List of top English Questions on Literature asked in GATE XH-C2

In The Importance of Being Earnest Oscar Wilde repeatedly uses the term ‘Bunbury’. It refers to the ________

Which of the following statement(s) aptly describe(s) the novel, I Shall Not Hear the Nightingale?

Which of the following novels has/have been written by the novelist who also wrote A Goddess Named Gold?

Which of the following political position(s) is/are advocated in Ngũgĩ Wa Thiong’O’s work Decolonising the Mind?

“I resemble everyone/but myself, and sometimes see/in shop-windows,/despite the well-known laws/ of optics,/the portrait of a stranger,/date unknown,/often signed/in a corner/by my father”
“Here was I, the white man with his gun, standing in front of the unarmed native crowd–seemingly the leading actor of the piece; but in reality I was only an absurd puppet pushed to and fro by the will of those yellow faces behind. I perceived in this moment that when the white man turns tyrant it is his own freedom that he destroys. He becomes a sort of hollow, posing dummy, the conventionalised figure of a sahib.”
“I have read translations of the most celebrated Arabic and Sanscrit works. I have conversed both here and at home with men distinguished by their proficiency in the Eastern tongues. I am quite ready to take the Oriental learning at the valuation of the Orientalists themselves. I have never found among them who could deny that a single shelf of a good European library was worth the whole native literature of India and Arabia.”
Which of the following statement(s) is/are true of Queer Theory?
Which of the following characteristic(s) is/are associated with Renaissance Humanism?
Which of the following statement(s) is/are true about “The Republic of Orissa: A Page from the Annals of the Twentieth Century,” one of the earliest narrative texts written in English by an Indian?
Who is considered the father of modern English essay writing?
Which of the following works by Gabriel Garcia Marquez is regarded as a masterpiece of magical realism?
“Good name in man and woman, dear my lord,/Is the immediate jewel of their souls/Who steals my purse steals trash; ‘tis something, nothing;/‘Twas mine, ‘tis his, and has been slave to thousands.” These lines are from ________
Which of these works is/are NOT written by Dryden?
Which of the following is/are the pre-romantic current(s) that contributed to the evolution of Romanticism?
Who among these colonial administrators is/are Orientalist(s)?
Which of the following work(s) may be described as Lad Lit?
Which of the following work(s) is/are NOT written by Anita Desai?
Which is/are the special skill(s) associated with Harry Potter in J. K. Rowling’s novel series?
Which among the following is/are synonymous with vibhāva (determinant) in the rasa theory?
Which of the following narrative(s) has/have an intrusive narrator?
Which of the following line(s) has/have been excerpted from W. B. Yeats’ writings?
Who among the following were the Cavalier Poets?

Which one of the following options correctly matches the texts with their authors? 


 

The medieval fabliau is a ________