1.Tennyson’s Poem In Memoriam was composed to commemorate the death of
(a) Keats
(b) Shelley
(c) Arthur Hallam
(d) Wordsworth
2.Arnold’s Empedocles on Etna is a/an:
(a) Optimistic poem
(b) Melodramatic poem
(c) Colourful poem
(d) Idealistic poem
3. T.S. Eliot propounds ‘the impersonal theory of poetry’ in :
(a) “The Function of Criticism”
(b) “Hamlet and his Problems”
(c) “The Metaphysical Poets”
(d) “Tradition and the Individual Talent”
4. Change the given Sentence into indirect form of speech: He said to me, “I don’t believe you”.
(a) He told he does not believe me
(b) He said he didn’t believe me
(c) He said he refused to believe me
(d)He told me that didn’t believe me
5. Fill in the blank in the given sentence choosing the correct option:
The Cat Sprung ____the table
(a) Upon
(b) On
(C) In
(d) Around
6. Fill in the blanks with appropriate words from the list given below the sentence
I don’t have a piece of Chalk, So I ___write on the black board
(a) Don’t
(b) Won’t
(C) Can’t
(d) May not
7. Fill in the blanks with appropriate words from the list given below the sentence
They___have received our letter by now
(a) Did
(b) Should
(C) Shall
(d) Will
8. Fill in the blanks with appropriate word from the list given below the sentence
When I was young I ___read without glasses
(a) Could
(b) Might
(C) Would
(d) Should
9.The phrase ‘on and off means:
(a) Continuously
(b) Regularly
(c) Annually
(d) Intermittently
10. Point out the figure of speech:
Yonder comes the powerful king of day rejoycing in the east.
(a) Metaphor Jor
(b)Personification
(C)Apostrophe
(d) Simile
11. Choose the correctly spelt word:
(a) Athism
(b) Atheism
(c) Athicsm
(d) Athesism
12. One word substitution: A man with abnormal habits
(a) Egoist
(b) Arrogant
(c) Sceptic
(d) Eccentric
13. The correct meaning of the idiom ‘Not to see eye to eye’ is.
(a)Disagree
(b) Not to propose
(c) Not to argue
(d) Not to perceive
14. Identify the correctly spelt word
(a) Avaunt-guard
(b)Avant-garde
(c) Avount-gard
(d) Avontgurd
15. Identify the correctly spelt word
(a)Vivisection
(b) Vaivisection
(c) Vievisection
(d) Vivasection
16. Identify the correctly spelt word:
(a) Phalegmatic
(b) Phlegmatic
(c) Phelegmatic
(d) Phailegmatic
17.Identify the correct spelt word:
(a) Horizontal
(b) Horaigental
(C) Horizontal
(d) Horizentale
18. Fill in the blanks in the following sentence with an appropriate preposition given below the
sentence. Although we requested him to help us, he remained indifferent——our words.
(a) for
(b) with
(c) by
(d) to
19. Fill in the blank in the given sentence with an appropriate preposition:
W. B. Yeats was nominated a senator of the Irish free state on the ground that had been member of the Irish Republican Brotherhood, one of the main forces——-the tragedy.
(a) of
(b) Behind
(c) in
(d) for
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