71. Which Romantic Poet coined the famous term ‘negative capability’?
(A) John Keats
(B) William Wordsworth
(C) S. T. Coleridge
(D) Lord Byron
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72. Which of the following plays by Girish Karnad is based on the Katha-Sarit-Sagar ?
(A) Tughlaq
(B) Yayati
(C) Hayavadana
(D) None of the above
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73. Reformation was predominantly a movement in
(A) Literature
(B) Religion
(C) Politics
(D) Environment
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74. Choose the word opposite in meaning for IMPLICIT.
(A) Satire
(B) Baseless
(C) Unexplained
(D) Definite
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75. The last Essays of Elia was published in
(A) 1800
(B) 1823
(C) 1850
(D) 1833
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76. I know the voices dying with a dying fall Beneath the music from a farther room. So how should I presume? These lines occur in the poem
(A) The Wasteland
(B) The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
(C) Geronation
(D) The Hollow Men
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77. Pick the correct choice from the ones given below for
Just one more favourable report and you will be promoted.
(A) If you had managed just one more favourable report, you would have been promoted
(B) You will be promoted if you can manage one more favourable report
(C) But for one favourable report, you would have been promoted
(D) One more favourable report would have promoted you
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78. Transform the following sentence and choose the correct option.
No sooner did the clock strike ten than we went to bed.
(A) No sooner we went to bed than the clock struck ten
(B) As soon as we went to bed, than the clock struck ten
(C) As soon as did the clock strike ten, did we go to bed
(D) As soon as the clock struck ten, we went to bed
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79. In which of the given plays of Shakespeare, does this line occur ?
There is no art to find minds’ construction on the face. He was a gentleman on whom I had an absolute trust.
(A) Othello
(B) Macbeth
(C) As You Like It
(D) Twelfth Night
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80. The Age of Restoration is so called because one of the following was restored to the English throne
(A) Charles I
(B) Charles II
(C) James I
(D) James II
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81. The term “Metaphysical School of Poets” was first applied to Donne and his companion poets by
(A) Matthew Arnold
(B) Dryden
(C) Dr. Johnson
(D) Coleridge
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82. Which of the following romantic poets is noted for discarding the “gaudiness and inane phraseology of many modern writers, and writing his poems in a selection of the real language of men in a state of vivid sensation”?
(A) P. B. Shelley
(B) William Blake
(C) William Wordsworth
(D) John Keats
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83. Choose the option which can be substituted for the given phrase.
A person who tries to deceive people by claiming to be able to do wonderful things.
(A) trickster
(B) impostor
(C) magician
(D) mountebank
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84. John Dryden in his heroic tragedy
All for Love takes the story of Shakespeare’s
(A) The Merchant of Venice
(B) Antony and Cleopatra
(C) Measure for Measure
(D) The Tempest
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85. Out of the given alternatives, choose the word which most closely fits definition of this statement.
‘One who is well-versed in any subject, a critical judge of any art, particularly fine arts.”
(A) Connoisseur
(B) Dilettante
(C) Veteran
(D) Philistine
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86. Earth is the right place for love
I do not know, where it is likely to go better’. Where do these lines occur?
(A) Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
(B) The Road not taken
(C) Birches
(D) I hear America Sing
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87. I was the first to hear the news.
Which of the following is the correct conversion from simple to complex sentence, using an adjective clause ?
(A) I was the first who heard the news.
(B) I was the first whom heard the news.
(C) I was the first that heard the news.
(D) I was the first which heard the news.
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88. Who among the following is the writer of the books, The American Scholar and The Divinity School Address?
(A) Nathaniel Hawthorne
(B) Ralph Waldo Emerson
(C) Henry David Thoreau
(D) Walt Whitman
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89. Match the characteristics mentioned at Section ‘B’ with the forms written at Section ‘A’.
| Section ‘A’ | Section ‘B’ |
| 1. Caricature | a. It originated in 16th Century Spain. Here the character satirizes the society in which he lives. |
| 2. Novella |
b. It is a term coined by William James in principles of psychology to denote the flow of inner experiences |
| 3. Picaresque Novel |
c. It ridicules a person by exaggerating and distorting his most prominent features and characteristics |
| 4. Stream of consciousness technique |
d. This genre was developed by Boccaccio in Decameron |
. 1 2 3 4
(A) b с a d
(B) c a b d
(C) a c d b
(D) c d a b
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90. Which of the following is not correctly matched ?
(A) Daffodils – William Wordsworth
(B) Lamia – Shelley
(C) The Rime of Ancient Mariner – Coleridge
(D) Ode to Nightingale – John Keats
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