List of top English Questions

Which of the following is not true about Walter Benjamin's essay “The Task of the Translator”?
Arrange the following books/essays chronologically by the year of publication: A. Judith Butler's Gender Trouble, B. Edward Said's Orientalism, C. Homi K. Bhabha's The Location of Culture, D. Gayatri C. Spivak's “Can the Subaltern Speak?”
Who is known for the conceptualization of ‘Polysystem Theory of Translation'?
Match List-I with List-II. List-I: A. Han Kang, B. Doris Lessing, C. Toni Morrison, D. Nadine Gordimer. List-II: I. United States, II. South Africa, III. Britain, IV. South Korea.
The term “Intertextuality” was coined by:
Which of the following statements are correct? A. Saussure distinguished signifier and signified. B. The link between signifier and signified is arbitrary. C. Levi-Strauss denied patterns in myth. D. Roland Barthes coined “New Historicism”. E. Simone de Beauvoir described four kinds of masculinity.
What does the process of Translation involve?
Match List-I with List-II. List-I: A. Volpone, B. Far from the Madding Crowd, C. After Amnesia, D. Songs of Innocence. List-II: I. Poetry, II. Collection of Essays, III. Drama, IV. Novel.
Which of the following are the short story collections by Manohar Malgonkar? A. Beyond Love, B. Rumble-Tumble, C. A Toast in Warm Wine, D. The Queen of Beauty, E. The Marriage of Bela.
William Congreve's The Way of the World and Richard Sheridan's A School for Scandal are:
Arrange the following essays in the chronological order of their year of publication: A. “The Death of the Author”, B. “Tradition and Individual Talent”, C. “What is an Author?”, D. “Gender Trouble”.
Given below are two statements: Assertion (A): Gender studies are indebted to the social historian Michel Foucault. Reason (R): Michel Foucault analyzed that all sexual identities, whether perceived to be normal or transgressive, are constructed or reconstructed in various eras of social discourses under the impulse of power drive and power competition. Choose the most appropriate answer.
T.S. Eliot's “Objective Correlative” means:
Match List-I with List-II. List-I: A. Orientalism, B. Hybridity, C. Intersectionality, D. Anxiety of Authorship. List-II: I. Homi K. Bhabha, II. Edward Said, III. Sandra Gilbert & Susan Gubar, IV. Kimberle Crenshaw.
Which of the following statements are correct? A. In Poetics, Aristotle defines poetry as an imitation. B. Imitation has been coined from the word ‘imagism'. C. Imitation is mimesis in Greek. D. In imitation the speaker is always an urban, witty and tolerant man. E. Imitation is used to define the nature of literature and other arts.
Identify the type of couplet: “The grave's a fine and private place, But none, I think, do there embrace.”
Arrange the following lines in the similar order as these appeared in William Wordsworth's “Daffodils”: A. Which is the bliss of solitude, B. In vacant or in pensive mood, C. They flash upon the inward eye, D. For oft, when on my couch I lie.
Given below are two statements: Assertion (A): Raymond Williams says that culture is only in fine arts and museums. Reason (R): Raymond Williams asserts that culture is a whole way of life. Choose the most appropriate answer.
Who created the fictional world of Malgudi?
Arrange Mulk Raj Anand's following fictional works in the chronological order of their publication: A. The Old Woman and the Cow, B. The Sword and the Sickle, C. Untouchable, D. Seven Summers.
Given below are two statements: Assertion (A): Long narrative romances in prose were written by Greek writers as early as the second and third centuries AD. Reason (R): Long narrative romances dealt with separated lovers, who, after perilous adventures and hairbreadth escapes, are happily reunited at the end. Choose the most appropriate answer.
Bakha is the protagonist of:
Match List-I with List-II: A. The Outcaste, B. Truth about Me, C. My Story, D. Freedom in Exile; I. The Dalai Lama, II. Kamala Das, III. A. Revathi, IV. Sharan Kumar Limbale.
Which of the following statements are correct? A. Blank verse consists of lines of iambic pentameter. B. In blank verse, all the lines are rhymed. C. In blank verse, the lines are unrhymed. D. John Milton used blank verse in his Paradise Lost. E. Blank verse is called blank because the lines are unrhymed.
Rabindranath Tagore's Chandalika is a: