35 IMP QUESTIONS MAHA SET ENGLISH LITERATURE 2026

Answer Key and Explanations(B) amazement – The poem explores the "fearful symmetry" of the tiger, reflecting awe and wonder at the creator's power.(D) Wuthering Heights – Heathcliff is the iconic anti-hero of Emily Brontë’s only novel.(A) Arnold – Matthew Arnold wrote this series of influential literary essays.(B) Keats – John Keats used this term to describe the ability to exist within uncertainties without reaching for facts.(B) Ferdinand de Saussure – Saussure's linguistics (signifier/signified) laid the foundation for structuralism.(B) United States – Eliot was born in St. Louis, Missouri, before moving to England.(C) a play – Exiles is the only play written by the famous novelist James Joyce.(D) Carol Ann Duffy : Dancing at Lughnasa – Dancing at Lughnasa was actually written by Brian Friel.(D) Carol Ann Duffy – Duffy is a contemporary (20th/21st century) poet; the others are 18th-century figures.(A) indecision – Hamlet's "tragic flaw" (hamartia) is famously his inability to take immediate action.(C) Irish freedom struggle – The poem commemorates the 1916 Easter Rising in Dublin.(C) Scotland – Macbeth is known as "The Scottish Play."(A) man-woman relationship – Lawrence’s work focuses heavily on the psychological and sexual tensions between sexes.(D) William Wycherley – A classic example of Restoration comedy.(C) T.S. Eliot – J. Alfred Prufrock is the narrator of Eliot's "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock."(A) Emerson – Ralph Waldo Emerson was the central figure of American Transcendentalism.(C) a sonnet – It is a Petrarchan sonnet reflecting on Milton's loss of sight.(C) Macbeth – The title comes from Macbeth's "Tomorrow and tomorrow" soliloquy ("...told by an idiot, full of sound and fury").(B) Lady Mary Wortley Montagu – She and Pope had a famous and bitter literary feud.(C) Scottish Enlightenment – It was first published in Edinburgh starting in 1768.(D) John Lord Hervey – Pope used "Sporus" as a scathing pseudonym for Hervey.(D) plot – In Poetics, Aristotle famously states that plot (mythos) is the "soul" of tragedy.(A) Alice Walker – This epistolary novel won the Pulitzer Prize in 1983.(C) nuptial poem – An Epithalamion is a poem or song specifically written for a bride on her way to the marital chamber.(A) Sense and Sensibility – It was the first of her novels to be published (1811).(B) William Empson – A key text in the development of New Criticism.(A) Alaster – Subtitled "The Spirit of Solitude," it contains many of Shelley's own philosophical anxieties.(B) Hardy’s The Mayor of Casterbridge – This bleak sentiment is found in the final chapter of the novel.(B) John Ruskin – Ruskin used it to describe the attribution of human emotions to inanimate things.(B) human cultures – Ethnology is the comparative study of different peoples and their relationships.(D) France – Modern structuralism largely grew out of French intellectual circles in the mid-20th century.(A) The interplay of words used and not used – Deconstruction focuses on "différance" and the unstable nature of language.(D) Terror-Mystery novel – It is a classic Victorian gothic/horror novella.(A) Thomas Malory – Sir Thomas Malory wrote this definitive compilation of Arthurian legends.(C) a utopia – It depicts a mythical, scientifically advanced island called Bensalem.(B) Edward II – Piers Gaveston is the favorite and lover of the King in Christopher Marlowe's play.(C) 7 – While Spenser planned 12, only 6 books and a fragment (the "Mutabilitie Cantos," often called Book 7) exist.(D) Pope – This famous couplet is from "An Essay on Criticism."(A) Myth Criticism – Frye's Anatomy of Criticism is the foundational text for archetypal/myth criticism.(D) Samuel Selvon – Selvon was a Trinidadian writer, best known for The Lonely Londoners.(A) Salman Rushdie – This essay appears in his collection Imaginary Homelands.(B) Candida – Mr. Burgess is the father of the title character in George Bernard Shaw's play.(A) Jane Austen – It is a satire of the Gothic novels popular during her time.(D) Jonathan Wild has been written by W.M. Thackeray – This is false; Jonathan Wild was written by Henry Fielding.(A) G.K. Chesterton – This is a notable work of literary history by Chesterton.(B) Public speaking – Rhetoric was the ancient art of persuasion and oratory.(A) iambic – The line follows a da-DUM da-DUM (iambic pentameter) rhythm.(A) synecdoche – "Heads" is used to represent the whole person (a part representing the whole).(C) a rhetorical question – It is asked for effect rather than to elicit an actual answer.(C) hyperbole – "Cleft my heart in twain" (cutting a heart in half) is an exaggeration used for emotional emphasis.

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