CUET-PG SERIES English
Poetry
13 previous year questions.
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2023 Chapter Questions 13 MCQs
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Given below are two statements :
Statement I : Poetry according to Plato is thrice removed from reality.
Statement II : Poetry according to Plato is the mother of all lies.
In the light of the above statements, choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Statement I : Poetry according to Plato is thrice removed from reality.
Statement II : Poetry according to Plato is the mother of all lies.
In the light of the above statements, choose the correct answer from the options given below:
1
Both Statement I and Statement II are correct
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Both Statement I and Statement II are incorrect
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Statement I is true but Statement II is incorrect
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Statement I is false but Statement II is correct
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Who defined poetry as the "speaking picture"?
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Sir Philip Sidney
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P.B. Shelley
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Matthew Arnold
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T.S. Eliot
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Haiku' is the sub-genre of ____.
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Play
2
Fiction
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Poetry
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Short Story
04
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Edmund Spenser in The Faerie Queen (1590-96) employs ____in order to achieve a poetic style appropriate to his revival of the medieval chivalric romance.
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Archetypes
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Ambiguity
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Antithesis
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Archarsins
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In which form was Spenser's Amonetti written?
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Elegy
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Sonnet
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Hymn
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Ballad
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'The rest to some faint meaning make pretence, / but Shadwell never deviates into sense' From which poem has this line been take?
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The Rape of the lock
2
In Memoriam
3
Il Peveseroso
4
Mac Flecknoe
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'Let us go then, you and I, / when the evening is spread out against the sky'. Which poem by T.S Eliot begins with this line?
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The Waste Land
2
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prutrock
3
The Hollow Men
4
Little Gidding
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Match List I with List II :
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
| List I | List II | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| (A) | "The Second Coming" | (I) | TS Eliot |
| (B) | “The Waste Land” | (II) | Robert Frost |
| (C) | "The Road Not Taken" | (III) | W.B. Yeats |
| (D) | "The Tyger" | (IV) | Whilliam Blake |
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(A)-(IV), (B)-(II), (C)-(I), (D)-(III)
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(A)-(I), (B)-(IV), (C)-(II), (D)-(III)
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(A)-(II). (B)-(III), (C)-(I), (D)-(IV)
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(A)-(III), (B)-(I), (C)-(II), (D)-(IV)
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Who wrote the lines, 'Oh, East is East and West is West,' and 'never the twain shall meet'?
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Paul Scott
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Rudyard Kipling
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E.M.Forster
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Enid Blyton
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According to Longinus, which two of the following qualities apply to 'Great Poetry'?
A. It must be the work of a genius, an inspired person.
B. It must cause a feeling of melancholy in the reader.
C. It must employ devices of rhetoric.
D. It must please selectively and on special occasions.
A. It must be the work of a genius, an inspired person.
B. It must cause a feeling of melancholy in the reader.
C. It must employ devices of rhetoric.
D. It must please selectively and on special occasions.
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B and C
2
A and B
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A and C
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C and D
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In Dryden's An Essay of Dramatic Poesy, who defended the English plays?
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Crites
2
Neander
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Lisideius
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Eugenius
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Graveyard Poets' is a term applied to:
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Sixteenth century poets who wrote pastoral elegies and raised questions about the justice of fate
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Seventeenth century poets who wrote elegies lamenting the death of a friend or a person
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Eighteenth century poets who wrote meditative poems on human morality
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Nineteenth century poets who wrote romantic poems on love and life
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Who called the poets as vates?
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Greeks
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Italians
3
Romans
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Germans