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1. Answer: A) The Miller’s Tale 14. Answer: A) Greek mythology

Explanation: The Miller’s Tale mocks the courtly ideals Explanation: Pope borrows from classical epics by
of the Knight’s Tale by presenting a bawdy and comic incorporating sylphs and spirits.
story. 15. Answer: A) War and conquest
2. Answer: C) Italian sonnet traditions Explanation: Pope uses the card game as a mock-epic
Explanation: Chaucer was influenced by the metrical battle.
structure used by Italian poets like Dante and Petrarch. 16. Answer: C) Samson’s loss of strength
3. Answer: A) The Merchant Explanation: Pope parallels the cutting of the lock to a
Explanation: The Merchant is characterized by his significant heroic downfall.
stylish attire and ambiguous moral standing. 17. Answer: A) A-1, B-2, C-3, D-4
4. Answer: A) Jacob Burckhardt Explanation: Pope structures the characters as
Explanation: Burckhardt used the term in The symbolic representations of moral and social themes.
Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy (1860). 18. Answer: C) Celestial City
5. Answer: A) Erasmus Explanation: The Celestial City represents salvation and
Explanation: Erasmus produced a Greek edition of the heavenly reward.
New Testament, which influenced later theological 19. Answer: B) Prays at the cross
reforms. Explanation: The burden of sin is lifted through
6. Answer: C) Human form and naturalism Christian’s faith in Christ’s sacrifice.
Explanation: Renaissance art focused on anatomical 20. Answer: B) Worldly temptations
accuracy, perspective, and human experience. Explanation: Vanity Fair represents the distractions of
7. Answer: C) Renaissance humanism materialism and sinful pleasure.
Explanation: This reflects the humanist focus on human 21. Answer: A) Improper diet and exercise
potential and achievement. Explanation: Burton emphasizes lifestyle factors as
8. Answer: C) Abraham and Isaac contributors to mental health.
Explanation: This early miracle play dramatizes the 22. Answer: B) Economic hardship
biblical story of Abraham’s sacrifice. Explanation: Burton focuses on personal, emotional, and
9. Answer: B) Christian martyrdom and saintly miracles physiological causes rather than economic issues.
Explanation: Miracle plays were based on the lives and 23. Answer: B) Laughter and recreation
miracles of saints. Explanation: Burton advocates for emotional balance
10. Answer: A) Prospero through social and personal pleasure.
Explanation: Prospero reflects on the ephemeral nature 24. Answer: A) A-1, B-2, C-3, D-4
of life. Explanation: Burton’s remedies are tailored to the
11. Answer: C) Puritanical hypocrisy emotional and physical causes of melancholy.
Explanation:Malvolio’s strictness contrasts with the 25. Answer: C) Satan
play’s themes of misrule and festivity. Explanation: Satan opens the poem with a speech
12. Answer: A) The Mousetrap reflecting his pride and rebellion.
Explanation: Hamlet stages The Mousetrap to gauge 26. Answer: A) A place of eternal darkness and fire
Claudius’s guilt. Explanation: Milton combines physical torment with
13. Answer: C) A mock-heroic poem psychological despair in his depiction of Hell.
Explanation: Pope parodies the grandeur of epic 27. Answer: A) Beelzebub
conventions in a trivial social setting. Explanation: Beelzebub proposes the plan to undermine
God by corrupting mankind.
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28. Answer: B) Satan’s pride and defiance 40. Answer: b) Detached objectivity
Explanation: Satan’s statement encapsulates his Explanation: Mr. Spectator serves as an impartial
justification for rebellion. observer of social manners and behavior.
29. Answer: A) A-1, B-2, C-3, D-4 41. Answer: c) Juvenal
Explanation: Milton’s characters represent theological Explanation: Johnson’s poem adapts Juvenal’sTenth
30. Answer: b) Spiritual fulfillment Satire to explore the futility of human desires.
Explanation: Wordsworth believed that reflection on 42. Answer: b) Human contentment is impossible to
past experiences deepens emotional and spiritual achieve.
understanding. Explanation: Johnson argues that the search for
31. Answer: a) Political change and revolution happiness is ultimately futile due to human nature.
Explanation: Shelley links the transformative power of 43. Answer: c) Cato the Younger
nature to the potential for political and social renewal. Explanation: The play explores Cato's resistance to
32. Answer: b) Irony, moral commentary, and comic Julius Caesar and his stoic ideals.
digressions 44. Answer: a) Politics, literature, and manners
Explanation: Fielding’s narrator engages with the reader Explanation: Steele aimed to engage the public in
through humor, moral guidance, and direct address. conversations about social conduct and literary culture.
33. Answer: a) First Impressions 45. Answer: c) A dream induced by opium
Explanation: Austen revised the title to reflect the Explanation: Coleridge famously claimed that "Kubla
broader theme of misjudgment and self-awareness. Khan" was the result of an opium-induced dream.
34. Answer: c) Comedy of manners 46. Answer: b) It records human history through art.
Explanation: Austen’s novels reflect the wit, social Explanation: The urn preserves a moment of life and
critique, and formal structure of the comedy of manners beauty through its artistic images.
tradition. 47. Answer: c) Political revolution
35. Answer: d) Laputans Explanation: Shelley seeks to inspire change and reform
Explanation: The Laputans are depicted as obsessed through the transformative power of nature.
with theoretical knowledge, neglecting practical matters, 48. Answer: c) Samuel Taylor Coleridge
symbolizing the limitations of excessive rationalism. Explanation: Coleridge’s contribution included "The
36. Answer: c) Alexander Selkirk Rime of the Ancient Mariner."
Explanation: Selkirk was a Scottish sailor who survived 49. Answer: b) The ability to remain in doubt and
for several years on a deserted island in the Pacific, uncertainty without seeking resolution
which inspired Defoe’s story. Explanation: Keats valued the ability to embrace
37. Answer: c) The Houyhnhnms exile him as an inferior ambiguity and mystery in art.
being. 50. Answer: (A) Only 1
Explanation: The Houyhnhnms view Gulliver as a 51. Answer: (A) Only 1
Yahoo and refuse to accept him as one of their kind. 52. Answer: (B) Tess of the D'Urbervilles
38. Answer: b) Classical learning vs. modern knowledge 53. Answer: (C) Pip
Explanation: The work satirizes the dispute over the 54. Answer: (A) The loss of fait
value of ancient versus modern learning. 55. Answer:A
39. Answer: b) Economic exploitation of Ireland Explanation:Septimus represents post-war trauma,
Explanation: Swift critiques the British government's Stephen reflects artistic awakening, Clarissa embodies
failure to address Irish poverty and exploitation. social pressure, and Maurya grieves the loss of her sons.
56. Answer:A
Explanation: Larkin explores isolation, Plath reflects on
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mental health, Yeats delves into historical cycles, and 70. Answer: B) Signifier and Signified
Thomas celebrates nature and life. Explanation: The signifier is the sound/image, and the
57. Answer:A signified is the concept it represents.
Explanation: These opening lines are emblematic of 71. Answer: A) Structuralism
each writer's distinctive voice and style. Explanation: Derrida’s deconstruction questions the
58. Answer:A fixed structures of meaning in language.
Explanation: Each symbol reflects the thematic depth of 72. Answer: C) Western representations of the East as exotic
the respective work. and inferior
59. Answer:A Explanation: Said argued that Orientalism reinforces
Explanation: Each conflict reflects the psychological Western political and cultural dominance.
depth of the character. 73. Answer: B) Foucault
60. Answer:A Explanation: Said applied Foucault’s concept of
Explanation: These are foundational poetic devices in discourse to colonial representations of the East.
modern poetry. 74. Answer: A) A-i, B-ii, C-iii, D-iv
61. Answer: B) The transitory state of emotion 75. Answer: C) 1 and 3
Explanation:Bhava is the state of mind or feeling that Explanation: Psychoanalysis focuses on unconscious
leads to the manifestation of Rasa. motives, not conscious ones.
62. Answer: B) Dhvanyaloka 76. Answer: C) Repeated social and cultural practices
Explanation:Dhvanyaloka elaborates on the importance Explanation: Butler argued that gender is constructed
of suggestion (Dhwani) in poetry. through social repetition and imitation.
63. Answer: A) Imitation of noble action 77. Answer: B) Gender is biologically determined
Explanation: Tragedy, for Aristotle, is an imitation of a Explanation: Butler argued that gender is not
serious action that evokes pity and fear. biologically fixed.
64. Answer: B) Elevated thoughts 78. Answer: A) 1 and 3 only
Explanation: Longinus emphasized the role of noble 79. Answer: B) A-1, B-2, C-3, D-4
thoughts and emotions in creating sublimity. 80. Answer: C) The conflict between desire and duty
65. Answer: C) Powerful feelings 81. Answer: D) The fragmented nature of identity
Explanation: Wordsworth defined poetry as the overflow 82. Answer: A) 1, 3, and 4 only
of powerful feelings recollected in tranquility. 83. Answer: C) Amritlal
66. Answer: B) Use the language of the common man 84. Answer: C) Religious discrimination
Explanation: Wordsworth aimed to make poetry 85. Answer: A) A-3, B-1, C-2, D-4
accessible by using everyday language. 86. Answer: B) Symbolism
67. Answer: A) Comparing poems with established works of 87. Answer: C) Superstition and blind faith
excellence 88. Answer:A) 1, 2, and 4 only
Explanation: Arnold suggested using exemplary works Explanation: The poem explores superstition versus
as benchmarks to evaluate poetry. rationality, the mother’s acceptance, and collective faith
68. Answer: C) The poet’s connection with literary history — but Ezekiel does not argue that science explains the
Explanation: Eliot argued that a poet’s work gains value event.
through engagement with past literature. 89. Answer:A) A-1, B-2, C-3, D-4
69. Answer: A) Referential and Emotive Explanation: Tagore’s use of symbolism connects
Explanation: Referential language communicates facts, human humility, intellectual clarity, divine
while emotive language expresses feelings. enlightenment, and liberation from the material world.
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90. Answer:B) 2 and 3 only 102. Answer: B

Explanation:Kalam credits Sarabhai for shaping his Explanation: Osborne explores the frustrations of the
vision and focuses on India’s technological working class against the complacency of the middle
independence, but does not link missile development class
with colonial oppression. 103. Answer:A
91. Answer: B Explanation: Patrick White sets his novel in a rural
Explanation: Emerson argues that society pressures Australian valley.
individuals into conformity, which stifles personal 104. Answer: C) French vocabulary
growth and self-expression. Explanation: The Norman Conquest introduced a large
92. Answer: B number of French words into English, especially in the
Explanation: Emerson employs metaphors to illustrate fields of law, art, and government.
abstract ideas about self-reliance and personal strength. 105. Answer: C) Vowel pronunciation
93. Answer:A Explanation: The Great Vowel Shift (15th–18th
Explanation: Thoreau refused to pay taxes in protest centuries) changed the pronunciation of long vowels in
against the Mexican-American War and slavery, English.
advocating non-violent resistance. 106. Answer: C) Fluency and communication skills
94. Answer: C Explanation: The primary goal of teaching English is to
Explanation: Thoreau believes that the ideal government enable learners to communicate effectively.
is one that interferes minimally with the lives of its 107. Answer: D) Oral communication
citizens. Explanation: The Direct Method encourages learning
95. Answer:A through speaking and listening rather than translating.
Explanation: Whitman explores the relationship between 108. Answer: A) A variety of language used in a particular
the self and the universal human experience in "Song of social setting
Myself." Explanation: Registers vary depending on the context,
96. Answer: B such as formal or informal speech.
Explanation: Whitman wrote this poem as a mourning 109. Answer: B) Dialects include grammar and vocabulary,
piece after Lincoln's assassination. accents affect pronunciation
97. Answer: C Explanation: A dialect affects grammar and vocabulary,
Explanation: The swinging of birch trees symbolizes the while an accent affects pronunciation.
innocence and escapism of childhood. 110. Answer: C) The sounds and patterns of a language
98. Answer: C Explanation: Phonology focuses on how sounds function
Explanation: The diverging roads symbolize life's within a particular language.
choices and the uncertainty in making them. 111. Answer: B) Phoneme
99. Answer: C Explanation: A phoneme is the smallest sound unit that
Explanation: Death is personified as a courteous can differentiate meaning.
gentleman escorting the speaker to eternity. 112. Answer: B) Translation of texts and grammar rules
100. Answer: B Explanation: The Grammar Translation Method
Explanation: Dickinson describes a state of spiritual emphasizes accuracy in translating and understanding
ecstasy that surpasses any worldly experience. grammatical structures.
101. Answer: B 113. Answer: A) Noam Chomsky
Explanation: O’Neill's play reimagines Aeschylus's Explanation: Chomsky's theory explains how deep
"Agamemnon" in an American setting. structures are transformed into surface structures.
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114. Answer: B) Information and Communication to mourn the premature death of John Keats. Shelley
Technology believed Keats died without achieving the full
Explanation: ICT includes tools like computers, the recognition he deserved.
internet, and multimedia to support language learning. 137. Answer: (c) Ode to the West Wind by Percy Bysshe
115. Answer: B) A direct comparison without using "like" or Shelley
"as" Explanation:
Explanation: A metaphor states that one thing is another Terza Rima is an Italian verse form with an interlocking
to imply a resemblance. rhyme scheme (ABA BCB CDC...). Shelley’s Ode to the
116. Answer: C) Personification West Wind follows this pattern, showcasing his mastery
Explanation: Personification attributes human qualities of poetic form.
to non-human objects. 138. Answer: (d) T.S. Eliot
117. Answer: A) 1 and 2 only Explanation:
Explanation: The Direct Method is not ideal for teaching Samuel Beckett, James Joyce, and W.B. Yeats were all
technical and scientific vocabulary due to its focus on Irish writers. T.S. Eliot, however, was born in the United
everyday language. States and later became a British citizen in 1927. He was
118. Answer: A) 1 and 2 only a leading figure in modernist poetry and is known for
Explanation: Allophones are variations of a phoneme works like The Waste Land and The Love Song of J.
that do not change meaning. Alfred Prufrock.
119. Answer: B) 2 and 3 only 139. Answer: (b) The Waste Land
Explanation: Chomsky rejected the idea that language Explanation:
learning is based on imitation and reinforcement. This line is from The Waste Land (1922), which reflects
120. Answer: a) A-1, B-2, C-3, D-4 the disillusionment and spiritual emptiness of post-
121. Answer: a) True World War I society. The poem is considered one of the
122. Answer: c) They are influenced by personal biases and greatest works of modernist literature.
interpretations. 140. Answer: (b) T.S. Eliot
123. Answer: c) It may lead to sample bias and poor Explanation:
generalizability. This idea comes from Eliot’s essay Tradition and the
124. Answer: a) A-1, B-2, C-3, D-4 Individual Talent (1919). He argues that poetry should
125. Answer: b) Nominal not be a direct expression of the poet's emotions but
126. Answer: b) Regression analysis rather a detached and crafted artistic creation.
127. Answer: b) More than two means 141. Answer: (c) T.S. Eliot
128. Answer: c) NVivo Explanation:
129. Answer: b) String-matching algorithms This metaphor appears in Tradition and the Individual
130. Answer: a) Author, Title, Publisher, Date, Source Talent (1919), where Eliot compares the poet's mind to a
131. Answer: c) Removal of publisher’s location requirement catalyst (like platinum) that transforms emotions and
132. Answer: c) Experimental research experiences into poetry without being affected itself.
133. Answer: b) Applied research 142. Answer: (a) T.S. Eliot
134. Answer: b) Longitudinal research Explanation:
135. Answer: a) Experimental design In Tradition and the Individual Talent (1919), Eliot
136. Answer: (c) Percy Bysshe Shelley argues that a poet must remove personal emotion and
Explanation: ego from the creative process, allowing the work to
Shelley referred to Keats as one of the "inheriters of stand independently of the artist's personality.
unfulfilled renown" in his elegy Adonais (1821), written
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143. Answer: (a) Matthew Arnold published in 1667. It deals with the biblical story of the
Explanation: Fall of Man, focusing on the rebellion of Satan and the
Matthew Arnold defined criticism in this way in his expulsion of Adam and Eve from the Garden of Eden.
essay The Function of Criticism at the Present Time Milton’s stylistic hallmark in Paradise Lost includes:
(1864). He believed criticism should elevate public taste The use of blank verse (unrhymed iambic pentameter)
and understanding of literature. Elevated language and classical references
144. Answer: (b) T.S. Eliot Themes of free will, obedience, and redemption
Explanation: Let’s briefly look at the incorrect options:
Eliot’s works, especially The Waste Land and The Love A. The Rape of the Lock – A mock-epic poem written
Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, are hallmarks of modernist by Alexander Pope
poetry. His innovative use of structure, literary allusions, C. Ulysses – A dramatic monologue poem by Alfred
and stream of consciousness influenced 20th-century Lord Tennyson
literature. D. The Waste Land – A modernist poem by T.S. Eliot
145. Answer: (c) Murder in the Cathedral
Explanation:
Murder in the Cathedral (1935) is a verse drama that
recounts the martyrdom of Thomas Becket, Archbishop
of Canterbury. It explores themes of faith, sacrifice, and
political conflict.
146. Answer: (b) Percy Bysshe Shelley
Explanation:
In A Defence of Poetry, Shelley expresses that poetry
has the power to reveal hidden beauty in everyday life,
transforming the ordinary into something extraordinary.
147. Answer: (b) Percy Bysshe Shelley
Explanation:
Shelley believed that poetry preserves and expresses the
divine essence of human experience, preventing it from
being lost to time and decay.
148. Answer -B
Explanation: Squire Western is a passionate and
boisterous Tory country gentleman who loves hunting
and his daughter Sophia. His strong emotions and
traditional values reflect this description accurately.
149. Answer: (B) Five **Explanation:** Longinus identifies
five sources of sublimity: 1. Grandeur of thought 2.
Capacity for strong emotion 3.Use of figures of speech
4.Nobility of diction 5. Elevated composition
150. Answer: B. Paradise Lost
Explanation:
John Milton (1608–1674) was a major English poet and
intellectual of the 17th century. His most famous and
influential work is Paradise Lost, an epic poem first