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English Lecturer Past Paper PPSC 2020
What is the shortcut key to split a table in MS Word?
A. Ctrl + Alt + Enter
B. Ctrl + shift + Enter
C. Alt + shift + Enter
D. Alt + Space + Enter
In MS Word 2016, the “Equations” option is available in the ____ menu.
A. Home
B. Layout
C. References
D. Insert
… 4×9 / (144)½ = ?
A. 3
B. 2/7
C. ½
D. 13
Rahim bought a shirt for Rs 350 and sold it for rupees 300. How much loss did he get?
A. 40
B. 50
C. 20
D. 80
Sedimentary rocks are:
A. Porous
B. Hard
C. Rough
D. Brittle
Pampelonne on a beach is a beach of?
A. Germany
B. France
C. Italy
D. THE UK
Indicate the coldest city of Pakistan.
A. Ziarat
B. Murree
C. Sawat
D. Ayubia
Brahma Samaj was developed and modified by:
A. Gandhi
B. Nehru
C. Keshab Chandra Sen
D. None of these
On 13 August 2018 the national assembly of Pakistan oath.
A. 12th
B. 13th
C. 15th
D. 16th
All carnivorous plants:
A. Are parasites
B. Depend on animals as a source of carbon
C. Are incapable of photosynthesis
D. Obtain supplemental nitrogen from animals
Structure of DNA was discovered by:
A. James Watson
B. Samuel Morse
C. Edward Jenner
D. Louis Pasteur
Translator was invented by:
A. Edison
B. Thomson
C. Bardeen
D. Faraday
The term “Double Fault” is associated with which of the following games?
A. Badminton
B. Squash
C. Tennis
D. Polo
Qantas is an airline of ______.
A. Hong Kong
B. Russia
C. Australia
D. Germany
The country Panama is situated at:
A. North America
B. Europe
C. South America
D. Africa
Between whom the charter of Madina was concluded?
A. Muslim and Jews
B. Muslims and non- Arabs
C. Muslims and Jews and other non-Muslims
D. None of these
Which cousin of the Holy Prophet (Peace Be Upon Him) was Mufassar-e-Quran?
A. Hamza ibne Abbas
B. Abdullah ibne Abbas
C. Talha ibne Abbas
D. None of these
Who called Dryden the father of English criticism?
A. Pope
B. Doctor Johnson
C. DeQuincey
D. Coleridge
____ is the writer of The Spy and is regarded as “the first of the great American Novelists.”
A. Washington Irving
B. John Fenimore Cooper
C. Nathaniel Hawthorne
D. Edgar Allen Poe
___ are consonants for which the flow of air is stopped or restricted by lips.
A. Nasal
B. Affricate
C. Glottal
D. Bilabial
To which language group does English belong?
A. Romance
B. Germanic
C. Celtic
D. American
The title of Sir Philip Sidney’s pastoral Romance in proses:
A. Utopia
B. Arcadia
C. Hydriotaphia
D. Lamia
Only a small proportion of medieval books survive large numbers having been destroyed in:
A. The Anglo-Saxon conquest beginning in the 1450s
B. The Norman conquest of 1066
C. The dissolution of monasteries in the 1530s
D. The wave of Contempt for manuscripts that followed the beginning of printing in 1476
Sarojini Naidu is chiefly a_____ poet.
A. Narrative
B. Epic
C. Lyric
D. Satirical
The study of which words occur together, and their frequency of co-occurrence.
A. Connotation
B. Collocation
C. Implication
D. Location
Newly released book in 2020 “The Pandemic century” is written by which author?
A. David page
B. Anthony Mercy
C. Mark Horigabaum
D. Mark Bloomberg
Fielding novels are called:
A. Picaresque novels
B. Sentimental novels
C. Comic Epic in prose
D. Realistic novel
What is defined as ” The study of sentence structure”?
A. Morphology
B. Semantics
C. Phonology
D. Syntax
Keats died of:
A. Cancer
B. Pneumonia
C. Tuberculosis
D. Malaria
“Old Norse” is the same as which modern Scandinavian language.
A. Danish
B. Norwegian
C. Icelandic
D. Swedish
Grammar-Transition method stresses on:
A. Accuracy
B. Fluency
C. Appropriateness
D. Listening Skills
Who were the original speakers of English?
A. The Angles, Celts and jutes
B. The Angles, Saxons, Vikings
C. The Angles, Saxons, jutes
D. The Angles, Saxons, Celt
Arundhati Roy has been awarded The Booker Prize on the novel:
A. A man who failed
B. The God of Small Things
C. Apes of God
D. The nude before God
The golden breath is a_____ by Mulk Raj Anand.
A. Novel
B. Short story
C. Play
D. Work of literary criticism
Postcolonial literature addresses_____?
A. The new cultural identity of colonies
B. Travelogues
C. Biographies
D. Autobiography
The English romantic poet who was most influenced by Spencer is:
A. Byron
B. Scott
C. Keats
D. Shelley
Choose the correct sentence.
A. He was shocked when she told him that who called her last night.
B. He was shocked when she told him whom called her last night.
C. He was shocked when she told him what called him last night.
D. He was shocked when she told him who called her last night.
Cyclone in Pakistan is a potential work by:
A. Monika Verma
B. Sunita Nam Joshi
C. Kamala Das
D. Mamta Kaka
Uncle Tom’s cabin is written by:
A. Cotton Mather
B. Sara Om Jiweti
C. Harriet Beecher Stowe
D. Willa Cather
Who is the creator of the character Sherlock Holmes?
A. Edgar Allen poe
B. Agatha Christie
C. Arthur Conan Doyle
D. John Lehrenn
Casanova Chinese restaurant is a novel by:
A. Anthony Hope
B. Anthony Powell
C. Anthony Trollope
D. Virginia Woolf
Which of the following was a group that tried to spread the Catholic teaching after the reformation?
A. The Jesuits
B. The Baptists
C. The protestants
D. the Calvinists
The Glass Menagerie is a play by:
A. Eugene O’Neill
B. Tennessee Williams
C. Arthur Miller
D. Tennyson
Faustus asks two magicians to aid him in summoning the devil. What are their names?
A. Valdes and Cornelius
B. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern
C. Troilus Cressida
D. Pyramus Thisbe
Which of these terms refer to the study of the speech process?
A. Phonology
B. Phonetic substances
C. Phonetics
D. Semantics
Maya is the central character in Anita Desai’s novel:
A. Bye, Bye, Blackbird
B. Voices In The City
C. Cry, the peacock
D. A Goddess named gol
Choose the correct synonym “circumvent”
A. Satire
B. Sensuality
C. Avoid
D. Reform
Mastropieri and Turkewitz (1999) identified that a newborn could differentiate between what?
A. Between speech pattern
B. Between native and foreign languages
C. Between parents voices
D. Between tone and pitch
Bilal has a very advanced sense of what is socially appropriate. He always knows what to say in every social context. He has which kind of competence?
A. Phonetic
B. Semantics
C. Pragmatic
D. Syntax
Our teacher teaches mathematics _____ English?
A. Across
B. Besides
C. Beside
D. Over
What is the real name of George Orwell?
A. Eric Amber
B. Eric Blair
C. Torn Scott
D. Winston Smith
Sarojini Naidu’s poem The Queen’s Rival is based on a_____ legend:
A. Greek
B. Indian
C. Persian
D. Roman
The word “Novel” is derived from the Italian word:
A. Novella
B. Novelle
C. Novelette
D. Noval
The name of the technique employed by James Joyce in his novels is:
A. Oblique narration
B. Stream of consciousness
C. First-person narration
D. Naturalism
In Anglo-Saxon heroic poetry, what is the fate of those who fail to observe the sacred duty of blood vengeance?
A. Banishment
B. Everlasting shame
C. Conversion to Christianity
D. Mild melancholia
Who was the leading figure of Christian Humanism?
A. Sir Thomas More
B. Martin Luther
C. John Tetzel
D. Erasmus
The collective name given to some of the Shakespearean playwrights like Marlowe, Kyd, Peele, and Greene is:
A. Romantic playwright
B. University wits
C. Elizabethan dramatists
D. Court playwright
What is the time period between 1300-1650 in Europe called?
A. The era of good feelings
B. The revolution of thought
C. The Renaissance
D. The scientific explosion
Name the poet who belongs to the Victorian age, but in the mode in matters of technique:
A. Swinburne
B. Rossetti
C. Hopkins
D. Hardy
George Eliot is the pen-name of:
A. Bifer Eliot
B. Mary Ann Evans
C. T.S Eliot
D. Emily Dickson
Intellectually amusing utterance calculated to delight and surprise is called:
A. Verisimilitude
B. Wit
C. Threnody
D. Tract
The sound made with air passing through the nose and making the “ng” sound of “Singh” is called:
A. Nasal
B. Uvula
C. Velum
D. Bilabial
Who translated the original Bengali poem of Gitanjali into English?
A. Sir Edmund Goose
B. W. B. Yeats
C. Edmund Thomson
D. Rabindranath Tagore
What was the name given to the poets of the Auden group?
A. New Signature
B. New lines
C. New Romantics
D. New Apocalypse
Edgar Allan Poe wrote reviews for a year for the magazine:
A. South Literary messenger
B. Evening Post
C. South American Reviewer
D. The Autobiography
What was the new system of printing books developed in the 1400s?
A. Block style writing
B. Moveable type
C. Calgraphy
D. Computer
Deductive method proceeds from:
A. Law and rule to observation
B. Observation
C. Generalization to specification
D. Examples and illustrations
Holy Sonnet was written by:
A. Marlowe
B. Donne
C. Spencer
D. Johnson
In which Novel of his Lawrence dealt with the psychological phenomenon known as “Oedipus complex”?
A. Lady Chatterley’s Lover
B. Sons and lovers
C. The trespasser
D. The Boy in the Bush
What is meant by “etymology”?
A. The Study of names
B. The Study of origins of words
C. The Study of language problems
D. The Study of sounds similar to one another
Q. 21 Bacon essays are considered as compendiums of:
A. Worldly Wisdom
B. diplomatic matters
C. state affairs
D. General knowledge
The old wive’s tale is a novel by:
A. Hardy
B. Henry James
C. Arnold Bennet
D. John Galsworthy
“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 Wendelt Holmes
C. Fenimore Cooper
D. Walt Whitman
In a list of languages ranked by the number of native (L 1) speakers where does English come from?
A. 1st
B. 2nd
C. 3rd
D. 4th
Who wrote, “Milton Thou shouldst be living at this hour”?
A. Dryden
B. Pope
C. Gray
D. Wordsworth
Emily Bronte wrote only one novel entitled:
A. Jane Eyre
B. Shirley
C. Wuthering Heights
D. Agnes Gray
This Faerie Queen is a/an___poem:
A. Satirical
B. Narrative
C. Allegorical
D. Descriptive
Which of the following terms are assigned to the 13 properties identified by Hockett (1960)?
A. Linguistic Universals
B. Relative scripts
C. Universal script
D. Linguistic nodes
When the baby is 3 months old he can produce velar sounds /k/, /g/ and vowels /i/, /u/, this stage is known as:
A. Babbling
B. Holophrastic
C. Cooing
D. Telegraphic
How many plays did William Shakespeare write?
A. 36
B. 37
C. 38
D. 39
Who was the main contributor to the linguistic period?
A. Bartlett
B. Piaget
C. Hermann paul
D. Chomsky
“Close Shave” means:
A. Hair’s breadth
B. By the skin of one’s teeth
C. Narrow escape
D. To apply economy
Lord Byron belongs to_____ age?
A. Romantic
B. Victorian
C. Transition
D. Edwardian
“Marlowe simply prepared the way for the master who was to follow.” Who is the master referred to in this remark?
A. Ben Jonson
B. Shakespeare
C. John Webster
D. Thomas Middleton
Few words with very closely related meanings:
A. Antonyms
B. Homonyms
C. Synonyms
D. Hyponymy
Aurobindo Ghose’s Savitri is an epic of the:
A. Universe
B. Soul
C. Mind
D. Heaven
Please do not laugh______those beggars.
A. At
B. For
C. Again
D. From
Normal phonological deviations that children make when producing sounds and words are referred to as:
A. Speech errors
B. Plosives
C. Fricatives
D. Jargon
Choose the correct antonym of “Grotesque:”
A. Archaic
B. Whimsical
C. Mild
D. Graceful
There was a great hue and cry against Hardy’s novels, Tess and Jude the Obscure because of_____in them
A. Obscenity
B. Violence
C. Abnormality
D. Heresy
Restoration Period saw the rise of:
A. Heroic tragedy
B. Classical tragedy
C. Domestic tragedy
D. Shakespearean tragedy
Most of the novels of RK Narayan are set in:
A. Madras
B. Malgudi
C. Trivandrum
D. Mano Majra
In the “Preface of lyrical ballads” Wordsworth propounded his theory of:
A. Fancy
B. Imagination
C. Prose
D. Poetic diction
What is the most common poetic quality in Keats and Tennyson?
A. Miltonism
B. Dramatic quality
C. Pictorial element
D. Elegiac nature
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