SPSC - Lecturer English 2001 Past Paper with Answers

Practice the SPSC - Lecturer English 2001 past paper with 100 solved MCQs, answers and topic coverage.

100 solved MCQs across 2 approved papers

Who wrote Seven Lamps of Architecture?Answer: Ruskin Which one of the following is the chief representative of Metaphysical School of Poetry?Answer: John Donne "This grew: I gave commands; Then all smiles stopped together" these lines are taken from _____?Answer: My Last Duchess Milton's Samson Agonistes was first published in ______?Answer: 1671 Which poet is associated with the line "Ah, love, let us be true to one another" from "Dover Beach"?Answer: Matthew Arnold Which term is contrasted with denotation?Answer: Associative or emotive meaning What is the term for mental dictionary of words that person knows?Answer: Lexicon What does Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw suggest about education?Answer: It can change a person's life What is the central concept by Cognitive Linguistic?Answer: Language is influenced by cognition and experience Which word formation process is demonstrated by following word: "Google" "ad", "toothpaste", and "brunch" in sequence?Answer: Conversion, Clipping, Compounding, Blending Which field of studies relates the physical properties of sound waves produced during speech?Answer: Acoustic Phonetics Who introduced the Prague School Linguistics and structural functionalism?Answer: Roman Jakobson What is the term for the formation of new word or the use of an existing word with a new meaning?Answer: Neologism Parody, intertextuality and metafiction are features of which literary movement?Answer: Postmodernism Which term refers to the main character in a drama?Answer: Protagonist Which nation become the first to implement a digital currency for international trade in 2023?Answer: China What is Aestheticism?Answer: A movement in 19th century that valued the appearance of literature and arts The process of which new languages develop due to geographical and social separation is known as?Answer: Language divergence What is Stream of Consciousness technique?Answer: To depict the multitudinous thoughts and feelings which pass through the mind of a character What is the term used for when two languages influence each other to the extent that they device shared features?Answer: Convergence Which of the following refers to the unity of structural elements in a text?Answer: Cohesion Which theme is explored in Satan's famous quote, "Better to reign in Hell than serve in Heaven" from Paradise Lost?Answer: Pride and ambition The Antonym of Implicit is?Answer: Implicit Which of the following Shakespearean tragedies depicts the story of a Moorish general in the service of the Venetian army?Answer: Othello What does "to draw the lines" mean?Answer: To set limits Who advocates Hellenism in his English poetry?Answer: John Keats Which theory proposes that language influences thought and perception?Answer: Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis The Synonym of Esoteric is?Answer: Private Which of the following is not regarded as a absurdist dramatist?Answer: Eugene O'Neill Which of the following lines demonstrates "anthesis" where two opposite ideas are contrasted?Answer: "To be, or not be, that is the question" (William Shakespeare)