PGT English Mock Test 14

1, Who considers the above lines as The tenderest lines in Shakespeare"?

2. In which play of Shakespeare, the song "When daffodils begin to peer" is there?

3. Auden's The Sea and the Mirror was inspired by Shakespeare's play-

4.The restoration of Charles II took place in:

5.The theatres were reopened in 1660. When were they closed last?

6. Who is best known as the founder of The Tatler?

7. Dr. Johnson's The Dictionary of the English Language was published on:

8. The accession of Queen Victoria took place in:

10. A type of stanza, or a complete poem, consisting of four lines.

11. A method of proving the falsity of a premise by showing that its logical consequence is absurd or contradictory:

12. A name given to someone or something that is not their or its real or official name:

13. A form of arguing in which two statements are used to prove that a third statement is true, for example, "All humans are mortal; I am a human, therefore I am mortal.'

14. Needless repetition of an idea, statement, or word (generally considered to be a fault of style (e.g. they arrived one after the other in succession)

15. Point out the figure of speech in the following line: "The ploughman homeward plods his weary way."

16. What was the theatre in London that Shakespeare was associated with?

17. Which one of the following theatre companies was owned by Shakespeare, where his masterpieces were first performed? (P-05)

18. Who wrote in The Beautiful and the Sublime: "No person seems better to have understood the secret of heightening, or of setting terrible things, if I may use the expression in their strongest light, by the force of a judicious obscurity than Milton"?

19. "Miltonic verse cannot be written but in an artful or rather artist's humour" and that Paradise Lost was a "beautiful and grand curiosity". Who exclaimed it?

20. Who claimed saying "the study of Milton could be of no help: it was only a hindrance"?

21. Who wrote in The Anxiety of Influence that "Milton is the central problem in any theory and history of poetic influence in English?

22. Who refers to the beginning of the seventeenth century in which there "appeared a race of writers that may be termed the metaphysical poets"?

23. Who inspires Belinda's dream in the first canto?

24. Which one is known as the 'musical comedy?

25. Ballet’ is a

26. Louis XIV was a noted--

27. The term Classicism' implies adhe- rence to the classical principles of 'excellence' such as-

28. In which figure of speech, the con-tradictory words are put together ? (

29. Who is not a follower of 'objecti-vism ?

30. When the language is analysed from the point of view of structure, the systemn is known as-

31. To what are Belinda's eyes repeatedly compared?

32. To what do the four types of supernatural beings correspond?

33. Name the closest friends of Thomas Gray

34. In...., he became a scholar at Peterhouse, Cambridge.

35. When Thomas Gray was left the university without taking a degree?

36. Lyrical Ballads appeared with - (P-03)

37. "Emotions recollected in tranquility," profound philosophy of Wordsworth's rejected by- (P-03)

38. Wordsworth's Prelude was completed in -(PGT-03)

39. In which year did Wordsworth add his Preface to Lyrical Ballads? (P-04)

40. The following lines are taken from the poem- "Pillowed upon my fair love's ripening breast, To feel for ever its soft fall and swell"

41. Which poem of Keats has the following lines? "Heard melodies are sweet, But those unheard are sweeter" (PGT -09)

42. "And may there be no moaning of the bar, When I put out to Sea.' These lines occur in Tennyson's:

43. "Let knowledge grow from more to more, But more of reverence in us dwell; That mind and soul, according well, May make one music as before" In which poem of Tennyson do we find the above quoted lines? (PGT-05)

44. Browning was how much younger to his wife:

45. What kind of work is Arnold's The Strayed reveler?

46. What does Arnold lament in "Dover Beach"?

47. Yeats's poem Coole Park is related with the poet's association with-

48. Lapis Lazuli is a kind of-

49. "The Waste Land' by T.S. Eliot is a poem of:

50. 'The Waste Land' 434-line poem better known as 'Modern Epic' first appeared in the United Kingdom in the October issue of The Criterion and in the United States in the November issue of The Dial. The same year it was published in book form in :