TGT and PGT (English previous year questions) (Part-VI)

Total Questions: 100

61. "I should have been a pair of ragged claws/ scuttling across the floors of silent seas" is an example of-

Correct Answer: (c) Metaphor
Solution:In this, given sentence, 'ragged claws' is used metaphorically. It is used to describe something that is jagged, worn, or damaged like the ragged claws of a decaying tree. Hence, option (c) is correct.

62. In "Twelfth Night", written by Williams Shakespeare, Viola changes her name to ______.

Correct Answer: (c) Cesario
Solution:In "Twelfth Night" written by William Shakespeare, Viola changes her name to  Cesario. She disguised herself as a man so that she will be safe and have a man's freedom to move without someone else authority. Hence, option (c) is correct.

63. From the following, identify who was not modernist?

Correct Answer: (c) Sylvia Plath
Solution:Among the given options, Sylvia Plath is the odd one because she was writing in the Post-Modern society, created her poetry to represent the time period by supporting women's liberation, recalling and relating to World War II and the holocaust and proving to be one of the many successful confessional poets of the era. Hence, option (c) is correct.

64. Who is the creator of Epic Theatre?

Correct Answer: (b) Bertolt Brecht
Solution:Bertolt Brecht is the creator of Epic Theatre, this movement arose in the early to mid 20th century. The theatre emphasizes the audience's perspective and reaction to the piece through a variety of techniques that deliberately cause them to individually engage in a different way. Hence, option (b) is correct.

65. Which of the following is the most popular meter used in a Limerick?

Correct Answer: (a) Anapaestic meter
Solution:Anapestic meter is the most popular meter used in a Limerick. Anapestic meter is style of poetic verse in which every third beat or syllable is stressed. Hence, option (a) is correct.

66. Which of the following is correct?

I. Blank verse has a necessary rhyme scheme.
II. Blank verse is also called free verse.

Correct Answer: (d) Neither I nor II
Solution:Blank verse is poetry written with regular metrical but unrhymed lines, while in free verse, there is no fix meter and rhyme. Hence, option (d) is correct.

67. Match the names of the writers to the period they belong to.

LIST-ILIST-II
I. Lord Alfied Tennyson1. Romantic Period
II. Virginia Woolf2. Postcolonial Period
III. Wole Soyenka3. Victorian Era
IV. Mary Shelly4. Modernism
Correct Answer: (b) I-3, II - 4, III - 2, IV – 1
Solution:Lord Alfred Tennyson is a representative poet of Victorian age and because the poet Laureate after William Wordsworth. Virginia Woolf is the prominent writer of Modernism.

Wole Soyenka is a Nigerian, postcolonial writer who got the Nobel Prize in 1986 while Mary Shelley is Romantic writer and became famous for her work "Frankenstein". Hence, option (b) is correct.

68. Out of the given characters, who are present in Chaucer's "The Canterbury Tales"?

I. The Friar's son
II. The Joker
III. Wife of Bath
IV. The Knight

Correct Answer: (c) III and IV
Solution:Among the given options Wife of Bath and The Knight are the characters used in Chaucer's "The Canterburg Tales". Chancer has described wife of Bath in a ridiculous way who a wants to marry in order to get experiences. Hence, option (c) is correct.

69. "Cain lifts Crow, that heavy black bird / and strikes down Abel/Damn, says Crow, I guess / this is just the beginning". These line are taken from which poem?

Correct Answer: (b) Crow Testament
Solution:These lines have been taken from thepoem "Crow Testament" by Sherman Alexie and it is about the hardships of Native Americans. Hence, option (b) is correct.

70. Select the correct chronological order for the following works of Fyodor Dostoevsky.

I. Crime and Punishment
II. Demons
III. Notes from Underground
IV. The Brother Kara

Correct Answer: (b) III → I→ II→ IV
Solution:The correct chronological order for the given works of Chronological order for the given works of Dostoevsky is :  Notes from Underground (1864) Crime and Punishment (1866-67) Demons (1871-72) The Brother Kara (1879-80) Hence, option (b) is correct.