List of top English Questions

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

Identify the author of the anthropological text, The Man Who Would Be Queen: The Science of Gender-Bending and Transsexualism (2003):

Which Indian play, published in 1990, deals with the theme of gender and identity?

The publication and performance of which work made Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o believe that his theatre work reached censorship because of its use of the local language and its capability to sway a larger number of people to political action?

In which elegy would you find these famous lines: ‘I hold it true, whate’er befall;
I feel it when I sorrow most;
’Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.’

Identify the text that employs the allegorical mode:

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 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 is the correct rhyme scheme for the Petrarchan sonnet?

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

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

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

Match the Indian Writings in English in List I with their respective authors in List II:

List I (Books)	List II (Authors)
A. Difficult Daughters	I. Anita Desai
B. The God of Small Things	III. Arundhati Roy
C. The Shadow Lines	II. Manju Kapur
D. The Artist of Disappearance	IV. Amitav Ghosh

What is parapraxis also known as?

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

Select examples of ‘Speculative Fiction’ from the following:
(A) Fahrenheit 451 (1953) by Ray Bradbury
(B) The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (1926) by Agatha Christie
(C) Wide Sargasso Sea (1966) by Jean Rhys
(D) The Great Gatsby (1925) by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Arrange the following novels of Stephen King in the chronological order of their publication (oldest first):
(A) Carrie
(B) It
(C) Misery
(D) The Shining

Arrange the publications of Khushwant Singh novels in the ascending order of their year of publication:
(A) Train to Pakistan (1956)
(B) Delhi: A Novel (1990)
(C) I Shall Not Hear the Nightingale (1959)
(D) The Company of Women (1999)

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

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

Who is the author of the 2014 novel, The Black Hill?
(A) Mamang Dai
(B) Easterine Kire
(C) Robin S. Ngangom
(D) Kynpham Sing Nongkynrih

Which of the following are the characteristics of figures of speech?
(A) Figures of speech are words or phrases that are related to the literal usage of language.
(B) Figures of speech use words or phrases that are related to the figurative usage of language.
(C) Anecdote, antithesis, and diction are examples of figures of speech.
(D) Figures of speech do not constitute the literal usage of language.

Select the traditional definition of the ”ballad” from the following:

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

Match the Text (List-I) to the Genre/Type:

List I	Name of the Text	List II: Genre/Type
A	Paradise Lost	(I) Dramatic Monologue
B	Porphyria's Lover	(II) Satire
C	King Lear	(III) Epic
D	The Dunciad	(IV) Tragedy