GATE Humanities and Social Sciences - English Practice Quiz

Question 1

In T. S. Eliot’s formulation in “Tradition and the Individual Talent,” which one of the following best captures the idea of “impersonality” in poetry?

Accepted Answer

The poet’s personal emotions are transformed into art through an objective and disciplined medium.

Question 2

Which one of the following pairs is correctly matched?

Accepted Answer

M. H. Abrams — The Mirror and the Lamp

Question 3

The term “negative capability,” associated with John Keats, primarily refers to the poet’s capacity to

Accepted Answer

remain in uncertainties and doubts without an irritable reaching after fact and reason.

Question 4

Which one of the following statements most accurately describes free indirect discourse?

Accepted Answer

A form of narration that blends third-person narration with a character’s idiom, perception, or consciousness.

Question 5

In Saussurean linguistics, the relationship between the signifier and the signified is best described as

Accepted Answer

arbitrary and conventional within a linguistic system.

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