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PSC HSST English Jr Model Questions and Answers

51
What is meant by 'language transfer'?
Answer
C. The vocabulary and sentence structure transferred haphazardly during Second language acquisition from any other language accessed by the learner
52
What is considered as the central principle of literary criticism in Sanskrit Literature?
Answer
D. Vyanjana
53
Which angel does Satan trick by disguising himself as a cherub?
Answer
B. Uriel
54
The Grecian Urn is called "cold pastoral" because :
Answer
D. all of these
55
In which section of The Waste Land does Tiresias appear?
Answer
C. The Fire Sermon
56
"Shakespeare approximates the remote and familiarizes the wonderful". Whose words are these?
Answer
A. Samuel Johnson
57
The term for describing someone's death as "someone is no more" or that "someone has breathed his/her last" is .................
Answer
D. Euphemism
58
What does Noam Chomsky's theory of language development emphasize?
Answer
C. Innate structures and biological mechanisms
59
Shelly used which stanza form in "Ode to the West Wind"?
Answer
B. Terza Rima
60
From which poem is the line, "The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity" taken from?
Answer
C. The Second Coming
61
The term 'Peripeteia' means ..................
Answer
C. Fluctuations occurring in the fortunes of the hero
62
Who is the native chief who leads the revolt against Brutus Jones in Emperor Jones?
Answer
A. Lem
63
'Spenser writ no language'. Who said this?
Answer
C. Ben Jonson
64
The theme of "Dejection : An Ode" is :
Answer
B. loss of poetic imagination
65
The poem in which Yeats uses the famous "stone metaphor" is ..................
Answer
D. Eastern 1916
66
In which essay did Matthew Arnold regarded poetry as "a criticism of life under the conditions fixed for such criticism by the laws of poetic truth and poetic beauty"?
Answer
C. The Study of Poetry
67
Who in "My Last Duchess" is said to have made the Duchess' painting?
Answer
B. Fra Pandolf
68
What poison did Claudius pour into the ear of Hamlet's father to kill him?
Answer
A. Hebenon
69
What was the original title of Pride and Prejudice?
Answer
C. 'First Impressions'
70
Harold Nicholson described which poet as 'Very yellow and glum. Perfect manners'?
Answer
B. T.S. Eliot
71
What are the two levels of language referred to by the term 'duality'?
Answer
C. Sound and Meaning
72
Which influential American poet was born in Long Island in 1819?
Answer
D. Walt Whitman
73
In "Archetypes of Literature" Northrope Frye equates 'autumn' to ...................
Answer
B. Tragedy
74
What does Michael do for a living in The Mayor of Casterbridge?
Answer
D. A hay-trusser
75
"Ecriture" means .................
Answer
B. Writing

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