SPSC - Lecturer English 2000 Past Paper with Answers

Practice the SPSC - Lecturer English 2000 past paper with 98 solved MCQs, answers and topic coverage.

98 solved MCQs across 2 approved papers

Whom did Aristotle consider the most tragic of the Greek dramatists?Answer: Euripides Who made a distinction between 'Fancy' and 'Imagination'?Answer: Coleridge Aristotle said of 'Chorus' in Greek tragedy that _____?Answer: It should be regarded as one of the actors. Who is the author of 'Symposium'?Answer: Plato Which was the first novel of Charles Dickens?Answer: The Pickwick Papers 'Sweet are the uses of adversity' this line is related to which play of Shakespeare?Answer: As You Like It After whom did Wordsworth become the poet Laureate of England?Answer: Robert Southey 'Elia' is the pen name of which of the following authors?Answer: Charles Lamb A figure of speech wherein a comparison is made between two unlike quantities without the use of the words 'like' or 'as'?Answer: Metaphor Which of the following is the 19th-century woman novelist?Answer: George Eliot Which is called the Golden Period of English Literature?Answer: Elizabethan Age The phrase 'Pathetic Fallacy' is coined by?Answer: John Ruskin Who is the Villain in 'Hamlet'?Answer: Claudius What period in English Literature is called the "Augustan Age"?Answer: Early 18th Century What is the name of Wordsworth's long poem?Answer: The Prelude Aristotle classified plot into 'Simple and Complex' on the basis of ______?Answer: Anagnorisis & Peripeteia Which is the famous elegy written by Shelley?Answer: Adonais ______ are articulated by raising the back of the tongue towards the soft palate.Answer: Velar Which among the following is an example of an acronym?Answer: UNESCO The term 'Diglossia' was introduced by?Answer: Charles Ferguson 'Speech Act Theory' was developed by?Answer: J.L. Austin An auxiliary language which arises to fulfil certain limited communication needs among people who have no common language is known as?Answer: Pidgin A grammar containing properties common to all languages and innately present in human beings is called?Answer: Universal Grammar 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?Answer: Psycho-linguistics Who introduced in linguistics the concept similar to Saussure’s 'Langue and Parole'?Answer: Noam Chomsky _____ are gliding sounds and during their articulation, the speech organs glide from one vowel position to another.Answer: Diphthongs ______ is a process of word formation by which new words are formed by attaching prefixes or suffixes to the base form?Answer: Derivation The preceding sound influencing the following sound is an instance of ______ assimilation?Answer: Progressive The historical approach to language study, which investigates changes in languages through time is said to be?Answer: Diachronic The syllables in which the consonants function as a nucleus are called?Answer: Syllabic consonants