PGT English Mock Test 5

1. A song or hymn of mourning composed or performed as a memorial to a dead person

2. A comic verse of irregular measure is:

3. A short descriptive poem of rural or pastoral life

4. 'Myth' comes from Greek mythos' signifying (T-04)

5. Denouement is related to: (T-09)

6. An Eclogue is: (T-09)

7. 'A sudden and ridiculous descent from the exalted to the common-place and ordinary, especially when a writer, striving for the noble or pathetic, achieves the ludicrous' is best expressed by the term- (T-10)

8. Catharsis'- (T-10)

9. A song or hymn of grief or lamentation especially one intended to accompany funeral or memorial rites:

10. A comic verse composed in irregular rhythm:

11. A short pastoral poem, usually in dialogue, on the subject of rural life and the society of shepherds, depicting rural life as free from the complexity and corruption of more civilized life:

12. The omission of a sound or syllable when speaking (as in I'm, let's):

13. The act of leaving out a word or words from a sentence deliberately, when the meaning can be understood without them:

14. Which of the following sentences has the figure of speech called 'Apostrophe"? (P-2000)

15. Identify the figure of speech in the following line: (P-2000) "The pen is mightier than sword"

16. Shakespeare's wife Anne Hathaway was 8 year older to him and she belonged to-

17. At the age of 18, Shakespeare married 26-year-old Anne Hathaway. The consistory court of the Diocese of Worcester issued a marriage licence on-

18. He interpreted Paradise Lost as a genuine Christian morality tale, and argued that there was по contradiction in Milton's position in the poem since "Milton believed that God was his natural superior' and that Charles Stuart was not." Who was he?

19. Who argued that "Milton deserves credit for making God wicked, since the God of Christianity is 'a wicked God'?

20. "The reason Milton wrote in fetters when he wrote of Angels & God, and at liberty when of Devils & Hell, is because he was a true Poet and of the Devil's party without knowing it." Who said? the metaphysical poets?

21. Who is considered the preeminent representative of The Dunciad in 1728 in three as its "hero.

22. Pope first published books, with

23. In 1742 Pope published The New Dunciad, (Dunciad's fourth book). In this edition Pope replaced Lewis Theobald with as the work's dubious hero.

24. Which term is used when a female child is attracted towards her father?

25. Who introduced 'Ottava rima' into English ?

26. Which one dramatizes the domestie situation of a middle class family in a melodramatic manner ?

27. 'Baroque' refers to a type of writing that creates-

28. The song sung before the bridal chamber is called-

29. Who gave the 'Restoration Comedy of Manners' the name of Genteel

30. Which type of novel paints the society and the life of the past and not of the contemporary times ?

31. An Essay on Man is a poem published by Alexander Pope in 1733-1734. It was dedicated to-

32. According to the poem Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard', can songs of praise and decoration bring back life of those people who are dead?

33. According to the poem Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard', the poet says that there might be a dead person in this unknown graveyard who could have possessed the following traits. Which of the following did he not mention?

34. Who opines, "There neither is, nor can be, any essential difference between the language of prose and metrical composition"? (PGT-2000)

35. The complete title of the poem Tintern Abbey is "Lines Composed A Few Miles above Tintern Abbey, on Revisiting the Banks of the Wye During A Tour, July 13, 1798". Wordsworth revisited the place in 1798. When did he visit Tintern Abbey first time?

36. Who has called Wordsworth 'A Moral Enuch'?

37. Who criticized Wordsworth for not following his own theory of poetry?

38. Who called Shelley "a beautiful but an ineffectual angel beating in the vold his luminous wings in vain"?

39. Who termed Shelley as 'Melopoeic"?

40. Who wrote a famous pastoral elegy "Adonais" on the death of Keats?

41. Shelley's elegy Adonais is a threnody written to mourn the death of - (PGT-10)

42. Where did Tennyson "Tears, Idle Tears"? conceive of the idea for

43. The final section of "In Memoriam" describes the marriage between which two people?

44. Browning was a poet.

45. By the age of 14 Browning was fluent in

46. In which work Arnold says "The business of criticism is neither to find fault nor to display the critic's own learning nor influence; it is to know "the best which has been thought and said in the world"?

47. In which work Arnold employs the terms- Culture, Barbarism, Philistine and Hebraism?

48. Yeats was the leader of-

49. Trace in the following list the drama which T.S. Eliot did not write:

50. Which of the following is not a poem?

50.Shelly's O World! O Life! O Time! is