List of top English Questions asked in CUET (PG)

In which Absurdist play, written in French as Fin de Partie, would you find the characters Hamm, Clov, Nagg, and Nell?

In T.S. Eliot’s seminal poem, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, in the line “I should have been a pair of ragged claws scuttling across the floors of silent seas”, identify the figures of speech
1.Metonymy
2.Paradox
3.Synecdoche
4. Alliteration
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

Which of the following is written by the African-American author Octavia Butler?
Fledgling (2005)
Kindred (1979)
Parable of the Sower (1993)
The Word for World is Forest (1972)

Match the Jane Austen novels (List I) with their primary female character (List II):

List I (Jane Austen Novels)	List II (Primary Female Character)
A. Pride and Prejudice	I. Catherine Morland
B. Persuasion	IV. Anne Elliot
C. Northanger Abbey	I. Catherine Morland
D. Mansfield Park	III. Fanny Price

Which of the following is true for masque performances?
(A) Masques were important theatrical forms during the reigns of James I and Charles I.
(B) They were performed in private royal halls.
(C) They were expensive to mount and had simple costumes and minimal stage designs.
(D) The designer of the most successful masques was Inigo Jones.

Which of the following works is attributed to Ben Jonson?
(A) To the Memory of My Beloved, The Author Mr. William Shakespeare: And What He Hath Left
(B) The Changeling
(C) The Sun Rising
(D) The Duchess of Malfi

Arrange the following events in the order of their occurrence in Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre:
(A) Jane meets Mr. Rochester.
(B) Jane’s studies at Lowood School.
(C) Mr. Briggs, a solicitor from London, arrives with a letter from Richard Mason about Bertha Mason.
(D) Jane takes up the role of governess for Misses Abbot and Bessie Lee.

Match the Concept (List-I) to its Originator (List-II):

List I	Concept	List II: Originator
A	Dissociation of Sensibility	(I) Wimsatt & Beardsley
B	Negative Capability	(II) Aristotle
C	Intentional Fallacy	(III) T.S. Eliot
D	Mimesis	(IV) John Keats

Identify the author-translator duo who are correctly matched:
(A) Adheesh Sathaye - Simon Bruni
(B) Elena Ferrante - Ann Goldstein
(C) Han Kang - Deborah Smith
(D) Olga Tokarczuk - Jennifer Croft

Which of the following is a part of Anthony Burgess’ Malayan trilogy?
(A) A Clockwork Orange
(B) Time for a Tiger
(C) The Enemy in the Blanket
(D) Beds in the East

Arrange the Shakespearean tragedies in the ascending order of the period in which they were published (oldest first):
(A) Julius Caesar
(B) Coriolanus
(C) Othello
(D) Titus Andronicus

Which of the following D.H. Lawrence’s novels written in Italy and published in 1928 was banned in England for its sexual content?

Identify the writer(s) associated with the Harlem Renaissance:
(A) Claude McKay
(B) Zora Neale Hurston
(C) W.E.B. Du Bois
(D) Langston Hughes

Identify the thinker who is not associated with the Frankfurt School of Marxist Aesthetics established in 1923:

Match the book (List I) with its author (List II):

List I (Book)	List II (Author)
A. My Antonia	I. Mary Shelley
B. The Garden Party and Other Stories	II. Katherine Mansfield
C. Frankenstein	III. James Joyce
D. Dubliners	IV. Willa Cather

The first Progressive Writers’ Conference was held in Lucknow on this date.
Identify the date:

The picaresque novel is characterized by the adventures and travels of a roguish but appealing character. Which of the following texts can be cited as an example of the picaresque novel?
(A) The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884)
(B) Tom Jones (1749)
(C) Don Quixote (1605)
(D) Moll Flanders (1722)

Arrange the following Gothic novels in ascending chronological order (oldest first):
(A) Bram Stoker’s Dracula
(B) Matthew Lewis’s The Monk
(C) Ann Radcliffe’s The Mysteries of Udolpho
(D) Walpole’s The Castle of Otranto

Place the famous fictional detectives in the order of their first literary appearance (oldest first):
(A) Byomkesh Bakshi
(B) Sherlock Holmes
(C) Hercule Poirot
(D) Dupin

Match the following literary retellings (List-I) with their original versions in (List-II):

List I	Literary Retellings	List II: Original Versions
A	Margaret Atwood's The Penelopiad	(I) Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
B	Jeanette Winterson's Weight	(II) The Odyssey
C	Angela Carter's Queen of Hearts	(III) Through the Looking-Glass
D	Pat Barker's The Silence of the Girls	(IV) The Iliad

Identify the author who is said to have produced the first bestseller in Hindi:

What is the common characteristic shared by the following texts? Pamela, The Castle of Otranto, Humphry Clinker

Identify the poet of the lines: “Background. Casually,” “The Railway Clerk” and “Goodbye Party for Miss Pushpa T.S.”

Match the translation studies concept (List-I) with its definition (List-II):

List I	Concept	List II: Definition
A	Subtitling	(I) Also known as captions or on-screen commentary, it is a written translation of the spoken text that appears at the bottom of the screen to assist viewers in following the dialogues of a film.
B	Transcreation	(II) A mix of translation and creation, this method is used in the advertising and marketing industry to make a text appealing to a specific target audience.
C	Voice-over	(III) A translation technique in which an interpreter’s voice is heard instead of the original audio, but the original voice is also audible in the background.
D	Dubbing	(IV) The practice of replacing the original soundtrack with a translated one while keeping the synchronization of the actors’ lip movements and facial expressions.

Which of the following are the features of an ‘idiolect’?
(A) It is the pattern form of a language that is specific to a group of performers depending on their geographical location.
(B) It is a language variety that emanates from the type of language used by a particular individual.
(C) It is a distinctive feature that are habitual to an individual.
(D) This term is mostly used by linguists when observing differences in speech from one person to another.