Title 04 English Paper-III.pdf ✅

K-0414 3 Paper III Total Number of Pages : 16 genre is both highly flexible and sometimes difficult to define. Put simply, postcolonial literature can be defined as literature produced by countries that gained independence from the colonial rule in the twentieth century. In 1900 the British Empire covered a pink swathe of the globe that included the Indian sub-continent and the other parts of Asia, much of Africa, Australia, Canada, Ireland, many Carribean islands as well as numerous and scattered smaller possessions. By 2000, the vast majority of the countries in these areas had become independent nations. 1. Which of the following is not the reason for the replacement of commonwealth literature with postcolonial literature ? (A) It was idealistic in nature (B) It did not foreground the relationship between the colonial past and the present (C) It ignored historical processes (D) The term was based only on geographical considerations 2. The writer suggests that postcolonial writers (A) Write authentically on their own (B) Are located in a historical context (C) Are politically correct (D) Universal in their appeal 3. What reasons does the writer attribute for the specificity of the post-colonial texts ? (A) The creative skills of the writers (B) The developments within commonwealth literature (C) The developments in literary theory (D) The nature of the empire itself 4. The study of structures of language is called (A) Semantics (B) Syntax (C) Phonetics (D) Discourse 5. ‘Standard dialect’ in linguistics refers to (A) The best dialect in the language (B) The dialect which has attained grammatical perfection (C) A dialect of a language which is accepted for purpose of written communication and formal use (D) The dialect with the longest tradition