SPSC English Lecturer Paper 2020

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SPSC English Lecturer Paper 2020 MCQs

What is the antonym of “Grotesque”?

1. Archaic
2. Graceful
3. Whimsical
4. None of the above

In the “Preface to Lyrical Balladas,” Wordsworth propounded his theory of:

1. Fancy
2. Imagination
3. Prose
4. Poetic Diction

What is the most common poetic quality in Keats and Tennyson?

1. Miltonism
2. Dramatic quality
3. pictorial element
4. elegiac nature

Aurobindo Ghose`s Savitri is an epic of the:

1. Universe
2. Soul
3. Mind
4. Heaven

What is meant by “etymology”?

1. The study of the names given to insects
2. The study of the origins of words and how they have changed over time
3. The study of language politeness
4. The study of words which sound similar to one another

Bacon`s essays are regarded as compendiums of:

1. Worldly wisdom
2. Diplomatic Matters
3. State Affairs
4. General Knowledge

Emily Bronte wrote only one novel entitled:

1. Jane Eyre
2. Shirley
3. Wuthering Heights
4. Agnes Grey

The Faerie Queene is a/an ___________ poem.

1. Satirical
2. Narrative
3. Allegorical
4. Descriptive

George Eliot is the pen-name of:

1. Bilfor Evans
2. Mary Ann Evans
3. T.S. Eliot
4. Emily Dickinson

Edgar Allen Poe wrote reviews for a year for the magazine:

1. South Literary Messenger
2. Evening Post
3. South American Review
4. The Autobiography

Holly Sonnets was written by:

1. Marlowe
2. Donne
3. spencer
4. Johnson

Sarojini Naidu`s poem THE QUEEN`S RIVAL is based on a ___ legend.

1. Greek
2. Indian
3. Persian
4. Roman

Faustus asks two magicians to aid him in summoning the devil. What are their names?

1. Valdes and Cornelius
2. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern
3. Troilus and Cressida
4. Pyramus and Thisbe

Maya is the central character in Anita Desai’s novel:

1. Bye, Bye, Blackbird
2. Voices in the City
3. Cry, the Peacock
4. None of these

What is the similar word of “Circumvent”?

1. Satire
2. Sensuality
3. Avoid
4. Reform

Mastropieri and Turkewitz (1999) identified that newborn could differentiate between what?

1. Between tone and pitch
2. Between music and prose
3. Between speech patterns
4. None of these

Uncle Tom’s Cabin is written by

1. Cotton Mather
2. Sarah Ome Jewett
3. Harriet Elisabeth Beecher
4. Willa Cather

Casanova’s Chinese restaurant is a novel by:

1. Anthony Hope
2. Anthony Powell
3. Anthony Trollope
4. Virgina Woolf

What is defined as the study of sentence structure?

1. Morphology
2. Semantics
3. Phonology
4. Syntax

Grammar-Translation Method stresses on:

1. Accuracy
2. Fluency
3. Appropriateness
4. Listening skill

Speakers learn how to participate in conversation. Conversational exchanges can be viewed as ___ (describes how people normally behave in conversation).

1. Coherence
2. cohesion
3. co-operative
4. conversation

Only a small proportion of medieval books survive, large numbers having been destroyed in____?

1. The Anglo-Saxon Conquest beginning in the 1450s
2. The Norman Conquest of 1066
3. The Peasant Uprising of 1381
4. The Dissolution of the Monasteries in the 1530s.

Sarojini Naidu is chiefly a ______ poet.

1. Narrative
2. Epic
3. Lyric
4. Satirical

Which of the following terms are assigned to the 13 properties identified by Hockett (1960)?

1. Linguistic Universe
2. Relative Scripts
3. Universal Scripts
4. Linguistic Nodes

What was a new system of printing books developed in the 1400s?

1. Block Style writing
2. movable type
3. calligraphy
4. computer

Restoration period saw the rise of:

1. Heroic tragedy
2. classical tragedy
3. domestic tragedy
4. None of the above

When the baby is three months old he can produce velar sounds /k/, /g/ and vowels /l/ and /u/, this stage is as:

1. Babbling
2. holophrastic
3. cooing
4. telegraphic

Which poet belongs to the Victorian age, but is modern in matters of technique?

1. Swinbume
2. Rossetti
3. Hopkins
4. Hardly

“Old Norse” is almost the same as which modern Scandinavian language?

1. Danish
2. Norwegian
3. Icelandic
4. Swedish

کافور ہونا ایک محاورہ ہے۔ اس کا مفہوم کیا ہے؟

1. غائب ہونا
2. ٹھنڈا پڑ جانا
3. محتاط ہونا
4. شرمندہ ہونا

اشغلا چھوڑنا ایک محاورہ ہے۔ اس کا مفہوم کیا ہے؟

1. دھاڑیں مار مار کر رونا
2. کھل کھلا کر ہنسنا
3. بری عادت ترک کردینا
4. انوکھی یا فساد والی بات کہنا

Who wrote, ‘Milton! thou shouldst be living at this hour’.

1. Dryden
2. Pope
3. Gray
4. Wordsworth

Who was the leading figure of Christian humanism?

1. Thomas More
2. Martin Luthar
3. Johan Tetzel
4. Erasmus

Who was the main contributor to the linguistic period?

1. Bartlett
2. Piaget
3. Hermann Paul
4. Chomsky

Who translated the original Bengali poems of Geetanjali into English?

1. Sir Edmund Goose
2. W B Yeats
3. Rev. Edmund Thomson
4. Rabindranath Tagore

Who is the creator of the character named sherlock holmes?

1. Edgar Allen Poe
2. Agatha Christie
3. Arthur Conan Doyle
4. John Lehmann

Who is the author of the recently released book ‘The Pandemic Century’?

1. David Cameron
2. Mark Honigsbaum
3. Richard Skemp
4. None of these

Who called Dryden the Father of English Criticism?

1. Joseph Addison
2. Dr. Johnson
3. Coleridge
4. Matthew Arnold

Which term is refer to the study of speech process?

1. Phonology
2. Phonetic substances
3. Phonetics
4. Semantics

Which of the following was a group that tried to spread catholic teaching after the reformation?

1. The Jesults
2. The Baptists
3. The Protestants
4. The Calvinists

Which triple in DNA codes for valine

1. CTT
2. AGU
3. CAT
4. None

In Anglo-Saxon heroic poetry, what is the fate of those who fail to observe the sacred duty of blood vengeance?

1. Banishment
2. Everlasting shame
3. conversation to Christianity
4. Mild melancholia

In which novel of his Lawrence dealt with psychological phenomenon known as “Oedipus Complex”?

1. Lady Chatterly`s Lover
2. Sons of lovers
3. The Trespasser
4. The boy in the bunch

John Keats died of:

1. Cancer
2. Tuberculosis
3. Malaria
4. None of the above

Two words with very close meanings called.

1. Antonyms
2. Synonyms
3. Homonyms
4. None of the above

Transistor invented by:

1. Edison
2. Thomson
3. Bardeen
4. None of the above

To which of these language groups does English belong?

1. Baltic
2. Romance
3. Germanic
4. Slavonic

The “old wives” Tale is a novel by:

1. Hardy
2. Henry James
3. Arnold Bennett
4. John Galsworthy

The word “Novel” is derived from the Italian word:

1. Novella
2. Novelle
3. Novelette
4. Noval

The title of Sir Philip Sidney’s pastoral romance in prose is:

1. Utopia
2. Arcadia
3. Hydriotaphia
4. Lamia

The study of which words occur together, and their frequency of co-occurrence:

1. connotation
2. collocation
3. implication
4. location

The sound made with air passing through the nose and making the “ng” sound of “sing” is called:

1. Nasals
2. Uvula
3. Velum
4. Bilabial

There was a great hue and cry against Hardy`s novels, Tess and Jude the Obscure because of _______ in them.

1. Obscenity
2. violence
3. Abnormality
4. All of the above

The name of the technique employed by James Joyce in his novels is:

1. Oblique narrative
2. stream of consciousness
3. first person narrative
4. noval

The Glass Menagerie is a play by:

1. Eugene o Nell
2. Tennessee Williams
3. Arthur Miller
4. Tenny Son

The Golden Breath is a ___________ by Mulk Raj Anand.

1. Novel
2. Short story
3. play
4. None of the above

The collective name given to some of pre-Shakespearean playwrights, like Marlowe, Kyd, Peele, and Greene is:

1. Romantic playwrights
2. university wits
3. Elizathan dramatists
4. court playwrights

Sounds usually associated with letters such as f, s, v, z, in which the air passes through a narrow contraction that causes the air to flow turbulently and thus create a noisy sound are called:

1. Plosives
2. Fricatives
3. Articulations
4. Allophonic

Shortcut key to split a table in MS Word is _________?

1. Ctrl + Alt + Enter
2. Ctrl + Shift + Enter
3. Alt + Shift + Enter
4. Alt + space + Enter

Rahim bought a shirt for Rs.350 and sold it Rs.300. How much loss did he get?

1. 30
2. 40
3. 50
4. 150

Please do not laugh ____ those beggars.

1. For
2. Against
3. At
4. From

Pampelonne beach is located in which country?

1. France
2. USA
3. UK
4. India

“marlowe simply prepared the way for the master who was the follow. “who is the master referred to in this remark?

1. Ben Johnson
2. William Shakespeare
3. John webster
4. Thomas Middleton

Normal phonological deviations that children make when producing sounds and words are referred to as:

1. Speech errors
2. Jargon
3. Phonological processes
4. Photostatic

Close shave means what?

1. Hair`s breadth
2. by the skin of one`s teeth
3. narrow escape
4. to apply economy

Sedimentary rocks are__________?

1. Porous
2. Hard
3. Rough
4. Brittle

Deductive method proceeds from:

1. Law and rule to observation
2. observation
3. Generalization to specification
4. examples and illustrations

What is George Orwell’s real name?

1. Eric Cantona
2. Eric Blair
3. Eric Morecambe
4. None of the above

Arundhati Roy was awarded the Booker’s Prize on her novel:

1. The God the Failed
2. The God of Small Things
3. The Apes of God
4. The Nude Before God

‘Cyclone in Pakistan’ is a poetical work by:

1. Monika Verma
2. Sunita Namjoshi
3. Kamala Dass
4. Mamta Kalia

The term ‘double fault’ is associated with which game?

1. Rugby
2. Tennis
3. Basket ball
4. Football

Qantas is an airline of which country?

1. Saudi Arabia
2. Australia
3. UAE
4. Malaysia

Which cousin of Holy Prophet (PBUH) was Mufassar-e-Quran?

1. Hamza ibn Abbas
2. Talha ibn Abbas
3. Abdullah ibn Abbas
4. Zubair ibn Abbas

The country Panama is situated in:

1. North America
2. Central America
3. South America
4. None of the above
5. Asia

Between whom the Charter of Medina was concluded?

1. Muslims and Jews
2. Muslims and non-Arabs
3. Muslims and Jews and Other non-Muslims
4. None of these

On 13 August 2018, the __________ National Assembly of Pakistan took oath.

1. 12th
2. 13th
3. 14th
4. 15th

Which is the coldest place of Pakistan?

1. Murree
2. Skardu
3. Jacobabad
4. Hazara

Famous play of William Shakespeare?

1. King Lear
2. Hamlet
3. Macbeth
4. None

Our sir teaches Mathematics _____ English.

1. Across
2. besides
3. beside
4. None of the above

Brahma Samaj was developed and modified by:

1. Gandhi
2. Nehru
3. Keshab Chandra Sen
4. Raja Ram Mohan Roy
5. None of these

In a list of languages ranked by number of native (L1) speakers where does English come?

1. First
2. Second
3. Third
4. Fourth

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