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Tribhuvan
University Service Commission (Faculty:
Humanities and Social Sciences) |
1.
Which figure of speech compares two
unlike things using "like" or "as"?
A) Metaphor
B) Simile
C) Personification
D) Allegory
Answer: B
2.
The term "hubris" in Greek
tragedy means...
A) Excessive pride
B) Moral weakness
C) Inevitable fate
D) Divine punishment
Answer: A
3.
Who is the author of "Pride and
Prejudice"?
A) Emily Brontë
B) Jane Austen
C) Mary Shelley
D) Virginia Woolf
Answer: B
4.
What does "denotation"
mean in literary terms?
A) Suggested meaning
B) Literal meaning
C) Emotional meaning
D) Symbolic meaning
Answer: B
5.
Which literary device is the
deliberate exaggeration for effect?
A) Irony
B) Hyperbole
C) Alliteration
D) Paradox
Answer: B
6.
What is the central theme of
Orwell’s "Animal Farm"?
A) Class conflict and revolution
B) Romantic love
C) Magic and fantasy
D) Coming of age
Answer: A
7.
Which theory emphasizes the role of
the reader in creating the meaning of a text?
A) Psychoanalysis
B) Structuralism
C) Reader-response theory
D) Marxism
Answer: C
8.
What is the meaning of 'kenning' in
Old English poetry?
A) A metaphorical name
B) An alliterative phrase
C) A type of rhyme
D) A narrative structure
Answer: A
9.
Which poet is famous for the line
"Because I could not stop for Death"?
A) Emily Dickinson
B) Sylvia Plath
C) Elizabeth Barrett Browning
D) Tennyson
Answer: A
10.
What is the main concern of New
Historicism?
A) Biological influences on literature
B) Historical context and power relations
C) Psychological analysis
D) Formal features of texts
Answer: B
11.
In linguistics, what is
"syntax"?
A) The study of word meanings
B) The arrangement of words in sentences
C) The study of sounds
D) Word formation
Answer: B
12.
Which of the following is an example
of an epic poem?
A) The Canterbury Tales
B) The Iliad
C) Sonnet 18
D) Paradise Lost
Answer: B
13.
The character Hamlet is an example
of a...
A) Tragic hero
B) Anti-hero
C) Comic hero
D) Epic hero
Answer: A
14.
Who wrote "The Interpretation
of Dreams" which influenced literary theory?
A) Carl Jung
B) Sigmund Freud
C) Jacques Lacan
D) Ferdinand de Saussure
Answer: B
15.
What is the term for the time and
place of a story?
A) Plot
B) Setting
C) Theme
D) Mood
Answer: B
16.
Which one is a feature of Modernist
literature?
A) Linear narrative
B) Stream of consciousness
C) Didactic tone
D) Romantic idealism
Answer: B
17.
"A poison tree" is a poem
written by...
A) William Blake
B) John Keats
C) Percy Shelley
D) William Wordsworth
Answer: A
18.
What does
"intertextuality" refer to?
A) Use of multiple languages in a text
B) Relationship between texts
C) Author’s biography
D) Historical background
Answer: B
19.
Who is known for the theory of
"Deconstruction"?
A) Roland Barthes
B) Michel Foucault
C) Jacques Derrida
D) J. Hillis Miller
Answer: C
20.
The term "bildungsroman"
is associated with...
A) A comedy of manners
B) A coming-of-age novel
C) A historical novel
D) A detective story
Answer: B
21.
The "Beast Fable" genre
uses what to convey messages?
A) Historical events
B) Anthropomorphized animals
C) Mythical creatures
D) Political leaders
Answer: B
22.
Who wrote "A Room of One's
Own"?
A) Virginia Woolf
B) Dorothy Parker
C) Mary Wollstonecraft
D) Simone de Beauvoir
Answer: A
23.
The phrase "All the world's a
stage" is from which Shakespeare play?
A) Macbeth
B) King Lear
C) As You Like It
D) Hamlet
Answer: C
24.
What does the term "pathetic
fallacy" mean?
A) Nature reflecting human emotions
B) Illogical plot twists
C) Misuse of words
D) False reasoning
Answer: A
25.
Which literary device is the use of
a word that sounds like its meaning?
A) Metaphor
B) Alliteration
C) Onomatopoeia
D) Irony
Answer: C
26.
The novel "One Hundred Years of
Solitude" is written by...
A) Jorge Luis Borges
B) Mario Vargas Llosa
C) Gabriel Garcia Marquez
D) Isabel Allende
Answer: C
27.
The study of meaning in language is
called...
A) Syntax
B) Phonology
C) Semantics
D) Pragmatics
Answer: C
28.
What is the focus of Postcolonial
theory?
A) Language structure
B) Gender relations
C) Effects of colonization on culture
D) Psychoanalysis
Answer: C
29.
The term "stream of
consciousness" was popularized by...
A) Virginia Woolf and James Joyce
B) William Faulkner and Ernest Hemingway
C) T.S. Eliot and Ezra Pound
D) John Steinbeck and F. Scott Fitzgerald
Answer: A
30.
What does "foil" mean in
literature?
A) A minor character
B) A character who contrasts another
C) The main antagonist
D) A tragic hero
Answer: B
31.
"Animal Farm" is an
allegory for which historical event?
A) French Revolution
B) Russian Revolution
C) American Civil War
D) World War I
Answer: B
32.
The poem "The Raven" was
written by...
A) Edgar Allan Poe
B) Walt Whitman
C) Robert Frost
D) Emily Dickinson
Answer: A
33.
Which of the following terms refers
to the author's attitude toward the subject?
A) Tone
B) Theme
C) Mood
D) Style
Answer: A
34.
The theory that meaning is generated
through difference in language was developed by...
A) Ferdinand de Saussure
B) Noam Chomsky
C) Roman Jakobson
D) Claude Lévi-Strauss
Answer: A
35.
The literary genre that combines
reality and fantasy in Latin American literature is...
A) Surrealism
B) Magical Realism
C) Modernism
D) Romanticism
Answer: B
36.
"The death of a salesman"
is a play written by...
A) Tennessee Williams
B) Arthur Miller
C) Eugene O’Neill
D) Samuel Beckett
Answer: B
37.
What is the term for the underlying
message or main idea in a literary work?
A) Theme
B) Motif
C) Plot
D) Symbol
Answer: A
38.
The rhetorical device where a word
or phrase is repeated at the beginning of clauses is called...
A) Anaphora
B) Epiphora
C) Metonymy
D) Synecdoche
Answer: A
39.
The famous novel "Things Fall
Apart" was written by...
A) Chinua Achebe
B) Ngugi wa Thiong'o
C) Wole Soyinka
D) Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Answer: A
40.
Which of the following is an example
of a dramatic monologue?
A) Robert Browning's "My Last Duchess"
B) Tennyson's "Ulysses"
C) Wordsworth's "Daffodils"
D) Keats's "Ode to a Nightingale"
Answer: A
41.
What is the main concept of
Bakhtin's "Carnivalesque"?
A) Social hierarchy
B) Inversion of social norms
C) Romantic ideals
D) Psychoanalytic critique
Answer: B
42.
Which psychological theory is often
linked to literature's symbolic interpretation of dreams?
A) Behaviorism
B) Psychoanalysis
C) Structuralism
D) Poststructuralism
Answer: B
43.
Which is NOT a feature of Gothic
literature?
A) Dark, mysterious settings
B) Happy endings
C) Supernatural elements
D) Complex villains
Answer: B
44.
"Kafkaesque" refers to
literature that is...
A) Realistic and optimistic
B) Surreal, nightmarish, and oppressive
C) Romantic and idealistic
D) Science fiction
Answer: B
45.
Who developed the theory of
"the gaze" in feminist and cultural studies?
A) Laura Mulvey
B) Judith Butler
C) Simone de Beauvoir
D) bell hooks
Answer: A
46.
"The Waste Land" reflects
which literary movement?
A) Romanticism
B) Modernism
C) Realism
D) Renaissance
Answer: B
47.
The term "cultural
materialism" in literary studies focuses on...
A) Textual analysis
B) Economic and cultural contexts
C) Psychological approaches
D) Formal features of literature
Answer: B
48.
Who wrote "The Second
Sex"?
A) Simone de Beauvoir
B) Judith Butler
C) Kate Millett
D) bell hooks
Answer: A
49.
What does "pathetic
fallacy" refer to?
A) Attributing human emotions to nature
B) Logical errors in arguments
C) Coincidental plot devices
D) Paradoxical statements
Answer: A
- The author of "Frankenstein" is...
A) Mary Shelley
B) Emily Brontë
C) Jane Austen
D) Charlotte Brontë
Answer: A
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