English Literature (Part-IV)

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Question 1 / 60
The number of vowel and consonant sounds in English is indicated respectively:
A
20, 26
B
22, 22
C
20, 24
D
6, 26
Find the word which is spelt correctly from the given words:
A
Amateur
B
Amateur
C
Amateur
D
Amature
The Bilingual method of English language Teaching was first developed by:
A
C. J. Dodson
B
A. C. Wards
C
F. G. French
D
Sydney Walce
Identify the literary term used in the following sentence: 'Let not Ambition mock their useful toil'.
A
Irony
B
Metonymy
C
Personification
D
Litotes
Read the following poem and answer the question: Now, joy is born of parents poor, And pleasure of our richer kind; Though pleasure's free, she cannot sing As sweet a song as joy confined. Pleasure's a Moth, that sleeps by day And dances by false glare at night But Joy's a Butterfly, that loves To spread its wings in Nature's light. Joy's Like a Bee that gently sucks Away on blossoms its sweet hour; But pleasure's like a greedy wasp, That plums and cherries would devour. Joy's like a Lark that lives alone, Whose ties are very strong, though few; But Pleasure like a Cuckoo roams, Makes much acquaintance, no friends true. Joy from her heart doth sing at home, With little care if others hear; But pleasure then is cold and dumb, And sings and laughs with strangers near. 'Joy is like a Lark that lives alone', which figure of speech is employed in the line quoted above?
A
Alliteration
B
Onomatopoeia
C
Oxymoron
D
Refrain
Read the following poem and answer the question: Now, joy is born of parents poor, And pleasure of our richer kind; Though pleasure's free, she cannot sing As sweet a song as joy confined. Pleasure's a Moth, that sleeps by day And dances by false glare at night But Joy's a Butterfly, that loves To spread its wings in Nature's light. Joy's Like a Bee that gently sucks Away on blossoms its sweet hour; But pleasure's like a greedy wasp, That plums and cherries would devour. Joy's like a Lark that lives alone, Whose ties are very strong, though few; But Pleasure like a Cuckoo roams, Makes much acquaintance, no friends true. Joy from her heart doth sing at home, With little care if others hear; But pleasure then is cold and dumb, And sings and laughs with strangers near. What is the central idea of the poem?
A
It focuses on the beauty of nature.
B
It lays stress on joy than pleasure.
C
It establishes superiority of pleasure over joy.
D
Considers both joy and pleasure as fleeting emotions.
Read the following poem and answer the question: Now, joy is born of parents poor, And pleasure of our richer kind; Though pleasure's free, she cannot sing As sweet a song as joy confined. Pleasure's a Moth, that sleeps by day And dances by false glare at night But Joy's a Butterfly, that loves To spread its wings in Nature's light. Joy's Like a Bee that gently sucks Away on blossoms its sweet hour; But pleasure's like a greedy wasp, That plums and cherries would devour. Joy's like a Lark that lives alone, Whose ties are very strong, though few; But Pleasure like a Cuckoo roams, Makes much acquaintance, no friends true. Joy from her heart doth sing at home, With little care if others hear; But pleasure then is cold and dumb, And sings and laughs with strangers near. 'Pleasure is like a greedy wasp, That plums and cherries would devour.' In the above lines the word 'devour' means:
A
To enjoy greatly
B
To dance beautifully
C
To sing melodiously
D
To eat something eagerly
Read the following poem and answer the question: Now, joy is born of parents poor, And pleasure of our richer kind; Though pleasure's free, she cannot sing As sweet a song as joy confined. Pleasure's a Moth, that sleeps by day And dances by false glare at night But Joy's a Butterfly, that loves To spread its wings in Nature's light. Joy's Like a Bee that gently sucks Away on blossoms its sweet hour; But pleasure's like a greedy wasp, That plums and cherries would devour. Joy's like a Lark that lives alone, Whose ties are very strong, though few; But Pleasure like a Cuckoo roams, Makes much acquaintance, no friends true. Joy from her heart doth sing at home, With little care if others hear; But pleasure then is cold and dumb, And sings and laughs with strangers near. In the poem 'Joy' is compared with a bird that sings:
A
for one's own self
B
for strangers
C
for Cuckoo
D
for poor parents
Read the following poem and answer the question: Now, joy is born of parents poor, And pleasure of our richer kind; Though pleasure's free, she cannot sing As sweet a song as joy confined. Pleasure's a Moth, that sleeps by day And dances by false glare at night But Joy's a Butterfly, that loves To spread its wings in Nature's light. Joy's Like a Bee that gently sucks Away on blossoms its sweet hour; But pleasure's like a greedy wasp, That plums and cherries would devour. Joy's like a Lark that lives alone, Whose ties are very strong, though few; But Pleasure like a Cuckoo roams, Makes much acquaintance, no friends true. Joy from her heart doth sing at home, With little care if others hear; But pleasure then is cold and dumb, And sings and laughs with strangers near. 'Pleasure's a Moth that sleep by day' Choose the literary device used in the line quoted above:
A
Metaphor
B
Assonance
C
Hyperbole
D
Anti-thesis
'Never, never and never again shall it be that this beautiful land will again experience the oppression of one by another.' The above line is a statement by:
A
Jawaharlal Nehru
B
Nelson Mandela
C
Mahatma Gandhi
D
Abdul Kalam Azad
Study of meaning in a language is known as:
A
Syntax
B
Semantics
C
Morphology
D
Linguistics
Identify the phonetic symbol of the underlined sound: Book
A
^
B
u
C
σ
D
ε
Which of the following idiom means 'A cause of dispute'?
A
A big fish in the little pond
B
A bone of contention
C
A bloody fool
D
A feast for the eye
What did Major Ahluwalia and Phu Dorjee leave on the Mt. Everest respectively?
A
A picture of Guru Nanak, relic of Lord Buddha
B
A picture of Goddess Durga, A Cross
C
A picture of Guru Nanak, A Cross
D
A Cross, a picture of Goddess Durga
Identify the appropriate example of Anti-thesis from the sentences given below:
A
He was gathered to his fore-fathers.
B
I came, I saw, I conquered.
C
O what a fall was there, my countrymen!
D
To err is human, to forgive divine.
What is the part of the sentence which denotes the person or thing about which something is said?
A
Predicate
B
Subject
C
Phrase
D
Clause
The poem 'A Legend of the Northland' by Phoeby Cary is a:
A
Sonnet
B
Ballad
C
Lyric
D
Elegy
People who have poor diets are likely to catch colds. The underlined part in the above sentence is:
A
Adverb Clause
B
Noun Clause
C
Adjective Clause
D
Adverb Phrase
Which of the following is an abstract noun?
A
Crowd
B
Gang
C
Student
D
Experience
Whose fable is the poem 'The Ant and the Cricket' adapted from?
A
Homer
B
Rudyard Kipling
C
Vishnu Sharma
D
Aesop
Which of the following words correctly define 'the ability to deal with any kind of hardship and recover from its effects'?
A
Resilience
B
Retrogression
C
Recurrence
D
Repugnance
'Two Roads diverged in a wood, and I — I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference.' The above lines are extracted from which of the following poem?
A
Songs of the Open Road
B
The Road Not Taken
C
The Rolling English Road
D
Roads
Identify the correct sequence of language skills:
A
Listening, Reading, Writing, Speaking
B
Listening, Speaking, Reading, Writing
C
Speaking, Writing, Listening, Reading
D
Speaking, Listening, Reading, Writing
In the poem 'Macavity : The Mystery cat', the ginger cat Macavity is an embodiment of:
A
Professor Conan Doyle
B
Professor Moriarty
C
Professor Alexei
D
Professor Louis Brus
Which of the following sentence is framed according to the pattern given below? Sub + V + noun/pronoun + adjective
A
Israel attacked Gaza with missilery.
B
She gave me a good shawl.
C
We saw him by the sea-side.
D
He painted the ceiling white.
A lyric poem of moderate length, with a serious subject, an elevated style and an elaborate stanza pattern, is called:
A
Ballad
B
Ode
C
Haiku
D
Limerick
Choose the word that means 'lying on the ground face downwards':
A
Palanquin
B
Prostrate
C
Procrastinate
D
Prevaricate
Identify the part of speech of the underlined word in the sentence given below: He is asleep.
A
Object
B
Verb
C
Adverb
D
Adjective
What is a scientist who studies the rings that appear each year in the tree trunk is called?
A
Archaeologist
B
Dendrochronologist
C
Anthropologist
D
Ethologist
Michael West's 'New Method' of teaching English lays stress on:
A
Listening
B
Speaking
C
Reading
D
Writing
Select the option that expresses the given sentence in passive voice: They made me laugh.
A
I was made to laugh.
B
I am made to laugh.
C
I was made to be laughed.
D
I am made to be laughed.
Read the following passage and answer the question: It was morning, and the new sun sparkled gold across the ripples of a gentle sea. A mile from shore a fishing boat chummed the water, and the word for Breakfast Flock flashed through the air, till a crowd of a thousand seagulls came to dodge and fight for bits of food. It was another busy day beginning. But way off alone, out by himself beyond boat and shore, Jonathan Livingston seagull was practising. A hundred feet in the sky he lowered his webbed feet, lifted his beak, and strained to hold a painful hard twisting curve through his wings. The curve meant that he would fly slowly, and now he slowed until the wind was a whisper in his face, until the ocean stood still beneath him. He narrowed his eyes in fierce concentration, held his breath, forced one ....... single ....... more ....... inch ....... of ....... curve ....... Then his feathers ruffled, he stalled and fell. Seagulls, as you know, never falter, never stall. To stall in the air is for them disgrace and it is dishonour. But Jonathan Livingston Seagull, unashamed, stretching his wings again in that trembling hard curve - slowing, slowing, and stalling once more - was no ordinary bird. Most gulls don't bother to learn more than the simplest facts of flight - how to get from shore to food and back again. For most gulls, it is not flying that matters, but eating. For this gull, though, it was not eating that mattered, but flight. More than anything else, Jonathan Livingston seagull loved to fly. This kind of thinking, he found, is not the way to make one's self popular with other birds. Even his parents were dismayed as Jonathan spent whole day alone, making hundreds of low-level glides, experimenting. For Jonathan Livingston flying was:
A
life itself
B
a matter of shame and disgrace
C
means of finding food
D
way to make one-self popular
Read the following passage and answer the question: It was morning, and the new sun sparkled gold across the ripples of a gentle sea. A mile from shore a fishing boat chummed the water, and the word for Breakfast Flock flashed through the air, till a crowd of a thousand seagulls came to dodge and fight for bits of food. It was another busy day beginning. But way off alone, out by himself beyond boat and shore, Jonathan Livingston seagull was practising. A hundred feet in the sky he lowered his webbed feet, lifted his beak, and strained to hold a painful hard twisting curve through his wings. The curve meant that he would fly slowly, and now he slowed until the wind was a whisper in his face, until the ocean stood still beneath him. He narrowed his eyes in fierce concentration, held his breath, forced one ....... single ....... more ....... inch ....... of ....... curve ....... Then his feathers ruffled, he stalled and fell. Seagulls, as you know, never falter, never stall. To stall in the air is for them disgrace and it is dishonour. But Jonathan Livingston Seagull, unashamed, stretching his wings again in that trembling hard curve - slowing, slowing, and stalling once more - was no ordinary bird. Most gulls don't bother to learn more than the simplest facts of flight - how to get from shore to food and back again. For most gulls, it is not flying that matters, but eating. For this gull, though, it was not eating that mattered, but flight. More than anything else, Jonathan Livingston seagull loved to fly. This kind of thinking, he found, is not the way to make one's self popular with other birds. Even his parents were dismayed as Jonathan spent whole day alone, making hundreds of low-level glides, experimenting. Choose appropriate antonym for 'gentle' from the passage:
A
Falter
B
Fierce
C
Twisting
D
Concentration
Read the following passage and answer the question: It was morning, and the new sun sparkled gold across the ripples of a gentle sea. A mile from shore a fishing boat chummed the water, and the word for Breakfast Flock flashed through the air, till a crowd of a thousand seagulls came to dodge and fight for bits of food. It was another busy day beginning. But way off alone, out by himself beyond boat and shore, Jonathan Livingston seagull was practising. A hundred feet in the sky he lowered his webbed feet, lifted his beak, and strained to hold a painful hard twisting curve through his wings. The curve meant that he would fly slowly, and now he slowed until the wind was a whisper in his face, until the ocean stood still beneath him. He narrowed his eyes in fierce concentration, held his breath, forced one ....... single ....... more ....... inch ....... of ....... curve ....... Then his feathers ruffled, he stalled and fell. Seagulls, as you know, never falter, never stall. To stall in the air is for them disgrace and it is dishonour. But Jonathan Livingston Seagull, unashamed, stretching his wings again in that trembling hard curve - slowing, slowing, and stalling once more - was no ordinary bird. Most gulls don't bother to learn more than the simplest facts of flight - how to get from shore to food and back again. For most gulls, it is not flying that matters, but eating. For this gull, though, it was not eating that mattered, but flight. More than anything else, Jonathan Livingston seagull loved to fly. This kind of thinking, he found, is not the way to make one's self popular with other birds. Even his parents were dismayed as Jonathan spent whole day alone, making hundreds of low-level glides, experimenting. Choose the word that means 'avoid by sudden quick movement':
A
Ruffed
B
Webbed
C
Dodge
D
Chummed
Read the following passage and answer the question: It was morning, and the new sun sparkled gold across the ripples of a gentle sea. A mile from shore a fishing boat chummed the water, and the word for Breakfast Flock flashed through the air, till a crowd of a thousand seagulls came to dodge and fight for bits of food. It was another busy day beginning. But way off alone, out by himself beyond boat and shore, Jonathan Livingston seagull was practising. A hundred feet in the sky he lowered his webbed feet, lifted his beak, and strained to hold a painful hard twisting curve through his wings. The curve meant that he would fly slowly, and now he slowed until the wind was a whisper in his face, until the ocean stood still beneath him. He narrowed his eyes in fierce concentration, held his breath, forced one ....... single ....... more ....... inch ....... of ....... curve ....... Then his feathers ruffled, he stalled and fell. Seagulls, as you know, never falter, never stall. To stall in the air is for them disgrace and it is dishonour. But Jonathan Livingston Seagull, unashamed, stretching his wings again in that trembling hard curve - slowing, slowing, and stalling once more - was no ordinary bird. Most gulls don't bother to learn more than the simplest facts of flight - how to get from shore to food and back again. For most gulls, it is not flying that matters, but eating. For this gull, though, it was not eating that mattered, but flight. More than anything else, Jonathan Livingston seagull loved to fly. This kind of thinking, he found, is not the way to make one's self popular with other birds. Even his parents were dismayed as Jonathan spent whole day alone, making hundreds of low-level glides, experimenting. The line 'But Jonathan Livingston Seagull unashamed, stretching his wings again', shows about Jonathan's:
A
Shamelessness
B
Menace
C
Exhaustion
D
Perseverance
Read the following passage and answer the question: It was morning, and the new sun sparkled gold across the ripples of a gentle sea. A mile from shore a fishing boat chummed the water, and the word for Breakfast Flock flashed through the air, till a crowd of a thousand seagulls came to dodge and fight for bits of food. It was another busy day beginning. But way off alone, out by himself beyond boat and shore, Jonathan Livingston seagull was practising. A hundred feet in the sky he lowered his webbed feet, lifted his beak, and strained to hold a painful hard twisting curve through his wings. The curve meant that he would fly slowly, and now he slowed until the wind was a whisper in his face, until the ocean stood still beneath him. He narrowed his eyes in fierce concentration, held his breath, forced one ....... single ....... more ....... inch ....... of ....... curve ....... Then his feathers ruffled, he stalled and fell. Seagulls, as you know, never falter, never stall. To stall in the air is for them disgrace and it is dishonour. But Jonathan Livingston Seagull, unashamed, stretching his wings again in that trembling hard curve - slowing, slowing, and stalling once more - was no ordinary bird. Most gulls don't bother to learn more than the simplest facts of flight - how to get from shore to food and back again. For most gulls, it is not flying that matters, but eating. For this gull, though, it was not eating that mattered, but flight. More than anything else, Jonathan Livingston seagull loved to fly. This kind of thinking, he found, is not the way to make one's self popular with other birds. Even his parents were dismayed as Jonathan spent whole day alone, making hundreds of low-level glides, experimenting. 'Even his parents were dismayed as Jonathan spent whole day alone making hundreds of low-level glides, experimenting.' The word 'dismayed' in the line means:
A
felt proud
B
felt giddy
C
felt disappointed
D
felt detached
Choose the correct form of verb for the blank space in the given sentence: Here ........ the Indigo! (come)
A
come
B
comes
C
has come
D
is come
Fill in the blanks with correct preposition given below: The house is ........ fire! We had better get ........!
A
on, into
B
on, out
C
in, on
D
above, out
What is Intonation in Phonetics?
A
The alteration of voice, pitch or tone in speech.
B
Use of language with fewer errors.
C
Form of a spoken language peculiar to a region.
D
A term expressing an action or a state of being.
Fill in the blank with the most suitable phrasal verb: The meeting was ........ due to pandemic.
A
called off
B
called into
C
called back
D
called down
Fill in the blank with correct article: Sita Devi has become .... M.L.A.
A
an
B
a
C
the
D
zero article
'Death in an open field is better than life in a small hut'. Who said the above statement to whom?
A
Abu Kaka to Chandni
B
Chandni to herself
C
Old Goat to Abu Kaka
D
Wolf to Chandni
What is 'Lingua Franca'?
A
Language used by people who live in France.
B
The shared language of communication used by people belonging to different languages.
C
Language of Western Science and Arts.
D
Language of Science and Technology.
'A Period Plan' is also known as .......
A
Unit Plan
B
Year Plan
C
Lesson Plan
D
Daily Plan
Who wrote the Lucy Poems?
A
William Shakespeare
B
William Wordsworth
C
Douglas James
D
Gieve Patel
What is the moral of the poem 'Dad and the Cat and the Tree'?
A
Be kind to everyone
B
Don't be over-confident
C
Save Trees
D
Respect Elders
What is the poem 'Chivvy' about?
A
The journey of an old man
B
Paradoxical attitude of parents and elders
C
Power of love
D
Mortality of mankind
Who among the following is the Irish National poet?
A
William Butler Yeats
B
Robert Frost
C
Walt Whitman
D
Rudyard Kipling
Select the most appropriate meaning of the given idiom: 'To bury the hatchet.'
A
To hide something
B
To talk about unimportant thing
C
Come to peaceful terms
D
To understand more than actual
Select the option that expresses the given sentence in reported speech: Rita said, 'I wish I were a princess.'
A
Rita said that she wished she were a princess.
B
Rita said that she wished I were a princess.
C
Rita said that I wished she were a princess.
D
Rita said that she wished she is a princess.
Fill in the blank with correct modal auxiliary: All men ......... die. (certainty)
A
can
B
must
C
should
D
used to
Which of the following is not included in non-fiction writing?
A
Autobiographies
B
Diary
C
Bio-graphics
D
Short-Stories
Fill in the blank with the correct conjunction: ........ doing the cooking I look after the garden.
A
Besides
B
Still
C
Though
D
If
What was the unusual thing about Hafeez in the story 'The Treasure Within'?
A
Making Predictions
B
Having a photo-graphic memory
C
Coining stories
D
Foresightedness
What name did Anne Frank give to her diary?
A
Kitty
B
Memories
C
Reminiscence
D
Salima
Identify the author of the story 'Princess September':
A
Hector Hugh Munro
B
William Somerset Maugham
C
Ahmad Nadeem Qasmi
D
Stephanie Parker
The poem 'A House, A Home' is penned by:
A
Lorraine M. Walli
B
Harry Behn
C
E-Yeh-Shure
D
Peter Dixon
What is the general aim of teaching English?
A
To enable the learners to know the cultural groups of the world.
B
To open the treasure of rich English literature for all.
C
To inculcate the integrative quality of English language.
D
To make the learner an effective user of English language.
From which collection the story 'The Three Questions' by Leo Tolstoy is taken?
A
The Paper Menagerie
B
What Men Live By, and Other Tales
C
A Flight of Pigeons
D
Angry River
Choose the pen-name by which William Sydney Porter is better known:
A
Saki
B
O. Henry
C
O. Neil
D
Robert Galbraith