List of top English Questions asked in CUET (PG)

'Hamartia' refers to a trait in the protagonist in plays, that are:

Match List-I with List-II
\[\begin{array}{|l|l|} \hline \textbf{List-I (Literary Age)} & \textbf{List-II (Author)} \\ \hline \text{(A) Elizabethan} & \text{(I) William Hazlitt} \\ \hline \text{(B) Restoration} & \text{(II) Christopher Marlowe} \\ \hline \text{(C) Augustan} & \text{(III) Aphra Behn} \\ \hline \text{(D) Romantic} & \text{(IV) John Gay} \\ \hline \end{array}\]
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The first Indian writer to write a novel in English was:

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\[\begin{array}{|l|l|} \hline \textbf{List-I (Movie Adaptation)} & \textbf{List-II (Text)} \\ \hline \text{(A) Omkara} & \text{(I) Mricchkatikam} \\ \hline \text{(B) Maqbool} & \text{(II) Othello} \\ \hline \text{(C) Utsav} & \text{(III) White Nights} \\ \hline \text{(D) Saawariya} & \text{(IV) Macbeth} \\ \hline \end{array}\]
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Which figure of speech is used in the opening line of Spenser's sonnet LVII (57) - 'Sweet Warrior! When Shall I Have Peace with Thee?'

"Shimmering snow on the southern slope of the Simla hills," is an example of:

What was the 'only' thing that prevented the writer from losing her sanity?

Which of the following is NOT an autobiography?

Which of the following options are correct with regard to Postmodernism?
(A). Focus on classical themes of heroism
(B). Promotes the idea of multiple perspectives
(C). Challenges grand narratives
(D). Focus on metafiction and intertextuality
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Who among the following is associated with the Gothic?

Complete the following sentence by choosing the correct option out of the given ones as per the reading of the passage:
Prose as a medium of literary appreciation ...

"Sethe", he says, "me and you, we got more yesterday than anybody. We need some more kind of tomorrow."
Which figure of speech is used here? Choose the most appropriate answer.

Identify correctly the themes and ideas that are explored in Modernist literature:
(A) Fragmentation and Disillusionment
(B) Rejection of traditional narrative forms
(C). A focus on the representation of the alienated self
(D). The linearity of time
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Which of the following is the most appropriate statement about a 'heroic couplet'?

"Into the darkness they go, the wise and the lovely. Crowned
With lilies and with laurel they go; but I am not resigned."
Which form of poetry would the afore-mentioned lines be classified as? Choose the most appropriate answer.

Which options are TRUE of 'Existentialism'?
(A). Focus on radical individual freedom.
(B). Albert Camus and Jean-Paul Sartre are thinkers/writers associated with this movement.
(C). The absurdity of human existence is one of the major themes.
(D). Its immediate inspiration was the French Revolution.
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The first woman to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature was:

Arrange the following Nobel Prize winners in chronological order of they being awarded, beginning with the earliest.
(A) Doris Lessing
(B) William Golding
(C) J. M. Coetzee
(D) Wole Soyinka
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Match List-I with List-II
\[\begin{array}{|l|l|} \hline \textbf{List-I (Author)} & \textbf{List-II (Novel)} \\ \hline \text{(A). Allen Sealy} & \text{(I). The Calcutta Choromosome} \\ \hline \text{(B). Salman Rushdie} & \text{(II). The Everest Hotel} \\ \hline \text{(C). Amitav Ghosh} & \text{(III). The Golden Gate} \\ \hline \text{(D). Vikram Seth} & \text{(IV). Grimus} \\ \hline \end{array}\]
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Which ONE of the following female characters does not figure in the works by Kalidasa?

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\[\begin{array}{|l|l|} \hline \textbf{List-I (Literary Genre)} & \textbf{List-II (Text)} \\ \hline \text{(A). Fiction} & \text{(I). Prometheus Unbound} \\ \hline \text{(B). Poetry} & \text{(II). Moll Flanders} \\ \hline \text{(C). Drama} & \text{(III). On the Subjection of Women} \\ \hline \text{(D). Non-fiction} & \text{(IV). Intimations of Immortality} \\ \hline \end{array}\]
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Who among the following is a science fiction writer?

Which of the following are American transcendentalist writers?
(A). Ezra Pound
(B). T.S. Eliot
(C). Ralph Waldo Emerson
(D). Henry David Thoreau
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The central doctrines of the Enlightenment were inimical to which of the following:

Arrange the following literary periods/movements in chronological order, beginning with the earliest:
(A). Restoration age
(B). Art for Art's Sake
(C). Age of Sensibility
(D). Harlem Renaissance
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