Welcome to your PGT English Mock Test 8
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1. An error in judgment caused by ignorance or sudden weakness is:
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2. An ethical system that evaluates the pursuit of pleasure as the highest good is:
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3. By what term are the two words known when they are pronounced the same way but differ in meaning or spelling or both (e.g. bare and bear)
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4. The Globe Theatre was burned down in _(TGT-13)
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5. Who among the following writers has not won the Nobel Prize? (PGT-2000) A. T.S. Eliot
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6. Chronicle plays were popular in: (PGT-04)
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7. Robert Browning is famous for his: (PGT-05)
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8. In how many Indian languages The Sahitya Akademi Awards are given?
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9. A literary device that can be defined as poetry that is free from limitations of regular meter or rhythm, anddoes not rhyme with fixed forms.
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10. Free verse is also known as:
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11. A particular type or style of literature, art, film ormusic that you can recognize because of its special characteristics:
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12. A character fault or a mistake that causes someoneto fail or be destroyed:
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13. The belief that pleasure is the most important thingin life:
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14. The substitution of part for the whole is: (PGT-02)
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15. It is believed that Shakespeare was found guilty ofdeer poaching in the garden of - (TGT-01)
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16. Shakespeare was caught poaching of the deer in theCharlecotte Park whose owner was-
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17. "Pandæmonium" is the name invented by John Milton for the capital of the High Capital, of Satan and his peers.
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18. "Pandemonium" was built in about an hour by the fallen angels at the suggestion of Mammon at the end of Book I of Paradise Lost (1667). It was designed by the architect
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19. Hell in Paradise Lost is also called
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20. Which event ruined Donne's career, getting himdismissed from his post?
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21. Which poem of Alexander Pope the following lines form a part of-Fair tresses man's imperial race ensnare, And beauty draws us with a single hair.
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22. In which Canto following lines occur? Belinda smiled, and all the world was gay.
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23. The following lines from Canto III of The Rape of the Lock is an example of-Here thou, great Anna! whom three realms obey, Dost sometimes counsel take- and sometimes tea.
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24.“... means playing with any familiar person, event, legend or idea or an oblique hint to something in pass-ing, without explicitly mentioning it."
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25. The principal character who opposes the hero or the protagonist in the drama or novel is known as-
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26. A literary form, which describes the physical and psychological details and avoids any expression author's personality, is knowm as-
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27. Who used first this term ?
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28. This tern was first used in the year-
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29. To evoke maximum excitement with minimum information is the chief characteristic of
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30. The exponents of the Acmeism insis-ted that the poetry should be-
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31. In the epitaph, how does the poet describe himself?
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32. the heaven which he wished to have. What was it?
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33. In 'the Epitaph', the poet says that his merits and demerits lies asleep in his soul, which rests in the bosom of?
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34. Which poem these lines form a part of? (T-01) "Nature never did betray the heart, bas That loved her."
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35. The following lines are taken from-. "To me the meanest flower that blows can give Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears"
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36. Who said it- (P-04) "To me the meanest flower that blows can give b Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears"
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37. These lines are taken from - "The Child is father of the Man; I could wish my days to be Bound each to each by natural piety."
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38. Which of these poems by Shelley is written in Blank Verse? (P-2000)
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39. Which is the last work of John Keats?
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40. Keats dropped the first stanza of one of his 'Odes'.It was from- (P-09)
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41. "The Epic" was written as a frame for which of the following poems?
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42. Browning was dependent on his family till the age of:
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43. Find the name of the poem in which Empedocles, a philosopher of Sicily, commits suicide by jumping into the crater of the volcano.
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44. Arnold's culture and Anarchy deals with thesubject of:
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45. Q. What is Yeats's 'Ideas of Good and Evil'?
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46. Who are 'You' and 'I' in the first line of
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47. The journey referred to in the poem 'Prufrock' is:
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48. W.H. Auden taught in American universities-
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49. In which year Larkin became University Librarian at the University of Hull?
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50. Who wrote the Leaves of Grass, one of the classics of world poetry? (P-10)
