TSPSC JL ENGLISH QUESTIONS (BASED ON MEMORY) held on 12.09.2023

 TSPSC JL ENGLISH QUESTIONS (BASED ON MEMORY)

(Held on 12.09.2023)

Part-I: Literature(Literary ages and criticism):

1.      Agatha Christie works chronology: Answer:  The Murder of Roger Ackroyd ( 1926), Murder on the Orient Express (1933), The ABC Murders (1936), Death on the Nile (1937)

2.      Mary Shelly works chronology: Answer: Frankenstein(1818), Valperga (1823), The Last Man (1826),

3.      Dickens works Chronology: Answer: Oliver Twist (1838),David Copperfield (1850), Bleak House (1853), Great Expectations (1861)

4.      “A man without faith is like a fish without a bicycle” is a quote by? Answer:  Gloria Steinum (American feminist)

5.      William Hayley's 1796 biography called which English writer as “greatest English author,”: Answer: John Milton

6.      Who coined the term dissociation of sensibility? Answer: T S Eliot

7.      Dryden used the word metaphysical to describe : Answer: John Donne

8.      Gender is? Answer: socially constructed

9.      Great Gatsby By Fitzgerald used? Roaring twenties (Jazz Age), Post Civil War Era, ? Answer: Roaring twenties (Jazz age)

10. “One is not born as women, rather becomes” is a quote by? Answer: Simon De Beauvoir

11. Symbolism is .....?

12. G B Shaw belief in the play Pygmalion?  Heredity? Inheritance? Malleability of class and culture? Fate? .......Answer: Malleability

13. G B Shaw’s “Life Force and Superman” concept is in? Man and superman, man of destiny, arms and man? Answer: Man and Superman

14. Who is NOT Victorian? Wollstonecraft, Christina Rossetti, Kipling, A C Swinburne? Answer: Mary Wollstonecraft

15. William Morris inspired from? Leslie Stephen, Carlyle? Ruskin? Answer: Ruskin

16. Heroic Drama: Two statements were given. 1. Inspired from Greek classics Aeschylus and Sophocles. 2. Began in 17^th century.....   Answer: Only 2^nd statement is true

17. Tennyson’s In Memoriam is in mourning of?   A H Hallam

18. Arnold’s Scholar Gypsy poem is a?   Answer: Pastoral Elegy

19. Philip Sydney's first argument in Apology to Poetry? Imitation and Imagination? Antique and Universal?

20. Robert Browning works are? Romantic? Irony, violence?  Answer: Irony, violence

21. Walter Savage Lander poem?   Answer: Gebir

22. Moon symbolizes?....... answer: Feminity

23. Charles –II called Dryden? Poet laureate?

24. Gender conformity?

25. Branch of Cultural studies? Answer: Cultural Materialism

26. Dominance of more than one culture? Answer: Cultural Hegemony

27. speech in which corresponding sounds are switched between two words in a phrase. Ans: Spoonerism

28.  Three lines poem with 5-7-5 syllables: Answer: Haiku 

29.  match the followings on minor authors: Aphra Ben, 

30.  match the followings on minor authors: "if music be the food of love play on...." Nathaniel Lee, George Villiers,

31. match the followings on minor authors: Colly Cibber, William Congreve, Etherege, Farquer

32. Mid Victorian : Skepticism? 

33. Sudden realization?  Ans: epiphany 

34. enjambment? Ans:  allows a thought from one line break to flow into the next

35. Chronology order of novels: Jane Eyre(1847), Crime and Punishment (1866), War and Peace(1869), Picture of Dorian Grey(1890)

Part-II: Literature(Prescribed Texts):

1.      First scene in Hamlet? Answer: eerie and anxious

2.      Ghost scene represents? Answer: unsettled past

3.      Who is archetypal “Old Wise man” in Hamlet? Answer: Ghost

4.      Who is Herald in Hamlet? Horatio, Rosencrantz, Hamlet himself, Laertes  Answer:  Horatio?? (The Herald archetype is an AVATAR who brings a message to the protagonist that signals a call to adventure)

5.      In writing St Joan, G B Shaw used:, Romanticism... individual Heroism and Divine destiny, Symbolism... of symbols, Gothic..... Supernatural elements? Answer: ?

6.      G B Shaw’s St Joan influenced from? Humanism, Existentialism????

7.      Paragraph on Pigs in... Answer: Lord of the flies by Golding

8.      Math the dialogues:  

Polonius	“I love Ophelia 40 thousand brothers...”
Gertrude	“Readiness is all.”
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern	“This lady doth protest too much.”
Laertes	“Neither a lender, nor a borrower.”

Note: Without “Hamlet” option

Answer: Add score (no correct match)

9.      Match the following:

To catch the conscience of the king	Hamlet’s Plan to  ..
Ophelia-Madness	Act3- sce-2
To be or not to be	Act3-sce-1
“Murder of Gonzago	Flowers

Answer: Add score (no correct match)

10. Dominant spirit? Answer: Wordsworth Immortality Ode?

11. Cleanth Brooks and T S Eliot associated with?  Answer: Interpretative

12. According to Pope's 'Essay on Criticism", criticism should be? Answer: Constructive feedback??

13. A paragraph was given and asked to identify the piece of text? Whether it is Analysis/ critical ?

Part-III: Pedagogy:

1.      What is validity? Answer: measures what it was designed to measure

2.      The sounds /p/, /b/ are? Answer: Plosives

3.      The sounds /s/, /z/ are? Answer: Affricates

4.      The sounds /m/, /n/ are? Answer: Nasal

5.      Which is NOT  a place of articulation of consonants? Bilabial, Dental, Velar, Glottal? Answer: Add score (all given options are right)

6.      Which of the following is NOT a measure of vowel sound ? rounding of lips, height of tongue, front or back ?Answer: voicing

7.      Schwa sound ? Answer: Weak form

8.      “th” syllable represents the sound ......? Answer: /Ф/

9.      Knight? Silent letter in? Answer: Kni ?

10. Strengths?  No of phonemes in /th/?  Answer: 1

11. Consonant cluster definition? Answer: a group of consonants with no vowels between them.

12. Consonant cluster differently pronounced in US and Britain? Answer: Schedule

13. Diacritic marks are used for? Answer: Diacritics are marks placed above or below (or sometimes next to) a letter in a word to indicate a particular pronunciation—in regard to accent, tone, or stress

14. Which is NOT a characteristic of test? Fairness, validity, reliability? Answer: subjectivity

15. Inductive Method ? Answer: Examples to rule.

16. Deductive method? Answer: Rules first,  Examples next

17. Direct method avoids...?  Answer: mother tongue

18. In Direct Method, Vocabulary is introduced? Contexts? Synonyms?

19. In Direct Method, exercises are? Answer: uses target language

20. Aks instead of ask? Answer: Metathesis is the switching of positions of two adjacent segments. Ex: /Àsk/ ¡ [Àks]

21. Goin instead of Going? Answer: apocope refer to the loss of any final sound (including consonants) from a word.

22. I love icecreamh instead of cream

23. Clipping? No change in the category of the words?

24. G T Method?

25. TPR ?

26. Suggestopedia?

27. Silent way?

28. Authentic material?

29. CLT ?

30. Audio Lingual?

31. Order of Adjectives: Tiny.. Microscopic.. Infinite..

32. Order of Adjectives: Sweet, saccharine, sugary, cloying

33.  Order of Adjectives: Insignificant.. Trivial.. 

34. Passage on Benefits of Meditation:  

35. TBSL uses  ? Task based? Answer: Real life tasks?

36. CRT criterion reference tests do.... answer: compares student's performance to peers/ issue ranks

37. Intonation in questions: answer: falling intonation 

 

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