- “I will drink life to the lees.” The poet compares
(A) life to adventure and enterprise
(B) life to glorious achievements
(C) life to the drinking of wine
(D) all of these - Who is the “azure sister of spring”?
(A) The West Wind
(B) The Skylark
(C) The Nightingale
(D) Winter - The subtitle of the play She Stoops to Conquer is
(A) Fancy Fair
(B) The Mistakes of a Night
(C) Mistakes of the Twilight
(D) Morning Glory - The phrase “hollow men” in Eliot’s The Hollow Men can be found in Shakespeare’s
(A) Macbeth
(B) Hamlet
(C) The Merchant of Venice
(D) Julius Caesar - In the poem Kubla Khan, the poet wishes to
(A) write poetry
(B) play on the dulcimer
(C) sing of Mount Abora
(D) build a dome in air - How does Spenser immortalize his beloved in Loving in Truth?
(A) Through his songs
(B) Through his poetry
(C) Through his imagination
(D) Through his love - The second stanza of Kubla Khan exemplifies a sequence of
(A) alliterations
(B) exclamations
(C) antitheses
(D) euphemism - What does Shelley mean by “Wild West Wind”?
(A) Divine or god-like
(B) Supernatural
(C) Intangible nature
(D) All of these - What is Rainy Hyades?
(A) A group of seven stars which rise with the sun in winter
(B) A group of seven stars which rise with the sun in autumn
(C) A group of seven stars which rise with the sun in spring
(D) A group of seven stars which rise with the sun in summer - O’Donovan Rossa was a/an
(A) Irish poet
(B) Irish playwright
(C) Irish activist
(D) Member of the Irish Republican Brotherhood - What are Sybaris and Crotona in The Lotus Eater?
(A) Names of two Spanish monuments
(B) Names of two Greek cities
(C) Names of two Italian musicians
(D) Names of two French artifacts - What is meant by ‘opus operatum est’?
(A) Work is finished
(B) Work is yet to be finished
(C) Work has started but some time left to be finished
(D) Work never ends - Who was nicknamed the ‘Old Soldier’?
(A) Mr. Markleham
(B) Miss Agnes Wickfield
(C) Mrs. Crupp
(D) Miss Jane Murdstone - “Lesser than Macbeth, and greater
Not so happy, yet much happier.”
Who said this and to whom?
(A) Duncan to Banquo
(B) Banquo to Duncan
(C) The witches to Banquo
(D) The porter to Lady Macbeth - In Ode to a Nightingale, “mid May’s eldest child” refers to
(A) violets
(B) hawthorn
(C) eglantine
(D) musk rose - Which of the following months is referred to in Christabel?
(A) May
(B) April
(C) June
(D) December - In Strange Meeting, how does the enemy soldier recognize the speaker?
(A) By his smile
(B) By his eyes
(C) From his frown
(D) From his wounds - Raina, in the opening scene of Arms and the Man, adores the portrait of Sergius by
(A) elevating it like a priestess
(B) showing mark of affection
(C) kissing it
(D) pressing it to her breast - In Araby, who are the “Freemasons”?
(A) A musical group
(B) A society of masons who offer their services free of cost
(C) An anti-Catholic organization
(D) A charitable organization - With what did Mr. Creakle “bite” David?
(A) His whip
(B) His belt
(C) His teeth
(D) His cane - In the essay Freedom, Shaw
(A) is in favour of strikes
(B) is not in favour of strikes
(C) does not have any opinion regarding strikes
(D) thinks that strikes are somewhat useful - “Summer’s lease hath all too short a date.” Here ‘lease’ is a
(A) legal image
(B) commercial image
(C) image from nature
(D) financial image - Donne’s The Good Morrow is taken from his
(A) Holy Sonnets
(B) Elegies
(C) Songs and Sonnets
(D) Epithalamions - ‘Samhain’ in Riders to the Sea refers to the festival of
(A) ghosts
(B) colours
(C) flowers
(D) light - Yeats revisits Coole Lake after
(A) fifteen years
(B) eighteen years
(C) nineteen years
(D) twenty years - In “Until they think warm days will never cease”, ‘they’ refers to
(A) the bees
(B) the reapers
(C) the farmers
(D) none of these - “…then fly, false thanes,
and mingle with the English epicures.”
‘Epicures’ means
(A) pleasure-loving people
(B) epic loving people
(C) English epics
(D) cure for all diseases - Arms and the Man is taken from Shaw’s work entitled
(A) Plays Unpleasant and Pleasant
(B) Plays Pleasant and Unpleasant
(C) Playboy of the Western World
(D) The Man of Destiny - “That’s the worst of her education.” By ‘worst’ of her education the speaker here refers to her
(A) habit of eavesdropping
(B) defying others
(C) habit of running up to the library
(D) habit of insulting others - Mr. Collins in Pride and Prejudice is a young man of
(A) twenty-eight years
(B) twenty-five years
(C) twenty-four years
(D) twenty-six years - Mr. Chillips was
(A) a doctor
(B) a coachman
(C) a parson
(D) a teacher - What was Barkis always willin’ about?
(A) To remain a coachman
(B) To marry Peggotty
(C) To go to London
(D) To live in Yarmouth - ‘Chalice’ in Araby has a reference to
(A) the Holy Grail
(B) the Holy Cross
(C) the drinking cup
(D) a street ballad - In Dream Children, Lamb’s ‘little ones’ wanted to hear about their
(A) great grandmother Field
(B) grandmother Field
(C) grandmother John
(D) uncle Robin - In Of Studies, Bacon advises the man with ‘wandering wits’ to study
(A) history
(B) lawyer’s cases
(C) natural philosophy
(D) mathematics - What is the “silver sphere/star of heaven”?
(A) Planet Jupiter
(B) Planet Saturn
(C) Planet Venus
(D) Planet Mars - What does Yeats long for in The Wild Swans at Coole?
(A) Wants to get back his old friends
(B) Wants to get back his childhood memoirs
(C) Wants to get back his kith and kin
(D) Wants to get back his past joyous and boundless life - Why does the dew ‘weep’?
(A) At the death of a friend
(B) At the passing of the bright and sweet day
(C) At the loss of youth and beauty
(D) At the end of the year - The wages of sin __ death.
(A) are
(B) has
(C) is
(D) have - Mr. Roy, along with his friends, __ arriving here tonight.
(A) is
(B) are
(C) was
(D) were - We were surprised __ the rude remark of the servant.
(A) upon
(B) at
(C) to
(D) on - If you took my car, you __ the station on time.
(A) would reach
(B) would have reached
(C) would be reaching
(D) will reach - Sixteen annas __ one rupee.
(A) is
(B) are
(C) were
(D) have - “It was Niyamat who noticed the error.” This is an example of
(A) Existential sentence
(B) Cleft sentence
(C) Pseudo-cleft sentence
(D) None of these - In English, an indirect object can often be repositioned with
(A) in/for
(B) to/for
(C) to/by
(D) for/with - The structure of the sentence ‘He sang a sweet song’ is
(A) SVO
(B) SVC
(C) SVOC
(D) SVA - “This is the book Rahim recommended” contains a
(A) Defining Relative Clause
(B) Non-defining Relative Clause
(C) Zero Relative Clause
(D) Nominal Relative Clause - ‘Paint’ in ‘Paint the house green’ is a
(A) mono-transitive verb
(B) di-transitive verb
(C) complex-transitive verb
(D) linking verb - “They are swifter than eagles and stronger than lions.” This is an example of
(A) Hyperbole
(B) Euphemism
(C) Hypallage
(D) Innuendo - “You are telling a fairy tale.” This is an example of
(A) Chiasmus
(B) Euphemism
(C) Pleonasm
(D) Inversion - “His look drew audience and attention.” This is an example of
(A) Hendiadys
(B) Oxymoron
(C) Innuendo
(D) Sarcasm - “Days not dark are ahead of you.” This is an example of
(A) Zeugma
(B) Litotes
(C) Chiasmus
(D) None of these - “The mother rose in her breast.” This is an example of
(A) Hypallage
(B) Bathos
(C) Synecdoche
(D) Erotesis - “A voice so thrilling ne’er was heard
In spring time from the cuckoo bird.”
This is written in
(A) Iambic pentameter
(B) Iambic tetrameter
(C) Trochaic trimeter
(D) Anapaestic trimeter - “Now they stood confounded,
While the battle sounded.”
This is written in
(A) Iambic trimeter
(B) Anapaestic trimeter
(C) Dactylic trimeter
(D) Amphibrachic trimeter
