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Subject Specialist English (BPS-17)
YEAR - 2023
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SUNDAY, 9th JUNE 2023
TIME: 1 Hour
Maximum Marks:100
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1. This neighborhood looks a little ___fill in the blanks___ and tatty these days.
A) well-heeled
B) well-off
C) run down
D) down and out
2. I'm afraid my youngest son has never been particularly quick on the ______.
A) Upshot
B) upturn
C) uptake
D) upend
3. This afternoon, we are to ______ on the relationship between literature and philosophy.
A) emphasize
B) pinpoint
C) focus
D) spotlight
4. INCUBATOR: INFANT:: (Choose the Analogy)
A) greenhouse: plant
B) archives: document
C) cooler: wine
D) hive: bee
5. SARTORIAL: TAILOR::(Choose the Analogy).
A) thespian: designer
B) histrionic: singer
C) rhetorical: questioner
D) terpsichorean: dancer
6. Antonyms of Trepidation is:
A) Slowness
B) Amputation
C) Fearlessness
D) Adroitness
7. Synonyms Boisterous is:
A) Conflicting
B) Noisy
C) Grateful
D) Adolescent
8. Synonyms Plaintive is:
A) Mournful
B) Senseless
C) Persistent
D) Evasive
9. My aunt lived on ______ ground floor of ______ old house on ______ River Thames.
A) the/an/the
B) the/the/the
C) an/the/the
D) a/an/a
10. I wanted a book ____fill in the blanks_____ Oscar Wilde and asked the librarian to show me some ______ his books.
A) by/-of
B) of/with/at
C) on/with/to
D) by/to/by
11. _____ is a term introduced by Noam Chomsky to describe "the actual use of language in concrete situations."
A) Performance
B) Parole
C) Paradigmatic
D) None of these
12. The term used for the non-linguistic aspects of speaking is:
A) Metalanguage
B) Paralanguage
C) Protolanguage
D) Both B and C
13. The historical approach to language study, which investigates the changes in languages through time, is said to be?
A) Synchronic
B) Idiosyncrasy
C) Diachronic
D) Dynamic
14. The syllables in which the consonants function as nuclei are called ______.
A) Syllabic Consonants
B) Sibilants
C) Suffixes
D) None of these
15. The preceding sound influencing the following sound is an instance of ______ assimilation?
A) Progressive
B) Regressive
C) Reciprocal
D) None of these
16. ______ is a process of word formation by which new words are formed by attaching prefixes or suffixes to the base form?
A) Compounding
B) Portmanteau
C) Derivation
D) Backformation
17. ______ are gliding sounds, and during their articulation, the speech organs glide from one vowel position to another?
A) Diphthongs
B) Triphthongs
C) Semi-vowels
D) Minimal Pairs
18. Who introduced in linguistics the concept similar to Saussure’s "Langue and Parole"?
A) Leonard Bloomfield
B) Charles Sanders Pierce
C) Edward Sapir
D) Noam Chomsky
19. Language learning processes, like how language is acquired, how language is stored in the brain, how language is accessed and processed by the brain, are studied under?
A) Socio-linguistics
B) Applied linguistics
C) Psycho-linguistics
D) Semantics
20. A grammar containing properties common to all languages and innately present in human beings is called:
A) Transformational Grammar
B) Syntax
C) Universal Grammar
D) All of the above
21. An auxiliary language which arises to fulfil certain communicative needs among people who have no common language is known as?
A) Lingua Franca
B) Creole
C) Pidgin
D) None of these
22. "Speech Act Theory" was developed by?
A) William Labov
B) Charles Ferguson
C) J.L. Austin
D) None of these
23. The term "Diglossia" was given by?
A) William Labov
B) Charles Ferguson
C) Plaget
D) None of these
24. Which among the following is an example of acronym?
A) Smog
B) UNESCO
C) Buzz
D) Edit
25. Which among the following sounds are articulated by alveoli?
A) Alveolar
B) Palatal
C) None of these
26. Which is the famous elegy written by Shelley?
A) Post-octave
B) In Memoriam
C) Lycidas
D) Adonais
27. Which is the famous artistic classification of Aristotle?
A) Simple & Complex
B) Sublimity & Decorum
C) Anganoris & Peripeteia
D) None of these
28. What is the name of Wordsworth's long poem?
A) Prelude
B) Don Juan
C) Daffodils
D) None of these
29. The Canterbury Tales is called the "Augustan Age" of?
A) Elizabethan Age
B) 17th Century
C) Early 18th Century
D) None of these
30. Which of the following is not a play written by Shakespeare?
A) King Lear
B) Merchant of Venice
C) None of these
31. The chief villain in "Hamlet"?
A) Horatio
B) Lago
C) Claudius
D) None of these
32. The term "Poetic Fallacy" is coined by?
A) Arnold
B) Coleridge
C) Carlyle
D) John Ruskin
33. Which is called the Golden Period of English Literature?
A) Elizabethan Age
B) 17th Century
C) Victorian Age
D) None of these
34. 'Elia' is the pen name of which of the following authors?
A) Francis Bacon
B) Charles Lamb
C) Thomas Hardy
D) None of these
35. After whom Wordsworth became the poet Laureate of England?
A) Robert Southey
B) Walter Scott
C) S.T. Coleridge
D) Dryden
36. 'Sweet are the uses of adversity' this line is related to which play of Shakespeare?
A) The Merchant of Venice
B) Romeo and Juliet
C) Twelfth Night
D) As You Like It
37. Which was the first novel of Charles Dickens?
A) Great Expectations
B) The Pickwick Papers
C) Hard Times
D) Oliver Twist
38. Who is the author of 'Symposium'?
A) Aristotle
B) Dante
C) Longinus
D) Plato
39. Aristotle said of 'Chorus' in Greek tragedy that?
A) The play only contains lyrical songs.
B) It should make only reports
C) It should comment on the action
D) None of these
40. Who made a distinction between 'Fancy' and 'Imagination'?
A) Wordsworth
B) Coleridge
C) Southey
D) Hazlitt
41. Who among Aristotle and others was the most tragic of the Greek dramatists?
A) Sophocles
B) Euripides
C) None of these
42. Who among Edmund Spenser dedicated his 'Shepherds Calendar'?
A) Sir Walter Raleigh
B) Prince Arthur
C) None of these
43. Which of the following lyrics was written by John Milton?
A) Comus
B) Lycidas
C) Il Penseroso
D) None of these
44. Who is the author of 'Utopia'?
A) Cervantes
B) Machiavelli
C) Angelo Poliziano
D) Thomas More
45. Who was appointed the poet Laureate after William Wordsworth?
A) John Dryden
B) Tennyson
C) Robert Browning
D) George Eliot
46. Which of Shakespeare's plays is a comedy?
A) Taming of the Shrew
B) Romeo and Juliet
C) Hamlet
D) Macbeth
47. Who wrote 'Le Morte d'Arthur'?
A) Thomas Malory
B) Charles Dickens
C) William Langland
D) None of these
48. Who is the author of 'Piers Plowman'?
A) None of these
49. Which of the following novels is called a 'Novel without a Hero'?
A) Vanity Fair
B) Mill on the Floss
C) Northanger Abbey
D) Pickwick Papers
50. Which of the following novels is called a 'Novel without a Hero'?
A) Vanity Fair
B) Mill on the Floss
C) Northanger Abbey
D) Pickwick Papers
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