R.K. Narayan`s first novel is ….

1. ___ was the founder of Shantiniketan, an experimental school.
1) Tagore
2) Kamala Das
3) Akriti Goel
4) Meish Goldish

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  Answer: 1

2. "I bear light shade for the leaves when laid ___". find the figure of speech.
1) Simile
2) Metaphor
3) Personification
4) Anaphora

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  Answer: 3

3. Not gold but only ___ can make
A people great and strong. Fill in the blank.
1) men
2) women
3) the Nation
4) the country

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  Answer: 1

4. Lightly, O lightly we bear her along,
She sways like a flower in the wind of our song; these lines are from ___
1) Bangle Sellers
2) The Cloud
3) The Night of the Scorpion
4) Palanquin Bearers

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  Answer: 4

5. 'The Road Not Taken' is taken from ___
1) A Boy's Will
2) North of Boston
3) Mountain Interval
4) West-Running Brook

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  Answer: 3

6. What is the rhyme scheme of the poem 'The Road Not Taken'?
1) ABBCC
2) AABBC
3) ABABA
4) ABAAB

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  Answer: 4

7. Who wrote the poem "La Belle Dame Sans Mercy"?
1) William Wordsworth
2) John Keats
3) Shelly
4) Robert Frost

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  Answer: 2

8. Sarojini Naidu was given a sobriquet____ on account of her beautiful poems and songs
1) The Nightingale of India
2) The Melody Queen
3) The Queen of Poetry
4) None of these

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  Answer: 1

9. The inferior form of a drama is ___
1) Tragedy
2) Comedy
3) Tragi Comedy
4) Romantic Tragedy

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  Answer: 3

10. Which of the following is not written by Robert Browning?
1) My Last Dutches
2) Adrew Del Sarto
3) The Last Ride together
4) Ulysses

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  Answer: 4

11. Match the following.
List -A
i) Flash Fiction
ii) Short Story
iii) Novelette
iv) Novella
List -B
A) 7500-17500 Words (25-60 pages)
B) 17500-50000 Words (60-170 pages)
C) 2000 Words (5 pages)
D) 2000-7500 Words (5-25 pages)
1) i-C, ii-D, iii-A, iv-B
2) i-A, ii-B, iii-C, iv-D
3) i-B, ii-C, iii-A, iv-D
4) i-D, ii-A, iii-B, iv-C

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  Answer: 1

12. In a ballad certain lines are repeated periodically. This is called ___
1) Repetition
2) Refrain
3) Recapitulation
4) Redundancy

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  Answer: 2

13. Who flees Scotland to join Malcolm in England?
1) Donalbain
2) Ross
3) Macduff
4) Lennox

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  Answer: 1

14. A sonnet is a poem that has ___ lines.
1) 12
2) 14
3) 16
4) 15

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  Answer: 2

15. Ode like an elegy is a song. But the theme is _____
1) War
2) Nature
3) social evils
4) human weaknesses

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  Answer: 2

16. The length of a line in a poem is measured by __
1) syllables
2) Words
3) Letters
4) Meters

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  Answer: 4

17. The first person in Africa to be honoured Nobel Prize is?
1) Wangari Mathai
2) Wole Soyinka
3) Fritz Karinthy
4) O. Henry

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  Answer: 2

18. Shakespeare sonnets consists of ___
1) Octave and sestet
2) 3quatrains
3) 3 quatrains & 1 couplet
4) 3 sestets

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  Answer: 3

19. A lyrical poem expressing the emotion of sorrow (grief) or a song of death is called___
1) Sonnet
2) Ode
3) Lyric
4) Elegy

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  Answer: 4

20. Ballad was a song accompanied by___
1) Harp
2) Lyre
3) Aulos
4) Flute

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  Answer: 1

21. Lyric is a short poem rendered by___
1) A group of 3 speakers
2) A group of 2 speakers
3) A group speaker
4) a single speaker

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  Answer: 4

22. Nissim Ezekiel was a / an___
1) Indian Jewish poet
2) British critic
3) Canadian author
4) Greek Philosopher

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  Answer: 1

23. ___ is an actor's secrete thoughts uttered aloud on the stage to acquaint with audience what is passing in his mind.
1) Prologue
2) Epilogue
3) Soliloquy
4) Epode

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  Answer: 3

24. Which one of the following is not a Romantic Comedy?
1) Twelfth Night
2) As You Like It
3) A Mid Summer Night's Dream
4) Hamlet

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  Answer: 4

25. Setting refers to _______
1) A place of action
2) Themes specifications
3) a performance
4) narrative techniques

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  Answer: 1

26. The major variables are___"
the pitch of the voice (varying between low and high) length of sounds (varying between short and long)
loudness, or prominence (varying between soft and loud)
Timbre (quality of sound)- found in___
1) Parody
2) Prosody
3) Diction
4) Epic

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  Answer: 2

27. "Representative Men" is the work of___
1) Emerson
2) A.G. Gardiner
3) Isaac Asimov
4) Francis Bacon

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  Answer: 1

28. Ralph Waldo Emerson was a / an ___
1) essayist
2) Lecturer
3) Philosopher and poet
4) All the above

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  Answer: 4

29. A protagonist from lower social ranks who suffers a common place disaster was presented by
1) Senecan tragedy
2) Revenged tragedy
3) Domestic tragedy
4) Tragic Comedy

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  Answer: 3

30. ___in fiction refers to language conventions used to construct the story or article.
1) Setting
2) Point of time
3) Atmosphere
4) Style

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  Answer: 4

31. ___is based on a true story or fictionalized account or a reconstructed biography.
1) Science fiction
2) Non fiction
3) Semi fiction
4) Fiction

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  Answer: 3

32. ___is a separate introductory section that comes before the main body of a poem, novel, or play, and gives some sense as to what's to come.
1) Prologue
2) Epilogue
3) Soliloquy
4) Epode

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  Answer: 1

33. ___is a short speech, poem, dirge, elegy or an event that comes at the end of a play, a novel or any other literary piece.
1) Prologue
2) Epilogue
3) Soliloquy
4) Epode

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  Answer: 2

34. ___refers to the choice of words and style of expression that an author makes and uses in a work of literature.
1) Fiction
2) Faction
3) Diction
4) Imagery

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  Answer: 3

35. On what grounds is hand shaking criticized?
1) rude
2) new practice
3) hygienic
4) Humour

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  Answer: 3

36. Which one of the following is not written by Isaac Asimov?
1) Foundation Series
2) Computer series
3) Empire series
4) Robot series

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  Answer: 2

37. Isaac Asimov was a master in the genre of___
1) Non fiction
2) Realisticfiction
3) Non-Realistic fiction
4) Science fiction

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  Answer: 4

38. The Novel "Swami and Friends" set in ___
1) Mallapur
2) Wessex
3) Mysore
4) None of these

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  Answer: 4

39. How many Chapters are there in the Novel, Swami and Friends?
1)15
2)10
3) 19
4) 20

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  Answer: 3

40. R.K. Narayan's first novel is ___
1) Bachelor of Arts

2) Mr. Sampath
3) Swami and friends
4) The Dark Room

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  Answer: 3

41. How many plays did Shakespeare write?
1) 37
2) 154
3) 10
4) 2

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  Answer: 1

42. Which one of the following is not a Tragedy of Shakespeare?
1) As You Like It
2) Macbeth
3) Hamlet
4) Othello

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  Answer: 1

43. Who murdered Macbeth?
1) Banquo
2) Fleance
3) Lady Mac duff
4) Mac duff

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  Answer: 4

44. Where is the Cathedral?
1)The heath
2) Canterbury
3) Paris
4) London

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  Answer: 2

45. What is the name of the company in the story "The Gold Watch"?
1) Henry King & Co
2) Mudra & Co
3) George King & Co
4) King & Co

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  Answer: 1

46. The postmaster first took up his duties in the village of___
1) Ellapu
2) Culcutta
3) Rudapur
4) Ulapur

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  Answer: 4

47. What is the name of the girl in the story "The Post Master"?
1) Satan
2) Latan
3) Ratan
4) Hatan

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  Answer: 3

48. What is meant by 'swagger"?
1) Confident Talk
2) Confident Gestures
3) Confident walk
4) Confident hand shake

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  Answer: 3

49. Which of the following is not a previous name of the thief"?
1) Ranbir
2) Sudhir
3) Trilok
4) Sunder

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  Answer: 4

50. Who is the narrator of the story "The Thief"?
1) Arun
2) Deepak
3) Ruskin Bond
4) Sunder

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  Answer: 2

51. There are 39 lines broken into 6 stanzas of 6 lines each and one final stanza of 3 lines in the___
1) Vilanelle
2) Sestina
3) Chaucerian Stanza
4) Rhyme Royal

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  Answer: 2

52. Nineteen lines long, the ___.not only repeats lines, it rhymes.
1) Vilanelle
2) Sestina
3) Chaucerian Stanza
4) Rhyme Royal

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  Answer: 1

53. The rhyme scheme of "The Canterbury Tales" is___
1) b b, a b b, c c
2) a b, a b b, c c
3) a b, a a b, cc
4) a a, b b a, c c

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  Answer: 3

54. Ottava Rhyma is a stanza of ___Iambic Pentametre lines.
1) 7
2) 8
3) 8+1 Alexandrine
4) 3

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  Answer: 2

55. The rhyme scheme is a b a b, b c b c, c in___
1) The Ottava Rhyma
2) The Spenserian stanza
3) The Terza Rhyma
4) The Caucerian stanza

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  Answer: 2

56. The Rhyme Royal is the other name of___
1) The Ottava Rhyma
2) The Spenserian stanza
3) The Terza Rhyma
4) The Caucerian stanza

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  Answer: 4

57. Who is called , "the father of English poetry."?
1) Thomas Wyatt
2) Spencer
3) Caucer
4) Dante

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  Answer: 3

58. The Ottava Rhyma stanza-form was first used in England in the early 16th century by___
1) Thomas Wyatt
2) Spencer
3) Caucer
4) Dante

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  Answer: 1

Published date : 25 Dec 2018 09:15PM