English (M.Phil./Ph.D.) 2019 Panjab University Entrance Exam With Answers

Prepare for English (M.Phil./Ph.D.) Entrance at Panjab University with MCQs, Answers & Past Papers.

1. Which of the following statements is true about the Restoration period in England?

2. Spenser's celebration of his own marriage is the subject of

3. When were the Theatres closed in England?

4. Who completed Marlowe's Hero and Leander?

5. John Donne was imprisoned for his

6. What kind of a poem is Milton's Lycidas?

7. 'Life is a tale told by an idiot...’ From which play are these words quoted?

8. The Peasant Rebellion took place in

9. Who is Lowes talking about in the following line? "He found English a dialect and left it a language."

10. "There is providence in the fall of a sparrow" occurs in

11. Out of Shakespeare's 37 plays, ... plays were published in quarto form. :

12. Michel Foucault is the author of

13. Among the following, who is associated with the Tel Quel group of editors?

14. ‘White Mythologies’ has been written by

15. Three dots (. . .) in an academic paper are called:

16. Sylvia Plath is known as a Confessional poet. Who else among the following belongs to the same category?

17. A. K. Ramanujan's 'Three Hundred Ramayanas' begins with the story of

18. Dithyramb is an emotional choral hymn in honor of

19. What is an eclogue?

20. This novel by Kiran Desai deals with "poverty and patterns that repeat across generations”. Which is the novel?

21. Who among the following was not a critic?

22. Aristotle's ‘Poetics’ contains—

23. Which of the following critical approaches is inclined towards Marxism?

24. In Euripides’s Medea the chorus consists of

25. An extremely simplified form of a language used as a contact language among speakers of different languages is a

26. To refer to the unresolvable difficulties a text may open up, Derrida makes use of the term:

27. Which of the following is a dramatic monologue ?

28. Heteroglossia” refers to the

29. Which of the following novels reconstructs the historical events of the Indian Mutiny?

30. In Practical Criticism I.A. Richards links four kinds of meanings in most human utterances to four aspects. These are

31. “There is nothing outside the text,” is a statement by

32. The preliminary version of James Joyce’s ‘Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man’ was called

33. Whom did Keats regard as the prime example of ‘negative capability’?

34. The year 1939 proved to be a crucial year for two important writers in England. Identify the correct combination below:

35. In which of his essays does Homi Bhabha discuss the ‘discovery’ of English in colonial India?

36. Who, among the following is credited with the making of the first authoritative Dictionary of the English Language?

37. The expression, “dreaming house” is an example of

38. “It was said of Socrates, that he brought Philosophy down from Heaven, to inhabit among Men; and I shall be ambitious to have it said of me, that I have brought Philosophy out of Closets and Libraries, Schools and Colleges, to dwell in Clubs and Assemblies, at Tea-Tables and in Coffee-Houses.” Who is the author of these words?

39. W. B. Yeats used the phrase ‘the artifice of eternity’ in his poem——

40. The autobiography of this author is Smile Please: An Unfinished Autobiography.

41. Which writer is accredited with developing the theatrical techniques of Brecht’s Epic theatre around the theme of gender and sexuality?

42. Which of the following poems by Derek Walcott is called an ‘epic poem’?

43. Which writer is considered to be the father of Bengali sonnet?

44. In which of the novels of Dickens, the protagonist remembers how he had been "a child's Tom Jones, a harmless creature" in his boyhood?

45. Ngugi rejected English language and chose to write in Gikuyu because

46. The remote Mayo coastline, on which the play is set, serves to confine an isolated rural community, one which is disturbed by the arrival of a fugitive, a supposed parricide. Which is this play by J.M. Synge?

47. Which play of Shakespeare is a dramatization of a story told by Chaucer in "The Knight's Tale"?

48. "Mac Flecknoe" is a personal satire. It is dedicated against a fellow poet of his time

49. Chaucer's first attempt in English to use the heroic couplet occurs in—

50. Wordsworth's Preface to the Lyrical Ballads was