PSC HSST English Jr Model Questions and Answers

51. What is meant by ‘language transfer’?
(A) The carry over of rules of the Second language syntax, phonology, or semantic system to the mother tongue in question
(B) The carry over of rules of the mother tongue syntax, phonology, or semantic system to the Second language in question
(C) The vocabulary and sentence structure transferred haphazardly during Second language acquisition from any other language accessed by the learner
(D) Knowledge generated in the development of a learner on account of other domains of knowledge
Answer: C

52. What is considered as the central principle of literary criticism in Sanskrit Literature?
(A) Dhwani
(B) Rasa
(C) Vakrokthi
(D) Vyanjana
Answer: D

53. Which angel does Satan trick by disguising himself as a cherub?
(A) Abdiel
(B) Uriel
(C) Raphael
(D) Michael
Answer: B

54. The Grecian Urn is called “cold pastoral” because :
(A) it has remained unchanged till now
(B) it is mysterious
(C) it is made of marble
(D) all of these
Answer: D

55. In which section of The Waste Land does Tiresias appear?
(A) What the Thunder Said
(B) A Game of Chess
(C) The Fire Sermon
(D) The Burial of the Dead
Answer: C

56. “Shakespeare approximates the remote and familiarizes the wonderful”. Whose words are these?
(A) Samuel Johnson
(B) John Dryden
(C) William Wordsworth
(D) Samuel Coleridge
Answer: A

57. The term for describing someone’s death as “someone is no more” or that “someone has breathed his/her last” is ……………..
(A) Euphism
(B) Euphony
(C) Understatement
(D) Euphemism
Answer: D

58. What does Noam Chomsky’s theory of language development emphasize?
(A) Children’s cognitive abilities
(B) Learning and conditioning principles
(C) Innate structures and biological mechanisms
(D) The language support system provided by parents
Answer: C

59. Shelly used which stanza form in “Ode to the West Wind”?
(A) Rime Royal
(B) Terza Rima
(C) Ottava Rima
(D) Spenserian Stanza
Answer: B

60. From which poem is the line, “The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity” taken from?
(A) The Waste Land
(B) Tintern Abbey
(C) The Second Coming
(D) Prayer for My Daughter
Answer: C

61. The term ‘Peripeteia’ means ………………
(A) Constancy in the fortune of the hero
(B) Change in the fortune of the hero from bad to good
(C) Fluctuations occurring in the fortunes of the hero
(D) Change in the fortune of the hero from good to bad
Answer: C

62. Who is the native chief who leads the revolt against Brutus Jones in Emperor Jones?
(A) Lem
(B) Len
(C) Leon
(D) Lix
Answer: A

63. ‘Spenser writ no language’. Who said this?
(A) Dryden
(B) Dr. Johnson
(C) Ben Jonson
(D) Matthew Arnold
Answer: C

64. The theme of “Dejection : An Ode” is :
(A) unhappy marriage
(B) loss of poetic imagination
(C) broken friendship
(D) inability to bear defeat
Answer: B

65. The poem in which Yeats uses the famous “stone metaphor” is ………………
(A) Among School Children
(B) Second Coming
(C) Sailing to Byzantium
(D) Eastern 1916
Answer: D

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”?
(A) Culture and Anarchy
(B) Essays in Criticism
(C) The Study of Poetry
(D) Literature and Dogma
Answer: C

67. Who in “My Last Duchess” is said to have made the Duchess’ painting?
(A) George Vasari
(B) Fra Pandolf
(C) Duke of Ferrari
(D) Not mentioned
Answer: B

68. What poison did Claudius pour into the ear of Hamlet’s father to kill him?
(A) Hebenon
(B) Baneberry
(C) Burdock
(D) Hemlock
Answer: A

69. What was the original title of Pride and Prejudice?
(A) ‘Last Impressions’
(B) ‘False Impressions’
(C) ‘First Impressions’
(D) ‘True Impressions’
Answer: C

70. Harold Nicholson described which poet as ‘Very yellow and glum. Perfect manners’?
(A) E.E. Cummings
(B) T.S. Eliot
(C) John Greenleaf Whittier
(D) Walt Whitman
Answer: B

71. What are the two levels of language referred to by the term ‘duality’?
(A) Morphology and Syntax
(B) Structure and Use
(C) Sound and Meaning
(D) Phonetics and Phonology
Answer: C

72. Which influential American poet was born in Long Island in 1819?
(A) Emily Dickinson
(B) Paul Dunbar
(C) John Greenleaf Whittier
(D) Walt Whitman
Answer: D

73. In “Archetypes of Literature” Northrope Frye equates ‘autumn’ to ……………….
(A) Romance
(B) Tragedy
(C) Comedy
(D) Satire
Answer: B

74. What does Michael do for a living in The Mayor of Casterbridge?
(A) An auctioneer
(B) A sailor
(C) A turnip-hoer
(D) A hay-trusser
Answer: D

75. “Ecriture” means ……………..
(A) Author
(B) Writing
(C) Reader
(D) Text
Answer: B