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Q51BPSC TRE 3.0 (2024) English Class 11-12
The opposite of Hyperbole is__
  1. ALitotes
  2. BOxymoron
  3. CMetaphor
  4. DMore than one of the above
  5. ENone of the above
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Correct answer: (A) Litotes

Explanation

Hyperbole is deliberate exaggeration; its opposite is litotes, an understatement that affirms something by denying its opposite (for example 'not bad' for 'good').

Q52BPSC TRE 3.0 (2024) English Class 11-12
Who defined 'Romanticism' as the "Renaissance of Wonder"?
  1. AWatts-Dunton
  2. BWalter Pater
  3. CWordsworth
  4. DMore than one of the above
  5. ENone of the above
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Correct answer: (A) Watts-Dunton

Explanation

Theodore Watts-Dunton described the Romantic movement as the 'Renaissance of Wonder', a revival of the sense of wonder in poetry and art.

Q53BPSC TRE 3.0 (2024) English Class 11-12
Who coined the term 'Curtal Sonnet'?
  1. AJohn Keats
  2. BG.M. Hopkins
  3. CEdmund Spenser
  4. DMore than one of the above
  5. ENone of the above
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Correct answer: (B) G.M. Hopkins

Explanation

Gerard Manley Hopkins coined the term 'curtal sonnet' for his shortened sonnet of ten and a half lines (in the proportion of 6 + 4.5), as in 'Pied Beauty'.

Q54BPSC TRE 3.0 (2024) English Class 11-12
Who among the following is/are cavalier poet/s?
  1. ARobert Herrick
  2. BRichard Lovelace
  3. CJohn Suckling
  4. DMore than one of the above
  5. ENone of the above
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Correct answer: (D) More than one of the above

Explanation

Robert Herrick, Richard Lovelace and Sir John Suckling are all Cavalier poets, the royalist poets of Charles I's time. As more than one option is correct, the answer is (D).

Q55BPSC TRE 3.0 (2024) English Class 11-12
Who wrote the poem 'The Fall of Robespierre'?
  1. AJohn Gibson
  2. BWordsworth
  3. CJohn Keats
  4. DMore than one of the above
  5. ENone of the above
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Correct answer: (E) None of the above

Explanation

'The Fall of Robespierre' (1794) is a verse drama written jointly by S.T. Coleridge and Robert Southey, so none of the listed names is correct.

Q56BPSC TRE 3.0 (2024) English Class 11-12
How many parts are there in the poem 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner'?
  1. A7
  2. B9
  3. C8
  4. DMore than one of the above
  5. ENone of the above
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Correct answer: (A) 7

Explanation

'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner' is divided into seven parts.

Q57BPSC TRE 3.0 (2024) English Class 11-12
Who has composed the following lines? "God himself is the best poet, And the real is his song"
  1. ARobert Browning
  2. BElizabeth Barrett Browning
  3. CAlfred Tennyson
  4. DMore than one of the above
  5. ENone of the above
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Correct answer: (B) Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Explanation

The lines 'God himself is the best Poet, / And the Real is His song' come from Elizabeth Barrett Browning's poem 'The Dead Pan'.

Q58BPSC TRE 3.0 (2024) English Class 11-12
The line "monuments of unageing intellect" occurs in W.B. Yeats's poem __
  1. AThe Second Coming
  2. BLeda and the Swan
  3. CEaster, 1916
  4. DMore than one of the above
  5. ENone of the above
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Correct answer: (E) None of the above

Explanation

'Monuments of unageing intellect' occurs in the first stanza of Yeats's 'Sailing to Byzantium', which is not among the options, so the answer is (E).

Q59BPSC TRE 3.0 (2024) English Class 11-12
Which of the following authors wrote 'Studies in the History of the Renaissance'?
  1. AOscar Wilde
  2. BThomas Carlyle
  3. CJohn Ruskin
  4. DMore than one of the above
  5. ENone of the above
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Correct answer: (E) None of the above

Explanation

'Studies in the History of the Renaissance' (1873) was written by Walter Pater, who is not among Wilde, Carlyle or Ruskin.

Q60BPSC TRE 3.0 (2024) English Class 11-12
Who is the writer of "The Postcolonial Shakespeare"?
  1. AHarold Bloom
  2. BStephen Greenblatt
  3. CAnia Loomba
  4. DMore than one of the above
  5. ENone of the above
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Correct answer: (C) Ania Loomba

Explanation

'Post-colonial Shakespeares' (1998) was edited by Ania Loomba (with Martin Orkin), and Loomba is the critic best known for postcolonial readings of Shakespeare.

Q61BPSC TRE 3.0 (2024) English Class 11-12
Which of these author - text pairs is correctly matched?
  1. ASamuel Johnson - Dunciad
  2. BWilliam Cowper - Mac Flecknoe
  3. CThomas Paine - The Rivals
  4. DMore than one of the above
  5. ENone of the above
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Correct answer: (E) None of the above

Explanation

'The Dunciad' is by Alexander Pope, 'Mac Flecknoe' by John Dryden and 'The Rivals' by R.B. Sheridan, so none of the three pairs is correct.

Q62BPSC TRE 3.0 (2024) English Class 11-12
In 'Memorial Verses' Matthew Arnold pays tribute to three great poets__
  1. AGoethe, Shakespeare, Wordsworth
  2. BGoethe, Milton, Byron
  3. CGoethe, Wordsworth, Byron
  4. DMore than one of the above
  5. ENone of the above
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Correct answer: (C) Goethe, Wordsworth, Byron

Explanation

Arnold's 'Memorial Verses' (1850), written on Wordsworth's death, pays tribute to Goethe, Byron and Wordsworth.

Q63BPSC TRE 3.0 (2024) English Class 11-12
Who wrote the novel "The Mill on the Floss"?
  1. AAnthony Trollope
  2. BEmily Bronte
  3. CCharlotte Bronte
  4. DMore than one of the above
  5. ENone of the above
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Correct answer: (E) None of the above

Explanation

'The Mill on the Floss' (1860) was written by George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans), who is not among the options.

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