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GATE 2023 XH2 (English) – Question 58

Literary Forms, Genres, and Modes of Expression · Aesthetic and Rhetorical Strategies: Narrative and poetic techniques, and figures of speech · 2 marks · Multiple select

Which of the following employ ‘Interior Monologue’?

  1. Alfred Lord Tennyson’s “In Memoriam”
  2. The final chapter of James Joyce’s Ulysses
  3. T. S. Eliot’s “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”
  4. Robert Browning’s “My Last Duchess”

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Correct answer: (B) The final chapter of James Joyce’s Ulysses; (C) T. S. Eliot’s “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”

Explanation

Molly Bloom's soliloquy at the end of Ulysses is the classic interior monologue, and Prufrock voices the speaker's private thoughts. “My Last Duchess” is a dramatic monologue spoken to a listener, and “In Memoriam” is an elegy.