HSST 2003

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  1. Who was the important King of England instrumental to the revival of letters during the Anglo-Saxon period?
King Alfred.
  1. What was the name of the folk tale brought by the Angles?
Beowulf
  1. Who was called “The Poet's Poet”?
Edmund Spenser
  1. The lectures of Plato have been preserved in the form of _____________.
Dialogues
  1. The century in which Aristotle write his “Poetics” is ________B.C.
4th Century
  1. Who wrote the treatise of literary criticism, “On the Sublime”?
Longinus
  1. The author of “Golden Bough” is ___________.
Sir James George Frazer {The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion is a wide-ranging, comparative study of mythology and religion; by the Scottish anthropologist Sir James George Frazer (1854–1941)}
  1. Which play of Shakespeare observes the unity of time strictly?
Winter's Tale.
  1. Lycidas was occasioned by the death of ________________.
Edward King
  1. “The tragic pleasure”, says Aristotle is that of __________ and ____________.
Pity and fear.
  1. Whom did Spenser dedicate his “Shepherd's Calender”?
Sir Philip Sydney
  1. How many of the pilgrims in “Canterbury Tales” narrate the story on their pilgrimage to the shrine of Thomas Becket?

  1. “The Idea of a University” was written by __________________.
John Henry Newman
  1. William Blake's “The Tiger” is included in the set of poems under the title______________.
Songs of Experience.
  1. Gabriel Oak and Bathsheba are characters in the novel _______________.
Far From the Madding Crowd
  1. When was the dictionary of Dr. Johnson published?
15th April 1755
  1. How does Mr. Peggotty refer to Mrs. Gummidge in “David Copperfield”?
Old Mawther
  1. The seven-lined decasyllabic stanza, rhymed ababbcc is known as ______________.
Rhyme Royal
  1. A word having the same sound as another, but a different meaning is called a _____________.
Homophone
  1. When Prajapathy asked his disciples to interpret the meaning of thunder, men and Asuras interpreted it as “Datta” and “Dayadham” respectively. How did the devas interpret it?
Damyata(Control yourselves)
  1. The English poet who introduced Sonnets to England is _______________.
Sir Thomas Wyatt
  1. Quote the famous epigram of Bacon regarding the reading of books of different standards.
Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested: that is, some books are to be read only in parts, others to be read, but not curiously, and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.
  1. ________ is best known for inaugurating “deconstruction”.
Jacques Derrida.
  1. The first novel William Golding is ______________.
Lord of Flies
  1. “The White man's Burden” is a term contributed by __________________.
Rudyard Kipling
  1. Saussure's well known book which records his seminal theory of language is _________.
Course in General Linguistics- published posthumously in 1916
  1. The narrative description of a subject under guise of another suggesting similar subject is know as ________________.
Allegory
  1. O.N.V Kurup has written a poem entitled “Bhumikku Oru Cherama Geetham”. How best can the title be translated into English?
An Dirge to the Earth.
  1. Which work of Bharatamuni gives us for the first time a kind of outline for poetics?
Natya Sastra
  1. How many pieces of lyrics are there in the English version of Gitanjali?
103
  1. Who, according to T.S. Eliot, is “the most universal poet in a modern language”?
Dante
  1. Milton's purpose in writing “Paradise Lost” was _____________.
To tell about the fall of man and justify God's ways to man.
  1. Who marries Cordelia in Shakespeare's “King Lear”?
King of France
  1. Give an example of words with “ough” endings each of which carries a different pronunciation.
Plough, cough
  1. An example of reduplication is ____________.
Zig-zag, pitter-patter, bye-bye(Reduplication in Linguistics is a morphological process in which the root or stem of a word (or part of it) is repeated exactly or with a slight change.)
  1. The meaningful unit of the structure of a words is called___________.
morpheme
  1. The high priest of the symbolic movement in France was ______________.
Stéphane Mallarmé (1842-1898)
  1. Who is the author of the critical work “What Happens in Hamlet”?
John Dover Wilson
  1. What is the special significance of the introduction of St. Peter in Lycidas?

    St. Peter serves as a judge, condemning the multitude of unworthy members found among the clergy of the Church of England.
  2. Mention the subtitle of Wordsworth's “The Prelude”?
The Growth of the Poet's Mind.
  1. The second part of a Sonnet is called ___________.
Sestet
  1. Negative capability means ______________.
The negation of the rationalizing power of the mind
  1. “On the Origin of Species by Natural Selection” was published in the year ____________.
1859
  1. The correct form of the sentence, “walking across the field, a plane flew past”, is ______.
While I was walking across the field, a plane flew past.
  1. All vowels are _________ sounds.
Voiced.
  1. Charles Lamb depicts his two dream children Alice and John in his essay, “Dream Children, A Reverie”. Who is their dream mother?
Alice W----n
  1. He said, “Let's stop now and finish it later”, would be reported as _____________.
He suggested that they might stop it then and finish later.
  1. The American poet Sylvia Plath married the British poet ____________.
Ted Hughes.
  1. The rhythm of fairly constant number of stressed syllable and a fluctuating number of unstressed ones in each line is known as _________.
Sprung rhythm
  1. Who wrote “Seven Types of Ambiguity”?
William Empson
  1. The expanded form of GIE is ______________.
General India English
  1. The meaning of the word “housewife” is _______________.
Home maker.
  1. The interlude “Pyramas and Thisbe” in “A Midsummer Night's Dream” is a ___________.
Burlesque.
  1. The linguist who perfected the T.G. Grammar is _______________.
Noam Chomsky.
  1. The figure of speech in “bad eminence” is ______________.
Oxymoron
  1. “Tom Jones” belong to a kind of novels called the 'picaresque', the word meaning ______.
Rogue
  1. Which novel of Raja Rao depicts the impact of Gandhiji's name and ideas on an obscure village in India?
Kanthapura
  1. The essay “The Death of Author” is written by ___________.
Ruland Barthes
  1. “If I am damned, let it be by Hazlitt”. Who said these words?
John Keats
  1. Philip Larkin, Tom Gunn and Ted Hughes are know as ________ poets.
Movement Poets

Part II (Short Essays)
length to be limited to two pages.
  1. Briefly describe the three important periods in the history of English.
  1. Sketch the character of Prince Hamlet.
  1. Sarojini Naidu's poems are a perfect blending of phrase, feeling and music. Discuss.
  1. Lamb's “Dream Children: A Reverie” is a harmonious blend of fact and fiction. Elucidate.
  2. Write an essay on structuralism as a method of analysing literature and the literary text.
  3. Give a short account of Milton's “Grand Style” in writing.
  4. Give a short sketch of the literary career of Dr. Johnson. (7x5=35 marks)

Part III
  1. Write a critical appreciation of the following poem bringing out its stylistic features.
I shot an arrow into the air, 
It fell to earth, I knew not where; 
For, so swiftly it flew, the sight
Could not follow it in its flight.
I breathed a song into the air,
It fell to earth, I knew not where;
For who has sight so keen and strong
That it can follow the flight of song?
Long, long afterwards, in an oak
I found the arrow, still unbroken;
And the song, from beginning to end,
I found again in the heart of a friend.

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