TGT English Mock Test 13

1. It is almost reduction to the absurd. It is a disproof by showing that the consequences of the proposition are absurd.

2. A familiar name or nickname (often a shortened version of a person's given name)

3. William James used the term 'Stream of Consciousness' in his book named:

4. Who was the father of poetry in English Literature?

5. The 'War of Roses' took place during the period:

6. John Wycliff is called:

7. Spenser has been hailed as "the poet's poet" by:

8. The first Authorise Version of King James Bible appeared in:

9. A piece of writing, speech or music that copies the style of somebody/something in a funny way:

10. The use of a longer phrasing in place of a possible shorter form of expression; a roundabout or indirect manner of writing or speaking:

11. The concluding part of a speech, typically intended to inspire enthusiasm in the audience.

12. The capital vices, or cardinal sins within Christian teachings - pride, greed, wrath, envy, lust, gluttony and sloth are called:

13. The combination of four classical Cardinal Virtues of prudence, justice, temperance, courage (or fortitude) with the three Theological Virtues of faith, hope, and charity is known as:

14. "Milton! Thou shouldst be living at this hour". Find the figure of speech. (PGT-05)

15. Which odes were generally written for public occasions ?

16. When did Shakespeare write his plays?

17. Who wrote a poem "Epitaph on the admirable Dramatick Poet, W. Shakespeare"?

18. Arcades and Comus are Milton's two famous-

19. Just before his death in 1674, Milton supervised am second edition of Paradise Lost, accompanied by an explanation of "why the poem rhymes not", and prefatory verses by -

20. Which poet saw himself as Milton's poetical son?

21. Who wrote of Donne in 1693: "He affects the metaphysics, not only in his satires, but in his amorousverses, where nature only should reign; and perplexes the minds of the fair sex with nice speculations of philosophy, when he should engage their hearts, and entertain them with the softnesses of love."

22. What does Belinda wear around her neck?

23. Where is the party held?

24. One of the earliest instances of a mock-epic poem in literature is believed to be-

25. The credit for the master-piece of mock-epic in English tongue goes to-

26. Modernism' has reflected the impact

'27. Which one is characteristic work of

28. The terms Onomatopoeia' and 'Oxy-moron' coome from-

29. Who used the term 'objectivism' for the first time ?

30. Which phrase is used when the thoughts, feelings and memories low continuously in the waking mind ?

31. Who wins the hand of ombre?

32. Why was Thomas sent to Eton?

33. When was Thomas Gray sent to Eton?

34. The line "one impulse from a vernal wood" has been taken from - (TGT-13)

35. Who among the following has written Peter Bell? (TGT-13)

36. Wordsworth has expressed his views on transmigration of the soul in the poem- (TGT-13)

37. Which of these travel poems belong to William Wordsworth? (PGT-03)

38. How many cantos are there in Revolt of Islam?

39. Who wrote in a letter to J.H. Reynolds, "Admire me I am a violet! Dote upon me I am a primrose!"

40. "I cannot see what flowers are at my feet" is a line from-

41. "That friend of mine who lives in God, That God, which ever lives and loves, One God, one law, one element, And one far-off divine event, To which the whole creation moves" The above lines are from Tennyson's -

42. "Dear is the memory of our wedded lives, And dear the last embraces of our wives And their warm tears: but all hath suffer'd change: Which poem these lines form a part of? F

43. Browning got married in the year:

44. Who is of the view that "Matthew Arnold thinks too much of the uses of literature and too little of its pleasure"?

45. What kind of work is Arnold's Merope?

46. What is Yeats's The Seven Woods?

47. What is Yeats's The Tower?

48. Which of the following Eliot's characters is different from the rest?

49. "Criticism must always profess an end in view...Its function is to promote the understanding and enjoyment of literature." Who said this?

50. Who asserted himself as "a classicist in literature, royalist in politics and anglo-Catholic in religion"?