SPSC Past papers of English Lecturer 2024

SPSC Past papers of English Lecturer 2024 for English lecturer test preparation online.

SPSC Past papers of English Lecturer 2024 MCQs

In the play Hamlet, why does Ophelia distribute flowers?

1. Because she was joyous
2. Because she was jealous
3. Because she was sick
4. Because she was mad

What type of sonnet “On His Blindness” is?

1. Shakespearean sonnet
2. Petrarchan sonnet
3. Spencerian sonnet
4. Milton Sonnet

Who is the author of Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience?

1. Byron
2. Blake
3. Keats
4. Shelley

The novel Nineteen Eighty-Four was written by?

1. E.M Foster
2. Bernard Shaw
3. George Orwell
4. D.H Lawrence

What category of poetry is based on unrhymed lines and a define meter?

1. Blank verse
2. Lambic pentameter
3. Meter
4. Free verse

Elegy is a poem that is written about someone’s____?

1. Honor
2. Death
3. Heroism
4. Praise

Which of these not a novel by D.H. Lawrence?

1. Sons and Lovers
2. Women in Love
3. The Lost Girl
4. The Ice Age

“All the world’s stage. And all the men and women merely players.” Is an example of?

1. Simile
2. Metaphor
3. Personification
4. None

Which of these poets maintained the element of the supernatural in his poetry?

1. Byron
2. Keats
3. Coleridge
4. Shelley

Who defined poetry as “Poetry is a spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings”?

1. Keats
2. Wordsworth
3. Coleridge
4. Shelley

“My Last Duchess” is a_____?

1. Soliloquy
2. Monologue
3. Satire
4. Aside

Which two cities does the title ‘A Tale of Two Cities’ refers to?

1. London and Athens
2. London and Geneva
3. London and New York
4. London and Paris

What is the name of play staged for Claudius in the drama Hamlet?

1. The murder of Gonzago
2. The murder of a king
3. The murder of a brother
4. The murderer

Who is the poet of famous elegy “In Memoriam”?

1. Robert Browning
2. Walter Scott
3. Philip Sidney
4. Lord Tennyson

Which part of speech is the underlined word/word in the bracket in the given sentence “He is fond of (Shakespearian) drams”?

1. Comparative Adjective
2. Compound Adjective
3. Proper Adjective
4. Proper Noun

What is Apical Sound?

1. A sound produced by obstructing the air passage with the tip of the tongue
2. Consonant produced by bringing one articulator close to another
3. A sound produced with any friction
4. Vowels sound produced when the back part of the tongue raised

What is Catharsis in literature?

1. The expression of one’s meaning the signifies the opposite meaning
2. To discover the true identity
3. Art to ridicule somebody
4. Emotional purgation of purification

How is Puzzo different in Second Act than in the First Act in Beckett’s waiting for Godot?

1. He is mute
2. He is crippled
3. He is deaf
4. He is blind

A picaresque novel is about?

1. Pictures and Paintings
2. Picturisation
3. Adventures of a rogue
4. Letters

Cymbeline was written by?

1. William Shakespeare
2. Christopher Marlowe
3. GB Shaw
4. H. Ibsen

Which language learning theory emphasizes comprehensible input?

1. Skinner’s Theory of Behaviourism
2. Chomsky’s Universal Grammar
3. Cognitive Theory
4. Krashen’s Monitor Model

Which of the following phonemes represents a voiceless alveolar fricative?

1. /s/
2. /n/
3. /u/
4. /g/

What is the syllabic structure of the word “Trim”?

1. CVCC
2. VCVC
3. CCVC
4. CCCV

What does “Pidgin” refer to?

1. A mother tongue of a particular group
2. An artificial language with recognizable grammar
3. People who speak multiple dialects
4. An auxiliary language created by people

The term for a situation where two languages are employed in distinct connects within a community, often by the same speaker is called?

1. Balanced bilingualism
2. Diachronic
3. Diglossia
4. Diphthong

In neutral intonation situation, which words in a sentence are usually stressed?

1. Content words
2. Structure words
3. Function words
4. Auxiliary words

In Kachruvian model, what is the meaning of the “outer circle”?

1. A group of countries that speak English as their third language
2. A group of cities that speak English as their third language
3. A group of countries that speak English as their second language
4. A group of cities that speak English as their second language

The minimal meaningful unit is?

1. Syntax
2. Syllable
3. Morpheme
4. Sound

Who used the term “langue” and “parole”?

1. Sapir
2. Chomsky
3. Saussure
4. Bloomfield

What do you call a collection of linguistic information used to discover linguistic rules?

1. Utterance
2. Corpus
3. Compilation
4. Collection

What is a variable in research?

1. Authenticity of a sample under investigation
2. A kind of a statistical test
3. Sampling of data in research
4. A characteristic that can be measured and that can assume have different values

What is Linguistic Imperialism?

1. Use of a language for communication between different language communities
2. Language exploitation of a powerful group for some advantages
3. A language of any state
4. A colonial language

Who presented Three Circles Model of World English?

1. Schneider
2. George Widdowson
3. Moag
4. Braj Kachru

What is Spiral Curriculum?

1. Involving teaching staff to develop new relevant curricula
2. Focuses on what learners are excepted to know in various subject areas
3. The key concepts over time in the context of new
4. One system of curriculum, medium of instruction and assessment in a state

What is Code Switching in Linguistics?

1. The loan-borrowing vocabulary from one language to another
2. Use of two languages or dialects in a single sentence
3. Permanent alternatives in a language over time
4. The choice of words and style of expression

What is Snowball Sampling?

1. A given number of subjects are selected from a specific group
2. Existing people are asked to nominate further people known to them
3. Choosing population according to researcher’s own judgement
4. Choosing the willing and potential participants

Parole in structuralism is defined as?

1. A set of rules
2. Background knowledge
3. An individual utterance
4. Something only written

Pragmatics is the study of?

1. Linguistic meaning
2. Intended meaning
3. Denotative meaning
4. Literal meaning

The words said within inverted commas are termed as?

1. Indirect speech
2. Direct speech
3. Expressive words
4. None

What is the indirect form of speech in the given sentence: He says, “I will sit in the garden”?

1. He said that he was sitting in the garden
2. He said that he will sit in the garden
3. He said that he should sit in the garden
4. He said that he would sit in the garden

_____is a work written to defend a writer’s opinion or to elaborate and clarify a problem.

1. Aptronym
2. Blurb
3. Deceit
4. Apology

What is the phrasal meaning of “Call it a day”?

1. To stop because one does not want to do any more
2. To stop doing something that is annoying
3. To get rid of something that is harmful
4. To stop and finish the whole matter

You know they do not allow_____in there.

1. Eat and drink
2. You eat and drink
3. To each and drink
4. Eating and drinking

Antonym of “Cosset” is?

1. Neglect
2. Like
3. Pamper
4. Pinch

Something_____happened or they would be here by now.

1. Must
2. Must have
3. Must have been
4. Must be

Synonym of “Hoax” is?

1. Rumor
2. Mystery
3. Lie
4. Trick

Find the correct Analogy of “Petal :: Flower”?

1. Engine :: Car
2. Pen :: Paper
3. Cat :: Dog
4. Ball :: Game

An adjective which means “Indented teach” is spelt as?

1. Didactyc
2. Didactic
3. Didacctic
4. Dydactic

What are Velar Sounds?

1. /&/ and /$/
2. /p/, /b/, /m/, /w/
3. /s/ or /z/
4. /k/ and /g/n/

What is the phonetic description of the word “Fuchsia”?

1. /‘fjuː : /a/
2. /‘fju /: a/
3. /fa/ʃə/
4. None

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