Papers Published by Dr Suresh Frederick in JOURNALS and Books during 2018-19

Papers Published by Dr Suresh Frederick in JOURNALS and Books

1. Suresh Frederick. “Transgender Dysphoria in David Ebershoff’s The Danish Girl” (Co-author: D. Jefry Immanuel)Roots  International Journal of Multidisciplinary Researches Volume 4 No 4(ISSN 2349 -8684) / May 2018. / Impact Factor: 4.075/ Pages 43- 51.

2. Suresh Frederick. “Comprehensive Learning Input in English Language  Acquisition through Short Stories” (Co-author:  K. Jeba Mahil)  Language in India www.languageinindia.com Volume 18 No  6 (ISSN 1930-2940) / June 2018/ Pages 61- 68.

3. Suresh Frederick. “Acquisition of Language through Song Lyrics” (Co-author:  Samson Abraham. H)  Language in India www.languageinindia.com Volume 18 No  6 (ISSN 1930-2940) /June 2018/ Pages 92- 98.

4. Suresh Frederick. “Human the Conservator: An Ecotheological Reading of Barbara Kingsolver’s Prodigal Summer” (Co-author: Lydia Glory, I) / International Journal of Research in Social Sciences Vol. 8 Issue 9(1), (ISSN: 2249-2496) /September 2018  /Impact Factor: 7.081 / Pages 122- 126.

5. Suresh Frederick. “Portrayal of Nature: An Ecocritical Analysis of Isaac Asimov’s Select Fiction” (Co-author: S. Anand Arul Das) International Journal of Research in Social Sciences Vol.8 Issue 10(1), (ISSN: 2249-2496) /October 2018, / Impact Factor: 7.081 / Pages 505- 507.

6. Suresh Frederick. “Identification of Gifted Students for English Language Skills Assessment” (Co-author: M.Gnanamurali) International Journal of Research in Social Sciences Vol.8 Issue 10(1), (ISSN: 2249-2496) /October 2018 / Impact Factor: 7.081 / Pages 500- 504.

7. Suresh Frederick. “Post-Colonial Analysis of Isaac Asimov’s Select Fiction” (Co-author: S. Anand Arul Das) International Journal of Research in Social Sciences Vol.8 Issue 11(1), (ISSN: 2249-2496) /November 2018 / Impact Factor: 7.081 / Pages 74- 75.

8. Suresh Frederick. “Testing English Language Higher Level Writing Skills”(Co-author: M.Gnanamurali) International Journal of Research in Social Sciences Vol.8 Issue 11(1), (ISSN: 2249-2496) November 2018, / Impact Factor: 7.081 / Pages 85- 88.

9. Suresh Frederick. “Magical and Social Realism in Deepak Unnikrishnan’s Temporary People” (Co-author: Nandini Jayapal) in Chronicle of Cultural Humanities and Cultural Studies (ISSN 2454-5503) Volume 4 Issue 1 November 2018. / Impact Factor: 4.197 / Pages 135- 137.

10. Suresh Frederick. “The Role of Water in Steven Soderbergh’s Erin Brocovich” (Co-author: J.Premkumar) in NEW ACADEMIA: An International Journal of English Language, Literature and Literary Theory| ISSN: 2347-2073|(included in the list of journals recognized by UGC) Special Issue Feb 2019. / Pages 61(1-4)

11. Suresh Frederick. “The Pernicious Path of Posthumanism in Margret Atwood’s Oryx and Crake”(Co-author: Herbert) in Gandhigram Literary Review (peer reviewed,  included in the list of journals recognized by UGC) Volume 6 September 2018 / Pages 73- 82.

12. Suresh Frederick. “Hierarchy and the Role of Justice in Aravind Adiga’s The White Tiger” (Co-author: Silvia Olives) in Contemporary Contemplations on Diasporic Literature (ISBN: 9789388008587) Edited by Suresh Frederick and Samuel Rufus, Authorspress, 2019. / Pages 64-82.

13. Suresh Frederick. “Human Relationship in the Technological Era with Special Reference to Isaac Asimov’s Select Fiction: A Posthumanistic Perspective” (Co-author: S. Anand Arul Das) International Conference on Island Literature and Environmental Humanities /Volume-09 / Mar 2019 Special Issue (03) / ISSN 2249-9598/ Impact Factor: 5.818/Pages 45-47.

14. Suresh Frederick. “Ecocidal Elements in the Movie Bhopal: A Prayer for Rain”(Co-author: J.Premkumar) Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research /March 2019, Volume 6, Issue 3 / UGC Approved/  ISSN: 2349-5162 /Pages 535-537.

15. Suresh Frederick. “Speaking through Oppression in Toni Morrison’s Beloved” (Co-author: S.J. Benita Sharon) Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research /March 2019, Volume 6, Issue 3 / UGC Approved/  ISSN: 2349-5162 /Pages 498-500.

16. Suresh Frederick. “Neo-tiNai Poetics Perspective in Chris Renaud and Kyle Balda’s movie The Lorax” (Co-author:  Suhasini B)/ Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research /March 2019, Volume 6, Issue 3 / UGC Approved/  ISSN: 2349-5162 /Pages 901-904.

17. Suresh Frederick. “Metamorphosis from Nurture to Nature in David Malouf's An Imaginary Life” (Co-author: Silvia Olives) / Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research /March 2019, Volume 6, Issue 3 / UGC Approved/  ISSN: 2349-5162 /Pages 909-913.

18. Suresh Frederick. “Existentialism in Toni Morrison's Jazz” (Co-author: S.J.Benita Sharon) )/ BODHI: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF RESEARCH IN HUMANITIES, ARTS AND SCIENCE, An Online, Peer-reviewed, Refereed and Quarterly Journal /March 2019, Volume 3, Special Issue 2 / UGC Approved/ E-ISSN: 2456-5571/Pages 56-67.

19. Suresh Frederick. “Neo-tiNai Poetic Perspective in Horton Hears a Who!” (Co-author: B. Suhasini)/ BODHI: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF RESEARCH IN HUMANITIES, ARTS AND SCIENCE, An Online, Peer-reviewed, Refereed and Quarterly Journal /March 2019, Volume 3, Special Issue 2 / UGC Approved/ E-ISSN: 2456-5571/Pages68-69.

20. Suresh Frederick. “Acquisition of Vocabulary through Music” (Co-author:  S.Jerrick Ridgely)/ BODHI: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF RESEARCH IN HUMANITIES, ARTS AND SCIENCE, An Online, Peer-reviewed, Refereed and Quarterly Journal /March 2019, Volume 3, Special Issue 2 / UGC Approved/ E-ISSN: 2456-5571/Pages 74-78.

Robert Lynd’s “In Praise of Mistakes” for I BA English

Department of English

Bishop Heber College, Tiruchirappalli

I BA English - Prose - I

Question Bank – Multiple Choice Questions

Robert Lynd’s “In Praise of Mistakes”

1. To Lynd, the only fatal error in a writer is to be________

         (a)  accurate                                                   (b)  uninteresting

         (c)  interesting                                               (d)  none

2. Dr. Johnson endeared himself to posterity by his _________ in his dictionary.

         (a)  blunders                                                 (b)  accurate definitions

         (c)  interesting details                                   (d)  none

3. To Lynd, all comedy arises from other people’s _________

         (a)  jokes                                                         (b)  mistakes

         (c)  foolishness                                              (d)  none

4. The inaccuracies of the historian ________ have been laughed at.

         (a)  Dryden                                                     (b)  Aristotle

            (c)  Froude                                                   (d)  Plato

5. According to Lynd, the poet uses the word “chrysoberyl” for the _________

         (a)  sense`                                                       (b)  sound

         (c)  precious stone                                        (d)  none

6. What according to Lynd is the chief value of error?

         (a)  makes the reader superior               (b)  confuses the readers

         (c)  makes the reader laugh                         (d)  none

7. According to Lynd, there has been a heavy shower of letters in _______ about the mistakes made by famous novelists:

         (a)  The Times                                              (b)  The Morning Star

         (c)  The Saturday Review                             (d)  None

8. Why does Lynd awakes out of dream at night and breaks into a sweat of fear?

            (a)  bad dreams                                                      (b)  is anxious  if he had made a mistake

         (c)  suffers from sleeplessness                    (d)  none

9. ____________ blundered in Chronology and geography

         (a)  Hazlitt                                                       (b)  Milton

         (c)  Shakespeare                                          (d)  Scot

10. The true error-hunter is a man who searches for error as men search for______

         (a)  Iron                                                          (b)  Gold

         (c)  Diamond                                                  (d)  Copper

11. According to Lynd, in the history of the world the man who makes mistakes has never been ________

         (a)  rewarded                                                 (b)  censured

         (c)  appreciated                                           (d)  none

12. Robert Lynd remarks as one grows older no doubt, one cares less for the rarer kind of        

jewellery  in ____________

    (a) article              (b) prose                        (c) drama                          (d) poetry

13.Robert Lynd remarks as one grows older no doubt, one cares less for the rarer kind of        

jewellery  in

    (a) article (b) prose (c) drama (d) poetry

14. The truth is, the only fatal error in a writer is to be ____________

     (a) careless   (b) truth less (c) fiction less (d) un interesting

15. All ________ probably arises from our enjoyment of other people’s mistakes

     (a) tragedy (b) praise (c) comedy (d) none of the above

16. Novelists need not be __________ by being accused of blundering. 

     (a) perturbed (b) relaxed (c) praised (d) none of the above

17. Robert Lynd points out that the newspapers are full of accurate articles and correct information ____________ give pleasure.

      (a) seldom(b) occasionally (c) obviously (d) none of the above

18. To err not only makes human but also_________

(a) clever    (b) intelligent    (c) wise  (d) silly

19. A true error- hunter is a man who searches for error as men search for

     (a) pearls (b) honey hive  (c) gold (d) oil

20. Robert Lynd also gratifies his readers

       (a) by misquoting the poets

     (b) confusing Darius to Xerxes

( c) mentioning towns in wrong countries

     (d) all the above

21.The Journalist quotes the beginning of an article by a punch :

     (a) ‘all is well that ends well’

     (b) ‘the Journey of a thousand miles starts in a single step’

     (c) ‘the sting of the serpent is in its tail’

     (d) all the above

22. A great many words that mean nothing to ordinary reader and yet reads with

     (a)an irritation (b) an ignorance  (c) a pleasure (d) disinterest

23.Robert Lynd proclaims that  every writer concede a margin of error but the reader is more particular on the information of the ___________

        (a) character  (b) author  (c) facts  (d) all the above

24. Ornithologist is a person who studies

       (a) birds  (b) skin             (c) brain  (d) insects

25.Robert Lynd was born in

           (a) Britain     (b) Scotland   (c) Ireland   (d) Europe

“Lectures” by J.B. Priestley for I BA English

Department of English

Bishop Heber College, Tiruchirappalli

I BA English - Prose - I

Question Bank – Multiple Choice Questions

“Lectures” by J.B. Priestley

1. According to Priestley what is more foolish than going to hear a lecture?

           a)  learning from a lecture                         b)  giving a lecture

         c)  preparing a lecture                                  d)  not giving a lecture

2. To Priestley there is no glory, no fun and no money in _____

         a)  writing                                                       b)  giving a lecture

         c)  acting                                                         d)  none

3. Priestley is greatly in demand as a lecturer.

         a)  true                                                            b)  false

         c)  not much                                                   d)  none

4. Priestley is basically a good ________

         a)  singer                                                        b)  lecturer

            c)  writer                                                       d)  dancer

5. If Priestley is given a pile of sheets, a fountain-pen or a type writer he will do his __________

         (a)  worst                                                        (b)  best

         (c)  will not care                                             (d)  none

6. According to Priestley to-er-is human, to ________ divine

         (a)  refuse                                                      (b)  forgive

         (c)  forget                                                       (d)  none

7. According to Priestley a successful lecturer takes a delight in his ________

         (a)  voice                                                        (b)  audience

         (c)  mannerisms                                             (d)  dress

8. When he gives a lecture, Priestley ______ the town, the hall, the audience and himself.

         (a)  adores                                                      (b)  loves

         (c)  despises                                                  (d)  likes

9. What does Priestley say about his audience?

         (a)  dreary people                                         (b)  malicious people

         (c)  snarling pedants                                     (d)  all the above

10. If Priestley went on an American tour there would be men waiting with_____ outside the hall.

         (a)  garlands                                                   (b)  cash prize

         (c)  guns                                                         (d)  none

11. Priestley when he writes he feels he is addressing a company of ____________ persons

         (a)  bored persons                                        (b)  pleasant persons

            (c)  pedants                                                    (d)  none

12. Priestley has probably ______________ a hundred readers every time he gives a lecture

         (a)  gained                                                      (b)  lost

         (c)  added                                                       (d)  none

13. Just as the young ____________ falls into an ecstasy at the sound of flagons, the successful lecturer thrills with the pleasure of his voice

         (a)  Margantua                                               (b)  Targantua

         (c)  Gargantua                                              (d)  None

14. According to Priestley what is more foolish than going to hear a lecture?

         (a)  learning from a lecture                          (b)  giving a lecture

         (c)  preparing a lecture                                 (d)  not giving a lecture

18. Priestley is  _________ writer

(a) an American                                      (b) an African 

(c) a British                                 (d) an Indian

19. Priestley is _________ about lectures

     (a) senseless  (b) sensible (c) eager (d) none of the above

20.What does Priestley say about authors who give lectures?

     (a)  fools       (b)idiots     (c) successful men   (d) none of the above

21. How does Priestley state his own performance as a lecturer?

     (a) make proud of himself an hour (b) make fool of himself an hour (c) make glory of himself an hour (d) none of the above

22. What are Priestley’s thoughts about the audience he faces?

     (a) Malicious people  (b) very pleasant and sensible people  (c) dear and gentle audience   (d) none of the above

23. How does Priestley contrast the successful lecturer from the bad one?  The successful lecturer ___________

     (a) bliss with happiness   (b) thrills with pleasure  (c) harmony in delight (d) none of the above

24. What does Priestley imagine when the lecture he has promised to give seems nearer?

     (a) He looks bright at nothing and his style wobbles

(b) he is confident to take the audience at straight

(c) he mesmerizes them with his voice and his style dictates.

(d) none of the above

25. Gargantua refers to a

     (a) princess                             (b) miniature monster

(c) gigantic monster                 (d) plucky girl

26. Priestley feels as  __________ if people are not interested in his lecture.

     (a) happy as he can               (b) a success

(c) an insult                                (d) none of the above

27. Priestley has probably lost a _________ readers in a lecture and gained a twenty.

     (a) hundred  (b) dozen (c) handful of (d) none of the above

28. Priestley never wished to give an impression as a demanding______________

     (a) reader (b) writer  (c) lecturer (d) none of the above

29.How does Priestley conclude his essay?

 (a) to err is human, to forgive is divine

(b) to err is human, to refuse –divine

(c) to err is lecturer, to forgive- audience

(d) none of the above

30. Priestley  ___________  to give lectures

 (a)   usually refuse                   (b) usually fervent

(c) usually entreat                       (d) none of the above

31.A bad lecturer communicates his ____________ for the business.

    (a) taste   (b) distaste (c)   folly   (d) none of the above

32. J B Priestley fully refers as

 (a) Jack Burke Priestley  (b) James Boynton Priestley

(c) John Boynton Priestley (d) Jefferson Babington Priestley

33. ‘The Times’ is

(a) one of the American leading newspapers

(b) one of the Indian leading newspapers 

(c) one of the leading British newspapers

(c) favourite T.V show

34. A heavy shower of letters came for the mistakes made by famous

     (a) poets (b) novelist (c) prose writers (d) actors

35.The poet confess that before writing an article consults  ___________ to make sure on the errors.

 (a) encyclopaedia (b) dictionary (c) facebook (d) whattsapp