Welcome to your PGT English Mock Test 22
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1. In lambic, there are two syllables: the first is unaccented and the second is:
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2. In Trochaic there are two syllables, the first is accented and the other is:
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3. In Anapaestic there are three syllables, the first two unaccented and the third is:
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4. In Amphibrach, there are three syllables, the first is unaccented, the second accented and the third is:
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5. In which year - the Restoration, and the demise in the power of the Puritans, sees the opening of the theatres again?
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6. Publication of the first daily English-language newspaper, "The Daily Courant", in London took place in-
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7. The Nobel Prize in Literature 2015 was awarded to "for her polyphonic writings, a monument to suffering and courage in our time".
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8. Which of these won the Novel Prize for Literature in 2014?
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9. The Nobel Prize in Literature 2016 was awarded to (American singer and song writer) for "having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition."
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10. A foot of three syllables in which one long syllable (Stressed) is followed by two short syllables (Unstressed):
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11. A metrical foot of two unstressed syllables:
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12. A foot of three syllables in the order - Unstressed + Stressed + Unstressed:
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13. A foot of three syllables that come in the order - Unstressed + Unstressed + Stressed:
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14. A metrical foot of two Stressed syllables:
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15. "The Sea that bares her bosom to the moon" The figure of speech is: (PGT-10)
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16. The sonnets are almost all constructed from three quatrains, which are four-line stanzas, and a final couplet composed in-
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17. The rhyme scheme of Shakespearean sonnet is -
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18. The following lines are taken from: I took it for a faery vision Of some gay creatures of the element, That in the colours of the rainbow live, F And play i' th' plighted clouds.
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19. The following lines are taken from: A Some say no evil thing that walks by night, In fog or fire, by lake or moorish fen, Blue meagre hag, or stubborn unlaid ghost That breaks his magic chains at curfew time, No goblin, or swart fairy of the mine, tog Hath hurtful power o'er true virginity.
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20. The following lines are taken from: How charming is divine philosophy! Not harsh and crabbèd, as dull fools suppose, But musical as is Apollo's lute, And a perpetual feast of nectared sweets Where no crude surfeit reigns.
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21. The following lines are taken from: Thou canst not touch the freedom of my mind.
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22. The following lines are taken from: Beauty is Nature's coin, must not be hoarded, But must be current, and the good thereof Consists in mutual and partaken bliss.
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23. The true lovers "Once they've ascended to heaven they'll become
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24. "The Rape" in the title of the poem The Rape of the Lock stands for-
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25. The prime example of the Negative Capability as viewed by Keats, was
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26. Keats' statement With a great poet. the Sense of beauty overcones every other consideration or rather obliterates all consideration '" sums up his idea of
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27. Carol is a type of-
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28. Which form of literature was the first to come into existence?
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29. Which form of literature flourished in 18th Century?
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30. What is not required for a dramatic nonologue ?
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31. Which one of the following poems of Browning is not a dramatic mono-logue ?
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32. Pope has pictured 'sylphs' in The Rape of the Lock. He has derived his sylphs from the 17th-century French Rosicrucian novel-
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33. Which poet, writing pseudonymously as Esdras Barnivelt, published A Key to the Lock in 1714 as a humorous warning against taking The Rape of the Loc too seriously?
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34. Thomas Gray was a famous -
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35. The poetry of Gray has the characteristics of-
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36. Which work of Wordsworth was criticized and rejected in the words "impossible that the play should succeed in the representation"?
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37. Who was John "Walking" Stewart that met Wordsworth in Paris in 1792?
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38. Who praised Wordsworth as the "poet of humanity"?
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39. Wordsworth was the only poet laureate to write no-
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40. What is Shelley's "O World! O Life! O Time!"?
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41. Whom did Keats write "I think I shall be among the English Poets after my death"?
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42. In which poem do the following lines occur? "Man for the field and woman for the hearth: Man for the sword and for the needle she" (PGT-10)
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43. The Charge of the Light Brigade by Tennyson commemorates the battle of: (PGT-10)
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44. Of the following Tennyson wrote: (PGT-10)
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45. What kind of poet is Browning?
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46. Browning's most of the poems are written in the form of:
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47. About whom are the following lines written by Matthew Arnold? "O strong soul, by what shore Tarriest thou now? For that force, Surely, has been left vain!"
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48. Which poem won Arnold the Oxford Prize?
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49. The following epitaph of W.B. Yeats is taken from his poem- Cast a cold Eye On Life, on Death. Horseman, pass by!
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50. Who is the poet T.S. Eliot points while referring to The waste Land'? "Know diligent Reader That on each occasion Ezra performed the Caesarian Operation."
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51. Who called "The Waste Land' as "Music of Ideas"? (PGT-2011)
