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Laurence Clarkson  \n2. Gerrard Winstanley  \n3. George Fox  \n4. John Lilburne  \nQ2. Who viewed Wordsworth, Southey and Coleridge as representatives of a “sect of poets   Dissenters from the established systems in poetry and criticism” who constituted “the most formidable conspiracy against sound judgement in matters  \npolitical”?  \n1. Henry Vaughhan  \n2. Francisco Franco  \n3. Ralph Vaughan  \n4. Francis Jeffrey  \nQ3. This poet was of the Auden generation and was only briefly a member of the Communist party. In his poem, ”The Pylons”, he averred that the Pylons are “Bare like nude giant girls that have no secrets”. This prompted the label, Pylon poets, for the new generation of poets who were happy to use the gas works or pistons of a steamengine as poetic imagery. (Name this poet.)  \n1. Cecil Day Lewis  \n2. Christopher Isherwood  \n3. Stephen Spender  \n4. Louis MacNeice  \nQ.4. Which of the following is the most accurate description of Butler English ?  \n[www.aifer.in](www.aifer.in) 290  \nTo get free NTA NET study materials send \"JOIN\" Via WhatsApp 8714818851  \n1. A dialect of English spoken by the descendants of Anglo-Indians.  \n2. A pidgin, also called “Kitchen English” spoken by South Asians in Europe.  \n3. A minimal pidgin that emerged during colonial times in the Madras Presidency  \n4. Any non-grammatical variety of English used by menials in Commonwealth countries.  \nQ5 . S.T. Coleridge “Dejection: An Ode” opens with an epigraph which is a refrence toa ballad. Identify the ballad.  \n1. “Ballad of the Goodly Fere”  \n2.“La Belle Dame Sans Merci”  \n3.“Ballad of Sir Patrick Spence”  \n4. “Ballad of the Gibbet”  \nQ6 .What is the delicate balancing act of Andrew Marvell’s “Horation Ode”?  \n1. Praising Roman virtues while endorsing Christian beliefs.  \n2. Celebrating the Restoration while regretting the frivolity of the new regime.  \n3. Praising feminine virtues while mocking the _xation on chastity.  \n4. Celebrating Cromwell’s victories while inviting sympathy for the executed King.  \nQ7 .Who among the ancients prescribed that poetry should both instruct and delight?  \n1. Longinus  \n2. Plotinus  \n3. Aristotle  \n4. Horace  \nQ8.Braj Kachru has observed a tendency among Indian-English speakers and writers to use hybridized lexical items. One example of this is  \n1. Jugarh  \n2. Ping-pong  \n[www.aifer.in](www.aifer.in) 291  \nTo get free NTA NET study materials send \"JOIN\" Via WhatsApp 8714818851  \n3. Chaywallah  \n4. Lathi-charge  \nQ9. Identify the Fireside poets of the US.  \n1. William Cullen Bryant, H.W. Longfellow, Oliver Wendell Holmes  \n2. T. S. Eliot, Wallace Stevens, William Carlos Williams  \n3. Marianne Moore, Elizabeth Bishop, Anne Seaton  \n4. Amy Lowell, Emily Dickinson, Phillis Wheatley  \nQ10. Evelina was published in 1778  \n1. posthumously  \n2. using the name Fanny Burney  \n3. anonymously  \n4. under apseudonym  \nQ11. Allen Tate once made a useful distinction between structure and texture. The distinction referred to  \n1. The main line of a narrative, argument, etc., and the rhetorical, stylistic, metaphorical and other devices respectively.  \n2. The devices employed to enlighten objects and materials in a narrative, and the objects and material themselves, respectively.  \n3. Objects and materials on which a narrative casts light, and the devices employed to enlighten them respectively.  \n4. The rhetorical, stylistic, metaphorical and other devices, and the main line of a narrative, argument, etc., respectively  \nQ12. Match the poem with the opening lines:  \n(a) “Ode to Psyche”  \n[www.aifer.in](www.aifer.in) 292  \nTo get free NTA NET study materials send \"JOIN\" Via WhatsApp 8714818851  \n(b)“Ode on a Grecian Urn”  \n(c)“Ode to a Nightingale”  \n(d)“Ode on Melancholy”  \n(1)“My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pain","cbCaifXdsGntdLao","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaifXdsGntdLao","pdf",192394,38,"English","# December 2018\n## Q1-Q16 (Multiple-choice questions)","[{\"question\":\"What does Q1 ask about the term “Digger” and its leaders?\",\"answer\":\"It asks which person led the agrarian communists associated with the “Digger” term in England in 1649–50.\"},{\"question\":\"Which question requires identifying a poet based on the poem “The Pylons”?\",\"answer\":\"Q3 asks to name the poet who wrote “The Pylons” and is associated with the “Pylon poets” label.\"},{\"question\":\"Which question matches Emily Dickinson’s poem “after great pain” with an option?\",\"answer\":\"Q14 asks what comes “after great pain” in Emily Dickinson’s famous poem, offering four choices.\"}]","English Literature PYQ  2018 - Q&A | PDF",96]