SET Model question paper 1

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

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

3) Who is the author of The Black Hill?

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

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

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

7) Mark 006 odd one out:

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

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

10) Identify the incorrect combination of texts
and authors:

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

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

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

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

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

16) 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?

17) Shelley’s Adonais was written in memory
of

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

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

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

21) Gudrun is a character in both

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

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

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

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

26) Who wrote Mary: A Fiction?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

36) The ‘Spenserian stanza’ consists of

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

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

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

40) . Who coined the term ‘ecofeminism’?

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

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

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

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

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

46) Which philosopher most influenced New
Historicism?

47) “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

48) Athesiscannotbe submitted if the similarity
index is

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

66) Which of these is not a search engine?

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

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

69) Which of the following pairs of ancient
Greek playwrights dramatise the tragedy of
Orestes?
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70) Who is the author of The Black Hill?

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

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

An Enemy of the People is written by:

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

75) 1922 was the year of publication of Ulysses
and “The Waste Land”. Which of the works below
was not published in 1922?

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

77) Alfred Tennyson’s Maud was originally
subtitled

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

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

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

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

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

83) Who proposed the doctrine 01 the Three
Unities?

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

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

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

87) Find the odd one out:

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

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

90) Who coined the term ‘postmodern’?