Q.61
‘Ballads’ in their prototype were -
- (A)
Folk songs or orally transmitted poems.
- (B)
Songs about the wars between deities and demons.
- (C)
Songs about the pastoral beauty.
- (D)
Love songs written for the haughty maidens.
RPSC वरिष्ठ अध्यापक (संस्कृत शिक्षा) पेपर II अंग्रेज़ी 2022
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इस पेपर का Syllabus:Syllabus (English)
Q.62
Which of these works does not belong to the Epic Genre ?
- (A)
The lay of the Last Minstrel
- (B)
Paradise Lost
- (C)
Odyssey
- (D)
Illiad
Q.63
“I have not met her for ages”. Which figure of speech is used in the above sentence?
- (A)
Metaphor
- (B)
Hyperbole
- (C)
Irony
- (D)
Pun
Q.64
‘The Gun Powder Plot’ was the result of -
- (A)
Tension between Anglican and Roman Catholic Church.
- (B)
Tension between Charles I and Oliver Cromwell.
- (C)
Tension between Charles I and his Feudal Lords.
- (D)
Tension between English and French armies in 1628.
Q.65
‘The Waverly novel’ (1814) written by Sir Walter Scott deals with -
- (A)
Scottish History
- (B)
Pastoral Romance
- (C)
Supernatural Forces
- (D)
The Plight of common man
Q.66
Which of the following texts <u>does not</u> belong to the Renaissance period ?
- (A)
Thomas Malory’s - Le Morte D’ Arthur
- (B)
Richard Tottel’s - Miscellany
- (C)
John Milton’s - Areopagitica
- (D)
Holinshed’s Chronicles
Q.67
Select the correct option. Charles Dickens and Tennyson belonged to :
- (A)
The Modern Age
- (B)
The Post-modern Age
- (C)
The Victorian Age
- (D)
The Jacobean Age
Q.68
Who has said that, “about the beginning of the seventeenth century there appeared a race of writers that may be termed metaphysical poets” ?
- (A)
Dr. Johnson
- (B)
John Dryden
- (C)
Helen Gardner
- (D)
Herbert Grierson
Q.69
Select the correct option.
Two famous metaphysical poets are –
- (A)
Donne and Pope
- (B)
Dryden and Pope
- (C)
Donne and Marvell
- (D)
Cowley and Tennyson
Q.70
Who among the following does not belong to contemporary dramatic period ?
- (A)
Tom Stoppard
- (B)
Oscar Wilde
- (C)
Harold Pinter
- (D)
Samuel Beckett
Q.71
Choose the correct option.
‘Fragmentation and Inconclusiveness’ are a mark of the :
- (A)
Modern period
- (B)
Post-modern period
- (C)
Victorian period
- (D)
Neo-classical period
Q.72
Two important characteristics of Victorian Age were :
- (A)
Realism and Materialism
- (B)
Heroism and Classicism
- (C)
Idealism and Love of nature
- (D)
Classicism and Materialism
Q.73
Select the correct option.
Two important novelists of the Romantic Age were :
- (A)
Thomas Hardy and Melville
- (B)
Francis Bacon and Thomas Moore
- (C)
Jane Austen and Sir Walter Scott
- (D)
Charles Lamb and Hardy
Q.74
Who among the following is not a dramatist of the Jacobean period ?
- (A)
Thomas Kyd
- (B)
Thomas Middleton
- (C)
Thomas Heywood
- (D)
John Webster
Q.75
Angela Carter, Margaret Drabble and A.S. Pyatt are fiction writers of the __ period.
- (A)
Modernist
- (B)
Post-modernist
- (C)
Romantic
- (D)
Victorian
Q.76
<u>The Symbolist Movement in Literature</u> (1899) is a work by :
- (A)
Paul Verlaine
- (B)
Arthur Symons
- (C)
Stephane Mallarme
- (D)
Arthur Rimbaud
Q.77
Match the following quotes from the romantic literary movement with the poets who said them.
| A. | Nature did never betray the heart that loved her | E. | P.B. Shelley |
| B. | Poetry should surprise by a fine excess and not by singularity | F. | S.T. Coleridge |
| C. | Poetry is the best words in the best order | G. | John Keats |
| D. | The pleasure that is sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of itself | H. | William Wordsworth |
Codes :
- (A)
A-E, B-F, C-G, D-H
- (B)
A-F, B-E, C-H, D-G
- (C)
A-H, B-G, C-F, D-E
- (D)
A-G, B-H, C-E, D-F
Q.78
History of Madness in the <u>Classical Age</u> is an important work written by :
- (A)
Michel Foucault
- (B)
Roland Barthes
- (C)
Jacques Derrida
- (D)
Raymond Williams
Q.79
Choose the correct option.
A narrative mode that attempts ‘to depict the multitudinous thoughts and feelings which pass through the mind’ of a narrator is :
- (A)
Existentialism
- (B)
Stream of Consciousness
- (C)
Realism
- (D)
Symbolism
Q.80
Although ‘Postmodernism’ first entered the critical lexicon with Jean-Francois Lyotard, the term ‘postmodern’ was coined by :
- (A)
Ihab Hassan
- (B)
Arnold Toynbee
- (C)
Donna Haraway
- (D)
T.S. Elliot