is not
part of mass culture?

8) Who is the author of The Black Hill?

9) In which wave of feminist theory, can we
place Chandra Talpade Mohanty?

10) Which of these novels was celebrated by
Nirad C. Chaudhuri as “the finest novel in the
English language with an Indian Theme”?

11) Which of the following texts may be
regarded as an introduction to Canadian literary
identity?

12) The ‘Spenserian stanza’ consists of

13) Who among the following in “An Essay 01
Dramatic Poesy” speaks in favour of the regularity
and decorum of the French plays?

14) Who among the following 15 a writer from
Nagaland?

15) Who is credited with having founded the
Birmingham Centre for Contemporary Cultural
Studies?

16) In which drama do we find the following
line:
“What do we do now, now that we are happy?”

17) In which poem do we find the following
lines?
Ah, but a man’s reach should exceed his grasp
Or what’s a heaven for?

18) Which of the following forms is 7101
connected with Speculative Fiction?

19) Alfred Tennyson’s Maud was originally
subtitled

20) Which poet wrote avant-garde poems in
which conventional punctuation was ignored in
favour of a dynamic language?

21) Which of the following is nor a part of V. S.
Naipaul’s Indian Trilogy?

22) Gudrun is a character in both

23) Who wrote the following?
“What passing bells for those who 016 as cattle?
Only the monstrous anger of the guns.”

24) “This curved jawbone did not laugh/but
gripped, gripped and is now a cenotaph”. These
lines offer an example of

25) Which of the following pairs of ancient
Greek playwrights dramatise the tragedy of
Orestes?
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26) Inthediscourse of decoloniality, the concept
of “border thinking” is advocated by

27) Whichcritic changes Horace’s title Epistula
ad Pisones into Ars Poetica?

28) Who was the first composer of an English
Dictionary?

In Edmund Spenser’s The Faerie Queene
Sir Guyon is the personification of

30) “This is the sea’s achievement; with shells/
vertebrae, claws, carapaces, skulls.” The lines use:

31) Shelley’s Adonais was written in memory
of

32) Which among the following is a fine
example of ‘Comedy of Menace’?

33) Who is the author of The Black Hill?

34) The final line in Samson Agonistes: ‘And
calm of mind all passion spent’ gives an idea of

35) The first University Commission was instituted by Lord Curzon in the year

36) Ofthe following whichis notacollection of
short stories written by Thomas Hardy?

37) Identify the incorrect combination of texts
and authors:

38) The first University Commission was
instituted by Lord Curzon in the year

An Enemy of the People is written by:

40) Inwhich grammardo you find deep structure
and surface structure?

41) Agit Prop Theatre does not display one 01
the following characteristics:

42) Inwhich poemdoes Allen Ginsberg lament
his mother’s insanity?

43) “Thoustillunravished bride of quietness™—
This line offers an example of

44) “Landscape plotted and pieced- fold, fallow,
and plow;”— is an instance of

45) Who among the following was the editor of
the journal “Scrutiny”?

46) Who among the following critics has coined
the expression “structure of feeling”?

47) Who proposed the doctrine 01 the Three
Unities?

48) Sociery is all but rude,
Tothis delicious solitude.”—In which
poem do we find these lines?

49) Mark 006 odd one out:

50) 1922 was the year of publication of Ulysses
and “The Waste Land”. Which of the works below
was not published in 1922?

51) Which of these is not a search engine?

52) In which book of the Republic did Plato
expound his theory of mimesis

53) Who is credited with having founded the
Birmingham Centre for Contemporary Cultural
Studies?

54) Silent Spring 15 one of the key texts of—

55) Who among the following developed the
idea of ‘Pantisocracy’?

56) Who among the following was not a part of
the Oxford Movement?

57) Who is the author of the work The Castle of
My Skin?

58) Shelley’s statement, “1 always seek in what
Isee the likeness of something beyond the present
and tangible object” may be described as

59) Whichofthe following 18th Century novels
can be regarded as a “picaresque novel”?

60) Which of the following plays inspired
Shakerpeare’s Comedy of Errors?

61) Who among the following introduced ‘rime
royal’ in English poetry?

62) “Jaws/Eatand are finished and the jawbone
comes to the beach”. The lines suggest:

63) Charles Lamb wrote under the pseudonym
Elia for which periodical?

64) Who described the ‘Bloomsbary 01001 as
a group of upper middle-class ‘black beetles’?

65) In which novel 00 you find the character
Benjamin Burnham?

66) Pick out the multi-genre text containing
poems, stories and essays about climate change:

67) Who wrote Mary: A Fiction?

68) The poetry of Dylan Thomas often strongly
reflects the elements of

69) Who among the following offers ‘axioms’
of poetry?

70) Which of the following plays inspired
Shakerpeare’s Comedy of Errors?

71) Who among the following writers has not
been awarded the Nobel Prize in literature?

72) Inwhich grammardo you find deep structure
and surface structure?

73) T. S. Eliot alludes to a refrain in
Edmund Spenser’s “Prothalamion”— “Sweet
Thames, run softly, till T end my song” in

74) Identify the poem which is not by Nissim
Ezekiel—

75) In which chapter of Biographia Literaria,
does Coleridge discuss the language of metrical
composition?

76) Find the odd one out:

77) Which of the following sources of the
sublime are nor mentioned by Longinus in On The
Sublime?

78) The term ‘Mestiza’ comes under the
purview of

79) Who is the author of the work The Castle of
My Skin?

80) Which philosopher most influenced New
Historicism?

81) Which among the following is a fine
example of ‘Comedy of Menace’?

82) Which leading figure of the Harlem
Renaissance wrote “Montage of a Dream
Deferred”?

83) Who is described by Matthew Arnold as
‘the scantiest and frailest 01 classics’?

84) Which of these authors was acclaimed by
Mikhail Bakhtin as the supreme example of
dialogism?

85) Which of the following pairs of ancient
Greek playwrights dramatise the tragedy of
Orestes?

86) Athesiscannotbe submitted if the similarity
index is

87) চ. 8. Shelley’s “The Masque of Anarchy”
was occasioned by…

88) . Who coined the term ‘ecofeminism’?

Which of the following forms is 7101
connected with Speculative Fiction?

90) Who coined the term ‘postmodern’?