SET Model question paper 1

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

8) Who proposed the doctrine 01 the Three
Unities?

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

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

11) Mark 006 odd one out:

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

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

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

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

An Enemy of the People is written by:

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

18) Alfred Tennyson’s Maud was originally
subtitled

19) The ‘Spenserian stanza’ consists of

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

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

22) Find the odd one out:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

35) Identify the incorrect combination of texts
and authors:

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

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

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

39) Which of these is not a search engine?

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

41) Who is the author of The Black Hill?

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

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

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

45) Athesiscannotbe submitted if the similarity
index is

46) Gudrun is a character in both

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

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

49) “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

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

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

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

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

54) . Who coined the term ‘ecofeminism’?

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

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

57) Which philosopher most influenced New
Historicism?

58) Who wrote Mary: A Fiction?

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

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

61) Who is the author of The Black Hill?

62) 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?

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

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

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

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

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

68) Shelley’s Adonais was written in memory
of

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

76) 1922 was the year of publication of Ulysses
and “The Waste Land”. Which of the works below
was not published in 1922?

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

78) Who coined the term ‘postmodern’?

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

80) 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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81) Which of the following pairs of ancient
Greek playwrights dramatise the tragedy of
Orestes?
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82) Which among the following is a fine
example of ‘Comedy of Menace’?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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