Welcome to your PGT English Mock Test 20
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1. It is a lyrical poem that gives, a little picture of everyday life amid natural surrounding generally rural or pastoral. Originally the term was applied to the poems of Theocritus. The term is:
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2. John Heywood's The Four P's is:
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3. Mysteries plays were concerned with the Bible while Miracle plays dealt with:
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4. "If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him." Who said this?
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5. "An allegory is a series of metaphors or symbols continued throughout an entire story so as to represent or describe one series of facts by another series that is analogous to it in its main features. "- Nesfield. (PGT-03) Following this, which of the books mentioned below is an allegory?
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6. Which one of the following is not a pastoral elegy? (PGT-09)
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7. A poem telling the story of the leader of the whole community written in a narrative form and lofty style is called: (PGT-2000)
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8. Choose the name of the Roman Emperor who conquered England in 43 A.D.? (TGT-13)
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9. A line consisting of one metrical foot:
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10. Italian stanza form composed of eight 11-syllable lines, rhyming abababce:
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11. In art and literature the act of describing animals and things as having human feelings:
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12. Who invented the term Pathetic Fallacy"?
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13. A line of ten syllables or five feet; each foot is composed of an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable.
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14. The figure of speech in Pluck from the ntemory a rooted sorrow' is- (PGT-10)
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15. The sonnets were first published in a 1609 quarto with the title: il givello) od1.05
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16. Which Sonnets had previously been published in the 1599 miscellany The Passionate Pilgrim.
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17. The following lines are taken from: The sun to me is dark And silent as the moon, When she deserts the night, Hid in her vacant interlunar cave.
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18. The following lines are taken from: To live a life half dead, a living death.
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19. The following lines are taken from: bohat Wisest men Have erred, and by had women been deceived.
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20. The following lines are taken from: Just are the ways of God, And justifiable to men; Unless there be who think not God at all.
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21. The following lines are taken from: My race of glory run, and race of shame, And I shall shortly be with them at rest.
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22. Who speaks the following lines in Samson Agonistes? In argument with men a woman ever Goes by the worse, whatever be her cause.
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23. The following lines are taken from: Fame, if not double-faced, is double-mouthed, And with contrary blast proclaims most deeds;
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24. 'Assonance' is the repetition of identical-
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25. "He is deadly alive" is an example of-
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26. Which one of the following is based on the sound in sense theory ?
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27. Who coined the phrase "Iart pour I'art" ?
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28. Affective Fallacy means-
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29. Who defined the above term ?
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30. This term was defined in The Verbal Icon which was published in-
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31. The following lines are taken from: Yet beauty, though injurious, hath strange power, After offense returning, to regain Love once possessed.
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32. The following lines are taken from: Love-quarrels oft in pleasing concord end; Not wedlock-treachery.
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33. The following lines are taken from: Boast not of what thou would'st have done, but do What then thou would'st.
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34. Who wrote about the use of paradoxes in the poem "The Canonization" illustrates that paradox is not limited to use in logic. Instead, paradox enables poetry to escape the confines of logical and scientific language?
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35. In a mock-epic like The Rape of the Lock the subject is trivial, whereas the treatment and style is-
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36. Pope wrote in a letter, "It will be in vain to deny that I have some regard for this piece, since I dedicate it to You. Yet you may bear me witness, it was intended only to divert a few young Ladies, who have good sense and good humour enough to laugh not only at their sex's little unguarded follies, but at their own." The letter was addressed to-
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37. In the beginning of this mock-epic The Rape of the Lock, Pope declares that a "dire offence" (Canto 1 line 1) has been committed. A lord has assaulted a "gentle belle" (line 8). The "dire offence" was-
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38. Gray's 'Ode on Spring', 'Hymn of Adversity and Hymn to Ignorance' all published in -
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39. What is the name of Gray's aunt?
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40. Who wrote 'Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College' and A Long Story"?
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41. Who considered poetry the product of head rather than heart?
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42. According to Wordsworth, a poet must be a man possessed of more than usual organic:
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43. According to Wordsworth, Poetry proceeds from the internal feelings of the:
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44. How many causes Wordsworth has mentioned that lead to poetic composition?
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45. Shelley's Ariel to Miranda was inspired by Shakespeare's-
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46. Who said about Keats, "He is with Shakespeare"?
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47. Who said "Keats was a Greek"? (PGT-10)
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48. "My eyes are full of tears, my heart of love, My heart is breaking, and my eyes are dim, And I am all aweary of my life." The above lines are taken from:
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49. "Of love that never found his earthly close, What sequel?" The above lines are taken from:
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50. 'Asolando' was published on:
