TGT English Mock Test 22

1. In Dactylic there are three syllables, the first is accented followed by:

2. Belinda is the heroine of:

3. Which metre has a metrical foot consisting of two long or heavily accented syllables?

4. In Memory of W.B. Yeats" is an elegy composed to mourn the death of the great Irish poet-

5. What has made man crazy (mad) in life in view of Larkin?

6. Name the poet who was influenced by Jacksonian Democracy and loco-foco movement-

7. Dickinson composed over poems.

8. "Poetry begins in trivial metaphors, pretty metaphors, "grace" metaphors, and goes on to the profoundest thinking that we have. Poetry provides the one permissible way of saying one thing and meaning another. People say, "Why don't you say what you mean?" We never do that, do we, being all of us too much poets. We like to talk in parables and whether from in hints and in indirections diffidence or some other instinct." Who said?

9. "My object in living is to unite My avocation and my vocation As my two eyes make one in sight. Only where love and need are one, And the work is play for mortal stakes, Is the deed ever really done For heaven and the future's sakes." The above lines are from -

10. Kamala Das died in the year- (P-13)

11. Kamala Das's poetry can be- (P-13)

12. Who said, "Poetry does not sell in this country (India)?"

13. How do most critics describe Shylock?

14. What sort of character is Portia?

15. Who does the play's title refer to?

16. What might be the cause of Antonio's persistent and worsening melancholy?

17. What is one of Antonio's key characteristics, other than melancholy?

18. Why does Bassanio seek to marry Portia in the first place?

19. What do the Christian characters in the play embody?

20. Ben Jonson has the impulse.

21. Which type of characters of Ben Jonson? (

22. What is defect in Ben Jonson?

23. The characters of Ben Jonson appeal most to:

24. Hexametre', which was the most popular ancient measure, consists of feet.

25. Almost the whole of modern Engisn poetry has been dominated by

26. When the words or phrases in poetry or prose flow in a systematic way, it means-–

27. Who coined the term, 'sensuous- ness' ?

28. In which figure of speech, a comparison is made between two unlike things ?

29. "He fought bravely as a lion" is an example of-

30. Who criticised Coleridge for the latter's lack of Negative Capability?

31. The characters are rarely...... wholes.

32. The comedies of Ben Jonson are

33. The Rehearsal (1672) by George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham, was a satirical play aimed specifically and generally at the sententious and overly ambitious theatre of the Restoration tragedy.

34. The Rehearsal infuriated Dryden and he made Buckingham into the figure of Zimri in his -

35. Marriage à la Mode (written in a combination of prose, blank verse and heroic couplets) is a by John Dryden, first performed in London in 1673 by the King's Company.

36. Which play of Dryden contains two songs, "Why Should a Foolish and "Whilst Alexis Lay Pressed" by Nicholas Staggins?

37 Shaw was primarily a-

38. Shaw inherited his love for the arts especially music from:

39. The title of the play Justice is: (TGT-13)

40. Justice shows the problems of:

41. Galsworthy's play Strife deals with the subject of (TGT-13)

42. Who among the following replied during an interview, "Drama is about conflict and degrees of perturbation, disarray. I've never been able to write a happy play, but I've been able to enjoy a happy life."

43. Who was the second wife of Harold Pinter?

44. What was the full name of Arthur Miller-

45. Arthur Miller was an -

46. Which of Karnad's play was based on a folk tale related to him by A. K. Ramanujam?

47. The Second Sex (1949) is a work by-

48. Which of Karnad's play brought him the Karnataka Sahitya Academy Award for the Most Creative Work of 1989?

49. Reading maketh a man; conference a man; and writing an man.

50. If a man write little, he had need have a