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?
- Because she was joyous
- Because she was jealous
- Because she was sick
- Because she was mad
What type of sonnet “On His Blindness” is?
- Shakespearean sonnet
- Petrarchan sonnet
- Spencerian sonnet
- Milton Sonnet
Who is the author of Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience?
- Byron
- Blake
- Keats
- Shelley
The novel Nineteen Eighty-Four was written by?
- E.M Foster
- Bernard Shaw
- George Orwell
- D.H Lawrence
What category of poetry is based on unrhymed lines and a define meter?
- Blank verse
- Lambic pentameter
- Meter
- Free verse
Elegy is a poem that is written about someone’s____?
- Honor
- Death
- Heroism
- Praise
Which of these not a novel by D.H. Lawrence?
- Sons and Lovers
- Women in Love
- The Lost Girl
- The Ice Age
“All the world’s stage. And all the men and women merely players.” Is an example of?
- Simile
- Metaphor
- Personification
- None
Which of these poets maintained the element of the supernatural in his poetry?
- Byron
- Keats
- Coleridge
- Shelley
Who defined poetry as “Poetry is a spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings”?
- Keats
- Wordsworth
- Coleridge
- Shelley
“My Last Duchess” is a_____?
- Soliloquy
- Monologue
- Satire
- Aside
Which two cities does the title ‘A Tale of Two Cities’ refers to?
- London and Athens
- London and Geneva
- London and New York
- London and Paris
What is the name of play staged for Claudius in the drama Hamlet?
- The murder of Gonzago
- The murder of a king
- The murder of a brother
- The murderer
Who is the poet of famous elegy “In Memoriam”?
- Robert Browning
- Walter Scott
- Philip Sidney
- Lord Tennyson
Which part of speech is the underlined word/word in the bracket in the given sentence “He is fond of (Shakespearian) drams”?
- Comparative Adjective
- Compound Adjective
- Proper Adjective
- Proper Noun
What is Apical Sound?
- A sound produced by obstructing the air passage with the tip of the tongue
- Consonant produced by bringing one articulator close to another
- A sound produced with any friction
- Vowels sound produced when the back part of the tongue raised
What is Catharsis in literature?
- The expression of one’s meaning the signifies the opposite meaning
- To discover the true identity
- Art to ridicule somebody
- Emotional purgation of purification
How is Puzzo different in Second Act than in the First Act in Beckett’s waiting for Godot?
- He is mute
- He is crippled
- He is deaf
- He is blind
A picaresque novel is about?
- Pictures and Paintings
- Picturisation
- Adventures of a rogue
- Letters
Cymbeline was written by?
- William Shakespeare
- Christopher Marlowe
- GB Shaw
- H. Ibsen
Which language learning theory emphasizes comprehensible input?
- Skinner’s Theory of Behaviourism
- Chomsky’s Universal Grammar
- Cognitive Theory
- Krashen’s Monitor Model
Which of the following phonemes represents a voiceless alveolar fricative?
- /s/
- /n/
- /u/
- /g/
What is the syllabic structure of the word “Trim”?
- CVCC
- VCVC
- CCVC
- CCCV
What does “Pidgin” refer to?
- A mother tongue of a particular group
- An artificial language with recognizable grammar
- People who speak multiple dialects
- 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?
- Balanced bilingualism
- Diachronic
- Diglossia
- Diphthong
In neutral intonation situation, which words in a sentence are usually stressed?
- Content words
- Structure words
- Function words
- Auxiliary words
In Kachruvian model, what is the meaning of the “outer circle”?
- A group of countries that speak English as their third language
- A group of cities that speak English as their third language
- A group of countries that speak English as their second language
- A group of cities that speak English as their second language
The minimal meaningful unit is?
- Syntax
- Syllable
- Morpheme
- Sound
Who used the term “langue” and “parole”?
- Sapir
- Chomsky
- Saussure
- Bloomfield
What do you call a collection of linguistic information used to discover linguistic rules?
- Utterance
- Corpus
- Compilation
- Collection
What is a variable in research?
- Authenticity of a sample under investigation
- A kind of a statistical test
- Sampling of data in research
- A characteristic that can be measured and that can assume have different values
What is Linguistic Imperialism?
- Use of a language for communication between different language communities
- Language exploitation of a powerful group for some advantages
- A language of any state
- A colonial language
Who presented Three Circles Model of World English?
- Schneider
- George Widdowson
- Moag
- Braj Kachru
What is Spiral Curriculum?
- Involving teaching staff to develop new relevant curricula
- Focuses on what learners are excepted to know in various subject areas
- The key concepts over time in the context of new
- One system of curriculum, medium of instruction and assessment in a state
What is Code Switching in Linguistics?
- The loan-borrowing vocabulary from one language to another
- Use of two languages or dialects in a single sentence
- Permanent alternatives in a language over time
- The choice of words and style of expression
What is Snowball Sampling?
- A given number of subjects are selected from a specific group
- Existing people are asked to nominate further people known to them
- Choosing population according to researcher’s own judgement
- Choosing the willing and potential participants
Parole in structuralism is defined as?
- A set of rules
- Background knowledge
- An individual utterance
- Something only written
Pragmatics is the study of?
- Linguistic meaning
- Intended meaning
- Denotative meaning
- Literal meaning
The words said within inverted commas are termed as?
- Indirect speech
- Direct speech
- Expressive words
- None
What is the indirect form of speech in the given sentence: He says, “I will sit in the garden”?
- He said that he was sitting in the garden
- He said that he will sit in the garden
- He said that he should sit in the garden
- 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.
- Aptronym
- Blurb
- Deceit
- Apology
What is the phrasal meaning of “Call it a day”?
- To stop because one does not want to do any more
- To stop doing something that is annoying
- To get rid of something that is harmful
- To stop and finish the whole matter
You know they do not allow_____in there.
- Eat and drink
- You eat and drink
- To each and drink
- Eating and drinking
Antonym of “Cosset” is?
- Neglect
- Like
- Pamper
- Pinch
Something_____happened or they would be here by now.
- Must
- Must have
- Must have been
- Must be
Synonym of “Hoax” is?
- Rumor
- Mystery
- Lie
- Trick
Find the correct Analogy of “Petal :: Flower”?
- Engine :: Car
- Pen :: Paper
- Cat :: Dog
- Ball :: Game
An adjective which means “Indented teach” is spelt as?
- Didactyc
- Didactic
- Didacctic
- Dydactic
What are Velar Sounds?
- /&/ and /$/
- /p/, /b/, /m/, /w/
- /s/ or /z/
- /k/ and /g/n/
What is the phonetic description of the word “Fuchsia”?
- /‘fjuː : /a/
- /‘fju /: a/
- /fa/ʃə/
- None
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