PPSC Lecturer English Past Papers 2022 MCQs for English lecturer test preparation.
PPSC English Lecturer Paper 2022 MCQs
Total earth atmosphere zones?
A. 6
B. 7
C. 8
D. 5
First Asian Games were conducted in?
A. 1951
B. 1952
C. 1953
D. 1960
Who is the proponent of learning from environment?
A. B.F Skinner
B. John B. Watson
C. Edward Thorndike
D. Albert Bandura
If 3 is subtracted from X digit?
A. 12
B. 6
C. 5
D. 7
Which articles ensures equality before the law and equal protection of the law and states
A. Article 25
B. Article 58 2B
C. Article 19
D. Article 92
Amanat ALI belongs to which family?
A. Patiala gharana
B. Jut Gharana
C. Gujjar Gharana
D. Syed Gharana
Who started Central Mohammadan Association?
A. Chaudhri Rehmat Ali
B. Amir Ali
C. Mohsan-ul-Haq
D. Khadim Hussain
Founder of Taghluq dynasty?
A. Ghiyas-ud-din Tughluq
B. Muhammad ibn Tughluq
C. Ghiyas ud din Balban
D. Khusrau Khan
IPPC stands for?
A. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate
B. The Intergovernmental Panel on Class
C. The Intergovernmental Policy on Climate
D. None of these
In which country sugarcane justice is used as a fuel?
A. Brazil
B. France
C. Japan
D. England
The subtle way of governing institutions_______.
A. Colonialism
B. Imperialism
C. Neo-Colonialism
D. None of these
What Is Orthography?
A. The study of spelling
B. The Study of Grammar
C. The Study of Science
D. The Study of Signs
Philology can be defined as?
A. Historical Development
B. Physical Development
C. Mind Development
D. Thought development
Opposite of Diligent
A. Austere
B. Firm
C. Studious
D. Lazy
Slides sorter is an option on which ribbon in MS Power point?
A. View
B. Review
C. Insert
D. Design
AND, NANO AND XOR operations are called?
A. Logical
B. Electromagnetic
C. Acoustic
D. None of these
Potala Palce is located in:
A. Tibet
B. Nepal
C. Bhutan
D. Mongolia
Industrial revolution coincides with?
A. Modernity
B. Globalism
C. Colonialism
D. Neo-colonialism
Nagorna Karabagh issue is?
A. ethnic and territorial conflict
B. Religious conflict
C. Ideological
D. Moral Conflict
If 3(x) is equal to 10 then 3(x-3) is equal to?
A. 10/27
B. 10/26
C. 9/27
D. 8/25
Whom the doctor blames for the disease ”polio” was brought in?
A. British
B. American
C. Indian
D. French
Who said, ”unconsciousness is structured like a language”?
A. Sigmund Freud
B. Lacan
C. Slavoj Žižek
D. Jacques-Alain Miller
Function of Language directive, informative______?
A. Expressive
B. Interrogative
C. Exclamatory
D. Denotative
What is the first and foremost function of a literary critic?
A. To get full value out of literary quality
B. To satisfy the readers
C. To distinguish between a good book and a bad book
D. None
Communicative competence requires that speakers be aware of which two aspects of their language?
A. linguistic and syntactic
B. linguistic and pragmatic
C. semantic and syntactic
D. pragmatic and semantic
An adjective that is used to express relative positions in space and time is known as
A. Demonstrative Adjective
B. Descriptive Adjective
C. Quantitative Adjective
D. Possessive Adjective
The use of forms whose obsoleteness or obsolescence is manifest …
A. Realism
B. lmagism
C. Archaism
D. obsoletism
Pedagogical grammar is grammatical analysis and instructions designed for?
A. Native Speakers
B. Bilingual
C. Second Language Learners
D. All of these
A string of letters that provide us with a meaningful unit?
A. Morpheme
B. Phoneme
C. Lexis
D. Word
Who introduced Structural grammar/associated with it?
A. Noam Chomsky
B. Ferdinand de Saussure
C. John Sinclair
D. Edward Sapir
What is the prestigious dialect?
A. Basilect
B. Acrolect
C. Mesolect
D. None of these
What is the minimum unit of the meaningful word?
A. Phoneme
B. Syllable
C. Morpheme
D. Consonant Cluster
Words with multiple meanings (word senses)
A. Polysemy
B. Metonymy
C. Homosemy
D. All of these
A person who has equal efficiency in many languages?
A. Polyglot
B. Multilingual
C. Bilingual
D. All of these
She has______ coins.
A. Many
B. Much
C. More
D. All of these
After creolization the new founded language takes up its______ from the lower prestige.
A. Vocabulary
B. Dialect
C. Accent
D. All of these
The first and second sounds of ”I” in Little are an example of:
A. Allophone
B. Homophonic variation
C. Minimal Pair
D. Allomorph
Paradigmatic Relation is based upon:
A. Axis of chain
B. Axis of choice
C. Both of these
D. None of these
The German playwright Bertot Brecht proposed which contrasting idea as opposed to mimetic theatre of Aristotle?
A. Digetic
B. Problematic
C. Apocalyptic
D. Prophetic
What was the profession of Mr Ramsay in the novel “To the Light House”?
A. Metaphysical philosopher
B. A Doctor
C. A poet
D. None of these
In valediction forbidding mourning, John Donne alludes to the growing field in the renaissance. Which field was growing at that time?
A. geometry
B. astrology
C. Cartography
D. Medicine
Florizel’s servant Autolycus has the role of?
A. Clown
B. A protagonist
C. An antagonist
D. None of these
Some reflections upon marriage (1706) initiated a powerful strain of modern feminism by?
A. Mary Astell
B. Mary Wollstonecraft
C. Catharine Macaulay
D. John Locke
Who was the first Poet Laureate to serve 10 years fixed period?
A. Andrew Motion
B. Philip Larkin
C. Blake Morrison
D. John Keats
Alamein to Zem Zem by?
A. Keith Douglas
B. Alfred Tennyson
C. William Wordsworth
D. Sylvia Plath
What is the complete name of Earl of Surrey?
A. Henry Howard
B. Thomas Wyatt
C. Elizabeth Stafford
D. None of these
Who is a modern-day corpus linguist?
A. Noam Chomsky
B. Ferdinand de Saussure
C. John Sinclair
D. Edward Sapir
Who wrote Lolita?
A. Vladimir Nabokov
B. Véra Nabokov
C. Fyodor Dostoevsky
D. Franz Kafkae
The ”Deserted Village” by Oliver Goldsmith is a/an ______Poem.
A. Tragedy
B. Drama
C. Comedy
D. Elegy
How many types of Phonetic Transcription are used?
A. Two
B. Three
C. Four
D. One
How many days did it take for Satan to finally speak to Beelzebub?
A. 9
B. 7
C. 6
D. 4
Who is the pioneer (originator) of Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood?
A. Dante Gabriel Rossetti
B. John Everett Millais
C. William Holman Hunt
D. Christina Rossetti
Nature’s first green is gold, her hardest hue to hold is a poem by?
A. Emily Dickinson
B. Robert Frost
C. Maya Angelou
D. Walt Whitman
Who wrote Das Capital?
A. Karl Marx
B. Friedrich Engels
C. Vladimir Lenin
D. Max Weber
Who is the writer of ”Piers the Ploughman”?
A. William Langland
B. John Gower
C. Thomas Wright
D. Walter William Skeat
The bourgeoisie tragedy is attributed to which class by Raymond Williams?
A. Middle Class
B. Working Class
C. Lower Class
D. Elite Class
Who wrote ”Murder of Aziz Khan”?
A. Maya Angelou
B. Salman Rushdie
C. Zulfiqar Ghose
D. None of these
Orientalism concept was expiated and expanded by?
A. Frantz Fanon
B. Edward Said
C. Bacon
D. Swift
Sophonisba is a _______written by James Thomson.
A. Comedy
B. Fantasy
C. Tragedy
D. Science fiction
What is the cause of Sylvia Plath’s death?
A. Firearms
B. Sleeping Pills
C. Poisoning
D. Suffocation
The Clerk in the ”Prologue to the Canterbury Tales” has been portrayed as:
A. Ironically
B. Ideally
C. Realistically
D. All of these
The epic poem Beowulf is shorter than Homer’s Illiad having_______lines
A. 3182
B. 3820
C. 3082
D. None of These
Who wrote grammarian funeral?
A. Elizabeth Barrett Browning
B. Robert Browning
C. Matthew Arnold
D. William Wordsworth
The current poet Laureate was appointed as the first professor of poetry in which university?
A. University of Oxford
B. Leeds University
C. Cambridge University
D. King’s College
JACOBIAN theatre and drama were associated with?
A. James I
B. Elizabeth
C. Charles I
D. Charles II
Swift is a misanthrope because?
A. He envies people
B. He hates people.
C. He loves animals
D. None of these
Who wrote wedding in flood?
A. Taufiq Rafat
B. Maki Kureishi
C. Alamgir Hashmi
D. Kaleem Omar
Who wrote Hamlet and Oedipus?
A. Karl Abraham
B. Earnest Jones
C. Wilhelm Fliess
D. Melanie Klein
Why was Donne imprisoned?
A. Clandestine Marriage
B. Theft
C. Murder
D. Heresy
After Shakespeare European drama was promoted by?
A. Eliot
B. Gower
C. Dryden
D. Ibsen
Sign and Sign Handling (Study of Signs)
A. Semiotics
B. Syntax
C. Semantics
D. Morphology
What form was used in Divine Comedy?
A. Blank Verse
B. Free Verse
C. Haiku
D. Terza Rima
What is the Literacy Genre of Sun Rising?
A. Allegory
B. Ballad
C. Blason
D. Aubade
The title of Attia Hussian’s Novel?
A. Sunlight on a Broken Column
B. Sunlight on a Glass
C. Sunlight on a Stream
D. Sunlight on a Broken Wood
Falstaff is a clown (described in)
A. Twelfth Night
B. Hamlet
C. Romeo & Juliet
D. In Henry IV, Part 1 and Henry IV, Part 2
Charles Lamb’s “Dream Children” is notable for its:
A. Crushing tragedy
B. Humor
C. Whimsical Pathos
D. Cynicism
What is the name of the First poem of ”Lyrical Ballads”?
A. The Prelude
B. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
C. I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud
D. Tintern Abbey
Restoration age is represented as?
A. Comedy of Manners
B. Comedy of Morals
C. Romantic Comedy
D. Comedy of Humors
Robert Browning’s poem has the characteristics of:
A. Dramatic Monologue and Optimist
B. Dramatic Monologue and Pessimist
C. Dramatic Monologue and Misogynist
D. All of these
Low-born person’s adventure on road?
A. Romantic
B. Historical
C. Action
D. Picaresque
What is common in Wordsworth, Byron and Keats’s poetry?
A. Reform
B. Philosophy
C. War
D. Love
Deformed Character in the play ”Tempest”
A. Prospero
B. Ariel
C. Sycorax
D. Caliban
Imogen is a ”female” character in which play?
A. The Winter’s Tale
B. Cymbeline
C. All’s Well That Ends Well
D. As You Like It
When did Keats write his Odes?
A. 1817
B. 1819
C. 1820
D. 1822
A figure of speech that includes exaggeration but is not taken in the literal meaning
A. Oxymoron
B. Hyperbole
C. Hypophora
D. Asterismos
Who wrote the Novel ”Antic Hay”?
A. Aldous Huxley
B. George Orwell
C. H. G. Wells
D. Ray Bradbury
Who wrote the History of Pendennis?
A. Charles Dickens
B. William Makepeace
C. George Eliot
D. Thomas Hardy
Where does the ”David” in the play ”Caretaker” want to go?
A. Blackfen
B. Sidcup
C. Orpington
D. New Eltham
Red Letters’ Day
A. The worst day
B. A gloomy day
C. A day of great Joy
D. A writing day
What is the name of Bertolt Brecht’s theatre?
A. Royal National Theatre
B. Epic theatre
C. The Old Vic
D. None of these
Who said ”Dryden” father of Criticism?
A. James Boswell
B. Dr Johnson
C. Elizabeth Johnson
D. Alexander Pope
Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them (a quote taken from which of the following works)?
A. Twelfth Night
B. Hamlet
C. Romeo & Juliet
D. Julius Caesar
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