HSST JUNIOR/SENIOR QUESTIONS 1 st January 2011

1. In the last scene of Hamlet ________________ bids flights of angels to sing Hamlet to his rest.  
   
   Horatio  

2. The critic who has commented that Shakespeare uses images of physical corruption to suggest the rottenness in Denmark is _________________

3. The first regular comedy by Ralph Roister Doister was written by _____________

Nicholas Udall

4. “It expresses Shakespeare’s highest and serenest view of life.” This is a comment made by the critic Dowden on Shakespeare’s ____________-

The Tempest

5. The Elizabethan Revenge tragedy was inspired by the plays of ____________

Seneca the Younger.

6. The mysterious woman present in the sonnets of Shakespeare is known as 
   ____________

Dark Lady.

7. Prothalamion and Epithalamion are called ________ odes.

Irregular Odes

8. ‘The Fairie Queene” and ‘The Pilgrim’s Progress’ are examples of _________

Allegory

9. ____________ is a tragedy on the Greek model written by Milton.

Samson Agonistes

10. The verse form used in Paradise Lost is _____________

Blank Verse.

11. The French writer who is called the father of modern essay is ___________.

Montaigne. 


12.   A __________ novel represents a wandering hero, uses first person narrative 


        and is  characterized by a vast social canvas. 

Picaresque novel.

13. The verse form used by Chaucer in Canterbury Tales is___________

Heroic Couplet

14. ____________ is the term used by Keats to refer to the negation 
    
    
    
    of the rationalizing power of the mind.

Negative capability.

15. “The School for Scandal’ and ‘Importance of being Earnest’ are 
    
    
    examples of ________.

Comedy of Manners.

16. _____________ is a term sometimes used interchangeably with stream of
     
    
    consciousness.

Interior Monologue

17. Mathew Arnold called _____________ “a beautiful and ineffectual angel 
    
    
    beating his luminous wings in the void”.

P.B.Shelley

18. An interesting picture of Coleridge's school days is portrayed in the 
    
    essay titled ______________

Christ's Hospital in Essays of Elia

19. ____________ and __________ in Waiting for Godot are locked in a 
    
    
    sadomasochistic bonding of master and servant.

Lucky and Pozzo

20. It was ____________ who suggested the title 'The Waste Land' for Eliot's 
    
    
    poem.

Ezra Pound

21. In Preface to Fables Dryden compares Chaucer with Ovid and ____________.

Boccaccio

22. Coleridge in Biographia Literaria calls _____________ a magical and 
    
    
    synthetic power.

Secondary Imagination

23. According to I.A. Richards ___________ signifies the writer's attitude 
    
    
    to the reader.

Tone

24. _______________ used social anthropology for the evaluation of 
    
    
    literary works.

Claude Levi Strauss

25. The term 'Immediate Constituent' was introduced by ____________.

Leonard Bloomfield

26. The description of a particular state of a language at some point of 
    
    
    time is called_____________ study of language.

Synchronic study

27. The various languages which evolved from Latin are known 
    
    
    as _________ languages.

Romance Languages

28. The speech sounds produced with the vocal cords wide apart and 
    
    
    the glottis open are called____________ sounds.

Voiceless sounds

29. A word formed by combining two or more words to have two 
    
    meanings packed in one is called ___________ sounds.

Portmanteau Words.

30. The intonation pattern used in a confirmative tag question is 
    
    
    the ________ intonation.

Rising tone

31. The period from AD 450 to 1066 is known as _______ in the history of 
    
    
    English Language.

Old English Period

32. If a syllable ends in a consonant it is called a ________ syllable.

Closed syllable

33. The basic symbol of the waste land in the poem of the name is taken from 
    
    
    Jessie Weston's book titled ____________.

From Ritual to Romance

34. Aristotle uses the term __________ to indicate the moment of recognition 
    
    
    in which a character moves from ignorance to knowledge.

Anagnorisis

35. ___________ was described as 'the wisest, the brightest and the 
    
    
    meanest of mankind'.

Francis Bacon

36. A line of verse running or spilling over to the next line is called __________.

Enjambment

37. The meaning of the Greek name Oedipus is ____________.

Swell-Foot

38. The feminist criticism which considers woman as writer is 
    
    
    called _________ by Shawalter.

Gynocritics

39. Wordsworth's 'Immortality Ode' was directly influenced 
    
    
    by ________ philosophy.

Pantheism

40. The character in Antony and Cleopatra who functions as a chorus 
    
    is _____________.

Enoborbus

41. The period from 1700 to 1745 is known as the _____________.

The Augustan Age

42. The 20th century poet who believed in magic, reincarnation, a cynical 
    
    
    theory of history and romantic love is ___________.

W.B. Yeats

43. The ___________ theory holds that the earliest speech was produced
    
    
     by man  attempting to imitate some characteristic sound of the creature 
    
    or the object to which he was referring.

Bow-wow theory

44. A highly inflected language is called a _________ language.

Synthetic Language

45. D.H Lawrence was influenced by the Psychological theory of ____________

Sigmund Freud

46. A novel which tells the story of an artistically inclined man from 
    
    
    childhood to maturity is called_____________________.

Künstlerroman ("artist novel") is about the development of an artist and shows 


a growth of the self- a subgenre of Bildungsroman.

47. The movement poet know for his animal poems is _______________.

Ted Hughes

48. The Pre-Raphaelite school of poets are also called the _____________.

Fleshy School of Poetry {Pre- Raphaelite Brotherhood}

49. The words “Datta, Dayadvam, Damyada” quoted in the Waste Land 
    
    have been originally pronounced by _______________.
    
    
    Thunder- (DA DA DA) In Brihadaranyaka Upanishad, Prajapati prounounces these words
     
    
    
50. The seer in who both the sexes meet, according to T.S. Eliot, is ___________.

Tiresias

51. In English while the prefixes and suffixes are numerous ___________ 
    
    
    are rather rare.

Infixes

52. The term 'metaphysical', to refer to Donne's school of poetry was first 
    
    
    used by__________.

Dr. Johnson

53. Pairs of words such as maid/made, meet/meat, heal/heel etc. are 
    
    instances of___________.

Homonyms

54. Steel and Addison published the periodical called ___________ between 
    
    
    1711 and 1712.

The Spectator

55. Robert Browning popularized the poetic device called ____________.

Dramatic Monologue

56. The word 'radar' is an example of ____________.

Acronyms

57. Milton mourns the death of __________ in Lycidas.

Edward King

58. The rhyme scheme of Patrarchan sonnet is ____________.

abbaabba cdecde (cdccdc)

59. The concept of T.G Grammar is the contribution of _______________.

Noam Chomsky

60. The concrete manifestation of language either through speech or writing 
    
    
    is called_______________.

Parole

Section-B

Answer the following questions, each in about 2 pages. Each question carries 

5 marks.                                                                 7X5=35

1. Discuss the classification of the Indo-European family of Languages.
   
    
   Indo European Family of Languages 
   
   
2. What according to Trilling, is the influence of Freud on literature.
   
   
   Trilling - Freud's Influence on Literature 
   
   
3. Write a critical note on the tragic hero in Hamlet.
   
   
   Hamlet as a tragic hero 
   
   
4. Discuss Faustus as a man of renaissance.
   
   
   

   Dr. Faustus as a renaissance Hero
   
   
5. “He (Bacon) is not a companion, but a teacher”. Discuss.
   
   
   Bacon as a moral teacher 
   
   
6. Critically evaluate the portrayal of the vision of desolation and spiritual 
   
    drought in the Waste Land.
   
   
   Spiritual Poverty in Eliot's Waste Land 
   
   
   
   
7. Comment on the features of R.K. Narayan's fiction with reference to 
   
   
   'The Guide'.
   
   
   The Guide- R.K. Narayan 

SECTION- C

1. Attempt an appreciation of the following poem commenting on the imagery, 
   
   
   diction and other stylistic features. 1X5=5

I sit in the top of the wood, my eyes closed.

Inaction, no falsifying dream

Between my hooked head and hooked feet:

Or in sleep rehearse perfect kills and eat.

The convenience of the high trees!

 
The air's buoyancy and the sun's ray

Are of advantage to me;

 
And the earth's face upward for my inspection.

My feet are locked upon the rough bark.

It took the whole of Creation

 
To produce my foot, my each feather:

Now I hold Creation in my foot

Or fly up, and revolve it all slowly- 

I kill where I please because it is all mine.

There is no sophistry in my body:

My manners are tearing off heads - 

The allotment of death

For the one path of my flight is direct

Through the bones of the living.

No arguments assert my right:

The sun is behind me. 

Nothing has changed since I began.

My eye has permitted no change.

I am going to keep things like this. 

A Critical Appreciation of Hawk Roosting

Poem Analysis