Osmania University PhD English entrance exam.
Questions based on memory
1. MLA abbreviation ? Modern Language Association
2. Self plagiarism? Answer: resusing own work without citation
3. Canadian literary award?
4. 'Night of the Scorpion' cause: smoke? rain ? Answer: In "Night of the scorpion," the poet (Nissim Ezekeil) describes how the narrator's mother was bitten by a scorpion on a rainy day.
5. Objective correlative term? Ans: T S Eliot
6. Manawaka pen name by?
7. 'Towards an Aesthetics of Dalit literature' by? Answer: Śaraṇakumāra Limbāḷe
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9. Ding Dong theory ?
10. Patric White works?
11. Karukku and Sangati by? Ans: Bama
12. Mr House of Biswas
13. bow- bough -related homonyms? Portamanteu?
14. ABA,BCB,CDC related to ode,sonnet ,ballad..?? Ans: Terzarima
15. Picaresque?
16. Velum comman name? Ans: Soft Plate
17. Kumarasambhavam by? Ans: Kalidasa
18. Faculties of surveillance concept?
19. Manilsun novel?
20. Bisexuality fiction awards?
21. Which is not a William Golding's work? Lord of the flies? The Spire?
22. Mennonite community?
23. Booker prize work? Ans: A Tomb of Sandeep -Geetanjali Shree?
24. Not a booker prize winner? Inheritance of laws, God of small things ? Midnight children?
25. Which is not a tool to test speaking skills? Long essay question, interview, presentation
26. Which is generally used to measure reading? Comprehension questions
27. Which is a dialect in Old English Period? Answer: Old English had four commonly recognised dialects: West Saxon, Kentish, Mercian, and Northumbrian.
28. Claude Levistraus what is culture?is it rituals and rites or sense of past?
29. 'Joothan' is a work by?- Om Prakash Valmiki
30. 'A Far Cry from Africa' is a response to? MAU MAU UPRISING (poem written by Derek Walcott)
31. Charles Dickens' last novel? Ans: The Mystery of Edwin Drood
32. Langue? Parole? Definition Answer: Langue (Abstract rules of language); Parole (speech)
34. James Joyce's only play? Answer: Exiles (1918)
35. Which is not an academic work? Conference paper, reaserch article, thesis, news paper? Ans: newspaper
36. What is important in humanities research?
37. Derrida's 'Of Gramatalogy' is translated by ? Gayathri Chakravarthy Spivak
38. LSRW full form? Ans: Listening Speaking Reading and Writing
39. Line from Kubla Khan poem? 'Damsel with a ____ in a vision once I saw'? Answer: Dulcemer
40. ‘Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquillity’? Answer: ‘Preface’ to Lyrical Ballads, Wordsworth
38 'Mac Flecknoe' is written by ? Answer:D ryden
39. 'School of Abuse' by Stephen Gosson is a .....? Drama Play Store? Ans: Satire
40. match the following: IA RICHARDS, DERRIDA, ?? Answer:Derrida- Deconstruction
41. Robert Brooke poetry is during ? Answer: World war-1
42. Datta Damyata Dayadwan from ? Ans: Answer: T S Eliot's The Waste Land
43. Work based on Thomas Mann's Transposed heads- ? Answer: Girish Karnad's Hayavadana
44. Okonkwo and igbo culture are in the novel ? Answer: Things Fall Apart (novel by Chinua Achebe)
45. Brother of Fourteen years boy? Opening line
46. Protogonist comes from Australia and lives a decade in Mumbai?
47. Father gay- daughter becomes lesbian?
48. Three Characters women in the first floor? Boy?
49. Rule, political situation are in the book? Ans: Arthasastram
50. Ferdinand DeSassure?
51. In Mathew Arnold's Culture and Anarchy??? Ans: Barbarians, Philistines, Populace
52. One clause with one subject, one predicate ? Ans: simple sentence
53. What is research review?
54. Which is used to combine two clauses? Conjunction
55. "New Criticism" book by ? JC Ransom in 1941
56. Intentional Fallacy is a concept by ? Wimsatt and Beardsly
57. Study of ........? Linguistics
58. Which is not a William Golding's work? Lord of the flies? The Spire?
59. Wrong Matching??
Arundati Roy's God of small things
Shasi Tharoor's Great Indian Novel
60. Gratiaen Prize is a national literary prize of which country? Ans: Srilanka (The Gratiaen Prize is an annual literary prize for the best work of literary writing in English by a resident of Sri Lanka. It was founded in 1992 by the Sri Lankan-born Canadian novelist Michael Ondaatje with the money he received as joint-winner of the Booker Prize for his novel The English Patient. The prize is named after Ondaatje's mother, Doris Gratiaen)
61. Earnest Hemmingway work related to war??? Sun Also Rises? Answer: A Farewell to Arms
62. Untouchable Spring by G Kalyana Rao is ? Fiction? Biography? Answer: a memory text, is a family/community saga, a novel and a historical document rolled into one
63. A novel where a protagonist's development is explored from childhood to adulthood is often referred to as a...? Buildungsroman
64. The Spencerian sonnet rhyme scheme is..? Answer: ABAB BCBC CDCD EE.
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