PGT English Mock Test 32

1. A fanciful image or startling comparison is known as:

2. The struggle between two characters or two forces is known as:

3. Conflict may be two kinds: outer and:

4. The literary art of diminishing a subject by making it ridiculous and evoking towards it the attitudes of amusement and scorn is called: (P-2000)

5. What does the term 'Curtain Raiser' indicates in drama: (PGT-02)

6. What is meaning of the expression 'Avant-garde'? (PGT-04, 10)

7. What is 'Stream of consciousness technique? (PGT-04)

8. Another name for 'verse libre' is: (PGT-04, 05)

9. The Importance of Being Earnest (1895), by Oscar Wilde satirises -

10. William Wycherley, William Congreve, Oliver Goldsmith, and Richard Brinsley Sheridan are the writer of:

11. The term 'comedy of menace', which British drama critic Irving Wardle based on the subtitle of The Lunatic View: A Comedy of Menace (1958), by David Campton, is a jocular play-on-words derived from the-

12. The struggle or opposition between two characters or two forces is called:

13. What is the name of an implied simile? (PGT-2000)

14. What is direct address to the dead, to the absent, or to a personified object or idea? (PGT-2000)

15. William Shakespeare was baptized on -

16. William Shakespeare died on-

17. "All is not lost, the unconquerable will, and study of revenge, immortal hate, and the courage never to submit or yield." The above lines are taken from:

18. "For liberty hath a sharp and double edge, fit only to be handled by just and virtuous men... that good men may enjoy the freedom which they merit, and the bad the curb which they need." Who said?

19. "Freely we serve Because we freely love, as in our will To love or not; in this we stand or fall." Who said?

20. His father's name was -

21. Ode on Solitude is a poem by , written when he was twelve years old, and widely included in anthologies.

22. A play with song and music inters- persed is known as-

23. Who originated the genre 'Melo-drama' ?

24. Conflict forms the essence of a

25. Which form of poetry mourns the lamentation over someone dead?

26. Verse de Societe' (playfully) deals with the frivolous concerns of

27. Limerick' is a 'form of comic-verse consisting of ......... lines.

28. The above form was popularized by-

29. In the line *The ploughman homeward plods his weary way' in the poem 'Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard' means that a ploughman is heading home with tired steps. However, the adjective 'weary' has been used with 'way' instead of feet. Which is this figure of speech?

30. In the third stanza of poem Elegy Written In a Country Churchyard', an owl is described complaining to the moon about in

31. According to the poem Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard', beetles make sound due to their

32. In which year Wordsworth added 'Preface' to his Lyrical Ballads?

33. After whom Wordsworth was appointed Poet Laureate of England?

34. Who criticized Wordsworth calling him 'Lost Leader'?

35. Wordsworth added 'Preface' to the Lyrical Ballads in the year-

36. Shelley wrote a pamphlet at Oxford "The Necessity of Atheism" By whom was he inspired. (P-03)

37. Who wrote 'The Necessity of Atheism"? (PGT-13)

38. John Keats died of-(PGT-13)

39. John Keats was a: (PGT-10)

40. The notion of "crossing the bar" is a metaphor for

41. Tithonus is loved by the goddess of what?

42. Robert Browning was baptized on:

43. Brwoning mother's name was-

44. Which age/period Matthew Arnold belongs to-

45. Who wrote an elegy "In Memory of W.B. Yeats"?

46. Abbey Theatre was established in Dublin on-

47. To which age does T.S. Eliot belong?

48, Which one of the following works of Keats is a sttory of the elopement of two lovers?

49. Which one of the following is a comedy?

50. To Autumn is a poem by