Question Paper for Lecturer and Coach (School Edu. Dept.) - Comp. Exam-2025 (English)
Question Paper for Lecturer and Coach (School Edu. Dept.) - Comp. Exam-2025 (English)
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Q121.When two people speaking two different languages, combine and make up the language, which has vocabulary items from each language with mutual abandonment of grammatical complexities is called —
Correct answer: Pidgin
Q122.“He perishes - well, let him die / His wife henceforth shall be mine own! / Can that thought deep imbedded lie / Within thy heart’s most secret zone! / Search well and see! one brother takes / His kingdom - one would take his wife! / A fair partition! But it makes / Me shudder, and abhor my life.” Who said these words to whom in the poem ‘Laxman’ by Toru Dutt?
Correct answer: Sita to Laxman
Q123.According to the Speaker in the poem ‘Dover Beach’, what does the world seem to be and what it actually is?
Correct answer: It seems like a land of dreams, but has no joy or peace.
Q124.In the context of Wordsworth’s ‘Tintern Abbey’, the phrase ‘half-extinguished thought’ refers to —
Correct answer: Fading memories that are dim but not completely forgotten
Q125.“Girding up his loins, the chairman plowed through the mountainous agenda”, is an example of —
Correct answer: Mixed Metaphor
Q126.Which of the following critical observations help explain the structural logic of Tughlaq? (a) The play progresses through episodic scenes reflecting political instability. (b) The dramatic movement is shaped by paradoxes such as idealism versus pragmatism. (c) Structural contrasts between faith and politics generate thematic cohesion. (d) The play follows a linear heroic arc culminating in triumphant restoration.
Correct answer: (a), (b) and (c)
Q127.What is the sequence of chapters (name) in “David Copperfield” by Charles Dickens? (i) I Have a Change, (ii) I Observe, (iii) I Am Born, (iv) I Fall Into Disgrace.
Correct answer: (iii), (ii), (i), (iv)
Q128.Lucrezia in “Andrea del Sarto” is not mentioned as —
Correct answer: A twilight piece
Q129.According to the Speaker in the poem ‘Goodbye Party for Miss Pushpa T.S.’, when she was asked to do something —
Correct answer: She says, ‘Just now only I will do it’.
Q130.Pick the incorrect combination from Andrew Marvell’s “To His Coy Mistress” —
Correct answer: Accept - Conversion of the Jews
Q131.How does That Long Silence end?
Correct answer: Jaya decides to break her silence, regardless of whether Mohan returns or not.
Q132.The ending of As You Like It is described as provisional. Which of the following best explains what this means in the context of Rosalind and Orlando’s relationship?
Correct answer: The play emphasises that their marriage is only the beginning of knowing each other, not the end of their challenges.
Q133.Which of the following best illustrates the use of animal imagery in Tughlaq’s speech?
Correct answer: “Dur-rumma who thought it was a swallow.”
Q134.The Dorian and the Horatian are the types of —
Correct answer: Ode
Q135.Who introduced Blank Verse in English Meter, through his translations of Books 2 and 4 of Virgil’s The Aeneid?
Correct answer: Earl of Surrey
Q136.‘Pre-Raphaelitism’, ‘Spasmodic Poetry’, ‘Non-Sense Verse’, ‘Ghost Story’, are literary developments of which period?
Correct answer: Victorian
Q137.Which of the following is not correct according to Bacon’s essay “Of Truth”?
Correct answer: A man who lies is coward towards God and brave towards men.
Q138.The Invisible Man (1897), The War of the Worlds (1898) and The Time Machine (1895) are famous works written by —
Correct answer: H.G. Wells
Q139.“Water, water, every where, / And all the boards did shrink; / Water, water, every where, / Nor any drop to drink.” These lines have been written by the poet —
Correct answer: S.T. Coleridge
Q140.Which of the following term is used in the study of Creole languages to refer to a standard variety?