TG SET ENGLISH 2024 - QUESTIONS BASED ON MEMORY (Date of exam: 12.09.24)

Paper-II

1. Who are Classical poets according to Mathew arnold?

Answer: HDMS (Homer, Dante, Milton, Shakespeare

2. In which of the novels the protagonist dies at the end?

Answer: Ernest Hemingway - old man and sea- 

3. American authors-essayists-- Walt Whitman etc

4. Shakespeare's portfolio year-

Answer: 1623 by  John Heminges and Henry Condell.

5. Elizabeth 1 (on historical background - Elizabeth) - Chronology based

6. Sonnet pattern based

7. Chronological order of following events..

●  One Lakh allocated in  Charter Act 1813

● Woods dispatch 1854

● Macaulay minutes 1835

● East India Company, establishment by Elizabeth l. in 1600

● Hunters commission 1882

8. Richard Steele and Spender related

9. Burlesque based in options

10.Who advised to follow Classic poet's like .......Virgil,homer etc 

11. William Wycherley - work as comedy of manner/menace/humours

Way of the world by Congreve associated with… Ans:- comedy of manners. ??

12. Kitchen sink drama works

13. Mosca is a character in which work of Ben Jonson's

Ans: Volpone

14. Robert Browning's My last Duchess -

Ans: Duke of Ferrara is the Dutch Envoy (silent listener)

15. Samuel Johnson's Lives of poets 

16. Aeropagatica etc terms 

17. Commedian del arte in options.

18. Tale of tub by Swift is a - 

Answer: religion allegory

19. Oliver goldsmith based question

20. Charles Dickens works and characters matching

21. Michael Baktin concepts

22. Sir Roger de Coverley, fictional character, devised by 

Ans: Joseph Addison

23. In research methodology, Hypothesis means… 

Ans:-a supposition or proposed explanation made on the basis of limited evidence as a starting point for further investigation

24. Idiolect- dialect- pidgin- creole

Ans: When a pidgin language becomes the native language of a group, it is called a creole.

25. Chronology of parts of T S Eliot's The Wasteland?

The Burial of the Dead
A Game of Chess
The Fire Sermon
Death by Water
What the Thunder Said

26.Jayant mahapatra - regarding poet's among 4 authors

27. Braj Kachru's Three Circles of English is a model that describes 

Answer: the global use of English 

28. Indian authors and matching 

Aravind adiga- white tiger

Amitav Ghosh - Hungry tide

Anita Desai- Cry the Peacock

29. Michael Foucault and Ronald barthes ; statements of Author oriented and text

30.  John Lyly's Euphemism -4 definitions given

Answer: ‘Euphemism’ is defined as “an indirect word or phrase that people often use to refer to something embarrassing or unpleasant, sometimes to make it seem more acceptable than it really is”  Example: Passed away for death; comfort station for toilet

31. Who said about culture as "The best which has been taught and said in the world “? 

Ans:- Arnold.

32. Hyperbole (figures of speech)

33. Waiting for godot - theme statements. Ans:- linear action, repetition.

34. Sonnet 18

35. William Blake works - Chimney sweeper & The poison tree.

36. Comedy of menace-  by 

Answer: Harold Pinter

37.Communicative teaching focus on method or learner?

Answer: Learner

38. What is the  subtitle of In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens (1983)- by Alice Walker?

Ans: Womanist Prose

39. Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf by Edward Albee depicts the genre of… ..?? Options: ● Romantic comedy ● Dark comedy ● Burlesque ● Comedy of humours

40. The difference between Chaucer's English and our present English in terms of pronounciation is? Options ● Short vowels ● Long vowels ● Aitches

Great Vowel Shift

41. Diphthongs and Consonants sounds question

42. Cultural Materialism- 

Raymond Williams

43. How many line are there in Limerick?

Answer: Five

Father of Limerick is Edward Lear, Limerick is used in joke poems, anapestic trimeter with rhyme scheme AABBA. It has 9+9+6+6+9=39 syllables.

44. Black hole  in Literature?

45 Chinua Achebe's Ant hills of Savannah is set in… 

Ans:- set in fictitious West African country of Kangan.

46. Dryden's Essay on Dramatic Poesy - Characters

Answer: Eugenius, Crites, Lisideius, and Neander

46 Indianized English by 

Answer: Nissim Ezekiel (his well known poems are: 'Background Casually, Patriot, Good Bye Party  Miss Pusha TS)

47. Who is not an American Writer? 

48. Qualitative Research Question?

49. Impressionism emphasizes on… ● Feeling ● Judgement ● Reason ● Analysis

50. What is Robert Burns stanza ?

Ans: The stanza is six lines in length and rhymes AAABAB, with tetrameter A lines and dimeter B lines.

51. Anatomy of Melancholy by Answer: Robert Burton

52. What is soul of tragedy Aristotle? 

Answer: Plot

(Six elements : PCT DMS- plot, character, thought, diction, melody and spectacle)

53. Ted Hughes's Hawk roosting- Roosting means… .

Ans:- to settle down for rest or sleep

54. Setting of 'Look back in Anger' by James Osborne. 

Ans:- A single-room flat in the English Midlands.  

55. Identify the figurative speech in given paragraph...  Oxymoron/ paradox question

56. Faire Queen - Knights- Virtues matching

Answer: 

Book1- Red Cross night- Holiness

Book2- Sir Guyon- Temperance

Book3-Virgin Britomart- Chastity.

Book4- Campbell and Britomart- Friendship

Book5- Sir Artegall- Justice

Book6- Sir Calidore- Courtesy

57. Poetry makes nothing Happen - statement by-

Answer: W H Auden

58. Character from Vanity fair- Matching question

59.  Gender Performativity

Answer: Judith Butler

60. Hermeneutics  term coined by?

Ans: Paul Ricoer (Hermeneutics is the study of the principles and methods of interpreting texts, especially the Bible) 

61. Picaresque novel

62. Gothic Novel

63.   Circumlocution office appears in which work of Dickens … . 

Ans:- Little Dorrit

64. Odyssey by Homer, his recognition that he married his mother depicts… . Options ● Anagnorisis ● Catharsis ● Hamartia ● Peripetia

Ans:- Anagnorisis

65. Gayatri spivack closely associated with… . 

Ans:- Marginalized..?

66. Which, below terms are coined by Shakespeare?  Other options, Lovelorn, pandemonium were coined by Milton.

Ans:- Break the ice (First used in Taming of Shrew)

67. Philip Larkin's “Church going “ Depicts the themes… 

Ans:- Religion

68. Preface to the Lyrical ballads is highlighted by the quote given by Wordsworth is… .. Options ● Nature at once and new.. ● Art that hides a

69.  “Journal of the plague year “was written by… 

Ans:- Daniel Defoe. 

70. 'Anxiety of influence' is coined by /writtenby…. 

Ans:- Harold Bloom (strong and weak poets). 

71. Cathy caruth is famous for… 

Ans:- Trauma studies.

72. The language instinct written by… 

Ans:- Steven Pinker

73. The white Man's burden written by.. 

Ans: Rudyard Kipling.

"The White Man's Burden" is a poem with imperialistic themes by the British Victorian poet and novelist Rudyard Kipling, originally wrote the poem to celebrate Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee in 1897.

74. Chronology of following works 

        1. The Location of culture 1994 -Homi K Bhaba

        2. Prison house of language 1972- Frederic Jameson

        3. Orientalism 1978 - Edward Said

        4. Allegories of reading 1979- Paul De Man

75. Habitus of capital is associated with … . 

Ans- Pierrie Bourdieu.

Pierre Bourdieu’s concept of habitus describes the set of skills and social resources that govern how people engage with the world. Different habitus exists for people from different environments, and each habitus comes with its own set of knowledge and skills. This can lead to a perpetuation of inequality.

76. Audio lingualism emphasizes on… ● Mechanical repetition ● Error correction

 

77. situational approach is/was started by..

 Ans:-A S Hornsby & Harold Palmer

78.”I shall but love thee better after death” This statement is taken from… .. 

Ans:- Elizabeth Barrett Browning- How do I love thee (sonnet 43)?

79. Seven types of ambiguity, written by… 

Ans: William Empson 

80 Language of paradox, associated with..

 Ans:- Cleanth Brooks. (Language of poetry is the language of paradox)

81. Which of the following key figures NOT associated with Cultural studies / Society? 

Ans: Stephen Greenblatt Associated with:- Raymond Williams, Stuart Hall, Richard Hoggart,

82. Deconstructive critic… statements

83. In research methodology, Review in literature means.. 

Ans:-Overview.

84. Matching characters with concerned Novels. 

Ans:- Elizabeth Bennett- Pride and prejudice.

85. “Anthem for Doomed Youth (1917)” was written by.

Ans- Wilfred Owen. (it is a sonnet on the theme of war)

86. Boom group writers in literature.

Ans:-Julio Cortázar, Carlos Fuentes, Gabriel García Márquez, and Mario Vargas Llosa.

87. Krapp's Last Tape by Beckett denotes.. ● Monodrama ● Monody ● Interlude..

88. Statements on cultural studies ● Politically engaged..

89. Hegemony denotes… .. Statements.

Answer: Hegemony is the dominance or leadership of one social group or nation over others.

90. Foregrounding is the chief technique in.. 

Ans:- Russian formalism

"Foregrounding is essentially a technique for 'making strange' in language, or to extrapolate from Shklovsky's Russian term ostranenie, a method of 'defamiliarisation' in textual composition

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Paper-I

1. NMEICT full form ---

    National Mission on Education through Information and Communication Technology

2. arsenic pollution caused by? options: agri pest, thermal?

3.  Tertiary level board of education in India is… . Options:- ● UGC ● NCERT ● CBSE ● NTA

4. Blood relationship problem

5. time and distance

6. profit percentage problem

7. Research abstract 

8-13 Data interpretation classes 9th to 12th, tablestables

14-18. Comprehenion

19.Find out out put /not input device from, below a. .Keyboard b. Joystick c. Monitor d. Scanner 

20) SDGS are achieved by… 

Ans:- 2030 

21) Citation reference style. 

22) Sanskrit words upanayan, nigamana… 

Ans:- 1.Pratijna : The Mountain possesses fire 

2. Hetu : Because there is smoke 

3. Udaharana : Like the Kitchen 

4. Upanaya: Such is this mountain 

5. Nigamana : Therefore Mountain Process fire 

23) Electronic media

24) Syllogism. 

25)  Syllogism related. 

26) Alphabet series of letters.. 

27) Alphabet series.. 

28) when Indian & American get communicated, it is… ● Inter culture ● Intra culture ● Cross culture 

29) Matching of Sanskrit words to their meanings.. Ans:- Sathpravakyathi, Badhi… 

30) Experimental research definition.. Cause ans effect. 

31) A, B, C mixtures milk, water 

32) BODMAS “reverse” Symbols transfer 

33) Quantitative and qualitative both get mixed are to be called as… Ans:- Mixed methods 

34) Cognitive thinking related.. 

35) n(U) =100, n(A) =50 n(B) =40 then n(A ñ B) is… .. … .. 

36) Causes of contamination of ground water is due to… ● Industries ● Power plants ● Natural sources 

37) Which of the following is example for Meteorological hazard? Ans:- coastal erosion. 

38) Which of the following is not a natural disaster? 

Ans:- Chemical spill. 

39) One billion bytes formed as a unit, called… . 

Ans:- one gigabyte. 

40) What is the address of Web page? 

Ans:- URL

 41. stress ,fatigue ,unwilling to answer etc   related  mental or physical disorder?

42. First women university name ?

Answer: SNDT Women’s University is the first Women’s university in India as well as in South-East Asia. The University was founded by Maharshi Dr. Dhondo Keshav Karve in 1916 for a noble cause of Women’s Education. The first five women graduated in 1921 from this University. The University Headquarters is in Churchgate Campus, Mumbai and the other two campuses of this University are at Juhu, Mumbai and Karve Road, Pune.

43. First Virtual university established In India? Name of the state? 

Answer: Tamil Virtual University, Chennai (Madras) Tamil Nadu is a University (first virtual) recognized by UGC. It was established in 2001

44. One teacher in long classroom limited communication with students leads to… . 

45. Teacher centred - learner centred objectives..