SPSC - Subject Specialist English 2023 Past Paper with Answers

Practice the SPSC - Subject Specialist English 2023 past paper with 50 solved MCQs, answers and topic coverage.

50 solved MCQs across 1 approved paper

The Antonym of TREPIDATION is?Answer: Fearlessness Which of the following is not a play written by Shakespeare?Answer: Pygmalion Which of the following novels is called a 'Novel without a Hero'?Answer: Vanity Fair Who is the author of 'Piers Plowman'?Answer: William Langland William Shakespeare's longest play is _____?Answer: Hamlet Who was appointed as the poet Laureate after William Wordsworth?Answer: Tennyson Who is the author of 'Utopia'?Answer: Thomas More Which of the following works was not written by John Milton?Answer: Absalom and Achitophel To whom did Spenser dedicate his Shepheardes Calendar?Answer: Sir Philip Sidney 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 An auxiliary language which arises to fulfil certain limited communication needs among people who have no common language is known as?Answer: Pidgin