CUET-PG SERIES English
Literary Criticism
15 previous year questions.
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2023 Chapter Questions 15 MCQs
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Who pioneered the "Touchstone Method" of literary criticism?
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S.T. Coleridge
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Matthew Arnold
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William Hazlitt
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Walter Pater
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Match List I with List II
| LIST I | LIST II | ||
| A. | Verbal Irony | I. | The introduction of a structural feature that serves to sustain a double meaning throughout the work. |
| B. | Structural Irony | II. | A mode of narrative writing in which the author builds up the illusion of representing reality and then shatters it. |
| C. | Dramatic Irony | III. | A statement in which the meaning that the speaker implies differs from the meaning that is expressed |
| D. | Romantic Irony | IV. | A situation in which the reader audience shares with the authors knowledge of circumstances of which the character is ignorant. |
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
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A-I, B-III, C-IV, D-II
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A-I, B-II, C-III, D-IV
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A-II, B-III, C-IV, D-I
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A-III, B-I, C-IV, D-II
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Match List I with List II
| LIST I | LIST II | ||
| A. | Motif | I. | It is a general concept in a literary text which is designed to involve and persuade the reader to believe in it. |
| B. | Plot | II. | It is the general locate, historical time and social circumstances in which the action occurs |
| C. | Setting | III. | It is a conspicuous elements which occurs frequently in works of literature |
| D. | Theme | IV. | It is constituted by its events and actions that achieve particular artistic and emotional effects. |
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
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A-I, B-IV, C-II, D-III
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A-II, B-IV, C-III, D-I
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A-IV, B-III, C-II, D-I
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A-III, B-IV, C-II, D-I
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Match List I with List II
| LIST I | LIST II | ||
| A. | Fin-de-siecle | I. | God from the machine |
| B. | Deucox machina | II. | Comic drama |
| C. | Commedia dell'arte | III. | A name which is different from his/her real name is used by an author |
| D. | Nom de pluma | IV. | end of a century |
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
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A-I, B-II, C-III, D-IV
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A-IV, B-III, C-II, D-I
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A-III, B-I, C-II, D-IV
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A-IV, B-I, C-II, D-II
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Given below are two statements:
Statement I: Intentional fallacy is the error of interpreting and evaluating a literary work by reference to evidence outside the text.
Statement II: Pathetic fallacy is the representation of inanimate objects with human attributes.
In the light of the above statements, choose the correct answer from the options given below.
Statement I: Intentional fallacy is the error of interpreting and evaluating a literary work by reference to evidence outside the text.
Statement II: Pathetic fallacy is the representation of inanimate objects with human attributes.
In the light of the above statements, choose the correct answer from the options given below.
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Both Statement I and Statement II are true
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Both statement I and Statement II are false
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Statement I is true but Statement II is false
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Statement I is false but Statement II is true
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Match List I with List II
| LIST I | LIST II | ||
| A. | The School of Abuse | I. | Thomas Wilson |
| B. | An Apology for Poetry | II. | Stephen Gesson |
| C. | A Defence of Rhyme | III. | Philip Sidney |
| D. | The Art of Rhetoric | IV. | Samuel Daniel |
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
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A-I, B-II, C-III, D-IV
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A-II, B-III, C-I, D-IV
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A-I, B-IV, C-III, D-II
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A-II, B-III, C-IV, D-I
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The essay "Death of the Author" was written by:
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Jacques Derrida
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Roland Barthes
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Claude Levistrauss
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Bandrillard
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In which essay of T.S. Eliot, the phrase "dissociation of sensibility" occur?
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"Tradition and the Individual Talent"
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"Hamlet and His Problems"
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"The Metaphysical Poets"
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None of the above
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According to Judith Butler, Gender identity is ____ .
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Biological
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Performative
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Social
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Moral
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In which of the following works was the concept of "Gynocritism" introduced?
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Sexual Politics
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Literature of their own
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Toward a Feminist Poetics
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The Second Sex
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Who praised Dryden as the Father of English Criticism?
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T.S. Eliot
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Dr. Samuel Johnson
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Scott-James
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Atkins
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Match List I with List II :
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
| List I | List II | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| (A) | New Criticism | (I) | A literary text is situated within the totality of the institutions and social practices of a particular time of and place |
| (B) | New Historicism | (II) | A positive programme which has undertaken to connect formal aspects of literature to the historical, political and worldly concerns. |
| (C) | New Formalism | (III) | It argues for a return to humanistic education. |
| (D) | New Humanism | (IV) | The concern of literary criticism with the detailed consideration of the work itself. |
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(A)-(IV), (B)-(I), (C)-(II), (D)-(III)
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(A)-(II), (B)-(1), (C)-(III), (D)-(IV)
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(A)-(IV), (B)-(III), (C)-(II). (D)-(IV)
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(A)-(III), (B)-(I), (C)-(II), (D)-(III)
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Given below are two statements: One is labelled as Assertion (A) and the other is labelled as Reason (R).
Assertion (A) : Discourse analysis (developed in the 1970s) concerns itself with the use of language in a running discourse continued over a number of sentences and involving the interaction of the speaker (writer) and the auditor (reader) in a specific context.
Reasons (R) : In Discourse analysis, the meaning of a discourse is dependent on specific cultural condition and circumstances.
In the light of the above statements, choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below:
Assertion (A) : Discourse analysis (developed in the 1970s) concerns itself with the use of language in a running discourse continued over a number of sentences and involving the interaction of the speaker (writer) and the auditor (reader) in a specific context.
Reasons (R) : In Discourse analysis, the meaning of a discourse is dependent on specific cultural condition and circumstances.
In the light of the above statements, choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below:
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Both (A) and (R) are correct and (R) is the correct explanation of (A)
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Both (A) and (R) are correct but (R) is NOT the correct explanation of (A)
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(A) is correct but (R) is not correct
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(A) is not correct but (R) is correct
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What were the new criticisms reacting against?
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Marxism
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Feminist reading of texts
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Biographical reading of texts
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Oprah's Book Club
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Who wrote the seminal critical work 'Principles of Literary Criticism'?
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Aristotle
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T.S. Eliot
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I.A. Richards
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F.R. Leavis