PGT English Mock Test 27

1. An Essay of Dramatic Poesy is from the pen of:

2. A line of verse that has six iambic feet or 12 syllable iambic lines is known as:

3. An extended narrative, which carries a second meaning along with its surface story, is known as:

4.is a remarkably exaggerated statement or idea meant to be taken figuratively rather than literally.

5. A story is not a story without a and.

6. is a moment in which the linear story is interrupted and launched to an event that occurred in the past.

7. is the most dramatic, meaningful, and suspenseful moment in the story. It's a point when the story reaches a breaking point when something or someone must change.

8. is the repetition of a certain sound at the beginning of successive words or phrases.

9. Who is known for the allegorical novella Animal Farm (1945) and the dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty- Four (1949).

10. Who is famous for the maxims: "All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." "Four legs good, two legs bad", "Four legs good, two legs better"?

11. Who was the first to achieve critical notoriety for his use of blank verse, which became the standard for the Elizabethan era; the critics later referred it as "mighty line"?

12. Who is known for the following tragedies? Dido, Queen of Carthage (c. 1585-1587) 1588) Tamburlaine, Part I (c. 1587); Part II (c. 1587- The Jew of Malta (c. 1589-1590) Doctor Faustus (c. 1588-1592) Edward the Second (c. 1592)

13. Whose plays The White Devil (c. 1609-c. 1612) and The Duchess of Malfi (c. 1612/13, published 1623) are generally regarded as the paramount 17th-century English tragedies apart from those of Shakespeare?

14. The occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning or adjacent words is- (PGT-13)

15. Which play of Shakespeare has been described as "the world's most filmed story after Cinderella"?

16. "With this key (Sonnet) Shakespeare unlocked his heart." The words are from- (P-10)

17. In Shakespeare's Tragedies "Character is not Destiny, but there is Character and Destiny" is a remark by:

18. In which year, Milton's Lycidas was written? (TGT- 2013)

19. "Life of Milton' has been written by_ (TGT-2013)

20. Milton's Areopagitica concerns with .(TGT-2013)

21. 108. Who is the writer of History of Britain'? (TGT-2013)

22. Milton's poetic style is generally regarded as-

23. Donne is also called -

24. Who said, "Fair seed time had my soul, and I grew up Fostered alike by beauty and by fear ?"

25. In which poem, Wordsworth asserts that. "The earth And common face of Nature spoke to me Rememberable things" ?

26. Morte D'Arthur is a poem by-

27. In Twelfth Night, the name of the Duke is-

28. North's Translation of Plutarch's Lives is a major source of Shakes- peare's play-

29 In The Comedy of Errors, the twin brothers have the same name. What is that name ?

30. In The Comedy of Errors, the twin slaves have the same name. What is the name ?

31. In which poem Pope claims that poets are made, not born?

32. Which of the following ancient writers is not mentioned in Pope's An Essay on Criticism?

33. In which poem Pope attacked the 17th century dramatist John Dennis characterizing him as Appius?

34. In which year was the poet began this poem?

35. In which year was the poet completed this poem?

36. In which year was The Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard published?

37. "It is a story of cruel wrongs suffered by an innocent woman, chiefly as the result of war, and by a technically guilty but essentially good man, who ends on the gallows as a confessed murderer." The theme of which poem is narrated here?

38. Which time period is called the Glorious Decade of Wordsworth's career?

39. The period of decline in Wordsworth's career began after-

40. In which poem Wordsworth calls the child a prophet, a seer and a philosopher.

41. The title of Shelley's incomplete dream-allegory is: (PGT-04, 05)

42. What influenced Shelley most?

43. The story of Isabella is taken from

44. What is known today as the Idylls of the King began in 1842 with the poem 'Morte D Arthur': Which is the last poem of Idylls? (PGT-03)

45. Queen Victoria found great solace in her grief from one of Tennyson's poems. What is the title of the poem? (PGT-03)

46. How many lines are there in the poem My Last Duchess?

47. The poem My Last Duchess is written in: 7.24

48. A great essayist known as 'Alpha of the Plough' is:

49. Arnold's work as a literary critic began with the 1853-

50. "We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry." Who said?