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UPKAR PRAKASHAN, AGRA–2

By

Aarti Anil&

Dr. Shyam Anand

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CONTENTS

● Periods of English Literature

● The English Sovereigns

● Previous Years’ Solved Papers

Chapter 1 : From Chaucer to Shakespeare 3–52— Some Important Years with Social, Political and Literary Events ……………… 3— Major Literary Figures and their Works ………………………………………… 3— The Age of Chaucer …………………………………………………………….. 6— Main Poetical Works of Chaucer ……………………………..………………… 7— Chaucer as the Father of English Poetry………………………………………… 10— Chaucer’s Contribution to English Language and Versification ………..……… 11— Chaucer’s place in English Literature………………………………………………… 12— Development of Poetry in the Age of Chaucer ………………………………… 13— The Fifteenth Century : A Barren Period (1400–1515) ………………………… 20— The Age of Shakespeare (1516–1600) ………………………………………… 21— Sir Thomas Wyatt and Henery Howard, Earl of Survey (1516–47) ……….…… 24— Spenser’s Faierie Queen as an Epic ………………………………………..…… 25— Songs and Lyrics in Shakespeare’s Age …………………………………..…… 26— Sonnets and Sonneteers ………………………………………………………… 27— The University Wits ………………………………………………………..…… 30— Shakespeare’s Life (1564–1616) ……………………………………..………… 32— The Elizabethan Theatre …………………………...…………………………… 32— Multiple Choice Type Questions (Set 1–7) ………………………………..…… 32–52

Chapter 2 : From Jacobean to Restoration 53–92— Some Important Years with Social, Political and Literary Events ……………… 53— Major Literary Figures and their Works ………………………………………… 53— The Contribution of the post-Shakespearean Dramatists of

the Jacobean Period ………………………………………………………..…… 56— The Puritan Age : Social Background ……………………………………..…… 64— Restoration Literature …………………………………………………………… 66— Restoration Comedy ………………………………………………………..…… 66— Literary Background ……………………………………………………….…… 67— The Age of French Influence …………………………………………………… 70

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— Eminent Writers of the Comedy of Manners …………………………………… 76— Multiple Choice Type Questions (Set 1–5)……………………………………… 77–92

Chapter 3 : Augustan Age : The 18th Century Literature 93–129— Some Important Years with Social, Political and Literary Events ……………… 93— Major Literary Figures and their Works ………………………………………… 93— Augustan Age …………………………………………………………………… 96— Minor Poets of the Revival ……………………………………………………… 99— The First English Novelists ……………………………………...……………… 102— Daniel Defore (1661–1731) ……………………………………..……………… 104— Samuel Richardson (1689–1761) ………………………………..……………… 107— Henry Fielding (1707–1754) …………………………………………………… 108— Multiple Choice Type Questions (Set 1–7)……………………………………… 109–129

Chapter 4 : Romantic Period (1798–1832) 130–167— Some Important Years with Social, Political and Literary Events ……………… 130— Major Literary Figures and their Works ………………………………………… 130— Romantic Period ………………………………………………………………… 132

— The Poets of Romanticism* William Wordsworth (1770–1850) ………………………………………… 137* Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834) ……………………………….…… 140* Robert Southey (1774–1843) ……………………………………………… 141* Walter Scott (1771–1832) ………………………………….……………… 142* George Gordon, Lord Byron (1788–1824) ………………………………… 143* Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822)………………………………………… 145* John Keats (1795–1821) …………………………………………………… 146

— Prose Writers of the Romantic Period* Charles Lamb (1775–1834) ………………………………………………… 149* Thomas De Quincey (1785–1859) …………………….…………………… 150* Walter Savage Lander (1775–1864) …………………..…………………… 152

— Women Novelists of the Romantic Age …………….…………………… 153* Jane Austen (1775–1817) as a Novelist……………………………………… 153

— Multiple Choice Type Questions (Set 1–4)……………………………………… 155–167

Chapter 5 : Victorian Period (1837–1901) 168–192— Some Important Years with Social, Political and Literary Events ……………… 168— Major Writers and their Works …………………………………………………. 168— Literary Tendencies of the Victorian Age ……………………………………… 174— Literary Characteristics …………………………………….…………………… 176— Multiple Choice Type Questions (Set 1–5) ………………..…………………… 177–192

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Chapter 6 : Modern and Contemporary Period (1901 onwards) 193–239— Some Important Years with Social, Political and Literary Events ……………… 193

— Major Literary Figures and their Works (1880 onwards) ….…………………… 193

— Some Other Important Works…………………………………………………… 198

— Trends in the Modern Novel …………………………………………………… 202

— Trends in Modern Drama ………………………………….…………………… 204

— Trends in Modern Literary Criticism …………………………………………… 205

— Modern Poetry ……………………………………………..…………………… 206

— Modern Novel …………………………………………………………………… 216

— Twentieth Century Drama ……………………………………………………… 222

— Multiple Choice Type Questions (Set 1–4)……………………………………… 225–239

Chapter 7 : American Literature 240–270— Major Writers and their Works …………………………………………………. 240

— American Literature ………………………………………..…………………… 241

— Nineteenth Century American Literature ……………………………………… 242

— American Literature in the Twentieth Century ………….……………………… 252— Multiple Choice Type Questions (Set 1–2)……………………………………… 261–270

Chapter 8 : Indo-Anglican Literature 271–319— Major Literary Figures and their Works ………………………………………… 271— Indian English Literature ………………………………………………..……… 272— The Era of Political Awakening (1901–1947) ………………………..………… 275— The Development of Poetry …………………………………………..………… 276— Rabindra Nath Tagore (1861–1941) ………………………………….………… 277— Sarojini Naidu (1879–1948) …………………………………………..………… 278— Sri Aurobindo (1872–1950) …………………………………………..………… 280— Harindra Nath Chattopadhyaya ………………………………………………… 283— Other Poets ……………………………………………………………………… 283— Eminent Poets of the Seventies and Eighties……………………………………… 288— Indian English Poetry from 1990–2005 ………………………………………… 291— The Pioneers of Prose (1820–1900) ………………………..…………………… 294— Towards the Dawn (1901–1947)………………………………………………… 295— The Era of Independence …………………………………………..…………… 298— Some Contemporary Writers …………………………………………………… 300— The Era of Awakening or Freedom Struggle……………………………………… 301— The Dawn of Independence ………………………………………..…………… 303— Women Novelists …………………………………………………..…………… 308— Multiple Choice Type Questions …………………………………...…………... 310–319

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Chapter 9 : Other Non-British Literature 320–332— Commonwealth Literature ……………………………………………………… 321— Canadian Literature ………………………………………...…………………… 321— Australian Literature ……………………………………….…………………… 324— African Literature ………………………………………….…………………… 326— New Zealand Literature …………………………………….…………………… 328— Multiple Choice Type Questions …………………………..…………………… 329–332

Chapter 10 : Literary Theory and Criticism 333–374— Greek and Roman Critics and their Works……………………………………… 333— Major English Critics and their Works …………………………………………. 333— Plato (427 B.C.–347 B.C.) ……………………………………………………… 334— Aristotle (384 B.C.–322 B.C.) …………………………..……………………… 335— Longinus, ‘‘The First Romantic Critic’’………………………………………… 338— On the Sublime : An Analysis …………………………..……………………… 338— Dante (1265–1321) ……………………………………………………………… 340— The Renaissance Criticism in England ………………………………………… 341— Neo-classicism in English Literary Criticism ………………………..………… 342— The Romantic Criticism ………………………………………………………… 347— Victorian Criticism ……………………………………………………………… 350— Metthew Arnold ………………………………...………….…………………… 351— Modern Criticism …………………………………………..…………………… 353— Contemporary Criticism ………………………………………………………… 357— Structuralism and Post-structuralism …………………………………………… 359— Feminist Criticism ……………………………………………………………… 360— Multiple Choice Type Questions ……………………………………………….. 361–374

Chapter 11 : Rhetoric and Prosody 375–391— Important Terms ………………………………………………………………… 375— Rhetoric …………………………………………………….…………………… 378— Prosody ……………………………………………………..…………………… 379— Multiple Choice Type Questions ……………………………………………….. 380–391

Syllabus

Paper–IIPaper–II will cover 50 Objective Type

Questions (Multiple Choice, Matching Type,True/False, Assertion–Reasoning Type) carrying100 marks.

11. Chaucer to Shakespeare

12. Jacobean to Restoration Periods

13. Augustan Age : 18th Century Literature

14. Romantic Period

15. Victorian Period

16. Modern Period

17. Contemporary Period

18. American and Other Non-British Litera-tures

19. Literary Theory and Criticism

10. Rhetoric and Prosody

Paper–III (A)[Core Group]

1. British Literature from Chaucer to thepresent day

2. Criticism and Literature Theory

Unit–ILiterary Comprehension (with internal choice

of poetry stanza and prose passage).

Unit–IIUpto the Renaissance

Unit–IIIJacobean to Restoration Periods

Unit–IVAugustan Age : 18th Century Literature

Unit–VRomantic Period

Unit–VIVictorian and Pre-Raphaelites

Unit–VIIModern British Literature

Unit–VIIIContemporary British Literature

Unit–IXLiterary Theory and Criticism upto T.S. Eliot

Unit–XContemporary Theory

Paper–III (B)[Elective/Optional]

Elective–IHistory of English Language, English

Language TeachingElective–II

European Literature from Classical Age to the20th CenturyElective–III

Indian writing in English and IndianLiterature in English translationElective–IV

American and Other Non-British EnglishLiteraturesElective–V

Literature Theory and Criticism

Periods of English Literature1450—1066 Old English or Anglo Saxon Period1066—1500 Middle English Period1500—1600 The Renaissance Period1521—1603 Reformation1558—1603 Elizabethan Age1603—1625 Jacobean Age1625—1649 Caroline Period1625—1660 Commonwealth, Puritanism Age1660—1700 The Restoration Period1700—1740 Neo-Classical Age

1740—1800 Transition Age, The Age of Johnson1798—1837 The Romantic Period1837—1903 The Victorian Period1848—1860 The Pre-Raphaelites1890—1914 Aesthetic Movement1912—1914 Imagist Movement1910—1936 The Georgian Period1901—1945 The Modern Period1914—1918 War Poetry1945……… The Post Modern Period

The English Sovereigns(i) The Norman Kings

1. William I (1066–1087)2. William II (1087—1100)3. Henry I (1100—1135)4. Stephen (1135—1154)

(ii) Plantagent Kings5. Henry II of Anjou (1154—1189)6. Richard I (1189—1199)7. John (1199—1216)8. Henry III (1219—1272)9. Edward I (1272—1307)10. Edward II (1307—1327)11. Edward III (1327—1377)12. Richard II (1377—1399)

(iii) The House of Lancaster13. Henry IV (1399—1413)14. Henry V (1413—1422)15. Henry VI (1422—1461)

(iv) The House of York16. Edward IV (1461—1483)17. Edward V (1483)18. Richard III (1483—1485)

(v) The Tudor Dynasty19. Henry VII (1485—1509)20. Henry VIII (1509—1547)

21. Edward VI (1547—1553)22. Mary (1553—1558)23. Elizabeth I (1558—1603)

(vi) The Stuart Dynasty24. James I (1603—1625)25. Charles I (1625—1649)

Commonwealth and the Protectorate(1649–1660)

26. Charles II (1660—1685)27. James II (1685—1688)28. William III and Mary (1689—1702)29. Anne (1702—1714)

(vii) The House of Hanover30. George I (1714—1727)

31. George II (1727—1760)

32. George III (1760—1820)

33. George IV (1820—1830)

34. William IV (1831—1837)

35. Queen Victoria (1837—1901)

36. Edward VII (1901—1910)

37. George V (1910—1936)

38. Edward VIII (1936)

39. George VI (1936—1952)

40. Elizabeth II (1952—)

UGC–NET English–II (J–16) | 1

English(Paper–II)

UGC-NET/JRF Exam.(July 2016)

Solved Paper


July 2016

English(Paper–II)

Note—This paper contains fifty (50) objectivetype questions of two (2) marks each. All questionsare compulsory.

1. Which British University figures in WilliamWordsworth’s Prelude ?(A) Durham (B) Glasgow(C) Cambridge (D) Oxford

2. Who is the author of A Woman Killed withKindness ?(A) John Marston(B) Thomas Middleton(C) John Fletcher(D) Thomas Heywood

3. In William Congreve’s The Way of the Worldidentify the speaker of the line : “One’s crueltyis one’s power, and when one parts with one’scruelty, one parts with one’s power.”(A) Mirabell (B) Witwoud(C) Millamant (D) Mincing

4. T.S. Eliot found spiritual support in—(A) Christianity (B) Hinduism(C) Buddhism (D) Judaism

5. By what name is Gulliver known inBrobdingnag ?(A) Grildrig (B) Glumdalclitch(C) Splacknuck (D) Mannikin

6. Who among the following was born in India ?(A) Paul Scott (B) Lawrence Durrell(C) E.M. Forster (D) V.S. Naipaul

7. What metaphor does Edmund Spenser employ(Faerie Queene Book 1 Canto 12) to frame histale and to describe the relationship betweenthe tale and its readers ?

(A) That of a caravan of lost souls, traversinga desert

(B) That of a stagecoach, which picks updiverse passengers along the way

(C) That of a ship filled with jolly mariners

(D) That of a riderless horse, following his owndirection

8. Who among the following is not associated withRussian formalism ?

(A) Roman Jakobson

(B) Georges Poulet

(C) Boris Eichenbaum

(D) Victor Shklovsky

9. Which character in Dicknes keeps on hopingthat “something will turn up” ?

(A) Barkis (B) Micawber

(C) Uriah Heep (D) Miss Havisham

10. What is the name of the boat that resucesIshmael in Herman Melville’s Moby Dick ?

(A) Pequod (B) Rachel

(C) Hagar (D) Sphinx

11. Northanger Abbey is a parody of the ........romance.

(A) Oriental (B) French

(C) Gothic (D) Popular

12. Who among the following authors were greatlyinfluenced by Thomas Carlyle’s writings ?

1. Charles Dickens

2. Elizabeth Gaskell

3. Emily Bronte

4. Oscar Wilde

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The right combination according to the codeis—

(A) 1 and 2 (B) 2 and 3(C) 1 and 4 (D) 1 and 3

13. Which of the following is another term todescribe “art for art’s sake” ?(A) Aestheticism (B) Didacticism(C) Realism (D) Neo-realism

14. The statement that there are “none so credu-lous as infidels” is an ilustration of—(A) Oxymoron (B) Antithesis(C) Paradox (D) Metonomy

15. Who narrates Heart of Darkness ?(A) Marlow(B) Director of Companies(C) Kurtz(D) An unnamed narrator

16. The Mistakes of a Night is the subtitle of—(A) The Conscious Lovers(B) The Good Natur’d Man(C) She Stoops to Conquer(D) The Rivals

17. Identify the first novel written by PatrickWhite—(A) The Living and the Dead(B) The Tree of Man(C) Happy Valley(D) The Aunt’s Story

18. In King Lear for what reason does Kentassume a disguise ?(A) To continue to serve Lear, though Lear has

banished him(B) To spy on Edmund(C) To antagonize Goneril and Regan(D) To revenge upon Lear for banishing him

19. What is a feminine rhyme ?(A) A rhyme on two syllables in which the last

syllable is unstressed(B) A rhyme on two syllables(C) A rhyme on three syllables(D) A poem in which ever third syllable rhymes

20. Identify two of the following written by Chris-topher Fry :

1. French Without Tears2. The Lady’s Not for Burning3. Venus Observed4. The Deep Blue Sea



21. In “Tradition and Individual Talent”, accord-ing to T.S. Eliot, the term ‘Traditional’ usuallymeans—(A) something positive(B) something negative(C) something historical(D) something old

22. Who of the following is a Cavalier poet ?(A) George Herbert(B) John Donne(C) Robert Herrick(D) Andrew Marvell

23. Which of the following is not Jacques Derrida’swork ?(A) Of Spirit : Heidegger and the Question(B) The Transcendence of the Ego(C) Of Grammatology(D) The Work Of Mourning

24. In Paradise Lost which character narrates thestory of the making of Eve from a rib in Adam’sside ?(A) Adam (B) Eve(C) Raphael (D) God

25. A.S. Byatt’s Possession attempts the imitationof the work of two Victorian poets, loosely basedon :1. Alfred Tennyson2. Robert Browning3. Christina Rossetti4. William Morris




26. The Dark Lady of the Sonnets is a shortcomedy by—(A) Bernard Shaw (B) W.B. Yeats(C) J.M. Synge (D) John Osborne

27. John Milton’s description of gold as a “pre-cious bane” (Paradise Lost, Book II) is bestdescribed as—(A) a dactyl (B) an oxymoron(C) enjambment (D) zeugma

28. There is a play on the name of Machiavelli inthe prologue to Christopher Marlowe’s—(A) Doctor Faustus(B) The Jew of Malta(C) Tamburlaine, the Great(D) Edward II

29. Shakespeare famously neglects to observeAristotle’s rules concerning the three dramaticunities, and Samuel Johnson undertakes todefend Shakespeare from these criticisms in hisPreface to Shakespeare. Which of the Aristote-lian dramatic unities does Johnson believeShakespare to observe most successfully ?(A) Time(B) Place(C) Action(D) Johnson does not feel that the Aristotelian

dramatic unities are important

30. Who among the following was praised andpatronized as a “Ploughman Poet” ?(A) John Clare (B) George Crabbe(C) Robert Burns (D) Walter Scott

31. Which novel of Doris Lessing ends with a pro-jection forward in time after a devastatingatomic war ?(A) The Grass is Singing(B) The Golden Notebook(C) The Four Gated City(D) A Proper Marriage

32. Name the dominant meter of the followingquatrain :The curfew tolls the knell of parting day,The lowing herd winds slowly o’er the lea,The plowman homeward plods his weary way,

And leaves the world to darkness and to me.(A) Iambic Hexameter(B) Trochaic Pentameter(C) Iambic Pentameter(D) Terza Rima

33. Which two novels of Buchi Emecheta providea fictionalized portrait of poor, young Nigerianwomen struggling to bring up their children inLondon ?1. The Slave Girl2. The Joys of Motherhood3. Second Class Citizen4. In the Ditch

The right combiantion according to the codeis—


34. In John Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress who keepsChristian’s head above water in the River ofDeath ?(A) Hopeful (B) Helpful(C) Faithful (D) Cheerful

35. Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage is a—(A) religious allegory (B) fairy tale(C) long poem (D) Utopian novel

36. In Thomas More’s Utopia which of the follow-ing leisure pastimes is not a favourite amongUtopians ?(A) Music (B) Public lectures(C) Conversation (D) Dicing and cards

37. Which of the following statements does notdescribe Michel Foucault’s position ?(A) In Foucault’s work sexuality is literally

written on the body(B) Power operates through discourse(C) There is connection between power and

knowledge(D) Where there is power, it is possible to find

resistance

38. In which year did the Great Exhibition takeplace ?(A) 1851 (B) 1857(C) 1861 (D) 1871

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39. When Fidessa says, “O, but I fear the ficklefreakes ... / Of fortune false, and oddes of armesin field” (Faerie Queene, Book I, Canto 5), this isa fine example of—(A) Alliteration (B) Allegory(C) Assonance (D) Antithesis

40. Match the List-I (Work) with List-II (Author)—List-I (Work)(a) ‘The Excursion’ (b) ‘Christabel’(c) Milton (d) Queen MabList-II (Author)1. S.T. Coleridge2. P.B. Shelley3. William Wordsworth4. William Blake

Codes :(a) (b) (c) (d)

(A) 3 1 2 4(B) 3 1 4 2(C) 2 3 1 4(D) 2 1 3 4

41. Which of the following phrases is not found inThomas Gray’s “Elegy written in a CountryChurchyard” ?(A) “Far from the Madding Crowd”(B) “A youth to Fortune and Fame Unknown”(C) “Full many a flower is born to blush

unseen”(D) “All nature is but art, unknown to thee”

42. Robert Browning’s “Rabbi Ben Ezra” is adefence of—(A) youth against old age(B) old age against youth(C) power against knowledge(D) knwoledge against power

43. In Geoffrey Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, the pil-grims, like the medieval society of which theyare a part, are made up of three social groups or‘estates’. What are the three estates ?(A) Nobility, church and commoners(B) Royalty, nobility and peasantry(C) Royalists, republicans and peasants(D) Country, city and commons

44. Which novel of Toni Morrison tells the wrench-ing story of a protagonist who murders her childrather than to allow him/her to live as a slave ?(A) Sula (B) Tar Baby(C) Song of Solomon (D) Beloved

45. Who among the following translated Homer ?(A) Thomas Gray (B) Samuel Johnson(C) Oliver Goldsmith (D) Alexander Pope

46. Shyam Selvadurai’s Funny Boy is a—(A) Picaresque novel(B) Epistolary novel(C) Diary novel(D) Coming-of-age novel

47. When was the English ban on James Joyce’sUlysses lifted ?(A) 1924 (B) 1945(C) 1936 (D) 1962

48. Who among the following is not an imagist ?(A) Ezra Pound (B) W.B. Yeats(C) Amy Lowell (D) T.E. Hulme

49. Thomas Carew’s poems appeared in print in 1640and contain a variety of amorous addresses toand reflections on, a fictional mistress knownas—(A) Celia (B) Julia(C) Anne (D) Melanie

50. Match the List-I (Novelists) with their List-II(Work)—List-I (Novelists) List-II (Work)(a) William Golding 1. Grimus(b) Salman Rushdie 2. Hawksmoor(c) Graham Swift 3. Darkness Visible(d) Peter Ackroyd 4. Waterland

Codes :(a) (b) (c) (d)

(A) 4 1 3 2(B) 3 1 4 2(C) 2 3 1 4(D) 2 1 3 4

Answers with Explanations1. (C) Wordsworth’s magnum opus is generally

considered to be The Prelude, asemiautobiographical poem of his early yearsthat he revised and expanded a number of times.


It was posthumously titled and published,before which it was generally known as “thepoem to Coleridge”. Wordsworth was Britain’sPoet Laureate from 1843 until his death in1850.

2. (D) A Woman Killed with Kindness is an earlyseventeenth-century stage play, a tragedywritten by Thomas Heywood. Acted in 1603and first published in 1607, the play hasgenerally been considered Heywood’s master-piece, and has received the most critical atten-tion among Heywood’s works.

3. (C) The Way of the World is a play written bythe English playwright William Congreve. Theplay is centred on the two lovers Mirabell andMillamant. In order for them to marry andreceive Millamant’s full dowry.

4. (A) 5. (A)

6. (B) Lawrence George Durrell (February 27,1912–November 7, 1990) was an expatriateBritish novelist, poet, dramatist and travelwriter. Durrell was born in Jalandhar.

7. (C)

8. (B) Georges Poulet was a Belgian, literarycritic associated with the Geneva School.

9. (B) Wilkins Micawber is a fictional characterfrom Charles Dickens’s 1850 novel, DavidCopperfield. Micawber is known for assertinghis faith that “something will turn up”. Hisname has become synonymous with someonewho lives in hopeful expectation.

10. (B)

11. (C) Gothic fiction, which is largely known bythe subgenre of Gothic horror, is a genre ormode of literature and film that combinesfiction and horror, death and at times romance.

12. (A)

13. (A) Aestheticism is an intellectual and artmovement supporting the emphasis ofaesthetic values more than social-politicalthemes for literature, fine art, music and otherarts. This meant that Art from this particularmovement focused more on being beautifulrather than having a deeper meaning – ‘Art forArt’s sake’.

14. (C) A paradox is a statement that, despiteapparently sound reasoning from true premises,leads to a self-contradictory or a logicallyunacceptable conclusion. Some logicalparadoxes are known to be invalid argumentsbut are still valuable in promoting criticalthinking.

15. (D) Kurtz is a central fictional character in Jo-seph Conrad’s novella Heart of Darkness. Atrader of ivory in Africa and commander of atrading post, he monopolises his position as ademigod among native Africans.

16. (C) She Stoops to Conquer is a comedy byAnglo-Irish author Oliver Goldsmith that wasfirst performed in London in 1773. Initially theplay was titled Mistakes of a Night, and in-deed, the events within the play take place inone long night.

17. (C) Happy Valley is a 1939 novel by Australianauthor Patrick White. It won the 1941 AustralianLiterature Society Gold Medal.

18. (A)

19. (A) A feminine rhyme is a rhyme that matchestwo or more syllables, usually at the end ofrespective lines, in which the final syllable orsyllables are unstressed. It is also commonlyknown as double rhyme.

20. (A)

21. (B) For Eliot, the term ‘tradition’ is imbuedwith a special and complex character. Itrepresents a ‘simultaneous order’, by whichEliot means a historical timelessness – a fusionof past and present – and, at the same time, asense of present temporality.

22. (C) Cavalier Poets is a broad description of aschool of English poets of the 17th century, whocame from the classes the supported KingCharles I during the English Civil War. Thebest known of the Cavalier poets are RobertHerrick, Richard Lovelace, Thomas Carew, andSir John Suckling.

23. (B) The Transcendence of the Ego is aphilosophical and psychological essay writtenby Jean-Paul Sartre in 1934 and Published in1936.

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