List of top English Questions asked in CUET (PG)

What is the term for a small business owner?

What is the one-word term for extreme desire for wealth?

What phrase means "the argument is unsound"?

What is the antonym of eradicate?

Match List-I with List-II
\[\begin{array}{|l|l|} \hline \textbf{List-I (Literary Genre)} & \textbf{List-II (Text)} \\ \hline \text{(A). Fiction} & \text{(I). Prometheus Unbound} \\ \hline \text{(B). Poetry} & \text{(II). Moll Flanders} \\ \hline \text{(C). Drama} & \text{(III). On the Subjection of Women} \\ \hline \text{(D). Non-fiction} & \text{(IV). Intimations of Immortality} \\ \hline \end{array}\]
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

Who first used the term 'Negative Capability'?

Blank verse is:

Which of the following is an ancient book of grammar?

Match List-I with List-II
\[\begin{array}{|l|l|} \hline \textbf{List-I} & \textbf{List-II} \\ \text{Writer} & \text{Nationality} \\ \hline \hline \text{(A). Arvind Adiga} & \text{(I). Canada} \\ \hline \text{(B). R. K. Narayan} & \text{(II). USA} \\ \hline \text{(C). Rohinton Mistry} & \text{(III). Australia} \\ \hline \text{(D). Jhumpa Lahiri} & \text{(IV). India} \\ \hline \end{array}\]
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

Who is considered the 'compiler' of the Vedas?

Match List-I with List-II
\[\begin{array}{|l|l|} \hline \textbf{List-I (Actual Name)} & \textbf{List-II (Pen name/Pseudonym)} \\ \hline \text{(A) J. K. Rowling} & \text{(I) Currer Bell} \\ \hline \text{(B) Mary Ann Evans} & \text{(II) Robert Galbraith} \\ \hline \text{(C) Agatha Christie} & \text{(III) George Eliot} \\ \hline \text{(D) Charlotte Brontë} & \text{(IV) Mary Westmacott} \\ \hline \end{array}\]
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

Match List-I with List-II
\[\begin{array}{|c|c|} \hline \textbf{List-I} & \textbf{List-II} \\ \text{Genre} & \text{Definition} \\ \hline \hline \text{(A). Sonnet} & \text{(I). A long verse narrative on a serious subject} \\ \hline \text{(B). Lyric} & \text{(II). A formal and sustained lament in verse} \\ \hline \text{(C). Epic} & \text{(III). A poem uttered by a single speaker who expresses his thoughts or emotions} \\ \hline \text{(D). Elegy} & \text{(IV). A poem of fourteen lines} \\ \hline \end{array}\]
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

'Poetry is a spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings and emotions recollected in tranquility', as a poetic philosophy is ascribed to:

What is the antonym of warily?

Match List-I with List-II
\[\begin{array}{|l|l|} \hline \textbf{List-I (Author)} & \textbf{List-II (Novel)} \\ \hline \text{(A). Allen Sealy} & \text{(I). The Calcutta Choromosome} \\ \hline \text{(B). Salman Rushdie} & \text{(II). The Everest Hotel} \\ \hline \text{(C). Amitav Ghosh} & \text{(III). The Golden Gate} \\ \hline \text{(D). Vikram Seth} & \text{(IV). Grimus} \\ \hline \end{array}\]
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

Arrange the following texts in the order they were written, from the earliest to the latest.
(A). The Inheritance of Loss
(B). The Guide
(C). Swami and Friends
(D). The Shadow Lines
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

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
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

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

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?'

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
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

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

"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
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

Which of the following is not a characteristic of Ecocriticism?