English 10+2 lecturer question paper 2025
Part 2
Written test 2025
Question 16.
Match the items in Column A (Narrative Techniques / Literary Strategies) with the most appropriate items in Column B (Themes / Critical Interpretation).
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Column A (Narrative Techniques / Literary Strategies)
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Non-linear, memory-driven temporality
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Malayalam-inflected English, neologisms, and playful syntax
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Detailed depiction of domestic spaces and everyday life
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Repetition, fragmentation, and interior focalization
Column B (Themes / Critical Interpretation)
i. Interweaving of personal trauma with caste and gender oppression
ii. Postcolonial linguistic hybridity and cultural specificity
iii. Critique of universalist psychological reductionism
iv. Demonstration of how socio-political hierarchies shape family dynamics
Options (Codes-in-Columns Matching):
A) 1 – i, 2 – ii, 3 – iii, 4 – iv
B) 1 – iv, 2 – ii, 3 – i, 4 – iii
C) 1 – i, 2 – ii, 3 – iv, 4 – iii
D) 1 – iv, 2 – ii, 3 – iii, 4 – i
Question 17.
Given below are statements – Assertion (A) and Reason (R):
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Assertion (A): In "A Defence of Poetry" (1821), Shelley grounds poetry’s cultural authority in the imaginative enlargement of sympathy, thereby making poets “unacknowledged legislators” not by didactic maxims but by transforming the moral imagination.
Reason (R): This aligns with Hazlitt’s "On Poetry in General" (1818), which similarly defines poetry as chiefly a vehicle of explicit moral instruction addressed to the reader’s rational faculty; hence both critics converge on a didactic conception of poetry.
In the light of the above statements, choose the correct option:
A) Both A and R are true, and R is the correct explanation of A.
B) Both A and R are true, but R is not the correct explanation of A.
C) A is true, but R is false.
D) A is false, but R is true.
18. Arrange the following works of R. K. Narayan in the exact chronological order of their first publication, taking into account both his novels and significant autobiographical writings.
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I. Swami and Friends
II. The English Teacher
III. The Dark Room
IV. Malgudi Days (short story collection)
V. My Days (autobiography)
Options:
A) I – III – II – IV – V
B) I – III – IV – II – V
C) I – III – II – V – IV
D) I – IV – III – II – V
19. Given below are two statements – Assertion (A) and Reason (R):
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Assertion (A): In Herbert's "The Pulley", the conceit of God bestowing blessings but withholding rest to ensure humans seek Him is a metaphysical conceit because it combines theological abstraction with human psychology.
Reason (R): A metaphysical conceit can extend beyond romantic or erotic themes to explore moral, spiritual, or philosophical dilemmas through complex, imaginative analogies.
In the light of the above statements, choose the correct options:
A) Both A and R are true, but R is the correct explanation of A.
B) Both A and R are true, but R is not the correct explanation of A.
C) A is true, but R is false.
D) A is false, but R is true.
20. Which of the following statements about Pericles, Prince of Tyre is/are correct?
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I. The play’s omission from the First Folio (1623) is generally attributed to its collaborative authorship and textual corruption, with Heminge and Condell deliberately excluding it despite including Timon of Athens, another collaborative text.
II. The character of Gower as chorus is drawn from John Gower’s Confessio Amantis, and in the quarto text he appears in both prose and verse, reflecting inconsistencies in transmission.
III. The miraculous recognition scene between Pericles and Marina directly imitates the lost Greek romance Callirhoë by Chariton, a source known to Shakespeare through English translation in the late 16th century.
IV. Marina’s chastity episode in the brothel has often been linked to the allegorical pattern of virtue under trial, aligning the play more with morality drama than with pure Hellenistic romance.
Options:
A) I and IV only
B) I, III and IV only
C) II and III only
D) I, II and IV only