TGT and PGT (English previous year questions) (Part-VII)

Total Questions: 100

61. "There is nothing outside the text" is an important aspect of

Correct Answer: (c) Deconstruction
Solution:'There is no outside the text', it is a 662. 663. 664. 665. very concise formulation of Deconstruction, as Derrida basically wants to say that there is nothing outside of context. Deconstruction is the process of dismantling language to expose the relational quality of meaning. Hence, option (c) is correct.

62. The letter 'A' at different points in "The Scarlet Letter" stands for the following ideas except

Correct Answer: (b) Able
Solution:The letter in the novel The Scarlet Letter was an 'A', which stands for appetite. This Letter wearing was a form of public shaming as well as an admission of one's sin and guilt during the Puritan era, though it was one of the mildest forms of punishment available. Hence, option (d) is correct.

63. John Crowe Ransom's "God without Thunder: An Unorthodox defence of Orthodoxy" is an attack on

Correct Answer: (c) Science for destroying the old mystery of God
Solution:John Crowe Ransom's God without Thunder: An Unorthodox Defence of Orthodoxу is an attack on the modern heresy that deprived the deity of such awful might and summoned Americans to live under a new myth of sacred violence. Hence, option (c) is correct.

64. "Poetry sheds no tears 'such as Angles weep', but natural and human tears;" are lines by

Correct Answer: (a) Wordsworth
Solution:In the Preface to the Lyrical Ballads, Wordsworth personifies poetry and speaks of her tears and blood, using them to represent the idea that poetry should be written in the languages of the common people. He writes: "Poetry sheds no tears such as Angels weep', but natural and human tears." Hence, option (a) is correct.

65. Arnold was the first English critic to stress upon the necessity of

Correct Answer: (b) Comparative criticism
Solution:Arnold was the first English critic to stress upon the necessity of comparative criticism. The essay The Function of Criticism at the Present Time was published by Arnold in his first collection of critical writing Essay in Criticism. Hence option (b) is correct.

66. In his major criticism D.H. Lawrence makes a distinction between

Correct Answer: (b) Sensitive mind and intellectual awareness
Solution:In his major criticism D.H. Lawrence makes a distinction between "intuition and the mind, instinct of the body and intellect of the mind".  Hence, option (d) is correct.

67. The phrase "dissociation of sensibility" was first used by Eliot in his

Correct Answer: (c) Metaphysical poets
Solution:Dissociation of sensibility is a literary term first used by T.S. Eliot in his essay The Metaphysical Poets. It refers to the way intellectual thought was separated from the experience of feeling in poetry during the course of seventeenth century. Hence, option (c) is correct.

68. "The Principles of Literacy Criticism" is a famous work of

Correct Answer: (a) I.A. Richards
Solution:The Principles of Literary Criticism is a famous work of I.A. Richards. Richards defines a poet is one who can order his experiences and connect his disconnected impulses into "a single ordered response". Hence, option (a) is correct.

69. The pen name 'Alpha of the Plough' refers to the essayist

Correct Answer: (b) A.G. Gardiner
Solution:Alfred George Gardiner was an English Journalist, editor and author. His essays written under the pen-name Alpha of the Plough. Hence, option (b) is correct.

70. Who of the following wrote "Eros and Civilization"?

Correct Answer: (d) Herbert Marcuse
Solution:The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain: The Manifesto of the Harlem Renaissance is a short essay by Langston Hughes for the Nation Magazine. It became the manifesto of the Harlem Renaissance.

In it Hughes said that black artists in America should stop copying whites, that they will never create anything great that way. Hence, option (d) is correct.