100 objective type questions
ENGLISH FOR ELIGIBILITY EXAMINATION
1.What comes along with the drama in England as handmaid?
a) Culture b) Religion c) Lifestyle d) tragedy
2. In what language the church services were conducted in?
a) Latin b) Greek c) Portugese d) Italian
3.Whose life has been acted by the clergy?
a) Bibilical characters b) common man c) Jesus d) poets
4.Which particular occasion witnessed the representation of the story of Christ’s Nativity?
a) Religious movement b) winter celebration c) Christmas d) rejoicing the birth of jesus
5.The actors in these religious performances were also called as ?
a) Monks b) pageants c) priests d) followers.
6.Which was replaced by English ?
a) Dramatic narration b) bibilical language c) Latin dialogues d) soliloquy
7.What is mentioned to be the connected series of plays dealing with chief scriptural events?
a) Mystery or miracle plays b) interludes c) Moralities d) Comic
8.Which kind of play deals with the lives of saints?
a) Morality b) Mystery c) Miracles d) Interludes
9.Which kind of play deals with themes taken from bibles?
a) Morality b) Mystery c) Miracles d) Interludes
10.What was imitated by the beating of drums?
a) Ballet b) Thunder c) disaster d) Dance
11.What was replaced by bibilical figures in the middle of the fifteenth century?
a) Common man’s life b) personal characters c) religious images d) personified virtues and vices.
12.which is considered to be the best know play of morality in late 15th century?
a) Everyhuman b) Every wisemen c) Everyman d) The moral kind
13.which type of play has not been exactly defined in 15th century?
a) comic b) Interludes c) Tragedy d) comedy
14.which is said to be the play in the midst of other festivites or business?
a) Chorus b) Interludes c) comic d) imitation
15.who mentioned specimen of The Four Ps?
a) John dryden b) john Ruskin c) Johnathan swift d) john heywood
16.which is the well know comedy of the classical model?
a) Ralph Roister Doister b) Gorbudoc c) Ferrex d) Porrex
17.Who is the author off Ralph Roister Doister?
a) Nicholas Eton b) Nicholas Braden c) Nicholas Udall d) Thomas Sackville
18.when was the comedy Ralph Roister Doister published?
a) 1552 b) 1554 c) 1550 d) 1548
19.who is the author of the play Needle?
a) Gammer Gurton b)Thomas Sackville c) Thomas Norton d`) Seneca
20.Who wrote the play Gorbudoc or Ferre and Porrex jointly??
a) Gammer and Gurton b) thomas sackville and Norton c) Seneca
21.when was the Gorudoc written?
a) 1541 b) 1551 c) 1561 d) 1571
22.which is the first english play to employ blank verse?
a) Needle b) Ralph Roister Doister c) Gorbudoc d) Everyman
23.who rejected the advice of classical scholars like Sir philip sydney?
a) Shakespeare b) Wordsworth c) Norton d) Seneca
24.when was the play Gorboduc performed?
a) 1561 b) 1562 c) 1563 d) 1564
25.which is considered to be the eample of tragedy of blood?
a) Gorbudoc b) The Spanish Tragedy c) Hamlet d) Everyman
26.who is the 1st great dramatist?
a) Nicholas Udall b) Christopher Marlowe c) Thomas Kyd d) Sackville
27.which is the first tragedy?
a) Tamburlaine the Great b) The spanish Tragedy c) The jew of Malta d) Faustus
28.when was The Spanish Tragedy published?
a) 1590 b) 1591 c) 1592 d) 1594
29.who wrote the play The white Devil?
a) Benjamin b) John Webster c) John fletcher d) John Beaumont
Analysing a Poem
30.Which is used by poets to convey and reinforce the meaning or experience of poetry through the skillfull use of sound?
a) Accent b) Assonance c) Sound devices d) Rhyme
31.Which device is also called as Head Rhyme or Initial Rhyme?
a) Euphony b) Rhyme words c) Assonance d) Alliteration
32.what is considered to be the mingling of inharmonious sounds?
a) Dissonance b) assonance c) Meter d) Internal Rhyme
33.what is a rhyme occuring within the line?
a) Internal Rhyme b) Middle Rhyme c) both a and b d) Neither a nor b
34.Which Rhyme can also be called as Slant Rhyme or Off Rhyme?
a) Internal Rhyme b) External Rhyme c) Near Rhyme d) Consonance
35.Which term is generally expanded to refer to any word whose sound is suggesttive off its meaning?
a) Resonance b) Onomatopoiea c) Modulation d) Rhyme
36.Which creates a larger-than-life effect and overly stress a specific point??
a) Resonance b) Modulation c) Hyperbole d) Dissonance
37.what is the device that uses words and phrases to create "mental images" for the reader?
a) Imagery b) Kennings c) Irony d) Malapropism
38.Which term refers to the practice of changing the conventional placement of words?
a) Irony b) Juxtaposition c) Internal Rhyme d) Inversion
39.what are the figures of Rhetoric speech that use an understand statement of an affirmative by using a negative description?
a) Malapropism b) Litotes c) Metaphor d) Juxtaposition
40.What refers to a meaning or identity ascribed to one subject by way of another ?
a) Simile b) Litotes c) Metaphor d) Juxtaposition.
41.What includes the practice of misusing words by substituting words with similar sounding words that have different meanings ?
a) Malapropism b) Litotes c) Metaphor d) Juxtaposition.
42.Which device is used wherein the author places one concept parallel to another?
a)Simile b) Litotes c) Metaphor d) Juxtaposition.
43.what is called as the resemblance of sound, especially of vowel sounds?
a) Accent b) Assonance c) Sound devices d) Rhyme
44.Which figure of speech represents inanimate objects or abstractions are endowed with human qualities?
a) Simile b) Metaphor c) Personification d) Synecdoche
45.which figure of speech uses a part for whole(hand for sailor) and whole for part (law for police)?
a) Synecdoche b) Metonymy c) Litotes d) pathetic fallacy
46.What kind of figure of speech does the Oxymoron represent?
a) Rhetoric b) sound device c) formation d) fallacy
47.which is the direct address of an absent or imaginary person or of a personified abstraction?
a) Personification b) Apostrophe c) Onomatopoeia d) Oxymoron
48.which type of personification inanimate nature is given human qualities ?
a) Intentional fallacy b) Pathetic fallacy c) Oxymoron d) Apostrophe
LITERARY TERMS:
50. Which school of literary criticism that suggests that language is not a stable entitiy, and that we can never exactly say what we mean?
a) New Criticism b) Feminism c) Deconstruction d) Marxism
51. what does the deconstructionist critic will deliberately emphasize?
a) Ambiguities of language b) Use of language c) Literary Text d) Types of text.
52. Which tries to correct predominantly male-dominated critical perspective with a feminist consciousness?
a) Psychological Criticism b) Feminist criticism c) Historicism d) Marxism
53. which study analyzes women’s writing strategies in the context of their social conditions?
a) Marxism b) Psychological Criticism c) Historicism d) Feminist Criticism
54. which is meant to be a strongly political oriented criticism?
a) Marxism b) Queer theories c) societal affairs d) Gender Studies
55. What type of criticism removes the focus from the text and places it on the reader instead?
a) New Criticism b) Queer theories c) Reader-response criticism d) Gender studies
56. Which type occurs at the problems and issues of gender identity and sexual orientation?
a) Feminism b) Gender studies c) Historicism d) Parallelism
57. Which theory evolved out of formalist Criticism?
a) Practical criticism b) New Historicism c) New Criticism d) Feminism
58.What is the basis of Psychological Criticism?
a) Existence of human consciousness b) idea of mind and its function c) existence of gender bias d) moral consciousness
59.which is the only award provided to the best authors all around the world?
a) Noble prize b) man booker prize c) Pulitzer prize d) Costa book awards
60. which awards is given to great Britain and Ireland and contains 5 winners?
a)man booker prize b) Costa book awards c) Hugo awards d) Guardian 1st book award
61. which award is given to new writers of fiction and non fiction?
a) Guardian first book award b)National book award c)Bailey’s women’s prize for fiction d) Man booker prize
62. which prize is specifically for female authors of full lengthy novels?
a) Feminism award b) Bailey’s women’s prize for fiction c) Female Guardian award d) Man booker prize
63.Which is one of the most prestigious US literature Prizes?
a) Man booker prize b) national book award c) Hugo awards d) Guardian award
64.what is the prize which contains 4 categories of fiction, non-fiction, poetry, and young peoples’ literature.?
a) Hugo awards b) National Book awards c) Guardian awards d) Man booker prize
65. which award occurs every 2 years and it is considered as one of the most prestigious awards?
a) Neustadt International Prize b) National prize c) Manbooker prize d) National book awards.
66. What does Julius Ceaser is all about?
a) Political rivalry b) Political issues c) political security d) Political impact
67.which awards are given to writers of science fiction or fantasy?
a) Guardian awards b) Hugo awards c) National book awards d) costa awards.
68.Which century saw the emrgence of major new forms of criticism and innovative theories of literature?
a) 17th century b) 18th century c)19th century d) 20th century
69.which is the earliest of new critical impulses from abroad?
a) Russian formalism b) Structuralism c) Psychological criticism d) Archetypal
70. which term approaches literature as a specialized mode of language with exixtence of poetical use of language and practical use of language?
a) Psychoanalytical b) Reader response c) Formalism d) New criticism
71. what is the primary aim of formalists ?
a) To make the readers to analyse the text b) To cenvcey message c) To analyse the language system d) to renew the readers capacitry for fresh sensation
72. Who established the premises and procedures of psychoanalytical criticism?
a) Boris Eichanbaum b) Sigmund Freud c) Roman jakobson d) Viktor schlovsky
73. Who introduced the term New criticism?
a) Carl. G.Jung b) William Empson c) John Crowe Ransom d) Wimsatt
74. what is the division of Greek song?
a) Melic or Lyric b) Lyric or Ode c) Herricks or Melic d) Lyric or Sonnet
75. which appeals more to the heart than to the intellect?
a) Pindaric Ode b) Lyric c) Elegy d) Sonnet
76. who wrote “Ode to the West wind”?
a) Keats b) Marvell c) Shelley d) Wordsworth
77. Who wrote “Ode on the Death of the Duke of Wellington” ?
a) Wordsworth b) Tennyson c) Keats d) Shelley
78. which is exalted in subject-matter and elevated in tone and style?
a) Ode b) Elegy c) Sonnet d) Ballad
79.Which is considered to have fourteen lines?
a)Ode b) Elegy c) Sonnet d) Ballad
80.What should be the theme of Elegy?
a) sad and surprise b) happy and rejoice c) suspense and thriller d) Sad and mournful
81. who said “where there is leisure for fiction , there is little grief”?
a) Dr.johnson b) Shakepeare c) Marlowe d) Plato
82. What elegy is introduced during Renaissance period ?
a) Pastoral Elegy b) Idyll c) Epic d) Ballad
83. In which song poet represents himself as a shepherd mourning?
a) Elegy b) Tragedy c) Ballad d) pastoral Elegy
84.Which poetry may either be narrative or dramatic?
a) Lyric b) ode c) Ballad d) Pastoral Elegy
85. Whose death is mourned by Milton in Lycidus?
a) keats b) Edward King c) Arthur Hallam d) Shelley
86. Who mourns over the death of Keats in Adonais?
a) Milton b) Keats c) Tennyson d) Shelley
87. Who wrote the Elegy on the Death of a mad dog?
a) Mathew Arnold b) Thomas Gray c) Tennyson d) Oliver Goldsmith
88. Who laments the death of Arthur Hallam in “In Memoriam”?
a) Tennyson b) Arnold c) Therysmacus d) Shelley
89. What doies “Ode” means in Greek?
a)Song b) Epic c) Lyric d) Verse
90.which is not written about but written to?
a) Song b) Epic c) Ode d) Sonnet
91. who said “Poetry is a spontaneous overflow of powerful emotions” ?
a) Hazlitt b) Wordsworth c) S.T. Coleridge d) Plutarch
92. Who quoted “Poetry is the best words in best order”?
a) Hazlitt b) Wordsworth c) S.T.Coleridge d) Plutarch
93. What are the 2 kinds of poetry?
a) Lyric and Epic b) Tragedy and comedy c) Subjective and objective d) Progressive and effiminative
94. what kind of poetry is Lyrical one ?
a) Subjective b) objective c) Progressive d) effective
95. in what kind of poetry the poet deals with the outside world?
a) Subjective b) Objective c) Progressive d) effective
96.What musical instrument is used with Lyric song?
a)Lyre b) Pipe c) Flute d) Drum
97. Who wrote Pygmalion?
a) Robert Browning b) Swineburne c) G.B.Shaw d) John Webster
98.Who wrote the The Cocktail Party and The family Reunion?
a) Robert Bridges b) T.S.Eliot c) John Webster d) W.B. Yeats
99.Who is well known for his first great English neoclassic comedies?
a) G.B.Shaw b) Christopher Marlowe c) Dr.Johnson d) Ben Jonson
100.Who wrote the play Rosammund?
a) Joseph Addison b) Richard Steele c) Shelley d) Swineburne
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