KAKTIYA UNIVERSITY, WARANGAL
Ph.D Entrance Exam- 2022
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DATE OF EXAM: 25.11.2022
Note: It is not an official key, just for your understanding.
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Ph.D. ENTRANCE EXAMINATION
(101-English)
(Max Marks 100 Time: 90 Minutes)
Answer All questions
Objective Type (Marks: 100x1=100)
1. In a research paper, the methodology section allows the reader to critically evaluate a study's overall _____ and _____
(a) impact factor and feedback
(b) plagiarism and citation index
(c) impact factor and citation index
(d) validity and reliability
2.A/an _____ is a type of play which developed during the Victorian period in the United Kingdom,
(a) absurd play
(b) one not play
(c) drawing room play
(d) problem play
3. The Victorian compromise refers to the contradiction between the progress brought on by the _____ revolution and the poverty, disease, and suffering felt by the working classes as a result of this progress.
(a) French
(b) Industrial
(c) Peasants
(d) Celtic
4. The term 'stream of consciousness' was first coined by Paychologist,
(a) Sigmund Freud
(b)William James
(c) Albert Bandura
(d) B.F.Skinner
5. Ferdinand de Saussure is a/an _____ linguist.
(a) American
(b) French
(c) English
(d) Swiss
6. _______ is often called the "literature of ideas."
(a) children's fiction
(b) adult fiction
(c) Science fiction
(d) metafiction
7.Who among the following does not belong to the group called Thirties Poets. ?
(a) W. H. Auden
(b) Louis MacNeice
(c) Cecil Day-Lewis
(d)Daniel Drayton
8.Which is a reactionary movement against romanticism and Victorian poetry?
(a) Imagiam
(b) Symbolism
(c) Magic Realism
(d) Moderniam
9.Albert Camus is a/an _______ Philosopher.
(a) Existentialist
(b) Nihilistic
(c) Modernistic
(d) Post-Modernistic
10. An/ A _______ is an outspoken critic of or protester against an economic condition or social injustice.
(a) dystopian
(b) existentialist
(c) angry young man
(d) realist
11. ________ is the philosophical belief that we are each responsible for creating purpose or meaning in our own lives.
(a) absurdism
(b) symbolism
(c) existentialism
(d) realism
12. The ultimate goal of ______ is accounting for and combating the residual effects of colonialism on cultures.
(a) colonialism
(b) realism
(c) post-colonialism
(d) post-modernism
13. _____ was a reaction against modernism.
(b) imagism
(a) Symbolism
(c) Realism
(d) Postmodernism
14.bridges the gap between the past world and the present world.
(a) reading
(b) listening
(c) speaking
(d) writing
Note : listening and speaking related to present time. Writing connects the present to future. Reading connects us past time with present.
15. Whose words are these?" The past is never dead, it lives in the present".
(a) T.S.Eliot
(b) I.A.Richards
(c) Matthew Arnold
(d) Edward Said
16 Who identified the four kinds of meaning- "Sense, Feeling. Tone and Intention"?
(a) T.S.Eliot
(b) Matthew Arnold
(c) Edward Said
(d) I.A.Richards
17. _________ tended to consider texts as "autonomous "and "closed".
(a) Realism
(b) Structuralism
(c) Post-Modernism
(d) New Criticism
18. ________ is the study of sound systems,
(a) morphology
(b) syntax
(e) phonology
(d) diction
19. The movement 'New Criticism', derived its name from same name. _______'s book of the
(a) John Crowe Ransom
(b) L.A.Richards
(c) Matthew Arnold
(d) Allen Tate
20. "Objective Correlative" is the theory of
(a) T.S.Eliot
(b) L.A.Richards
(d) Allen Tate
(c) Matthew Amold
21.Who is called "the father of New Criticism"?
(a) T.S.Eliot
(b) Matthew Arnold
(c) Allen Tate
(d) LA Richards
22. The concepts of" sign", " signified" and "signifier" belong to ______
(a) New Criticism
(b) Structuralism
(c) Feminism
(d) Existentialism
23."Rasas" are created by
(a) "mudras"
(b) "slokas "
(c) "rhythms "
(d) "bhavas"
24 How many "rasas" are there?
(a) 6
(b) 7
(c) 5
(d) 8
25. ________research deals with numbers and statistics.
(a) hypothetical
(b) qualitative
(c) analytical
(d) quantitative
26. _______ is the precise, literal definition of a word that might be found in a dictionary.
(a) denotation
(b) connotation
(c) dietion
(d) metafiction
27. Research methodology is applied during the stage of the research process.
(a) later
(b) middle
(c) in-between
(d) initial
28. A __________ is used to collect the information needed to answer a research question.
(a) tabular column
(b) map
(c) paper questionnaire
(d) feedback
29. The word 'research' is derived from the ____ word meaning 'to know".
(a) Latin
(b) English
(c) Dutch
(d) Greek
30. According to the _________ and ___________ involved in a research, it is classifiedinto various types of research.
(a) approach and method
(b) findings and citations
(c) impact factor and literature review
(d) abstract and synopsis
31. _________ research is also known as experimental research.
(a) applied
(b) conceptual
(c) empirical
(d) analytical
32. Which among the following is the first and foremost step in a research process?
(a) testing of a problem
(b) formulation of a problem
(c) reading a problem
(d) creating a problem
33. _______is a good plagiarism checker.
(a) literaria
(b) cutechecker
(c) metain
(d) turnitin
34.Works Cited should be aligned in _______.
(a) right
(b) centre
(c)bottom
(d)left
35. MLA is the acronym for ______.
(a) Multiple Language Addition
(b) Multiple Literary Addition
(c) Multiple Language Application
(d) Modern Language Association
36 Which among the following is not a type of Bibliography?
(a) National Bibliography
(b) Personal Bibliography
(c) object Bibliography
(d) Corporate Bibliography
37. The conventions governing the technical aspects of writing is called the ____ of writing.
(a) approach
(b) methodology
(c) mechanics
(d) method
38. _______ research focuses on cause and effect.
(a) analytical
(b) conceptual
(c) empirical
(d) descriptive
39 The _______ of a research study allows other researchers to test the study's findings.
(a) spontaneity
(b) reproducibility
(c) transparency
(d) replicability
Note: Reproducibility, also known as replicability and repeatability, (wikipedia)
40 A ______ review discusses published information in a particular subject area,
within a certain time.
(a) research
(b) literature
(c) critical
(d) primary
41. A ___________ source gives a direct access to the subject of a researcher.
(a) secondary
(b) library
(c) net
(d) primary
42. ______is a type of secondary authority that extensively covers one topic.
(a) text
(b) e-source
(e) index-column
(d) treatise
43 The English term "monograph" has its root in______
(a) French
(b) Greek
(c) Latin
(d) Gaelic
44. A metaphysical conceit is an extended _____________
(a) simile
(b) metaphor
(c) concept
(d)theory
45. 'Fish Fry' is an example for _____
(a) Simile
(b) Assonance
(c) Alliteration
(d) metaphor
46. __________ is an instance of a form of reasoning in which a conclusion is drawn from two given or assumed propositions; a common or middle term is present in the two premises but not in the conclusion, which may be invalid.
(a) parody
(b) alliteration
(c) syllogism
(d) assonance
47. By "unification sensibility.", _______means "a fusion of thought and feeling".
(a) Matthew Amold
(b) Allen Tate
(c) LA.Richards
(d) T.S.Eliot
48 The first English novel is usually credited to be _________'s 'Robinson Crusoe'
(a) Richardson
(b) Fielding
(e) Defoe
(d) Thackeray
49.The first writer to discuss poetic diction in the Western tradition was ________
(a) Plato
(b) Aristotle
(c) Chaucer
(d) Shakespeare
50 Who regards fancy to be inferior to imagination?
(a) Wordsworth
(b) T.S.Eliot
(c) Aristotle
(d)Coleridge,
51.The Stolen Child', of WB Yeats is rooted in _____ mythology.
(a) Greek
(b) British
(c) Irish
(d) Gaelic
52.Whose famous poem is 'In The Secular Night'?
(a)Margaret Atwood
(b) Derek Walcott
(c) Toni Morrison
(d) Wole Soyinka
53. _____ received the 1992 Nobel Prize in Literature.
(a) Margaret Atwood
(b) Toni Morrison.
(c)Wole Soyinka
(d)Derek Walcott
54. ____is often referred to as the "Father of African literature".
(a) Wole Soyinka
(b) N'Gugiwa Thiang O'
(c) Alice Walker
(d) Chinua Achebe
55 Fill in with the correct form: She is a distant relative __ my wife.
(a) of
(b) to
(c) for
(d) with
56 Choose the correct passive voice form of the given sentence:
He did not help me.
(a)-I-am not helped by him
(b) I am not helped
(c) I can not helped by him
(d) I was not helped by him-
57 Choose the correct synonym of the underlined word:
Ram was furious and his face was red.
(a) happy
(b) worried
(c) worse
(d) enraged
58.Fill the blank with the right question tag:
I will come,______ I?
(a) would
(b) willn't
(c)won't
(d) will
59.In which part of the sentence lies the error? The reason for (1)/ his failure is because(2)/ he did not work hard (3)/No error (4)
(a) 2
(b) 1
(c) 4
(d) 3
60. Which of the following is not a work by Toni Morrison?
(a) Colour Purple
(b) Sula
(c) Beloved
(d) The Bluest Eye
61. ___writes in Kikuyu, a Bantu language.
(a) Wole Soyinka
(b) Chinua Achebe
(c) Alice Walker
(d) N'GugiwaThiango".
62. Whose debut novel is' Weep Not, Child' ?
(a) Wole Soyinka
(b) N'GugiwaThiango'
(c) Chinua Achebe
(d) Alice Walker
63. ____ is a Nigerian writer.
(a) Toni Morrison
(b) N'GugiwaThiango"
(c) Alice Walker
(d)Wole Soyinka
64. ____ are the word sounds that make up the language.
(a) morphemes
b) syntax
c) voices
(d) phonemes
65. _____is a general term in phonetics for the process by which a speech sound becomes similar or identical to a neighbouring sound.
(a) ellison
(b) juncture
(c) Jabetting
(d) assimilation
66. ______ is the standard form of British English pronunciation, based on educated speech in southern England, widely accepted as a standard elsewhere.
(a) night pronunciation
(b) refined pronunciation
(c) received pronunciation
(d) spoken pronunciation
67. The three major levels of processing in the production of spoken language are conceptualization, formulation, and ______
(a) assimilation
(b) variation
(c) articulation
(d) speech shift
68. A consonant cluster is also known as a______
(a) consonant blend
(b) consonant juncture
(c) consonant shift
(d) consonant variation
69. _____the study of human speech.
(a) linguistics
(b) mechanism of speech production
(c) ellison
(d) phonetics
70. The variety of English with the largest number of native speakers is
(a) Canadian English
(b) American English
(c) Australian English
(d) Indian English
Note: English is the primary natively spoken language in several countries and territories. Five of the largest of these are sometimes described as the "core Anglosphere";they are the United States of America (with at least 231 million[clarification needed] native English speakers), the United Kingdom (60 million), Canada (19 million), Australia (at least 17 million), and New Zealand (4.8 million). (Wikipedia)
71. Which is the visual representation of speech sounds by means of symbols?
(a) morphemes
(b) assimilation
(e) three term labelling
(d) phonetic transcription
72 In General Indian English, the consonant _____ following a vowel is distinctly pronounced, whereas in Received Pronunciation it remains silent.
(a)/d/
(b)/u
(c) /t/
(d) /r/
73 A syllable is a group of one or more _______
(a) letters
(b) sounds
(c) vowels
(d) consonants
74 Tone groups can otherwise be called as ________
(a) vowel groups
(b) intonation groups
(c) consonant groups
(d) phonemic groups
75.We walked ________ the edge of the desert
(a) until
(b) till
(e) up to
(d) beside
76 Which is the American- English equivalent for the Indian-English word "jumper".
(a) runner
(b) athlete
(c) sweater
(d) sprinter
77. ______ was commonly referred to as "England's other Poet Laureate"
(a) WH Auden
(b) WB Yeats
(c) Philip Larkin
(d) Derek Walcon
78 'Sons and Lovers is a novel written by ______
(a) D.H.Lawrence
(b) James Joyce
(c) Virginia Woolf
(d) William Golding
79.The one and only play written by James Joyce is _____
(a) The Dubliners
(b) Finnegans Wake
(c) Ulysses
(d) Exiles
80. "Freshwater, an absurdist drama is written by_____
(a) D.H.Lawrence
(b) Virginia Woolf
(c) James Joyce
(d) Wilham Golding
81. Which among the following is the first novel of Joseph Conrad?
(a) Lord Jim
(b) Heart of Darkness
(c) Nigger of Narcissus
(d) Almayer's Folly
82. When was Lord of the Flies published?
(a) 1958
(b) 1950
(c) 1953
(d) 1954
83. Rushdie's novel, ________won the Booker Prize in 1981.
(a) Satanic Verses
(b) Midnight's Children
(c) Shame
(d) The Golden House
84. Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things captures her childhood experience in ______
(a) Cochin
(b) Aymanam
(c) Azhapula
(d) Palghat
85 Which among the following is Githa Hariharan's first novel?
(a) When Dreams Travel
(b) In Times of Siege
(c)The Thousand Faces of Night
(d) Fugitive Histories
86. AK Ramanujan was awarded Padma Sri by Government of India in ______ for his contributions to Indian literature
(a) 1973
(b) 1972
(c) 1976
(d) 1970
87. __________ is popularly known by her one-time pen name Madhavikutty
(a) Arundhati Roy
(b) Gita Hariharan
(c) ToruDutt
(d) Kamala Das
88. "Goodbye party for Miss Pushpa TS" is a poem written by _____
(a) Kamala Das
(b) Toru Dutt
(c) Nissim Ezekiel
(d) A K.Ramanujan
89. Who among the following wrote poems in English and French?
(a) Kamala Das
(b) Toru Dutt
(c) Nissim Ezekiel
(d) AK Ramanujan
90. ______was a recipient of the 1998 Inanpith Award.
(a) Vijay Tendulkar
(b) Kamala Das
(c) Toru Dutt
(d) Girish Karnad
91. How many plays have been written by Vijay Tendulkar?
(a) 28
(b) 27
(c) 26
(d) 25
92. Bilingual method of teaching a foreign language was developed by _______
(a) Karl Plotz
(b) Lindley Murray
(c) CJ Dodson
(d) 1.A.Richards
93. ____ method is an old method that was originally used to teach dead languages.
(a) Direct
(b) Grammar- Translation
(c) Bi-lingual
(d) Structural
94. How many kinds of structures are there in the Structural Approach"?
(a) 5
(b) 4
(c) 3
(d) 2
Note: In the structural approach there may be four kinds of structures namely: Sentence
patterns, Phrase patterns, Formulas and Idioms.
95. In _______approach, the foreign language should be taught by forming links between the new language items and real situations in the class room.
(a) structural
(b) bi- lingual
(c) direct
(d) situational
96. The Communicative Approach is a/an ______ method for teaching English as a language.
(a) artificial
(b) creative
(c) natural
(d) easy
97. ______ is a major tool in the hands of a language teacher to teach prose and poetry
(a) board
(b) paper
(c) chalk
(d) text book
98. According to Chomsky the speaker-hearer's knowledge of his language is called ______
(a) Competence
(b) performance
(c) perception
(d) dedication
99. The three main types of evaluation methods are goal-based, process-based and _____
(a) outcomes-based
(b) test-based
(c) criteria-based
(d) result-based
100. Which is the first theory of language?
(a) Bow-wow theory
(b) ding-dong theory
(c) gestual theory
(d) number theory
Note: gestures are the way of communication for primitives. Language originated from guestures and then from vocal sounds.
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