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WorksheetsTEST - 42
Total questions: 100
Worksheet time: 2hrs 40mins
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1.
In “Goodbye Party for Miss Pushpa T.S.” which Indian-English filler frames the farewell tone most persistently in the title’s speech context?
a)
only
b)
itself
c)
kindly
d)
yours truly
2.
In “Goodbye Party for Miss Pushpa T.S.” the speaker’s boastful aside about his own ‘good spirit’ functions rhetorically as what, within the title situation?
a)
Ethos bleed
b)
Metalepsis
c)
Parabasis
d)
Epizeuxis
3.
In “Goodbye Party for Miss Pushpa T.S.” the phrase “two-three days” in the title farewell is best classified as which feature of Indian English?
a)
Reduplication
b)
Distributive numeral
c)
Approximate quantifier
d)
Serial complementation
4.
In “Goodbye Party for Miss Pushpa T.S.” the title’s speaker’s “I am not remembering” exemplifies which tense-aspect transfer from L1 patterns?
a)
Habitual past
b)
Stative progressive
c)
Perfective future
d)
Past irrealis
5.
In “Goodbye Party for Miss Pushpa T.S.” the title address’s “going to foreign” signals what kind of deictic usage?
a)
Non-finite deixis
b)
Exophoric deixis
c)
Unmarked exteriorization
d)
Zero anaphora
6.
In “Goodbye Party for Miss Pushpa T.S.” the surname ambiguity “Bulsar or Surat” in the title speech most precisely encodes what device?
a)
Anacoluthon
b)
Metataxis
c)
Feigned amnesia
d)
Strategic indeterminacy
7.
In “Goodbye Party for Miss Pushpa T.S.” the line “smiling and smiling” in the title tribute is an instance of:
a)
Epizeuxis
b)
Epanalepsis
c)
Anadiplosis
d)
Polyptoton
8.
In “Goodbye Party for Miss Pushpa T.S.” the title event’s community chorus of approval is cued by which interjection?
a)
Hear, hear
b)
Bravo
c)
Kindly
d)
Friends
9.
In “Goodbye Party for Miss Pushpa T.S.” the embedded value judgment “good spirit” in the title speech is most aligned to:
a)
Mock encomium
b)
Litotes
c)
Ethical dative
d)
Appositive praise
10.
In “Goodbye Party for Miss Pushpa T.S.” the title figure’s “never saying no” codes gendered office politics primarily through:
a)
Ironized compliance
b)
Choric fatalism
c)
Stichic modesty
d)
Optative pragmatics
11.
In “Goodbye Party for Miss Pushpa T.S.” the title’s farewell ends with a borrowed French phrase that clinches the performative—identify it:
a)
Au revoir
b)
Bon voyage
c)
Bon chance
d)
À bientôt
12.
In “Goodbye Party for Miss Pushpa T.S.” the title orator’s self-reference (“I am always appreciating…”) is a satire of which discourse role?
a)
Master of ceremonies
b)
Floor moderator
c)
Testimonial sponsor
d)
Toastmaster
13.
In “Goodbye Party for Miss Pushpa T.S.” Miss Pushpa’s initials “T.S.” within the title context are most plausibly treated as:
a)
Gujarat caste markers
b)
South-Indian patronymic pattern
c)
Parodic Anglicization
d)
Parsis’ naming suffix
14.
In “Goodbye Party for Miss Pushpa T.S.” the title speech’s politeness strategy relies MOST on:
a)
Negative politeness
b)
Bald on-record
c)
Positive politeness
d)
Off-record hints
15.
In “Goodbye Party for Miss Pushpa T.S.” the location name “Bulsar” (in title talk) reflects which administrative renaming history?
a)
Valsad
b)
Vapi
c)
Veraval
d)
Bardoli
16.
In “Goodbye Party for Miss Pushpa T.S.” the title performance’s syntax (“You are all knowing”) satirizes which transfer from Indian languages?
a)
Topic-fronting
b)
Dative subject
c)
Postpositional calque
d)
Pragmatic honorific
17.
In “Goodbye Party for Miss Pushpa T.S.” the semantically empty intensifier with title’s praises most often is:
a)
Very much
b)
With full heart
c)
So only
d)
At all
18.
In “Goodbye Party for Miss Pushpa T.S.” the title scene’s narrator repeatedly undercuts facts with:
a)
Aposiopesis
b)
Parenthetic self-correction
c)
Liturgical cadence
d)
Anadiplosis
19.
In “Goodbye Party for Miss Pushpa T.S.” the title’s social satire targets chiefly:
a)
Colonial bureaucracy
b)
Corporate globalization
c)
Urban middle-class Anglophony
d)
Mission school catechism
20.
In “Goodbye Party for Miss Pushpa T.S.” the farewell title’s tone toggles between flattery and:
a)
Pity
b)
Self-display
c)
Melancholy
d)
Nostalgia
21.
In “Goodbye Party for Miss Pushpa T.S.” the phrase “for no reason but simply because she is feeling” in the title tribute parodies:
a)
Affective excess
b)
Logical tautology
c)
Ethical relativism
d)
Hysteron-proteron
22.
In “Goodbye Party for Miss Pushpa T.S.” the orator’s claim that Pushpa is “high family” in title context essentializes status via:
a)
Metonymy
b)
Synecdoche
c)
Antonomasia
d)
Paronomasia
23.
In “Goodbye Party for Miss Pushpa T.S.” the title farewell’s inclusivity marker is the plural vocative:
a)
Dearest colleagues
b)
All respected
c)
Dear sirs
d)
Friends
24.
In “Goodbye Party for Miss Pushpa T.S.” the title orator’s uncertainty about the father’s base (“Bulsar or Surat”) enacts what narratorial trait?
a)
Anterograde amnesia
b)
Unreliable authority
c)
Omniscient irony
d)
Paranoid style
25.
In “Goodbye Party for Miss Pushpa T.S.” the title scene’s “smiling and smiling” is formally:
a)
Climax
b)
Diacope
c)
Epanorthosis
d)
Antistrophe
26.
In “Goodbye Party for Miss Pushpa T.S.” the closing formula of the title speech (“I request you…”) registers which politeness move?
a)
Permission-seeking
b)
Collective facework
c)
Threat-mitigation
d)
Rank-dereferencing
27.
In “Goodbye Party for Miss Pushpa T.S.” the title toast constructs Pushpa’s virtue mainly through:
a)
Negative definition
b)
Exempla of availability
c)
Parabolic anecdote
d)
Scripted encomium
28.
In “Goodbye Party for Miss Pushpa T.S.” the social space of the title event is most plausibly:
a)
School staff room
b)
Shipping office floor
c)
Cooperative housing hall
d)
Bank branch hall
29.
In “Goodbye Party for Miss Pushpa T.S.” the poem’s inclusion in Ezekiel’s India-satire sequence tied to the title is:
a)
Poster Poems
b)
Very Indian Poems
c)
City Cantos
d)
Latter-Day Bhajans
30.
In “Goodbye Party for Miss Pushpa T.S.” the humor of the title derives primarily from:
a)
Phonological puns
b)
Register clash
c)
Mythic parody
d)
Visual ekphrasis
31.
In “Goodbye Party for Miss Pushpa T.S.” the title speech’s cadence most resembles:
a)
Sermon rhetoric
b)
Club toast
c)
Parliamentary motion
d)
Legal affidavit
32.
In “Goodbye Party for Miss Pushpa T.S.” the line-level irony of the title ode hinges on the gap between:
a)
Denotation and connotation
b)
Topic and focus
c)
Intention and competence
d)
Meter and rhythm
33.
In “Goodbye Party for Miss Pushpa T.S.” the pragmatics of “kindly” in the title context is chiefly:
a)
Threat-softener
b)
Deferential intensifier
c)
Concession cue
d)
Hedged imperative
34.
In “Goodbye Party for Miss Pushpa T.S.” the final wish of the title scene (“bon voyage”) is theatrically:
a)
Cataphoric
b)
Epistolary
c)
Closure trope
d)
Caesural
35.
In “Our Casuarina Tree” the opening simile in the title poem likens the creeper to what?
a)
Boa
b)
Python
c)
Vine-snake
d)
Cobra
36.
In “Our Casuarina Tree” the title tree “indented deep with scars” is crowned by a climber that ascends to:
a)
The clouds
b)
Near the stars
c)
Moon’s rim
d)
Zenith arc
37.
In “Our Casuarina Tree” the title giant “wears the scarf,” where the “scarf” figuratively refers to:
a)
The creeper
b)
Evening mist
c)
Bird flock
d)
Dew garland
38.
In “Our Casuarina Tree” the phrase “crimson clusters” in the title scene are flowers that hang among:
a)
Lianas
b)
Boughs
c)
Bracts
d)
Leaf-axils
39.
In “Our Casuarina Tree” the title’s “bird and bee” image accompanies which temporal contrast?
a)
Dawn vs dusk
b)
Noon vs night
c)
Day vs night
d)
Summer vs winter
40.
In “Our Casuarina Tree” the title poem’s “sung darkling” most directly echoes which Romantic diction?
a)
Keats
b)
Burns
c)
Blake
d)
Clare
41.
In “Our Casuarina Tree” the title’s “dear…not because of its magnificence” establishes value primarily via:
a)
Sublime terror
b)
Moral allegory
c)
Personal memory
d)
Sacred ritual
42.
In “Our Casuarina Tree” the “sweet companions” invoked under the title tree are Toru Dutt’s:
a)
Cousins
b)
Schoolmates
c)
Siblings
d)
Servants’ children
43.
In “Our Casuarina Tree” the title memorial underwrites an elegy for siblings commonly identified as:
a)
Abju and Aru
b)
Aru and Hari
c)
Abju and Mini
d)
Aru and Lilio
44.
In “Our Casuarina Tree” the title poem’s publication context is posthumous in:
a)
1876
b)
1877
c)
1881
d)
1885
45.
In “Our Casuarina Tree” the title tree’s music is likened to which natural soundscape?
a)
Rain on plantain leaves
b)
Sea-waves on a shingle
c)
Wind in bamboo
d)
River over pebbles
46.
In “Our Casuarina Tree” the “my casement” vantage in the title gives us what focalization?
a)
Zero focalization
b)
Internal focalization
c)
External focalization
d)
Dual focalization
47.
In “Our Casuarina Tree” the title emblem functions as which classical figure of memory?
a)
Mnemosyne
b)
Locus amoenus
c)
Anamnesis
d)
Epitaphion
48.
In “Our Casuarina Tree” the title’s climactic wish that future singers keep it blessed is a:
a)
Performative benediction
b)
Legal dedication
c)
Conditional optative
d)
Vocative lament
49.
In “Our Casuarina Tree” the title image of a “giant” with a scarf highlights which dominant trope?
a)
Anthropomorphism
b)
Metalepsis
c)
Paronomasia
d)
Syzygy
50.
In “Our Casuarina Tree” the poem’s metrical feel in the title stanzas most closely aligns to:
a)
Iambic pentameter couplets
b)
Mixed heroic decasyllable
c)
Loose iambic pentameter
d)
Blank verse trimeter
51.
In “Our Casuarina Tree” the title’s temporal reach—childhood to adult recollection—marks the poem as primarily:
a)
Pastoral monody
b)
Bildungs elegy
c)
Topographical ode
d)
Romantic hymn
52.
In “Our Casuarina Tree” the title’s “no close” of the night song thematizes:
a)
Infinite recurrence
b)
Modal indeterminacy
c)
Deferred cadence
d)
Circular refrain
53.
In “Our Casuarina Tree” the title’s appeal to protect the tree from “the axe” implies what 19th-century tension?
a)
Estate litigation
b)
Colonial forestry
c)
Railroad expansion
d)
Famine relief works
54.
In “Our Casuarina Tree” the title’s iconic status in Indian English poetry is partly due to its:
a)
Vedantic allegory
b)
Concrete imagism
c)
Elegiac memorialization
d)
Metrical novelty
55.
In “Our Casuarina Tree” the title’s recurrent auditory imagery primarily employs:
a)
Sibilance
b)
Assonance
c)
Euphony
d)
Cacophony
56.
In “Our Casuarina Tree” the title symbol’s translocation—remembered even abroad—frames exile as:
a)
Spatial allegoresis
b)
Diasporic palinode
c)
Memory portability
d)
Nostalgic synecdoche
57.
In “Our Casuarina Tree” the climber’s deadly embrace (“no other tree could live”) around the title trunk is paradoxically presented as:
a)
Lethal parasitism
b)
Noble adornment
c)
Mutualism
d)
Autochthony
58.
In “Our Casuarina Tree” the title “giant” hosting birds and bees is also a figure for:
a)
Household deity
b)
Community commons
c)
Maternal shelter
d)
Temporal axis
59.
In “Our Casuarina Tree” the title image’s “scars” most concretely index:
a)
Storm damage
b)
Tapped resin
c)
Time’s inscription
d)
Axe strikes
60.
In “Our Casuarina Tree” the title ode’s final hope that poets will “sing” it abroad constructs what afterlife?
a)
Iconic
b)
Institutional
c)
Scriptural
d)
Monumental
61.
In “Our Casuarina Tree” the specific tree species in the title (casuarina) is also known colloquially as the:
a)
Ironwood
b)
She-oak
c)
Neem-oak
d)
River-pine
62.
In “Our Casuarina Tree” the title’s interplay of memory and place primarily serves what elegiac function?
a)
Consolation by transference
b)
Accusation of fate
c)
Denial of loss
d)
Ritual sacrifice
63.
In “Our Casuarina Tree” the first stanza of the title poem closes on communal rest while the “song” continues; narratologically this is:
a)
Heterodiegetic break
b)
Counterpointed diegesis
c)
Metadiegetic loop
d)
Focal fade
64.
In “The Archetypes of Literature” by Northrop Frye the title term “archetype” is defined primarily as a:
a)
Collective motif
b)
Psychological complex
c)
Historical topos
d)
Linguistic root
65.
In “The Archetypes of Literature” the title essay’s critical motion from text-inward to tradition-outward corresponds to Frye’s:
a)
Ontic turn
b)
Centripetal vs centrifugal
c)
Diachronic vs synchronic
d)
Formal vs dialectical
66.
In “The Archetypes of Literature” Frye’s title argument draws upon comparative mythographers most centrally:
a)
Cassirer
b)
Frazer
c)
Propp
d)
Langer
67.
In “The Archetypes of Literature” the title’s seasonal mythoi align Comedy with:
a)
Winter
b)
Spring
c)
Autumn
d)
Summer
68.
In “The Archetypes of Literature” the title schema aligns Tragedy with:
a)
Summer
b)
Winter
c)
Autumn
d)
Spring
69.
In “The Archetypes of Literature” the title map aligns Satire/Irony with:
a)
Winter
b)
Summer
c)
Spring
d)
Autumn
70.
In “The Archetypes of Literature” the title cycle associates Romance with:
a)
Spring
b)
Autumn
c)
Winter
d)
Summer
71.
In “The Archetypes of Literature” the title essay first appeared in which journal year?
a)
1949
b)
1951
c)
1953
d)
1957
72.
In “The Archetypes of Literature” Frye’s title categories of imagery polarize primarily into:
a)
Sacral/profane
b)
Apocalyptic/demonic
c)
Realistic/idealistic
d)
Literal/figurative
73.
In “The Archetypes of Literature” the title’s apocalyptic imagery tends toward:
a)
City of God
b)
Cave of winds
c)
Black sun
d)
Iron labyrinth
74.
In “The Archetypes of Literature” the title’s demonic imagery tends toward:
a)
Garden enclosed
b)
Golden city
c)
Waste land
d)
Crystal sea
75.
In “The Archetypes of Literature” the title’s critical aim is to make criticism more like a:
a)
Moral theology
b)
Historical chronicle
c)
Coherent science
d)
Aesthetic manifesto
76.
In “The Archetypes of Literature” the title invokes “ritual and dream” as structural sources; this triangulates with:
a)
Language
b)
Myth
c)
Ideology
d)
History
77.
In “The Archetypes of Literature” the title essay’s notion of “convention” is closest to:
a)
Prescriptive rule
b)
Repeatable unit
c)
Legal norm
d)
Private symbol
78.
In “The Archetypes of Literature” the title’s “quest-romance” under the Romance mythos typically features:
a)
Agon–pathos–anagnorisis
b)
Separation–initiation–return
c)
Hubris–peripeteia–catharsis
d)
Exposition–complication–denouement
79.
In “The Archetypes of Literature” the title’s analogical method primarily links literature to:
a)
Sociology of taste
b)
Anthropology of ritual
c)
Economics of print
d)
Neurology of reading
80.
In “The Archetypes of Literature” the title acknowledges depth-psychology but refuses reduction to:
a)
Adlerian drive
b)
Freudian wish
c)
Jungian type
d)
Lacanian lack
81.
In “The Archetypes of Literature” the title’s centripetal reading emphasizes:
a)
Verbal texture
b)
Intertextual systems
c)
Cultural function
d)
Cognitive schemas
82.
In “The Archetypes of Literature” the centrifugal move emphasizes:
a)
Prosodic features
b)
Structural ambiguity
c)
External conventions
d)
Authorial intention
83.
In “The Archetypes of Literature” the title’s “mythos” most nearly means:
a)
Character
b)
Plot
c)
Image
d)
Theme
84.
In “The Archetypes of Literature” the title’s apocalyptic imagery set includes which emblem of perfected nature?
a)
Behemoth
b)
Golden bough
c)
Tree of life
d)
Minotaur
85.
In “The Archetypes of Literature” the title’s demonic set often features which dystopic terrain?
a)
Crystal palace
b)
Waste land
c)
New Jerusalem
d)
Hieros gamos
86.
In “The Archetypes of Literature” the title’s archetype is “communicable” chiefly because it is:
a)
Private symbol
b)
Collective inheritance
c)
Authorial signature
d)
Historical accident
87.
In “The Archetypes of Literature” the title essay anticipates a larger system later formalized in:
a)
Fearful Symmetry
b)
Anatomy of Criticism
c)
The Secular Scripture
d)
Words with Power
88.
In “The Archetypes of Literature” the title’s comic resolution often images society as:
a)
Saturnalia
b)
Purgatory
c)
Wild garden
d)
Walled city
89.
In “The Archetypes of Literature” the title’s tragic imagery tends toward:
a)
Fertility rites
b)
Flood myth
c)
Descent and isolation
d)
Cosmic wedding
90.
In “The Archetypes of Literature” the title’s seasonal cycle implies literature’s order is fundamentally:
a)
Linear-progressive
b)
Teleological
c)
Cyclical
d)
Random
91.
In “The Archetypes of Literature” the title methodology treats genre as:
a)
Market taxonomy
b)
Conventional system
c)
Biographical outcome
d)
Ideological screen
92.
In “The Archetypes of Literature” the title uses the term “total order of words” to suggest literature is a:
a)
Closed canon
b)
Unified field
c)
Scatter archive
d)
Pragmatic tool
93.
In “The Archetypes of Literature” the title’s archetypal imagery of the sea more often belongs to:
a)
Romance plenitude
b)
Tragic engulfment
c)
Comic rebirth
d)
Apocalyptic calm
94.
In “The Archetypes of Literature” the title’s demonology includes animals that figure predation; structurally these belong to:
a)
Comic set
b)
Apocalyptic set
c)
Demonic set
d)
Ironic set
95.
In “The Archetypes of Literature” the title’s “green world” motif (by implication in romance) mediates:
a)
City and wilderness
b)
Court and cloister
c)
Sea and shore
d)
Cave and mountain
96.
In “The Archetypes of Literature” the title’s analytic horizon rejects criticism as merely:
a)
Historical
b)
Ethical
c)
Impressionistic
d)
Formalistic
97.
In “The Archetypes of Literature” the title’s ritual origins of comedy trace to:
a)
Thesmophoria
b)
Saturnalia
c)
Eleusinia
d)
Anthesteria
98.
In “The Archetypes of Literature” the title’s tragic archetype often culminates in:
a)
Hieros gamos
b)
Epiphany of plenty
c)
Scapegoat ritual
d)
Return voyage
99.
In “The Archetypes of Literature” the title’s ironic mode treats characters as:
a)
Greater than environment
b)
Integrated with cosmos
c)
Less than action
d)
Equals of fate
100.
In “The Archetypes of Literature” the title’s ultimate critical ambition is a taxonomy organizing:
a)
Styles
b)
Schools
c)
Conventions
d)
Canons
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