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Match List I with List II
List I
[A] Acharnians [B] Clouds [C] Lysistrata [D] WaspsList II
[I] Government by women [II] Attack on parties involved in war [III] Criticism of the new ‘spirit of philosophical inquiry’ [IV] An attack on demagoguesChoose the correct answer from the options given below:
[1] A-I, B-III, C-II, D-IV [2] A-II, B-IV, C-I, D-III [3] A-III, B-I, C-IV, D-II [4] A-II, B-III, C-I, D-IVAnswer: [4] A-II, B-III, C-I, D-IV
Given below are two statements:
Statement I: It is true that there is an analogy between the works of an author and the experiences of his life
Statement II: The works may be seen as an incomplete translation of the life
In light of the above statements, choose the correct answer from the options given below:
1) Both Statement I and Statement II are true
2) Both Statement I and Statement II are false
3) Statement I is true but Statement II is false
4) Statement I is false but Statement II is true
Answer: 1) Both Statement I and Statement II are true
To whom is the term ‘thick description’ attributed?
1) John Storey
2) Clifford Geertz
3) Deleuze and Guattari
4) James Clifford
Answer: 2) Clifford Geertz
To which of the following theories New Historicism is indebted?
A) Marxism
B) Formalism
C) Reader-response Theory
D) Existentialism
E) Hermeneutics
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
1) A and C
2) B and A
3) A and E
4) B and C
Answer: 1) A and C
Which of the following statements are true about cyberpunk?
A) It is a kind of science fiction.
B) It uses postmodernist techniques and posthumanist themes.
C) Events in this novel usually take place within the virtual reality.
D) It is a kind of fiction written using online platforms.
E) The first cyberpunk was written by Thomas SternE)
Choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below:
1) A, B and D
2) A, C and D
3) A, B and C
4) A, C and E
Answer: 3) A, B and C
Match List I with List II
LIST I LIST II
A PeterMiddleton I New Relations: The Refashioning of British Poetry 1980—1994
B Patricia Waugh II Distant Reading: Performance,Readership, and Consumption inContemporary Poetry
C David Kennedy III Reading Twentieth-CenturyPoetry: TheLanguage ofGender and Objects
D EdwardLarrissy IV The Harvest ofthe Sixties: English Literature andIts Background 1960-1990
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
1) A-III, B-IV, C-II, D-I
2) A-IV, B-III, C-I, D-II
3) A-II, B-IV, C-I, D-III
4) A-III, B-I, C-II, D-IV
Answer: 3) A-II, B-IV, C-I, D-III
Match List – I with List – II.
List – I (Term) List – II (Definition)
(A) Ambivalence (I) Rejection of a normative concept of ‘correct’ or ‘standard’ English
(B) Magic Realism (II) Marriage or cohabitation by persons of different race
(C) Abrogation (III) Complex mix of attraction and repulsion
(D) Miscegenation (IV) Inclusion of fantastic or mythical elements into seemingly realistic fiction
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
(1) (A)-(1), (B)-(II), (C)-(IV), (D)-(III)
(2) (A)-(II), (B)-(III), (C)-(I), (D)-(IV)
(3) (A)-(IV), (B)-(I), (C)-(III), (D)-(II)
(4) (A)-(III), (B)-(IV), (C)-(I), (D)-(II)
Answer: (4) (A)-(III), (B)-(IV), (C)-(I), (D)-(II)
Choose the correct chronological sequence in which the following theories appeared
A) Structuralism
B) Psychoanalysis
C) Ecocriticism
D) Orientalism
E) New Criticism
1) E, B, D, C, A
2) E, A, C, B, D
3) B, E, D, A, C
4) B, E, A, D, C
Answer: 4) B, E, A, D, C
Donna Haraway’s “Cyborg Manifesto” underscores the notion that –
1) The boundaries between animal, human and machine are breaking down.
2) The cyborgs would establish a dictatorship of the proletariat in the near future.
3) Humans and non-humans would wage a battle for acquisition of cultural capital.
4) Identity politics would be bolstered by intervention of artificial intelligence.
Donna Haraway’s “Cyborg Manifesto” underscores the notion that –
Answer: 1) The boundaries between animal, human and machine are breaking down.
Who among of the following are known as Cambridge Critics?
A) Arthur-Quiller Couch
B) F.R. Leavis
C) George Saintsbury
D) I.A. Richards
E) William Empson
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
1) B, C, and D
2) A, B, and C
3) A, C, and E
4) B, D, and E
Answer: 4) B, D, and E
The author of The Golden Bough, a text that influenced Eliot’s poetry and criticism substantially, is:
1) John Ruskin
2) James George Frazer
3) Thomas Carlyle
4) David Wilson
Answer: 2) James George Frazer
Some of the following are significant texts of Victorian Criticism. Identify them.
A) Studies in the History of the Renaissance
B) From Rituals to Romance
C) “Hamlet and His Problems”
D) “The Function of Criticism in the Present Time”
E) Modern Painters
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
1) B, C, and D
2) A, D, and E
3) A, C, and D
4) B, D, and E
Answer: 2) A, D, and E
Arrange the correct chronological sequence of events that affected literary criticism and theory.
A) Man’s First Flight to the Moon
B) End of the World War II
C) Martin Luther King Jr’s ‘I Have a Dream’ Speech
D) Russian Revolution
E) India’s Independence
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
1) C, D, E, A, B
2) D, A, E, B, C
3) C, E, B, D, A
4) D, B, E, C, A
Answer: 4) D, B, E, C, A
‘Demythologizing’ is a term associated with the works of
1) Claude Lévi Strauss
2) Ferdinand de Saussure
3) Rudolph Bultmann
4) Friedrich Schleiermacher
Answer: 3) Rudolph Bultmann
Jonathan Bate’s The Song of the Earth was published in
1)2001
2) 1991
3) 2000
4) 1999
Answer: 3) 2000
Read the following passage, and answer the questions that follow: (91-95)
However, faced with this world of faithful and complicated objects, the child can only identify himself as owner. as user, never as creator, he does not invent the world. he uses it: there are. prepared for him, actions without adventure, without wonder, without joy. He is turned into a little stay-at-home householder who does not even have to invent the mainsprings of adult causality: they are supplied to him ready-made: he has only to help himself. he is never allowed to discover anything from start to finish. The merest set of blocks. provided it is not too refined, implies a very different learning of the world: then, the child does not in any way create meaningful objects, it matters little to him whether they have an adult class: the actions he performs are not those of a user but those of a demiurge. He creates forms which walk, which roll, he creates life. not property: objects now act by themselves; they are no longer an inert and complicated material in the palm of his hand. Roland Barthes “Toys” (Excerpt from Mythologies)
Which of the following is a correct interpretation?
[1] The child claims the object as his property [2] The objects that the child holds are obscure and useless [3] The child cannot understand the design of the object [4] In touching the object, the child creates dynamic forms of lifeAnswer: [4] In touching the object, the child creates dynamic forms of life
In the context of the above passage, which is the closest to being true:
[1] Children actively learn while playing [2] Children are objects for toy makers [3] Toys affect the cognitive abilities of the children [4] Children recreate meaning from the toysAnswer: [4] Children recreate meaning from the toys
The adult causality is about
[1] Sensual and sexual knowledge of the world [2] Cognitive and logical structure of the world [3] Nihilistic recreation of the world [4] Linguistic structure of the objectsAnswer: [2] Cognitive and logical structure of the world
The word “demiurge” connotes
[1] Cognitive inactiveness of the children [2] Their sensational realization of the objects [3] Their creative abilities [4] Their sudden discoveryAnswer: [3] Their creative abilities
The world of objects makes the child
[1] Imaginative [2] Inventor [3] Actant [4] CreatorAnswer: [3] Actant & [4] Creator
Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow: At school the study of literature can still involve a close reading or ‘practical criticism’ of a novel, play or poem without much or any recourse to external material. Practical criticism is the method of analysing a poem, in isolation from the circumstances of its production, developed by I. A. Richards (1893-1919) in the 1920s. He felt that concentration upon the words on the page’, the technical aspects of the ways verse creates effects, would result in meaningful judgements upon whether a poem was intrinsically ‘good’ or simply reputedly so. The methodology of practical criticism seeks coherence in images, themes and patterns of language. Richards and his colleagues felt that this practice was ‘scientific’ and led to objective value judgements. He was part of a group of lecturers at Cambridge University who played a crucial role in the development of the discipline of English Literature and whose methodology influenced the critical practices of the New Critics, John Crowe Ransom (1888-1974) and Cleanth Brooks (1906-94) and their colleagues in the US. Their ‘scientific’ examination of literature asserted a hierarchy of texts, those that held universal meaning and significance through aesthetic form and those deemed too formulaic to warrant academic scrutiny. The first revered group of texts is often referred to as the literary canon.
In the context of the above passage, close reading implies
1) Reading a text by adopting an indisciplinary mode of inquiry.
2) Reading a text by emphasising on its affective capacity.
3) Reading a text by adopting a phenomenological approach.
4) Reading a text by focussing on words and the technical aspects
Answer: 4) Reading a text by focussing on words and the technical aspects
Q.97) The purpose of I.A. Richard’s ‘practical criticism’ was to
1) Ensure that criticism adopted a practical perspective to life and basic human issues.
2) Usher in an objective approach to the study of texts.
3) Valorise the prescriptive function of literature.
4) Foreground the contextual aspects of the text taken under scrutiny.
Answer: 2) Usher in an objective approach to the study of texts.
“The methodology of practical criticism seeks coherence in images, themes and patterns of language.”could be the implication of this statement?
1) Practical criticism involves a political hermeneutic.
2) Practical criticism privileges a pragmatic approach.
3) Practical criticism prioritises on evaluating texts by adopting a purely literary mode of inquiry bereft of contextualization.
4) Practical criticism is activism-based criticism.
Answer: 3) Practical criticism prioritises on evaluating texts by adopting a purely literary mode of inquiry bereft of contextualization.
What kind of value judgement did practical criticism as a radical critical movement promote or promulgate?
1) Giving credence to intentionality.
2) Privileging the affective dimension.
3) Valorising historical scholarship.
4) Evaluating value in terms of universal truths.
Answer: 4) Evaluating value in terms of universal truths.
In the context of the above passage, what does ‘literary canon’ imply?
1) A selection of random, arbitrary literary works.
2) A selection of Christian exegetical works.
3) A selection of literary texts established as part of a great tradition.
4) A curated selection from popular literature.
Answer: 3) A selection of literary texts established as part of a great tradition.
