BLESSINGS PG TRB COACHING CENTRE – COVAI

Unit – 10 Total Marks – 150

Duration – 3Hrs

1) Which is the only unity that Aristotle insists upon?

a)Unity of action b) Unity of character c)Unity of place d)Unity of time
2) Which of the following genres has the same plot structure as tragedy?
a) Epic poetry b) History c) Biography d)Episodic storytelling
3) Which is the best kind of anagnorisis?

a)Recognition by means of signs or marks b) Recognition prompted by memory

c) Recognition through deductive reasoning d)) Recognition that arises through the structure of the plot

4) The Poetics deals primarily with what genre?

a) Epic b) Tragedy c) Comedy d) Lyric Poetry

5) The work we call Physics is more properly described as what?

a) Natural science b) Chemistry c) Biology d) Metaphysics
6) According to Aristotle, which of the following is not one of the six elements of the tragedy?
a) Plot b) Reversal c) Character d) Spectacle
7) What were members of Aristotle's Lyceum known as?
a) Rationalists b) Skeptics c) Cynics d) Peripatetics
8) What did Aristotle refer to metaphysics as?
A) Natural philosophy B) First philosophy C) Epistemology D) Teleology
9) In Book XII of the Metaphysics, how many kinds of substances are there?
a) One b) two c) three d) four

10) What is the Greek word for representation, as used in the Poetics?
a) Mimesis b) Katharsis c) Hamartia d) Graticus

11) The first poem written by John Keats is ……?

a)) Ode to a Nightingale b) ode to west wind c) The sonnet O Solitude d) An ode

12) In which of the following poem, does Keats say “A thing of Beauty Joy Forever”
a) Endymion b) Fancy c) To sleep d) To west wind

13) Which of the following poem Keats was modelled on Milton’s paradise lost in style and structure?
a) Isabella b) Endymion c) Hyperion d) An ode
14) Who was Associated with Hellenism?
a) Keats b) Shelley c) Wordsworth d) Byron
15) Childe Harold is fourth book written by …….
a) Byron b) Wordsworth c) Shelley d) Coleridge
16) Who says “Knowledge is sorrow”
a) Shelley b) Byron c) Keats d) Hazlitt

17) "The Metaphysical Poets" by T.S. Eliot was first published in

a) The Criterion b) The Times Literary Supplement c) The Egoist d) The Dial

18) The influential essay “The Metaphysical Poets”, a review of professor._____‘s anthology
Metaphysical Lyrics & Poems of the Seventeenth Century.

a) J.C. Grierson b) Lovejoy c)T.S.Eliot d) J.C.Ransom

19) The phrase “metaphysical” has long done duty as a term of__________

a) Praise b) Abuse c) Appreciation d) Apprehension

20) The poetry of Donne and its feeling often very close to that of _________

a) Chapman b) Jonson c) Johnson d)Crashaw

21) The 'courtly' poetry is derivative from Jonson, who borrowed liberally from

a) Greek b) Latin c)French d) Italy

22) The term devotional verse is related to the poet/poets like

a)Herbert b) Vaughan c) Crashaw d) All the above

23) (I) Cowley develops the commonplace comparison of the world to a chess-board through long
stanzas ("To Destiny").

(II) Donne, with more grace, in "A Valediction," the comparison of two lovers to a pair of
compasses

a) I is True b) II is False c) I&II True d) I&II False

24) A bracelet of bright hair about the bone. This poem line was written by

a) Crashaw b) Donne c) Jonson d) Herbert

25) The telescoping of images and multiplied associations is characteristic of the phrase of some of the
dramatists of the period which Donne knew: it is frequent in
 a) Middleton b) Webster c) Tourneur d) All the above

26) Who employed the term 'metaphysical poets'?

a) Dryden b) Donne c) Dr. Johnson d) Aristotle

27) The last few lines of the poem THE EXQUEY were several times attained by one of Bishop King's
admirers,

a) Edgar Poe b) Whitman c) Thoreau d) Allan paten

28) In eighteenth century, the two poems Marvell’s "To His Coy Mistress" and Crashaw's "Saint
Teresa" are same in

a) Rhythm b) Syllable c) Meter d) Subject matter

29) Who is a man of prodigious intelligence?

a) Milton b) Dryden c) Marlow d) Tennyson

30) Tennyson and Browning are intellectual poets. They think; but they do not feel their thought as
immediately as the odor of a

a) Soil b) Rose c) Violet d) Primrose

31) "The Metaphysical Poets" by T.S. Eliot was first published in the year of

a) 1921 b) 1922 c) 1923 d) 1924

32) Who is the author of the well-tempered critic?

a) Allan Tate b) Cleanth Brooks c) Northrop Frye d) Raymond Williams

33) In the Archetypes of Literature, the structural principles of literature are closely related to
a) catholic b) Mythology c) Celtic d) Etiologic tales
34) The animal monster and sea are identified in the figure of
a) Megalodan b) Charybdis c) Leviathan d) Aspidochelone
35) In the Archetypes of literature the four narrative pre generic elements are called
a) Mythoi b) Mythbusters c) saga d) parable
36) The Archetypes of literature …….called the vegetable image.
a) Tree of knowledge b) Tree of life c) Tree of wisdom d) Tree of misery
37) The horse and falcon in the archetypes of literature stand for
a) Cunning b) Chivalry c) Mundane d) grace
38) ……..will help a reader in understanding the pattern of a text
a) post structuralism b) Structuralism c) Cultural Materialism d) New Historic island
39) The messiah myth holy grail in the last part of the wasteland. It is an example of
a) Quest myth b) Historical myth c) Aetiological d) Rational Myth
40) Father of Pastrol writing
a) Aristophanes b) Theocrticus c) Sophocles d) Seneca
41) How many circles of the hell were mentioned in Dante’s Inferno
a) 8 b) 9 c)7 d) 12
42) Who developed a distinction between Appollonian and Dionysian in his work pattern of culture
a) Frazer b) Noel Coward c) Mary Ellman d) Ruth Benedict
43) Salling to Byzantium is famous examples of
a) Comic vision of unformed world b) Comic vision of mineral world
c) comic vision of vegetable world d) comic vision of animal world
44) Dance macabre of the yorrick soliloquy occurs in
a) Henry 4th part 1 b) King lear c) Macbeth d) Hamlet
45) The best examples of Archetypes of satires
a) lives of poets b) Dunciad c) Absalom & Achitophel d) Aeropagitica
46) What refers rhythm and pattern in literature
a) Meaning & narrative b) Narrative and Meaning
c) Knowledge and understanding d) understanding and knowledge

47) The 7th type of ambiguity is first published______.

a)1930 b) 1947 c) 1953 d)1958

48) The 7th type of ambiguity is written by _______.

a)I. A. Richards b) William Empson c)Allen paten d)Brooke

49) William Empson is the student of ____

a) I. A. Richards b)plato c)Aristotle d)Sophocles

50) Which is not Empson's work?

a) Structure of complex words b) milton's God c) letter d) Seven type of ambiguity

51) Who is the pioneer of New criticism in America?

a)Dryden b) William Empson c)Frye d) Allen Tate

52) The 7th type of ambiguity's Second Edition published at USA in ______

a)1947 b)1968 c)1998 d)1940

53) ____ is an indirect comparison between two different things for one common quality.

a) simile b) metaphor c) oxymoron d) onomatopoeic

54) Metaphor is also called as____

a) simile b) metaphor c) comparative simile d) A only

55) _____ is natural or direct comparison between two different objects for one common quality.

a) simile b) metaphor c) oxymoron d) onomatopoeic

56) .______ is a Canadian critic and also myth critic.

a)Northrop Frye b) cleanth Brook c) L. Trilling d) D. Empson

57) Who is the first analytical critic?

a) T.S Eliot b) I.A Richards c) Allen Tate d) Empson

58) Which is the first ambiguity?

a) simile b) metaphor c) oxymoron d) onomatopoeic

59) Mcent takes the example of Sonnet by___

a) GM Hawkins’s windhover b) Arnold's Dover beach c) Henry Fielding’s Tom Jones

60) Who appreciated Empson as a critic of genius?

a) Plato b)Aristotle c) Frank Kermode d) Sophocles

61) The quality of being opened to more than one interpretation is called ____

a) ambiguity b) criticism c) reflection d)literary work.

62) Identify the pun in the following sentence. Leopard that never changes its spot.

a) change b) spot c) leopard

63) The word binary opposition was coined by______

a)Ferdinand de Saussure b) Shakespeare c) Wordsworth d) Keats

64) Empson's essay on ambiguity popularized new criticism in_____

a) Italy b) America c) Greek d) Australia

65) What is the 6th type of ambiguity?

a)Freudian slip b) Fill it in c) metaphor d) pun

66) Anintrinsic approach based on

a).Deepmeaning b) close reading c) skimming d) scanning

67) Objective criticism express in the book of ______

a) Poetries and Science b) Coleridge on imagination

c) Speculative instruments d) Practical criticism

68) The Four Kinds of Meaning beings with ____ of Leviathan.

a) Epigraph b) Epithet c) monogram d) Manuscriptions

69) In” Four Kinds of Meaning” criticism express the ten difficulties is listed _____

a) to clusters of monkeys b)Poker game c) Relay d) Jaggler game

70) What is the mnemonic irrelevance of ten difficulties?

a) Imagery b) Sentimentality c) Inhibition d) Emotion from past

71) In speaking the poet’s an attitude towards, his audience as ______

a) Sense b) Feeling c) tone d) intention

72) The poet’s an attitude towards is listener

a) Sense. b) Feeling c) Tone d) intention

73) .The poets and aim to achieve on his _____

a) Sense b) Feeling c) Tone d) Intention

80) In Scientific treaties, what “tone” should be _____

a) Liberal b) Academic Convention c) Normal conversation d) None the above

81) Sense will be absence at _____

a) A scientific writing b) Sub – ordinate in political c) Sub- ordinate in popularition

d) None the above

82) .Malinowski’ s Express ______

a) Liberal Communion b) Phatic Communion c) Social language d) None the above

83) Feeling + Tone through _____

a) Sense b) Feeling c) Tone d) Intention

84) Poetry is a spirit , expressed by ____

a) Dr. Bradley b) Dr. Mackali c) Malinowshi d) I. A. Richards

85) _______ has been taken from Tate`s "The Man of Letters in the Modern World", Selected Essays

a) Tension in poetry b) Tension on poetry c) A man of Letters

86) Tate`s view that a good poem should possess _____ and ______

a) Extension and history b) Intension and metre c) Extension and intension

87) Alle Tate’s essay is divided into _____ parts.

a) 4 b)3 c) 5

88) Tate’s essay , first part deals with the ______of communication

a) Intension b) Fallacy c) All the above

89) He says that in most of the poems we find two kinds of language ___&____

a) Denotative b) Connotative c) Both b&a

90) The first example is “Justice Denied in Massachusetts,” a poem by _____

a) Miss Rogers b) Miss Miller c) Miss Millay

91) Tate says that both poems are failures,find out the poems name

a) The Wine’ & Hymn: To Light b) The Vine’ & Hymn: To Light c) Both a and b

92) _____is a failure in connotation

a) The Vine b) Hymn: To Light c) Both a and b

93) ‘The Vine’ is a failure in _____

a) Denatative b) Cannotative c) Denotation

94) .Francesca was born in _____

a) River pow b) Hell poo c) River Poo

95) Who, of the following, is not a speaker in Dryden's Essay of Dramatic Poesy?

a) Crites b) Neander. c) Lisideius d) Euripides

96) Dryden's “An Essay of Dramatic Poesy" was written to counter the remarks made by Samuel
Sorbiere about the English stage. Who else other than Dryden, replied to the charge?
a) Dr. Johnson b) Jonathan Swift. c)Thomas Sprat d) Alexander Pope

97) Which English literary critic said, "It is not enough that Aristotle said so, for Aristotle drew his
models of tragedy from Sophocle and Euripides: and if he had seen ours, might have changed his
mind".

a) Ben Jonson b) Dryden. c) Sidney. d) Pope

98) In An Essay of Dramatic Poesy to whom doe Dryden refer with the phrase he needed not the
spectacles of books to read Nature"?

a) Ben Jonson b) Shakespeare. c) Ovid d) Chaucer

99) One of the most important themes the speakers debate in Dryden's An Essay on Dramatic Poesy is

a) European and non-European perceptions of reality. b) English and non-English perceptions of reality.

c) the relative merits of French and English theatre d) the relative merits of French and English poetry,

100) In 1668, Dryden wrote of Dramatic Poise: An essay which uses separate characters to dramatized
the conflicting viewpoints which new theatrical activity had produced.

a) Three. b) four. c) two. d) six

101) In John Dryden's Essay on Dramatic Poesy: Neander defends the English invention of

a) romantic comedy b) action tragedy c) tragic-comedy d) morality plays

102) Which combination most accurately expresses Lisideius?s views about a play in Dryden's in Essay
on Dramatic Poesy?

i) It is an image of human nature.

ii) It represents human passions.

iii) It moves the viewer to awe and admiration for the protagonist.

iv) It portrays changes of fortune.

a) (i) and (ii). b) (ii) and (iii) c) (i), (ii) and (iv) d) (i). (iii) and (iv)

103) In his Essay of Dramatic Poesy, Dryden maintains that a play shouid aim at the Delight and
Instruction of mankind". Here he is following

a) Plato b) Aristotle c) Horace d) Longinus

104) An essay of dramatic poesy also refer to as 'of Dramatic poesy: an essay which more closely
matches the form of the original ……
a) Latin. b) French. c) English. d)Greek

105) Who record in his diary that he met 'Mr. Dryden the poet & the remained till the day of his death

a)Samuel Pepys b)Person. c) Alexander Pope. d) None

106) Neander observes Ben Jonson as-----

a) Learned observer b) Greater wit c) co- pioneer. d) Dramatic poet

107) Match the following:

1) Eugenis - a) French Drama

2) Crites – b)English Drama

3) Lisideius - c) Ancient

4) Neander - d) Moderns

a) b,c,d,a b) d,c, a,b c) c,b,a,d. d) a,b,c,d

108) Where did Dryden Write Dramatic Poesie?

a)Wiltshire b)London c)West Minister d) Italy

109) The Scene of An Essay of Dramatic Poesy has been laid on---.

a)Hudson b) Thames c) Nile d) Dover

110) Lyrical Ballads (1798) was advertised as a/an………..

a) ballad b) novelty c) preface d) experiment

111) In 1796 coleridge first poem was published named.

a) The rime of the ancient mariner b) an Eolian harp c) ode to the departing year d)my prison books

112) For “real”, Coleridge substitutes .

a) individual peculiarities b) phrases of universal use

c) the common properties of the class d) ordinary, or lingua communis

112) In which chapter of BIOGRAPHIA LITERIA does Coleridge turn on the two cardinal points of
poetry?

a) Chapter XVII b) Chapter XIV c) Chapter X d) Chapter VIII

113) Willing Suspension of disbelief for the moment for the moment constitutes…………….

a) Poetic genius b) Poetic faith c) Poetic discourse d) poetic character

114) To which edition of Lyrical Ballads, was appendix on poetic diction added ----------.

a) 1802 edition b) 1798 edition c) 1800 edition d) none

115) The preface was added to lyrical ballads in the year .

a) 1798 b) 1802 c) 1800 d) 1789

116) How many chapters were published in volume 2 -biographia literia …………..

a) chapter 14-18 b) chapter 14-23 c) chapter 11-20 d) chapter 1-13

117) Coleridge calls the secondary imagination as _____________ .

a) fancy b) magical power c) synthetic power d)spiritual power

118) S.T. Coleridge himself calls it.. as……………

a) Immethodical miscellany b) miscellany c)criterion d) bible

119) Side by side with the ---------------of the work, and modifying these elements, there is the element of
history.

a) Past elements b) sense of history c) historical element d) formal element

120) The New critics exercised their early characteristics method almost exclusively upon…………….

a) Past b) tragedy c) lyric poetry d) History

121) …………. who so shook our notions of causation in the physical sciences, raises some interesting
questions of causation in culture.

a) Chapman b)David Hume c) Whitehead d) Trilling

122) An idea as a transmissible thing is rather like the sentence that in the ………….

a) parlor game b) nature of ideas c) hide and seek d) none of the above

123) Who said, less concerned with the way words abuse us than with the way we abuse words.

a) chapman b) Dickens c) Kant d) Trilling

124) Plato is ………, the Athens out of a storybook

a) critic b) imaginary c) essayist d) historian

125) The gross institutional facts of their life, what Nietzche called ……

a) ideas b) culture c) divine instinct d) operating forces

126) Who prescribes that culture be studied and judged as life’s continuous evaluation of itself.

a) love joy b) David Hume c) Nietzche d) Chapman

127) The work of art, to see it as the agent of power rather than as the object of …….

a) idea b) sense c) Pastness d) knowledge

128) In the existence of every work of literature of the past, its historicity… Is a factor of great
importance?

a) culture b) its pastness c) ideas d) tradition.

129) English biographer, is making an estimate of the effort of a period and concludes that
……………… failed in our time.

a) symbolic movement b) metaphysical movement

c) romantic movement d) historical movement

130) Who said, “ The capacity for divining quickly the order of the rank of the valuation according to
which a people, a community, or an individual has lived”?

a) Trilling b) T.S.Eliot c) Nietzche d) Lovey Joy

131) History as we now understand it, envision its own ……that is really what we nowadays mean by
……..

a) progress & Extinction b) extinction & progress c) Past & art d) Mistakes & failure

132) Romantic literature appeals to that strain of ……..which inhabits a dark corner of every human
mind.

a) monarchy b) universal c) anarchism d) criticism

133) It is not words that makes our troubles, but our own ……

a) fate b) words c) wills d) time

134)The National Education Policy of ………advocates a priority programme for pre-primary

education for children in the age group of 4 to 5 years.

a)1954. b) 2016. c) 1984. d) 2004

135) The age of pre-primary education is between

a) 3-5. b) 1-3. c) 2-4. d)3-6

136) Who introduced Child Centre Education (CCE)?

a) Frobel. b)S.R. Swamy. c)A.M. Joosten d) Russou

137) In Tamilnadu, there are 35,414 ……Schools.

a)Primary. b)Middle. c) Higher d) Higher Secondary

138) According to the recommendation of Kothari commission, the Instructional days for Schools.
should be

a)216. b) 234. c) 224. d) 236

139) A special Integrated Education for Disabled Children (IEDC) programme which was started in
1974 focuses on

a)Pre-Primary education. b)Primary education. c)Intermediate Education d)Secondary Education

140) Which state of India first achieved 100% literacy in primary education?

a)Tamil Nadu. b)Kerala. c)Maharashtra. d)Andhrapradesh

141) According to Free and Compulsory Education…… Act, the children between the age given free
and compulsory education. should be

A) O to 14. B)6 to 14. C) 4 to 16 D) 5 to 16

142) According to Right to Education Act, no child should be denied of admission if it is normal and of
……years old.

A)4. B)7 C) 6 D) 5

143) Free and Cormpulsory Education Act was. Enacted in ……

A)1947. B)1989. C)1997. D)2009

144)In Tamil Nadu, Midday Meals scheme for. Children was introduced in………

A)1954. B) 1982. C) 1964. D) 1972

145)In Tamil Nadu, Midday Meals scheme for children was expanded in.

A)1954. B)1982. C)1964. D)1972

146) What is the correct expansion of ICDS.

A)Integrated Child Deficiency Services B)Intelligent Child Deficiency Services

C) International Child Development Services D)Integrated Child Development Services program

147)It is expected that the Govt. of India should. Spend. …..of the G.D.P. on education.

A) 8%. B)10%. C)12% D) 6%

148)Among the following which is not true.about the implementation of Right to Education Act in
India?

A)The Black Board operation revolutionised Primary education

B) Mother tongue, English, Maths, Science, History and Geography (Social Sciencewere taught

C)Games and Sports were encouraged

D)Yoga and Meditation were made compulsory

149) Where is the 33 rd Sainik school is located …………….

A)Amaravathinagar. B) Tiruppur c) Thiruvannmalai d) Dehradun

150) What is the full form of TRIPS

A. Trade rate assurance of income proof

B. Trade related aspects of Intellectual property Rights.

C. Trade risk irrespective phrase of science

D. Trade organisation of promoting science

151) The first product of GI tag in Tamilnadu is ……………

A.Darjeeling tea B.Dindigul Lock C.Garlic D.Turmeric

152) What is the ma c maximum age required for a member of rajya sabha

A.30 B.31 C.35 D.25

153) Who is the first speaker of Lok sabha ………….

A.Om Brilla B.Kumar C.Ganesh Vasudev Malvankar D.Suresh

154) When the Geographical Indications of Goods act passed in the parliament

A.Dec 1999 B Sep 1998 C.2003 D.2020

155) Mentioned the km and space of Tamilnadu forests

A.20.21 B.21.20 C.26.281 D.27.281

156) The pallava inscription kudumianmalai refers to the great musician

A.Simha Vishnu B.Narashimhavarman C.Ramanuja D.Rudracharya

157) The country which excels in destiny of population is

A.pakistan B.China C.India D.Bangladesh

158). The constitution of India contains…….. parts……. Articles….. and schedules

A.XII 499,12 B.XII 499,14 C.XII 501,13 D.XII 488,12

159).The Indian constitution contains………articles

A.450 B.459 C.449 D.448

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