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These multiple-choice questions (MCQs) are designed to enhance your knowledge and understanding in the following areas: Bachelor of Arts in English (BA English) .
| 251. |
A continuous narrative of a person’s life’s major or interesting events written by himself for publication is |
| A. | biography |
| B. | memoir |
| C. | autobiography |
| D. | diary |
| Answer» C. autobiography | |
| 252. |
Autobiographies are by nature….. |
| A. | subjective |
| B. | objective |
| C. | scientific |
| D. | philosophical |
| Answer» A. subjective | |
| 253. |
A prose composition with a focused subject of discussion is |
| A. | essay |
| B. | poem |
| C. | fiction |
| D. | travelogue |
| Answer» A. essay | |
| 254. |
The word ‘essay’ is derived from |
| A. | essayer |
| B. | essayist |
| C. | essays |
| D. | none of these |
| Answer» A. essayer | |
| 255. |
The writer who first defined his works as essays was |
| A. | Bacon |
| B. | Montaigne |
| C. | Stevenson |
| D. | none of these |
| Answer» B. Montaigne | |
| 256. |
The first work in English that described itself as essays was published by |
| A. | Bacon |
| B. | Montaigne |
| C. | Stevenson |
| D. | none of these |
| Answer» A. Bacon | |
| 257. |
Sensory details are used in |
| A. | cause and effect essays |
| B. | Descriptive essays |
| C. | narrative essays |
| D. | dialectic essays |
| Answer» B. Descriptive essays | |
| 258. |
…….form of essay is usually used in philosophy |
| A. | cause and effect essays |
| B. | Descriptive essays |
| C. | narrative essays |
| D. | dialectic essays |
| Answer» D. dialectic essays | |
| 259. |
The art of public speaking was first developed by………….. |
| A. | Greeks |
| B. | Germans |
| C. | Romans |
| D. | none of these |
| Answer» A. Greeks | |
| 260. |
The common fear of public speaking is called |
| A. | hydrophobia |
| B. | Glossophobia |
| C. | somnambulism |
| D. | none of these |
| Answer» B. Glossophobia | |
| 261. |
The written history of a person’s life written by someone else is called |
| A. | Biography |
| B. | Autobiography |
| C. | Memoir |
| D. | none of these |
| Answer» A. Biography | |
| 262. |
Q written history of a person’s life composed by himself in which the emphasis is on one particular phase or on the people and events is |
| A. | Memoir |
| B. | diary |
| C. | journal |
| D. | biography |
| Answer» A. Memoir | |
| 263. |
A journal is |
| A. | Day-to-day record of a person’s life |
| B. | life history composed b himself |
| C. | life history composed by someone else |
| D. | none of these |
| Answer» A. Day-to-day record of a person’s life | |
| 264. |
Autobiographies were entitled as …… in antiquity |
| A. | Apologia |
| B. | Confession |
| C. | biography |
| D. | none of these |
| Answer» A. Apologia | |
| 265. |
‘Apologia Pro Vista Sua’ is the autobiography of……… |
| A. | John Henry Newman |
| B. | Goethe |
| C. | Montaigne |
| D. | St .Augustine |
| Answer» A. John Henry Newman | |
| 266. |
Which of the following can be considered as the first fully developed autobiography |
| A. | Confessions |
| B. | The invisible man |
| C. | Apologia Pro Vista Sua |
| D. | none of these |
| Answer» A. Confessions | |
| 267. |
Confessions is the autobiography of…………. |
| A. | St. Augustine |
| B. | Ellison |
| C. | St.Francis |
| D. | St. Joseph |
| Answer» A. St. Augustine | |
| 268. |
Confessions is a……… autobiography |
| A. | Spiritual |
| B. | secular |
| C. | Scientific |
| D. | philosophical |
| Answer» A. Spiritual | |
| 269. |
According to Benevento Cellini, one should write his autobiography after he is…….years old |
| A. | 30 |
| B. | 40 |
| C. | 50 |
| D. | 60 |
| Answer» B. 40 | |
| 270. |
A written history of a person’s life in which he presents a crisis and its resolution in his discovery of his identity as an artist or as a writer is |
| A. | Secular autobiography |
| B. | spiritual autobiography |
| C. | Philosophical autobiography |
| D. | none of these |
| Answer» A. Secular autobiography | |
| 271. |
Wordsworth’s autobiography in verse is called |
| A. | Prelude |
| B. | daffodils |
| C. | Immortality ode |
| D. | none of these |
| Answer» A. Prelude | |
| 272. |
Ralph Ellison’s autobiography is titled …………… |
| A. | The Invisible Man |
| B. | The Prelude |
| C. | On the Road |
| D. | none of these |
| Answer» A. The Invisible Man | |
| 273. |
Daniel Defoe’s ‘Moll Flanders’ can be considered as a |
| A. | Secular autobiography |
| B. | spiritual autobiography |
| C. | Philosophical autobiography |
| D. | fictional autobiography |
| Answer» D. fictional autobiography | |
| 274. |
An in-depth form of biographical coverage is called………….. |
| A. | Memoir |
| B. | diary |
| C. | Legacy writing |
| D. | biography |
| Answer» C. Legacy writing | |
| 275. |
Who defined biography as ‘the history of particular men’s lives’ |
| A. | John Henry Newman |
| B. | Goethe |
| C. | Montaigne |
| D. | Dryden |
| Answer» D. Dryden | |
| 276. |
Biography written with the permission, cooperation, and, at times, participation of a subject or a subject's heirs is called |
| A. | Secular autobiography |
| B. | Spiritual autobiography |
| C. | Legacy writing |
| D. | Authorized biography |
| Answer» D. Authorized biography | |
| 277. |
‘Parallel Lives’ was written by |
| A. | Plutarch |
| B. | Goethe |
| C. | Montaigne |
| D. | Dryden |
| Answer» A. Plutarch | |
| 278. |
……………is the source of Shakespeare’s Roman plays |
| A. | Parallel Lives |
| B. | The Invisible Man |
| C. | The Prelude |
| D. | On the Road |
| Answer» A. Parallel Lives | |
| 279. |
The record of the lives of Christian saints based on legends rather than on facts is called |
| A. | Secular autobiography |
| B. | spiritual autobiography |
| C. | hagiographoies |
| D. | none of these |
| Answer» C. hagiographoies | |
| 280. |
‘Le Morte d’Arthur’ was written by |
| A. | John Henry Newman |
| B. | Goethe |
| C. | Montaigne |
| D. | Thomas Malory |
| Answer» D. Thomas Malory | |
| 281. |
Isaac Walton wrote the short biographies of Donne and Herbert in his |
| A. | Lives |
| B. | Parallel Lives |
| C. | The Prelude |
| D. | On the Road |
| Answer» A. Lives | |
| 282. |
Who is referred to as ‘the father of English essays’ |
| A. | Bacon |
| B. | Montaigne |
| C. | Stevenson |
| D. | none of these |
| Answer» A. Bacon | |
| 283. |
The presentation of the initial situation of a fiction is called.... |
| A. | exposition |
| B. | climax |
| C. | resolution |
| D. | none of these |
| Answer» A. exposition | |
| 284. |
The technique used to provide clues regarding what might occur later in the story is..... |
| A. | foreshadowing |
| B. | flash back |
| C. | resolution |
| D. | none of these |
| Answer» A. foreshadowing | |
| 285. |
Flash back is also known as...... |
| A. | foreshadowing |
| B. | linear plot analysis |
| C. | Analepsis |
| D. | none of these |
| Answer» A. foreshadowing | |
| 286. |
The technique that takes the narrative back in time is called...... |
| A. | flash back |
| B. | flash forward |
| C. | forshadowing |
| D. | none of these |
| Answer» A. flash back | |
| 287. |
………..reveals events that will occur in the future |
| A. | flash back |
| B. | flash forward |
| C. | foreshadowing |
| D. | none of these |
| Answer» B. flash forward | |
| 288. |
A flash back to an earlier point in the narrative is called.......... |
| A. | flash back |
| B. | flash forward |
| C. | Internal Analepsis |
| D. | external Analepsis |
| Answer» C. Internal Analepsis | |
| 289. |
External analepsis is a …... to before the narrative started. |
| A. | flash back |
| B. | flash forward |
| C. | foreshadowing |
| D. | none of these |
| Answer» A. flash back | |
| 290. |
….....in a fiction leads to climax |
| A. | rising action |
| B. | Climax |
| C. | Exposition |
| D. | falling Action |
| Answer» A. rising action | |
| 291. |
…..... is a phase of a fiction, where the story is about to settle down. |
| A. | falling action |
| B. | rising action |
| C. | Climax |
| D. | Exposition |
| Answer» A. falling action | |
| 292. |
A typical character is referred to as....... |
| A. | Flat |
| B. | round cahracter |
| C. | protagonist |
| D. | none of these |
| Answer» A. Flat | |
| 293. |
An individualised character is referred to as …... |
| A. | Flat |
| B. | round character |
| C. | protagonist |
| D. | none of these |
| Answer» B. round character | |
| 294. |
A character whose behaviour illuminates the personality of the protagonist is....... |
| A. | Foil |
| B. | round character |
| C. | protagonist |
| D. | none of these |
| Answer» A. Foil | |
| 295. |
When a text is narrated through an external narrator, it is referred to as..... |
| A. | omniscient point of view |
| B. | participating figure |
| C. | second person narration |
| D. | none of these |
| Answer» A. omniscient point of view | |
| 296. |
In first person narrative the events are narrated by....... |
| A. | participating figure |
| B. | omniscient point of view |
| C. | second person narration |
| D. | none of these |
| Answer» A. participating figure | |
| 297. |
A context beyond the immediate surroundings of the story in the fiction is called..... |
| A. | Milieu |
| B. | country |
| C. | setting |
| D. | none of these |
| Answer» A. Milieu | |
| 298. |
…..... is a concise form of prose fiction. |
| A. | short story |
| B. | essay |
| C. | article |
| D. | none of these |
| Answer» A. short story | |
| 299. |
…..... can be considered as a precursor of short story. |
| A. | fairy tales |
| B. | novel |
| C. | epic |
| D. | none of these |
| Answer» A. fairy tales | |
| 300. |
A narrative frame within which one or more of the characters proceed to tell a series of short narratives is called.... |
| A. | frame story |
| B. | novel |
| C. | essay |
| D. | novella |
| Answer» A. frame story | |
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