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2717 *2717* Common Entrance Examination for Admission to P.G. Courses under C.S.S. 2009 ENGLISH Time: 2 Hours Max. Marks: 100 Instruction Questions under all Parts are to be answered in the booklet itself. To be filled in by the candidate Register Number In figures In words PART A I. Answer the following objective type questions . Circle the appropriate letter indicating your choice. (50 1=50 Marks) 1) Identify the figure of speech, with reference to the underlined word : The cutthroat (for murderer) was finally caught. a) Simile b) Metaphor c) Synecdoche d) Litotes 2) Identify the figure of speech in the following line O Death in Life ! a) Oxymoron b) Euphemism c) Onomatopoeia d) Metaphor 3) The riddle of the sphinx was answered by a) Alexander b) Oedipus c) Agamemnon d) Odysseus P.T.O. 2 717 -2- Do *2717* re He rite tW No 4) Who of the following never won the Nobel Prize ? a) John Steinbeck b) Robert Frost c) T.S. Eliot d) Orhan Pamuk 5) Sprung Rhythm describes the metrical pattern associated with the poetry of a) Oscar Wilde b) John Keats c) William Wordsworth d) Gerard ManleyHopkins 6) An etymologist is a) A specialist in the study of insects b) Specialist in the study of the history of words c) A physician who specializes in the treatment of speech defects d) A doctor who specializes in the management of contagious diseases 7) Give me the strength to make my love fruitful in service. Give me the strength never to disown the poor or bend my knees before insolent might . The above lines were written by a) Sarojini Naidu b) Nissim Ezekiel c) Kamala Das d) Rabindranath Tagore *2717* -3- 2717 8) Alexander Pope and John Keats are a) Neo-Classical but not Romantic b) Romantic but not Neo-Classical c) Neo-Classical and Romantic respectively d) Romantic and Neo-Classical respectively 9) The author of Oliver Twist also wrote a) Vanity Fair b) Wuthering Heights c) War and Peace d) Hard Times 10) What is the correct chronological arrangement of the following literary periods (begin with the earliest) ? I. Elizabethan II. Victorian III. Romantic IV. Anglo-Saxon a) II, IV, III, I c) IV, I, III, II b) I, II, III, IV d) III, I, IV, II 11) With which of these places is Thomas Gray associated ? a) Stoke Poges b) Moor Park c) Manor Farm d) Strawberry Hill 12) Earth s the right place for love : I don t know where it s likely to go better . These lines were written by a) W. B. Yeats b) Robert Frost c) William Wordsworth d) William Blake 13) The Spectator was a daily publication founded by a) Wordsworth and Coleridge b) Carlyle and Ruskin c) Lamb and Hazlitt d) Joseph Addison and Richard Steele 2 717 -4- 14) Malgudi is a fictional town associated with a) Mahaswetha Devi b) R. K. Narayan c) Shashi Deshpande d) Mulk Raj Anand 15) If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind ? This is the concluding line of a) Ode to a Nightingale b) Ode to Evening c) Ode to the West wind d) Ode to Autumn 16) Elia was the pseudonym of a) Charles Lamb b) Jonathan Swift c) Oscar Wilde d) Francis Bacon 17) How many lines does a Sonnet have ? a) 12 b) 16 c) 14 d) 18 18) In which year was The Lyrical Ballads published ? a) 1796 b) 1896 c) 1898 d) 1798 19) Which of the following writers belonged to Ireland ? a) W. H. Auden b) Joseph Conrad c) William Carlos Williams d) W. B. Yeats 20) Which of the following plays was not authored by Shakespeare ? a) Othello b) Volpone c) Twelfth Night d) The Tempest 21) Wordsworth defined all good poetry as a) the divine gift grace b) the polite patter of a corrupted age c) the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings d) the rhythmic expression of moral intuition *2717* *2717* -5- 22) What characterizes a metaphysical conceit ? a) the linking of images from very different ranges of experience b) a confession that avoids questions of moral accountability c) the use of phrases from the Bible d) the use of abstract expressions 23) Ngugi Wa Thiong O belongs to a) Nigeria b) Kenya c) Ghana d) South Africa 24) Choose the correct spelling a) Buorgeois b) Bourgeus c) Bourgeois d) Bourgoeis 25) The old man in Hemingway s The Old Man and the Sea was called a) Santiago b) Sanolin c) Mantiago d) Manolin 26) Which of the following is not an elegy ? a) Lycidas b) In Memoriam c) Adonais d) Tintern Abbey 27) Who served as Protector under England s First Written Constitution ? a) William of Orange b) Oliver Cromwell c) Edmund Burke d) George Monk 28) Whose biography did Izaak Walton write ? a) John Donne b) John Dryden c) John Keats d) Robert Browning 29) Who compiled and published an English Dictionary in 1755 ? a) James Boswell b) Samuel Johnson c) Bernard Shaw d) Ben Jonson 2717 2 717 -6- 30) The Italian poet associated with the sonnet form is a) Juvenal b) Dante c) Petrarch d) Horace 31) William Shakespeare was born in the year a) 1564 b) 1524 c) 1664 d) 1624 32) Which of the following was written by Mahasweta Devi ? a) Gora b) Godaan c) Tamas d) Rudali 33) Far from the madding crowd s ignoble strife, Their sober wishes never learn d to stray; Along the cool sequester d vale of life They kept the noiseless tenour of their way . These lines were written by a) Thomas Hardy b) Matthew Arnold c) Thomas Gray d) William Cowper 34) Comedy of Humours is associated with a) William Shakespeare b) Ben Jonson c) Christopher Marlowe d) John Dryden 35) In Shakespeare s King Lear a) Gonoril, Regan, and King Lear die; but Cordelia survives b) Gonoril, Regan, and Cordelia die; but King Lear survives c) Gonoril, Cordelia, and King Lear die; but Regan survives d) Gonoril, Regan, Cordelia and King Lear die 36) In iambic meter a) a light syllable is followed by a stressed syllable b) two light syllables are followed by a stressed syllable c) a stressed syllable is followed by a light syllable d) a light syllable is followed by two stressed syllables *2717* *2717* -7- 2717 37) The word touchstone was introduced into literary criticism by a) Sir Philip Sidney b) Matthew Arnold c) John Dryden d) Walter Pater 38) ______________ perfected the dramatic monologue in English. a) Tennyson b) Spenser c) Browning d) Milton 39) Semantics is the study of a) meaning c) sentences b) order of words in a sentence d) pronunciation 40) Homophones are a) Words with the same pronunciation but different spellings and meanings b) Words with the same spelling but different meanings c) Words with the same meaning but different spellings d) Words with the same spelling but different origins 41) An inscription on a tomb is an a) epitaph c) epithet b) epigram d) eponym 42) Your teacher asks you, Why did you hiss my mystery lecture ? instead of, Why did you miss my history lecture ? This would be an example of a) Malapropism b) Bunkerism c) Euphemism d) Spoonerism 43) Anarchy means a) unjust government b) rule by the worst people c) absence of government d) rule by one person 44) A philatelist collects a) coins c) pictures b) books d) postal stamps 2 717 -8- 45) A palindrome is a) a word similar in meaning to another word b) a word that reads the same backward as forward c) a word adopted from another language d) a word that is repetitive 46) In a crisis, you can count _____________ your friends. a) on b) in c) up d) with 47) I am certain that your present problems will blow a) in b) over c) out d) through 48) The antonym of extinct is a) unextinct b) extent c) extant d) extend 49) Choose the word nearest in meaning to affliction a) distress b) indifference c) amusement d) delay 50) Choose the word nearest in meaning to contention a) satisfaction b) intention c) dissatisfaction d) quarrel *2717* *2717* 2717 -9- ANSWER SHEET PART A Question number Answer Question number 1 26 2 27 3 28 4 29 5 30 6 31 7 32 8 33 9 34 10 35 11 36 12 37 13 38 14 39 15 40 16 41 17 42 18 43 19 44 20 45 21 46 22 47 23 48 24 49 25 50 Answer 2 717 -10- *2717* *2717* -11- 2717 ENGLISH PART B II. Write short notes (about 100 words) on any ten of the following : (10 5=50 Marks) 1) Greek tragedy 2) The English romantic revival 3) English as an international language 4) The Elizabethan Stage 5) Elegy 6) English as the medium of instruction 7) The future of poetry 8) On reading fiction 9) Literature and Politics 10) Religion and Public Life 11) Literature and Film 12) Popular fiction 13) The role of the public sphere 14) Changing gender roles 15) New forms of colonization in the world today. P.T.O. 2 717 -12- *2717* *2717* -13- 2717 2 717 -14- *2717* *2717* -15- 2717 2 717 -16- *2717* *2717* -17- 2717 2 717 -18- *2717* *2717* -19- 2717 2 717 -20- *2717* *2717* -21- 2717 2 717 -22- *2717* *2717* -23- 2717 2 717 -24- *2717* *2717* -25- 2717 2 717 -26- *2717*

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