English Literature World

1. Which of the following is considered the first great work in world literature ___________?

A. Divine Comedy
B. Epic of Gilgamesh
C. Brother Karamazov
D. Anna Karenina

ANS. B

2. Who is the Author of the Book “As u Like it”?

A. Coleridge
B. Karl Marx
C. Thomas Hardy
D. William Shakespear

ANS. D

3.Who uttered these words “Beauty is truth, truth is beauty, that is all” ?

A. Willams Shakespeare
B. Gold Smith
C. John Keats
D. Adlof Hatler

ANS. C

4. In Paul Laurence Dunbar’s “A Cabin Tale,” which character is a trickster figure?

A. Weasel.
B. Bear.
C. The farmer.
D. The young boy.
ANS. A

5 The importance of Lucy Terry’s “Bars Fight” is______________?

A. The poem is the first-known writing of an African American.
B. The poem is better than the poems of the more famous Phillis Wheatley.
C. The poem is the first of many poems by Terry.
D. The poetry focuses on slave life in the 18th century.

ANS. A

6. The character of Delia in Zora Neale Hurston’s “Sweat” was influenced by______________?

A. Her relationship with a patron.
B. Her mother.
C. Her best friend.
D. Her job as a waitress.

ANS. A

7.The trickster figure is usually_______________?

A. Amoral (neither good nor evil)
B. Christian
C. Evil
D. None of these
ANS. A

8. In Chapter XV of William Wells Brown’s Clotel, Clotel is described as a quadroon. What does this mean ?

A. She is one-quarter Black.
B. She is one-eighth Black.
C. She is White.
D. She cannot be a slave.
ANS. A

9. Yusef Komunyakaa’s “Blue Dementia” is an example of what kind of poetry ?

A. Protest poetry
B. Romantic poetry
C. Lyric poetry
D. Jazz poetry

ANS. D

10. Harriet Jacobs wrote Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl to show______________?

A. That female slaves were escaping more frequently than men.
B. How slavery was worse for men.
C. How females were affected by slavery.
D. That female slaves were more valuable than male slaves.
ANS. C

1. Reflections on Language is a book written by Noam Choamsky in__________?

A. 1975
B. 1976
C. 1977
D. 1988
ANS. 1975

2. The Syntactic Structures is a book written by Noam Choamsky in__________?

A. 1957
B 1958
C. 1959
D. 1960
ANS. 1957

3. The study of relationships between two or more languages and the investigation whether the common languages have a common ancestor is called___________?

A. Psycho linguistics
B. Sociolinguistics
C. Comparative linguistics
D. None of these
ANS. Comparative linguistics

4. Morphology is the branch of linguistics which deals with

A. The study of the structure of sounds and symbols.

B.t study of the structure of letters.

C. The study of the structure of words

D. N. O. T
ANS. The study of the structure of words.

5. Gunter Grass got Nobel Prize in________?

A. 1998
B. 1999
D. 1997
D. 2000
ANS.1999

6. Earnest Hemingway got Nobel Prize for_________?

A. Old Man and the Sea
B. A Farewell to Arms
C. Man and Superman
D. Life of Pea (Ryan Martel)

ANS. Old man and the sea

7. Which is called the Golden Period of English Literature?

A. Elizabethan Age
B. Victorian Age
C. Restoration Period
D. Augustan Age

ANS. Elizabethan age

8. Who is of the following both a poet and a novelist?

A. George Eliot
B. Thomas Hardy
C. Karl Mark
D. R. L. Stevenson
ANS. Thomas Hardy

9. Which of the following is a 19th century woman novelist?

A. Emily Dickinson
B. Ezra Pound
C. Virginia Woolf
D. George Eliot
ANS. George Eliot

10. Who is the famous woman novelist in Victorian Age ________?

A. E.B. Browning
B. George Eliot
C. T.S Eliot
D. Austen
ANS. George Eliot

1.Who argues that language is a unique evolutionary development of the human species and distinguished from modes of communication used by any other animal species ?

2.A. Ferdenand de Sassure
B. Albert Chomsky
C. Noam Chomsky
D. Noah Webster

ANS:C

2.There are ______ consonant sounds in English IPA.

A. 22
B. 23
C. 24
D. 25

ANS:24

3.There are ______ vowel sounds in English IPA.

A. 19
B. 20
C. 21
D. 22

ANS.20

4.Noam Chomsky was born in _________?

A. December 7, 1928
B. December 8, 1928
C. December 9, 1928
D. December 10, 1928

ANS. A

5.Father of modern linguistics is ________?

A. Noam Chomsky
B. Ferdenand De Sassure
C. None of these
D. Both A and B

ANS. A

6.The theory of Biolinguistics is given by__________?

A. Noam Chomsky
B. Ferdenand De Sassure
C. Steven Pinker
D. Enoch Powell

ANS. A

7. Transformational-generative grammar is a broad theory used to model, encode, and deduce a native speaker’s linguistic capabilities, was developed by_________?

A. Noam Chomsky
B. Ferdenand De Sassure
C. Leon Battista Alberti
D. Enoch Powell

ANS. A

8.Chomsky developed Transformational-Generative Grammar in________?

A. 1950
B. 1951
C. 1952
D. 1953

ANS. 1950

9.Competence is a term to describe the knowledge possessed by native users of a language which enables them to speak and understand their language fluently was introduced by________?

A. Sassure
B. Enoch Powel
C. Noam Chomsky
D. None of these

ANS. Noam Chomsky

10._______ is a term denotes historical perspective for studying language ?

A. Synchrony
B. Diachrony
C. Both a and b
D. None of these

ANS. Diachrony

MA English Literature

Like most of themaster’s courses, MA English Syllabus also lasts for a duration of two years in which studentswill have to complete four semesters.There will be separate examinations held for eachsemester and in the final year or semester, they have to present a thesis.Mentioned below isthe year-wise syllabus for English literature.

First Year

Since MA English literature is an advance course in the same field, your syllabus will include ablend of topics that you have studied previously as well as some new ones. Let us have a lookat the syllabus of English literature for MA Part-1

● Traditional English Drama
● The Structure of Modern English
● English Language and Literature Teaching
● Indian Prose Work
● English Fiction
Part-11
● English Poetry
● Shakespeare
● Literary Theory and Criticism
● American Literature
● Literature Language and Literature Teaching
● Modern Criticism
● Research Methodology

1. Altruist describes:
A. One who is lover of beauty.
B. One who never stops.
C. A lover of mankind.
D. A person who hates mankind
ANS. C

2. Novel Animal Farm was written by___________?

A. Shakespeare
B. William Hudson
C. George Orwell
D. None of these
ANS. C

3. A term which refers to the sequential characteristics of language. When we construct WORDS and SENTENCES we follow a certain order in arranging the individual items.

A. Syntagmatic
B. Synergy
C. Performance
D. N. O. T
ANS. A
ANS. A

4. A term introduced by the linguist SAUSSURE which refers to the state of a language as it exists at any given time

A. Synchrony
B. Diachrony
C. Paradigmatic
D. N. O. T
ANS. A

5. The study of signs is termed as_________?

A. Semiotics
B. Semantics
C. Paradigmatic
D. Parole
ANS. A

6. In its general sense it refers to the creative capacity of language users to produce an endless number of new sentences, in contrast to the communication systems of animals is called?

A. Productivity
B. Langue
C. Paradigmatic
D. Parole
ANS. A

7. __________ is term introduced by CHOMSKY to describe ‘the actual use of language in concrete situated

A. Performance
B. Parole
C. Paradigmatic
D. N. O. T
ANS. A

8. The system of communication within a community.

A. Langue
B. Parole
C. Paradigmatic
D. N. O. T
ANS. A

9. A pair of terms introduced by Noam CHOMSKY in 1965 to describe native speakers’ intuitions about the grammatical correctness, or otherwise, of sentences.

A. Both b and c
B. Diachrony/Synchrony
C. Acceptable/Unacceptable
D. N. O.
ANS. C

10. The study of language and mind, which has greatly advanced our understanding of the way in which we acquire language is_________?

A. Sociolinguistics
B. Psycholinguisctics
C. Biolinguistics
D. None of these
ANS. B