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1
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Which work by Tennyson is the story of a fisherman, who is shipwrecked, and after spending 10 years on a desert island, returns home to discover, that his beloved wife, believing him dead has remarried and has a new child?

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Enoch Arden

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Lord Tennyson became the poet laureate in

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1850

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Tennyson wrote In Memoriam in the memory of

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Arthur Hallam

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Tennyson’s Enoch Arden appeared in

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1864

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“Memorial Verses” by Mathew Arnold pays tribute to?

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Goethe, Wordsworth, Byron

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6
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The Proust screenplay

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Book by Harold Pinter

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Who wrote screenplay’s of French lieutenant woman and Margaret Atwood’s handmaid’s Tale

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Harold Pinter

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1649 to 1660 is known as?

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commonwealth period

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A Dead Man in Deptford is a 1993 novel by Anthony Burgess that portrays the life of?

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Christopher Marlowe

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first English book to be printed

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he Recuyell of the Histories of Troye by Raoul Lefèvre

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‘Account of the Augustan Age in England’ (1759) was written by?

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Oliver Goldsmith

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Eminent Victorians (1918 ) is a book by

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Lytton Strachey

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Eminent Victorians is a book consisting of biographies of four leading figures from the Victorian era. Name the four

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Cardinal Manning, Florence Nightingale, Thomas Arnold and General Gordon

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Song of St. Cecilia is by?

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Dryden

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Faber Book of Modern Verse was a poetry anthology by?

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Michael Roberts

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16
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A Modern Instance

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Novel by William Dean Howells

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17
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The Age of Innocence

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Novel by Edith Wharton

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18
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The Naked and the Dead

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Novel by Norman Mailer

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Catch-22

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Novel by Joseph Heller

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Blood in the Sun is a Literary series by?

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Nuruddin Farah

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Blood in the Sun is a Literary series by Nuruddin Farah has three books. What are they called?

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Maps, Gifts, Secrets

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Langue and parole is a theoretical linguistic dichotomy distinguished by Ferdinand de Saussure in his

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Course in General Linguistics

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The French term langue means?

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the abstract, systematic rules and conventions of a signifying system; it is independent of, and pre-exists, the individual user. It involves the principles of language, without which no meaningful utterance, or parole, would be possible (it is the language occasion)

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The French term parole means?

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parole (‘speech’) refers to the concrete instances of the use of langue, including texts which provide the ordinary research material for linguistics (we learn as children - grammar etc)

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John Heywood wrote a Play called the four P’s; who were the four P’s

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a palmer, a pardoner, a potycary,(apothecary) a pedler

26
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Top Girls

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Play by Caryl Churchill

27
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The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing is the story of a woman named?

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Anna Wulf

28
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The Swimming-Pool Library

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novel by Alan Hollinghurst

29
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Francis Bacon’s New Atlantis is based on an utopian state called?

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Bensalem

30
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Name the magazine associated with Movement literature

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Departure, New Poems

31
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A.R. Ammons parodies Wordsworth’s poem - The world is too much with us- in his which poem?

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Swoggled

32
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Evelina, Novel by Frances Burney has the subtitle?

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the History of a Young Lady’s Entrance Into the World

33
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mysomousoi means?

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Word used by Philip Sydney to describe poet haters in the Defense of Poetry

34
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The Intentional Fallacy and Affective Fllacy are essays published in 1940’s by?

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Wimsatt and Beardsley

35
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The Tower is a Book of poems by William Butler Yeats published in?

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1928

36
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The Book of Night Women

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Novel by Marlon James

37
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ghosts

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John Banville

38
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One for the Road

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One-act play by Harold Pinter

39
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The Oxford India Premchand translations are edited by?

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David Rubin, Alok Rai and Christopher King

40
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Spa town of Bath is a primary location in which novels of Jane Austen

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Northanger Abbey and Persuasion

41
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Moral Essays (also known as Epistles to Several Persons) is a series of four poems by Alexander Pope. Who are they addressed to?

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Cobham, Lady( Martha Blount), Bathurst, Burlington

42
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Mother Courage and Her Children

Play by Bertolt Brecht and Margarete Steffin. Name mother courage.

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Anna Fierling

43
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The Autobiography of an Unknown Indian (1951)

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Nirad Choudhary

44
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Thy Hand, Great Anarch! is a sequence to the book by Nirad Chupdhary known as?

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The Autobiography of an Unknown Indian (1951)

45
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The Continent of Circe (1965)

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Nirad Choudhary

46
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In John Gower’s Confessio Amantis, Amans, the lover makes his confession to the priest named?

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Genius

47
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Chairs

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Eugene Ionesco

48
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Sordello (poem) is a very hard poem by?

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Robert Browning about a troubadour named Sordello

49
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Sordello is a poem by Robert Browning about the Troubador named Sordello from?

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Dante Alighieri’s Purgatorio.

50
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tristram shandy’s preface appears in?

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volume 3

51
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A Handful of Dust by Evelyn Waugh owes its title to?

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The Waste Land

52
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the wandering jew’s soliloquy

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p b Shelley

53
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Where, according to T.S. Eliot, are we likely to find “not only the best, but the most individual
parts of a poet’s work” ?

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in those parts where the dead poets assert their immortality.

54
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Who, among the following, collaborated with Purohit Swami in translating the Ten Principal
Upanishads into English ?

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W.B. Yeats

55
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To Penshurst

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Ben Jonson’s

56
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The example for the country house poem is Ben Jonson’s ———, published in 1616

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To Penshurst

57
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The mind of the writer seems to work with unnatural violence - ‘Double, double, toil and trouble’. – of whom does Samuel Johnson write with these words?

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Thomas Gray

58
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Some god o’ th’ island. Sitting on a bank,
Weeping again the King my father’s wrack,
This music crept by me upon the waters,

are line spoken by?

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These lines, spoken by Ferdinand in The Tempest, describe Ariel’s music.

59
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The lines spoken by Ferdinand in The Tempest, describing Ariel’s music is also used in T S Eliot’s

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The Waste Land

60
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“The Storming of Seringapatam” is the prologue of?

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Moonstone by Wilie Collins

61
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“Gerontion”

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T.S. Eliot

62
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The mountain is a poem by?

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Louis Gluck

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