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Question 1
ప్రశ్న 1
Which poet wrote Absalom and Achitophel?
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Explanation:
• John Dryden wrote Absalom and Achitophel, first published in 1681.
• The poem is a political satire that represents contemporary figures through biblical names and events.
• Alexander Pope belongs chiefly to the later Augustan phase, while Butler and Oldham wrote different forms of Restoration satire.
• Dryden's poem is a major example of the heroic couplet used for political argument.
• The poem is a political satire that represents contemporary figures through biblical names and events.
• Alexander Pope belongs chiefly to the later Augustan phase, while Butler and Oldham wrote different forms of Restoration satire.
• Dryden's poem is a major example of the heroic couplet used for political argument.
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Question 2
ప్రశ్న 2
What contemporary political crisis is allegorized in Absalom and Achitophel?
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Explanation:
• Absalom and Achitophel responds chiefly to the Exclusion Crisis of 1679 to 1681, which developed amid fears associated with the Popish Plot.
• The crisis concerned attempts to exclude James, Duke of York, from succession because he was Catholic.
• Dryden supports legitimate monarchy and attacks political manipulation.
• The Gunpowder Plot, Glorious Revolution and South Sea Bubble belong to different historical moments.
• The crisis concerned attempts to exclude James, Duke of York, from succession because he was Catholic.
• Dryden supports legitimate monarchy and attacks political manipulation.
• The Gunpowder Plot, Glorious Revolution and South Sea Bubble belong to different historical moments.
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Question 3
ప్రశ్న 3
In the political allegory of Absalom and Achitophel, King David chiefly represents whom?
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Explanation:
• King David represents Charles II in Dryden's political allegory.
• Absalom represents the Duke of Monmouth, the king's illegitimate son.
• Achitophel represents the Earl of Shaftesbury, who encouraged opposition to the succession.
• The biblical framework allows Dryden to elevate contemporary politics while satirizing rebellion and ambition.
• Absalom represents the Duke of Monmouth, the king's illegitimate son.
• Achitophel represents the Earl of Shaftesbury, who encouraged opposition to the succession.
• The biblical framework allows Dryden to elevate contemporary politics while satirizing rebellion and ambition.
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Question 4
ప్రశ్న 4
Who is represented by Achitophel in Dryden's political satire?
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Explanation:
• Achitophel represents Anthony Ashley Cooper, the Earl of Shaftesbury.
• Dryden portrays him as intellectually gifted but politically dangerous and driven by restless ambition.
• The Duke of Buckingham appears elsewhere in the poem under the name Zimri.
• Sir Robert Walpole belongs to a later Augustan political context.
• Dryden portrays him as intellectually gifted but politically dangerous and driven by restless ambition.
• The Duke of Buckingham appears elsewhere in the poem under the name Zimri.
• Sir Robert Walpole belongs to a later Augustan political context.
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Question 5
ప్రశ్న 5
Mac Flecknoe is primarily a satire on which writer?
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Explanation:
• Mac Flecknoe is Dryden's mock-heroic satire on Thomas Shadwell.
• Shadwell is presented as the chosen heir to the kingdom of poetic dullness.
• The poem magnifies literary incompetence through ceremonious epic language.
• The contrast between elevated style and trivial subject produces much of the satire.
• Shadwell is presented as the chosen heir to the kingdom of poetic dullness.
• The poem magnifies literary incompetence through ceremonious epic language.
• The contrast between elevated style and trivial subject produces much of the satire.
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Question 6
ప్రశ్న 6
Which description best defines a heroic couplet?
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Explanation:
• A heroic couplet consists of two rhymed lines, usually in iambic pentameter.
• Dryden and Pope developed it into a flexible instrument for satire, argument, description and moral reflection.
• The form often uses balanced clauses, antithesis and epigrammatic closure.
• Unrhymed iambic pentameter is blank verse rather than the heroic couplet.
• Dryden and Pope developed it into a flexible instrument for satire, argument, description and moral reflection.
• The form often uses balanced clauses, antithesis and epigrammatic closure.
• Unrhymed iambic pentameter is blank verse rather than the heroic couplet.
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Question 7
ప్రశ్న 7
Which work by Alexander Pope is a mock epic based on a fashionable social quarrel?
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Explanation:
• The Rape of the Lock transforms the cutting of a young woman's lock of hair into a mock-epic conflict.
• Pope based the poem on a quarrel involving Arabella Fermor and Lord Petre.
• Epic machinery, battles and supernatural agents are applied to a minor social incident.
• The result satirizes fashionable vanity while maintaining an elegant comic tone.
• Pope based the poem on a quarrel involving Arabella Fermor and Lord Petre.
• Epic machinery, battles and supernatural agents are applied to a minor social incident.
• The result satirizes fashionable vanity while maintaining an elegant comic tone.
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Question 8
ప్రశ్న 8
Who is the central female character in The Rape of the Lock?
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Explanation:
• Belinda is the central female character in The Rape of the Lock.
• Her elaborate toilette, card game and social appearance are described through mock-epic elevation.
• Clarissa supplies the scissors and later delivers a speech on good humour.
• Thalestris urges retaliation after the Baron cuts the lock.
• Her elaborate toilette, card game and social appearance are described through mock-epic elevation.
• Clarissa supplies the scissors and later delivers a speech on good humour.
• Thalestris urges retaliation after the Baron cuts the lock.
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Question 9
ప్రశ్న 9
Which supernatural beings guard Belinda in The Rape of the Lock?
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Explanation:
• Sylphs serve as airy guardian spirits around Belinda.
• Ariel is their chief and attempts to protect her during the social encounter.
• Pope adapted the supernatural machinery from contemporary Rosicrucian lore.
• These delicate spirits parody the gods and goddesses who intervene in classical epic.
• Ariel is their chief and attempts to protect her during the social encounter.
• Pope adapted the supernatural machinery from contemporary Rosicrucian lore.
• These delicate spirits parody the gods and goddesses who intervene in classical epic.
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Question 10
ప్రశ్న 10
Which game is treated as an epic battle in The Rape of the Lock?
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Explanation:
• The fashionable card game ombre is narrated as though it were a heroic military contest.
• Belinda's cards become troops, and the progress of play resembles battle strategy.
• This mock-epic transformation exposes the disproportion between social triviality and heroic language.
• The episode is one of Pope's finest examples of comic amplification.
• Belinda's cards become troops, and the progress of play resembles battle strategy.
• This mock-epic transformation exposes the disproportion between social triviality and heroic language.
• The episode is one of Pope's finest examples of comic amplification.
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Question 11
ప్రశ్న 11
What is the central subject of An Essay on Man?
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Explanation:
• An Essay on Man examines humanity's position within a providential and hierarchical universe.
• Pope argues that limited human beings should not presume to judge the entire design of creation.
• The poem discusses pride, happiness, self-love, reason and social order.
• Its philosophical method reflects Augustan ideals of balance, order and moderation.
• Pope argues that limited human beings should not presume to judge the entire design of creation.
• The poem discusses pride, happiness, self-love, reason and social order.
• Its philosophical method reflects Augustan ideals of balance, order and moderation.
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Question 12
ప్రశ్న 12
Which phrase from An Essay on Man expresses Pope's argument that apparent disorder may belong to a larger providential design?
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Explanation:
• Whatever is, is right summarizes Pope's optimistic claim that individual limitations may fit within a universal order.
• The statement does not mean that every human action is morally good.
• It concerns the larger providential structure that human reason can perceive only partially.
• The other phrases are associated with Pope but serve different argumentative contexts.
• The statement does not mean that every human action is morally good.
• It concerns the larger providential structure that human reason can perceive only partially.
• The other phrases are associated with Pope but serve different argumentative contexts.
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Question 13
ప్రశ్న 13
Which principle of neoclassical aesthetics requires style, action and character to suit the subject and occasion?
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Explanation:
• Decorum is the principle that language, action, genre and character should be appropriate to subject and occasion.
• Neoclassical writers valued propriety because it supported clarity, order and artistic control.
• Mock epic creates comedy by deliberately placing elevated epic style beside a trivial subject.
• Negative capability and organic form belong to later Romantic critical vocabulary.
• Neoclassical writers valued propriety because it supported clarity, order and artistic control.
• Mock epic creates comedy by deliberately placing elevated epic style beside a trivial subject.
• Negative capability and organic form belong to later Romantic critical vocabulary.
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Question 14
ప్రశ్న 14
Consider the following statements about Restoration and Augustan satire.
Statement I: Satire often seeks moral or social correction through ridicule.
Statement II: Neoclassical satire normally rejects wit, balance and rhetorical control.
Statement I: Satire often seeks moral or social correction through ridicule.
Statement II: Neoclassical satire normally rejects wit, balance and rhetorical control.
Select an option first. || ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Statement I is correct because satire exposes folly, vice, corruption or bad taste through ridicule and judgement.
• Statement II is incorrect because wit, balance, control and rhetorical precision are major features of neoclassical satire.
• Dryden and Pope turn the heroic couplet into a highly disciplined satiric instrument.
• Therefore, Statement I is correct, but Statement II is incorrect.
• Statement II is incorrect because wit, balance, control and rhetorical precision are major features of neoclassical satire.
• Dryden and Pope turn the heroic couplet into a highly disciplined satiric instrument.
• Therefore, Statement I is correct, but Statement II is incorrect.
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Question 15
ప్రశ్న 15
Which of the following statements about Mac Flecknoe are correct?
1. It presents Flecknoe as the ruler of dullness.
2. Shadwell is selected as Flecknoe's successor.
3. The poem uses mock-coronation imagery.
4. It praises Shadwell as Dryden's ideal poetic heir.
1. It presents Flecknoe as the ruler of dullness.
2. Shadwell is selected as Flecknoe's successor.
3. The poem uses mock-coronation imagery.
4. It praises Shadwell as Dryden's ideal poetic heir.
Select an option first. || ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Statement 1 is correct because Flecknoe rules a symbolic kingdom of poetic dullness.
• Statement 2 is correct because Shadwell is chosen to inherit that kingdom.
• Statement 3 is correct because the poem parodies ceremonies of succession and coronation.
• Statement 4 is incorrect because the apparent praise is ironic and designed to expose Shadwell's incompetence.
• Therefore, the correct combination is 1, 2 and 3 only.
• Statement 2 is correct because Shadwell is chosen to inherit that kingdom.
• Statement 3 is correct because the poem parodies ceremonies of succession and coronation.
• Statement 4 is incorrect because the apparent praise is ironic and designed to expose Shadwell's incompetence.
• Therefore, the correct combination is 1, 2 and 3 only.
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Question 16
ప్రశ్న 16
Assertion: The Rape of the Lock is called a mock epic.
Reason: It applies epic conventions and elevated language to a trivial social incident.
Reason: It applies epic conventions and elevated language to a trivial social incident.
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Explanation:
• The Assertion is correct because The Rape of the Lock is a major English mock epic.
• The Reason is correct because the poem enlarges the cutting of a lock of hair through invocations, supernatural machinery, battle and heroic diction.
• The disproportion between form and subject generates the comic effect.
• Therefore, the Reason correctly explains the Assertion.
• The Reason is correct because the poem enlarges the cutting of a lock of hair through invocations, supernatural machinery, battle and heroic diction.
• The disproportion between form and subject generates the comic effect.
• Therefore, the Reason correctly explains the Assertion.
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Question 17
ప్రశ్న 17
Match List I with List II.
List I
1. Absalom and Achitophel
2. Mac Flecknoe
3. The Rape of the Lock
4. An Essay on Man
List II
i. Philosophical poem on humanity and providential order
ii. Political biblical allegory
iii. Mock-heroic satire on Shadwell
iv. Social mock epic involving Belinda
List I
1. Absalom and Achitophel
2. Mac Flecknoe
3. The Rape of the Lock
4. An Essay on Man
List II
i. Philosophical poem on humanity and providential order
ii. Political biblical allegory
iii. Mock-heroic satire on Shadwell
iv. Social mock epic involving Belinda
Select an option first. || ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Absalom and Achitophel matches ii because it turns the Exclusion Crisis into biblical political allegory.
• Mac Flecknoe matches iii because it is Dryden's mock-heroic attack on Shadwell.
• The Rape of the Lock matches iv because it presents Belinda's social quarrel as a mock epic.
• An Essay on Man matches i because it examines humanity within providential order.
• Therefore, the correct code is 1-ii, 2-iii, 3-iv, 4-i.
• Mac Flecknoe matches iii because it is Dryden's mock-heroic attack on Shadwell.
• The Rape of the Lock matches iv because it presents Belinda's social quarrel as a mock epic.
• An Essay on Man matches i because it examines humanity within providential order.
• Therefore, the correct code is 1-ii, 2-iii, 3-iv, 4-i.
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Question 18
ప్రశ్న 18
Which sequence gives the correct chronological order of these works?
1. Absalom and Achitophel
2. Mac Flecknoe
3. The Rape of the Lock in its expanded five-canto form
4. An Essay on Man
1. Absalom and Achitophel
2. Mac Flecknoe
3. The Rape of the Lock in its expanded five-canto form
4. An Essay on Man
Select an option first. || ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Absalom and Achitophel was published in 1681.
• Mac Flecknoe appeared in 1682, though it may have been composed earlier.
• The expanded five-canto version of The Rape of the Lock appeared in 1714.
• An Essay on Man was published in epistles between 1733 and 1734.
• Therefore, the correct sequence is 1, 2, 3, 4.
• Mac Flecknoe appeared in 1682, though it may have been composed earlier.
• The expanded five-canto version of The Rape of the Lock appeared in 1714.
• An Essay on Man was published in epistles between 1733 and 1734.
• Therefore, the correct sequence is 1, 2, 3, 4.
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Question 19
ప్రశ్న 19
Which of the following pairs is incorrectly matched?
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Explanation:
• Ariel is the chief sylph who attempts to guard Belinda, not the Baron.
• The Baron is the fashionable young man who cuts Belinda's lock.
• Zimri represents the Duke of Buckingham in Absalom and Achitophel.
• Shadwell is the satiric target of Mac Flecknoe.
• Therefore, the fourth pair is incorrectly matched.
• The Baron is the fashionable young man who cuts Belinda's lock.
• Zimri represents the Duke of Buckingham in Absalom and Achitophel.
• Shadwell is the satiric target of Mac Flecknoe.
• Therefore, the fourth pair is incorrectly matched.
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Question 20
ప్రశ్న 20
Which technique is especially characteristic of Pope's heroic couplets?
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Explanation:
• Pope frequently structures heroic couplets through parallel clauses, antithesis and balanced syntax.
• The rhyme often closes the thought with memorable epigrammatic force.
• This controlled form supports satire, moral argument and polished wit.
• His couplets are carefully shaped rather than syntactically uncontrolled.
• The rhyme often closes the thought with memorable epigrammatic force.
• This controlled form supports satire, moral argument and polished wit.
• His couplets are carefully shaped rather than syntactically uncontrolled.
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Question 21
ప్రశ్న 21
Which statement best explains neoclassical poetic diction?
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Explanation:
• Neoclassical poetic diction values clarity, propriety, elegance and established rhetorical convention.
• Language is expected to suit the genre, subject and social level represented.
• Classical allusion and rhetorical figures are frequently used rather than excluded.
• Later Romantic poets would challenge some forms of specialized or artificial poetic diction.
• Language is expected to suit the genre, subject and social level represented.
• Classical allusion and rhetorical figures are frequently used rather than excluded.
• Later Romantic poets would challenge some forms of specialized or artificial poetic diction.
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Question 22
ప్రశ్న 22
Consider the following statements about Augustan ideals.
Statement I: Augustan writers admired order, proportion, reason and classical precedent.
Statement II: The term Augustan reflects an analogy between eighteenth-century Britain and the age of the Roman emperor Augustus.
Statement I: Augustan writers admired order, proportion, reason and classical precedent.
Statement II: The term Augustan reflects an analogy between eighteenth-century Britain and the age of the Roman emperor Augustus.
Select an option first. || ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Statement I is correct because Augustan literature values balance, reason, decorum and disciplined imitation of classical models.
• Statement II is correct because writers compared their culture with the literary brilliance associated with Augustan Rome.
• The analogy supported ideas of refinement, public order and artistic maturity.
• Therefore, both statements are correct.
• Statement II is correct because writers compared their culture with the literary brilliance associated with Augustan Rome.
• The analogy supported ideas of refinement, public order and artistic maturity.
• Therefore, both statements are correct.
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Question 23
ప్రశ్న 23
Which of the following statements about An Essay on Man are correct?
1. It is organized into four epistles.
2. It examines the relationship between human limitation and universal order.
3. It is written chiefly in heroic couplets.
4. It argues that human reason can fully comprehend every part of providence.
1. It is organized into four epistles.
2. It examines the relationship between human limitation and universal order.
3. It is written chiefly in heroic couplets.
4. It argues that human reason can fully comprehend every part of providence.
Select an option first. || ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Statement 1 is correct because An Essay on Man consists of four epistles.
• Statement 2 is correct because Pope examines humanity's limited position within a larger order.
• Statement 3 is correct because the poem is composed in heroic couplets.
• Statement 4 is incorrect because Pope repeatedly stresses the limits of human understanding.
• Therefore, the correct combination is 1, 2 and 3 only.
• Statement 2 is correct because Pope examines humanity's limited position within a larger order.
• Statement 3 is correct because the poem is composed in heroic couplets.
• Statement 4 is incorrect because Pope repeatedly stresses the limits of human understanding.
• Therefore, the correct combination is 1, 2 and 3 only.
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Question 24
ప్రశ్న 24
Which comparison between Dryden and Pope is most accurate?
Select an option first. || ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Dryden uses the heroic couplet dynamically in political allegory, literary satire and public argument.
• Pope brings extraordinary polish and compression to the form in mock epic, criticism and philosophical poetry.
• Both poets are deeply engaged with classical precedent, public controversy and moral judgement.
• Option B accurately distinguishes their dominant contributions while recognizing their shared neoclassical craft.
• Pope brings extraordinary polish and compression to the form in mock epic, criticism and philosophical poetry.
• Both poets are deeply engaged with classical precedent, public controversy and moral judgement.
• Option B accurately distinguishes their dominant contributions while recognizing their shared neoclassical craft.
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Question 25
ప్రశ్న 25
Which integrated statement best describes Restoration and Neoclassical poetry?
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Explanation:
• Restoration and Neoclassical poetry draws heavily on classical genres, models and standards of artistic propriety.
• Dryden and Pope use satire to examine politics, literary incompetence, fashionable society and human pride.
• The heroic couplet provides balance, flexibility and rhetorical force.
• Wit, decorum, reason and formal control are central Augustan ideals.
• Dryden and Pope use satire to examine politics, literary incompetence, fashionable society and human pride.
• The heroic couplet provides balance, flexibility and rhetorical force.
• Wit, decorum, reason and formal control are central Augustan ideals.
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Answer Key సమాధానాల పట్టిక
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Question 1 ప్రశ్న 1Answer: B. John Dryden సమాధానం: B.
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Question 2 ప్రశ్న 2Answer: A. The Popish Plot and Exclusion Crisis సమాధానం: A.
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Question 3 ప్రశ్న 3Answer: C. Charles II సమాధానం: C.
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Question 4 ప్రశ్న 4Answer: D. The Earl of Shaftesbury సమాధానం: D.
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Question 5 ప్రశ్న 5Answer: A. Thomas Shadwell సమాధానం: A.
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Question 6 ప్రశ్న 6Answer: B. Two rhymed lines of iambic pentameter సమాధానం: B.
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Question 7 ప్రశ్న 7Answer: B. The Rape of the Lock సమాధానం: B.
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Question 8 ప్రశ్న 8Answer: D. Belinda సమాధానం: D.
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Question 9 ప్రశ్న 9Answer: C. Sylphs సమాధానం: C.
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Question 10 ప్రశ్న 10Answer: B. Ombre సమాధానం: B.
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Question 11 ప్రశ్న 11Answer: A. Human beings within the divinely ordered universe సమాధానం: A.
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Question 12 ప్రశ్న 12Answer: D. Whatever is, is right సమాధానం: D.
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Question 13 ప్రశ్న 13Answer: B. Decorum సమాధానం: B.
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Question 14 ప్రశ్న 14Answer: C. Statement I is correct, but Statement II is incorrect సమాధానం: C.
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Question 15 ప్రశ్న 15Answer: C. 1, 2 and 3 only సమాధానం: C.
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Question 16 ప్రశ్న 16Answer: A. Both Assertion and Reason are correct, and Reason is the correct explanation of Assertion సమాధానం: A.
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Question 17 ప్రశ్న 17Answer: D. 1-ii, 2-iii, 3-iv, 4-i సమాధానం: D.
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Question 18 ప్రశ్న 18Answer: C. 1, 2, 3, 4 సమాధానం: C.
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Question 19 ప్రశ్న 19Answer: D. Ariel — the Baron who cuts the lock సమాధానం: D.
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Question 20 ప్రశ్న 20Answer: A. Balanced antithesis and epigrammatic closure సమాధానం: A.
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Question 21 ప్రశ్న 21Answer: C. It seeks controlled, elevated and appropriate expression shaped by convention సమాధానం: C.
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Question 22 ప్రశ్న 22Answer: A. Both Statement I and Statement II are correct సమాధానం: A.
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Question 23 ప్రశ్న 23Answer: C. 1, 2 and 3 only సమాధానం: C.
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Question 24 ప్రశ్న 24Answer: B. Dryden develops the heroic couplet for political and literary satire, while Pope refines it for mock epic and philosophical argument సమాధానం: B.
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Question 25 ప్రశ్న 25Answer: D. It joins classical imitation, formal discipline, satire and public argument through ideals of wit, decorum and order సమాధానం: D.