List of top English Questions asked in CUET (PG)

What are the characteristics of good prose? Choose the most appropriate answer
(A). Use of bombastic words.
(B). Matching the requirements of the targeted readership.
(C). Ease of expression.
(D). Economy of words.
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Match List-I with List-II
\[\begin{array}{|c|c|} \hline \textbf{List-I} & \textbf{List-II} \\ \text{Genre} & \text{Definition} \\ \hline \hline \text{(A). Sonnet} & \text{(I). A long verse narrative on a serious subject} \\ \hline \text{(B). Lyric} & \text{(II). A formal and sustained lament in verse} \\ \hline \text{(C). Epic} & \text{(III). A poem uttered by a single speaker who expresses his thoughts or emotions} \\ \hline \text{(D). Elegy} & \text{(IV). A poem of fourteen lines} \\ \hline \end{array}\]
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Which of the following statements is incorrect?

Which ONE of the following authors is not from the Caribbean region?

Who among the following were known as the University Wits?
(A). John Lyly
(B). Ben Jonson
(C). Thomas Nashe
(D). Thomas Middleton
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Match List-I with List-II
\[\begin{array}{|l|l|} \hline \textbf{List-I (Literary Genre)} & \textbf{List-II (Text)} \\ \hline \text{(A). Fiction} & \text{(I). Prometheus Unbound} \\ \hline \text{(B). Poetry} & \text{(II). Moll Flanders} \\ \hline \text{(C). Drama} & \text{(III). On the Subjection of Women} \\ \hline \text{(D). Non-fiction} & \text{(IV). Intimations of Immortality} \\ \hline \end{array}\]
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Match List-I with List-II
\[\begin{array}{|l|l|} \hline \textbf{List-I (Humour)} & \textbf{List-II (Characteristic)} \\ \hline \text{(A) Sanguine} & \text{(I) Anger} \\ \hline \text{(B) Melancholic} & \text{(II) Apathy} \\ \hline \text{(C) Phlegmatic} & \text{(III) Sadness} \\ \hline \text{(D) Choleric} & \text{(IV) Happiness} \\ \hline \end{array}\]
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Arrange the following in the correct chronological order of the year of their birth, beginning with the earliest.
(A). Toru Dutt
(B). Jhumpa Lahiri
(C). R.K. Narayan
(D). Anita Desai
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Which of the following books relate to the Partition of India?
(A) The Broken Mirror
(B) Coolie
(C) Midnight's Furies
(D) Ice Candy Man
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What was worse than the illness?

Which of the following is NOT an autobiography?

Which of the following statements are true with respect to Aristotle's classic analysis of Tragedy in his Poetics?
(A). Tragedy is mimesis.
(B). Tragedy intends to accomplish the catharsis of emotions like pity and fear.
(C). The tragic hero is an everyday person with ordinary moral worth.
(D). It is hamartia, which often leads the tragic hero into a state of suffering.
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Which of the following elements of drama was termed as mythos by Aristotle ?

Who among the following is associated with the Gothic?

Which of the following statements are correct in the context of Coleridge's understanding of the terms 'Fancy' and 'Imagination'?
(A). Fancy is a mechanical faculty of the human mind.
(B). Imagination is an organic faculty of the human mind that dissolves dialectical oppositions.
(C). Fancy is Mimetic, and Imagination is creative.
(D). Fancy is the real poetic creativity.
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Match List-I with List-II
\[\begin{array}{|l|l|} \hline \textbf{List-I (Author)} & \textbf{List-II (Novel)} \\ \hline \text{(A). Allen Sealy} & \text{(I). The Calcutta Choromosome} \\ \hline \text{(B). Salman Rushdie} & \text{(II). The Everest Hotel} \\ \hline \text{(C). Amitav Ghosh} & \text{(III). The Golden Gate} \\ \hline \text{(D). Vikram Seth} & \text{(IV). Grimus} \\ \hline \end{array}\]
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What was the 'only' thing that prevented the writer from losing her sanity?

Which of the following is NOT a work by R. K. Narayan?

The first Indian writer to write a novel in English was:

Match List-I with List-II
\[\begin{array}{|l|l|} \hline \textbf{List-I (Quote from the Play)} & \textbf{List-II (Name of the Play)} \\ \hline \text{(A) Brevity is the soul of wit} & \text{(I) The Tempest} \\ \hline \text{(B) All the world's a stage} & \text{(II) Hamlet} \\ \hline \text{(C) We are such stuff as dreams are made of} & \text{(III) Macbeth} \\ \hline \text{(D) Out, out brief candle} & \text{(IV) As You Like It} \\ \hline \end{array}\]
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Which figure of speech is used in the opening line of Spenser's sonnet LVII (57) - 'Sweet Warrior! When Shall I Have Peace with Thee?'

The given passage may be characterised as -

"Shimmering snow on the southern slope of the Simla hills," is an example of:

"Sethe", he says, "me and you, we got more yesterday than anybody. We need some more kind of tomorrow."
Which figure of speech is used here? Choose the most appropriate answer.

Sequence these Nobel Prize winners in chronological order of they having received the award:
(A). T.S. Eliot
(B). Samuel Beckett
(C). Bob Dylan
(D). W.B. Yeats
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