PGT English Mock Test 11

1. A humorous verse form of 5 anapestic lines with a rhyme scheme aabba

2. An elaborate, semi dramatic, costly form of entertainment

3. It is an extravagant comedy in which action is more salient than characterization. It is sensational and gruesome play.

4. The phrase 'emotional psychology in fiction' is associated with:

5. Who said "Romanticism is precisely situated neither in choice of subject nor exact truth, but in the way of feeling."

6. The phrase 'Waverly Novels' is associated with:

7. French Revolution began in:

8. Name the Shakespearean stage actor who successfully played the role of Shylock and many others in Hamlet, King Lear, Othello, Macbeth etc. Edmund Kean B. Deo Shepherd

9. A story, play or film in which a lot of exciting things happen and in which people's emotions are stronger than in real life:

10. The use of movements of your hands and body and the expression on your face to tell a story or to act something without speaking;

11. A punishment or defeat that somebody deserves and cannot avoid. Such retribution (punishment for crimes) is brought about by "the goddess of Rhamnous":

12. A personality quality (in Greek plays) of extreme or excessive pride or dangerous overconfidence, often in combination with arrogance.

13. The act of coining a new word or expression in a language, or a new meaning for an existing word or expression.

14. What is the figure of speech in the following sentence? (P-04) "Authority forgets a dying king.' "

15. Reaching London, in 1587 Shakespeare joined:

16. On August 11, 1596 one of Shakespeare's children died at the age of 11-

17. Libba Bray uses a quote from Paradise Lost to name the second book of her trilogy, quoting from it "To reign is worth ambition though in Hell: Better to reign in Hell than serve in Heav'n.")

18. Name the American author wrote Paradise Lost: The Novel in 1994, based upon the epic poem.

19. In American drama thriller film The Devil's Advocate (1997), Pacino's character is named after -

20. "The Canonization" is a poem by English metaphysical poet

21. Whither does Umbriel journey?

22. What does Thalestris think the Baron will do with the lock?

23. What effect does Sir Plume's speech have on the Baron?

24. The Miracle Plays flourished in England from about the

25. Derived from old French 'mocquer meaning 'to decide', the term Mock- epic' stands for

26. The main characteristics of a 'mock-

27. The first successful example of a truly mock-hesoic poem is believed to be-

28. The term 'Modernism' is a complex and diverse movement in literature which arose as a reaction against-

29. The best example of Novel of Character' is supposed to be

30. The well-known flat characters who form an integral part ofhe 'Novel of Character' are

31. The epitaph' entailed after 'Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard' consists of Stanas.

32. The poem Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard' is marked by excessive use of -

33. The poetry of Thomas Gray can be described

34. 'Every great poet is a teacher' are the words of (TGT-09)

35. The sonnet The World is Too Much With Us is written by - (PGT-2000)

36. Wordsworth's The Lyrical Ballad was published in - (PGT- 2000, 05, 09, 13)

37. Who said- "Milton! Thou should'st be living at this hour"? (PGT-02)

38. Prometheus Unbound is a - (PGT-03)

39. Who said "Shakespeare and the Paradise Lost every day become greater wonders to me - I look upon fine Phrases like a Lover."

40. Who says "If I should die, I have left no immortal work behind me - nothing to make my friends proud of my memory - but I have loved the principle of beauty in all things, and if I had had time I would have made myself remembered."

41. "The churches have killed their Christ" is a line from:

42. Which of the following is Tennyson least likely to have read before 1850?

43. "The Apostles" was the name of:oligh

44. Duke of Ferrara was a:

45. Empedocles on Etna is a

46. Arnold said about a poet: "With him is born our real poetry." Who is the poet referred?

47. Yeats's poem 'When You are Old' is addressed to -

48. The author of 'A Reed Shaken by the Wind' is:

49. In which poem T.S. Eliot uses the image of a patient, of yellow fog, a cat, crab, Lazarus, John the Baptist, Hamlet, Polonius and mermaids?

50. Which technique is employed in "Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"?