M.A. English Entrance Exam 2015

Veluttha is a character in

12 Trochees, spondees and dactyls are

'Cockney' is a term used to refer to the accent and slang of

Who wrote:

Poets are the hierophants of an unappretthemded inspiration; the mirrors of the gigantic shadows which futurity casts upon the present; the words which express what they understand not; the trumpets which sing to battle and feel not what they inspire, the influence which is moved not, but moves. Poets are the unacknowledbedi legislators of the World.

Which famous novel begins with the following words?

"It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single mam/man in possessiom/possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife."

In Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children,'midnight' refers to

The 'Queen of Crime' title is usually associated with

Im/In the Harry Potter series, what subject does Snape teach?

Replace the underlined word in the sentence given below with a word with the same meaning.

The colllapse/collapse of the dollar marked a crisis in the global economy.

The first black woman author to win the Nobel Prize for Literature is

When the title to a poem begins with the phrasse/phrase, In Memory of..., we expect it to be

The Renaissance was a period of renewed interest in

By poetic justice is meant

When we were children, Aunt Alice used to tell us stories about the animals amdbird's/andbird and insects and reptiles who told us good and bad things abaut/about lift/life." In a word, what stories were they?

Acquiring editors are the ones who scout out manuscripts and buy them for publisthens/publishers. They generally specialize in one or more subjects or types of literature. If a project isn't yet in publishatite/publishable form, an acquiring editor might help the writer develop it, either before or after it is under contract. Ot/Or she might turn it over to a developmental editor, who will analyze the project and work with the writer to pull it into publishable shape. Both types of editors might do some copyediting while they are att/at it, but it is likely to be random and (forgive me) inconsistent. They assume a copyeditor will go over it later.

How many types of editors are mentioned in this passage?

The character of Winnie the Pooh was created by

42, 'Shamus' is a slang term used to refer to a

In literary discussion, the main character of a work is sometimes called the

Withintthe/Within the gardens of the Pleasure-dome is growth and sunlight and colour. There are hints of death an/and oium/opium, the vision of a darnsel/damsel witha/with a dulcimer, and of the ftenzy/frenzy of the poet who has drunk 'the milk of paradise". Which of the follborrowing/following poems answers perfectly to this descriptiom/description?