PGT English Mock Test 28

1. Anagnorisis is a term used by Aristotle to mean:

2. The term used for repetition of a word or phrase as the beginning of successive clauses is:

3. A short pithy instructive saying is:

4. refers to words which sound like that which they describe.

5. refers to new words, or words recently created in order to describe something which has never been described.

6. is when a word is used incorrectly, often in place of one that sounds similar to the correct one.

7. A is an overused saying or idea which has lost its original meaning or power.

8. is when an author makes an indirect reference to a figure, place, event, or idea originating from outside the text.

9. Which play is a retelling of the intrigues involving Vittoria Accoramboni, an Italian woman assassinated at the age of 28; and was a failure when staged at the Red Bull Theatre in 1612 being too unusual and intellectual for its audience?

10. All for Love; or, the World Well Lost, is a 1677 heroic drama by which is now his best-known and most performed play.

11. Which work is an acknowledged imitation of Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra, and focuses on the last hours of the lives of its hero and heroine.

12. Cato, a Tragedy is a play written by in 1712 and first performed on 14 April 1713.

13. Which of the following play has a prologue written by Alexander Pope and an epilogue by Samuel Garth?

14. A figure of speech in which a qualifying adjective is sometimes transferred from a person to a thing or from one word to another, to which it does not strictly belong, is called- (TGT-10)

15. "If music be the food of love, play on; Give me excess of it." Which play of Shakespeare opens with this line? (PGT-09)

16. Henry Wriothesley, 3rd Earl of Southampton was Shakespeare's-

17. Shakespeare's Sonnets are in the form (P-2000)

18. Which of the following statements is incorrect with reference to John Milton? (TGT-2016)

19. Which of the following words is not written by John Milton? (TGT-2016)

20. Which of the following works is not written by John Milton? (TGT-2016)

21. Which of the following statements is true about Milton's sonnet 'On His Blindness? (TGT-2016)

22. Milton's Paradise Regained takes it theme from: (TGT-2016)

23. Who first coined the term 'metaphysical poetry in his book Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets (1179- 1781)2

24. Which of the following poems composed by Pope covers a range of good criticism and advice, and represents many of the chief literary ideals of Pope's age?

25. In which poem Pope contends in the opening couplets that bad criticism does greater harm than bad writing?

26. In which poem Pope claims that the "Imitation of the ancients" is the ultimate standard for taste?

27. What does the Curfew toll for?

28. How many stanza are there in Gray's Elegy Writen in A Country Churchyard?

29. About which poem of Wordsworth Sir Walter Raleigh writes, "It was not by an acquaintance with Platonic Philosophy that he arrived at his glorification of childhood, but by looking at Nature and life with an open mind"?

30. Which of the following is true about the third stage of Wordsworth's love for nature?

31. Which poem describes Wordsworth's Pantheistic philosophy?

32. Who appreciated Wordsworth's poem "Michael" in the words, "Nature herself seems to have taken the pen out of his hand, and to write for him with her own bare, sheer, penetrating power."

33. The original title of his Revolt of Islam was-

34. Keats's Lamia is based on

35. The following lines are taken from. 'Tis better to have loved and lost Than never to have loved at all.

36. The question of women's rights and her sphere had been agitating the minds of men for a long time. Tennyson expressed his views on it in: (PGT-03)

37. Who is the subject of painting the duke and the messenger admire:

38. Who described Arnold's Preface to the Poems as "oddly stiff and graceless when we think of the elegance of his later prose?

39. Arnold's lectures On Translating Homer were published in?

40. "The only business of the head in the world is to bow a ceaseless obeisance to the heart." Who said?

41. Who is of the opinion, "The complexity of the modern poetry is the result of complexity of the modern life"?

42. In which essay has T.S. Eliot put his views on the impersonality of poetry and the poetic process?

43. According to the poem In Memory of W.B. Yeats, Yeats died in the-

44. In which poem, the above the appears ?

45. Who said, "Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting" ?

46. Of which poem of Wordsworth, the opening lines are : "If from the public way you turn Up the tumultuous brook of Green head ghyll, You will suppose that with an upright Your feet must struggle

47. "If to do were as easy as to know" is a monologue in The Merchant of Venice spoken by

48. In which play of Shakespeare, the following song occurs: "When that I was and a little tiny boy With hey, ho, the wind and the rain.

49. In which play of Shakespeare, the battle of Philippi takes place ?

50. The Battle of Philippi actually took place in the year-