J-3015

Question 1

Samuel Pepy kept a diary from?

Answer 1

1660 until 1669

Question 2

The Auden Group or the Auden Generation is a group of British and Irish writers active in the 1930s. name them

Answer 2

W. H. Auden, Louis MacNeice, Cecil Day-Lewis, Stephen Spender, Christopher Isherwood, and sometimes Edward Upward and Rex Warner.

Question 3

———- is the seventh of Sir Walter Scott’s Waverley Novels

Answer 3

The Heart of Mid-Lothian

Question 4

The Book of the Duchess

Answer 4

Geoffrey Chaucer

Question 5

———– is a euphemistic figure of speech that intentionally understates something or implies that it is lesser in significance or size than it really is

Answer 5

meiosis

Question 6

Silly novels by Lady Novelists

Answer 6

George Eliot

Question 7

The Celtic Twilight

Answer 7

Book by William Butler Yeats

Question 8

In which chapter of Poetics does Aristotle use the word “catharsis”

Answer 8

chapter 6

Question 9

“The Function of Criticism” 

Answer 9

T S Eliot

Question 10

“The Function of Criticism at the Present Time”

Answer 10

Matthew Arnold

Question 11

The Function of 4 Criticism: From ‘The Spectator ‘ to Post-structuralism

Answer 11

Terry Eagleton

Question 12

“The Function of English at the Present Time” 

Answer 12

Richard Ohmann

Question 13

Utopia by Thomas More is a discussion between Thomas More and?

Answer 13

Utopia is divided into two parts; the first records a conversation between Thomas More and Raphael Hythloday, and the second is Hythloday’s discourse on the institutions and practices of Utopia

Question 14

Falstaff is a character in …….

Answer 14

Henry IV Part I

The Merry Wives of Windsor

Question 15

In her essay “Professions for Women” Virginia Woolf finds an analogy between the act of writing and ……

Answer 15

Fishing

Question 16

The ascension of King James I in …… inaugurated the Jacobean age

Answer 16

1603

Question 17

Experience

Answer 17

Book by Martin Amis

Question 18

The opening sixteen lines of Paradise Lost comprise:

Answer 18

one sentence

Question 19

Who among the following poets compared human tears to “love’s wine”?

Answer 19

John Donne

Question 20

The Way of All Flesh

Answer 20

Novel by Samuel Butler

Question 21

Ernest Pontifex is a character in …..

Answer 21

The Way of All Flesh by Samuel Butler

Question 22

“The Man Who Would Be King” is a story by Rudyard Kipling about two British adventurers in British India who become kings of

Answer 22

Kafiristan

Question 23

In Gulliver’s Travels Struldbruggs are ……

Answer 23

people exempt from natural death.

Question 24

Samuel Johnson wrote London in imitation of…………..

Answer 24

juvenal

Question 25

The Joys of Motherhood, Second-Class Citizen, Kehinde

Answer 25

Buchi Emecheta

Question 26

Which playwrights was the son of a gardener?

Answer 26

Joe Orton

Question 27

Malapropism means?

Answer 27

the mistaken use of a word in place of a similar-sounding one

Question 28

Identify the group known as “The Wesker Trilogy”?

Answer 28

Chicken Soup with Barley, Roots, I’m Talking about Jerusalem (all novels by Arnold Wesker)

Question 29

Dream on the Monkey Mountain?

Answer 29

Derek Walcott’s

Question 30

Who is the central character of Dream on the Monkey Mountain? by Derek Walcott?

Answer 30

Makak, a charcoal burner

Question 31

What is common to writers such as Sam Selvon, Timothy Mo (Sour Sweet), and Hanif Kureishi (The Black Album)?

Answer 31

They are diasporic writers who depict postcolonial London very different from its colonial representations.

Question 32

The Lonely Londoners

Answer 32

Sam Selvon

Question 33

Sour Sweet

Answer 33

Timothy Mo

Question 34

The Black Album

Answer 34

Hanif Kureishi

Question 35

F. R. Leavis and Q. D. Leavis launched a critical journal devoted to the moral centrality of English Studies. Name the Journal.

Answer 35

Scrutiny