PGT English Mock Test 19

1. Who first used the blank-verse ?

2. Who introduced the sonnet form in England?

3. Shakespeare's "The Quality of Mercy" is taken from his play-

4. "Oh, 'tis love, 'tis love that makes the world go round. "Who said this?

5."Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way." Who said this?

6."All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." Who said this?

7. "Truth is always stranger than fiction." Who said this?

8. "I have a smack of Hamlet myself, if I may say so." Who said this?

9. Miracle plays dealt with:

10. These dramas were popular during the Middle Ages; acted within or near the church and relating stories from the Bible and of the saints. The dialogue was frequently chanted to simple monophonic melodies. Music was also used in the form of incidental dance and processional tunes. These plays were called:

11. Metre (also spelled Meter) in poetry, refers to -

12. A line of 12 syllables with a medial caesura (a pause occurring after the 6th syllable):

13. A line consisting of TWELVE syllables is known as:

14. The figure of speech in 'He is too fond of red-tape (P-10)

15. Where from the lines - (T-01) Fear no more the heat o' the sun, Nor the furious winter's rages; Thou thy worldly task hast done, Home art gone, and ta'en thy wages

16. Shakespeare's sonnets is the title of a collection of sonnets.

17. "Shakespeare's passion is passion modified by passion', Milton's is passion modified by contemplation." Who said this?

18. Which French author lavishly praised Paradise Lost in 1727 when writing of epic poetry?

19. Shelley's Prometheus in Prometheus Unbound (1820) is modeled after:

20. Who complained that Milton's epic verse lacked earnest feeling, was "stiff and tortuous," and was so inflexible that it discouraged imitation?

21. In which of his work Milton contends that the basis of marriage is compatibility. If the partners are no longer compatible, he argues, the marriage is in effect dissolved?

22. The following lines are taken from: O dark, dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon, Irrecoverably dark, total eclipse Without all hope of day!

23. Who wrote to his wife "John Donne, Anne Donne, Undone"?

24. Who is not a "Christian Humanist"?

25. Shakespeare wrote

26. Out of 154 Sonnets, 126 of Shakespeare's sonnets are addressed to-

27. La Fantenire is famous for

28. The fall of Constantinople to the Turks took place in the year

29. Battle of Agincourt took place in the

30. In Hamlet who utters the lines, when sorrows come, they come not in spies, but in battalions ?"

31. The mock-epic The Rape of the Lack is dedicated to-

32. Who is the heroine of the poem The Rape of the Lock?

33. What was the name of Belinda's lapdog-

34. Who is the Baron in The Rape of the Lock?

35. When he began to write as a close follower of -

36. In which year The Progress of Poesy' and The Bard'both published at Horace Walpole's Strawberry Hill press?

37. For which poem of Wordsworth Charles Lamb wrote that though he liked the poem's subject "I cannot say that the style of it quite satisfies me. It is too lyrical"?

38. Which poem of Wordsworth, in 1891 Oscar Wilde cited as an example of the deleterious influence of Nature on Wordsworth's poetry.

39. Which poem of Wordsworth begins with a description of him as impervious to the softening influence of nature, who makes his living as an itinerant hawker (or potter, in Wordsworth's northern expression) of earthenware?

40. During the first year that Mr. Wordsworth and 1 were neighbours, our conversations turned frequently two cardinal points of poetry." Who on the commented?

41. How many acts are there in Shelley's lyrical drama "Prometheus Unbound"?

42. Keats's works were criticized in the magazines-

43. Who said "Keats had "flint and iron" in him"?

44. "The woods decay, the woods decay and fall, The vapours weep their burthen to the ground, Man comes and tills the field and lies beneath, And after many a summer dies the swan." The above lines are taken from:

45. "Love lieth deep; Love dwells not in lip-depths... Where love could walk with banish'd Hope no more." The above lines are taken from:

46. The long blank-verse poem 'The Ring and the Book' was published in:

47. The Ring and the Book' is published in:

48. Matthew Arnold's Rughby commemorates:

49. Arnold moans whose untimely death in his elegy entitled Thyrsis?

50. Identify Yeats's poems which show the influence of Indian thought, especially of the Bhagavad-Gita: