BA Third Year (Sem 5 & 6) English (Compulsory) – Daily Revision MCQ (English Medium)
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In a formal business letter that begins with 'Dear Sir' or 'Dear Madam', which complimentary close is correct?
Chapter 1: Business Correspondence
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Answer: A. Yours faithfully
When the reader is addressed as 'Dear Sir/Madam' (name not used), the standard close is 'Yours faithfully'.In a play, what does the term 'dramatis personae' mean?
Chapter 5: Elements of Drama
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Answer: C. The list of characters
'Dramatis personae' (Latin: persons of the drama) is the list of characters given at the start of a play.Who wrote 'Waiting for Godot', the best-known play of the Theatre of the Absurd?
Chapter 6: Modern Drama: Problem Play, Absurd Drama and One-Act Play
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Answer: B. Samuel Beckett
Samuel Beckett's 'Waiting for Godot', in which two tramps wait for someone who never comes, is the classic absurd play.Who is called the 'Father of the English Essay'?
Chapter 8: The Essay as a Literary Form
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Answer: D. Francis Bacon
Francis Bacon's 'Essays' (first edition 1597) made him the father of the English essay.The Victorian Age in English literature takes its name from Queen Victoria's reign. Which years did that reign cover?
Chapter 9: The Victorian Age in English Literature
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Answer: B. 1837–1901
Queen Victoria reigned from 1837 to 1901, the period of Tennyson, Browning, Dickens and George Eliot.Which modernist poet wrote 'The Waste Land' (1922)?
Chapter 11: The Modern Age and Modernism
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Answer: A. T. S. Eliot
T. S. Eliot's 'The Waste Land' (1922) is the landmark poem of Modernism, showing a broken post-war world.In which work does Aristotle use the term 'catharsis' (purging of pity and fear) for the effect of tragedy?
Chapter 13: Classical Criticism: Plato and Aristotle
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Answer: C. Poetics
Aristotle's 'Poetics' defines tragedy and says it brings about catharsis of pity and fear; 'The Republic' is Plato's.Who defined poetry as 'the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings'?
Chapter 14: Romantic and Victorian Criticism: Wordsworth, Coleridge and Arnold
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Answer: B. William Wordsworth
Wordsworth wrote this in his Preface to 'Lyrical Ballads', the manifesto of English Romantic poetry.Which Indian novelist wrote 'Untouchable' (1935), about a day in the life of a sweeper named Bakha?
Chapter 16: Indian Writing in English
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Answer: D. Mulk Raj Anand
Mulk Raj Anand's 'Untouchable' tells the story of Bakha and attacks the evil of untouchability.Which branch of linguistics studies how words are arranged to form sentences?
Chapter 17: Branches of Linguistics and Basic Syntax
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Answer: C. Syntax
Syntax studies sentence structure; morphology studies word formation, phonetics speech sounds and semantics meaning.
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