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Q1: Who authored Piers Plowman?
A) Chaucer
B) William Langland
C) Sir Thomas Malory
D) Geoffrey of Monmouth
 
Q2: ……. belongs to small group of geniuses whose greatest works were written after they turned 50.
A) Coleridge
B) Keats
C) Milton
D) Spenser
 
Q3: What characterizes a “metaphysical conceit”, a strategy characteristic of John Donne’s poetry?
A) Confusion that avoids questions of moral accountability
B) Self-definition through Images
C) The linking of images from very different ranges of experience
D) The chaining of images representing solid and gaseous elements
 
Q4: What is the title to Milton’s blank-verse epic that is written in and critiques the epic tradition?
A) The Divine Comedy
B) Lycidas
C) Paradise Lost
D) L’Allegro
 
Q5: Which poets collaborated on the Lyrical Ballads of 1798?
A) Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley and Percy Bysshe Shelley
B) Dorothy Wordsworth and William Wordsworth
C) William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge
D) Charles Lamb and William Hazlitt
 
Q6: Which poet asserted in practice and theory the value of representing rustic life and tang as well as social outcasts not only in pastoral poetry, common before his poet’s time but also as the major subject and medium for poetry in general?
A) Mary Wollstonecraft
B) William Wordsworth
C) William Blake
D) Leigh Hunt
 
Q7: Published together in 1609. Shakespeare’s ……. Sonnet, in number, are the only direct expression of the poet’s own feelings that we possess for his plays are the most impersonal in all literature?
A) 152
B) 153
C) 154
D) 155
 
Q8: Sylvia Plath was the wife of?
A) Ted Hughes
B) T S. Eliot
C) Ezra Pound
D) W.H. Auden
 
Q9: In the Rime of Ancient Mariner, two figures on the ship cast dice for the Ancient Mariner and the Ship ……. wins the Mariner?
A) Life
B) Death
C) Life-in-Death
D) Death-in-Life
 
Q10: Coleridge under subtle states of feeling including depression and irrational sense of guilt found an outlet in fantasy, supremely in …….?
A) Sleep and La Bella Dame Sans Merci
B) The Rime of Ancient Mariner and Kublai Khan
C) Lucy Gray and Reverie of Susan
D) She Walks in Beauty and Hours of Idleness
 
Q11: Where Youth grows pale and scepter thin and dies ……. who is Keats in his Ode to Nightingale referring to?
A) George Keats
B) John Keats
C) Fahny Keats
D) Fanny Browne
 
Q12: Keats was of the opinion that some certainties were best left open to imagination and that the element of doubt and ambiguity added ……. and specialty to a concept?
A) Classicism
B) Neo-Classicism
C) Romanticism
D) Neo-Romanticism
 
Q13: Wyatt and Surrey in 16th century imported the …… into the English Language?
A) Shakespearean sonnet
B) Spenserian sonnet
C) Patrician sonnet
D) Petrarchan sonnet
 
Q14: Adrienne Rich’s Aunt Jennifer s Tigris contrasts the creative needlework produced by the Aunt Jenifer with …….?
A) The massive weight of Uncle’s wedding band
B) Denizens of a world of green
C) Men beneath the tree
D) Sleek chivaIric certainty
 
Q15: Alexander Pope’s ……. recasts a petty high-society scandal as a mythological battle for the virtue of an innocent?
A) Summer
B) Sound and Sense
C) Eloisa to Abelard
D) The Rape of the Lock
 
Q16: ……. was an exile at Eton, a revolutionary thinker, an intellectual for whom to think was normally to do?
A) Keats
B) Shelley
C) Byron
D) Coleridge
 
Q17: The energy moon and music of the most exciting English lyric poets Shelley are exemplified ……. an elegy for John Keats?
A) L’ Allegro
B) Mont Blanc
C) Hypenon
D) Adonis
 
Q18: Fries classifies utterance into …….?
A) Single minimum free utterance
B) Single free utterance, not minimum but expanded
C) Both A and B
D) None of these
 
Q19: A word or a set of words followed by a pause and revealing an intelligible purpose?
A) Word
B) Phrase
C) Clause
D) Sentence
 
Q20: The label …….. denotes a form a group of words with a subject and a predicate
A) Fragment
B) Word
C) Sentence
D) Clause

Q21: Lexical unit in which two or more lexical morphemes are juxtaposed is called …….?
A) Idiom
B) Phrase
C) Compound
D) Clause
 
Q22: Themselves, myself, himself, herself, itself, ourselves are ……..?
A) Reciprocal pronouns
B) Reflexive pronouns
C) Both A and B
D) None of these
 
Q23: ……. was introduced at the beginning of the century by Ferdinand de Saussure (1957-1913) as a deliberate reaction to the historically oriented linguistics of the 19th century?
A) Duality of patterning
B) Structuralism
C) Sapir-Whorf hypothesis
D) Linguistic determinism
 
Q24: ……. are consonants for which the flow of air is stopped or restricted by the two lips?
A) Nasal
B) Affricative
C) Glottal
D) Bilabial
 
Q25: On the linguistic map, a line indicating the degree of linguistic change is called ……?
A) Dialect
B) Registers
C) Isogloss
D) Idiolect
 
Q26: A contract language, a mixture of elements from different natural languages is called …….?
A) Idiolect
B) Dialect
C) Diglossla
D) Pidgin
 
Q27: The smallest Parts of expression associated with some meaning are called?
A) Stems
B) Morphemes
C) Suffixes
D) Prefixes
 
Q28: Linguistics which investigates how the people speak and use language in a given speech community at a given time is called?
A) Diachronic linguistics
B) Comparative linguistics
C) Synchronic linguistics
D) All of the them
 
Q29: The study of hearing and the perception of Speech sounds is called?
A) Articulatory phonetics
B) Acoustic phonetics
C) Auditory phonetics
D) None of these
 
Q30: Consonant that is produced with a strict is called?
A) Plosives or stops
B) Articulations
C) Allophonic variations
D) None of these
 
Q31: According to Bloomfield, the organization of sound into patterns is called?
A) phonetics
B) phonology
C) anthropology
D) lexicography
 
Q32: Phoneme, Phone, Allophone are the concepts of?
A) Phonetics
B) Phonology
C) Anthropology
D) Linguistics
 
Q33: When a pidgin becomes a lingua-franca, it is called a/an …….?
A) Dialect
B) Idiolect
C) Creole
D) Diglossia
 
Q34: The opening slot in the sentence patterns, filled by a noun phrase or other nominal which functions as the topic of the sentence?
A) Complement
B) Subject
C) Predicate
D) Adjunct
 
Q35: Mood is related to illocutionary force, moods are?
A) Speaker oriented
B) Subject oriented
C) Epistemic
D) All of these
 
Q36: A form of teaching writing in which learners are given step-by-step instructions is?
A) Writing organizational skills
B) Editing skills
C) Free writing
D) Guided Writing
 
Q37: Another name for Grammar Translation Method is?
A) Aural Method
B) Classical Method
C) Direct Method
D) Communicative Method
 
Q38: The set of all possible grammatical sentences in the language is ……?
A) Language
B) Le language
C) Parole
D) All of these
 
Q39: The Oral Method is not a complete method itself?
A) Outdated
B) Obsolete
C) Defected
D) Necessary part/phrase of the complete method
 
Q40: Who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1948, for his outstanding contribution to present-day poetry?
A) W.H. Auden
B) Emily Dickinson
C) T.S. Eliot
D) Ezra Pound

Q41: Culture and Imperialism is a sequel to?
A) Nationalism
B) Orientalism
C) Marxism
D) None of these
 
Q42: Voltaire, Pope, Swift, and Kant belonged to the philosophical movement of the eighteenth century that celebrated reason …….. clarity of thought and statement, scientific thinking, and a person ability to perfect itself?
A) Enlightenment
B) Renaissance
C) Reformation
D) None of these
 
Q43: Bacon’s devotedness to …….. was responsible for his rapid rise in the British Court which won him knighthood?
A) Henry VIII
B) Mary Tudor
C) Elizabeth I
D) James I
 
Q44: In the Defence of Poetry, what did Sydney attribute to poetry?
A) A realist power that cannot be made to seem Iike mere illusion and trickery
B) A defensive power whereby poetry and its figurative expressions allow the poet to avoid censorship.
C) A magical power whereby poetry plays tricks on the reader
D) A moral power whereby poetry encourages the reader to emulate virtuous models
 
Q45: Which of the following Shakespearean plays is not a Tragi-comic?
A) A Winters Tale
B) Romeo and Juliet
C) The Tempest
D) The Merchant of Venice
 
Q46: ……. a delicate visual, called, operates in Oscar Wilde Importance of Being Ernest crystallizing underlying meanings?
A) Symbolism
B) Puns
C) Imagery
D) Diction
 
Q47: Linda in Ibsen’s A Dolls House provides a sub-plot by her relations with Krogstad and she serves a foil and model to …….. who recognizes through her that a woman is entitled to her own judgement and independent thought?
A) Gina
B) Rebecca
C) Nora
D) Hedda
 
Q48: G (B) Shaw was influenced by as the dramatist’s plays exactly titled every middle and professional class suburb in Europe?
A) Racine
B) Moire
C) Ibsen
D) Shakespeare’s
 
Q49: Contemporary drama saw Brecht create …….?
A) Street theater
B) Theatre of absurd
C) Epic theatre
D) Roman theatre
 
Q50: Paradise Lost was written to be a justification of …… resting on theological system as definite at almost as carefully articulated in the De Doctrine Christiania as Dante had accepted from the Summa of Aquinas?
A) Me ways of Satan to men
B) The ways of Man to Satan
C) The ways of God to Man
D) None of these
 
Q51: What does Keats refer to urn to?
A) An unravished bride of quietness
B) Leaf-tring’d legend haunts
C) Sylvan author
D) Bold lover
 
Q52: George Eliot put a good deal of her divided feelings about …….. into the story of Maggie and Tom?
A) Religion
B) Her own childhood
C) Farm life
D) Social norms
 
Q53: No 19th-century successor in the novel/theatre approaches ……. the Jane Auston developed by formal discipline and concentration of theme?
A) Economy of words and action
B) Use of paradox
C)Use of puns
D) Use of unties
 
Q54: The Nursing’s song was written by?
A) keats
B) Tennyson
C) Blake
D) Shelley
 
Q55: T. Faerie Queens, an epic Poem and fantastical celebrating the Tudor dynasty and Elizabeth I, is a/an?
A) Legend
B) Elegy
C) Allegory
D) None of these
 
Q56: Taufiq Rafat’s concern with the ……. one expression of conflict between tradition and modernism which has been feature of all ex-colonies?
A) Parallelism
B) Imagery
C) pun
D) Pakistani idiom
 
Q57: Sophocles uses the chorus, a group of …… Thebans, to comment on the play’s action and to foreshadow future events?
A) 50
B) 11
C) 15
D) 12
 
Q58: Eugene O’Neill argues that there can be”tragedy of the common man.”?
A) False – it was Tennessee Williams
B) False – it was Arthur Miller
C) False – it was Thomton Wilder
D) True
 
Q59: The three primary characteristics of the theatre of the absurd are ……?
A) Plot structure, prose language, and characters who are often noble of royal
 
B) Illogical plots, language that uses nonsense and non sequitur and characters that are existential beings
C) Plots. verse Language. and stereotypical characters
D) Epic plots, sung dialogue. and characters that showcase the working man
 
Q60: The literature of …… saw the steady emergence of novel which provided real literature for children either for their instruction or entertainment. Thus, the child become either the central subject and/or object of a many of writings?
A) Elizabethan age
B) Romantic Age
C) Augustan Age
D) Victorian Age

Q61: ……, the Wife of Bath’s fame derives from Character’s deft characterization of her as a brassy, woman?
A) Alice
B) Alisoun
C) Annetle
D) Amy
 
Q62: Between 1349-1350. England lost nearly half of the population to?
A) Plague
B) Yellow Fever
C) Earthquake
D) Black Death
 
Q63: Keats wrote his six great odes ……?
A) Between 1816 to 1819
B) Between December and January 1014
C) Between April and September 1819
D) Between May and June 1817
 
 
Q64: Byron sealed his European reputation as a rebel by his death while supporting …… the against the Turks?
A) Mustafa Kamal
B) The Greek Revolt
C) The Iran Revolt
D) The Turkish Revolt
 
Q65: Philosophically Shelley was a follower of ……, holding the world of appearances less real than the world of underlying Forms and Ideas?
A) Aristotle
B) Sophocles
C) Plato
D) Zone
 
Q66: George Orwell continues the great ironic tradition of ……. and others?
A) Lewis Carol
B) Daniel Defoe
C) Voltaire
D) Swift
 
Q67: The sonnet on ……. records a moment of vision in which Wordsworth for once is able to achieve satisfactory ordering of the complexities of the city?
A) Reverie of Poor Susan
B) Westminster Bridge (1802)
C) I traveled among unknown men
D) When I have memory
 
Q68: According to ……. the novels of the eighteen forties do not reflect the respective society but they try to define it and in their attempt at defining the society they also participate in the common social process?
A) Samuel Johnson
B) Raymond Williams
C) T.S. Eliot
D) Huxley
 
Q69: Postcolonial Literature addresses …….?
A) The new cultural identity of the colonies
B) Travelogues
C) Biographies
D) Autobiography
 
Q70: Which literary form,developed in the fifteenth century, personified vices and virtues?
A) Heroic epic
B) Morality play
C) The romance
D) The short story
 
Q71: A word that sounds like the right word but means something quite different is known as?
A) Witticism
B) Epigram
C) Pun
D) Pathos
 
Q72: Which of the following is NOT a technique of comedy?
A) Plot complications
B) Verbal humor
C) Strong emphasis on suspense
D) Comedy of character
 
Q73: Following ……. model of pretending to defend the October Revolution. Orwell protests at the corruption of Communism’s ideas in the Soviet Union by Stalin?
A) Bolshevik’s
B) Trotsky’s
C) Lenin’s
D) Kereasky’s
 
Q74: Which poem of Frost does the line ‘good fences make good neighbors’ remind you of?
A) Mending Walls
B) After apple picking
C) Birches
D) Road not to taken
 
Q75: …… represented to feelings of an age anxious about the miserable conditions of its children and inspired others to make a similar protest?
A) Tess (Thomas Hardy)
B) Oliver Twist (Charles Dickens)
C) Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen)
D) Middle march (George Eliot)
 
Q76: ……. It is a sort of poetical chronicle.” At the end one has the feeling that poetry and daily life have got parted, and will never come together again …….” Which work of Ahmed All is Forster referring to?
A) Rats and Diplomats
B) Ocean of Night
C) The Golden Tradition
D) Twilight in Delhi
 
Q77: The conflict of life with the forces of experience places Dickens an heir to the ……?
A) Classical Poets
B) Neo-classic Poets
C) Romantic Poets
D) Elizabeth’s Poets
 
Q78: After graduating in 1931 Ahmed Ali earned his living as a
A) Lecturer
B) Novelist
C) Short-sexy writer
D) Ambassador
 
Q79: The novel as a vehicle for psychological analysis rather than the recounting of events, became the realm literary roan in mid ……. century?
A) 18th century
B) 19th century
C) 20th century
D) 21st century
 
Q80: Except for eggs, which rarely go in …… price, the cost of groceries is going ……. of sight?
A) cut, up
B) down, out
C) down, up
D) up, out

Q81: The misunderstanding ……. the two parties was ……. a scheduling conflict?
A) among, upon
B) between, over
C) about, on
D) among, on
 
Q82: Fancy the happiness ……. Pinocchio ……. finding himself free?
A) off, on
B) of, while
C) of, on
D) about, on
 
Q83: Paradoxically, the more ……. the details Noor chooses, the more able is she to depict her pictures to landscapes?
A) Fanciful
B) Meritorious
C) Realistic
D) Illustrated
 
Q84: Time flies ……..?
A) Like a knife
B) Like wings
C) Like an arrow
D) A blizzard
 
Q85: In the landscape so calm and beautiful, it was hard to believe that anything ……. could occur?
A) Untoward
B) Temperate
C) Halcyon
D) Seemly
 
Q86: You need to consider the ……. before you make a decision?
A) Odds and ends
B) Tooth and nail
C) Pros and cons
D) Safe and sound
 
Q87: The ……. of the Minister’s statement cannot be verified by people who have no access to official reports?
A) Ambiguity
B) Verbosity
C) Validity
D) Veracity
 
Q88: The ……. sounded lame to her and she did not want to give in?
A) Promises
B) Observations
C) Excuses
D) Statements
 
Q89: Which of these sentences does not contain an adverb?
A) The child ran happily towards his mother
B) Sara walked to the shops
C) The mother gently woke the sleeping baby
D) I visited my mum yesterday
 
Q90: Choose the correct sentence?
A) You’ll be shocked when I tell you who called me last night.
B) You’ll be shocked when I tell you whom called me last night.
C) You’ll be shocked when I tell you what called me last night.
D) You’ll be shocked when that I tell you who called me last night.
 
Q91: Patrician (سرپرست) antonym?
A) Common; bourgeois; unrefined; lower-class
B) Boss; superior; chief; leader
C) Authentic; doubtless; real; true
D) Break; separation; division
 
Q92: Acumen (چالاک) antonym?
A) Plain; bland; unadorned; austere
B) Ignorance; ineptness; stupidity
C) Noticeable; obvious; conspicuous
D) Bending; flexible; pliable
 
Q93: Antonym of Pull the rug from under is?
A) To use influence
B) Abruptly ruin
C) For a loop
D) To knock down
 
Q94: Grotesque (بگڑی ہوئی شکل) antonym?
A) Archaic
B) Whimsical
C) Graceful
D) Mild
 
Q95: Zenith (عروج) antonym?
A) Pinnacle
B) Nadir
C) Afford
D) Naught
 
Q96: Pique (اچانک غصے میں آنا) synonym?
A) Question
B) Delay
C) Arouse
D) Grow
 
Q97: Circumvent (روکاٹ) means?
A) Hate
B) Seek
C) Avoid
D) Choose
 
Q98: Paradoxical (وہ بات جو بظاہر غلط مگر حقیقت میں صحیح ہو) synonym?
A) Productive
B) Contradictory
C) Productive
D) Fair
 
Q99: Close Shave means?
A) Hair’s breadth
B) by the skin of one’s teeth
C) Narrow escape
D) All of these
 
Q100: Spoken (بولا ہوا) synonym?
A) Vocal
B) Written
C) Aural
D) Unspoken