November 2017 – NTA NET English Literature Paper II Question Analysis

 November Paper II

1. In Frances Burney’s novel, Evelina the eponymous heroine comes out in society in two locations. They are: Bristol and London.
2. Which line of Shakespeare is repeated several times in Virginia Woolf’s novel Mrs Dalloway? Fear no more the heat of the sun, nor the furious winter’s rages.
3. Elizabethan theatres: Globe, Swan.
4. In which poem does Matthew Arnold express the dilemma of: Wandering between two worlds, one dead, The other powerless to be born.”? Stanzas from the Grande Chartreuse
5. Who made the comment that, “All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn.“? Earnest Hamingway
6. The Emblem is a poetic genre containing a symbolic picture with a text and a verse exposition popular in the early 17th century. Who popularised this kind of poetry through the work Emblem 1635? Francis Quarles **
7. Which Byron work begins thus: “I want a hero: an uncommon want, when every year and month sends forth a new one … “?  Don Juan.
8. The title of Sir Thomas Browne’s famous treatise Religio Medici means: Religion of a Doctor
9. Which recent novel is a retelling of Sophocles’s Antigone? Kamila Shamsie: Home Fire **
10. Two important works of Paul de Man? Blindness and Insight, Allegories of Reading
11. Samuel Johnson denounced the metaphysical poets saying, “About the beginning of the 17th century appeared a race of writers that may be termed the metaphysical poets.” In the biography of which poet in His Lives of Poets did Johnson make this remark? Abraham Cowley
12. The terms of the contract are not disagreeable to me: Litotes.
13. “To see a World in a Grain of Sand / And a Heaven in the Wild Flower/ Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand/ And Eternity in an hour.” wrote: William Blake
14. In Women in Love what is Winifred’s Pekinese dog called? Looloo
15. Which New Critic put forward the idea of ‘Heresy of Paraphrase’? Cleanth Brooks
16. Edmund Spenser’s Colin Clouth’s Come Home Again is a fine example of: Pastoral Ecologue.
17. In ‘An Essay of Dramatic Poesy whom does John Dryden refer to as “the most learned and judicious writer which any theatre ever had.”? Ben Jonson
18. The Australian poet was raised in New South wales and grew up in rural Australian Landscapes. In 1946, she published her first book of poems. In 1962, she became cofounder and president of the Wild Life Preservation Society of Queensland and served as its president several times thereafter. She is Judith Wright. **
19. Aphra Behn’s Oroonoko is set in: Surinam
20. Who published the first collected edition of Gerard Manley Hopkins’s poem in 1918? Robert Bridges.
21. Samuel Richardson named his heroine Pamela after one of his characters in: Philip Sidney’s Arcadia.
22. Pinter once admitted that he first became aware of the dramatic power of the pause from seeing a popular American comedian: Jack Benny.
23. Ideal state in Thomas More’s Utopia: Personal property, money and vice are effectively abolished, The root of crime, ambition and political conflict, are eliminated, its priesthood which includes some women, is limited in number.
24. Charles Dickens’s Bleak House is pointedly critical of England’s Court of Chancery
25. “Five warriors seized me yestermorn/ Me, even me, a maid forlorn:/ They choked my cries when force and fright, / And tied me on a palfrey white.” Which character created by Coleridge makes the account of her harrowing experience: Geraldine
26. Which novel of Thomas Hardy begins with sombre description of Edgon Heath? the Return of the Native.
27. the metrical form of Gower’s Confessio Amantis is: octasyllabic couplets.
28. What happened to the lock of hair at the end of Alexandr Pope’s The rape of The Lock? It turns into star.
29. The bard. the Iron Lady. the King. Are the examples of: antonomasia
30. Which novel by Margaret Atwood depicts the historical event of the notorious murders committed in 1843? Alias Grace.
31. Which poem by W.B. Yeats repudiate the sensual world in favour of “the artifice of eternity”? Sailing to Byzantium.
32. Which character of Moby Dick falls overboard and turns insane as a result? Pip.
33. Which poem by Seamus Heaney is dedicated to the Irish poet Paul Muldoon? Widgeon.
34. In William Golding’s Lord of the Flies which character is put to death? Simon.
35. In Canturbury Tales who has a red face full of sores? the summoner.
36. match:
    1. Sexual Politics – Kate Millet
    2. A Literature of Their Own – Elaine Showalter
    3. Thinking About Women  – Mary Ellman
    4. The laugh of the medusa – Helene Cixous
37. Which historical event does Tennyson’s poem “The Charge of the Light Bridge” describe? The Crimean War
38. Northrop Frye’s influential work, Anatomy of criticism” includes, as the subtitle indicates, four essays, which of among them: Typological Criticism: Theory of types
39. The Pace of Speech is called: tempo.
40. In Robert Browning’s  “Andrea del sarto” with which painter does Andrea compares himself: Michelangelo, leonardo da Vinci, Raphael.
41. In Jonathan Swift’s Guliver travels Gulliver refers to William Dampier, the famous writer of the two voyages, as: Cousin.
42. characters in pride and prejudice: Mr. Darcy, Miss Bingley, Mr. Collins.
43. “All the world’s a stage And all the men and women merely players”. occurs in Shakespeare’s As You Like It. Which character says the line? Jacques
44. Which river is mentioned in Andrew Marvell’s poem “To His Coy Mistress”? Ganges and Humber.
45. “The truth, the whole truth, and nothing but truth”. The above is an example of: Ploce.
46. Which image is part of W.H. Auden’s poem “In memory of W.b. Yeats.”? Mercury sinking in the mouth of the dying day. Wolves running through evergreen forests. Silence invading the suburbs.
47. Who is the author of Steps to the Temple? Richard Crashaw.
48. match:
    1. Jim Dixon: Lucky Jim
    2. Jimmy  Porter: Look back in Anger
    3. Joe Lampton: Room at the Top
    4. charles Lumley: Hurry on Down
49. in the opening book of The Prelude Wordsworth mentions famously that he was “fostered alike by beauty and fear.”
50. The title of Ngugi wa Thiong’o’s Petals of Blood is derived from a poem by derek Walcott. Identify the poem: The Swamp