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CONTENTS

● Periods of English Literature

● The English Sovereigns

● Previous Years’ Solved Papers

Chapter 1 : From Chaucer to Shakespeare 3–52— Some Important Years with Social, Political and Literary Events ……………… 3— Major Literary Figures and their Works ………………………………………… 3— The Age of Chaucer …………………………………………………………….. 6— Main Poetical Works of Chaucer ……………………………..………………… 7— Chaucer as the Father of English Poetry………………………………………… 10— Chaucer’s Contribution to English Language and Versification ………..……… 11— Chaucer’s place in English Literature………………………………………………… 12— Development of Poetry in the Age of Chaucer ………………………………… 13— The Fifteenth Century : A Barren Period (1400–1515) ………………………… 20— The Age of Shakespeare (1516–1600) ………………………………………… 21— Sir Thomas Wyatt and Henery Howard, Earl of Survey (1516–47) ……….…… 24— Spenser’s Faierie Queen as an Epic ………………………………………..…… 25— Songs and Lyrics in Shakespeare’s Age …………………………………..…… 26— Sonnets and Sonneteers ………………………………………………………… 27— The University Wits ………………………………………………………..…… 30— Shakespeare’s Life (1564–1616) ……………………………………..………… 32— The Elizabethan Theatre …………………………...…………………………… 32— Multiple Choice Type Questions (Set 1–7) ………………………………..…… 32–52

Chapter 2 : From Jacobean to Restoration 53–92— Some Important Years with Social, Political and Literary Events ……………… 53— Major Literary Figures and their Works ………………………………………… 53— The Contribution of the post-Shakespearean Dramatists of

the Jacobean Period ………………………………………………………..…… 56— The Puritan Age : Social Background ……………………………………..…… 64— Restoration Literature …………………………………………………………… 66— Restoration Comedy ………………………………………………………..…… 66— Literary Background ……………………………………………………….…… 67— The Age of French Influence …………………………………………………… 70

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— Eminent Writers of the Comedy of Manners …………………………………… 76— Multiple Choice Type Questions (Set 1–5)……………………………………… 77–92

Chapter 3 : Augustan Age : The 18th Century Literature 93–129— Some Important Years with Social, Political and Literary Events ……………… 93— Major Literary Figures and their Works ………………………………………… 93— Augustan Age …………………………………………………………………… 96— Minor Poets of the Revival ……………………………………………………… 99— The First English Novelists ……………………………………...……………… 102— Daniel Defore (1661–1731) ……………………………………..……………… 104— Samuel Richardson (1689–1761) ………………………………..……………… 107— Henry Fielding (1707–1754) …………………………………………………… 108— Multiple Choice Type Questions (Set 1–7)……………………………………… 109–129

Chapter 4 : Romantic Period (1798–1832) 130–167— Some Important Years with Social, Political and Literary Events ……………… 130— Major Literary Figures and their Works ………………………………………… 130— Romantic Period ………………………………………………………………… 132

— The Poets of Romanticism* William Wordsworth (1770–1850) ………………………………………… 137* Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834) ……………………………….…… 140* Robert Southey (1774–1843) ……………………………………………… 141* Walter Scott (1771–1832) ………………………………….……………… 142* George Gordon, Lord Byron (1788–1824) ………………………………… 143* Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822)………………………………………… 145* John Keats (1795–1821) …………………………………………………… 146

— Prose Writers of the Romantic Period* Charles Lamb (1775–1834) ………………………………………………… 149* Thomas De Quincey (1785–1859) …………………….…………………… 150* Walter Savage Lander (1775–1864) …………………..…………………… 152

— Women Novelists of the Romantic Age …………….…………………… 153* Jane Austen (1775–1817) as a Novelist……………………………………… 153

— Multiple Choice Type Questions (Set 1–4)……………………………………… 155–167

Chapter 5 : Victorian Period (1837–1901) 168–192— Some Important Years with Social, Political and Literary Events ……………… 168— Major Writers and their Works …………………………………………………. 168— Literary Tendencies of the Victorian Age ……………………………………… 174— Literary Characteristics …………………………………….…………………… 176— Multiple Choice Type Questions (Set 1–5) ………………..…………………… 177–192

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Chapter 6 : Modern and Contemporary Period (1901 onwards) 193–239— Some Important Years with Social, Political and Literary Events ……………… 193

— Major Literary Figures and their Works (1880 onwards) ….…………………… 193

— Some Other Important Works…………………………………………………… 198

— Trends in the Modern Novel …………………………………………………… 202

— Trends in Modern Drama ………………………………….…………………… 204

— Trends in Modern Literary Criticism …………………………………………… 205

— Modern Poetry ……………………………………………..…………………… 206

— Modern Novel …………………………………………………………………… 216

— Twentieth Century Drama ……………………………………………………… 222

— Multiple Choice Type Questions (Set 1–4)……………………………………… 225–239

Chapter 7 : American Literature 240–270— Major Writers and their Works …………………………………………………. 240

— American Literature ………………………………………..…………………… 241

— Nineteenth Century American Literature ……………………………………… 242

— American Literature in the Twentieth Century ………….……………………… 252— Multiple Choice Type Questions (Set 1–2)……………………………………… 261–270

Chapter 8 : Indo-Anglican Literature 271–319— Major Literary Figures and their Works ………………………………………… 271— Indian English Literature ………………………………………………..……… 272— The Era of Political Awakening (1901–1947) ………………………..………… 275— The Development of Poetry …………………………………………..………… 276— Rabindra Nath Tagore (1861–1941) ………………………………….………… 277— Sarojini Naidu (1879–1948) …………………………………………..………… 278— Sri Aurobindo (1872–1950) …………………………………………..………… 280— Harindra Nath Chattopadhyaya ………………………………………………… 283— Other Poets ……………………………………………………………………… 283— Eminent Poets of the Seventies and Eighties……………………………………… 288— Indian English Poetry from 1990–2005 ………………………………………… 291— The Pioneers of Prose (1820–1900) ………………………..…………………… 294— Towards the Dawn (1901–1947)………………………………………………… 295— The Era of Independence …………………………………………..…………… 298— Some Contemporary Writers …………………………………………………… 300— The Era of Awakening or Freedom Struggle……………………………………… 301— The Dawn of Independence ………………………………………..…………… 303— Women Novelists …………………………………………………..…………… 308— Multiple Choice Type Questions …………………………………...…………... 310–319

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Chapter 9 : Other Non-British Literature 320–332— Commonwealth Literature ……………………………………………………… 321— Canadian Literature ………………………………………...…………………… 321— Australian Literature ……………………………………….…………………… 324— African Literature ………………………………………….…………………… 326— New Zealand Literature …………………………………….…………………… 328— Multiple Choice Type Questions …………………………..…………………… 329–332

Chapter 10 : Literary Theory and Criticism 333–374— Greek and Roman Critics and their Works……………………………………… 333— Major English Critics and their Works …………………………………………. 333— Plato (427 B.C.–347 B.C.) ……………………………………………………… 334— Aristotle (384 B.C.–322 B.C.) …………………………..……………………… 335— Longinus, ‘‘The First Romantic Critic’’………………………………………… 338— On the Sublime : An Analysis …………………………..……………………… 338— Dante (1265–1321) ……………………………………………………………… 340— The Renaissance Criticism in England ………………………………………… 341— Neo-classicism in English Literary Criticism ………………………..………… 342— The Romantic Criticism ………………………………………………………… 347— Victorian Criticism ……………………………………………………………… 350— Metthew Arnold ………………………………...………….…………………… 351— Modern Criticism …………………………………………..…………………… 353— Contemporary Criticism ………………………………………………………… 357— Structuralism and Post-structuralism …………………………………………… 359— Feminist Criticism ……………………………………………………………… 360— Multiple Choice Type Questions ……………………………………………….. 361–374

Chapter 11 : Rhetoric and Prosody 375–391— Important Terms ………………………………………………………………… 375— Rhetoric …………………………………………………….…………………… 378— Prosody ……………………………………………………..…………………… 379— Multiple Choice Type Questions ……………………………………………….. 380–391

Syllabus

Paper–IIPaper–II will cover 50 Objective Type

Questions (Multiple Choice, Matching Type,True/False, Assertion–Reasoning Type) carrying100 marks.

11. Chaucer to Shakespeare

12. Jacobean to Restoration Periods

13. Augustan Age : 18th Century Literature

14. Romantic Period

15. Victorian Period

16. Modern Period

17. Contemporary Period

18. American and Other Non-British Litera-tures

19. Literary Theory and Criticism

10. Rhetoric and Prosody

Paper–III (A)[Core Group]

1. British Literature from Chaucer to thepresent day

2. Criticism and Literature Theory

Unit–ILiterary Comprehension (with internal choice

of poetry stanza and prose passage).

Unit–IIUpto the Renaissance

Unit–IIIJacobean to Restoration Periods

Unit–IVAugustan Age : 18th Century Literature

Unit–VRomantic Period

Unit–VIVictorian and Pre-Raphaelites

Unit–VIIModern British Literature

Unit–VIIIContemporary British Literature

Unit–IXLiterary Theory and Criticism upto T.S. Eliot

Unit–XContemporary Theory

Paper–III (B)[Elective/Optional]

Elective–IHistory of English Language, English

Language TeachingElective–II

European Literature from Classical Age to the20th CenturyElective–III

Indian writing in English and IndianLiterature in English translationElective–IV

American and Other Non-British EnglishLiteraturesElective–V

Literature Theory and Criticism

Periods of English Literature1450—1066 Old English or Anglo Saxon Period1066—1500 Middle English Period1500—1600 The Renaissance Period1521—1603 Reformation1558—1603 Elizabethan Age1603—1625 Jacobean Age1625—1649 Caroline Period1625—1660 Commonwealth, Puritanism Age1660—1700 The Restoration Period1700—1740 Neo-Classical Age

1740—1800 Transition Age, The Age of Johnson1798—1837 The Romantic Period1837—1903 The Victorian Period1848—1860 The Pre-Raphaelites1890—1914 Aesthetic Movement1912—1914 Imagist Movement1910—1936 The Georgian Period1901—1945 The Modern Period1914—1918 War Poetry1945……… The Post Modern Period

The English Sovereigns(i) The Norman Kings

1. William I (1066–1087)2. William II (1087—1100)3. Henry I (1100—1135)4. Stephen (1135—1154)

(ii) Plantagent Kings5. Henry II of Anjou (1154—1189)6. Richard I (1189—1199)7. John (1199—1216)8. Henry III (1219—1272)9. Edward I (1272—1307)10. Edward II (1307—1327)11. Edward III (1327—1377)12. Richard II (1377—1399)

(iii) The House of Lancaster13. Henry IV (1399—1413)14. Henry V (1413—1422)15. Henry VI (1422—1461)

(iv) The House of York16. Edward IV (1461—1483)17. Edward V (1483)18. Richard III (1483—1485)

(v) The Tudor Dynasty19. Henry VII (1485—1509)20. Henry VIII (1509—1547)

21. Edward VI (1547—1553)22. Mary (1553—1558)23. Elizabeth I (1558—1603)

(vi) The Stuart Dynasty24. James I (1603—1625)25. Charles I (1625—1649)

Commonwealth and the Protectorate(1649–1660)

26. Charles II (1660—1685)27. James II (1685—1688)28. William III and Mary (1689—1702)29. Anne (1702—1714)

(vii) The House of Hanover30. George I (1714—1727)

31. George II (1727—1760)

32. George III (1760—1820)

33. George IV (1820—1830)

34. William IV (1831—1837)

35. Queen Victoria (1837—1901)

36. Edward VII (1901—1910)

37. George V (1910—1936)

38. Edward VIII (1936)

39. George VI (1936—1952)

40. Elizabeth II (1952—)

UGC-NET/JRF-Exam., June 2014 Solved PaperEnglish(Paper II)

Note—This paper contains fifty (50) objectivetype questions of two (2) marks each. Allquestions are compulsory.

1. “The just man justices. What kind of fore-grounding do you find in the above lines ?(A) Syntactic (B) Semantic(C) Collocation (D) None of the above

2. Match the items in List-I with items in List-IIaccording to the code given—List-I(a) Lambic (b) Anapaestic(c) Dactylic (d) TrochaicList-II1. An unstressed syllable followed by a

stressed syllable.2. A stressed is followed by two unstressed

syllables.3. An unstressed syllable is followed by a

stressed syllable.4. A stressed syllable is followed by an

unstressed syllable.Codes :

(a) (b) (c) (d)(A) 2 1 3 4(B) 3 2 1 4(C) 4 1 2 3(D) 3 1 2 4

3. The separation of styles in accordance withclass appears more consistently in .......... thanin medieval works of literature and art.(A) Ben Jonson (B) Shakespeare(C) Philip Sidney (D) Edmund Spenser

4. “Had we but world enough, and time, Thiscoyness, lady, were no crime.” This statementis an example of—(A) Irony (B) Paradox(C) Hyperbole (D) Euphemism

5. A Spenserian stanza has—(A) four iambic pentameters(B) six iambic pentameters(C) eight iambic pentameters(D) ten iambic pentameters

6. Match the items in List-I with items in List-IIaccording to the code given below—List-I (Critic)(a) Cleanth Brooks (b) William Empson(c) Mark Schorer (d) Maud BodkinList-II (Theory)1. Ambiguity2. Paradox3. Archetypal patterns in poetry4. Techniques as discoveryCodes :

(a) (b) (c) (d)

(A) 2 1 4 3

(B) 3 2 1 4

(C) 1 2 3 4

(D) 2 3 4 1

7. “The artist may be present in his work likeGod in creation, invisible and almighty,everywhere felt but nowhere seen.” HenryJames is talking here about the artist’s—

(A) impersonality (B) absence

(C) presence (D) creativity

8. Match the items in List-I with items in List-IIaccording to the code given below—

List-I (Theorist)(a) Michel Foucault

(b) Judith Butler

(c) Alan Sinfield

(d) Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick

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List-II (Book)1. Gender Trouble2. Epistemology of the Closet3. History of Sexuality4. Cultural Politics-Queer ReadingWhich is the correct combination according tothe code—Codes :

(a) (b) (c) (d)(A) 3 1 2 4(B) 3 1 4 2(C) 4 2 1 3(D) 4 3 1 2

9. “The greatness of a poet”, Arnold says, “liesin his powerful and beautiful application ofideas to life”. But a critic pointed out it was“not a happy way of putting it, as if ideaswere a lotion for the inflamed skin ofsuffering humanity”. Who was this critic ?(A) T.S. Eliot (B) F.R. Leavis(C) David Lodge (D) Allen Tate

10. Derrida’s American disciples were—(A) Geoffrey Hartman, Paul de Man, J. Hills

Miller(B) Gertrude Stein, Barbara Johnson,

Michael Ryan(C) Barbara Johnson, Michael Ryan, Mary

Ellman(D) Jean Baudrillard, Gilles Deleuze, Felix

Guattari

11. Identify the correct group of playhouses in latesixteenth century London from the followinggroups—

(A) Curtain, Rose, Swan, Globe, Hope

(B) Curtain, Rose, Swan, Globe, Sejanus

(C) Hope, Curtain, Rose, Swan, Globe

(D) Swan, Curtain, Rose, Globe, Thames

12. “Keep up your bright swords, for the dew willrust them—

Good Signior, you shall more command withyears.

Than with your weapons.” The above linesare addresses by Othello to—

(A) Roderigo and Officers

(B) Brabantio, Roderigo and Officers

(C) The Duke and Senators(D) Montano and Cassio

13. Act V of Marlowe’s Edward the Secondshows the murder of the king. Where does ittake place ?(A) Westminster, a room in the palace(B) A room in Berkeley Castle(C) A room in Killingworth Castle(D) Within the Abbey of Neath

14. Identify the correctly matched set—(A) “The Shepheards Calender” — 1579

Tottels Miscellany — 1557Astrophel and Stella — 1591The Spanish Tragedie — about 1585

(B) “The Shepheards Calender” — 1559Tottels Miscellany — 1579Astrophel and Stella — 1585The Spanish Tragedie — about 1591

(C) “The Shepheards Calender” — 1585Tottels Miscellany — 1591Astrophel and Stella — 1579The Spanish Tragedie — about 1557

(D) “The Shepheards Calender” — 1579

Tottels Miscellany — 1591Astrophel and Stella — 1585The Spanish Tragedie — about 1557

15. Match the items in List-I with items in List-IIaccording to the code given below—List-I (Authors)(a) Lucy Hutuchinson(b) John Bunyan(c) John Evelyn(d) Margaret CavendishList-II (Works)1. The Life and Death of Mr. Badman2. Sylva : or a Discourse of Forest Trees3. Natures Pictures4. Memories of the Life Colonel HutchinsonCodes :

(a) (b) (c) (d)(A) 2 3 1 4(B) 4 3 2 1(C) 4 1 2 3(D) 4 2 1 3

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16. “But deeds, and language, such as men douse;And persons, such a comedy would choose,When she would show an image of the time,and sport with human follies, not with crime.”In the above lines Jonson—I. Oppose the artificiality of the romantic

tragic-comedy.II. Initiates the use of realism.III. Considers analysis of moral short

comings more important.IV. Encourages the use of farce with

melodrama.Find out the correct combination according tothe code—(A) I, II and III are correct(B) I, II and IV are correct(C) I, III and IV are correct(D) II, III and IV are correct

17. “And if no peece of chronicle we prove,We’ll build in ............ pretty roomes.”(A) lyrics (B) epics(C) sonnets (D) stanzas

18. “That glory never shall his wrath or mightextort from me.” (Paradise Lost, Book I)What ‘glory’ is being referred to by Satan ?

(A) The courage never to submit or yield(B) To reign in Hell(C) To defeat God

(D) To spread evil

19. It has been described as a “novel withoutpredecessors”, the product of an original mindand became immediately popular. It is apeculiar blend of pathos and humour, thoughthe pathos is sometimes overdone to the pointof becoming offensively sentimental—

The novel was published in 1760. What is thename of the novel ?

(A) Gulliver’s Travels

(B) The Castle of Otranto

(C) Tristram Shandy

(D) A Tender Husband

20. The son of a joiner, he was apprenticed as aprinter. He remained a printer throughout hislife. He was asked to prepare a series of

modern letters for those who could not writefor themselves. This humble task taught himthe art of expressing himself in letters. Who isthe novelist ?(A) Daniel Defoe(B) Samuel Richardson(C) Henry Fielding(D) Tobias Smollett

21. “Where ignorance is Bliss Tis folly to bewise.” Who wrote the following lines ?(A) Pope (B) Gray(C) Collins (D) Southey

22. Which of the following works is not actuallya prose essay ?(A) Essay of Dramatic Poesy(B) Essay of Man(C) An Essay Concerning Human Under-

standing(D) An Essay Towards a New Theory of

Vision

23. Whom does Mirabell deceive into believingthat he loves her in The Way of the World ?(A) Millamant (B) Lady Wishfort(C) Mrs. Marwood (D) Mrs. Fainall

24. “Competence to age is supplementary toyouth, a sorry supplement indeed, but I fearthe best that is to be had. We must ride wherewe formerly walked : live better and be softerand shall be wise to do so than we had meansto do in the good old days you speak of.”Who speaks these words and to whom ?(A) Lamb to Bridget(B) Wordsworth to Dorothy(C) Dorothy to Bridget(D) Lamb to Dorothy

25. The Prelude although begun as early as 1799and finished in its first version in 1805, wasnot published until ..........

(A) 1815 (B) 1820

(C) 1830 (D) 1850

26. “A rosy sanctuary will I dress

With the wreathed trellis of a working brain.”The above lines are quoted from—

(A) ‘Adonais’

(B) ‘Ode to Psyche’

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(C) ‘Eve of St. Agnes’(D) ‘Endymion’

27. “Love seeketh only self to please,To bind another to its delight.”This selfish and possessive nature of love isillusrated in Blake’s—(A) ‘The Clod and the Pebble’(B) ‘The Sick Rose’(C) ‘A Poison Tree’(D) ‘Ah Sunflower’

28. Who is the author of Mary and the unfinishedThe Wrongs of Woman ?(A) Mary Wollstonecraft(B) William Godwin(C) Mary Hay(D) Elizabeth Inchbald

29. Identify the incorrect factor in Henry James’theory of the novel—(A) It should be sentimental(B) It should be objective(C) It should be realistic(D) It should be viewed as an artistic form

30. Match the items in List-I with items in List-IIaccording to the code given below—List-I List-II (Novels) (Characters)(a) Ulysses 1. Mrs. Moore(b) A Passage to India 2. Molly Bloom(c) To the Lighthouse 3. Gerald Crich(d) Women in Love 4. Lily Briscoe

Codes :(a) (b) (c) (d)

(A) 3 1 2 4(B) 2 1 4 3(C) 4 2 1 3(D) 1 3 2 4

31. Which among the following novels was notwritten in 1922 ?(A) Ulysses (B) Jacob’s room(C) Aaron’s Rod (D) A Passage to India

32. “A sudden blow : the great wings beating stillAbove the staggering girl, her thighs caressedBy the dark webs, her nap caught in his bill,He holds her helpless breast upon his breast.”

Who is the author of the above lines ?(A) W.B. Yeats (B) T.S. Eliot(C) W.H. Auden (D) D.H. Lawrence

33. “Consume my heart away; sick with desire—And fastened to a dying animal.”The above lines are taken from—(A) “Felix Randal”(B) “Sailing to Byzantium”(C) “Coole and the Ballylee, 1931”(D) “The Second Coming”

34. Who among the following is not a surrealistpoet ?(A) Hugh Sykes Dykes(B) David Gascoyne(C) Kenneth Allot(D) C. Day Lewis

35. The protagonist returns with an admonition,the diamond sent to him for smuggling out apacket of diamonds as bribe—

This scene occurs in one of the novels ofGraham Greene-Identify the novel—

(A) The End of the Affair

(B) The Heart of the Matter

(C) The Ministry of Fear

(D) Our man in Havana

36. Samuel Beckett’s trilogy published togetherin London in 1959 under the English titlesis—

(A) More Pricks than Kicks, Murphy, Molloy

(B) B. Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable

(C) Molloy, Murphy, Malone Dies

(D) The Unnamable, More Pricks than Kicks,Murphy

37. Among the following playwrights, who wasawarded the Pulitzer prize in 1920 ?

(A) Eugene O’ Neill

(B) Sean O’Casey

(C) William Somerset Maugham

(D) J.B. Priestly

38. D.H. Lawrence popularized the concept of.......... in his novels.

(A) Realism (B) Naturalism

(C) Primitivism (D) Expressionism

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39. Who among the following is not an Americanmodernist poet ?(A) William Carlos Williams(B) Ezra Pound(C) William Ellery Channing, the younger(D) Marianne Moore

40. An important poet and playwright who in the1960s led the Black Arts Movement, in thespirit of negritude, posited a ‘Black Aesthetic’that expressed a pan-African, organic andwhole sensibility—

(A) Henry Louis Gates Jr.

(B) Amiri Baraka

(C) Ishmael Reed

(D) Bell Hooks

41. Match the items in List-I with items in List-IIaccording to the code given below—

List-I (Authors)(a) V.S. Naipaul (b) Jean Rhys

(c) Marina Warners (d) J.M. Coetzee

List-II (Books)1. Foe

2. Indigo or Mapping the Waters

3. Wide Sargasso Sea

4. Mimic Men

Codes :(a) (b) (c) (d)

(A) 4 2 3 1

(B) 4 1 2 3

(C) 4 3 2 1

(D) 1 3 4 2

42. Yasmine Gooneratne’s The Pleasures ofConquest termed as a postcolonial novel ofthe nineties is ironically enough set in thetropical island nation of—

(A) Sri Lanka (B) Fiji

(C) The Caribbean (D) Amnesia

43. Which of the following is not an Asian-Canadian writer ?

(A) Shauna Singh Badlwin(B) Himani Banerjee(C) Joy Kogawa

(D) Meena Alexander

44. Which of the following is true ?

(A) ‘Aurora Leigh’ is a poem in nine books

(B) ‘Aurora Leigh’ is a collection of sonnetsfrom the Portuguese

(C) ‘Aurora Leigh’ is a nursery rhyme book

(D) ‘Aurora Leigh’ is “the Seeds and Fruitsof English Poetry”

45. “The old order changeth yielding place tonew,

And God fulfils himself in many way.”

In which of the following poems do theselines appear ?

(A) ‘Locksley Hall’

(B) ‘Two Voices’

(C) ‘Morte d’ Arthur’

(D) ‘Ulysses’

46. George Eliot’s attempt to write a historicalnovel of the Italian Renaissance was notsuccessful. Which was this novel ?

(A) Adam Bede (B) Felix Holt

(C) Silas Marner (D) Romola

47. In which novel, does the hero, driven bypassion and revenge, add a new dimension tothe concept of suffering ?

(A) Wuthering Heights

(B) Jude the Obscure

(C) Mill on the Floss

(D) Hard Times

48. From the following women characters inHardy’s novels choose the odd one out—

(A) Bathsheba Everdene

(B) Eustacia Vye(C) Elizabeth Jane(D) Lucetta

49. “Out of the gosple he tho wordes caughteAnd this figure he added eek therto,That if gold ruste, what shal iren do ?”In the Prologue the Parson is represented asman—1. who loved money2. who criticized the corrupt clergy3. who practiced what he preached

4. who was a poor but honest clerk

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Find the correct combination according to thecode—(A) 1, 2 and 3 are correct(B) 1, 2 and 4 are correct(C) 2, 3 and 4 are correct(D) 1, 3 and 4 are correct

50. Match the items in List-I with items in List-IIaccording to the code given below—List-I (Plays)(a) White Devil(b) Maids Tragedy(c) Every Man in his Humour(d) The Spanish TragedieList-II (Characters)1. Hieornimo2. Old Knowell3. Vittoria Corombona4. AspatiaCodes :

(a) (b) (c) (d)(A) 4 3 1 2(B) 2 1 3 4(C) 3 4 2 1(D) 4 3 2 1

Answers with Explanation1. (A) A syntactic category is a set of words

and/or phrases in a language which share asignificant number of common characteristics.

2. (D) 3. (B)4. (A) Irony meaning ‘dissimulation, feigned

ignorance’ in its broadest sense, is a rhetoricaldevice, literary technique, or eventcharacterized by an incongruity, or contrast,between what the expectations of a situationare and what is really the case, with a thirdelement, that defines that what is really thecase is ironic because of the situation that ledto it. Irony may be divided into categoriessuch as : verbal, dramatic and situational.

5. (C) The Spenserian stanza is a fixed verseform invented by Edmund Spenser for hisepic poem The Faerie Queene. Each stanzacontains nine lines in total : eight lines iniambic pentameter followed by a single‘alexandrine’ line in iambic hexameter.

6. (A) 7. (A) 8. (B)

9. (A) Eliot attracted widespread attention forhis poem The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock(1915), which is seen as a masterpiece of theModernist movement. It was followed bysome of the best-known poems in the Englishlanguage.

10. (A) Jacques Derrida was a French philosopher,born in French Algeria. Derrida is best knownfor developing a form of semiotic analysisknown as deconstruction. He is one of themajor figures associated with post-structura-lism and post-modern philosophy.

11. (A)12 (B) The Tragedy of Othello, the Moor of

Venice is a tragedy by William Shakespeare,believed to have been written in approxi-mately 1603 and based on the Italian shortstory Un Capitano Moro.

13. (B) 14. (A) 15. (C) 16. (A) 17. (C)18. (A)19. (C) Travels into Several Remote Nations of

the World. In Four Parts. By LemuelGulliver, First a Surgeon and then a Captainof Several Ships, better known simply asGulliver’s Travels is a novel by Anglo-Irishwriter and clergy man Jonathan Swift, that isboth a satire on human nature and a parody ofthe ‘travellers’ tales’ literary sub-genre. It isSwift’s best known full-length work and aclassic of English literature.

20. (B) Samuel Richardson was an 18th-centuryEnglish writer and printer. He is best knownfor his three epistolary novels : Pamela : Or,Virtue Rewarded (1740), Clarissa : Or theHistory of a Young Lady (1748) and TheHistory of Sir Charles Grandison (1753).

21. (B)

22. (B) An Essay on Man is a poem published byAlexander Pope in 1734. It is a rationalisticeffort to use philosophy in order to “vindicatethe ways of God to man” a variation of JohnMilton’s claim in the opening lines ofParadise Lost, that he will “justify the ways ofGod to men”.

23. (B) The play is based around the two lovers,Mirabell and Millamant. In order for the twoto get married and receive Millamant’s fulldowry, Mirabell must receive the blessing ofMillamant’s aunt, Lady Wishfort.

24. (A)

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25. (D) The Prelude or, Growth of a Poet’s Mind;An Autobiographical Poem is an autobio-graphical conversation poem in blank verseby the English poet William Wordsworth.Intended as the introduction to the morephilosophical Recluse, which Wordsworthnever finished, The Prelude is an extremelypersonal and revealing work on the details ofWordsworth's life. Wordsworth began ThePrelude in 1798 at the age of 28 andcontinued to work on it throughout his life.He never gave it a title; he called it the “Poem(title not yet fixed upon) to Coleridge” and inhis letters to Dorothy Wordsworth referred toit as “the poem on the growth of my ownmind”. The poem was unknown to the generalpublic until published three months afterWordsworth’s death in 1850, its final namegiven to it by his widow Mary.

26. (B) “Ode to Psyche” is a poem by John Keatswritten in spring 1819. The poem is the firstof his 1819 odes, which include “Ode on aGrecian Urn” and “Ode to a Nightingale”.“Ode to Psyche” is an experiment in the odegenre and Keats’s attempt at an expandedversion of the sonnet format that describes adramatic scene.

27. (A) The Clod and the Pebble is a poemwritten by the English poet William Blake. Itwas published as part of his collection Songsof Experience in 1794. The poem seeks toform a comparison between disorganised loveand strict, controlled love which is representedby the Pebble.

28. (A) Mary Wollstonecraft was an eighteenth-century English writer, philosopher andadvocate of women’s rights. During her briefcareer, she wrote novels, treatises, a travelnarrative, a history of the French Revolution,a conduct book and a children’s book.Wollstonecraft is best known for AVindication of the Rights of Woman (1792),in which she argues that women are notnaturally inferior to men, but appear to beonly because they lack education.

29. (A) 30. (B)

31 (D) A Passage to India (1924) is a novel byEnglish author E. M. Forster set against thebackdrop of the British Raj and the Indianindependence movement in the 1920s.

32 (A) William Butler Yeats was an Irish poetand one of the foremost figures of 20thcentury literature. A pillar of both the Irishand British literary establishments. In 1923 hewas awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature asthe first Irishman so honoured for what theNobel Committee described as “inspiredpoetry”.

33. (B) “Sailing to Byzantium” is a poem byWilliam Butler Yeats, first published in the1928 collection The Tower. It comprises fourstanzas in ottava rima, each made up of eighttensyllable lines. It uses a journey toConstantinople (Byzantium) as a metaphorfor a spiritual journey.

34. (D) Cecil Day-Lewis was an Anglo-Irish poetand the Poet Laureate of the United Kingdomfrom 1968 until his death in 1972. He alsowrote mystery stories under the pseudonym ofNicholas Blake.

35. (B) The Heart of the Matter (1948) is a novelby English author Graham Greene. The bookdetails a life-changing moral crisis for HenryScobie. Greene, a British intelligence officerin Freetown, Sierra Leone, drew on hisexperience there.

36. (B)

37. (A) Eugene Gladstone O’Neill was an IrishAmerican playwright and Nobel laureate inLiterature. O’Neill’s first published play,Beyond the Horizon, opened on Broadway in1920 to great acclaim and was awarded thePulitzer Prize for Drama.

38. (C) Primitivism is a Western art movementthat borrows visual forms from non-Westernor prehistoric peoples, such as Paul Gauguin’sinclusion of Tahitian motifs in paintings andceramics. Borrowings from primitive art hasbeen important to the development of modernart.

39. (C) William Ellery Channing was aTranscendentalist poet, nephew of theUnitarian preacher Dr. William ElleryChanning. (His namesake uncle was usuallyknown as ‘Dr. Channing’, while the nephewwas commonly called ‘Ellery Channing’, inprint.)

40. (B) Amiri Baraka formerly known as LeRoiJones and Imamu Amear Baraka, was anAfrican-American writer of poetry, drama,

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fiction, essays and music criticism. He wasthe author of numerous books of poetry andtaught at a number of universities.

41. (C) 42. (D)43. (D) Meena Alexander (born 1951) is an

internationally acclaimed poet, scholar andwriter. Born in Allahabad Alexander lives andworks in New York City, where she isDistinguished Professor of English at HunterCollege.

44. (A) Aurora Leigh (1856) is an epic novel/poem by Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Thepoem is written in blank verse and encom-passes nine books (the woman’s number, thenumber of the prophetic books of the Sibyl).

45. (C) Le Morte d’Arthur is a compilation bySir Thomas Malory of romance-era tales about

the legendary King Arthur, Guinevere,Lancelot and the Knights of the Round Table.Malory interprets existing French and Englishstories about these figures and adds originalmaterial.

46. (D) Romola is a historical novel by GeorgeEliot set in the fifteenth century and is “adeep study of life in the city of Florencefroman intellectual, artistic, religious and socialpoint of view”.

47. (A) Wuthering Heights is a novel by EmilyBrontë, written between October 1845 andJune 1846 and published in 1847 under thepseudonym Ellis Bell. It was her first andonly published novel : she died the followingyear, aged 30.

48. (C) 49. (C) 50. (C)

English (Paper-III)

UGC-NET/JRF Exam., 2014 Solved Paper

June 2014 English

(Paper – III)

Directions—This paper contains seventy five

(75) objective type questions of two (2) marks each. All questions are compulsory. 1. Where Sir Thomas Wyatt adapted Petrarch

and Petrarchanism to English sounds and metres, Survey’s verse tends to look back beyond Petrarch to the—

(A) French verse (B) Italian Verse (C) Spanish verse (D) Latin Verse

2. How are some characteristics of Morality Plays—

1. They are dramatized allegories of the life of man.

2. They depict man’s temptation and sinning, his quest for salvation and his confrontation with Death.

3. Though the hero represents Mankind, the other characters are by not means personifications, of virtues, vices and death.

4. A character known as the Vice often plays the role of the hero, a predecessor of the Villian-hero in Elizabethan drama.

Find the correct combination according to the code—

(A) Only 1 and 2 are correct (B) Only 1 and 3 are correct (C) Only 1 and 4 are correct (D) Only 2 and 3 are correct

3. In Spenser’s Re Faerie Queene there are the allegorized moral and religious virtues with their counterparts in the vices. Identify the correctly matched set—

(A) Una – Truth Guyon – Temperance Duessa – Deceit Orgoglio – Pride

(B) Una – Pride Guyon – Deceit Duessa – Temperance Orgoglio – Truth (C) Una – Deceit Guyon – Pride Duessa – Temperance Orgoglio – Truth (D) Una – Temperance Guyon – Truth Duessa – Pride Orgoglio – Deceit

4. “Fop at the toilet, flatt’rer at the board Now trips a lady, a now struts a lord.” The above lines are quoted from (A) McFlecknoc (B) The Rape of the Lock (C) Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot (D) Absalom and Achitrphel

5. Which of the following arrangements is in the correct chronological sequence ?

(A) Every Man in His Humour The Shoemaker’s Holiday Antonio’s Revenge The Changeling (B) The Shoemaker’s Holiday Every Man in His Humour The Changeling Antonio’s Revenge (C) The Changeling Antonio’s Revenge Every Man in His Humour The Shoemaker’s Holiday (D) Antonio’s Revenge Every Man in His Humour

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The Changeling The Shoemaker’s Holiday

6. Though Coleridge refers to “Motive-hunting of a motiveless malignity”, the ‘human villain’ Iago is far from ‘motiveless’. His motives are—

I. He has been disappointed of military promotion.

II. He suspects Othello of cuckolding him. III. He has been in love with Desdemona. IV. He wants to become Othello. Find the most appropriate combination ac-

cording to the code— (A) I and II are correct (B) I and III are correct (C) I and IV are correct (D) II and IV are correct

7. In ‘The Prologue’ to Dr. Faustus, the chorus proposes that the theme should be—

I. “cursed necromancy” II. “audacious deeds” III. “dalliance of love” IV. “self-conceit” The correct combination according to the

code is— (A) I and II are correct (B) II and III are correct (C) I and IV are correct (D) III and IV are correct

8. The centre of his plays is a proud character on Marlowe’s model, with a bold licence in speech and action, full of elaborate metaphors, phrase tumbling after phrase, as he asserts himself in the French Court. Dryden unjustly described his style as “a dwarfish thought, dressed up in gigantic words”. Who is this Jacobean playwright ?

(A) John Fletcher (B) John Webster (C) George Chapman (D) John Marston

9. In Paradise Lost BK IX Milton writes that Adam was overcome with “………” and so ate the forbidden fruit against his “better knowledge”.

(A) “female charm” (B) “exceeding love” (C) “faithful love” (D) “taste so divine”

10. In which poem of Donne’s is the lover’s face reflected in the eyes of his beloved ?

(A) “The Good Morrow” (B) “The Canonization” (C) “The Apparition” (D) “A Valediction : Forbidding Mourning”

11. Match List-I with List-II accoding to the codes given below—

List–I (Dramatists) (a) Thomas Otway

(b) William Wycherley (c) Colley Cibber (d) George Farquhar List–II (Plays) 1. The Provok’d Husband 2. The Recruiting Officer 3. The Country Wife 4. The Orphan, or the unhappy marriage Codes :

(a) (b) (c) (d) (A) 4 3 1 2 (B) 3 2 1 4 (C) 4 2 3 1 (D) 3 1 2 4

12. “Thou wast no born for death immortal Bird.” In what sense is the Bird “immortal” as

compared to mortal man ? I. Here man as an individual is unfairly

compared to a bird as a species. II. The word ‘Bird’ stands for the nightin-

gale’s song. III. When considered as a species man is

equally ‘immortal’ as the ‘Bird’. IV. The ‘Bird’ is ‘Immortal’ because songs of

birds have given pleasure to man through the ages.

Find the correct cobination according to the code—

(A) Only I and III are correct (B) Only IV is correct (C) Only II and IV are correct (D) Only I and IV are correct

13. Coleridge’s “The Rime of the Ancient Mari-ner” is a poem in ………

(A) 8 parts (B) 9 parts (C) 7 parts (D) 6 parts

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