One Paper English MCQs Exam 2019 for the post of Assistant Professor, Lecturer, Subject Specialist – AJKPSC (Azad Jammu & Kashmir Public Service Commission)
- In which language the stories of Canterbury Tales are written?
- French
- Latin
- Middle English ✓
- English
- How many years of happiness was Dr. Faustus promised by the Devil?
- 16
- 18
- 20
- 24 ✓
- Which century is known as the “Dawn of Renaissance”?
- 14th
- 15th ✓
- 16th
- 14th and 16th
- Which poet was first who used metaphysical poetry among his contemporaries?
- John Donne ✓
- Edmund Spencer
- Sir Philip Sidney
- John Milton
- In Coleridge’s poem ‘The Rime of the Ancient Mariner’, where were three Gallants going?
- A funeral
- A wedding ✓
- Market
- To the races
- In 1960 “The Colossus” was the first book of poems published by which poetess?
- Elizabeth Bishop
- Marianne Moore
- Sylvia Plath ✓
- Maya Angelou
- William Shakespeare was born in the year _____.
- 1564 ✓
- 1578
- 1582
- 1592
- Identify the novel in which the character of Charlotte Lucas figures.
- Great Expectations
- Lord of the flies
- Pride and Prejudice ✓
- The power and the glory
- Who was the father of Desdemona?
- Othello
- Brabantio ✓
- Claudius
- Gratiano
- Othello was a ________________.
- General of England
- Prince of England
- General of Denmark
- Prince of Denmark
- Which period of literature came first?
- Regency
- Victorian
- Romantic
- Restoration ✓
- When was “Paradise Lost” published?
- 1660
- 1667 ✓
- 1658
- 1654
- Satan’s name before it fell down from Heaven was ______.
- Beelzebub
- Michael
- Lucifer ✓
- Belial
- For inspiration in writing “Paradise Lost”, Milton says he depends on ________.
- Wine
- The Son
- His favorite pen
- The Holy Spirit ✓
- Which is the longest book of “Paradise Lost”?
- Book IX ✓
- Book VIII
- Book X
- Book I
- In which work do you read “Beauty is truth, truth beauty”?
- Adonais
- Ode to Autumn
- Ode on a Grecian Urn ✓
- Bright Star
- Who wrote, “In Xanadu did Kubla Khan / A stately pleasure-dome decree”?
- S.T. Coleridge ✓
- Robert Browning
- John Keats
- Walt Whitman
- Which figure of speech is it when a statement is exaggerated in a poem?
- Onomatopoeia
- Metonymy
- Alliteration
- Hyperbole ✓
- Philip Sidney was born on 30th November?
- 1553
- 1554 ✓
- 1555
- 1550
- In whose reign Morality Plays began?
- Henry Five
- Elizabeth One
- Henry Six ✓
- Henry Eight
- Who of the following is known as “Child of Renaissance”?
- Spencer
- Marlowe ✓
- Milton
- Johnson
- In “Pride and Prejudice”, we initially dislike but later tend to like?
- Mr. Bennet
- Wickham
- Bingley
- Darcy ✓
- Historical events often influence literature. Which of the following did not occur during the Restoration period?
- Charles II was restored to the throne
- The French Revolution
- The Great Fire of London
- The Exclusion Bill Crisis
- Which of the following literary sub-periods does not fall under the neoclassical period?
- The Restoration
- Augustan Age
- Jacobean Age
- The Age of Sensibility
- Which devil is the main architect of pandemonium?
- Mulciber ✓
- Mammon
- Beelzebub
- Belial
- Which work exposes the frivolity of fashionable London?
- Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe
- Swift’s Gulliver’s Travel
- Behn’s Oroonoko
- Pope’s The Rape of the Lock ✓
- Thomas Wyatt is one of the earliest English poets of __________.
- Renaissance Age ✓
- Victorian Age
- Romantic Age
- Restoration Period
- Clym Yeobright is a character from ________.
- Pride and Prejudice
- The Return of the Native ✓
- A Tale of Two Cities
- G. Eliot
- Gullivers Travels was written by __________.
- Arthur Conan Doyle
- G. Eliot
- Jonathan Swift ✓
- Ernest Hemingway
- Galileo Galili consisted of ____ scenes.
- 13
- 14
- 15
- 16
- “The aim of tragedy is to bring about a catharsis of the spectators”. Who wrote these lines?
- Plato
- Philip Sidney
- Ben Johnson
- Aristotle ✓
- In the poem “Morning Song”, Sylvia Plath certainly used _________ to develop the theme of motherhood.
- Unique figurative language
- Similes and metaphors ✓
- Blank verse
- None of the above
- In the novel Jazz by Tony Morrison, _______ was called the “Bird Lady”.
- Alice
- Felice
- Violet ✓
- Vera Louise Gray
- The name of Hedda Gablers Servant was ___________.
- Berte ✓
- Mrs. Elvested
- Ejlert Lovborg
- Juliane Tesman
- The protagonist of the novel “Heart of Darkness” is __________.
- Kurtz
- General Manager
- Marlowe ✓
- Brick maker
- Who is the first person Abigail accused of witchcraft in the play “The Crucible”?
- Betty Paris
- Tituba
- Elizabeth Proctor ✓
- Mary Waren
- Where did Oedipus send Creon?
- Delphi ✓
- Mount Olympus
- Thebes
- Athens
- The characters of Oidi and Gogo appears in the ___________ play.
- Hedda Gabler
- The Crucible
- Waiting for Godot ✓
- Galileo Galili
- “The Sea” by Edward Bond was set in ____.
- North Coast of England
- East Coast of England
- Coast of Ireland
- Rural background of Eastern France
- An artistic attempt to bridge together reality and the imagination is known as _________.
- Idealism
- Realism
- Surrealism ✓
- Secularism
- T.S. Eliot wrote his critical essay entitled “Tradition and the Individual Talent” in the year ____.
- 1919 ✓
- 1920
- 1921
- 1922
- Adrienne Rich’s poem ___________ can be read as a criticism of the patriarchal society that has variously silenced and ignored the realities and stories of woman.
- Aunt Jennifers Tigers
- Final Notation
- Gabriel
- Diving into the Wreck ✓
- According to the poem “Still Citizen Sparrow” by Richard Wilbur, “Noah” participated in __________.
- Physical cleansing of the earth
- Moral cleansing of the earth ✓
- Materialistic cleansing of the earth
- Physical cleansing of society
- The main theme of John Ashbury’s __________ poem is the life is a perpetual journey into the unconscious regions of the human mind which brings up a new perspective each time an activity is stirred.
- Painter
- After the rest bulletin
- Melodic train ✓
- Marginalia
- The poet of the poem “London” is ________.
- William Blake ✓
- S.T. Coleridge
- John Keats
- W.B. Yeats
- The ________ poem by William Blake is about repressing anger and failure to communicate the wrath to one’s foe and how this continues to grow until it develops into poisonous hatred.
- Holy Thursday
- A Divine Image
- A Poison Tree ✓
- The Tyger
- Mrs. Ramsay is the protagonist of the novel “To the Light House” by Virginia Wolf, but _______ seems more accurate to be described as the protagonist to the end.
- Mr. Ramsay
- Lily Briscoe ✓
- Charles Tensley
- James Ramsay
- The verse form of “The Rape of the Lock” is _________.
- Free verse
- Spenserian stanza
- Heroic Couplet ✓
- Blank verse
- The character of Belinda in “The Rape of the Lock” is based on historical _________, a member of Pope’s circle of Prominent Roman Catholics.
- Arbella Fermor ✓
- Clarissa
- Thalestris
- Momentilla
- The sylph who was assigned to guard Belinda’s “favourite Lock” was _______.
- Brillante
- Ariel ✓
- Cris Pissa
- Momentilla
- Trollope’s novel “Barchester Towers” was published in ______.
- 1857 ✓
- 1858
- 1859
- 1860
- Adam Bede was a _______ by profession.
- Poet
- Blacksmith
- Carpenter ✓
- Soldier
- Dinah Moris was a ________ in the novel “Adam Bede”.
- Housewife
- Methodist ✓
- Protagonist
- Servant
- The two cities in “A Tale of Two Cities” are London and ______.
- Rome
- Manchester
- Padua
- Paris ✓
- Lucie Manette was married to ________.
- Charles Darnay ✓
- Jarvis Lorry
- Ernest Defarge
- Jeremy Cruncher
- The poem “Ambulances” is written by _________.
- Seamus Heaney
- Ted Hughes
- W.B. Yeats
- Philip Larkin ✓
- In the poem “Ambulances” ______ is described as a “Solving emptiness”.
- Human being
- Death ✓
- Life
- Ambulance
- The poem “1914” was completed in _____ by Philip Larkin.
- 1914
- 1945
- 1960 ✓
- 1970
- The poem “Tolland Man” is written by _______.
- Seamus Heaney ✓
- John Keats
- Sylvia Plath
- Ted Hughes
- The main theme of the poem “Tolland Man” is the man was put to death as by doing so the ____________.
- The person was punished
- The fertility of the crops could be improved ✓
- The law is enforced
- None of these
- The mysterious character of “Pathar Nadi” is a character of the novel _______.
- The voice
- The Mummy
- The River between
- The property of women
- The old man is a symbol of _____ due to his constant motion in “The man of the crowd”.
- Death
- Class difference
- Life ✓
- Crowd
- The short story “The Dead” by James Joyce takes place in ______.
- London
- Dublin ✓
- Paris
- Rome
- Ariel was the second book of _________ poetry to be published.
- Sylvia Plath ✓
- Adrienne Rich
- Richard Wilbur
- John Ashbury
- Laputa is a flying island described in the novel _______.
- Pride and Prejudice
- Adam Bede
- The Return of the Native
- Gullivers Travels ✓
- _________ is a Farcical comedy in which the protagonists maintain fictitious personae to escape burdensome social obligations.
- Oedipus Rex
- Dr. Faustus
- The Importance of Being Earnest ✓
- Othello
- The poem “After the Last Bulletin” by Richard Wilbur consists of ___ stanzas.
- 7
- 8 ✓
- 9
- 10
- Bertrand Russell’s “Unpopular Essays” were originally published in _____.
- 1950 ✓
- 1951
- 1948
- 1945
- The underlying theme in _______ by William Blake is the all-pervading presence of Divine love and Sympathy.
- A Divine Image
- The Sick Rose
- The Tyger
- Songs of Innocence ✓
- Twilight in “Twilight in Delhi” symbolizes _______.
- Colonialism
- Muslim Culture
- The struggle of Muslims to identify their culture
- Independence movement
- The protagonist of the novel “Twilight in Delhi” is ________.
- Asghar
- Mir Nihal ✓
- Babban Jan
- Bilqeece
- The poem “Final Notation” is written by _______.
- Adrienne Rich ✓
- Sylvia Plath
- John Keats
- S.T. Coleridge
- The main theme of the play “The Winter’s Tale” by Shakespeare is _________.
- Love ✓
- Death
- War
- Jealousy
- The short story “The Diviner” by Brain Friel was set in the village of _____.
- America
- France
- Ireland ✓
- England
- Nelly Devenny in the story “The Diviner” was married after her husband’s death to _______.
- Mr. Doherty
- A Priest
- A Diviner
- None of these
- Phonetics is the study of the sounds of language. What do we call these sounds?
- Morphemes
- Phonemes ✓
- Syntax
- Lexicology
- What is the study of language as it pertains to social classes, ethnic groups, and genders?
- Psycholinguistics
- Comparative Linguistics
- Sociolinguistics ✓
- Linguistics
- It is the study of the meaning of languages.
- Psycholinguistics
- Syntax
- Linguistics
- Semantics ✓
- It is the study of language from a cognitive and developmental law.
- Psycholinguistics ✓
- Linguistics
- Comparative Linguistics
- Sociolinguistics
- The study of the sound system of a language how the sounds integrate to encode information and the contrast of such system from one another.
- Syntax
- Morphology
- Phonetics ✓
- Phonology
- Semantics
- A type of writing in which a symbol represents the pronunciation of a syllable?
- Rebus writing
- Syllabic writing ✓
- Alphabetic writing
- Phonotactics
- __________ refers to the actual use of language or how our knowledge of the language is put into use.
- Linguistics performance ✓
- Descriptive grammar
- Linguistics
- Linguistics competence
- The study of language as it changes through time tracing a word back to its origins and deconstructing languages that are no longer spoken?
- Synchronic view
- Diachronic view ✓
- Parole
- Discreteness
- The abstract system of interrelated science that makes up a language science and their relationships to one another as they are combined in sentences.
- Syntax
- Parole
- Langue
- Logograms
- Meaning of words and how to use them.
- Semantics ✓
- Syntax
- Morphology
- Pragmatics
- Goes beyond the study of individual languages to determine what constructs are needed in order to do any kind of grammatical analysis.
- Theoretical grammar
- Reference grammar
- Traditional grammar
- Descriptive grammar
- The ideational function of language is _______.
- To express identity
- To communicate meaning ✓
- To make jokes
- To perform magic
- The technical term for body language is ________.
- Nonverbal communication ✓
- Semiotics
- Zoosemiotics
- Linguistics
- What is Kinesics?
- The study of tone voice
- The study of touch communication
- The study of smell and taste
- The study of non-verbal communication ✓
- The term used to describe the creative capacity of language to invent new words and sentences is ________.
- Proxemics
- Duality
- Productivity ✓
- Structure
- The two levels of language referred to by the term duality are __________.
- Phonetics and phonology
- Sound and meaning ✓
- Kinesics and proxemics
- Morphology and syntax
- The words best describe the focus of pragmatics is ______.
- Meaning
- Choice
- Structure
- Sense ✓
- Which question about language use does pragmatics try to answer?
- What
- When
- Where
- Why
- The factor which is omitted in an account of French tu/vous which talks only of singular versus plural is ______.
- Grammar
- Pronunciation
- Audience
- Meaning
- The term for that part of a passive sentence that says who did it is _______.
- Object
- Subject
- Verb
- Clause
- The word which illustrates a tone of voice is ______.
- Vesper
- Word
- Syllable
- Consonant
- Which of these is not a type of linguistics?
- Historical
- Personal ✓
- Comparative
- Synchronic
- To which of these people language is a means to interpret human experience?
- Anthropologist
- Sociologist
- Philosopher ✓
- Students of literature
- Which of these is not a level of language?
- Phonology
- Grammar ✓
- Semantics
- Syntax
- Which of these terms refer to the study of speech sounds of a given language and their function within the sound system of that language?
- Phonetics
- Phonology ✓
- Syntax
- Morphology
Also Check: MCQs from the Past Papers of CSS/PMS/FPSC/NTS
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