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Question 1
ప్రశ్న 1
Which description best defines the familiar essay?
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Explanation:
• The familiar essay is marked by an informal, personal and conversational manner.
• The essayist often addresses readers as though participating in a private conversation.
• Memory, anecdote, humour, digression and self-reflection are common features of the form.
• It differs from systematic treatises, official records and formal sermons.
• The essayist often addresses readers as though participating in a private conversation.
• Memory, anecdote, humour, digression and self-reflection are common features of the form.
• It differs from systematic treatises, official records and formal sermons.
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Question 2
ప్రశ్న 2
Who wrote Essays of Elia?
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Explanation:
• Charles Lamb wrote the essays collected as Essays of Elia.
• Many of the essays first appeared in The London Magazine.
• Lamb's essays combine autobiography, memory, humour, fantasy and literary reflection.
• Hazlitt, De Quincey and Hunt were important Romantic prose writers, but they did not write Essays of Elia.
• Many of the essays first appeared in The London Magazine.
• Lamb's essays combine autobiography, memory, humour, fantasy and literary reflection.
• Hazlitt, De Quincey and Hunt were important Romantic prose writers, but they did not write Essays of Elia.
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Question 3
ప్రశ్న 3
Which pseudonym did Charles Lamb use for the persona of his familiar essays?
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Explanation:
• Charles Lamb published his familiar essays under the persona Elia.
• The persona allowed Lamb to transform personal experience through humour, imagination and selective self-presentation.
• Boz is associated with Charles Dickens, while Geoffrey Crayon is associated with Washington Irving.
• Isaac Bickerstaff is the persona connected with Richard Steele's The Tatler.
• The persona allowed Lamb to transform personal experience through humour, imagination and selective self-presentation.
• Boz is associated with Charles Dickens, while Geoffrey Crayon is associated with Washington Irving.
• Isaac Bickerstaff is the persona connected with Richard Steele's The Tatler.
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Question 4
ప్రశ్న 4
What is the subtitle of Charles Lamb's Dream Children?
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Explanation:
• The complete title is Dream Children: A Reverie.
• The term reverie indicates a dreamlike state of reflection and imagination.
• The essay moves between remembered family history and an imagined domestic future.
• Its final revelation transforms the apparent conversation into a poignant fantasy.
• The term reverie indicates a dreamlike state of reflection and imagination.
• The essay moves between remembered family history and an imagined domestic future.
• Its final revelation transforms the apparent conversation into a poignant fantasy.
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Question 5
ప్రశ్న 5
What are the names of the imagined children addressed by the narrator in Dream Children?
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Explanation:
• The imagined children in Dream Children are named John and Alice.
• The narrator tells them stories about their supposed ancestors and family experiences.
• Their names connect the fantasy with Lamb's memories of his brother and his unfulfilled affection for Alice W-n.
• The children disappear when the narrator awakens from his reverie.
• The narrator tells them stories about their supposed ancestors and family experiences.
• Their names connect the fantasy with Lamb's memories of his brother and his unfulfilled affection for Alice W-n.
• The children disappear when the narrator awakens from his reverie.
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Question 6
ప్రశ్న 6
Which family figure is remembered as the respected caretaker of a great house in Dream Children?
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Explanation:
• Grandmother Field is remembered as the dignified caretaker of a great house.
• The narrator describes her piety, courage and popularity among the local people.
• Her story allows Lamb to blend childhood memory with imaginative reconstruction.
• Cousin Bridget is the Elian representation of Lamb's sister Mary and is not the caretaker described here.
• The narrator describes her piety, courage and popularity among the local people.
• Her story allows Lamb to blend childhood memory with imaginative reconstruction.
• Cousin Bridget is the Elian representation of Lamb's sister Mary and is not the caretaker described here.
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Question 7
ప్రశ్న 7
Assertion: Dream Children produces a powerful sense of loss despite its initially warm domestic setting.
Reason: The children are eventually revealed as imaginary figures belonging to a life the narrator never possessed.
Reason: The children are eventually revealed as imaginary figures belonging to a life the narrator never possessed.
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Explanation:
• The Assertion is correct because the essay moves from affectionate storytelling to emotional desolation.
• The Reason is correct because John and Alice are revealed as children of an unrealized marriage and imagined family life.
• Their disappearance exposes the gap between desire and reality.
• Therefore, the Reason correctly explains the sense of loss identified in the Assertion.
• The Reason is correct because John and Alice are revealed as children of an unrealized marriage and imagined family life.
• Their disappearance exposes the gap between desire and reality.
• Therefore, the Reason correctly explains the sense of loss identified in the Assertion.
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Question 8
ప్రశ్న 8
Consider the following statements about Charles Lamb's familiar essays.
Statement I: They frequently transform personal memory through humour and imagination.
Statement II: They present a complete and strictly factual autobiography without fictional alteration.
Statement I: They frequently transform personal memory through humour and imagination.
Statement II: They present a complete and strictly factual autobiography without fictional alteration.
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Explanation:
• Statement I is correct because Lamb reshapes personal experiences through fantasy, irony and literary artifice.
• Statement II is incorrect because the Elia essays are not a complete factual autobiography.
• Lamb changes names, rearranges details and uses a constructed persona.
• Therefore, Statement I is correct, but Statement II is incorrect.
• Statement II is incorrect because the Elia essays are not a complete factual autobiography.
• Lamb changes names, rearranges details and uses a constructed persona.
• Therefore, Statement I is correct, but Statement II is incorrect.
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Question 9
ప్రశ్న 9
Who wrote The Indian Jugglers?
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Explanation:
• William Hazlitt wrote The Indian Jugglers.
• The essay begins with admiration for the extraordinary precision and dexterity of professional jugglers.
• Hazlitt uses their performance to reflect on skill, genius, achievement and human limitation.
• Lamb and De Quincey were Hazlitt's contemporaries but were not the authors of this essay.
• The essay begins with admiration for the extraordinary precision and dexterity of professional jugglers.
• Hazlitt uses their performance to reflect on skill, genius, achievement and human limitation.
• Lamb and De Quincey were Hazlitt's contemporaries but were not the authors of this essay.
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Question 10
ప్రశ్న 10
The Indian Jugglers is included in which prose collection by William Hazlitt?
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Explanation:
• The Indian Jugglers appears in Hazlitt's Table-Talk.
• Table-Talk contains essays on literature, society, art, judgement and personal experience.
• The collection demonstrates Hazlitt's energetic and conversational critical style.
• The Spirit of the Age contains portraits of contemporary figures, while Liber Amoris is a different autobiographical work.
• Table-Talk contains essays on literature, society, art, judgement and personal experience.
• The collection demonstrates Hazlitt's energetic and conversational critical style.
• The Spirit of the Age contains portraits of contemporary figures, while Liber Amoris is a different autobiographical work.
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Question 11
ప్రశ్న 11
What chiefly impresses Hazlitt about the performers in The Indian Jugglers?
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Explanation:
• Hazlitt admires the jugglers' control, accuracy and disciplined physical performance.
• Their skill appears almost perfect because a single mistake would immediately expose failure.
• He compares this exactness with achievements in intellectual and artistic life.
• The essay is therefore concerned with mastery and performance rather than politics or classical scholarship.
• Their skill appears almost perfect because a single mistake would immediately expose failure.
• He compares this exactness with achievements in intellectual and artistic life.
• The essay is therefore concerned with mastery and performance rather than politics or classical scholarship.
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Question 12
ప్రశ్న 12
Which statement best expresses Hazlitt's argument in The Indian Jugglers?
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Explanation:
• Hazlitt uses the jugglers' performance as an example of disciplined and demonstrable excellence.
• Their success depends on practice, concentration and precise execution.
• He reflects on the difficulty of judging intellectual achievement with the same certainty.
• The essay does not dismiss either manual or intellectual accomplishment.
• Their success depends on practice, concentration and precise execution.
• He reflects on the difficulty of judging intellectual achievement with the same certainty.
• The essay does not dismiss either manual or intellectual accomplishment.
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Question 13
ప్రశ్న 13
Who wrote Confessions of an English Opium-Eater?
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Explanation:
• Thomas De Quincey wrote Confessions of an English Opium-Eater.
• The work combines autobiography, psychological reflection and elaborate literary prose.
• It recounts experiences of poverty, opium use, pleasure, dependence and suffering.
• Hazlitt, Hunt and Lamb were Romantic essayists but were not the authors of the Confessions.
• The work combines autobiography, psychological reflection and elaborate literary prose.
• It recounts experiences of poverty, opium use, pleasure, dependence and suffering.
• Hazlitt, Hunt and Lamb were Romantic essayists but were not the authors of the Confessions.
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Question 14
ప్రశ్న 14
Where did Confessions of an English Opium-Eater first appear in periodical form?
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Explanation:
• Confessions of an English Opium-Eater first appeared in The London Magazine.
• It was published anonymously in periodical instalments before appearing in book form.
• The London Magazine also published several important Romantic familiar essays.
• The other periodicals were influential but were not the original publication venue of the Confessions.
• It was published anonymously in periodical instalments before appearing in book form.
• The London Magazine also published several important Romantic familiar essays.
• The other periodicals were influential but were not the original publication venue of the Confessions.
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Question 15
ప్రశ్న 15
In which year did Confessions of an English Opium-Eater first appear?
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Explanation:
• Confessions of an English Opium-Eater first appeared in 1821.
• It was initially published anonymously in The London Magazine.
• A book edition followed soon afterward, and De Quincey later revised and expanded the work.
• The publication places it firmly within the Romantic period.
• It was initially published anonymously in The London Magazine.
• A book edition followed soon afterward, and De Quincey later revised and expanded the work.
• The publication places it firmly within the Romantic period.
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Question 16
ప్రశ్న 16
Which paired sections are central to De Quincey's representation of opium experience in the Confessions?
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Explanation:
• De Quincey organizes a major part of the work around the pleasures and pains associated with opium.
• The pleasures include heightened sensation, mental expansion and dreamlike experience.
• The pains include dependence, terror, nightmares and psychological suffering.
• The contrast gives the work its complex movement from fascination to torment.
• The pleasures include heightened sensation, mental expansion and dreamlike experience.
• The pains include dependence, terror, nightmares and psychological suffering.
• The contrast gives the work its complex movement from fascination to torment.
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Question 17
ప్రశ్న 17
Which description best characterizes De Quincey's prose style in the Confessions?
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Explanation:
• De Quincey's prose is often elaborate, musical, rhythmic and emotionally charged.
• He uses long sentences, vivid imagery and dreamlike description to represent psychological states.
• His style contributes to the transformation of autobiography into imaginative literature.
• It differs from bureaucratic, scientific or strictly Baconian prose.
• He uses long sentences, vivid imagery and dreamlike description to represent psychological states.
• His style contributes to the transformation of autobiography into imaginative literature.
• It differs from bureaucratic, scientific or strictly Baconian prose.
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Question 18
ప్రశ్న 18
Consider the following statements about Confessions of an English Opium-Eater.
1. It combines autobiography with imaginative reconstruction.
2. It describes experiences of poverty and isolation in London.
3. It presents opium only as harmless recreation.
4. It explores dreams, memory and psychological suffering.
1. It combines autobiography with imaginative reconstruction.
2. It describes experiences of poverty and isolation in London.
3. It presents opium only as harmless recreation.
4. It explores dreams, memory and psychological suffering.
Select an option first. || ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Statement 1 is correct because De Quincey reshapes lived experience through literary narration.
• Statement 2 is correct because his youthful poverty and wandering in London form an important part of the work.
• Statement 3 is incorrect because the Confessions describes both pleasure and severe dependence.
• Statement 4 is correct because dreams, memory, fear and suffering are central concerns.
• Therefore, statements 1, 2 and 4 only are correct.
• Statement 2 is correct because his youthful poverty and wandering in London form an important part of the work.
• Statement 3 is incorrect because the Confessions describes both pleasure and severe dependence.
• Statement 4 is correct because dreams, memory, fear and suffering are central concerns.
• Therefore, statements 1, 2 and 4 only are correct.
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Question 19
ప్రశ్న 19
Match List I with List II.
List I
1. Charles Lamb
2. William Hazlitt
3. Thomas De Quincey
4. Elia
List II
a. The Indian Jugglers
b. Persona of the familiar essays
c. Dream Children
d. Confessions of an English Opium-Eater
List I
1. Charles Lamb
2. William Hazlitt
3. Thomas De Quincey
4. Elia
List II
a. The Indian Jugglers
b. Persona of the familiar essays
c. Dream Children
d. Confessions of an English Opium-Eater
Select an option first. || ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Charles Lamb is matched with Dream Children.
• William Hazlitt is matched with The Indian Jugglers.
• Thomas De Quincey is matched with Confessions of an English Opium-Eater.
• Elia is matched with the persona of Lamb's familiar essays.
• Therefore, the correct code is 1-c, 2-a, 3-d, 4-b.
• William Hazlitt is matched with The Indian Jugglers.
• Thomas De Quincey is matched with Confessions of an English Opium-Eater.
• Elia is matched with the persona of Lamb's familiar essays.
• Therefore, the correct code is 1-c, 2-a, 3-d, 4-b.
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Question 20
ప్రశ్న 20
Arrange the following writers in chronological order of birth.
1. Thomas De Quincey
2. Charles Lamb
3. William Hazlitt
1. Thomas De Quincey
2. Charles Lamb
3. William Hazlitt
Select an option first. || ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Charles Lamb was born in 1775.
• William Hazlitt was born in 1778.
• Thomas De Quincey was born in 1785.
• Therefore, the correct chronological sequence is Lamb, Hazlitt and De Quincey, represented by 2, 3, 1.
• William Hazlitt was born in 1778.
• Thomas De Quincey was born in 1785.
• Therefore, the correct chronological sequence is Lamb, Hazlitt and De Quincey, represented by 2, 3, 1.
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Question 21
ప్రశ్న 21
Which of the following pairs is incorrectly matched?
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Explanation:
• Essays of Elia is not an example of impersonal scientific exposition.
• Lamb's essays are personal, imaginative, humorous and conversational.
• Dream Children explores memory, longing and imagined family life.
• The Indian Jugglers examines skill, while the Confessions combines autobiography with psychological exploration.
• Lamb's essays are personal, imaginative, humorous and conversational.
• Dream Children explores memory, longing and imagined family life.
• The Indian Jugglers examines skill, while the Confessions combines autobiography with psychological exploration.
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Question 22
ప్రశ్న 22
Which comparative statement about Lamb, Hazlitt and De Quincey is most accurate?
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Explanation:
• Lamb's prose often converts memory and loss into intimate imaginative essays.
• Hazlitt begins with concrete observation and develops vigorous critical reflection.
• De Quincey combines autobiography with ornate description, dreams and psychological intensity.
• Their shared Romantic interest in the self appears through distinctly different prose methods.
• Hazlitt begins with concrete observation and develops vigorous critical reflection.
• De Quincey combines autobiography with ornate description, dreams and psychological intensity.
• Their shared Romantic interest in the self appears through distinctly different prose methods.
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Question 23
ప్రశ్న 23
A writer addresses readers informally, recalls childhood incidents, digresses into personal associations and blends fact with imagination. Which prose form is most clearly represented?
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Explanation:
• The familiar essay typically uses an intimate and conversational relationship with readers.
• Childhood memories, personal associations and digressions are characteristic materials.
• The form permits imaginative reshaping rather than strict documentary reporting.
• These features distinguish it from formal academic, political and theological prose.
• Childhood memories, personal associations and digressions are characteristic materials.
• The form permits imaginative reshaping rather than strict documentary reporting.
• These features distinguish it from formal academic, political and theological prose.
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Question 24
ప్రశ్న 24
Assertion: Memory in Romantic familiar prose is often creative rather than mechanically documentary.
Reason: Writers such as Lamb and De Quincey reshape past experience through selection, imagination, mood and literary form.
Reason: Writers such as Lamb and De Quincey reshape past experience through selection, imagination, mood and literary form.
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Explanation:
• The Assertion is correct because Romantic prose does not usually treat memory as a neutral record of facts.
• The Reason is correct because Lamb and De Quincey reconstruct experience through emotion, fantasy and narrative design.
• Their works demonstrate how recollection can create literary meaning beyond factual documentation.
• Therefore, the Reason correctly explains the Assertion.
• The Reason is correct because Lamb and De Quincey reconstruct experience through emotion, fantasy and narrative design.
• Their works demonstrate how recollection can create literary meaning beyond factual documentation.
• Therefore, the Reason correctly explains the Assertion.
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Question 25
ప్రశ్న 25
Which quality most strongly connects Dream Children, The Indian Jugglers and Confessions of an English Opium-Eater?
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Explanation:
• Dream Children transforms personal memory and longing into a reverie.
• The Indian Jugglers develops philosophical reflection from Hazlitt's observation of a performance.
• The Confessions turns autobiographical experience into psychological and imaginative narrative.
• All three works therefore demonstrate the literary transformation of personal experience.
• The Indian Jugglers develops philosophical reflection from Hazlitt's observation of a performance.
• The Confessions turns autobiographical experience into psychological and imaginative narrative.
• All three works therefore demonstrate the literary transformation of personal experience.
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Question 26
ప్రశ్న 26
Which statement best explains the importance of personal voice in the Romantic familiar essay?
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Explanation:
• Personal voice creates the impression of direct and intimate communication with readers.
• It allows experience, memory, humour, judgement and imagination to coexist within a flexible form.
• The personal voice may involve artistic selection or a constructed persona such as Elia.
• It therefore does not guarantee literal accuracy or exclude broader reflection.
• It allows experience, memory, humour, judgement and imagination to coexist within a flexible form.
• The personal voice may involve artistic selection or a constructed persona such as Elia.
• It therefore does not guarantee literal accuracy or exclude broader reflection.
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Question 27
ప్రశ్న 27
Which integrated interpretation of Romantic prose is most appropriate?
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Explanation:
• Romantic prose gives new importance to individual consciousness, recollection and emotional experience.
• Lamb creates intimate familiar essays, Hazlitt combines personality with criticism and De Quincey explores autobiography and dreams.
• Their prose demonstrates that non-fiction can be imaginative without becoming conventional fiction.
• The period therefore broadens rather than restricts the possibilities of English prose.
• Lamb creates intimate familiar essays, Hazlitt combines personality with criticism and De Quincey explores autobiography and dreams.
• Their prose demonstrates that non-fiction can be imaginative without becoming conventional fiction.
• The period therefore broadens rather than restricts the possibilities of English prose.
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Answer Key సమాధానాల పట్టిక
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Question 1 ప్రశ్న 1Answer: B. A personal and conversational prose piece that creates intimacy with the reader సమాధానం: B.
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Question 2 ప్రశ్న 2Answer: A. Charles Lamb సమాధానం: A.
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Question 3 ప్రశ్న 3Answer: C. Elia సమాధానం: C.
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Question 4 ప్రశ్న 4Answer: D. A Reverie సమాధానం: D.
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Question 5 ప్రశ్న 5Answer: B. John and Alice సమాధానం: B.
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Question 6 ప్రశ్న 6Answer: A. Grandmother Field సమాధానం: A.
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Question 7 ప్రశ్న 7Answer: A. Both Assertion and Reason are correct, and Reason is the correct explanation of Assertion సమాధానం: A.
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Question 8 ప్రశ్న 8Answer: C. Statement I is correct, but Statement II is incorrect సమాధానం: C.
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Question 9 ప్రశ్న 9Answer: C. William Hazlitt సమాధానం: C.
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Question 10 ప్రశ్న 10Answer: B. Table-Talk సమాధానం: B.
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Question 11 ప్రశ్న 11Answer: D. Their extraordinary precision, concentration and physical skill సమాధానం: D.
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Question 12 ప్రశ్న 12Answer: A. Visible physical skill can reveal the discipline and difficulty involved in all forms of excellence. సమాధానం: A.
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Question 13 ప్రశ్న 13Answer: C. Thomas De Quincey సమాధానం: C.
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Question 14 ప్రశ్న 14Answer: B. The London Magazine సమాధానం: B.
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Question 15 ప్రశ్న 15Answer: A. 1821 సమాధానం: A.
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Question 16 ప్రశ్న 16Answer: D. The Pleasures of Opium and The Pains of Opium సమాధానం: D.
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Question 17 ప్రశ్న 17Answer: B. Ornate, rhythmic and emotionally intense prose 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: A. 1-c, 2-a, 3-d, 4-b సమాధానం: A.
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Question 20 ప్రశ్న 20Answer: D. 2, 3, 1 సమాధానం: D.
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Question 21 ప్రశ్న 21Answer: C. Essays of Elia — impersonal scientific exposition సమాధానం: C.
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Question 22 ప్రశ్న 22Answer: B. Lamb turns memory into intimate reverie, Hazlitt develops energetic reflection from observed performance, and De Quincey transforms autobiography through dreamlike prose. సమాధానం: B.
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Question 23 ప్రశ్న 23Answer: D. Familiar essay సమాధానం: D.
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Question 24 ప్రశ్న 24Answer: A. Both Assertion and Reason are correct, and Reason is the correct explanation of Assertion సమాధానం: A.
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Question 25 ప్రశ్న 25Answer: C. Transformation of personal observation or experience into reflective literary prose సమాధానం: C.
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Question 26 ప్రశ్న 26Answer: A. It creates intimacy while allowing the essayist to combine memory, imagination, humour and reflection. సమాధానం: A.
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Question 27 ప్రశ్న 27Answer: C. Romantic prose expands non-fiction by making memory, personality, imagination and subjective experience central literary materials. సమాధానం: C.