UGC-NET&SET-ENGLISH-MODEL PAPER-4

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UGC-NET&SET-ENGLISH-MODEL PAPER-4

31. Prosody studies :
(A) Line endings 
(B) Meanings of words
(C) Patterns of prose 
(D) Metrics

32. Which of the following is a major Jacobean play ?
(A) Everyman
(B) Gorboduc
(C) Romeo and Juliet
(D) The Duchess of Malfi

33. Understanding Poetry used to be a classic textbook that encapsulates the principles of ...
(A) New Historicism 
(B) New Aristotelianism
(C) New Criticism 
(D) The New Left

34. What century is variously called The Age of Enlightenment, the Age of Sensibility. The Augustan Age and The Age of Prose and Reason ?
(A) sixteenth century 
(B) seventeenth century
(C) eighteenth century 
(D) nineteenth century

35. What is common to the following poems ? Wordsworth’s “The Recluse”
Shelley’s “The Triumph of Life” Byron’s “Don Juan”
Keats’ “Hyperion”
(A) They are all elegies
(B) They are all unfinished poems
(C) They are all divided into cantos
(D) They are women-centred poems

36. Who among the following called the novel ‘the bright book of life’ ?
(A) D.H. Lawrence
(B) James Joyce
(C) Virginia Woolf
(D) Aldous Huxley

37. “Ripeness is all” is a line from...
(A) Hamlet 
(B) King Lear 
(C) Othello 
(D) Macbeth

38. U.R. Ananthamurthy’s Samskara was translated by...
(A) Himself
(B) Girish Karnad
(C) H.S. Shivaprakash
(D) A.K. Ramanujan

39. Abel Whittle is a character in :
(A) The Return of the Native
(B) The Mayor of Casterbridge
(C) Far from the Madding Crowd
(D) Tess of the D’Urbervilles

40. In which eclogue of The Shepheardes Calender does Spenser praise Queen Elizabeth I?
(A) January 
(B) April 
(C) August 
(D) November

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