UGC NET English November 2017 Part-3

The Bard. The Iron Lady. The King. The above are examples of :

antonomasia

anacoluthon

aposiopesis

asyndenton

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What happens to the lock of hair at the end of Alexander Pope’s The Rape of the Lock ?

It is preserved in a monument.

It is given back to its rightful owner.

It turns into a star.

It is presented to the poet as a token of gratitude.

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Which novel of Thomas Hardy begins with the sombre description of Egdon Heath ?

Under the Greenwood Tree

Far from the Madding Crowd

The Return of the Native

Jude the Obscure

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Which of the following novels by Margaret Atwood depicts the historical event of the notorious murders committed in 1843 ?

Cats Eye

Alias Grace

Oryx and Crake

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Charles Dickens’s Bleak House is pointedly critical of England’s :

Privy Council

military courts

Court of Appeal

Court of Chancery

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Which of the following is NOT true of the ideal state in Thomas More’s Utopia ?

There is only one religion guided by the principle of a benevolent Supreme Being.

Its priesthood, which includes some women, is limited in number.

The root causes of crime, ambition and political conict, are eliminated.

Personal property, money and vice are eectively abolished.

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The metrical form of Gower’s Confessio Amantis is :

trochaic tetrameter

iambic pentameter

anapestic trimeter

octosyllabic couplets

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Samuel Richardson named his heroine Pamela after one of the characters in __________.

Philip Sidney’s Arcadia

William Shakespeare’s Venus and Adonis

Geoffrey Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales

Edmund Spenser’s Faerie Queene

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Which character created by Coleridge makes the following account of her harrowing experience ? “Five warriors seized me yestermorn, Me, even me, a maid forlorn : They choked my cries with force and fright, And tied me on a palfrey white”.

Geraldine

Christabel

The maid who appeared in Christabel’s dream

Christabel’s mother

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Pinter once admitted that he rst became aware of the dramatic power of the pause from seeing a popular American comedian. Which one ?

Jack Benny

Charlie Chaplin

Bob Hope

W. C. Fields

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