PGT English Mock Test 16

1. "Classicism is health; Romanticism is disease." Who said?

2. The word 'Essay' has beeen taken from a French word-essai. What does it mean?

3. The first English comedy is:

4. Nobel Prize for Literature is awarded by:

5. The Booker Prize for the best original novel is awarded by:

6. A verse of two lines length rhyming with each other at end is called: (PGT-02)

7. An Alexandrine is the last line of the: (PGT-13)

8. The Terza Rima is a stanza of (PGT-13)

9. Who is known as- the father of Criticism is:

10. Who is known as the father of English Criticism?

11. Who defined the term 'Deconstruction' variously throughout his career?

12. Of Grammatology is a 1967 book by the French philosopher-tib.1.

13. The Death of the Author is a 1967 essay by French literary critic and theorist -

14. Choose the correct figure of speech in the following sentence: (PGT-09) "The camel is the ship of desert."

15. What happened to the Globe Theatre in 1613?

16. How is Sam Wanamaker (1919-1993) connected with Shakespeare?

17. Samson, Manoa, Dalila, Harapha are the characters in Milton's-

18. Milton describes Samson as being "Eyeless in Gaza", a phrase that has become the most quoted line of Agonistes. Which novelist used it as the title for his 1936 novel Eyeless in Gaza?

19. The drama starts in medias res. Samson has been captured by the Philistines, had his hair, the container of his strength, cut off and his eyes cut out. Samson is "Blind among enemies, O worse than chains". These lines refer to Milton's:

20. Milton uses Chorus in his closet drama:

21. "The Canonization" refers to the process by which-

22. What's the name of Belinda's friend, named for the Queen of the Amazons and representing the historical Gertrude Morley, a friend of Pope's and the wife of Sir George Browne?

23. What's the name of Thalestris's male admirer, who makes an ineffectual challenge to the Baron; one who represents the historical Sir George Browne, a member of Pope's social circle?

24. "The clock tick spoke with castanet clicks" is an example of-

25. The term ballad, which originally meant a song to which one could dance, stands for a

26. The cavalier poets generally wrote in. praise of-

27. 'Extravaganza' stands for a literary production especially dramatic, which is influenced by extravagance. Such dramatic productions were a mixture of

28. Who did not protest against the Oxford Movement ?

29. Who is the introducer of the term 'objective correlative' ?

30. In which device, a character alone on the stage, reveals his inner thoughts, feelings and motives to the spectators ?

31. The poem mocks the men it portrays by showing them as unworthy of a form that suited a more-

32. In 1761, Gray was appointed to professorship of -

33. Gray was appointed to professorship of Modern History at-

34. In which poem has Wordsworth described different moods of Nature? (PGT-05)

35. Who among these is the interpreter of nature in many moods'? (TGT-04)

36. In 'Three Years She Grew', the little girl will be sportive as- (PGT-09)

37. Who considered Wordsworth as a "high priest of Nature"? (PGT-13)

38. How many parts are there in Shelley's The Sensitive Plant (leaving Conclusion)?

39. Who said, "My heart aches and a drowsy numbness pains"?

40. The following lines are taken from- (PGT- 04) "It is the eternal law That first in beauty should be first in might"

41. "O, yet we trust that somehow good Will be the final goal of ill" The above lines are taken from:

42. "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 taken from:

43. What was the name of Robert Browning's child?

44. Who is referred as 'Europe's Sagest Head' and n'Physician of the iron Age' by Arnold?

45. When was 'Literature and Dogma' published-

46. Yeats's philosophical work, which the spirits partly dictated to his wife, is entitled-

47. The epigraph of 'The Waste Land' is borrowed from?

48. Eliot's original manuscript of The Waste Land was entitled:

49. Eliot made significant cuts is his 'The Waste Land' on:

50. His poems "For the Time Being" and "Horac Canonicae" deal with-