GATE (Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering) English (XH-C2): Questions 1806 - 1811 of 2433

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Question 1806

Question MCQ▾

Who propounded the concepts of readerly and writerly text?

Choices

Choice (4)Response

a.

Jacques Derrida

b.

Roland Barthes

c.

Michel Foucault

d.

Wolfgang Iser

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Question 1807

Question MCQ▾

Identify the verse unit which uses: Two unstressed syllable followed by one stressed syllable?

Choices

Choice (4)Response

a.

Iambic

b.

Spondaic

c.

Trochaic

d.

Anapestic

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Passage

Read the following passage from Antigone and answer the question (December)

Creon: And yet wert bold enough to break the law.

Antigone: Yea, for these laws were not ordained by Zeus.

And who sits enthroned with gods below,

Justice enacted not these human laws.

Nor did I deem that thou, a mortal man,

Could՚st by a breath annual and override.

The immutable unwritten laws of Heaven.

Question 1808 (1 of 1 Based on Passage)

Appeared in Year: 2019

Question MCQ▾

The three kinds of laws implicit in Antigone՚s response are:

Choices

Choice (4)Response

a.

Of Gods, of Justice, Of Man

b.

Human, unwritten, written

c.

Of Gods, of Zeus, of Justice

d.

Of Man, of Heaven, of Zeus

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Question 1809

Question MCQ▾

Who among the following has never been appointed as poet laureate of UK?

Choices

Choice (4)Response

a.

Thomas Shadwell

b.

Robert Browning

c.

Simon Armitage

d.

William Wordsworth

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Question 1810

Question MCQ▾

Which of the following is not a closet drama?

Choices

Choice (4)Response

a.

Milton՚s Samson Agonistes (1671)

b.

Byron՚s Manfred (1817)

c.

Hardy՚s The Dynasts (1904 - 08)

d.

Shelley՚s Hellas (1822)

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Question 1811

Question MCQ▾

Complete this Shakespearean line Let me not to the marriage of true minds bring:

Choices

Choice (4)Response

a.

Impediments

b.

Inconveniences

c.

Worries

d.

Troubles

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