HSSC PGT ENGLISH (MEWAT) EXAM

11. Ventidius is a character in?

(1) Thomas Outway the Orphan
(2) Nat Lee’s The Rival Queens
(3) Dryden’s all for love
(4) Nicholas rowe’s Tamerlane

Correct Answer: (3) Dryden’s all for love

Solution:Ventidius is a character in Dryden's all for love, which is heroic drama and her best known and most formed play. It is a tragedy written in Blank verse.

12. Identify the critic who described the restoration comedy as articial?

(1) Dryden
(2) Charles lamb
(3) Mathew arnold
(4) Dr. Johnson

Correct Answer: (2) Charles lamb

Solution:Charles Lamb was an English essayist and critic and best known for his essays of Elia. It was he who described the restoration age as artificial.

13. Identify the critic who calls the eighteenth century an age of prose and reason?

(1) Groge saintsbury
(2) John ruskin
(3) W.H.hudson
(4) Mathew arnold

Correct Answer: (4) Mathew arnold

Solution:Mathew Arnold was an old English poet and social critic. He is noted for his attacks on the contemporary tastes and manners (the aristocracy). "He was the keenest critic of his age". He called the 18th century as an age of prose reasoning.

14. A little learning is a dangerous thing this quoted line is extracted from?

(1) Dryden’s absalom and achitophel
(2) Gray’s absalom and achitophel
(3) Pope’s The Essay on man
(4) Pope’s the essay on criticism

Correct Answer: (4) Pope’s the essay on criticism

Solution:This quote is taken from Alexander pope "essay on criticism" where he quoted "To err is human, to forgive divine". "A little learning is a dangerous thing.

15. What is meant by the churchyard school of poets?

(1) the poetry about the church
(2) the religious note in poetry
(3) the poetry characterised by melancholy and suffering
(4) None of these

Correct Answer: (3) the poetry characterised by melancholy and suffering

Solution:It emphasized combination of melancholy and religious didacticism, gloomy meditation or mortality often composed in churchyards.

16. The following motto was adopted for whatever man do or say or think or dream our attorney paper seizes for its theme?

(1) the guardian
(2) the spectator
(3) the tatler
(4) the rambler

Correct Answer: (3) the tatler

Solution:The tattle.

17. Who defines Romanticism as the renaissance of wonder?

(1) Wlather pater
(2) Watty Dunton
(3) Abercrombie
(4) Coleridge

Correct Answer: (2) Watty Dunton

Solution:The term Romanticism has been variously defined by various writers. Pater; calls it the addition of strangeness of beauty. Watts Dunton called as the "renaissance of wonder". But all are not composite in sense. The real sense of romanticism is characterized by:

(a) An expression of inner urges.

(b) Love for nature.

18. Wordsworth accepted the poet Laureateship after the death of Robert Southey in?

(1) 1820
(2) 1823
(3) 1843
(4) 1850

Correct Answer: (3) 1843

Solution:It was in 1843.

19. Coleridge's aim in the Lyrical Ballads was?

(1) to deal with supernatural element
(2) to make the unfamiliar familiar
(3) both A and B
(4) None of these

Correct Answer: (3) both A and B

Solution:Coleridge's Lyrical Ballads has been recognized long as a watershed of Romantic period literature, its portrayal of the poor and dealing with supernatural element and other marginal figures.

20. Which of the following works has been called the magna carta of romanticism?

(1) Biographia Literaria
(2) Lyrical ballads
(3) Defence of poetry
(4) The spirit of the age

Correct Answer: (2) Lyrical ballads

Solution:Lyrical Ballads is a collection of poems by William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge. It marks the beginning of English Romantic movement in literature, changing the course of English literature and poetry. It is called the Magna Carta of Romanticism.