Welcome to your PGT English Mock Test 21
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1. Who invented the term 'Pathetic Fallacy'?
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2. A line of verse that has five feet is:
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3. In lambic each foot is called:
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4. The first Indian author to win the prestigious Pulitzer Prize in the U.S.A. was- (TGT-09)
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5. What is 'Commedia dell'arte?
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6. In 1576 James Burbage (father of the actor, Richard Burbage) obtains lease and permission to build the first theatre in Shoreditch, London. Its name was-
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7. During 1613 June 29, which theatre caught fire?
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8. 1642 September 2 - Parliament issued an ordinance suppressing all stage plays in London and-
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9. A line of verse (Poetry) that has only five feet is called:
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10. The anticipation and answering of possible objections in rhetorical speech.
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11. A line of poetic verse that consists of four metrical feet. r
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12. A metre of three metrical feet per line.
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13. A metrical foot consisting of one short (or unstressed) syllable followed by one long (or stressed) syllable.
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14. The figure of speech in - (PGT-10) "The holy time is quiet as a nun' is
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15. The publisher, Thomas Thorpe, entered the book in the Stationers' Register on-
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16. 126 of Shakespeare's sonnets are addressed to a young man, often called the "Fair Youth." He was-
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17. The following lines are taken from: For evil news rides post, while good news baits.
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18. The following lines are taken from: But he, though blind of sight, Despised, and thought extinguished quite, With inward eyes illuminated, His flery virtue roused From under ashes into sudden flame,
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19. What is the name of masque written by Milton in honour of chastity and first presented on Michaelmas (29 September), 1634, before John Egerton, Earl of Bridgewater at Ludlow Castle in celebration of the Earl's new post as President of Wales?
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20. The following lines are taken from: Before the starry threshold of Jove's Court My mansion is... Above the smoke and stir of this dim spot Which men call earth.
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21. The following lines are taken from: I did not err; there does a sable cloud Turn forth her silver lining on the night, And casts a gleam over this tufted grove.
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22. The imagery of phoenix is created in the poem-
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23. Who says, 'Gray has left much that is incomplete, but nothing that is unfinished'?
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24. The principal metrical systems arsupposed to be-
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25. The 'quantitative metre' with its pattern in the form of a sequence of long and short syllables which are counted in groups known as 'feet' is used in
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26. The 'Syllabic Metre with its patter comprising a fixed number of syllables in a line, is used in-
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27. The 'accentual metre' with its pat- tern comprising a regular number of stressed syllables in a line regard-less of the number of unstressed syllables, is found in-
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28. The accentual syllabic metre' with its pattern consisting of a regular number of stressed syllables arran-ged within a fixed total number of syllables in a line, is found in the most of the
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29. The metre which is most Common in English poetry is-
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30. A metre line is further named accor- ding to the number of feet' com- posing it. As Such, Pentametre' has*..feet.
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31. Gray's The Fatal Sisters' and The Descent of Odin' published in -
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32. Which age does Gray belong to?
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33. Wordsworth made his debut as a writer in 1787 when he published a sonnet in --
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34. Wordsworth fell in love with a French woman, Annette Vallon, who in 1792 gave birth to their daughter-out to be
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35. Wordsworth wrote the sonnet "It is a beauteous evening, calm and free," recalling a seaside walk with the 9-year-old-
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36. The first Volume of Lyrical Ballads (1798) was published under the author name of -
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37. Who calls Keats one of the inheritors of unfulfilled renown"?
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38. The following lines are taken from (P-2000) "If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind"?
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39. Who said, "Keats as a poet is abundantly and enchantingly sensuous"? (PGT-05)
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40. Keats's poem La Belle Dame sans Merci is (PGT-13)
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41. "There lives more faith in honest doubt, Believe me, than in half the creeds" These lines occur in- (PGT-10)
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42. The number of stanzas in Tennyson's in Tennyson's 'In Memoriam' is: (P-13)
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43. "Yet fill my glass: give me one kiss: My own sweet Alice, we must die. There's somewhat in this world amiss Shall be unriddled by and by" The above lines are taken from:
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44. In which year did Browning die?
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45. Who said these lines, "There is something better than art for art's sake, and that is for man's sake"?
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46. Rugby Chapel by Matthew Arnold is written in the memory of
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47. From which poem the following lines are taken? "Wandering between two worlds, one dead/ The other powerless to be born, With no where yet to rest my head."
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48. "For peace comes dropping slow, Dropping from the veils of the morning to where the cricket sings; The above lines have been taken from Yeats's poem-
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49. What is the first section of Eliot's The Waste land?
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50. Which of the following myths does not figure in "The Waste Land'?
