SET Model question paper 1

1) Who coined the term ‘postmodern’?

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

3) Alfred Tennyson’s Maud was originally
subtitled

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

5) Which of these is not a search engine?

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

7) Identify the incorrect combination of texts
and authors:

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

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

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

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

12) The ‘Spenserian stanza’ consists of

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

14) From the following, pick out what is not
part of mass culture?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

22) Which philosopher most influenced New
Historicism?

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

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

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

27) Which of the following pairs of ancient
Greek playwrights dramatise the tragedy of
Orestes?
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28) Which of these authors was acclaimed by
Mikhail Bakhtin as the supreme example of
dialogism?

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

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

31) Athesiscannotbe submitted if the similarity
index is

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

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

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

35) Find the odd one out:

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

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

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

39) Who proposed the doctrine 01 the Three
Unities?

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

41) Inthediscourse of decoloniality, the concept
of “border thinking” is advocated by

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

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

44) Who wrote Mary: A Fiction?

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

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

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

48) Gudrun is a character in both

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

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

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

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

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

54) “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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

An Enemy of the People is written by:

64) Who is the author of The Black Hill?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

73) . Who coined the term ‘ecofeminism’?

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

75) 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?

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

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

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

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

80) Mark 006 odd one out:

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

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

83) 1922 was the year of publication of Ulysses
and “The Waste Land”. Which of the works below
was not published in 1922?

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

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

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

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

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

89) Shelley’s Adonais was written in memory
of

90) Who is the author of The Black Hill?