PPSC Lecturer English paper discussed in detail with question sources

Описание: 1. Please don’t laugh¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬_________ those beggars.
For against at from

2. Sounds usually associated with letters such as f,s,v,g in which air passes through a narrow constriction that causes air flow turbulently and creates a noisy sound are called
A. Plosives B Fricatives C Articulation D Allophones

3. Normal phonological deviation that children make when producing sounds and words are referred to as
A. Speech Errors B Jargon C Phonological Process D Phonetics
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4. Choose the correct antonym of “grotesque”
A. Archaic B. Graceful C. Whimsical D. Mild

5. There was a great hue and cry against Thomas Hardy’s novel Tess and Jude the Obscure because of ________ in them.
A. Obscenity B. Violence C. Abnormality D. Heresy
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6. Restoration period saw the rise of
A. Heroic Tragedy B. Classical Tragedy C. Domestic Tragedy D. Shakespearean Tragedy
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7. Most of the novels of R K Narayan are set in_______
A. Madras B. Malgudi C. Trivandrum D. Mano Majra

8. In the 'Preface to Lyrical Ballads' Wordsworth propounds his theory of:
A) Fancy B) Imagination C) Prose D) Poetic Diction
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9. What is the most common poetic quality in Keats and Tennyson?
A) Miltonism B) Dramatic quality C) Pictoral element D) Elegiac nature
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10. Which of the following terms are assigned to the 13 properties identified by Hockett (1960)?
A Linguistic Universals B Linguistic Nodes C Universal Scripts D Relative Scripts
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11. When the baby is three months old s/he can produce velar sounds like /k/, /g/ ad vowels /i/ and /u/. This stage is known as
A Babbling B Holophrastic C Cooing D Telegraphic

12. How many plays did William Shakespeare write?
A 36 B 37 C 38 D 39
13. Who was the main contributor to the linguistic period?
A Batlett B Piaget C Hermann Paul D Chomsky
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14. Close Shave means
Hair's breadth By the skin of one’s teeth Narrow Escape To apply economy

15. Lord Byron belongs to............age
Romantic Victorian Transition Edwardian

16. “Marlowe simply prepared the way for the master who was to follow” Who is the master referred to in this remark? https://www.competoid.com/quiz_answer...
A) Ben Jonson B) Shakespeare C) John Webster D) Thomas Middleton

17. Two words with very closely related meanings:
Antonyms Homonyms Synonyms Hyponymy

18. Arubindo Ghose Savitri is an epic of the?
Universe Soul Mind Heaven
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19. In which novel of his, Lawrence dealt with the psychological phenomenon known as 'Oedipus Complex'?
A) Lady Chatterly's Lover B) Sons and Lovers C) The Trespasser D) The Boy in the Bush
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20. What is meant by etymology?
The study of names given to insects
The study of the origins of words and how they have changes over time
The study of language politeness
The study of words which sound similar to one another

21. Bacon's essays are regarded as compendium of:
A Worldly wisdom B Diplomatic Matters C State Affairs D General Knowledge
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22. The 'Old Wives' Tale' is a novel by:
A) Hardy B) Henry James C) Arnold Bennett D) John Galsworthy
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23. “His verse is sensuous and passionate and at its best simple, thus according with Milton's famous definition”. About whom has this been said?
A) Emerson B) Oliver Wendell Holmes C) Fennimer Cooper D) Walt Whitman
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24. In a list of languages ranked by number of Native (L1) speakers where does English come?
1st 2nd 3rd 4th

25. Who wrote "Milton thou should be living at this hour"
A Dryden B Grey C Pope D Wordsworth

26. Emily Bronte wrote only one novel entitled
A) Jane Eyre B) Shirley C) Wuthering Heights D) Agnes Grey
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27. The Faerie Queen is a/an poem
Satirical Narrative Allegorical Descriptive

28. George Eliot is the pen name of
Bilfor Evans Mary Ann Evans T.S. Eliot Emily Dickinson

29. The sound made with air, passing through nose, and making the “ng” sound of "sing" is called
Nasal Uvula Bilabial Velum

30. Intellectually amusing utterance calculated to delight and surprise is called
verisimilitude Wit Tract