FEB-03313/III - English Paper III - Time Allowed : 2½ Hours

Sep 20, 2026

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English Paper III is a multiple-choice exam consisting of seventy-five questions. Each question carries two marks and requires attempting all questions within a time limit of 2½ hours, with a maximum of 150 marks. The questions assess literary understanding through passages, interpretation of expressions, identification of figures of speech and poetic sounds, and knowledge of authors, plays, genres, and chronological ordering of works. It covers topics ranging from Renaissance and Shakespearean context to modern literary texts.

LanguageEnglish

CategoryExam

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Pages19

Reading Time48 min

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Instructions

Passage-based questions

Poetry and figures of speech

Literary authors and works

| FEB 03313/III
English
Paper III
Time Allowed : 2½ Hours] [Maximum Marks : 150
Note : This Paper contains Seventy five (75) multiple choice questions. Each question carries Two (2) marks. Attempt All questions.
| | | | --- | --- | --- | | Read the following passage carefully | 2. | In ‘what word wisest’, we have an | | and choose the most appropriate | | example of : | | alternatives to answer the questions given below it : | | (A) transferred epithet | | | | (B) distortion of form | | Only what word, | | (C) inversion | | Wisest my heart breeds dark heaven’s bafling ban | | (D) repetition | | Bars or hell’s spell thwarts. This to hoard unheard, | 3. | The expression ‘a lonely began’is : | | Heard unheeded, leaves me a | | (A) only semantically odd | | lonely began. | | (B) only syntactically odd | | 1. The expression ‘what word wisest’ | | (C) syntactically normal | | and the words at the end of the lines | | (D) a poetic deviation | | ‘word’, ‘ban’, ‘unheard’ and ‘began’ | 4. | Which sounds are repeated in the | | are examples respectively of : | | poem ? | | (A) rhyme and alliteration | | (A) /w/, /b/, /l/, /d/ and /h/ | | (B) alliteration and rhyme | | (B) /w/, /n/, /r/ and /l/ | | (C) assonance and rhyme | | (C) /t/, /g/, /f/ and /st/ | | (D) rhyme and personification | | (D) /l/, /k/, /g/ and /z/ | | [P T O | | | FEB-03313/III 5. The overall feeling that one gets from the lines is that of : (A) anger (B) frustration (C) joy (D) quietude 6. Who was Sycorax ? (A) The mother of Caliban (B) A witch in Macbeth (C) The maid in The Winter’s Tale (D) The wife of Cassius 7. Troylus and Criseyde was half translated/half adapted from : (A) Il Filostrato (B) Decameron (C) Divina Commedia (D) La Vita Nuova 8. There is no fool in the following play of Shakespeare : (A) Macbeth (B) Othello (C) King Lear (D) Antony and Cleopatra 9. Who among the following does not form a part of the University Wits ? (A) John Lyly (B) Thomas Kyd (C) Christopher Marlowe (D) David Green 10. Identify the poet who wrote the lines ‘Sweet Thames, run softly till I end my song’ : (A) Edmund Spenser (B) Philip Sidney (C) Samuel Daniel (D) George Chapman FEB-03313/III 11. Ralph Roister Doister is considered to be the first regular English : (A) Comedy (B) Tragedy (C) Novel (D) Epic 12. Milton Samson is a/an : (A) Romantic hero (B) Tragic hero (C) Comic hero (D) Anti-hero 13. Francis Bacon’s style can be described as : (A) Aphoristic (B) Discursive (C) Picturesque (D) Bare 14. Satan is a grand figure in Milton’s Paradise Lost : (A) Book I (B) Books III and IV (C) Book IX (D) Books X, XI and XII 15. Comedy of Humours was best developed in : (A) The plays of Shakespeare (B) The plays of Sheridan (C) The plays of Ben Jonson (D) The plays of Molière 16. Avoiding extravagance and emotionalism was characteristic of the age of : (A) Chaucer (B) Shakespeare (C) Milton (D) Dryden 3 [P.T.O. FEB-03313/III 17. In the Essay on Criticism, Alexander Pope deals with ..................... (A) The merits and limitations of the 18th Century poetry (B) The merits and limitations of 18th Century criticism (C) The merits and limitations of 18th Century drama (D) The merits and limitations of 18th century prose 18. The play The Good Natured Man is (A) A comedy of humours (B) A comedy of manners (C) A sentimental comedy (D) An anti-sentimental comedy 19. John Bunyan’s The Pilgrim’s does not deal with (A) Man’s struggle with sin (B) Life as a journey (C) The reality of his time (D) Developments in England 20. Which chronological order of Wycherley’s plays is correct ? (A) Love in a Wood—The Gentleman Dancing Master—The Country Wife—The Plain Dealer (B) Love in a Wood—The Country Wife—The Plain Dealer—The Gentleman Dancing Master (C) Love in a Wood—The Plain Dealer—The Country

FAQs

How many multiple-choice questions are in English Paper III, and how are marks awarded?

There are seventy-five multiple choice questions, and each question carries two marks.

What is the time limit and maximum marks for the paper?

The time allowed is 2½ hours and the maximum marks are 150.

What topics are tested in the questions?

The paper tests literary understanding, including interpretation of expressions and passages, poetic devices and sound patterns, and recognition of authors, plays, genres, and chronological order of works.

Sep 20, 2026

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