MAHARASTRA SET ENGLISH JUNE 2019 (HELD ON 23.06.2019)

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Directions (Q. Nos. 1 to 4) : Read the passage and answer the questions given below :

Stylistics, a branch of applied linguistics, is the study and interpretation of texts of all types and/or spoken language in regard to their linguistic and tonal style, where style is the particular variety of language used by different individuals and/or in different situations or settings. The vernacular is used among friends and relatives, whereas more formal language, with respect to grammar, lexicon and pronunciation is often used in a cover letter and résumé and while speaking during a job interview. As a discipline, stylistics links literary criticism to linguistics. It does not function as an autonomous domain on its own, and it can be applied to an understanding of literature. Sources of study in stylistics may range from canonical works of writing to popular texts, and from advertising copy to news, non-fiction, popular culture, political and religious discourse. As the recent work in critical stylistics, multimodal stylistics and mediated stylistics has made clear, non-literary texts may be of just as much interest to stylisticians as literary ones. Literariness, in other words, is here conceived as ‘a point on a cline rather than as an absolute’ Stylistics as a conceptual discipline may attempt to establish principles capable of explaining particular choices made by individuals and social groups in their use of language, such as in the literary production and reception of genre, the study of folk art, in the study of spoken dialects and registers, and can be applied to areas such as discourse analysis as well as literary criticism. Common features of style include the use of dialogue, including regional accents and or ideolects, the distribution of sentence lengths, the use of particular language registers, etc. Therefore, stylistics looks at what is ‘going on’ within the language



1. Which of the following statements is INCORRECT ?

(A) Stylistics is the analysis of both written and verbal language and can be used to understand literary texts

(B) Stylistics may be applied to all texts, whether literary or popular, informative or promotional

(C) Stylistics cannot be applied to discourse analysis and literary criticism

(D) Stylistics covers language use, dialects and accents



2. The vernacular is used :

(A) All the time

(B) In all situations

(C) With all listeners

(D) In informal situations



3. Stylistics covers :

(A) Oral texts

(B) Literary and non-literary texts

(C) Written texts

(D) Popular texts



4. ‘‘A point on a cline rather than as an absolute’’ refers to :

(A) A starting point

(B) An ending point

(C) A vast domain

(D) A gradual change or variation



5. The line ‘‘willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike’’ is an example of :

(A) Parallelism

(B) Irony

(C) Anaphora

(D) Hip-hop



6. Which novel won 2018 Booker Prize for fiction ?

(A) The Mars Room

(B) The Overstory

(C) Milkman

(D) Everything Under



7. Which of the following statements is true about The Importance of Being Earnest ?

(A) The author held an ironic mirror to the aristocracy displaying wit and paradoxical wisdom.

(B) It is a tragi-comedy.

(C) It is a dark comedy written in prose.

(D) The writer is philosophising and presenting the spiritual ideals with a didactic approach.



8. Gregor Samsa is a character from Franz Kafka’s :

(A) The Trial

(B) The Castle

(C) In the Penal Colony

(D) The Metamorphosis



9. Eminent Victorians was authored by :

(A) Roger Fry

(B) Norman Douglas

(C) Lytton Strachey

(D) Compton Mackenzie



10. ‘‘Sunset and evening star

And one clear call for me !’’

These lines occur in which of the following poems ?

(A) Idylls of the King

(B) In Memorium

(C) Corssing the Bar

(D) Morte’ D Arthur



11. ‘‘The Daughters of the Late Colonel’’ is a story by :

(A) Rudyard Kipling

(B) H.E. Bates

(C) H.G. Wells

(D) Katherine Mansfield



12. Which critic calls Dorris Lessing ‘‘an archeologist of human relations’’ ?

(A) Irving Howe

(B) F.R. Leavis

(C) G. Wilson Knight

(D) T.S. Eliot



13. ‘‘I celebrate myself, and sing myself,

And what I assume you shall assume.

For every atom belonging to me as

good belongs to you.’’

These lines are from .................... .

(A) ‘‘Each and All’’

(B) ‘‘Song of Myself’’

(C) ‘‘Crossing Brooklyn Ferry’’

(D) ‘‘When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d’’



14. The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth Century Literary Imagination is the subtitle of :

(A) The Second Sex

(B) The Madwoman in the Attic

(C) The Sexual Politics

(D) Man Made Language



15. ‘Life Signs’ is a poem written by ...................... .

(A) Nissim Ezekiel

(B) A.K. Ramanujan

(C) Shiv K. Kumar

(D) Jayant Mahapatra



16. Which of these languages did not influence the development of early English ?

(A) Germanic

(B) Scandinavian

(C) Latin

(D) Macedonian



17. Which of the following statements is NOT correct ?

(A) The norms of standard written English are maintained by an international organisation in the United Kingdom.

(B) English is the third largest language by number of native speakers, after Mandarin Chinese and Spanish.

(C) English is the most commonly spoken language in the world if one combines native and nonnative speakers.

(D) English is one of the six official languages of the United Nations.



18. ‘‘True ease in writing comes from art, not chance.

As those move easiest who have learned to dance.’’

The line means :

(A) Poets are born

(B) Poets are made

(C) Poets are not made

(D) Poets are a product of history



19. Who coined the term ‘‘stream of consciousness ’’ ?

(A) Sterne

(B) William James

(C) Dorothy Richardson

(D) Dostoevsky



20. Who advocated symptomatic reading of text ?

(A) I.A. Richards

(B) Louis Althusser

(C) Terry Eagleton

(D) Lacan



21. Wordsworth and Coleridge differed with each other on the issue of :

(A) Poetic diction

(B) Intuition

(C) Imagination

(D) Reason



22. Why is the Jacobean era not called the Jameson era ?

(A) Because Jacob was the nickname of King James.

(B) Because the Church of England decided to call it Jacobean era.

(C) Because Jacobus is the Latin counterpart of the name ‘‘James’’.

(D) Because the House of Lord decided to call it Jacobean era.



23. Who is generally known as the translator of Homer ?

(A) Ben Jonson

(B) John Marston

(C) George Chapman

(D) John Webster



24. The comedy of humours was based on the ancient physiological theory of the ‘‘four humours’’ which were :

(A) Mucus, pus, tears and saliva

(B) Red, black, yellow, green

(C) Blood, phlegm, choler and melancholy

(D) Fat, protein, vitamin, carbohydrate



25. Periodical essays of the 18th century were primarily centred around :

(A) Coffee houses

(B) Taverns

(C) Ale houses

(D) The Royal Exchange



26. Fair quiet, have I found thee here.

And Innocence thy Sister dear !

Mistaken long, I sought you then

In busie companies of men.

These lines are written by :

(A) John Milton

(B) Andrew Marvell

(C) George Herbert

(D) John Donne



27. War of the Roses in English history was fought between the Hosues of :

(A) Lancaster and York

(B) Lancaster and Wessex

(C) York and Denmark

(D) York and Normandy



28. Which one of the following is NOT written by Charles Lamb ?

(A) ‘‘Old and New Schoolmaster’’

(B) ‘‘Of Simulation and Dissimulation’’

(C) ‘‘Imperfect Sympathies’’

(D) ‘‘A Bachelor’s Complaint Against the Behaviour of Married People’’



29. Which among the following poets composed the given lines :

................. The sounding cataract

Haunted me like a passion : the tall rock,

The mountain, and the deep and gloomy wood,

Their colours and their forms, were then to me

An appetite.

(A) Percy Bysshe Shelley

(B) William Wordsworth

(C) Robert Southey

(D) Thomas De Quincey



30. ‘‘Death, thou shalt die.’’ – This line is an example of :

(A) Mime

(B) Fallacy

(C) Paradox

(D) Parable



31. Who, among the following, is NOT a poet ?

(A) Samuel Beckett

(B) Robert Graves

(C) Philip Larkin

(D) W.H. Auden



32. In a closed vowel :

(A) A part of the tongue rises to half-open position.

(B) A part of the tongue rises to half close position.

(C) A part of the tongue rises to open position.

(D) A part of the tongue rises to the close position.



33. A morpheme belongs to :

(A) The phonological system of a language

(B) The grammatical and phonological systems of a language

(C) The grammatical system of a language

(D) The pragmatic system of a Language



34. George Bernard Shaw, while commenting on a female character observes that she left her family to

begin ‘‘a journey in search of selfrespect and apprenticeship to life’’, and that her revolt is ‘‘the end of

a chapter of human history.’’ Here, Shaw is referring to :

(A) Nora in A Doll’s House

(B) Joan of Arc in Saint Joan

(C) Gertrude Morel in Sons and Lovers

(D) Anna in Anna Karenina



35. Name the writer who creates the binary between ‘head consciousness’ and ‘blood consciousness’.

(A) D.H. Lawrence

(B) John Keats

(C) Charles Darwin

(D) Erich Fromm



36. Which work of Charles Dickens has as many as three hundred and fifty six characters ?

(A) Oliver Twist

(B) A Tale of Two Cities

(C) The Pickwick Papers

(D) David Copperfield



37. In which poem do the following lines occur :

Then, welcome each rebuff

That turns earth’s smoothness rough

Each sting that bids nor sit nor stand but go !

Be our joys three parts pain !

(A) ‘‘The Lotus Eaters’’

(B) ‘‘Rabi Ben Ezra’’

(C) ‘‘Thyrsis’’

(D) ‘‘Ulysses’’



38. Twenty Love Poems and A Song of Despair is a collection of poems by :

(A) T.S. Eliot

(B) William Wordsworth

(C) Pablo Neruda

(D) A.K. Ramanujan



39. The playwright Wole Soyinka is from :

(A) Nigeria

(B) Kenya

(C) Egypt

(D) The Sudan



40. The title of ‘‘The Waste Land’’ is derived from :

(A) Ishopanishad

(B) The Bible

(C) The Golden Bough

(D) From Ritual to Romance



41. In The Inheritance of Loss, the characters are trapped in :

(A) Their own world

(B) India’s rigid class system

(C) Generation gap

(D) Superstitions



42. Manohar Malgonkar’s novel Distance Drum depicts :

(A) Family life of a doctor

(B) Religious life of rural people

(C) Army life experiences

(D) City life experiences



43. Which are the passive language skills ?

(A) Reading and writing

(B) Listening and reading

(C) Speaking and writing

(D) Listening and speaking



44. Arnold’s moral touchstones were meant to promulgate the ideal of :

(A) Materialism

(B) Symbolism

(C) Civility

(D) Imagism



45. ‘‘Mytheme’’ is a word coined by :

(A) Claude Levi Strauss

(B) Roland Barthes

(C) Jacques Derrida

(D) Jacques Lacon



46. The term ‘Objective Correlative’ appears in the essay :

(A) Hamlet and His Problems

(B) Metaphysical Poets

(C) Tradition and Individual Talent

(D) Function of Criticism



47. Aristotle argues that comedy is an imitation of characters of :

(A) Special type

(B) Lower type

(C) Higher type

(D) Funny type



48. Which play of Ben Jonson has been acclaimed as observing to perfection the three classical unities ?

(A) Volpone

(B) The Alchemist

(C) Bartholomew Fair

(D) Every Man Out of His Humour



49. In which poem does Pope group his literary rivals and critics together as the general enemy ‘Dullness’ ?

(A) ‘‘The Dunciad’’

(B) ‘‘An Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot’’

(C) ‘‘The Rape of the Lock’’

(D) ‘‘Moral Essays’’



50. William Congreve’s play The Way of the World is a :

(A) Comedy of Manners

(B) Sentimental Comedy

(C) Romantic Comedy

(D) Dark Comedy



51. Christopher Marlowe’s ‘‘blank verse’’ that became the staple medium for later Elizabethan and Jacobean dramatic writing was called as ‘‘mighty line’’ by :

(A) Ben Jonson

(B) David Lodge

(C) Robert Greene

(D) Thomas Nashe



52. Geoffrey Chaucer was trusted and aided by three successive kings Edward III, Richard II and ....................... .

(A) Richard III

(B) Henry IV

(C) Edward IV

(D) Henry V



53. Match the correct pairs by matching the names of the works with the correct name of their authors :

List I

(i) Queen Mab

(ii) The Lady of the Lake

(iii) Confessions of an Opium Eater

(iv) ‘‘Loneliness’’ and ‘‘After a Holiday’’

List II

(a) Charles Lamb

(b) Thomas De Quencey

(c) Sir Walter Scott

(d) P.B. Shelley

Codes :

(i) (ii) (iii) (iv)

(A) (d) (c) (b) (a)

(B) (a) (b) (c) (d)

(C) (b) (c) (d) (a)

(D) (c) (d) (a) (b)



54. The subject of The Rape of the Lock draws upon the incident in which Lord Petre snipped off a lock of hair of :

(A) Fanny Browne

(B) Belinda

(C) Christine

(D) Arabella Fernor



55. Name the debut novel of Kingsley Amis :

(A) Lucky Jim

(B) That Uncertain Feeling

(C) Take a Girl Like You

(D) The Anti-Death League



56. Who is the author of The Coral Island ?

(A) Graham Greene

(B) Anthony Powell

(C) R.M. Ballantyne

(D) Angus Wilson



57. Curriculum Vitae by Muriel Spark is :

(A) An Autobiography

(B) A psychological novel

(C) Science Fiction

(D) A Regional novel



58. ‘The Myth of Sisyphus’ (1942) is written by :

(A) Samuel Becket

(B) Albert Camus

(C) Harold Pinter

(D) Arthur Adamov



59. Which, among the following, is not a work of Bertolt Brecht ?

(A) The Threepenny Opera

(B) Mother Courage and Her Children

(C) Life of Galileo

(D) Outsider



60. ‘‘The Witch’’ is a poem written by :

(A) Isaac Rosenberg

(B) Wilfred Owen

(C) Walter de la Mare

(D) Edward Thomas



61. ‘‘It is better to have loved and lost, than never to have loved at all.’’ Who composed these lines ?

(A) Alfred Tennyson

(B) Robert Browning

(C) Thomas Hardy

(D) George Eliot



62. The poem ‘‘The Land’’ was written by :

(A) W.H. Auden

(B) C. Day Lewis

(C) Stephen Spender

(D) Victoria Sackville-West



63. What is the name of the king in Shakespeare’s play Henry IV Part I ?

(A) Richard

(B) Douglas

(C) Bolingbroke

(D) Edward



64. What is common among the following :

(1) If I Die Today

(2) Atom and the Serpant

(3) The Drunk Tantra

(4) The Awakening All are :

(A) Travelogues

(B) Allegories

(C) Satires

(D) Campus Novels



65. Nayantara Sahgal won Sahitya Akademi Award for the novel :

(A) Rich Like Us

(B) The Day in Shadow

(C) Plans for Departure

(D) This Time of Morning



66. English as a medium of instruction was introduced in India by :

(A) Charter Act 1793

(B) Christian missionaries in 1542

(C) Macaulay’s Minute on Education 1835

(D) East India Company Act, 1813



67. The earliest forms of English were brought to Great Britain by :

(A) Anglo Saxon settlers

(B) Nordic tribes

(C) French invaders

(D) Dutch immigrants



68. Which one is NOT a term used by Arnold in Culture and Anarchy ?

(A) Barbarians

(B) Populace

(C) Hellenists

(D) Philistines



69. Coleridge’s statement regarding poet’s ability that ‘‘dissolves, diffuses, dissipates in order to recreate’’ relates to :

(A) Fancy

(B) Reason

(C) Secondary imagination

(D) Primary imagination



70. What is supposed to be conceit in metaphysical poetry ?

(A) The most heterogeneous ideas yoked by violence together

(B) Two similar ideas put forcibly together

(C) Two dissimilar ideas stated separately

(D) Two similar ideas stated Together



71. Xury and Friday are characters in :

(A) Robinson Crusoe

(B) Moll Flanders

(C) Tom Jones

(D) Pride and Prejudice



72. Who is NOT an 18th century Gothic novelist ?

(A) Horace Walpole

(B) Laurence Sterne

(C) Ann Radcliffe

(D) William Godwin



73. Three sorts of serpents do resemble thee :

That dangerous eye-killing cockatrice,

The enchanting siren, which doth so entice,

The weeping crocodile–these vite pernicious three.

These lines are written by :

(A) Michael Drayton

(B) Edmund Spenser

(C) William Shakespeare

(D) Sir Philip Sidney



74. Chaucer’s ‘Book of the Duchess’ is an elegy for ...................... .

(A) Duchess of Lancaster

(B) Duchess of Yorkshire

(C) Duchess of Licester

(D) Duchess of Wales



75. Which of the following was NOT a pen name of Walter Scott ?

(A) Lawrence Templeton

(B) George Orwell

(C) Jebediah Cleisbotham

(D) Captain Clutterbuck



76. Which metrical device has been used by the poet in the following lines ?

Full many a flower is born to blush unseen

And waste its sweetness on the desert air.

(A) Iambic tetrameter

(B) Iambic pentameter

(C) Iambic hexameter

(D) Iambic trimeter



77. Who, among the following, is NOT associated with The Theatre of the Absurd ?

(A) Samuel Beckett

(B) John Osborne

(C) John Ford

(D) Tom Stoppard



78. Pat Barker is the author of :

(A) Sacred Hunger

(B) Birdsong

(C) The Regeneration Trilogy

(D) The English Patient



79. The three term label for the consonant /b/ is :

(A) Voiceless nasal fricative

(B) Voiced nasal affricate

(C) Voiced bilabial plosive

(D) Voiceless bilabial fricative



80. Who is known as the Father of Comedy in Europe ?

(A) P.G. Woodhouse

(B) Ben Jonson

(C) Aristophanes

(D) Sophocles



81. Gerald Crich is a character in D.H. Lawrence’s novel entitled :

(A) Lady Chatterley’s Lover

(B) The Rainbow

(C) Sons and Lovers

(D) Women in Love



82. Which novelist echoed the oft quoted lines of Shakespeare : ‘‘As flies to wanton boys/Are we to gods, They kill us for their sport’’ ?

(A) Charles Dickens in David Copperfield

(B) Thomas Hardy in Tess of the d’Urbervilles

(C) Thomas Hardy in Under the Greenwood Tree

(D) George Eliot in The Mill on the Floss



83. Keats and Shakespeare was written by :

(A) Middleton Murry

(B) Lord David Cecil

(C) Allardyce Nicoll

(D) H.J.C. Grierson



84. Which among the following is NOT a work by Nadine Gordimer ?

(A) The Conservationist

(B) The Urberable Lightness of Being

(C) July’s People

(D) The Pick Up



85. The research which is exploring new facts through the study of the past is called :

(A) Comparative research

(B) Mythological research

(C) Historical research

(D) Philosophical research



86. The Golden Gate was inspired by whose translation ?

(A) Charles H. Johnston

(B) Walter W. Arndt

(C) James E. Falen

(D) Stanley Mitchell



87. Which is the main objective of research ?

(A) To review the literature

(B) To discover new facts or make fresh interpretation of known facts

(C) To summarize what is already known

(D) To get an academic degree



88. Which of these is NOT a dialect of English ?

(A) Yorkshire

(B) Welsh

(C) Bradbury

(D) Kentish



89. The relevance of behaviourist psychology to language learning was questioned by :

(A) Chomsky

(B) Skinner

(C) Halliday

(D) Fries



90. ‘‘The formation of the disciplinary society is connected with a number of broad historical processes.’’ Which, according to Foucault, is NOT a part

of the process ?

(A) Economic

(B) Juridico-political

(C) Scientific

(D) Mystic



91. The word ‘‘anagnorisis’’ used by Aristotle does not mean :

(A) Discovery

(B) Recognition

(C) Knowledge

(D) Tragic flaw



92. Which among the following statements is NOT true in the context of structuralism ?

(A) Structuralism is an antihumanist philosophy

(B) Structuralism makes an attempt to comprehend the world in terms of structures

(C) Structuralism argues that language is a system of differences

(D) Structuralism upholds the autonomy of human subject



93. In Dryden’s ‘An Essay of Dramatic Poesy’’, who speaks for the poet himself ?

(A) Lisideius

(B) Eugenius

(C) Crites

(D) Neander



94. In which play did Jonson explain his theory of the comedy of humours ?

(A) Every Man in His Humour

(B) Every Man Out of His Humour

(C) The Devil is an Ass

(D) Catiline



95. In the play The Honest Whore the role of the prostitute is played by :

(A) Celia

(B) Bianca

(C) Lucy

(D) Bellafront



96. Research can be classified as :

(A) Basic, Applied and Action Research

(B) Quantitative and Qualitative Research

(C) Philosophical, Historical, Survey and Experimental Research

(D) All the above



Direction (Q. Nos. 97 to 100) : Read the following poem and answer the questions given below :

The snow dissolv’d no more is seen

The fields, and woods, behold, are green,

The changing year renews the plain,

The rivers know their banks again,

The spritely nymph and naked grace

The mazy dance together trace.

The changing year’s sucessive plan

Proclaims mortality to man.

Rough winter’s blasts to spring give way,

Spring yields to summer’s sovereign ray,

Then summer sinks in autumn’s reign,

And winter chills the world again.

Her losses soon the moon supplies

But wrteched man, when once he lies

Where Priam and his sons are laid,

Is naught but ashes and a shade.......



97. What is the meaning of ‘‘the rivers known their banks again’’ ?

(A) The rivers are in spate and their banks cannot contain them

(B) The swimmers can swim across the rivers now

(C) The rivers have once again started flowing between their banks

(D) The banks of the rivers were breached but now they are repaired



98. ‘‘Spring yields to summer’s sovereign ray’’ means :

(A) Summer is followed by spring

(B) Winter sets in soon after spring

(C) Winter sets in soon after summer

(D) Spring is followed by summer



99. What is the concept of time as given in the poem ?

(A) Time runs in a linear fashion for both man and nature

(B) Time runs in a circle for nature and runs linearly for a man

(C) Time runs in a circle for both man and nature

(D) Time is unpredictable and Everchanging



100. What is the main idea of the poem ?

(A) Life and Death are one and the same

(B) Life is more precious than death

(C) Both Life and death are precious

(D) Nature, once dead, can renew itself but man cannot

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