Unit 4: Prose Mock Tests
Comprehensive topic-wise practice tests covering all periods of prose literature with detailed solutions and performance analytics
"Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man." - Bacon
Key Concepts: Aphoristic style, The essay form, Reformation prose, Humanist discourse
"No man but a blockhead ever wrote, except for money." - Johnson
Key Concepts: The Spectator style, Irony as device, The Rambler essays, Enlightenment rhetoric
"Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility." - Wordsworth
Key Concepts: Organic form, The familiar essay, Revolutionary rhetoric, Sublime in prose
"All art constantly aspires towards the condition of music." - Pater
Key Concepts: Sage writing, The Oxford movement, Utilitarian prose, Condition-of-England
"A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction." - Woolf
Key Concepts: Impersonal theory, Practical criticism, Polemical writing, Stream-of-consciousness essays
"The East is a career." - Disraeli (quoted by Said)
Key Concepts: Orientalism, Gynocriticism, New Historicism, Postmodern fragmentation
"Long years ago we made a tryst with destiny..." - Nehru
Key Concepts: Nation and narration, Colonial discourse, Indian aesthetic, Hybrid identity
"Rhetoric may be defined as the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion." - Aristotle
Key Concepts: Ethos/Pathos/Logos, Five canons, Tropes and schemes, Dramatism
Style analysis, Voice and tone, Argument structure, Figurative language, Persuasive devices, and Genre conventions.
"The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page." - Augustine
Key Concepts: Periodic vs loose sentences, Irony, Allusion, Parallelism
Historical criticism, Reader-response theory, Discourse analysis, New Criticism, and Deconstructive reading.
"The text is a tissue of quotations drawn from the innumerable centers of culture." - Barthes
Key Concepts: Intentional fallacy, Affective fallacy, Intertextuality, Textual analysis
