TGT English Mock Test 31

1. Who said: "Correction of social absurdities must at all times be the matter of true comedy."

2. Comedy of Manners flourished in a particular period of England. Which period is it?

3. Congreve and Etherge are the writer of:

4. Complete the sentence. (TGT-13) The reversal of fortune of a tragic hero is called

5. Who quoted these lines about tragedy: (TGT-03) "The plot, then is the first principle and soul of tragedy, and character holds the second place.

6. Who defined tragedy in the following manner: "Tragedy is an imitation of an action, that is serious, complete and of a certain magnitude....." (PGT-2000)

7. Morality plays were written: (TGT-10)

8. The originator and namer of 'deconstruction' is: (TGT-05)

9. Comedy of Humour is the term applied to the type of comic drama written by John Fletcher and:

10. Who explains his character-formula in the introduction of his work thus: Some one peculiar quality Doth so possess a man, that it doth draw All his affects, his spirits, and his powers, In their confluctions, all to run one way.

11. Comedy of intrigue originated in the country:

12. Comedy of Manners was revived in France by:

13. The Comedy of Manners flourished in England during-

14. When the sound of a word resembles the meaning it denotes, the figure of speech is: (PGT-2000, T- 03,09)

15. The repetition of vowel sounds in sequence of nearby words is called: (P-2000)

16. Find out the figure of speech in-"He received a mortal wound." (PGT-2016)

17. Find out the figure of speech in the following statement: (PGT-2016) "I see you coming out of a light blue car tomorrow."

18. William Shakespeare was born in- (PGT-04, 09)

19. William Shakespeare was born on -

20. "My rising is thy fall." This line is from-

21. "The mind is its own place, and in itself Can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven" The above lines are taken from:

22. "To reign is worth ambition though in Hell: Better to reign in Hell, than serve in Heaven." The above lines are taken from:

23. John Donne was born in London in

24. 'Comedy' means a literary work, that ends on a happy note, has in it materials selected and managed in such a manner as it-

25. 'Dirge' is a piece of music which suits to the-

26. An 'epic' is usually defined as a long narrative poem which-

27. In an ‘Interlude; the emphasis is on-

28. The term 'Masque', which stands for a semi-dramatic courtly form of entertainment, had the elements of-

29. Which literary genre means a short poem with a witty or ingenious turn of thought ?

30. 'Comic epic' is a unique literary genre which comically employs in a prose work all the epic devices such as-

31. Which of the following poem of Pope ends with the lines: Thus let me live, unseen, unknown; Thus unlamented let me die; Steal from the world, and not a stone Tell where I lie.

32. In the poem entitled, Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard, the poet laments the death of

33. The words "parting day' in the poem Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard, mean-

34. Wordsworth was popularly known as the poet of-

35. Wordsworth was born at- (T-13)

36. Why is the year 1798 taken to be the beginning of the Romantic Movement?

37. Romantic Age is also known as -

38. Where did Shelley settle and wrote his best poetry? (P-2000)

39. Shelley was rusticated in 1811, along with his fellow Thomas Jefferson Hogg, for Writing-

40. The Famous line - "If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?" is taken from

41. The following lines inscribed on Shelley's tomb are taken from- Nothing of him that doth fade, But doth suffer a sea-change Into something rich and strange.

42. John Keats died at the age of -(PGT-2000)

43. When did Keats die? (P-09)

44. In which of the following poems did Tennyson intend to discuss the relationship between men and women in Victorian England?

45. Which of the following best characterizes the mood of "Mariana"?

46. Robert Browning was born in Walworth in the parish of Camberwell, Surrey, on____.

47. Robert Browning Was born in the year:

48. Matthew Arnold started his career as:

49. W.B. Yeats was-

50. Who was the father of Matthew Arnold?

51. W.B. Yeats was-