Welcome to your PGT English Mock Test 12
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1. A drama set to music; consists of singing with orchestral accompaniment and an orchestral overture and interludes
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2. A formal expression of praise
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3. A composition that imitates somebody's style in a humorous way
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4. The Caxton Press was established in:
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5. The first book printed in English by Caxton Press was
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6. Who wrote "True wit is what oft was thought but never so well expressed"?
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7. Caedmon and Cynewulf are:
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8. A name, especially a completely fake one, under which an author publishes their work instead of using their real name:
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9. A feeling of pleasure, mixed with sadness, when you think of happy times in the past
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10. The branch of philosophy that studies concepts such as existence, being, becoming, and reality:
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11. A staged drama set to music in its entirety, made up of vocal pieces with instrumental accompaniment and usually with orchestral overtures and interludes:
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12. A formal public speech or written verse, delivered in high praise of a person or thing:
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13. Which is the figure of speech used in the following sentence? (P-04) "Friendship is the sheltering tree."
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14. Between what time periods did William Shakespeare begin a successful career in London as an actor?
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15. Which period of Shakespeare's career/life is referred as "lost years" by scholars?
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16. Milton defined his views of Greek tragedy in the preface to
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17. "Tragedy, as it was anciently composed, hath been ever held the gravest, moralest, and most profitable of all other poems: therefore said by Aristotle to be of power by raising pity and fear, or terror, to purge the mind of those and such-like passions, that is to temper and reduce them to just measure with a kind of delight, stirred up by reading or seeing those passions well imitated. Nor is nature wanting in her own effects to make good his assertion: for so in physic things of melancholic hue and quality are used against melancholy, sour against sour, salt to remove salt humors." In which work Milton wrote it?
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18. Milton wrote his Elegia Prima, a first Latin elegy, to a friend from St Paul's. His name was-
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19. John Donne uses the following devices in his poetry-
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20. What beverage is served after the card game ends?
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21. Who arms the Baron with a pair of scissors?
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22. Who gets accidentally cut by the scissors?
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23. Some of the salient features of 'modermism' are-
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24. The term 'monologue' in literary usage, means-
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25. 'Monologue' can be used in--
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26. Invocation' means an appeal for
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27. 'Invocation' is generally made by an epic poet at the
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28. The movement called 'Futurism' was founded by-
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29. Eight line stanza of lambic penta- meter rhyming abababec is known as-
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30. When was Thomas Gray born?
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31. Where was Thomas Gray born?
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32. Thomas Gray was the son of
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33. Who wrote and about whom - (TGT-01) "Thy soul was like a star, and dwelt apart.
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34. Wordsworth wrote the Prelude in- (PGT- 02/T-13)
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35. In which year The Prelude was published? (TGT-13)
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36. To whom is Wordsworth's autobiographical poem The Prelude addressed? (PGT-09)
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37. Who called Wordsworth the Egotistical sublime? (P-02)
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38. Choose the correct option "Little we see in Nature that is ours." The above line has been quoted from- (TGT- 13)
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39. Who is the writer of Descriptive Sketches (TGT-13)
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40. Who has written Ruth? (TGT-13)
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41. Shelley dedicated his The Revolt of Islam to-
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42. Who writes in a letter to his brothers George and Tom Keats on 21st December, 1817 "Shakespeare possessed so enormously-I mean Negative Capability that is when man is capable of being in uncertainties, Mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact & reason."
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43. The term 'Negative capability' is given by- (PGT-04)
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44. The following lines form a part of Tennyson's - "There she weaves by night and day A magic web with colours gay She has heard a whisper say, A curse is on her if she stay.'
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45. The Nobel Prize in Literature 2021 was awarded to-
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46. "Cannon to right of them, Cannon to left of them, Cannon in front of them Volley'd and thunder'd;" These lines are from Tennyson's
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47. Browning meet the poet Elizabeth Barret in the year:
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48. Who calls Arnold "a propagandist of literature" and "an over-worked school- inspector?
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49. Arnold said about a poet, "His poetry is the reality, his philosophy is the illusion." Which of the following poetsis referred in these lines?
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50. Which poem was contributed by Shakespeare to Robert Chester's Love's Martyr ?
