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2931English LiteratureMedium

In Gwendolyn Brooks’ poem, “we real cool,” the Golden Shovel is________?

AThe name of a pool hall.

BA metaphor for colossal lies they have been buried with.

CThe name of a restaurant the pool players cannot enter.

DA metaphor for the pool players who are trying to dig out of their neighborhood.

Correct answer

A. The name of a pool hall.

Explanation

The correct answer is The name of a pool hall..

2932English LiteratureMedium

The type of study which focus on the analysis of the systematic interrelation of the elements of a single language at a particular time is called________?

AOnomatopoeic

BDiachronic

CSynchronic

DSemiotic

Correct answer

C. Synchronic

Explanation

The correct answer is Synchronic.

2933English LiteratureMedium

In his essay, “The Significance of Fictionalizing”, Wolfgang Iser argues which of the following points?

AEvery text includes traces from the outside world, including social, historical, and literary remnants.

BFictionalizing reality is a basic human need.

CHistorically, writers have been considered liars or at the very least irrelevant.

DAll of these.

Correct answer

D. All of these.

Explanation

The correct answer is All of these..

2934English LiteratureMedium

‘Adela’ is a character from________?

AParadise Lost

BDoctor Faustus

CA Passage to India

DHamlet

Correct answer

C. A Passage to India

Explanation

The correct answer is A Passage to India.

2935English LiteratureMedium

Which of the following is an unfinished novel by Jane Austen?

APersuasion

BSandition

CMansfield Park

DSense and Sensibility

Correct answer

B. Sandition

Explanation

The correct answer is Sandition.

2936English LiteratureMedium

Which poet asserted in practice and theory the value of representing rustic life and language as well as social outcasts and delinquents not only in pastoral poetry, common before this poet’s time, but also as the major subject and medium for poetry in general?

AWilliam Blake

BWilliam Wordsworth

CSamuel Johnson

DAlfred Lord Tennyson

Correct answer

B. William Wordsworth

Explanation

The correct answer is William Wordsworth.

2937English LiteratureMedium

________is the process by which new words are coined by combining the segments of two different words?

APortmanteau

BMetanalysis

CClipping

DOnomatopoeia

Correct answer

A. Portmanteau

Explanation

The correct answer is Portmanteau.

2938English LiteratureMedium

Who in Hamlet suggests that one should neither be a lender nor a borrower?

AHoratio

BGertrude

CPolonius

DHamlet

Correct answer

C. Polonius

Explanation

The correct answer is Polonius.

2939English LiteratureMedium

Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice is a________?

AGothic novel

BPicaresque novel

CHistorical novel

DDomestic novel

Correct answer

D. Domestic novel

Explanation

The correct answer is Domestic novel.

2940English LiteratureMedium

Who is the author of ‘India Wins Freedom’?

AJinnah

BAbul Kalam Azad

CGhandhi

DNehru

Correct answer

B. Abul Kalam Azad

Explanation

The correct answer is Abul Kalam Azad.

In Gwendolyn Brooks’ poem, “we real cool,” the Golden Shovel is________?

AThe name of a pool hall.

BA metaphor for colossal lies they have been buried with.

CThe name of a restaurant the pool players cannot enter.

DA metaphor for the pool players who are trying to dig out of their neighborhood.

Correct answer

A. The name of a pool hall.

Explanation

The correct answer is The name of a pool hall..

In his essay, “The Significance of Fictionalizing”, Wolfgang Iser argues which of the following points?

AEvery text includes traces from the outside world, including social, historical, and literary remnants.

BFictionalizing reality is a basic human need.

CHistorically, writers have been considered liars or at the very least irrelevant.

DAll of these.

Correct answer

D. All of these.

Explanation

The correct answer is All of these..