PPSC Past Papers Lecturer English 2015 MCQs for English lecturer test preparation in Punjab Public Service Commission.
PPSC Past Papers Lecturer English 2015 MCQs
The smallest parts of expression associated with some meaning are called:
A. Stems
B. Morphemes
C. Suffixes
D. Prefixes
Name the poet, who belongs to a small group, got fame after 50 years age?
A. Coleridge
B. Keats
C. Milton
D. Spencer
A group of words with its own subject and predicate, if it is included in a larger sentence is
A. Clause
B. Phrase
C. Idiom
D. Sentence
“A word or set of words followed by a pause and revealing an intelligible purpose” is
A. Word
B. Clause
C. Phrase
D. Sentence
Fries classifies utterances units into:
A. Single minimum free utterance
B. Single free utterance, not minimum but expanded
C. Free utterances
D. All of these
A lexical unit in which two or more lexical morphemes are juxtaposed is called:
A. Idiom
B. Compound
C. Phrase
D. Clause
A consonant that is produced with a stricture is called:
A. Plosives or stops
B. Articulations
C. Allophonic variations
D. None of these
Phoneme, Phone, Allophone are the concepts of:
A. Phonetics
B. Phonology
C. Anthropology
D. Linguistics
The study of hearing and the perception of speech sounds is called:
A. Auditory phonetics
B. Acoustic phonetics
C. Articulatory phonetics
D. None of these
The set of all possible grammatical sentences in the language is:
A. Le language
B. Language
C. Parole
D. None of these
Who studies a language at one period in time and investigates the way people speak in a given speech community at a given point in time?
A. Synchronic or descriptive linguistic
B. Diachronic or historical linguistic
C. Both of these
D. None of these
How many sonnets were written by Shakespeare?
A. 152
B. 153
C. 154
D. 155
Name the poets who composed Lyrical Ballads (1798):
A. Keats and Coleridge
B. Keats and Wordsworth
C. Shelley and Coleridge
D. Coleridge and Wordsworth
Name the war in which Byron proved his rebellion by death by opposing Europeans by taking part in the war against Turks and supported:
A. Mustafa Kamal
B. Greek war
C. Persian war
D. None of these
Consonant produced or formed by closure or near closure of the lips is called:
A. Nasal
B. Glottal
C. Bilabial
D. Labio-dental
The technique used by Skinner is:
A. Structuralism
B. Functionalism
C. Behaviorism
D. Cognitive
When a pidgin becomes a lingua Franca, it is called:
A. Dialect
B. Idiolect
C. Creole
D. Diglossia
A contract language, a mixture of elements from different natural languages is called:
A. Dialect
B. Idiolect
C. Diglossia
D. Pidgin
On a linguistic map a line indicating the degree of linguistic change is called:
A. Dialect
B. Registers
C. Isogloss
D. Idiolect
Mood is related to illocutionary force. Moods are:
A. Speaker oriented
B. Subject oriented
C. Epistemic
D. All of these
In Sophocles, the chorus consists of:
A. 50
B. 15
C. 12
D. 11
A character in Doll’s House by Ibsen was?
A. Guina
B. Nora
C. Rebecca
D. Hedda
G.B.Shaw was influenced by:
A. H.G Wells
B. Marlowe
C. Ibsen
D. Shakespeare
P B Shelley wrote an elegy on the death of Keats:
A. Adonis
B. The Cenci
C. Queen Mab
D. Zastrozzi
George Orwell criticizes corruption under the:
A. The Bolsheviks
B. Lenin
C. Dostoevsky
D. None of these
Charles Dickens continued the tradition of ____ in his novels:
A. Classics
B. Neo classics
C. Romantics
D. Pre romantics
In the 19th century novel with children as characters and stories appeared?
A. George Eliot
B. Jane Austen
C. Thomas Hardy
D. Charles Dickens
The poems written by Coleridge in state of depression, fantasy are:
A. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Kubla Khan
B. Frost at Midnight and A Friend
C. Hymn Before Sunrise and Monody on the Death of Chatterton
D. None of these
Good relations with neighbors are discussed in the poem:
A. Birches
B. Stopping by the woods
C. Nothing Gold Can Stay
D. Mending Wall
Language of rustic people and stories of rustic people is by:
A. Blake
B. Wordsworth
C. John Keats
D. S.T. Coleridge
Wordsworth discusses the conditions of city life:
A. Upon Westminster Bridge
B. The Reverie of Poor Susan
C. London, 1802
D. The Prelude
In “The Mill on the Floss”, Tom and Maggie represent Eliot’s:
A. Religion
B. Childhood memories
C. Social norms
D. Philosophy
Keats wrote all of his six odes in:
A. 1816 to 1819
B. 1817
C. 1818
D. 1819
Keats was influenced by the philosophy ( or philosopher):
A. Shakespeare
B. Zuno
C. Stoicism
D. None of these
In “Ode on a Grecian Urn” Keats refers to Urn as:
A. Thou still unravish’d bride of quietness
B. O mysterious priest
C. A pious morn
D. Silken Flank
“An Ode to a Nightingale:” Where youth grows pale, and specter-thin, and dies;” refers to:
A. Coleridge
B. John Keats
C. Blake
D. Wordsworth
The depiction of characters and stories in novels changed from external to internal in:
A. 17th
B. 18th
C. 19th
D. 20th
The use of a word or phrase to emphasize or suggest its different meanings or the use of words that are alike or nearly alike in sound but different in meaning;
A. Pun
B. Imagery
C. Epigram
D. Witticism
Surrey and Wyatt were introduced in English Poetry
A. Spenserian sonnet
B. Shakespearean sonnet
C. Petrarchan Sonnet
D. None of these
Name of the Wife of Bath in the Prologue:
A. Alice
B. Madam Eglantine
C. Julia
D. Sylvia
Who said ” Tragedy can happen with a common man.”:
A. Arthur Miller
B. Inge Morath
C. James Dougherty
D. Marilyn Munroe
Sylvia Plath was the wife of:
A. Nicholas Hughes
B. Ted Hughes
C. Virginia Woolf
D. Walt Whitman
The Faerie Queene by Spencer is:
A. Anaphora
B. Conceit
C. Allegory
D. Repetition
The theme of Paradise Lost is:
A. Justification of God’s ways to man
B. The cunningness of the Satan
C. The Human weakness
D. God’s Authority
Name the poem written by Milton, an epic, and critique:
A. L’Allegro
B. Lycidas
C. Paradise Lost
D. Paradise Regained
T.S. Eliot got Nobel Prize in:
A. 1948
B. 1947
C. 1946
D. 1956
Post-colonial literature discusses:
A. New kind of literature in former colonies
B. Travelogue
C. Biography
D. Autobiography
Time flies like…….?
A. a water
B. a bird
C. a missile
D. an arrow
Which of the following is not a Feature of Comedy:
A. Plot complications
B. Excessive Suspense
C. Humorous characters
D. Hyperbole
In the poem, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, the dice game shows
A. Life
B. Death
C. Life-in-Death
D. Death-in-Life
Bacon was granted knighthood under:
A. Henry VIII
B. James I
C. Elizabeth
D. Tudor
The plays in which vices and virtues were personified are called:
A. Morality plays
B. Tragic plays
C. Comic play
D. Absurd plays
Beckett is associated with
A. Theatre of Absurd
B. Morality plays
C. Tragic plays
D. Comedy
The oral method of learning is:
A. Defect
B. Part of a larger method or technique
C. Main method
D. Efficient method
The classical method of grammar learning is:
A. Translation Method
B. Deductive
C. Inductive
D. Elective
Which of the following is not a Tragi-comedy?
A. The Tempest
B. The Winter’s Tale
C. Romeo and Juliet
D. Rape of the lock
The antonym of “Acumen” is?
A. Shrewd
B. Intelligence
C. Ninny
D. Wisdom
The antonym of “Grotesque” is?
A. Ugly
B. Disgusting
C. Terrible
D. Graceful
Pronouns, myself, yourself, yourselves, himself, herself, itself, ourselves, themselves are:
A. Reflexive
B. Reciprocal
C. Both A and B
D. None of these
Ahmed Ali earned his livelihood in 1932 as:
A. Novelist
B. Short story-writer
C. Lecturer
D. Ambassador
A revolutionary thinker who was exiled to Eton was?
A. Byron
B. Shelley
C. Keats
D. Wordsworth
Select the correct sentence:
A. You will be surprised to know if I tell you who called me last night.
B. You will be surprised to know if I tell you whom called me last night.
C. You will be surprised to know if I tell you what called me last night.
D. You will be surprised to know if I tell you that who called me last night
Before deciding, consider ……… of it.
A. Flexibility
B. Issues
C. Benefits
D. Pros and cons
Fancy happiness …… Ahmad ……. finding himself free.
A. For, while
B. While, for
C. For, while
D. Of, while
The misunderstanding ………. two parties ……… money.
A. Between, over
B. of, for
C. Between, for
D. To, Is
In Rhetoric, the ethical character that a speaker projects in his efforts to persuade an audience is called?
A. Ethos
B. Round
C. Flat
D. Filial
A quotation used at the beginning of a text designed to illustrate its title or designate its theme is called?
A. Indirect quotes
B. In-text quotes
C. Anaphora
D. Epigraph
In drama, a comment by a character directed to the audience, not intended to be heard by the other characters on stage is called?
A. Aside
B. Soliloquy
C. Monologue
D. Apostrophe
The synonym of “Pique” is?
A. Happy
B. Jubilant
C. Irritation
D. Curious
The synonym of “Spoken” is?
A. Verbal
B. Written
C. Aural
D. Inhaling
The synonym of “Close shave” is?
A. A hair’s breadth
B. By the skin of teeth
C. Narrow escape
D. All of these
The synonym of “Paradoxical” is?
A. Sequential
B. Congruous
C. Contradictory
D. Understandable
The antonym of “Zenith” is?
A. Nadir
B. Peak
C. Flourishing
D. Golden time
The antonym of “Patrician” is?
A. Aristocrat
B. Blue blood
C. Sophisticated
D. Rouge
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PPSC Past Papers Lecturer English 2015 MCQs for English lecturer test preparation in Punjab Public Service Commission.