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Question 1
ప్రశ్న 1
Who wrote The Road Not Taken?
Explanation:
• Robert Frost wrote The Road Not Taken.
• The poem presents a traveller choosing between two apparently similar roads.
• It explores choice, self-narration and the human tendency to assign meaning retrospectively.
• The poem is often oversimplified as a celebration of individualism, although its irony complicates that interpretation.
• The poem presents a traveller choosing between two apparently similar roads.
• It explores choice, self-narration and the human tendency to assign meaning retrospectively.
• The poem is often oversimplified as a celebration of individualism, although its irony complicates that interpretation.
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Question 2
ప్రశ్న 2
Which statement best describes Robert Frost's characteristic poetic method?
Explanation:
• Frost frequently places speakers in farms, woods, roads and villages associated with New England.
• Apparently simple situations develop into reflections on choice, isolation, labour, boundaries and mortality.
• His language often sounds conversational while remaining metrically controlled.
• Frost's rural settings should therefore not be mistaken for intellectual simplicity.
• Apparently simple situations develop into reflections on choice, isolation, labour, boundaries and mortality.
• His language often sounds conversational while remaining metrically controlled.
• Frost's rural settings should therefore not be mistaken for intellectual simplicity.
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Question 3
ప్రశ్న 3
In Mending Wall, what annual activity brings the two neighbours together?
Explanation:
• The neighbours meet each spring to repair the stone wall dividing their properties.
• The speaker questions the wall's necessity because there are no cattle to contain.
• The neighbour repeats an inherited belief about the value of boundaries.
• The poem explores communication, tradition, separation and the human desire to create limits.
• The speaker questions the wall's necessity because there are no cattle to contain.
• The neighbour repeats an inherited belief about the value of boundaries.
• The poem explores communication, tradition, separation and the human desire to create limits.
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Question 4
ప్రశ్న 4
Which poem by Robert Frost ends with the speaker recalling promises and a long distance still to travel?
Explanation:
• Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening presents a traveller pausing beside dark and quiet woods.
• The final repetition emphasizes obligations and the journey that must continue.
• The woods may suggest beauty, rest, temptation or death without being reduced to one meaning.
• Frost combines simple diction with rhythmic and symbolic complexity.
• The final repetition emphasizes obligations and the journey that must continue.
• The woods may suggest beauty, rest, temptation or death without being reduced to one meaning.
• Frost combines simple diction with rhythmic and symbolic complexity.
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Question 5
ప్రశ్న 5
Which poet wrote Sunday Morning and The Emperor of Ice-Cream?
Explanation:
• Wallace Stevens wrote both Sunday Morning and The Emperor of Ice-Cream.
• His poetry frequently examines imagination, reality, belief and the act of perception.
• Sunday Morning considers spiritual meaning outside conventional Christianity.
• The Emperor of Ice-Cream confronts death through sensuous, enigmatic and anti-sentimental imagery.
• His poetry frequently examines imagination, reality, belief and the act of perception.
• Sunday Morning considers spiritual meaning outside conventional Christianity.
• The Emperor of Ice-Cream confronts death through sensuous, enigmatic and anti-sentimental imagery.
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Question 6
ప్రశ్న 6
Which opposition is central to much of Wallace Stevens's poetry?
Explanation:
• Stevens repeatedly explores the relationship between the shaping imagination and external reality.
• The imagination creates orders and perspectives through which the world becomes meaningful.
• Reality nevertheless resists complete imaginative control.
• His poetry often dramatizes an ongoing negotiation rather than a final victory of one side.
• The imagination creates orders and perspectives through which the world becomes meaningful.
• Reality nevertheless resists complete imaginative control.
• His poetry often dramatizes an ongoing negotiation rather than a final victory of one side.
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Question 7
ప్రశ్న 7
Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird chiefly demonstrates which modern poetic principle?
Explanation:
• Stevens presents the blackbird through thirteen separate but related perspectives.
• The poem demonstrates how shifts in context and perception alter the meaning of an object.
• Fragmentation becomes a method of inquiry rather than mere disorder.
• The poem refuses to reduce reality to one stable viewpoint.
• The poem demonstrates how shifts in context and perception alter the meaning of an object.
• Fragmentation becomes a method of inquiry rather than mere disorder.
• The poem refuses to reduce reality to one stable viewpoint.
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Question 8
ప్రశ్న 8
Which literary and cultural movement is most closely associated with Langston Hughes?
Explanation:
• Langston Hughes was a major figure of the Harlem Renaissance.
• The movement flourished during the 1920s and promoted African American artistic, intellectual and cultural expression.
• Hughes incorporated Black speech, music, history and working-class experience into his poetry.
• His work helped establish a distinctive modern African American poetic voice.
• The movement flourished during the 1920s and promoted African American artistic, intellectual and cultural expression.
• Hughes incorporated Black speech, music, history and working-class experience into his poetry.
• His work helped establish a distinctive modern African American poetic voice.
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Question 9
ప్రశ్న 9
Which poem by Langston Hughes links African American identity with ancient rivers and civilizations?
Explanation:
• The Negro Speaks of Rivers connects the speaker's identity with the Euphrates, Congo, Nile and Mississippi.
• The rivers create a historical continuity extending from ancient civilization to African American experience.
• The poem gives the collective Black voice depth, dignity and endurance.
• Its repeated river imagery joins memory, race and cultural ancestry.
• The rivers create a historical continuity extending from ancient civilization to African American experience.
• The poem gives the collective Black voice depth, dignity and endurance.
• Its repeated river imagery joins memory, race and cultural ancestry.
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Question 10
ప్రశ్న 10
In Hughes's poem Harlem, a deferred dream is presented through what method?
Explanation:
• Harlem asks what happens when a dream is postponed or denied.
• It develops the question through images of drying, infection, decay, sweetness and burden.
• The final possibility of explosion gives social frustration a threatening political force.
• The poem connects compressed imagery with racial injustice.
• It develops the question through images of drying, infection, decay, sweetness and burden.
• The final possibility of explosion gives social frustration a threatening political force.
• The poem connects compressed imagery with racial injustice.
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Question 11
ప్రశ్న 11
Which statement best describes the influence of music on Langston Hughes's poetry?
Explanation:
• Hughes drew extensively on blues and jazz rhythms, repetition, improvisation and performance.
• These forms allowed him to represent African American speech, sorrow, resilience and communal creativity.
• His musical techniques are structural rather than merely decorative.
• They also challenge narrow definitions of literary language and poetic form.
• These forms allowed him to represent African American speech, sorrow, resilience and communal creativity.
• His musical techniques are structural rather than merely decorative.
• They also challenge narrow definitions of literary language and poetic form.
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Question 12
ప్రశ్న 12
What does the term confessional poetry generally describe?
Explanation:
• Confessional poetry directly examines subjects such as mental illness, family conflict, sexuality, trauma and the body.
• The mode became prominent in American poetry during the 1950s and 1960s.
• Personal material is artistically shaped rather than presented as unmediated autobiography.
• Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton are major poets associated with this development.
• The mode became prominent in American poetry during the 1950s and 1960s.
• Personal material is artistically shaped rather than presented as unmediated autobiography.
• Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton are major poets associated with this development.
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Question 13
ప్రశ్న 13
Which collection by Sylvia Plath contains many of her most intense late poems?
Explanation:
• Ariel contains many poems written during Plath's extraordinary final creative period.
• The collection includes works associated with transformation, anger, identity, death and rebirth.
• It was published posthumously in 1965 in an arrangement prepared by Ted Hughes.
• Later editions have attempted to present Plath's own intended ordering.
• The collection includes works associated with transformation, anger, identity, death and rebirth.
• It was published posthumously in 1965 in an arrangement prepared by Ted Hughes.
• Later editions have attempted to present Plath's own intended ordering.
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Question 14
ప్రశ్న 14
Consider the following statements about Sylvia Plath's Lady Lazarus.
Statement I: The speaker repeatedly represents survival through images of performance and rebirth.
Statement II: The poem presents identity as stable, private and untouched by public spectatorship.
Statement I: The speaker repeatedly represents survival through images of performance and rebirth.
Statement II: The poem presents identity as stable, private and untouched by public spectatorship.
Explanation:
• Statement I is correct because the speaker describes repeated death and return through theatrical and resurrection imagery.
• Statement II is incorrect because the poem repeatedly invokes spectators, display, performance and commodification.
• The speaker's identity is constructed through conflict with those who watch, interpret and control her.
• Therefore, Statement I is correct, but Statement II is incorrect.
• Statement II is incorrect because the poem repeatedly invokes spectators, display, performance and commodification.
• The speaker's identity is constructed through conflict with those who watch, interpret and control her.
• Therefore, Statement I is correct, but Statement II is incorrect.
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Question 15
ప్రశ్న 15
Which of the following statements about Plath's Daddy are correct?
1. The poem uses a nursery-rhyme-like sound pattern.
2. It combines personal conflict with historical and mythic imagery.
3. Its speaker should be treated as identical in every respect with the historical poet.
4. It explores domination, anger and attempted psychological release.
1. The poem uses a nursery-rhyme-like sound pattern.
2. It combines personal conflict with historical and mythic imagery.
3. Its speaker should be treated as identical in every respect with the historical poet.
4. It explores domination, anger and attempted psychological release.
Explanation:
• Statement 1 is correct because the poem uses strongly repeated sounds and rhythms resembling a dark nursery rhyme.
• Statement 2 is correct because personal relationships are represented through historical, political and mythic comparisons.
• Statement 3 is incorrect because the speaking persona is a constructed poetic voice rather than a complete documentary equivalent of Plath.
• Statement 4 is correct because the poem dramatizes domination, rage and the desire for release.
• Therefore, the correct combination is 1, 2 and 4 only.
• Statement 2 is correct because personal relationships are represented through historical, political and mythic comparisons.
• Statement 3 is incorrect because the speaking persona is a constructed poetic voice rather than a complete documentary equivalent of Plath.
• Statement 4 is correct because the poem dramatizes domination, rage and the desire for release.
• Therefore, the correct combination is 1, 2 and 4 only.
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Question 16
ప్రశ్న 16
Assertion: Plath's poetry should not be read as raw autobiography alone.
Reason: She transforms personal material through persona, symbolism, rhythm and literary allusion.
Reason: She transforms personal material through persona, symbolism, rhythm and literary allusion.
Explanation:
• The Assertion is correct because Plath's poems are carefully constructed literary works rather than simple personal records.
• The Reason is correct because voice, imagery, sound and allusion reshape biographical material.
• A poetic speaker may exaggerate, combine or transform experience for artistic purposes.
• The Reason therefore correctly explains the Assertion.
• The Reason is correct because voice, imagery, sound and allusion reshape biographical material.
• A poetic speaker may exaggerate, combine or transform experience for artistic purposes.
• The Reason therefore correctly explains the Assertion.
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Question 17
ప్రశ్న 17
Which poet wrote Her Kind and the Pulitzer Prize-winning collection Live or Die?
Explanation:
• Anne Sexton wrote Her Kind and the collection Live or Die.
• Live or Die received the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1967.
• Sexton's poetry frequently confronts mental illness, family life, gender expectations and bodily experience.
• Her Kind uses the figure of the socially condemned woman to explore exclusion and identity.
• Live or Die received the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1967.
• Sexton's poetry frequently confronts mental illness, family life, gender expectations and bodily experience.
• Her Kind uses the figure of the socially condemned woman to explore exclusion and identity.
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Question 18
ప్రశ్న 18
Which work by Anne Sexton rewrites traditional fairy tales from a modern and often disturbing perspective?
Explanation:
• Transformations is Anne Sexton's collection of revisionary fairy-tale poems.
• The poems retell stories associated with the Brothers Grimm through contemporary, ironic and psychologically charged voices.
• Sexton exposes violence, gender roles and disturbing family structures within familiar tales.
• The work combines confessional style with mythic and cultural revision.
• The poems retell stories associated with the Brothers Grimm through contemporary, ironic and psychologically charged voices.
• Sexton exposes violence, gender roles and disturbing family structures within familiar tales.
• The work combines confessional style with mythic and cultural revision.
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Question 19
ప్రశ్న 19
Which Adrienne Rich poem uses an underwater exploration as a metaphor for investigating inherited history and identity?
Explanation:
• Diving into the Wreck presents a speaker descending into the sea to examine a damaged wreck directly.
• The journey becomes a metaphor for investigating history, myth, gender and suppressed experience.
• The speaker moves beyond inherited descriptions to confront material evidence.
• The poem combines personal exploration with collective and political meaning.
• The journey becomes a metaphor for investigating history, myth, gender and suppressed experience.
• The speaker moves beyond inherited descriptions to confront material evidence.
• The poem combines personal exploration with collective and political meaning.
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Question 20
ప్రశ్న 20
What contrast is central to Adrienne Rich's Aunt Jennifer's Tigers?
Explanation:
• The embroidered tigers move with confidence, pride and freedom.
• Aunt Jennifer is physically and psychologically burdened by her marriage.
• Her art imagines an energy and independence unavailable in her ordinary life.
• The contrast exposes gendered power while also suggesting the endurance of artistic creation.
• Aunt Jennifer is physically and psychologically burdened by her marriage.
• Her art imagines an energy and independence unavailable in her ordinary life.
• The contrast exposes gendered power while also suggesting the endurance of artistic creation.
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Question 21
ప్రశ్న 21
Match List I with List II.
List I
1. Robert Frost
2. Wallace Stevens
3. Langston Hughes
4. Adrienne Rich
List II
i. Diving into the Wreck
ii. Sunday Morning
iii. Mending Wall
iv. The Negro Speaks of Rivers
List I
1. Robert Frost
2. Wallace Stevens
3. Langston Hughes
4. Adrienne Rich
List II
i. Diving into the Wreck
ii. Sunday Morning
iii. Mending Wall
iv. The Negro Speaks of Rivers
Explanation:
• Robert Frost matches iii because he wrote Mending Wall.
• Wallace Stevens matches ii because he wrote Sunday Morning.
• Langston Hughes matches iv because he wrote The Negro Speaks of Rivers.
• Adrienne Rich matches i because she wrote Diving into the Wreck.
• Therefore, the correct code is 1-iii, 2-ii, 3-iv, 4-i.
• Wallace Stevens matches ii because he wrote Sunday Morning.
• Langston Hughes matches iv because he wrote The Negro Speaks of Rivers.
• Adrienne Rich matches i because she wrote Diving into the Wreck.
• Therefore, the correct code is 1-iii, 2-ii, 3-iv, 4-i.
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Question 22
ప్రశ్న 22
Which sequence gives the correct chronological order of publication?
1. Frost's North of Boston
2. Stevens's Harmonium
3. Hughes's The Weary Blues
4. Plath's Ariel
1. Frost's North of Boston
2. Stevens's Harmonium
3. Hughes's The Weary Blues
4. Plath's Ariel
Explanation:
• North of Boston was first published in 1914.
• Wallace Stevens's Harmonium appeared in 1923.
• Langston Hughes's The Weary Blues was published in 1926.
• Sylvia Plath's Ariel appeared posthumously in 1965.
• Therefore, the correct sequence is 1, 2, 3, 4.
• Wallace Stevens's Harmonium appeared in 1923.
• Langston Hughes's The Weary Blues was published in 1926.
• Sylvia Plath's Ariel appeared posthumously in 1965.
• Therefore, the correct sequence is 1, 2, 3, 4.
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Question 23
ప్రశ్న 23
Which of the following pairs is incorrectly matched?
Explanation:
• Anne Sexton is strongly associated with personal, familial and psychological subject matter.
• Frost uses rural settings to explore ambiguity and conflict.
• Stevens repeatedly examines imagination and reality.
• Hughes was a central poet of the Harlem Renaissance.
• Therefore, the fourth pair is incorrectly matched.
• Frost uses rural settings to explore ambiguity and conflict.
• Stevens repeatedly examines imagination and reality.
• Hughes was a central poet of the Harlem Renaissance.
• Therefore, the fourth pair is incorrectly matched.
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Question 24
ప్రశ్న 24
Consider the following statements about gender and identity in the poetry of Plath, Sexton and Rich.
Statement I: Their poetry often challenges restrictive roles imposed upon women.
Statement II: All three poets use precisely the same style and political method.
Statement I: Their poetry often challenges restrictive roles imposed upon women.
Statement II: All three poets use precisely the same style and political method.
Explanation:
• Statement I is correct because these poets repeatedly examine domesticity, sexuality, authority, motherhood and female identity.
• Statement II is incorrect because their poetic styles, historical positions and political strategies differ considerably.
• Plath often uses volatile persona and myth, Sexton uses direct confessional narration and Rich increasingly develops an explicitly feminist public voice.
• Therefore, Statement I is correct, but Statement II is incorrect.
• Statement II is incorrect because their poetic styles, historical positions and political strategies differ considerably.
• Plath often uses volatile persona and myth, Sexton uses direct confessional narration and Rich increasingly develops an explicitly feminist public voice.
• Therefore, Statement I is correct, but Statement II is incorrect.
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Question 25
ప్రశ్న 25
Which of the following statements correctly compare modern American poetic voices?
1. Frost combines conversational speech with formal control.
2. Stevens uses philosophical abstraction and shifting perspectives.
3. Hughes draws upon African American speech and musical forms.
4. Confessional poets transform intimate experience into crafted public language.
1. Frost combines conversational speech with formal control.
2. Stevens uses philosophical abstraction and shifting perspectives.
3. Hughes draws upon African American speech and musical forms.
4. Confessional poets transform intimate experience into crafted public language.
Explanation:
• Statement 1 is correct because Frost's apparent simplicity is supported by careful metre and form.
• Statement 2 is correct because Stevens explores perception and reality through abstraction and multiple viewpoints.
• Statement 3 is correct because Hughes incorporates blues, jazz and African American vernacular traditions.
• Statement 4 is correct because confessional poetry artistically shapes private experience for public reading.
• Therefore, all four statements are correct.
• Statement 2 is correct because Stevens explores perception and reality through abstraction and multiple viewpoints.
• Statement 3 is correct because Hughes incorporates blues, jazz and African American vernacular traditions.
• Statement 4 is correct because confessional poetry artistically shapes private experience for public reading.
• Therefore, all four statements are correct.
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Question 26
ప్రశ్న 26
Which comparison between Langston Hughes and Adrienne Rich is most accurate?
Explanation:
• Hughes gives poetic expression to African American history, music, labour, aspiration and racial injustice.
• Rich's poetry increasingly investigates patriarchy, sexuality, language, history and feminist political consciousness.
• Both poets connect individual voice with collective identity and public struggle.
• Their differing emphases demonstrate the range of socially engaged American poetry.
• Rich's poetry increasingly investigates patriarchy, sexuality, language, history and feminist political consciousness.
• Both poets connect individual voice with collective identity and public struggle.
• Their differing emphases demonstrate the range of socially engaged American poetry.
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Question 27
ప్రశ్న 27
Which integrated statement best describes modern American and confessional poetry?
Explanation:
• Frost, Stevens and Hughes develop sharply different approaches to modern American experience.
• Confessional poets bring intimate psychological and familial subjects into carefully constructed public poetry.
• Plath, Sexton and Rich challenge established representations of identity, gender and authority.
• The period is defined by formal diversity, experimentation and the expansion of what American poetry can address.
• Confessional poets bring intimate psychological and familial subjects into carefully constructed public poetry.
• Plath, Sexton and Rich challenge established representations of identity, gender and authority.
• The period is defined by formal diversity, experimentation and the expansion of what American poetry can address.
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Answer Key సమాధానాల పట్టిక
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Question 1 ప్రశ్న 1Answer: A. Robert Frost సమాధానం: A.
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Question 2 ప్రశ్న 2Answer: B. He uses familiar New England settings to explore complex psychological and philosophical questions సమాధానం: B.
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Question 3 ప్రశ్న 3Answer: C. Repairing the stone boundary సమాధానం: C.
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Question 4 ప్రశ్న 4Answer: D. Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening సమాధానం: D.
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Question 5 ప్రశ్న 5Answer: A. Wallace Stevens సమాధానం: A.
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Question 6 ప్రశ్న 6Answer: B. Imagination and reality సమాధానం: B.
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Question 7 ప్రశ్న 7Answer: A. A single object may generate multiple perspectives సమాధానం: A.
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Question 8 ప్రశ్న 8Answer: C. The Harlem Renaissance సమాధానం: C.
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Question 9 ప్రశ్న 9Answer: D. The Negro Speaks of Rivers సమాధానం: D.
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Question 10 ప్రశ్న 10Answer: A. A sequence of disturbing sensory comparisons సమాధానం: A.
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Question 11 ప్రశ్న 11Answer: B. He adapted rhythms and structures associated with blues and jazz సమాధానం: B.
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Question 12 ప్రశ్న 12Answer: C. Poetry that directly explores intimate psychological, familial and bodily experience సమాధానం: C.
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Question 13 ప్రశ్న 13Answer: D. Ariel సమాధానం: D.
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Question 14 ప్రశ్న 14Answer: B. Statement I is correct, but Statement II is incorrect సమాధానం: B.
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Question 15 ప్రశ్న 15Answer: C. 1, 2 and 4 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: C. Anne Sexton సమాధానం: C.
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Question 18 ప్రశ్న 18Answer: A. Transformations సమాధానం: A.
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Question 19 ప్రశ్న 19Answer: B. Diving into the Wreck సమాధానం: B.
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Question 20 ప్రశ్న 20Answer: A. The freedom of the embroidered tigers and Aunt Jennifer's burdened life సమాధానం: A.
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Question 21 ప్రశ్న 21Answer: C. 1-iii, 2-ii, 3-iv, 4-i సమాధానం: C.
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Question 22 ప్రశ్న 22Answer: B. 1, 2, 3, 4 సమాధానం: B.
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Question 23 ప్రశ్న 23Answer: D. Anne Sexton — rejection of personal and psychological subjects సమాధానం: D.
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Question 24 ప్రశ్న 24Answer: C. Statement I is correct, but Statement II is incorrect సమాధానం: C.
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Question 25 ప్రశ్న 25Answer: D. 1, 2, 3 and 4 సమాధానం: D.
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Question 26 ప్రశ్న 26Answer: B. Hughes explores race and Black cultural experience, while Rich increasingly examines gender, power and feminist identity సమాధానం: B.
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Question 27 ప్రశ్న 27Answer: A. It develops diverse experimental voices that examine perception, race, gender, identity and psychological conflict సమాధానం: A.
