AUG-03211/II - question - Poesy

Sep 20, 2026

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A timed literature exam section titled “Poesy” focusing on British and general poetry. It contains multiple-choice questions testing associations between phrases and authors, identification of characters and works, and recognition of poetic forms and literary terms. The paper covers writers such as Chaucer, Milton, Bacon, Pope, Jane Austen, Keats, Browning, Auden, Joyce, and others. Topics include elegy, satire, satire imitations, dialect, epiphany, and dystopian literature across prose and drama.

LanguageEnglish

CategoryExam

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Pages22

Reading Time55 min

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Question Paper

Multiple-choice items (1-41)

AUG-03211/II question Poesy | ENG | LISH | | --- | --- | | Pape | r II | | Time Allowed : 75 Minutes] | [Maximum Marks : 100 | | Note : This Paper contains Fifty (50) | multiple choice questions, each | | carrying Two (2) marks. Attemp | t All questions. | | 1. The phrase “Fair is foul” is associated | 4. Chaucer’s pilgrims were going to the | | with : | shrine of : | | (A) The Alchemist | (A) St. Thomas à Beckett | | (B) Macbeth | (B) St. Peter | | (C) The Malcontent | (C) St. Michael | | (D) The Broken Heart | (D) St. George | | 2. Helen appears in : | 5. “To His Coy Mistress” is by : | | (A) Dr Faustus | (A) Donne | | (B) The Spanish Tragedy | (B) Quarles
(C) Herbert | | (C) Women Beware Women | (D) Marvell | | (D) The Duchess of Malfi | 6. Dryden’sAn Essay of Dramatic | | 3. Ferdinand is a character in : | was first published in : | | (A) The Tempest | (A) 1582 | | (B) The White Devil | (B) 1668 | | (C) A Women Killed with Kindness | (C) 1821 | | (D) A New Way to Pay Old Debts | (D) 1764 | AUG-03211/II 7. Which of the following works by Milton is an elegy ? (A) Samson Agonistes (B) Lycidas (C) Paradise Regained (D) Il Penseroso 8. Which of the following works was written by Bacon ? (A) The Anatomy of Melancholy (B) The Advancement of Learning (C) Utopia (D) The Courtier 9. Ben Jonson is known for : (A) The comedy of manners (B) The comedy of humours (C) Sentimental comedy (D) Pastoral comedy 10. The Yahoos feature in : (A) The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (B) Gulliver’s Travels (C) A Journal of the Plague Year (D) The Vicar of Wakefield 11. Which one of the following poets wrote in an antique vocabulary going back three centuries ? (A) Blake (B) Cowper (C) Gray (D) Chatterton 12. Which of the following poets wrote in the Scottish Dialect ? (A) Sir Walter Scott (B) Robert Burns (C) William Blake (D) George Crabbe AUG-03211/II 13. “The Vanity of Human Wishes” is by : (A) Thackeray (B) Fielding (C) Johnson (D) Goldsmith 14. Pope’s Satires and Epistles are imitations of : (A) Horace (B) Virgil (C) Homer (D) Juvenal 15. Which of the following works is NOT by Jane Austen ? (A) Sense and Sensibility (B) Northanger Abbey (C) Rebecca (D) Emma 16. The Biblical character that figures in Keats’s “Ode to a Nightingale”is : (A) Ahab (B) Susanna (C) Ruth (D) Mary Magdalene 17. Which of the following is an autobiographical poem ? (A) ‘The Rime of the Ancient Mariner’ (B) ‘The Eve of St. Agnes’ (C) The Prelude (D) Don Juan 18. “Ode To The West Wind” was written by : (A) Shelley (B) Keats (C) Byron (D) Southey 3 [P.T.O. AUG-03211/II 19. Coleridge’s Biographia Literaria is a reply to : (A) Shelley’s Defence of Poetry (B) Lamb’s Tales From Shakespeare (C) Wordsworth’s ‘Preface’ to The Lyrical Ballads (D) Johnson’s Preface to Shakespeare 20. The title Far From The Madding Crowd is taken from : (A) Pope’s Rape of the Lock (B) Gray’s ‘Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard’ (C) Dryden’s Religio Laici (D) Cowper’s The Task 21. Which of the following works is NOT by Gerard Manley Hopkins ? (A) The Dynasts (B) “God’s Grandeur” (C) “Pied Beauty” (D) “Felix Randal” 22. “Poetry is a criticism of life”, says : (A) Philip Sidney (B) Matthew Arnold (C) Willian Wordsworth (D) S.T. Coleridge 23. Michael Henchard is a character in : (A) Richardson’s Clarissa (B) Fanny Burney’s Evelina (C) Hardy’s The Mayor of Casterbridge (D) George Eliot’s Middlemarch 24. “Porphyria’s Lover” by Robert Browning is : (A) an ode (B) a ballad (C) a dramatic monologue (D) an elegy AUG-03211/II 25. Auden’s “Musée des Beaux Arts” contains a reference to the legend of : (A) Hercules (B) Icarus (C) Atlas (D) Oedipus 26. “The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity”occurs in a poem by : (A) Ezra Pound (B) W.B. Yeats (C) W.H. Auden (D

FAQs

What does the “Poesy” section test in this question paper?

It tests knowledge of poetry and literature through multiple-choice questions, including authorship, titles, genres, characters, and literary terminology.

How is the question paper structured?

It is arranged as timed multiple-choice questions, where each question lists options labeled (A) to (D).

What kinds of topics appear in the questions?

The questions cover poetic forms (e.g., elegy, ode, ballad), literary concepts such as epiphany, and identification of works and writers across poetry and related prose/drama.

Sep 20, 2026

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