PGT English Mock Test 18

1. Justice by Galsworthy is an example of:

2. It is a drama of a serious nature dealing with the thoughts and actions of ordinary people rather than men of great fortune and status. The rise of democracy affected this kind of drama. Which kind of drama is it?

3. It is a literary work in which imagination plays a great role. It presents a picture of life as it could never be. By what term is this literary work known?

4. An Iambus consists of: (PGT-13)

5. Blank verse is: (PGT-13)

6. Free verse is poetry: (PGT-10)

7. Beowulf is:

8. "I had found my religion: nothing seemed more important to me than a book. I saw the library as a temple."Who said this?

9. A drama in which the tragic protagonists are ordinary middle-class or lower-class individuals, in contrast to classical and Neoclassical tragedy, in which the protagonists are of kingly or aristocratic rank and their downfall is an affair of state as well as a personal matter:

10. A genre of speculative fiction set in a fictional universe, often inspired by real world myth and folklore.

11. The Four P's by John Heywood is a-

12. The plays usually representing biblical subjects. developed from plays presented in Latin by churchmen on church premises and depicted such subjects as the Creation, Adam and Eve, the murder of Abel, and the Last Judgment.

13. Mysteries plays deal with the subjects taken from-

14. Choose the correct figure of speech in the following line: "Like a patient etherized upon a table."

15. Venus and Adonis is a poem by - (P-10)

16. Where from these lines have been taken- (T-01) Good friend, for Jesus' sake forbear, To dig the dust enclosed here. Blessed be the man that spares these stones, And cursed be he that moves my bones.

17. Who has labelled Paradise Regained as a "brief epic"?

18. Milton composed Paradise Regained at his cottage in Chalfont St Giles in

19. "Milton's poetry is a mirror in which the writer's character is very clearly reflected." Who made this statement? (T-05)

20. "Alone of English poets, alone in English art, Milton has it; he is our great artist in style, our one first-rate master in the grand style." Who said this?

21. "Had Milton been a man of very keen senses - I mean of all the five senses his blindness would not have mattered so much. But for a man whose sensuousness, such as it was, had been withered early by book-learning, and whose gifts were naturally aural, it mattered a great deal." Who said it?

22. "The Canonization" has five stanzas of

23. Who is Belinda's guardian sylph that oversees an army of invisible protective deities?

24. In which figure of speech do we have parallel grammatical constructions with opposing ideas of things ?

25. 'Metaphor' is an important figure of speech used for

26. Who is not a member of the 'Kit-cat-club' ?

27. 'Medievalism, as a literary term, implies the imitation thought, sensi- bility, theme and style of-

28. A far-fetched rmetaphor or simile, which generally presents a surpri- sing similarity between two appa- rently dissimilar things or feelings, is known as--

29. Who started the convention of Invo-cation' ?

30. An 'epic-simile' is an extended simile which is highly suggestive and-

31. What's the name of the chief gnome, who travels to the Cave of Spleen and returns with bundles of sighs and tears to aggravate Belinda's vexation?

32. What's the name of the sylph who is assigned to guard Belinda's earrings?

33. Name the two Pindaric odes of Gray.

34. Gray's Pindaric Odes were published in

35. Wordsworth treated Nature as a:

36. What does Pantheism mean?

37. From where did Wordsworth get idea that education of Nature is superior to bookish learning?

38. Wordsworth subscribed to whose belief that humanity was essentially good but was corrupted by the influence of society?

39. From which source did Shelley get the idea of writing The Prometheus Unbound?

40. Endymion by Keats is the story of a young Shepherd, loved by the moon Goddess. Keats took the story from-(P-03)

41. Which work was described by Keats as 'a feverish attempt rather than a deed accomplished"? (P-09)

42. "The poet in a golden clime was born, With golden stars above; Dower'd with the hate of hate, the scorn of scorn, The love of love" The above lines are taken from:

43. "Death is the end of life; ah, why Should life all labour be?" The above lines are taken from:

44. "I cannot rest from travel: I will drink Life to the lees" The above lines are taken from:

45. When did Robert Browning's wife die?

46. Which of these is not a poem by Matthew Arnold?

47. In Matthew Arnold's Culture and Anarchy the term Philistine' is used for-

48. Name the Indian poet, mystic and philosopher who influenced W.B. Yeats?

49. Which poem begins with the line April is the cruelest month"?

50. In 1935 Auden married -