1. Carlyle’s work On Heroes, Hero Worship and the Heroic in Hi | NTA UGC NET - English

1. Carlyle’s work On Heroes, Hero Worship and the Heroic in History is a course of?
A. six lectures
B. five lectures
C. four lectures
D. seven lectures
2. Who is praised as a hero by Carlyle in his lecture on the ‘Hero as King’?
A. Johnson
B. Cromwell
C. Shakespeare
D. Luther
3. Identify the work by Ruskin which began as a defence of contemporary landscape artist especially Turner?
A. The Stones of Venice
B. The Two Paths
C. The Seven Lamps of Architecture
D. Modem Painters
4. The term ‘the Palliser Novels’ is used to describe the political novels of?
A. Charles Dickens
B. Anthony Trollope
C. W. H. White
D. B. Disraeli
5. Identify the poet, whom Queen Victoria, regarded as the perfect poet of
‘love and loss’—
A. Tennyson
B. Browning
C. Swinburne
D. D. G. Rossetti
6. A verse form using stanza of eight lines, each with eleven syllables, is known as?
A. Spenserian Stanza
B. Ballad
C. Ottava Rima
D. Rhyme Royal
7. Identify the writer who first used blank verse in English poetry?
A. Sir Thomas Wyatt
B. William Shakespeare
C. Earl of Surrey
D. Milton
8. The Aesthetic Movement which blossomed during the 1880s was not influenced by?
A. The Pre-Raphaelites
B. Ruskin
C. Pater
D. Matthew Arnold
9. Identify the rhetorical figure used in the following line of Tennyson
“Faith un-faithful kept him falsely true.”
A. Oxymoron
B. Metaphor
C. Simile
D. Synecdoche
10. W. B. Yeats used the phrase ‘the artifice of eternity’ in his poem?
A. Sailing to Byzantium
B. Byzantium
C. The Second Coming
D. Leda and the Swan