List of top English Questions

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.
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:
T.S. Eliot's “Objective Correlative” means:
Who created the fictional world of Malgudi?
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.
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.
Rabindranath Tagore's Chandalika is a:
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.
Bakha is the protagonist of:
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.
Match List-I with List-II: A. So Many Hungers, B. Combat of Shadows, C. Voices in the City, D. A Silence of Desire; I. Manohar Malgonkar, II. Bhabani Bhattacharya, III. Anita Desai, IV. Kamala Markandaya.
Which of the following statements are correct? A. Girish Karnad is known for his comic play Tughlaq. B. Girish Karnad is an actor, director and a playwright. C. Tughlaq is a historical play. D. Tughlaq is written on the life of Sultan Muhammad bin Tughlaq. E. Tughlaq was banned in Bombay for sometime.
Given below are two statements: Assertion (A): Biography and memoir are different. Reason (R): Biography is written by the subject about himself or herself while memoir is a day-to-day record of the events in one's life written for personal use and satisfaction. Choose the most appropriate answer.
Arrange the following in chronological order of their publication: A. Vallabhbhai Patel's For a United India: Speeches, B. Rajendra Prasad's India Divided, C. J.B. Kripalani's The Gandhian Way, D. Abul Kalam Azad's India Wins Freedom.
Who wrote the following lines: “My mother only said Thank God the Scorpion picked on me and spared my children.”
Given below are two statements: Assertion (A): In a dramatic monologue, a single person utters a speech that makes up the whole poem. Reason (R): The speaker in a dramatic monologue interacts with one or more other people, but we know of the author's presence only from the clues in the discourse of the single speaker. Choose the most appropriate answer.
Who wrote “... to weep at every page, not for what he sees, but for what he sees, he sees. For me it's like a book of prayers”?