1. Period in English Literature from 1901 to 1910 is called___________?
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A. The Post Modern

B. The Pre-Raphaelites

C. The Edwardian Period

D. The Georgian Period

3. According to Longinus, the queen of figures is ___________?
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A. None

B. Hyperbole

C. Metaphor

D. Apostrophe

E. Simile

6. Who wrote The Colossus in 1960?
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A. Sylvia Plath

B. Ahmed Sulman Rushdie

C. Chinua Achebe

D. Toni Morrison

8. Father of modern linguistics is ________?
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A. Noam Chomsky

B. Ferdenand De Sassure

C. None of these

D. Both A and B

10. Who called Chaucer the father of English literature?
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A. John Dryden

B. Dr johson

C. M ArnaldB

D. T S Eliot

11. Morphology is the branch of linguistics which deals with
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A. The study of the structure of sounds and symbols.

12. Novel Animal Farm was written by___________?
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A. Shakespeare

B. None of these

C. William Hudson

D. George Orwell
13. The Canterbury Tales is written by ___________?
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A. William Langland

B. Julian of Norwich

C. John Gower

D. Geoffrey Chaucer
14. The system of communication within a community.
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A. N. O. T

B. Parole

C. Langue

D. Paradigmatic

16. The study of signs is termed as_________?
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A. Parole

B. Paradigmatic

C. Semiotics

D. Semantics

17. Altruist describes:
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A. A person who hates mankind

B. A lover of mankind.

C. One who is lover of beauty.

D. One who never stops.

19. Longinus establishes that the most beautiful of meters is __________?
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A. None

B. Iambic Pentameter

C. Dactylic Hexameter

D. Torchaic Octameter

22. The meaning a word within a language?
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A. Sense

B. Essence

C. Sense

D. Common Sense

23. _______ is a term denotes historical perspective for studying language ?
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A. Synchrony

B. Diachrony

C. Both a and b

D. None of these

24. Which was the first novel of Thomas Hardy published in 1871?
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A. A Pair of Blue

B. The Return of the Native

C. None of these

D. Desperate Remedies
25. The phrase Pathetic fallacy is coined by _________________?
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A. John Ruskin

B. Coleridge

C. Milton

D. Carlyle

29. Longinus asserts that nothing contributes more to loftiness of tone in writing than _________?
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A. Grandeur Thought

B. Impassioned Utterance

C. Genuine Emotion

D. Splendour Style

31. The author of The Bluest Eyes (1970) is__________?
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A. Sylvia Plath

B. Toni Morrison

C. Chinua Achebe

D. Ahmed Sulman Rushdie

36. Shame (1983) is written by__________?
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A. None of these

B. Ahmed Salman Rushdie

C. Chinua Achebe

D. Toni Morrison

39. Noam Chomsky was born in _________?
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A. 9-Dec-28

B. 10-Dec-28

C. December 7, 1928

D. 8-Dec-28

40. The theory of Biolinguistics is given by__________?
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A. Noam Chomsky

B. Enoch Powell

C. Steven Pinker

D. Ferdenand De Sassure

42. The term Implicature might refer to_________?
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A. None of these

B. Conversational structure

C. Double meaning

D. Text Structure

46. What is Quinzaine ?
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A. a twenty line stanza

B. a fifteen line stanza

C. a fourteen line stanza

D. a thirteen line stanza

47. What is the name of Wordsworths long poem ?
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A. None of these

B. Don Juan

C. The Canterbury Tales

D. The Prelude
48. Who uttered these words Beauty is truth, truth is beauty, that is all ?
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A. John Keats

B. Willams Shakespeare

C. Adlof Hatler

D. Gold Smith

49. Exiles is a______________?
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A. Poem

B. Play

C. Short Story

D. Novel

50. Renaissance means___________________?
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A. the revival of hard task

B. the revival of new country

C. the revival of learning

D. the revival of life