PGT English Mock Test 23

1. Who wrote an Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog?

2. Which poet has written an elegy In Memory of W.B. Yeats?

3. James Macpherson wrote:

4. Which hero made his earliest appearance in Celtic literature before becoming a staple subject in French, English, and German literatures?

5. Who would be called the English Homer and father of English poetry?

6. What was vellum?

7. Only a small proportion of medieval books survive, large numbers having been destroyed in:

8. What is the first extended written specimen of Old English?

9. A metrical foot of two syllables that follow the order - Stressed + Unstressed:

10. A group of two syllables that follow the order - Unstressed + Stressed:

11. Lines of unrhymed iambic pentameter are commonly known as -

12. A rhymed pair of lines of iambic pentameter make a-

13. Who among the following is famous for her frequent use of ballad metre?

14. A form of satire that adapts the elevated heroic style of the classical epic poem to a trivial subject.

15. Who popularized the English verse form Hudibrastic by writing a work entitled Hudibras, published in parts from 1663 to 1678?

16. Feminine rhyme ends on-

17. The Rape of the Lock is a mock-heroic narrative poem written by-

18. Belinda and Lord Baron are the characters in-

19. The figure of speech in which we ascribe intelligence and personality to inanimate things is known as: (TGT-03)

20. In Shakespearean sonnets often, either at the beginning of the third quatrain or of the last couplet mark the Here the mood of the poem shifts, and the poet expresses a revelation orepiphany.

21. Among Shakespearean Sonnets, Sonnets 99 has

22. The following lines are taken from: Love Virtue, she alone is free, She can teach ye how to climb Higher than the sphery chime; Or, if Virtue feeble were, Heav'n itself would stoop to her.

23. Which of Milton's work begins with these lines: Of Mar's first disobedience, and the fruit Of that forbidden tree whose mortal taste Brought death into the world, and all our woe, With loss of Eden, till one greater Man Restore us, and regain the blissful Seat,

24. The poem "The Two Voices" was written by-

25. Who defined criticism to be "sincere. flexible, ardent, ever widening its knowledge ?"

26. Shakespeare's first Roman tragedy is-

27. Titus AndronicuS came out in the year

28. "It is not the fashion to see the lady" is a monologue in Shakespeare's play-

29. Which poem of Wordsworth deals with the tragedy of a Shepherd's shattered hopes ?

30. Whom did Wordsworth call "Stern Daughter of the Voice of God" ?

31. The following lines are taken from: Who overcomes By force, hath overcome but half his foe.

32. The following lines are taken from: Grace was in all her steps, heaven in her eye, In every gesture dignity and love.

33. The following lines are taken from: Nor love thy life, nor hate; but what thou liv'st Live well; how long or short permit to Heaven.

34. A novel by Ernest Hemingway takes its title from the metaphysical poet John Donne's series of meditations and prayers on health, pain, and sickness published in 1624 as Devotions upon Emergent Occasions, specifically Meditation XVII. The novel was- A

35. Who affects metaphysics in the words of Dryden-

36. The Rape of the Lock is based on an actual event recounted to the poet by Pope's friend-

37. In the real incident Lord Petre had cut off a lock of without permission, and the consequent argument had created a breach between the two families.

38. Which character Pope used in The Rape of the Lock to represent Arabella Fermor?

39. What is the meaning of Elegy?

40. The word Elegy is derived from a Greek word -

41. Who called Wordsworth as "Egotistical Sublime"?

42. Oswald, Marmaduke, Lord Herbert, Lacy, Wallace, Idonea and Lord Clifford are the characters in Wordsworth's-

43. In the essay The preface to the Lyrical Ballads William Wordsworth manifested the guideline-

44. In which work of Wordsworth does the line 'still sad music of humanity' occur? (TGT-2016)

45. Shelley's Masque of Anarchy is-

46. F. Scott Fitzgerald was a great admirer of the poetry of John Keats, so much that he named one of his novels (Tender is the Night) with a line from one of the poems of Keats. Which poem was it? (P-03)

47. Which sonnet form Keats adopted?

48. Which poem of Tennyson contains the following lines? (P-09) "Tet all experience is an arch where thro' Gleams that untraveled world, whose margin fades For ever and forever when I move"

49. 'Sir Bedivere' figures in the poem- (PGT-09)

50. 'My Last Duchess' is composed by: