WEST BENGAL SET-2023 - PAPER-II-ENGLISH (25 TH SET)

1. Who is the author of The Black Hill?

(A) Mamang Dai

(B) Temsula Ao

(C) Mitra Phukan

(D) Easterine Kire

 

2. Pick out the multi-genre text containing poems, stories and essays about climate change:

(A) Tiger Work by Ben Okri

(B) Time Shelter by Georgi Gospodinov

(C) The Overstory by Richard Powers

(D) Odds Against Tomorrow by Nathaniel Rich

 

3. Agit Prop Theatre does not display one of the following characteristics:

(A) It takes drama out of the private space of theatre to a more public space.

(B) It is a vehicle for political activism.

(C) It deals with depoliticized representations of bourgeois life and manners.

(D) It consists of short episodic scenes.

 

4. Ecocriticism is not

(A) an anthropocentric approach to literary studies.

(B) a bridge between the humanities and natural sciences.

(C) a fundamentally ethical criticism and pedagogy.

(D) a term coined by William Rueckert.

 

5. In which poem does Allen Ginsberg lament his mother's insanity?

(A) "Howl"

(B) "Kaddish"

(C) "Plutonian Ode"

(D) "Sunflower Sutra"

 

6. The eighteenth century saw the rise of the Periodical essay. Match the writers with the associated periodicals.

List-I

(a) Henry Fielding

(b) Samuel Johnson

(c) Addison and Steele

(d) Oliver Goldsmith

List-II

(i) The Rambler

(ii) Covent Garden Journal

(iii) The Tatler

(iv) The Bee

     (a)(b)(c)(d)

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

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

(C) (ii) (i) (iv) (ⅲ)

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

 

7. Which leading figure of the Harlem Renaissance wrote "Montage of a Dream Deferred"?

(A) William Carlos Williams

(B) Audre Lorde

(C) Claude Mckay

(D) Langston Hughes

 

8. Death of an Author published under the pseudonym "Aidan Marchine" is a ground breaking literary experiment. The novella has been constructed from artificial intelligence (AI) tools like Chat GPT. Whose work is it?

(A) Stephen Marche

(B) Brett Schickler

(C) Tim Boucher

(D) Jennifer Lepp

 

9. Of the following which is not a collection of short stories written by Thomas Hardy?

(A) A Group of Noble Dames

(B) Life's Little Ironies

(C) Everything's Eventual

(D) A Changed Man

 

10. Which poet wrote avant-garde poems in which conventional punctuation was ignored in favour of a dynamic language?

(A) William Carlos Williams

(B) e, e. cummings

(C) Gertrude Stein

(D) Allen Ginsberg

 

11. Who referred to Romanticism as 'spilt religion"?

(A) T. S. Eliot

(B) T. E. Hulme

(C) Ezra Pound

(D) Virginia Woolf

 

12. Who wrote the following?

"What passing bells for those who die as cattle?

Only the monstrous anger of the guns.""

(A) Rupert Brooke

(B) Wilfred Owen

(C) Robert Graves

(D) Isaac Rosenberg

 

13. In which poem do we find the following lines?

Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp Or what's a heaven for?

(A) "Andrea Del Sarto"

(B) "Bishop Blougram's Apology"

(C) "Fra Lippo Lippi"

(D) "My Last Duchess"

 

14. Which of the following war novels is a Bildungsroman?

(A) Farewell to Arms

(B) The Winds of War

(C) The Red Badge of Courage

(D) The Naked and the Dead

 

15. Who among the following introduced 'rime royal' in English poetry?

(A) William Langland

(B) Geoffrey Chaucer

(C) Thomas Malory

(D) John Gower

 

16. Alfred Tennyson's Maud was originally subtitled

(A) "The Melancholy

(B) The Madness"

(C). "The Frenzy

(D) "The Disorder

 

17. The first University Commission was instituted by Lord Curzon in the year

(A) 1902

(B) 1906

(C) 1911

(D) 1913

 

18. From the varieties of English which one is not used in the spoken form?

(A) Pidgin

(B) Creole

(C) Chutnification

(D) Hinglish

 

19. From which poem are the following lines taken?

"I sit in the top of the wood, my eyes closed. Inaction, no falsifying dream..."

(A) "Hawk Roosting"

(B) "Crow"

(C) "The Hawk in the Rain"

(D) "The Thought Fox"

 

20. Identify the poem which is not by Nissim Ezekiel-

(A) "Night of the Scorpion"

(B) "Minority Poem"

(C) "Silhouette"

(D) "The Patriot"

 

21. Charles Lamb wrote under the pseudonym Elia for which periodical?

(A) The Spectator

(B) The Tatler

(C) Blackwood's Magazine

(D) The London Magazine

 

22. In which novel do you find the character Benjamin Burnham?

(A) The Shadow Lines

(B) In an Antique Land

(C) Sea of Poppies

(D) The Glass Palace

 

23. Who among the following was not a part of the Oxford Movement?

(A) Hurrell Froude

(B) John Henry Newman

(C) John Keble

(D) Lytton Strachey

 

24. "Landscape plotted and pieced-fold, fallow, and plow;’ is an instance of

(A) Simile

(B) Onomatopoeia

(C) Alliteration

(D) Allegory

 

25. Who among the following is a writer from Nagaland?

(A) Easterine Kire

(B) Marhang Dai

(C) Janice Pariat

(D) Anjum Hassan

 

26. Identify the incorrect combination of texts and authors:

(A) The Importance of Being Earnest-Oscar Wilde

(B) A Street Car Named Desire Tennesse Williams

(C) Betrayal-John Osborne

(D) The Caretaker Harold Pinter

 

27. Which of the following is not a part of V. S. Naipaul's Indian Trilogy?

(A) An Area of Darkness

(B) The Middle Passage

(C) India: A Wounded Civilization

(D) India: A Million Mutinies Now

 

28. Silent Spring is one of the key texts of-

(A) Cultural Studies

(B) Feminism

(C) Psychoanalytic Theory

(D). Ecocriticism

 

29. Who among the following writers has not been awarded the Nobel Prize in literature?

(A) Nadine Gordimer

(B) J. M. Coetzee

(C) Doris Lessing

(D) Chinua Achebe

 

30. Which of the following forms is not connected with Speculative Fiction?

(A) Magical Realist Fiction

(B) Cyberpunk Fiction

(C) Gothic Fiction

(D) Mimetic Fiction

 

31. Who wrote Mary: A Fiction?

(A) Mary Shelley

(B) Mary Wollstonecraft

(C) Maria Edgeworth

(D) Elizabeth Gaskell

 

32. Bring out the correct match between works in List-/ and their authors in List-II:

List-1

(a) The Wretched of the Earth

(b) Reflections on Exile and Other Essays

(c) The Intimate Enemy: Loss and Recovery of Self under Colonialism

(d) Home and Exile

List-II

(i) Edward Said

(ii) Chinua Achebe

(iii) Frantz Fanon

(iv) Ashis Nandy

 

     (a) (b) (c) (d)

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

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

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

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

 

33. Who among the following was the editor of the journal "Scrutiny"?

(A) T.S. Eliot

(B) L. C. Knights

(C) Raymond Williams

(D) F. R. Leavis

 

34. Which of the following It Century novels can be regarded as a "picaresque novel"?

(A) Pamela

(B) Evelina

(C) Moll Flanders

(D) Amelia

 

35. Which of the following sources of the sublime are not mentioned by Longinus in On The Sublime?

(A) Grandeur of thought

(B) Figures of Speech

(C) Noble diction

(D) Perfection of metre

 

36. Which of the following texts may be regarded as an introduction to Canadian literary identity?

(A) Survival

(B) The Stone Angel

(C) Runaway

(D) Three Day Road

 

37. Which of the following pairs of ancient Greek playwrights dramatise the tragedy of Orestes?

(A) Aeschylus and Euripides

(B) Sophocles and Aeschylus

(C) Euripides and Thespis

(D) Thespis and Agathon

 

38. Who is credited with having founded the Birmingham Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies?

(A) Stuart Hall

(B) Paul Gilroy

(C) David Morley

(D) Richard Hoggart

 

39. In the discourse of decoloniality, the concept of "border thinking" is advocated by

(A) Walter Mignolo

(B) Ngugi Wa Thiong'o

(C), Anibal Quijano

(D) Frantz Fanon

 

40. Match the events in List-l with their corresponding dates in List-II:

List-1

(a) The Establishment of the Globe theatre

(b) The Gunpowder Plot

(c) The Great Fire of London

(d). The Great Plague of London

List-1

(i) 1665

(ii) 1605

(iii) 1599

(iv) 1666

      (a) (b) (c) (d)

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

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

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

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

 

41. The final line in Samson Agonistes: 'And calm of mind all passion spent gives an idea of

(A) Anagnorisis

(B) Peripeteia

(C) Catharsis

(D) Hubris

 

42. 1922 was the year of publication of Ulysses and "The Waste Land". Which of the works below was not published in 19227

(A) Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha

(B) Rainer Maria Rilke, "The Duino Elegies"

(C) Luigi Pirandello, Six characters in Search of an Author

(D) Marcel Proust, Sodom and Gomorrha (also known as Cities of the Plain)

 

43. Which of these novels was celebrated by Nirad C. Chaudhuri as "the finest novel in the English language with an Indian Theme"?

(A) Rudyard Kipling, Kim

(B) E. M. Foster, A Passage to India

(C) John Masters, Night-Runners of Bengal

(D) Paul Scott. The Jed in the Crown

 

44. Which of these is not a search engine?

(A) JSTOR

(B) QueText

(C) Proquest

(D) EBSCO Host

 

45. Which of these authors was acclaimed by Mikhail Bakhtin as the supreme example of dialogism?

(A) William Shakespeare

(B) Charles Dickens

(C) Leo Tolstoy

(D) Feodor Dostoevsky

 

46. The source of Macbeth is Holinshed's Chronicles but with respect to the character of Lady Macbeth, Shakespeare diverged from Holinshed in several ways. Read the following options and identify the one which is not correct:

(A) Holinshed gave Lady Macbeth a small role but Shakespeare greatly enhanced her role

(B) Shakespeare's Lady Macbeth features in a sleep-walking scene, but this does not occur in Holinshed

(C) Shakespeare's Lady Macbeth commits suicide but Holinshed's Lady Macbeth does not

(D) Holinshed refers to Lady Macbeth as the Fourth Witch but Shakespeare does not

 

47. Which philosopher most influenced New Historicism?

(A) Friedrich Nietzsche

(B) Karl Marx

(C) Michel Foucault

(D) Jacques Lacan

 

48. Who coined the term 'ecofeminism'?

(A) Mary Daly

(B) Arne Naess

(C) Rosemary Radcliffe Reuther

(D)-Françoise D'Eaubonne

 

49. In which book of the Republic did Plato expound his theory of mimesis

(A) Book II

(B) Book III

(C) Book VI

(D) Book X

 

50. Who coined the term 'postmodern'?

(A) Jacques Derrida

(B) Michel Foucault

(C) Jean-François Lyotard

(D) Jacques Lacan

 

51. Which critic changes Horace's title Epistula ad Pisones into Ars Poetica?

(A) Lucan

(B) Quintilian

(C) Cicero

(D) Plotinus

 

52. Match the lines in List I with the poets in List IL

List-1                                                                                List-II

(a) "What once I was, and what am now"              (i) Andrew Marvell

(b) "All Bedlam, or Parnassus is let out"                 (ii) John Donne

(c) "Fair Quiet, have I found thee here"                   (iii) John Milton.

(d) "And soonest our best men with thee do go" (iv) Alexander Pope

     (a) (b) (c) (d)

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

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

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

(D) (iv) (ⅲ) (i) (ii)

 

53. P. B. Shelley's "The Masque of Anarchy" was occasioned by....

(A) The French Revolution

(B) The Peterloo Massacre

(C) The Anglo American War

(D) The Anglo-French War

 

54. Match the following authors in List I with the genre they are associated with in List II.

List-1                                                                 List-II

(a) Thomas Otway                                          (i) Tragi-comedy

(b) Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher  (ii) Secondary epic

(c) John Milton                                                (iii) Comedy of Manners

(d) William Wycherley                                  (iv) Heroic Tragedy

      (a) (b) (c) (d)

(A) (i) (ⅲ) (ii) (iv)

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

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

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

 

55. Who proposed the doctrine of the Three Unities?

(A) Aristotle

(B) Antônio Minturno

(C) Lodovico Castelvetro

(D) Julius Caesar Scaliger

 

56. Match the authors in Column 'A' with their works in Column "B"

Column-A                                          Column-B

(a) C. D. Narasimhaiah                   (i) Realism and Reality

(b) Ananda Coomaraswamy         (ii) Masks of Conquest

(c) Meenakshi Mukherjee             (iii) The Swan and the Eagle

(d) Gauri Viswanathan                   (iv) The Dance of Shiva

       (a) (b) (c) (d)

(A) (ii) (i) (ⅲ) (iv)

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

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

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

 

57. "Society is all but rude, To this delicious solitude." In which poem do we find these lines?

(A) "The Garden"

(B) "To His Coy Mistress"

(C) "The Temple"

(D) "The Flea"

 

58. Who said the following:

"The nineteenth century dislike of Realism is the rage of Caliban seeing his own face in a glass"

(A) Thomas Carlyle

(B) Matthew Arnold

(C) Walter Pater

(D) Oscar Wilde

 

59. In which grammar do you find deep structure and surface structure?

(A) Wren and Martin Grammar

(B) Phrase structure Grammar

(C) Traditional Grammar

(D) Transformational Generative Grammar (TGG)

 

60. In Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene Sir Guyon is the personification of

(A) Religion

(B) Chastity

(C) Temperance

(D) Justice

 

61. In which drama do we find the following line:

"What do we do now, now that we are happy?"

(A) Celebration

(B) The Birthday Party

(C) The Family Reunion

(D) Waiting for Godot

 

62. Which among the following is a fine example of 'Comedy of Menace'?

(A) Look Back in Anger

(B) Live Like Pigs

(C) The Birthday Party

(D) Chicken Soup with Barley

 

63. Match the theorists in List 1 with the terms they popularised in List II.

List-1                                                  List-II

(a) Karl Marx                                    (i) Speech-act theory

(b) J. L. Austin                                   (ii) Language games

(c) Jean-Francois Lyotard               (iii) Cathexis

(d) Sigmund Freud                          (iv) Commodification

       (a) (b) (c) (d)

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

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

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

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

 

64. Who is the author of the work The Castle of My Skin?

(A) Jamaica Kincaid

(B) Sam Selvon

(C) George Lamming

(D) Earl Lovelace

 

65. Which of the following plays inspired Shakespeare’s Comedy of Errors?

(A) Menaechmi

(B) Mostellaria

(C) Andria

(D) Eunuchus

 

66. Which is the correct chronological arrangement according to the date of first publication?

(A) Three Menin a Boat-The Old Wives Tale-The History of Mr. Polly-My Man Jeeves

(B) The History of Mr. Polly The Old Wives Tale My Man Jeeves Three Men in a Bout

(C) The Old Wives Tale-The History of Mr. Polly-Three Men in a Boat-My Man Jeeves

(D) My Man Jeeves The Old Wives Tale Three Man in a Boat-The History of Mr. Polly

 

67. Mark the odd one out:

(A) Walter de la Mare

(B) W. H. Davies

(C) John Masefield

(D) Alfred Noyes

 

68. The term 'Mestiza comes under the purview of

(A) Queer Theory

(B) Animal Studies

(C) Race Studies

(D) Partition Studies

 

69. In which chapter of Biographia Literaria, does Coleridge discuss the language of metrical composition?

(A) Chapter XIV

(B) Chapter XVI

(C) Chapter XVII

(D) Chapter XVIII

 

70. Who among the following offers axioms" of poetry?

(A) William Blake

(B) William Wordsworth

(C) P. B. Shelley

(D) John Keats

 

71. Who among the following in "An Essay of Dramatic Poesy" speaks in favour of the regularity and decorum of the French plays?

(A) Eugenius

(B) Crites

(C) Lisideius

(D) Neander

 

72. "You are about to begin reading Italo Calvino's new novel. If on a winter's night a traveller. Relax. Concentrate..." This is an address by

(A) a first-person narrator.

(B) a second-person narrator.

(C) an omniscient narrator.

(D) an unreliable narrator.

 

73. Who among the following developed the idea of 'Pantisocracy'?

(A) William Wordsworth and Robert Southey

(B) Robert Southey and P.B. Shelley

(C) S. T. Coleridge and Robert Southey

(D) S.T. Coleridge, and William Wordsworth

 

74. Gudrun is a character in both

(A) Sons and Lovers and The Rainbow

(B) The Rainbow and Women in Love

(C) The Rainbow and The Plumed Serpent

(D) The Rainbow and Aaron's Rod

 

75. Who described the 'Bloomsbary Group' as a group of upper middle-class "black beetles'?

(A) James Joyce

(B) D. H. Lawrence

(C) Somerset Maugham

(D) Aldous Huxley

 

76. Shelley's Adonais was written in memory of

(A) William Wordsworth

(B) William Godwin

(C) John Keats

(D) Thomas Chatterton

 

77. The 'Spenserian stanza consists of

(A) six lines

(B) seven lines

(C) eight lines

(D) nine lines

 

78. "Thou still unravished bride of quietness"-This line offers an example of

(A) Anaphora

(B) Apostrophe

(C) Chiasmus

(D) Litotes

 

79. The poetry of Dylan Thomas often strongly reflects the elements of

(A) Surrealism

(B) Futurism

(C)-Vorticism

(D) Impressionism

 

80. The English language borrowed words from other languages. Match the following:

List-1                                   List-II

(a) Habit                             (i) Arabic

(b) Coffee                           (ii) French

(c) Cockroach                    (iii) Spanish

(d) Opera                            (iv) Italian

      (a) (b) (c) (d)

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

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

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

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

 

81. A thesis cannot be submitted if the similarity index is

(A) more than 20%

(B) less than 15%

(C) exactly 10%

(D) upto 10%

 

82. T. S. Eliot alludes to a refrain in Edmund Spenser's "Prothalamion"- "Sweet Thames, run softly, till I end my song" in

(A) "The Waste Land”

(B) "East Coker"

(C) "Burnt Norton"

(D) "The Dry Salvages"

 

83. Who was the first composer of an English Dictionary?

(A) C. P. Brown

(B) A. S. Homby

(C) Dr. Samuel Johnson

(D) Daniel Jones

 

84. Who is the proponent of Cardinal Vowels in English?

(A) Daniel Jones

(B) Peter Roach

(C) T. Balasubramaniam

(D) George Yule

 

85. An Enemy of the People is written by:

(A) Henrik Ibsen

(B) Anton Chekov

(C) Leo Tolstoy

(D) August Strindberg

 

86. Find the odd one out:

(A) Vanman (Vendetta) by Bama

(B) The Outcaste by Saran Kumar Limbale

(C) Joothan: A Dalit's life by Omprakash Valmiki

(D) Growing up untouchable in India by Vasant Moon

 

87. In which wave of feminist theory, can we place Chandra Talpade Mohanty?

(A) First Wave

(B) Second Wave

(C) Third Wave

(D) Fourth Wave

 

88. From the following, pick out what is not part of mass culture?

(A) Films

(B) Folk art

(C) Books

(D) Music

 

89. Given below are two statements- Assertion (A) and Reason (R): Read them carefully and select the correct option.

Assertion (A): Baudrillard's concept of "hyper reality" gestures towards a transcendental reality.

Reason (R): This is because postmodernism in deeply imbued with a desire for transcendence.

(A) (A) is correct, but (R) is incorrect.

(B) (A) is incorrect, but (R) is correct.

(C) Both (A) and (R) are incorrect.

(D) Both (A) and (R) are correct.

 

90. Who is described by Matthew Arnold as "the scantiest and frailest of classics"?

(A) John Dryden

(B) Alexander Pope

(C) Robert Burns

(D) Thomas Gray

 

91. Given below is a statement followed by inferences, (i) and (ii). Read them carefully and select the correct option statement: In his poem entitled "Jerusalem", William Blake lamented the rapid industrialization of England under the onslaught of "dark satanic mills".

 

Inference (i): This is because, during his regular walks from Lambeth to the City of London, Blake always felt traumatised by the towering edifice of the Albion Flour Mills.

 

Inference (ii): Blake was also greatly influenced by Carlyle's exegesis of the "Condition of England Question" in his volume entitled Chartism.

 

(A) (i) is correct, but (ii) is incorrect.

(B) (1) is incorrect, but (ii) is correct.

(C) Both (1) and (ii) are incorrect

(D) Both (1) and (ii) are correct

 

92. In his work The Great Tradition, F. R. Leavis was critical of

(A) Jane Austen

(B) D. H. Lawrence

(C) Joseph Conrad

(D) Charles Dickens

 

93. Match the following texts in List I with the authors in the List II:

List-1                                                                 List-II

(a) The Doldrummers                                     (i) Girish Karnad

(b) Seven Steps Around the Fire                 (ii) Vijay Tendulkar

(c) Nagamandala                                            (iii) Asif Currimbhoy

(d) Silence! The Court is in Session            (iv) Mahesh Dattani

 (a) (b) (c) (d)

(A) (6) (iv) (iii) (ii)

(B) (iv) (ii) (6) (iⅲ)

(C) (iii) (iv) (0) (0)

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

 

94. Who among the following critics has coined the expression "structure of feeling"?

(A) Matthew Arnold

(B) T. S. Eliot

(C) Raymond Williams

(D) Terry Eagleton

 

95. Match the pandemic-centric texts with their contexts:

List-1                                                                 List-ll

(a) Plague infested Algeria                           (1) Giovanni Boccacio's Decameron

(b) Cholera epidemic in Italy                       (ii) Albert Camus’ The Plague

(c) Black death in Florence                           (iii) Daniel Defoe's A Journal of the Plague Year

(d) Great plague in London                         (iv) Thomas Mann's Death in Venice        

    (a) (b) (c) (d)

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

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

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

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

 

96. Shelley's statement, "I always seek in what I see the likeness of something beyond the present and tangible object" may be described as

(A) Symbol

(B) Image

(C) Metaphor

(D) Conceit

 

Read the following poem and answer the questions number 97, 98, 99 and 100.

 

I found this jawbone at the sea's edge:

There, crabs, dogfish, broken by the breakers or tossed

To flap for half an hour and turn to a crust continue the beginning. The deeps are cold:

In that darkness camaraderie does not hold.

Nothing touches but, clutching, devours. And the jaws,

Before they are satisfied or their stretched purpose.

Slacken, go down jaws; go gnawn bare. Jaws Eat and are finished and the jawbone comes to the beach:

This is the sea's achievement, with shells, vertebrae, claws, carapaces, skulls.

Time in the sea eats its tail, thrives, casts these Indigestibles, the spars of purposes

That failed far from the surface. None grow rich In the sea. This curved jawbone did not laugh But gripped, gripped and is now a cenotaph.

 

97. "In that darkness camaraderie does not hold" The line suggests:

(A) There is no ecological balance in the sea.

(B) There is no feeling of friendship between the creatures of the sea.

(C) There is no food chain in sea life.

(D) There is no harmony between human life and sea life.

 

98. "Jaws/Eat and are finished and the jawbone comes to the beach". The lines suggest:

(A) Energy and vitality embedded in nature.

(B) Energy and violence inherent in nature.

(C) Violence and death inherent in nature.

(D) Violence and animality as fundamental principles of nature.

 

99, "This is the sea's achievement; with shells/vertebrae, claws, carapaces, skulls." The lines use:

(A) alliteration and onomatopoeia

(B) alliteration and asyndeton.

(C) onomatopoeia and assonance.

(D) asyndeton and onomatopoeia.

 

100. "This curved jawbone did not laugh/but gripped, gripped and is now a cenotaph". These lines offer an example of

(A) Irony

(B) Circumlocution

(C) Antithesis

(D) Litotes

ANSWER KEY

                    25TH SET ANSWER KEY 

        ENGLISH - 01 - PAPER II : X SERIES

Q. NO.	ANSWER	Q. NO.	ANSWER	Q. NO.	ANSWER	Q. NO.	ANSWER
1	A	26	C	51	B	76	C
2	A	27	B	52	B	77	D
3	C	28	D	53	B	78	B
4	A	29	D	54	D	79	A
5	B	30	D	55	C	80	A
6	A	31	B	56	C	81	D
7	D	32	B	57	A	82	A
8	A	33	D	58	D	83	C
9	C	34	C	59	D	84	A
10	B	35	D	60	C	85	A
11	B	36	A	61	D	86	A
12	B	37	A	62	C	87	C
13	A	38	D	63	A	88	B
14	C	39	A	64	C	89	C
15	B	40	A,B,C,D	65	A	90	D
16	B	41	C	66	A	91	A
17	A	42	C	67	D	92	D
18	C	43	A	68	C	93	C
19	A	44	B	69	D	94	C
20	C	45	B	70	D	95	A
21	D	46	D	71	C	96	A
22	C	47	C	72	B	97	B
23	D	48	D	73	C	98	C
24	C	49	D	74	B	99	B
25	A	50	C	75	B	100	A