Please keep at least one language enabled. / కనీసం ఒక భాషను ఎంచుకోండి.
Question 1
ప్రశ్న 1
Who wrote A Defence of Poetry?
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Percy Bysshe Shelley wrote A Defence of Poetry in 1821.
• The essay responds to arguments that poetry had lost its social value in an age of scientific and utilitarian progress.
• Shelley presents poetry as an imaginative, moral and civilizing power rather than a merely ornamental art.
• The essay responds to arguments that poetry had lost its social value in an age of scientific and utilitarian progress.
• Shelley presents poetry as an imaginative, moral and civilizing power rather than a merely ornamental art.
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Question 2
ప్రశ్న 2
Shelley's A Defence of Poetry was written partly in response to which work by Thomas Love Peacock?
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Thomas Love Peacock's The Four Ages of Poetry provoked Shelley's defence.
• Peacock satirically suggested that poetry belonged to less advanced stages of civilization and had become socially obsolete.
• Shelley replies by arguing that imagination and poetry remain essential to moral and cultural life.
• Peacock satirically suggested that poetry belonged to less advanced stages of civilization and had become socially obsolete.
• Shelley replies by arguing that imagination and poetry remain essential to moral and cultural life.
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Question 3
ప్రశ్న 3
According to Shelley, poetry may be defined most fundamentally as:
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Shelley defines poetry broadly as the expression of the imagination.
• Imagination perceives relationships, creates new combinations and enables sympathy with lives beyond the self.
• Poetry is therefore not confined to verse technique or formal genre.
• Imagination perceives relationships, creates new combinations and enables sympathy with lives beyond the self.
• Poetry is therefore not confined to verse technique or formal genre.
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Question 4
ప్రశ్న 4
What does Shelley mean by calling poets the unacknowledged legislators of the world?
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Shelley's phrase does not assign poets literal legislative office.
• Poets influence the emotional and imaginative conditions from which social values and institutions emerge.
• Their power is indirect and often unrecognized, yet it helps societies imagine justice, freedom and new forms of life.
• Poets influence the emotional and imaginative conditions from which social values and institutions emerge.
• Their power is indirect and often unrecognized, yet it helps societies imagine justice, freedom and new forms of life.
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Question 5
ప్రశ్న 5
Which statement best describes Shelley's view of poetry and morality?
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Shelley does not reduce poetry to direct moral preaching.
• Poetry enlarges imagination, refines feeling and enables identification with other persons.
• Its moral power lies in transforming perception and sympathy rather than supplying a list of commands.
• Poetry enlarges imagination, refines feeling and enables identification with other persons.
• Its moral power lies in transforming perception and sympathy rather than supplying a list of commands.
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Question 6
ప్రశ్న 6
In A Defence of Poetry, Shelley contrasts imagination most directly with:
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Shelley distinguishes imagination from reason without dismissing reason entirely.
• Reason analyzes and calculates relations already perceived, while imagination synthesizes and creates new relations.
• Poetry depends especially on imagination because it unifies experience and expands human possibility.
• Reason analyzes and calculates relations already perceived, while imagination synthesizes and creates new relations.
• Poetry depends especially on imagination because it unifies experience and expands human possibility.
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Question 7
ప్రశ్న 7
Statement I: Shelley restricts poetry to compositions written in verse.
Statement II: Shelley uses poetry in an expansive sense that includes imaginative creation beyond metrical writing.
Statement II: Shelley uses poetry in an expansive sense that includes imaginative creation beyond metrical writing.
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Statement I is incorrect because Shelley gives poetry a broader meaning than metrical composition alone.
• Statement II is correct because imaginative language and creative acts in many forms may participate in poetry.
• The correct option is D because Shelley's theory emphasizes imaginative power rather than verse form alone.
• Statement II is correct because imaginative language and creative acts in many forms may participate in poetry.
• The correct option is D because Shelley's theory emphasizes imaginative power rather than verse form alone.
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Question 8
ప్రశ్న 8
Assertion: Shelley considers poetry socially valuable even when it does not propose a specific political programme.
Reason: Poetry transforms sensibility and enlarges the imaginative sympathy from which humane action can develop.
Reason: Poetry transforms sensibility and enlarges the imaginative sympathy from which humane action can develop.
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• The Assertion is correct because Shelley locates poetry's social force at the level of imagination, feeling and value.
• The Reason is correct because poetry expands sympathy and alters how people perceive one another.
• The Reason directly explains why poetry can influence society without functioning as a detailed political manifesto.
• The Reason is correct because poetry expands sympathy and alters how people perceive one another.
• The Reason directly explains why poetry can influence society without functioning as a detailed political manifesto.
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Question 9
ప్రశ్న 9
Which statement most accurately describes Shelley's conception of poetic inspiration?
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Shelley often describes inspiration as an involuntary and transient arrival of creative power.
• The poet cannot command its initial coming, though composition and revision may preserve traces of it.
• Romantic inspiration therefore does not necessarily eliminate craft or artistic labour.
• The poet cannot command its initial coming, though composition and revision may preserve traces of it.
• Romantic inspiration therefore does not necessarily eliminate craft or artistic labour.
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Question 10
ప్రశ్న 10
The phrase negative capability was coined by:
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• John Keats introduced the phrase negative capability in a letter to his brothers George and Thomas Keats in December 1817.
• He associated it particularly with Shakespeare's capacity to remain open to complexity.
• The concept became central to later accounts of Keats's poetic and critical thought.
• He associated it particularly with Shakespeare's capacity to remain open to complexity.
• The concept became central to later accounts of Keats's poetic and critical thought.
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Question 11
ప్రశ్న 11
Negative capability is the capacity to remain:
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Negative capability names the ability to remain receptive within uncertainty, mystery and doubt.
• Keats contrasts this openness with the anxious demand to reduce experience to immediate explanation.
• The concept values imaginative receptivity, ambiguity and freedom from an overpowering personal system.
• Keats contrasts this openness with the anxious demand to reduce experience to immediate explanation.
• The concept values imaginative receptivity, ambiguity and freedom from an overpowering personal system.
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Question 12
ప్రశ్న 12
Which writer does Keats identify as possessing negative capability to an exceptional degree?
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Keats cites Shakespeare as a supreme example of negative capability.
• Shakespeare can inhabit diverse characters and conflicting perspectives without forcing them into a single authorial doctrine.
• This capacity is connected with Keats's broader idea of the poet's receptive and self-effacing identity.
• Shakespeare can inhabit diverse characters and conflicting perspectives without forcing them into a single authorial doctrine.
• This capacity is connected with Keats's broader idea of the poet's receptive and self-effacing identity.
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Question 13
ప్రశ్న 13
Keats's concept of the chameleon poet suggests that the poet:
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Keats describes the poetic character as lacking a fixed and self-assertive identity.
• Like a chameleon, the poet imaginatively enters different beings, situations and perspectives.
• This self-effacing receptivity is closely related to negative capability.
• Like a chameleon, the poet imaginatively enters different beings, situations and perspectives.
• This self-effacing receptivity is closely related to negative capability.
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Question 14
ప్రశ్న 14
The statement about beauty and truth most famously appears in which poem by Keats?
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• The celebrated formulation linking beauty and truth appears at the conclusion of Ode on a Grecian Urn.
• The precise interpretation and attribution of the final statement remain critically debated.
• It nevertheless occupies a central place in discussions of Keats's aesthetics.
• The precise interpretation and attribution of the final statement remain critically debated.
• It nevertheless occupies a central place in discussions of Keats's aesthetics.
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Question 15
ప్రశ్న 15
Which interpretation best fits Keats's recurring treatment of beauty?
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Keats's poetry gives great importance to sensuous beauty and imaginative intensity.
• Yet beauty is repeatedly connected with mortality, change, melancholy and uncertainty.
• His aesthetic thought therefore resists a simplistic separation of beauty from suffering or transience.
• Yet beauty is repeatedly connected with mortality, change, melancholy and uncertainty.
• His aesthetic thought therefore resists a simplistic separation of beauty from suffering or transience.
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Question 16
ప్రశ్న 16
Match List I with List II.
List I:
1. A Defence of Poetry
2. Negative capability
3. Chameleon poet
4. Unacknowledged legislators
List II:
a. Receptive poetic identity without a fixed self
b. Shelley's account of poetry's imaginative and social power
c. Capacity to remain open within uncertainty
d. Indirect shaping of social values by poets
List I:
1. A Defence of Poetry
2. Negative capability
3. Chameleon poet
4. Unacknowledged legislators
List II:
a. Receptive poetic identity without a fixed self
b. Shelley's account of poetry's imaginative and social power
c. Capacity to remain open within uncertainty
d. Indirect shaping of social values by poets
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• A Defence of Poetry presents Shelley's account of poetry's imaginative, moral and social power.
• Negative capability is the capacity to remain receptive within uncertainty.
• The chameleon poet possesses a fluid, self-effacing poetic identity.
• Unacknowledged legislators refers to poets' indirect shaping of social values, so the correct code is 1-b, 2-c, 3-a, 4-d.
• Negative capability is the capacity to remain receptive within uncertainty.
• The chameleon poet possesses a fluid, self-effacing poetic identity.
• Unacknowledged legislators refers to poets' indirect shaping of social values, so the correct code is 1-b, 2-c, 3-a, 4-d.
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Question 17
ప్రశ్న 17
Statement I: Keats's negative capability encourages immediate resolution of every ambiguity.
Statement II: Keats's idea of poetic identity emphasizes receptivity to perspectives other than the poet's own.
Statement II: Keats's idea of poetic identity emphasizes receptivity to perspectives other than the poet's own.
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Statement I is incorrect because negative capability resists the impatient demand to resolve every uncertainty.
• Statement II is correct because the chameleon poet enters other identities without imposing a fixed personal self.
• The correct option is B because Keats values ambiguity and imaginative receptivity.
• Statement II is correct because the chameleon poet enters other identities without imposing a fixed personal self.
• The correct option is B because Keats values ambiguity and imaginative receptivity.
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Question 18
ప్రశ్న 18
Consider the following statements about Shelley's theory:
1. Poetry enlarges sympathy.
2. Imagination is central to moral development.
3. Poets influence society only through formal legislation.
4. Poetry cannot be reduced to metrical composition alone.
Which statements are correct?
1. Poetry enlarges sympathy.
2. Imagination is central to moral development.
3. Poets influence society only through formal legislation.
4. Poetry cannot be reduced to metrical composition alone.
Which statements are correct?
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Statement 1 is correct because poetry enables imaginative identification with others.
• Statement 2 is correct because Shelley connects imagination with sympathy and ethical life.
• Statement 3 is incorrect because poets legislate indirectly through sensibility and values, not only through formal law.
• Statement 4 is correct because Shelley's concept of poetry exceeds verse form, so 1, 2 and 4 only are correct.
• Statement 2 is correct because Shelley connects imagination with sympathy and ethical life.
• Statement 3 is incorrect because poets legislate indirectly through sensibility and values, not only through formal law.
• Statement 4 is correct because Shelley's concept of poetry exceeds verse form, so 1, 2 and 4 only are correct.
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Question 19
ప్రశ్న 19
Which sequence correctly orders the following items by date?
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Keats formulated negative capability in a letter written in December 1817.
• Ode on a Grecian Urn was composed in 1819 and published in 1820.
• Shelley wrote A Defence of Poetry in 1821.
• The correct sequence is therefore negative capability letter → Ode on a Grecian Urn → A Defence of Poetry.
• Ode on a Grecian Urn was composed in 1819 and published in 1820.
• Shelley wrote A Defence of Poetry in 1821.
• The correct sequence is therefore negative capability letter → Ode on a Grecian Urn → A Defence of Poetry.
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Question 20
ప్రశ్న 20
A poet presents several morally conflicting characters without making any one of them a mouthpiece for a fixed authorial doctrine. Which Keatsian concept most directly explains this achievement?
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Negative capability enables the poet to remain open to uncertainty and multiple perspectives.
• It prevents a rigid personal philosophy from dominating every character or situation.
• The example also recalls Keats's admiration for Shakespeare's capacity to inhabit diverse identities.
• It prevents a rigid personal philosophy from dominating every character or situation.
• The example also recalls Keats's admiration for Shakespeare's capacity to inhabit diverse identities.
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Question 21
ప్రశ్న 21
Which contrast most accurately distinguishes Shelley's and Keats's critical emphases?
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Shelley emphasizes imagination as a source of sympathy, moral growth and social transformation.
• Keats emphasizes negative capability, receptivity and the poet's freedom from a dominating fixed identity.
• Both are Romantic thinkers, but their most characteristic critical terms highlight different aspects of creativity.
• Keats emphasizes negative capability, receptivity and the poet's freedom from a dominating fixed identity.
• Both are Romantic thinkers, but their most characteristic critical terms highlight different aspects of creativity.
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Question 22
ప్రశ్న 22
Assertion: Keats's chameleon poet is closely related to negative capability.
Reason: Both concepts value the poet's ability to suspend a fixed ego and enter experiences that resist immediate conceptual closure.
Reason: Both concepts value the poet's ability to suspend a fixed ego and enter experiences that resist immediate conceptual closure.
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• The Assertion is correct because both concepts describe poetic receptivity and freedom from rigid self-assertion.
• The Reason is correct because the poet enters other identities and tolerates unresolved complexity.
• The Reason directly explains the connection between the chameleon poet and negative capability, so option C is correct.
• The Reason is correct because the poet enters other identities and tolerates unresolved complexity.
• The Reason directly explains the connection between the chameleon poet and negative capability, so option C is correct.
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Question 23
ప్రశ్న 23
Which of the following is incorrectly matched?
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• The chameleon poet does not possess a fixed autobiographical identity that dominates every work.
• Keats describes poetic identity as fluid, receptive and capable of entering other beings.
• The other pairs correctly associate Shelley with imagination and moral sympathy, Keats with negative capability, and A Defence of Poetry with poetry's social power.
• Keats describes poetic identity as fluid, receptive and capable of entering other beings.
• The other pairs correctly associate Shelley with imagination and moral sympathy, Keats with negative capability, and A Defence of Poetry with poetry's social power.
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Question 24
ప్రశ్న 24
Which statement best represents the Romantic conception of creativity shared by Shelley and Keats?
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Shelley sees imagination as a creative and synthesizing power that enlarges sympathy.
• Keats values receptivity, uncertainty and the poet's ability to enter varied identities.
• Both reject a merely mechanical model of art and treat creativity as transformative rather than passive imitation.
• Keats values receptivity, uncertainty and the poet's ability to enter varied identities.
• Both reject a merely mechanical model of art and treat creativity as transformative rather than passive imitation.
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Question 25
ప్రశ్న 25
Which integrated statement best represents Shelley, Keats and Romantic critical ideas?
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Shelley presents imagination as the source of poetry's moral and social power.
• Keats's negative capability values openness to uncertainty, while the chameleon poet enters identities beyond the fixed self.
• Romantic creativity therefore combines imaginative transformation, sympathy, receptivity, beauty and resistance to mechanical rule-following.
• Keats's negative capability values openness to uncertainty, while the chameleon poet enters identities beyond the fixed self.
• Romantic creativity therefore combines imaginative transformation, sympathy, receptivity, beauty and resistance to mechanical rule-following.
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Answer Key సమాధానాల పట్టిక
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Question 1 ప్రశ్న 1Answer: B. Percy Bysshe Shelley సమాధానం: B.
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Question 2 ప్రశ్న 2Answer: A. The Four Ages of Poetry సమాధానం: A.
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Question 3 ప్రశ్న 3Answer: C. The expression of the imagination సమాధానం: C.
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Question 4 ప్రశ్న 4Answer: D. Poets shape moral imagination, values and social possibility without official recognition. సమాధానం: D.
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Question 5 ప్రశ్న 5Answer: B. Poetry strengthens moral awareness by enlarging imagination and sympathy. సమాధానం: B.
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Question 6 ప్రశ్న 6Answer: C. Reason సమాధానం: C.
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Question 7 ప్రశ్న 7Answer: D. Statement I is incorrect, but Statement II is correct సమాధానం: D.
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Question 8 ప్రశ్న 8Answer: A. Both Assertion and Reason are correct, and Reason is the correct explanation of Assertion సమాధానం: A.
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Question 9 ప్రశ్న 9Answer: B. It is an involuntary and fleeting creative visitation that artistic labour may preserve. సమాధానం: B.
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Question 10 ప్రశ్న 10Answer: C. John Keats సమాధానం: C.
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Question 11 ప్రశ్న 11Answer: D. In uncertainties, mysteries and doubts without an irritable search for fact and reason సమాధానం: D.
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Question 12 ప్రశ్న 12Answer: A. William Shakespeare సమాధానం: A.
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Question 13 ప్రశ్న 13Answer: B. Can enter many identities and has no unchanging poetic self that overshadows them. సమాధానం: B.
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Question 14 ప్రశ్న 14Answer: C. Ode on a Grecian Urn సమాధానం: C.
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Question 15 ప్రశ్న 15Answer: D. Beauty is often apprehended through sensuous intensity while remaining entangled with transience, suffering and mystery. సమాధానం: D.
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Question 16 ప్రశ్న 16Answer: A. 1-b, 2-c, 3-a, 4-d సమాధానం: A.
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Question 17 ప్రశ్న 17Answer: B. Statement I is incorrect, but Statement II is correct సమాధానం: B.
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Question 18 ప్రశ్న 18Answer: C. 1, 2 and 4 only సమాధానం: C.
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Question 19 ప్రశ్న 19Answer: D. Negative capability letter → Ode on a Grecian Urn → A Defence of Poetry సమాధానం: D.
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Question 20 ప్రశ్న 20Answer: A. Negative capability సమాధానం: A.
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Question 21 ప్రశ్న 21Answer: B. Shelley stresses poetry's expansive moral and social power, whereas Keats stresses receptive uncertainty and self-effacing poetic identity. సమాధానం: B.
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Question 22 ప్రశ్న 22Answer: C. Both Assertion and Reason are correct, and Reason is the correct explanation of Assertion సమాధానం: C.
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Question 23 ప్రశ్న 23Answer: C. Chameleon poet — fixed autobiographical identity సమాధానం: C.
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Question 24 ప్రశ్న 24Answer: D. Creativity transforms experience through imaginative openness rather than merely copying external reality. సమాధానం: D.
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Question 25 ప్రశ్న 25Answer: A. Poetry arises from imaginative creation, enlarges human sympathy, remains open to mystery and allows the poet to transcend a rigid personal identity. సమాధానం: A.