Complete the activities given below as per the instructions : (4 marks)(I) Pick out the odd element from the group and write it. (2)(a) Theme, Plot, Conflict, Novella.(b) Manohar Malgaonkar, Mulkraj Anand, Raja Rao, George Orwell.(c) The Heart of Dar…

Answer: (I) (a) Novella, (b) George Orwell, (c) Rajmohan’s Wife, (d) Utopian; (II) (a) True, (b) False, (c) True, (d) False.

(I) (a) Novella — it is a form of prose fiction; theme, plot and conflict are elements of a novel.
(b) George Orwell — he is a British novelist; the others are Indian novelists writing in English.
(c) Rajmohan’s Wife — it is an Indian novel (by Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay, the first Indian novel in English); the others are British novels.
(d) Utopian — it is a type of novel about an ideal society; terror, haunted buildings and the supernatural are features of the Gothic novel.

(II) (a) Detective fiction is a subgenre of crime fiction. — True
(b) ‘Tale of Genji’ is written by Miguel de Cervantes. — False (It was written by Murasaki Shikibu of Japan; Cervantes wrote ‘Don Quixote’.)
(c) The main character is referred as the ‘protagonist.’ — True
(d) ‘Picaresque Novel’ is based on the life of the author. — False (A picaresque novel narrates the adventures of a roguish but likeable hero of low social class; a novel based on the author’s life is an autobiographical novel.)