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BA English (2011 Admission Onwards) II Semester
BA English (2012 Admission onwards) V Semester
Core Course
METHODOLOGY OF LITERATURE
QUESTION BANK
1. Thestudyofsignsiscalled_
a. Linguistics
b. Semiotics
c. Scientology
d. Stylistics
2. Whocoined theword netspeak todenote thelanguage usedininternet
communication?
a. Roland Bartthes
b. Michel Foucault
c. David Crystal
d. David Lodge AHouse forMr.Biswas
3. Whoistheauthor of ?
a. ShivNaipaul
b. Kushwant Singh
c. DomMoraes
d. VSNaipaTuhlings fallApart
4. Who wrote ?
a. Chinua Achebe
b. WoleSoyinka
c. Ismuth Chugthai
dT.raYinetaotsPakistan
5. isafamousnovelbyKushwantSinghbasedon
a. Partition
b. Untouchables
c. Prostitution
d. Famine
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6. Who wrote ?
a. Kamla Das
b. Mahasweta Devi
c. Mihir Sen
d. Satyajit Ray
a. Nolonger atEase
7. Wb.hiAcrhroowftohfeGfooldlowing isnotanovelbyChinua Achebe?
c. AManofpeople
d. Shame
8. Achebebelongsto_
a. Nigeria
b. Sudan
c. South Africa
d. Ethiopia ThingsfallApart
9. Thepoemwhichlendsthetitleof byAchebeis
a. Easter 1916
b. Byzantium
c. Second Coming
Ad.nADraefafoodfiDlsarkness
10. byVSNaipaulisa
a. Travelogue
b. Novel
c. Shortstory
d. Drama
11. isanovel byPatrick White, theAustralian novelist.
a. Snake
b. Voss
c. Cosmos
Td.heRSatjoQneuaArntgeetl
12. isanovel written byMargaret Lawrence, anativeNeepawa in
a. Africa
b. England
c. Australia
Td.heGuiUdeSA
13. isanovelwrittenby
a. RKNarayan
b. KRNarayanan
c. Anita Desai
d. KiranDesai
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MuktaDhara
14. isaplayby
a. Tagore
b. RKNarayanan
c. Anita Desai
d. Manjula Padmanaban
15. Theterm“Gitanjali”ofthepoemofthesamenamebyTagoremeans
a. GodSongs
b. Goodsongs
c. Verses
d. Songofferings Gitanjali
16. Whowrote theintroduction to ?
a. WBYeats
b. Tagore
c. Eliot
d. LouisFischer
17. Rabindra NathTagore thefirstIndiantogetNobel Prize wasawarded Nobel Prize
in forliterature.
a. 1930
b. 1960
c. 1931
d. 1913 Kelly,Shipwreck, TheGolden
Lover Fischer’s Ghost
18. Douglas Steward whowrote manyverse plays like
and originally belonged to
a. Australia
b. NewZealand
c. Trinidad
d. China TheWestern Canon
19. Whowrote thebook ?
a. Harold Bloom
b. David Lodge
c. William wordsworth
Ldi.teFraRryLTeahveiosry:AnIntroduction
20. isabookwrittenby
a. Harold Bloom
b. Terry Eagleton
c. F.R.Leavis
d. Northrop Frye TheCommon Pursuit?
21. Whowrote thebook
a. Harold Bloom
b. Terry Eagleton
c. F.RLeavis
d. Coleridge
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22. “OfthestandardofTaste”isanessayby
a. David Hume
b. Harold Bloom
c. David Lodge
d. Plato
23. Thetermcanon originaly meanin gameasuring rod,isof origin
a. Hebrew
b. Arab
c. Chinese
d. Greek Illiberal Education :Thepolitics ofSexand
RaceonCampus
24. Thefamous bookonculture warsinUSA,
iswrittenby
a. Dinesh D’souza
b. Amartya Sen
c. Arundhadi Roy
d. Noam Chomsky
25. Macaulay’s “Minutes onIndianEducation” dates backto
a. 1835
b. 1935
c. 1845
d. 1925
26. What doestheacronym DWEM stands for?
a. Dear white European Males
b. Dead white English Man
c. DeadWhite European Male
d. Dear White English Man
27. Whomade adistinction between implied reader andactual reader?
a. Wolf GangIser
b. Kamla Das
c. Mahasweta Devi
d. Terry EagletoRnubaiyat
28. Whotranslated ofthePersian poetOmar Khayyam intoEnglish?
a. Homer
b. Edward Fitzgerald
c. Harold Bloom
29. d. Terry Eagleton LooseCanons: Notes ontheCulture Wars
Who wrote thebook (1992)?
a. Henry LouisGates
b. Harold Bloom
c. Dinesh D’souza
d. Milton
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30. Whospokeabouttheconcept ofvalueinliterature?
a. TSEliot
b. Coleridge
c. FrankKermode
d. Wordsworth
31. Thewordforcopying another person’s ideas, words, orwork andusingasiftheyare
yoursiscalled
a. Plagiarism
b. Theft
c. Robbery
d. Copyright
32. “PiersPlowman”isapoemby
a. Cervantes,
b. Wycliffe
c. William Langland
d. Tyndale
33. means intended togiveinstruction, isapplied toaworkwithan
educational value
a. Didacticism
b. Structure
c. Textual criticism
d. Sensualism
34. Aestheticismmeansintendedfor_
a. Learning
b. Pleasure
c. Teaching
Md.ysStpoirryituality
35. isafictionalautobiographyof
a. Kamala Das
b. AKRamanujam
c. Indira nooyi
Ad.utoNbisiosgimraEpzhiykoiaflanUnknownIndian
36. isof
a. Nirad Chaudhri
b. Kamaladas
c. Kushwant Singh
d. DomMoraes
37. Whowrote thefamous essay “WhatisanAuthor?” 1969?
a. Roland Bartthes
b. Michel Foucault
c. David Crystal
d. David Lodge
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a. AfineBalance
38. Wb.hiUcnhtoofutchheabfolellsowing isanovel byMulk RajAnand?
c. ByeByeblackbird
d. Maneater ofMalgudi
Poetics
39. Whowrote ?
a. Plato
b. Aristotle
c. Longinus
d. Horace
40. What doestheideaof“catharsis” byAristotle mean?
a. Emotion
b. Fear
c. Pity
d. Purgation ofpityandfear
41. Inwhich century didShakespeare live?
a. Eighteenth
b. Nineteenth
c. Twentieth
d. Sixteenth
42. Whowrotetheessay“From worktoText”?
a. Roman Jakobson
b. Roland Barthes
c. Todorov
d. David Cristal
43. Thecomparison between twodifferent things byusinglikeorasasin“Omylove’s
likearedredrose”iscalleda
a. Metaphor
b. Simile
c. Epicsimile
d. Conceit
44. Thecomparison between twodifferent things bynotusinglikeorasasin“Omy
love’saredredrose”iscalleda_
a. Metaphor
b. Simile
c. Epicsimile
d. Conceit TheSocial
Construction ofReality
45. Whousedtheword social construction forthefirsttimeinthebook
?
a. David Crystal
b. Peter Berger& Tomas Luckman
c. Tomas Luckman
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46. Abrand ofcriticism thatargues thatwriting inEnglish continues colonialism iscalled
a. Neocolonialism
b. Nativism
c. Regionalism
d. PracticalismImaginary Home lands
47. Whose bookis ?
a. Salman Rushdie
b. Naipaul
c. Vikram Seth
d. Bilkram Chandra
48. Whoisconsidered asthefather ofsociology?
a. BipinChandra
b. Romila Thapar
c. Emile Durkheim
d. DDKosambi
49. Abookofsynonymsiscalled
a. Dictionary
b. Reverse Dictionary
c. Thesaurus
d. Oxymoron
50. Whoistheonlywriter whohaswontheBooker ofBooker prize?
a. Rushdie
b. Hanif Kureishi
c. Arundhadi Roy
d. David Lodge
51. SlavojZizekisanativeof
a. Iran
b. America
c. Slovenia
d. Italy
a. Indefence oflostcauses
52. Ob.fthTehfoelFlorwaginilegAbsolute isnotabook byZizek.
c. TheTicklish subject
d. TheCultural Turn
TheFragile Absolute
53. What isthesubtitle of bySlavojZizek?.
a. WhyistheChristian Legacy worth fighting for?
b. IstheChristian Legacyworth fighting for?
c. Christian Legacy
d. Noneofthese
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54. Zizek’sfavouritephilosopherwhoinfluenceshisworksmostis
a. Jacques lacan
b. Lyotard
c. Foucault
d. Habermas
55. Whoiscalled “theFrench Freud”?
a. CJYung
b. Jacques Lacan.
c. Lyotard
d. Foucault
56. Jacques lacan’s formulation oftheconcept ofpsycho‐sexual development hasthe
following threestages ofsymbolic, imagination andthe stage
a. Object
b. Subject
c. Self
d. Mirror
57. “TheInsistenceoftheLetterintheUnconscious”isacelebratedessayby
a. Jacques lacan
b. Bakhtin
c. Derrida
d. Foucault
58. Ferdinand deSaussure whoplayed animportant partinthedevelopment of
structuralism isa_ linguist.
a. German
b. Italian
c. British
CourseinGenerallinguistics
d. Swiss
59. publishedin1975iswrittenby
a. Barthes
b. Derrida
c. Saussure
d. Lacan
60. Thefigure ofspeech in which apartofsomething isused tosignify thewhole asin
“tenhands” for
“tenworkers”iscalled
a. Simile
b. Metaphor
c. Personification
d. Synecdoche
61. “Structure, SignandPlayintheDiscourse oftheHumansciences” isanessayby
a. Saussure
b. Lacan
c. Jacques Derrida
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a. OfGrammatology
62. Wb.hichDiossfetmheinfaoltlioowning books isnotofJacques Derrida?
c. Writing andDifference
d. Waste Land
63. Whocoined thenewword “difference” tomean“todiffer” and“todefer” atthesame
time?
a. Lacan
b. Derrida
c. Barthes
d. Tudor
64. Whoistheproponent ofaffective stylistics?
a. Harold Bloom
b. Derrida
c. Lacan
d. Stanley Fish
65. Whosaysthatall“reading is…….misreading”?
a. Harold Bloom
b. Foucault
c. MHAbrams
d. Todorov
66. Which critical school hasitsideal theestablishment ofanauthentic text?
a. Newcriticism
b. Aesthetic criticism
c. Textual criticism
d. Structuralism Principles ofTextual Criticism
67. wrote thetext .
a. James Thorpe
b. Vladimir Propp
c. Eliot
d. Eagleton
68. Whowrote thefamous essay“TheDeath oftheAuthor”?
a. Roland Barthes
b. Lacan
c. Foucault
d. Derrida TheFourFundamental Concepts ofPsychoanalysis?
69. Whose bookis
a. Jacques Lacan
b. Siigmund Freud
c. Earnest Jones
d. Jung
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70. “ThePhilosophyofComposition”isby
a. Keats
b. Edgar Allan Poe
c. Coleridge
d. Tennison
71. Which criticmadearevaluation ofMetaphysical poetsandpraised them forblending
statesofmindandfeeling
a. TSEliot
b. FRLeavis
c. Samuel Jonson
d. Shelley AftertheNewCriticism
72. wrote (1980)
a. FRLeavis
b. Samuel Jonson
c. Frank Lentricchia
d. Shelley Defence ofpoetry
73. wrote
a. Shelley
b. Keats
c. Longinus
d. Shakespeare TheWellWrought Urn
74. Thetitleofthebook (1947) byCleanth Brooks istakenfrom
thepoem byJohnDonne.
a. TheFlee
b. Valediction
c. TheCanonization
d. TheAnniversary
75. Theterm issuggestive ofcarefully worked outimages thatwere
elaborated overanumber oflines.
a. Wellwrought
b. Simile
c. Humour
d. Zeitgeist
76. According toFreud allhuman behavior ismotivated by orSexual energy.
a. Libido
b. Thanatos
c. Eros
d. Oedipus complex
77. OedipusComplexisahypothesisdevelopedby
a. Adler
b. Freud
c. Jung
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Description:d. Satyajit Ray. 7. Which of the following is not a novel by Chinua Achebe? a.
The poem which lends the title of Things fall Apart by Achebe is a. Easter 1916 b.