Welcome to your TGT English Mock Test 21
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1. A line of verse having one foot only is known as:
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2. A word having one syllable is known as:
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3. A stanza of eight lines in iambic pentameter is known as:
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4. 'In Memory of W. B. Yeats' is a poem written in
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5. The central desire expressed in the poem "Wants" Is-
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6. "I think I could turn and love with animals." These are the opening lines of a poem. Who is the poet?
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7. It seems that Dickinson existed in a-
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8. "Some say the world will end in fire, Some say in Ice." These lines are from
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9. "It is absurd to think that the only way to tell if a poem is lasting is to wait and see if it lasts. The right reader of a good poem can tell the moment it strikes him that he has taken an immortal wound that he will never get over it." The lines are taken from -
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10. The mother tongue of Kamala Das was- (PGT-13)
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11. Who among the following later embraced Islam? (P-10)
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12. In order to marry Portia, suitors must choose one of three caskets. What is the correct casket made of?
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13. What does Portia give Bassanio as a token of her love?
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14. What does Shylock demand that Antonio pledge as bond for the loan?
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15. What characteristic describes Antonio?
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16. How does Gratiano behave towards Shylock?
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17. Who presides over Antonio's trial?
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18. Jonson's aim is to create types rather than:
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19. Who feel amused in throughout of the play?
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20. The dramatist of Ben Jonson contemporary violated:
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21. This term was defined in The Verbal Icon which was published in-
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22. A device by which a writer tells one thing under the guise of another is known as--
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23. In novels, epilogues are often inten- ded-
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24. Which term is used when the event or person is historically incorrect ?
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25. When some human emotions or feelings are ascribed to an inanimate natural object, the term, used, is- fallacy' ?
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26. Who coined the phrase "pathetic Fallacy’?
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27. In which figure of špeech some human characteristics are given to non-human organisms ?
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28. The influential essay 'Metaphysical Poets' has been written by-
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29. Who popularized the 'Comedy of Humours"?
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30. Ben Jonson also wrote tragedies like
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31. The Conquest of Granada is a Restoration era stage play (heroic drama), written by John Dryden that was first acted in 1670 and 1671 and published in 1672.
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32. Which of the following tragedies by Dryden deals with the Spanish conquest of Granada in 1492 and the fall of Muhammad XII of Granada, the last Islamic ruler on the Iberian Peninsula?
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33. In the Preface of which of the following plays. Dryden had defined "heroic drama"?
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34. "I want to be quite perfect with Sergius-no meanness, no smallness, no deceit. My relation to him is the one really beautiful and noble part of my life." Who
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35. "I could no more fight with you than I could make love to an ugly woman. You've no magnetism: you're not a man, you're a machine." Who speaks to Bluntschli?
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36. "The world is not such an innocent place as we used to think. "Who speaks?
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37. Mute Scene' and 'Trial Scene' occur in the play:
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38. "Law is what it is, a majestic edifice sheltering all f us" who says this in Justice?
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39. For seven years, from 1962 to 1969, Pinter was engaged in a clandestine affair with BBC-TV presenter and journalist
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40. Which play Harold Pinter was inspired by his mclandestine extramarital affair with BBC Television presenter Joan Bakewell?
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41. Which play Harold Pinter was initially thought to be a response to his affair with historian Antonia Fraser, the wife of Hugh Fraser, and Pinter's "marital crack-up"?
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42. Yank has been presented as the existential, or absurd, of the play.
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43. In which of his play, Girish Karnad first employed the folk theatre form of Yakshagana?
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44. A German version of Karnad's which play was directed by Vijaya Mehta as part of the repertoire of the Deutsches National Theatre, Weimar?
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45. Read not to contradict and
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46. Some books are to be some few to be chewed and others to be
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47. The Latin phrase "Ast alii sex/ Et plures uno conclamant ore" means -
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48. Which essay begins with the line "THE FIRST of our society is a gentleman of Worcestershire"?
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49. Who is the "gentleman of Worcestershire"?
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50. The following lines form a part of- "I had exactly sixty-three pounds in the bank and not enough securities to borrow five hundred on, and here I was nothing away to the auctioneer like a bloatocrat"
