PGT English Mock Test 10

1. A short descriptive poem of rural or pastoral life

2. Who was the first writer of Idylls in Greece?

3. A movement by American and English poets early in the 20th century in reaction to Victorian sentimental: used common speech in free verse with clear concrete imagery. It refers to:

4. The word 'Picaresque' has been derived from: (PGT-

5.Who defined Romanticism as the 'Renaissance of wonder'?

6. Who said, "Romanticism is an addition of strangeness to beauty'?

7. Who coined the phrase 'liberalism in literature'?

8. The phrase 'sentimental melancholy' is associated with:

9. The oral or written communication of a false statement about another that unjustly harms their reputation and usually constitutes a tort or crime:

10. Literary, musical or artistic works produced by an author during their youth:

11. A lyrical, narrative poem written in octosyllabic couplets that often deals with tales of adventure and romance:

12. A popular form of short, humorous verse that is often nonsensical and frequently ribald. It consists of five lines, rhyming aabba, and the dominant metre is anapestic, with two metrical feet in the third and fourth lines and three feet in the others.

13. Which figure of speech is used in the following lines? (PGT-04) Alone, alone, all all alone Alone, on a wide wide sea!

14. Which author reported that Shakespeare had been a country schoolmaster?

15. Shakespeare left his home village for London in-

16. P. B. Shelley constructed his character Prometheus in part as an attempt to revise Milton's

17. American author John Ernst Steinbeck's novel In Dubious Battle takes its title from transformation.

18. Donne died on and was buried in old St Paul's Cathedral.co

19. In his controversial novel, The Satanic Verses, Salman Rushdie adapts major motifs and plot elements from such as a "fall" and subsequent poem?

20. What happens to the lock of hair at the end of the

21. In which Canto of The Rape of the Lock the following lines occur? What dire offence from amorous causes springs,/ What mighty contests rise from trivial things!

22. Which poem of Alexander Pope the following lines form a part of- Now lap-dogs give themselves the rousing shake/ And sleepless lovers, just at twelve, awake.

23. A literary work which deals with the innocent lives of shepherds and shepherdesses is known as ...... form. (A) burlesque (B) satire (C) parody (D) pastoral24. A literary work which deals with the innocent lives of shepherds and shepherdesses is known as ...... form.

24. Which form of novel is known as novel of the road ?

25. The principal parts/elements thhat go tbuild up a novel are-

26. An excellent instance of a well-knit plot is

27. The well-known instance of the 'novel of action' is-

28. Novel of Action' is a fictional form-

29. ‘Novel of Character' is the type of novel-

30. In the poem Churchyard', the poet implies that greatness is -

31. In the poem Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard,' the poet says the life is a blend of -

32. The poem 'Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard', is made up of how many Elegiac stanzas?

33. The true commencement of Wordsworth's poetic career was from (T-04)

34. One of the following is not by Wordsworth- (T-04)

35. Wordsworth learned that "verse may build a princely throne on humble truth" from: (T-04)

36. The Excursion (1814) marks the beginning of: (T- 04)

37. Which of these was written by Shelley? (P-03)

38. Who says, "Poetry should surprise by a fine excess"and "If poetry should come not as naturally as the leaves to a tree, it had better not come at all."

39. Who said "A Poet is the most unpoetical of anything in existence; because he has no Identity-he is continually in for-and filling some other Body"?

40. Which university did Tennyson attend as an undergraduate?

41. The inspiration for "Mariana" comes from which of the following Shakespearean plays?

42. Which of the following famous phrases did Tennyson pen?

43. Pauline, a Fragement of a Confession' was a homage to:

44. For Matthew Arnold "poetry of revolt against moral ideas" is -

45. In which chapter of Culture and Anarchy does Arnold mention Hebraism and Hellenism?

46. What is Yeats' s 'Reveries over Childhood and Youth'?

47. Which type of imagery is not used by Eliot in the poem 'Prufrock'?

48. "I am not a prophet." To which saint is the reference made in the poem 'Prufrock'?

49. W. H. Auden's long poem The Orators: An English Study written in prose and verse was first published in

50. A type of theatre entertainment including poetry, singing, and dancing, performed in England in the 16th and 17th centuries, especially at a royal court (the official home of a king or queen):