MPHIL ENGLISH LITERATURE SAMPLE PAPER NUML ISLAMABAD

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76. The term narrative situation consists mainly of two aspects:

a) Narrator and dialogues

b) Narrative voice and focalization

c) Narration and action of a text

d) Narration and protagonist

77. Best example of a dystopian novel is:

a) Wuthering Heights

b) War and Peace

c) The Handmaid’s Tale

d) The Reluctant Fundamentalist

78. The term defamiliarization was first coined in 1917 by:

a) William K Wimsatt

b) Victor Shklovsky

c) Vladimir Propp

d) Carl Jung

79. “Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone” a poem written by W. H. Auden

falls in the category of:

a) Ode

b) Haiku

c) Concrete poetry

d) Narrative poetry

80. Ezra Pound’s poem “In a station of the Metro” is an example of:

a) Imagism

b) Cubism

c) Symbolism

d) Surrealism

81. What is the term used to refer to people or works that are experimental or

innovative, particularly with respect to art and culture?

a) Différance

b) Avant-garde

c) Vernacular

d) Defamiliarization

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82. Zora Neale Hurston was part of which literary movement:

a) Realism

b) Harlem Renaissance

c) Naturalism

d) Beat Generation

83. Who wrote “The Life of Lord Byron”?

a) Robert Southey

b) Thomas Moore

c) Samuel Richard

d) Thomas Campbell

84. The elegy “In Memory of W. B. Yeats” is written by:

a) T. S. Eliot

b) Cristopher Fry

c) Stephen Spender

d) W. H. Auden

85. Which is most famous work of Walt Whitman?

a) Leaves of Grass

b) A Tale of Two Cities

c) Frankenstein

d) White Noise

86. Which is one of the landmark works of modernist literature:

a) One Hundred Years of Solitude

b) The Waste Land

c) The Wandering Falcon

d) The Scarlet Letter

87. Who is the author of the famous novel “War and Peace”?

a) Anton Chekov

b) Nikolai Gogol

c) Leo Tolstoy

d) Mark Twain

88. T. S. Eliot is known for his contribution in:

a) Romanticism

b) Modernism

c) Surrealism

d) Realism

89. Ulysses is written by:

a) Thomas Hardy

b) Homer

c) Franz Kafka

d) James Joyce

90. Which of the following can be considered similar to short stories?

a) Beowulf

b) Canterbury Tales

c) A Tale of Two Cities

d) Don Quixote

91. Mark Twain is popular for dealing with issues of:

a) Nationalism

b) Feminism

c) Postcolonialism

d) Racism

92. Who wrote first Gothic novel?

a) Samuel Clemens

b) Horace Walpole

c) Edgar Allen Poe

d) Christopher Marlowe

93. Identify the writer who first used blank verse in English literature?

a) William Shakespeare

b) Sir Thomas Wyatt

c) Philip Sidney

d) Earl of Surrey

94. Poetry that is written on a page but performed for an audience is called:

a) Jazz

b) Concrete poetry

c) Hip-hop poetry

d) Beat poetry

95. Verse based on oral tradition, and often rhymed or metered, that celebrates

the traditions of the Western U.S. culture.

a) Ballad poetry

b) Cattle poetry

c) Cowboy poetry

d) Oral poetry

96. A group of mainly American poets, including Ezra Pound and Amy Lowell

who used sharp visual images and colloquial speech active from 1912 to

1914. They were known as:

a) Imagists

b) Transcendentalists

c) Existentialists

d) Surrealists

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97. John Milton’s poem “Paradise Lost” can be categorized as:

a) Baroque

b) Burlesque

c) Fable

d) Restoration Comedy

98. Samuel Richardson’s Pamela is ____________________.

a) Picaresque novel

b) Bildungsroman

c) Epistolary novel

d) Gothic novel

99. An aesthetic sensibility of late 20th century in literature which is

characterized by open-endedness and collage is known as:

a) Modernism

b) Existentialism

c) Postmodernism

d) Transcendentalism

100. “The Emperor Jones” is an expressionist play by:

a) Ernest Hemingway

b) Eugene O’Neill

c) Hermann Broch

d) William Faulkner

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