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Horace said: “Mediocrity is forbidden to poets alike by gods and men and booksellers”. It suggests
Which among the following novels has more than one ending?
In 1986 _________ endorsed that the three language formula had ‘stood the test of time’.
The following passages are the very first lines of well-known works. Match the lines and works-
List-I
List-II
“The Death of the Author” is a work by_____ .
The predominant tone and thrust of Jonatha Swift's "A Modest Proposal" are-
Madam Merle is a character in-
The last of Gulliver's Travels is to-
Teaching and learning is a journey from
What is a neologism?
“You have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a man” is an example of—
If a researcher analyzes R.K. Narayan’s all works that is an example of ______.
According to ____________ , “English was the gift of goddess Saraswati to India and that in our anger and hatred we should not throw away the baby”.
Communicative Language Teaching replaced basically …
Which of the following statements about Christopher Marlowe are true ?i) Edward II was written in the last year Marlowe's life.ii) Many critics consider Doctor Faustus to be Marlowe's best play.iii) His Spanish Tragedy comes a close secondiv) Marlowe was less educated than Shakespeare
Which of the following employs a narrative structure in which the main action is relayed at second hand through an enclosing frame story?
Which of the following is not true of Said's Orientalism ?
Stephen Greeblatt’s Renaissance Self- Fashioning was published in _____.
Arrange the following in the chronological order- i) Mary Wollstonecraft's Vindication of the Rights of Women ii) Lyrical Ballads iii) French Revolutioniv) Percy's Reliques of Ancient English Poetry
If Rushdies Midnight’s Children is taken for a P.HD research, that is an example of ___
Material feminism studies inequality in terms of-
Direct Method is also known as
The Irish Dramatic Movement was heralded by such figures as-
Among the following who is not part of Sadler commission which was formed to study the the problems of Calcutta University?
In which of the following works does Mrs.Malaprop appear ?
Which poem by Chaucer was written on the death of Blanche, Wife of John of Gaunt?
Environment and Social Theory is a work by ______.
Confessions of an English Opium Eater is a literary work by-
The Tragedy of Ferrex and Porrex is the other title of
Jonathan Dollimore and Alan Sinfield are associated with______.
Who of the following poets is Australian?
If a research is conducted collecting samples from a particular college, that sampling is known as ___.
Who wrote Mathew Arnold (1939) and E.M.Forster(1943) with acumen?
Which is often described as the Magna Carta of English education in India.
In which of the following travel books does Mark Twain give an account of his visit to India?
K. Ogden and LA. Richards were repute, in the 1930s for introducing-
"He found it [English] brick and left it marble", remarked one great writer on another. Who were they?
“ Art for Art’s Sake” became a rallying cry for-
The method of teaching English adopted at present in school curriculum is
Pick the odd one out from the given information which is related to the year 1937:
Who, among the following English play-wrights, scripted the film Shakespeare in Love?
List-I(A) "So much depends/upon"(B) "Because I could not stop for death ... "(C) “O Captain! My Captain !"(D) "Two roads diverged in a wood ... "List – II(1) Robert Frost (2) William Carlos Williams (3) Emily Dickinson (4) Walt WhitmanThe correctly matched series would be- codes:
FCA is in opposition to
Which of the following statements about The Canterbury Tales is true?
Who, among the following, was a Catholic novelist, an Intelligence Officer, a film critic and set his fictions in far-away places wrecked by political conflicts?
Longinus believed sublimity is the echo of _____.
In _____________ Parliament accorded the status of associate official language of India.
Scrutiny is a journal by ______.
List – I A) Good sense is the body of poetic genius.B) Poetry is the breath and finer spirit of all knowledgeC) Literary criticism is a description and evalution of its object.D) Nature never set forth the earth in as rich a tapestry as diverse poets have done.List – II1) Brooks, "The Formalist Critic"2) Sidney, Defence /An Apology for Poetry3) Wordsworth, Preface to Lyrical Ballads4) Coleridge, Biographia LiterariaCodes are:
If a researcher collects samples from the students of Chennai and identify the learning difficulties regarding English and proposes solution that research is known as _____.
