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Below are the scanned copy of Kerala Public Service Commission (KPSC) Question Paper with answer keys of Exam Name 'HSST English - KHSE ' And exam conducted in the year 2022. And Question paper code was '078/2022'. Medium of question paper was in Malayalam or English . Booklet Alphacode was 'A'. Answer keys are given at the bottom, but we suggest you to try answering the questions yourself and compare the key along wih to check your performance. Because we would like you to do and practice by yourself.
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62. In whose opinion “Poetry is the most highly organized form of intellectual activity” ?
A) 7. S. Eliot 8) D.H. Lawrence 0) ४४. 8. Yeats 0) 6. 8. Shaw
63. is a situation or event designed by the poet which symbolizes or objectifies
a particular emotion to evoke the same emotion in the reader.
A) Dissociation of sensibility 8) Impersonality
C) Objective correlative D) Unification of sensibility
64. Which of the following critics has most elaborately discussed the concept of
imagination ?
A) Ruskin B) Freud
C) Walter Pater 0) 5.1. Coleridge
65. Who wrote Principles of Literary Criticism ?
A) |. A. Richards B) F. R. Leavis
C) Kenneth Brook 0) A. 6. Gardiner
66. Which of the following suggests Theodor Adorno’s idea on the ‘culture industry’ ?
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A) It destroys notions of high and low culture and replaces it with mass culture
B) It is an industry in the sense that its aim is to standardize aesthetic taste and value
C) It is a radical rethinking of mass culture in that it promotes the values of high culture
and attempts to eradicate more popular forms of expression
0) Both A andB
Stuart Hall was inspired by a text written by Antonio Gramsci. What was it called ?
A) The Marxian Diaries B) The Motorcycle Diaries
C) The Princess Diaries D) The Prison Diaries
Judith Butler argues that gender should be seen as a human attribute that is
A) Binary
B) Rigid and unchangeable
C) Determined only by anatomy
D) Fluid and can change based on a given context
Which of the following are regarded as the common conventions of postmodern literary
writing ?
A) Straight forward plots and realistic situations
B) Clear and obvious meaning
©) A respect for previous literary styles and conventions
D) Metafiction and intertextuality
Language, according to Postmodernism, is
A) A means for describing objective reality
B) A method of communicating truth
C) A jumble of non-coherent words
D) A tool of power and manipulation
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