Lecturer English Mcqs PSC Past Paper

Lecturer English Mcqs PSC Past Paper

Who belongs to the Absurd School of Drama?

(a) Shaw (b) Beckett (c) Pinter
(d) Eliot (e) None of these
2) To the Light House” is written by:
(a) Lawrence (b) Dylan Thomas (c) Hemingway
(d) Forster (e) None of these
3) I am too much in the sun in “Hamlet” is spoken by:
(a) Polonius (b) Claudius (c) Hamlet
(d) Ophelia (e) None of these 4)
“Ullyses” is written by:
(a) James Joyce (b) Virginia Woolf (c) Hardy
(d) Forster (e) None of these
5) Elizabeth is a character from Jane Austen’s:
(a) Emma (b) Pride and Prejudice (c) Mansfield Palck
(d) Northanger Abby (e) None of these 6) “Tear Idle
Tears” is a poem by:
(a) Frost (b) Browning (c) Yeats
(d) Eliot (e) None of these 7)
“Thought Fox” is written by:
(a) Ted Hughes (b) Philip Larkin (c) Heaney
(d) Sylvia Plath (e) None of these 8) “Major
Barbra” is written by:
(a) Beckett (b) Pinter (c) Eliot
(d) Shaw (e) None of these 9)
Lilliput is a character from:
(a) Gulliver’s Travels (b) Pygmalion (c) Sons & lovers
(d) Old man and the sea (e) None of these 10) “Fire
and Ice” is written by:
(a) Eliot (b) Yeats (c) Frost (d)
Auden (e) None of these 11)
Swift belong to:
(a) Renassiance period (b) Restoration (c) Romantic period
(d) Augustan age (e) None of these
12) The Novel of Lawrence banned by the government was:
(a) Sons and Lovers (b) Lady Chatterley’s Lover (c) Women in Love
(d) The Rainbow (e) None of these
13) “Undo this Button” is a line from Shakespeare’s:
(a) Hamlet (b) Othello (c) King Lear
(d) Julius Caeser (e) None of these 14)
“Ode to Psyche” is a poem by:
(a) Milton (b) Byron (c) Keats
(d) Blake (e) None of these
15) “I am no Prince Hamlet” is a line written by:
(a) Shakespeare (b) Yeats (c) Eliot
(d) Auden (e) None of these
16) “Things fall apart” is a line from Yeats’s:
(a) Among School Children (b) Byzentium (c) Sailing to Byzentium
(d) The Second coming (e) None of these
17) “Good flences make good neighbours” is from Frosts’:
(a) Revelation (b) Mending (c) Pasture
(d) Birches (e) None of these
18) ‘April is the Cruelest month of all is taken from Eliot’s:
(a) The Wasteland (b) The Hollow men (c) East Coker
(d) Prufrock (e) None of these 19) “A Farewell to
Arms” is written by:
(a) Faulkner (b) Hemmingway (c) James Joyce
(d) Virginia Woolf (e) None of these 20) “A
passage to India” is written by:
(a) Forester (b) Conrad (c) Lawrence (d)
Hardy (e) None of these
21) “Ode to West Wind was written by:
(a) Keats (b) Shelley (c) Byron
(d) Blake (e) None of these 22)
Keats was born in:
(a) 1770 (b) 1779 (c) 1795
(d) 1790 (e) None of these
23. Dream Children was written by:
(a) Leigh Hunt (b) Charles Lamb (c) Hazzlit
(d) Ruskin (e) None of these
24) “Picture of Dorian Gray” was written by:
(a) Oscar Wild (b) Dickens (c) Hardy
(d) George Eliot (e) None of these 25)
Ruskin belonged to:
(a) Romantic age (b) Modern age (c) Victorian age
(d) Augustan age (e) None of these 26)
Wordsworth lived from:
(a) 1770 – 1832 (b) 1775 – 1859 (c) 1770 – 1850 (d)
1770 – 1802 (e) None of these
27) Heroes and Hero Worship” was written by:
(a) Mill (b) Carlyle (c) Macaulay (d)
Coleridge (e) None of these 28) “Fair
Seed time had my Soul” is from:
(a) Ode to autumn (b) To a Highland girl (c) Ancient Mariner
(d) Child Harold’s Pilgrimage (e) None of these 29) “Great
Expectations” was written by: (a) George Eliot (b) Thackeray
(c) Hardy (d) Dickens (e) None of these
30) “Lotus Eaters” is written by:
(a) Tennyson (b) Browning (c) Mathew Arnold

(d) Hardy (e) None of these

31) Lamb, Leigh Haut and Hazzlit are:
(a) Poets (b) Dramatists (c) Essayists
(d) Novelists (e) None of these 32)
“My Last Duchess” was written by: (a)
Keats (b) Coleridge (c) Tennyson (d)
Browning (e) None of these 33) Emity
Bronte is the writer of:
(a) Wuthering Heights (b) Emma (c) Under the greenwood Tree
(d) Mr Chips (e) None of these
34) “Poetry is a spontaneous overflow of powerful feeling” is a definition of poetry by:
(a) Keats (b) Wordsworth (c) Shelley
(d) Coleridge (e) None of these
35) “Heard Melodies are sweet but those unheard are sweeter” is a line from:
(a) Ode on a Grecian Urn (b) Ode to a nightingale (c) The Prelude
(d) Ode to Autumn (e) None of these 36) “Waverley” was written
by:
(a) Scott (b) Hardy (c) Jane Austen
(d) Dickens (e) None of these
(37) “We are Seven” is written by:
(a) Keats (b) Shelly (c) Byron (d)
Hardy (e) None of these
38) “Past and present” is written by:
(a) Mill (b) Lamb (c) Hazlitt
(d) Carlyle (e) None of these
39) “Modern Painters” is written by:
(a) Ruskin (b) Carlyle (c) Mill
(d) Macaulay (e) None of these
40)
46) William Faulkner was awarded Nobel Prize for literature in:
(a) 1949 (b) 1950 (c) 1951
(d) 1953 (e) None of these
47) G.B. Shaw was awarded Nobel Prize for literature in:
(a) 1925 (b) 1929 (c) 1930
(d) 1949 (e) None of these
48 ‘The Winding Stair’ is written by:
(a) Ted Hughes (b) T.S. Eliot (c) W.B. Yeats
(d) W.H. Auden (e) None of these
49) ‘Murder in the Cathedral’ is a play written by:
(a) Shakespeare (b) Marlowe (c) Oscar Wilde
(d) T.S. Eliot (e) None of these
50) ‘The Rainbow’ is a novel written by:
(a) Hemingway (b) Virginia Woolf (c) E.M. Forster
(d) D.H. Lawrence (e) None of these “Byron is the”
writer of:
(a) Don Jaun (b) Prometheus Unbound (c) Adonias
(d) Lucy Gray (e) None of these
41 In Shakespeare’s Tragedies Character is not Destiny but there is Character and Destiny is a
remark by:
(a) Nicoll (b) Goddord (c) Bradley
(d) Coleridge (e) None of these
42 “How came he dead? I shall not be juggled with: Tohell allegiance! Vows, to the blackest devil!
Is a speech in Hamlet spoken by:
(a) Hamlet (b) Laertes (c) Polonius (d)
Claudius (e) None of these
43) Aspect of the Novel is written by:
(a) David Cecil (b) Walter Allen (c) Arnold Kettle
(d) E.M. Forster (e) None of these 44) Lotos
Eaters is a poem by:
(a) Browning (b) Tennyson (c) Yeats
(d) Frost (e) None of these
45) ‘The Hollow Men’ is written by:
(a) T.S. Eliot (b) Ezra Pound (c) Yeats (d)
Larkin (e) None of these

English Literature Mcqs Test

English Literature Mcqs Test
1. Which poem ends ‘I shall but love thee better after death’?
a. How do I love thee
b. Ode to a Grecian urn
c. In faith I do not love thee with mine eyes
d. Let me not to the marriage of true minds

2. Which poet is considered a national hero in Greece?

a. John keats
b. Lord Byron
c. Solan
d. Sappho

3. Which kind of poem is Edward Lear associated with?

a. Nature
b. Epics
c. Sonnets
d. Nonsense

4. In coleridge’s poem ‘The rime of the Ancient Mariner’where were the three gallants going? a.
A funeral
b. A wedding
c. Market
d. To the races

5. Harold Nicholson described which poet as ‘Very yellow and glum. Perfect manners’? a.
e. e. Cummings
b. T. S. Elliot
c. John Greenleaf Whittier
d. Walt Whitman

6. What was strange about Emily Dickinson?

a. She rarely left home
b. She wrote in code
c. She never attempted to publish her poetry
d. She wrote her poems in invisible ink

7. Rupert Brooke wrote his poetry during which conflict?

a. Boer War
b. Second World War
c. Korean War
d. First World War
8. Which Poet Laureatewrote about a church mouse?
a. Betjeman
b. Hughes
c. Marvel
d. Larkin

9. Which American writer published ‘A brave and startling truth’ in 1996

a. Robert Hass
b. Jessica Hagdorn
c. Maya Angelou
d. Micheal Palmer

10. Who wrote about the idyllic ‘Isle of Innisfree’?

a. Dylan Thomas
b. Ezra Pound
c. W. B. Yeats
d. e. e. cummings
A pattern of accented and unaccented syllables in lines of poetry
rhyme scheme meter alliteration
2. The repetition of similar ending sounds
alliteration
onomatopoiea rhyme
3. Applying human qualities to non-human things
personification onomatopoeia
alliteration
4. The repetition of beginning consonant sounds
rhyme
onomatopoeia
alliteration
5. A comparison of unlike things without using a word of comparison such as like or as metaphor
simile personification
6. The comparison of unlike things using the words like or as metaphor simile personification
7. Using words or letters to imitate sounds
alliteration simile
onomatopoeia
8. a description that appeals to one of the five senses imagery personification metaphor
9. A poem that tells a story with plot, setting, and characters lyric free verse
narrative
10. A poem with no meter or rhyme
lyric free
verse
narrative
11. A poem that generally has meter and rhyme
lyric free
verse
narrative

English Mcqs Practice Test

Posted by staff on 13 October 2014, 2:33 am
C. before D. drove

The most exciting part of the novel was when Mathilda rejected Count Vladimir.
A. exciting B. part
C. was when D. rejected

You didn’t leave none for the other workers.

A. didn’t leave B. none
C. for the D. other workers

You are liable to be selected to be the next chairperson of the department.

A. liable B. to be selected

C. chairperson D. department

With little work to occupy them the soldiers suffered from low moral.
A. little B. occupy them
C. suffered from D. low moral
For he to be re-elected, it is not essential that his policies work.
A. he B. re-elected
C. that D. work

The meeting went well, so I believe I have a reasonable good chance of success.
A. well B. so I
C. reasonable D. of success

You should not exceed to their unreasonable demands this time.

A. should B. exceed
C. unreasonable D. this time

There were at least three new innovations that the chairman suggested.
A. were B. new
C. innovations D. chairman

One should dress neatly, be prompt, and displaying interest in the job.
A. one B. dress
C. be prompt D. displaying

Illiteracy affects million of people worldwide.

A. Illiteracy B. affects
C. million D. worldwide

. The union insisted on an increase in their members’ starting pay.

A. the union B. insisted on
C. their D. members’

If the game went into extra innings, the relief pitcher would have won it.
A. went B. into
C. relief pitcher D. it

Hardly no one is able to compete in professional sports after the age of forty.
A. hardly no one B. to compete
C. professional sports D. age of forty

A person may study diligently, but without adequate sleep you con’t succeed. A.
diligently B. but without
C. you D. succeed.

English Synonyms Mcqs Test

Posted by staff on 13 September 2014, 4:39 am English
Synonyms Mcqs Test

Ebb
recede
swell propound
exculpate

Foment
provoke
extirpate
isolation abrasion

Gag
silence
animate avoke
superb

Havoc
devastation
knowledge
prosperity fact

Idolize
adore
execrate loathe
fickle

Huddle
confuse
arrange neutral
genuine

Illusion
hallucination
reality fact purge

Imbecile
idiotic pure
shrewd innate

Jocund
gay
barren mourning
puzzle

Kernel
nucleus
broad stranger
kind

Limpid
clear muddy resembling
strict

Melancholy
sadness
dissolbe
joy petty

Nullify
slanting
horizontal bore
disregard

Purulent
corrupt
peaceable healthy
prudish

Prosal
c
dull
dashing litigious
petulant

Quack
imposter
gull
amount defy

Stupendous
marvelous
ordinary weak
abandon

Tacit
silent
formal fear
celestial

Vindicate
justify
accustiom
perverse pungent

Abhor
detest
crave reconcile rude

Abnegation
rejection complete
indulgence final

Bellicose
pugnacious
agile peaceful stupefy

Capricious
uncertain
constant brave pause

Desuetude
obsoleteness
custom argue
dissent

Ebullient
exuberant
deight
still
obscure

English Sentence Correction Mcqs Practice

Test
Posted by staff on 8 September 2014, 6:13 am
English Sentence Correction Mcqs Practice Test

Choose the correct sentence out of four

sentences given below.
Aslam called Ali fool
Aslam called Ali foolsh
Aslam called Ali as fool
Aslam called the Ali foolsh

Choose the correct sentence out of four

sentences given below.
Jahngir keeps away from bad boys
Jahngir keeps himself away from bad boys
Jahngir keeps ownself away from bad boys Jahngir
keeps himself away from bad boys

Choose the correct sentence out of four

sentences given below.
I regard Fareed as my brother
I regards Fareed as my brother
I regard Fareed my brother
I does not regard Fareed as my brother

Choose the correct sentence out of four

sentences given below.
There is a little milk in the jug
There is little milk in the jug
There is a few milk in the jug
There is a small milk in the jug

Choose the correct sentence out of four

sentences given below.
I have read the few books which I bought last year
I has read the few books which I bought last year
I have read few books which I bought last year
I have read the few books those I bought last year

Choose the correct sentence out of four

sentences given below.
The poor are hated everywhere
Poor are hated everywhere
The poors are hated everywhere The
poor is hated everywhere

Choose the correct sentence out of four

sentences given below.
She resembles her mohter
She resembles with her mohter
She resembles to her mohter
She resemble with her mohter

Choose the correct sentence out of four

sentences given below.
This book is the most interesting of three
This book is the more interesting of three
This book is most the interesting of three
This book is moer interesting the of three
Choose the correct sentence out of four
sentences given below.
Aslam succeeded in passing the examination
Aslam succeeded to passing the examination
Aslam succeeded in pass the examination
Aslam succeeded of passing the examination

Choose the correct sentence out of four

sentences given below.
He is as tall as I
He is so tall as I
He is as tall as all to us He
is as so tall as I am

Choose the correct sentence out of four

sentences given below.
He is as tall as all of us
He is ss tall as all of us
He is as tall as all to us
He is as tall as us

Choose the correct sentence out of four

sentences given below.
He had hardly gone out when it began to rain
He had to hardly gone out when it began to rain
He had hardly to go out when it began to rain
He had hardly gone out when it is began to rain

Choose the correct sentence out of four

sentences given below.
He not only reads but also writes
He is not only reads but also writes
He not only read but also writes
He is only not reads but also writes

Choose the correct sentence out of four

sentences given below.

Choose the correct sentence out of four

sentences given below.
Work hard lest you should fail
Work hard might you should not fail
Work hard lest you could fail
Work hard lest you should not fail

Choose the correct sentence out of four

sentences given below.
Everyone of these girls is learning her lession
Everyone of these girls are learning her lession
Everyone of these girls is learning their lession
Every of these girls is learning her lession

Choose the correct sentence out of four

sentences given below.
She replied in the negative
She replied in negative
She replied into negative
She replied into the negative
Choose the correct sentence out of four
sentences given below.
Either he or I am responsible for the loss
Either he nor I am responsible for the loss
Either he or I is responsible for the loss
Neither he or I am responsible for the loss

Choose the correct sentence out of four

sentences given below.
The more we get, the more we want
More we get, the more we want
The more we get, more we want More
we get, more we want

Choose the correct sentence out of four

sentences given below.
She is the tallest girl in the class
She is the most tallest girl in the class
She is the taller girl in the class She
is the tallest girl in class

Choose the correct sentence out of four

sentences given below.
The earth revolves round the sun
Earth revolves round the sun
The earth revolve round the sun The
earth revolves round sun

Choose the correct sentence out of four

sentences given below.
He cried as though he had seen a snake
He cried as though if he had seen a snake
He cried as though he had saw a snake
He cried as though he had to seen a snake

Choose the correct sentence out of four

sentences given below.
When he comes I will entertain him
When he come I will entertain him
When he comes I entertain him
When he does comes I will entertain him

Choose the correct sentence out of four

sentences given below.
He could not come due to illness
He could not come by illness
He could not come from illness
He could not come because of this illness

Choose the correct sentence out of four

sentences given below.
She is ill due to cold
She is ill from cold
She is ill from to cold

English Spell Correction Mcqs

She is ill with cold

Practice Test
Posted by staff on 8 September 2014, 6:11 am

English Spell Correction Mcqs Practice Test

Pick the correct word:

Coordination

Corridination

Coordination coardination

Pick the correct word:

Conference

Confarence
Conferance conferense

Pick the correct word:

Association

Assocation

Assosiation

Asociation

Pick the correct word:

Petroleum

Patroleum

Petroollem

Petrouleum

Pick the correct word:

Headquarter

Headqueter

Headkuarter

Headquarar
Pick the correct word:
Executive

Exacutive

Execative

Axxecutive
Commerece

Comerace

Commerace

Commerse

Pick the correct word:

Vivacious

Vevacious

Vivaceous

Vivasious

Pick the correct word:

Testimoney

Testtimoney

Testimoney Testimaeny

Pick the correct word:

Subsistence

Subsicetence

Subsistance

Subsistense

Pick the correct word:

Ratification
Rattification

Ratiffication

Ratifecation
Pick the correct word:
Illegtimacy

Illegetimacy

Ellegitimacy

Illegitimasy

Pick the correct word:

Obsolete

Obsoolete

Obsoulte

Obsolet

Pick the correct word:

Straightforward

Straghforward

Straightforwar

Pick the correct word:

Misapprehension

Misaprehension

Misapprehsion

Missaprehension
Heinous

Heineous

Henous

Heneous
Pick the correct word:
Habitual

Habitueal

Habbitual`Habittual

Pick the correct word:

Grotesque

Grottesque

Grostescuee

Ghirotesque

Pick the correct word:

Circumlocution

Circanlocution

Circumlooction

Sircumiotion

Pick the correct word:

Facititous

Factiteous
Facqitius

Facittius

Pick the correct word:

Aristocracy

Aristokracy
Eristoucracy

Aricetocracy

Pick the correct word:

Antibody

Anttibody

Antibodi

Antebody

Pick the correct word:

Antiseptic

Anticeptic

Antiseaptic

Antisepttic

Pick the correct word:

Colloquial

Colloquial

Colloquiail

Collqoquiall
Inaudible

Enaudible

Anaudible

Inaddible
English Mcqs Paper for Public Service
Commission Exam
Posted by administrator on 24 May 2014, 5:41 am

English Mcqs Paper For Public

Service
Commission Exam
English Mcqs Paper for Public Service Commission Exam

• 301. The main character in Paradise Lost Book I and Book II is?
(A God
(B Satan (C) Adam
(D) Eve
• 302. In Sons and Lovers, Paul Morel’s mother’s name is?
(A)Susan
(B)Jane
(C)Gertrude
(D) Emily
• 303. The twins in Lord of the Flies are?
(A)Ralph and Jack
(B) Simon and Eric
(C) Ralph and Eric
(D) Simon and Jack
• 304.Mr. Jaggers, in Great Expectations, is a
(A lawyer
(B postman
(C)Judge
(D) School teacher
• 305. What does ‘I’ stand for in the following line?
‘To Carthage then I came’
(A Buddha
(B Tiresias
 (C Smyrna Merchant
(D Augustine
• 306. The following lines are an example……… of image.
‘The river sweats
Oil and tar’
(A) visual
(B) kinetic
(C) erotic
(D) sensual
• 307. Which of the following novels has the sub-title ‘A Novel Without a Hero’?
(A) Vanity Fair
(B) Middlemarch
(C) Wuthering Heights
(D) Oliver Twist
• 308. In ‘Leda and the Swan’, who wooes Leda in guise of a swan?
(A) Mars
(B) Hercules
(C) Zeus
(D) Bacchus
• 309. Who invented the term ‘Sprung rhythm’?
(A)Hopkins
(B)Tennyson
(C)Browning
(D)Wordsworth
• 310.Who wrote the poem ‘Defence of Lucknow’?
(A) Browning
(B) Tennyson
(C) Swinburne
(D) Rossetti
• 311.Which of the following plays of Shakespeare has an epilogue?
(A) The Tempest
(B) Henry IV, Pt I (C) Hamlet
(D) Twelfth Night
• 312. Hamlet’s famous speech ‘To be,or not to be; that is the question’ occurs in? (A) Act II, Scene I
(B) Act III, Scene III
(C) Act IV, Scene III
(D) Act III, Scene I

313. Identify the character in The Tempest who is referred to as an honest old counselor
(A) Alonso
(B) Ariel
(C) Gonzalo
(D) Stephano
• 314. What is the sub-title of the play Twelfth Night?
(A) Or, What is you Will
(B) Or, What you Will
(C) Or, What you Like It
(D) Or, What you Think
• 315. Which of the following plays of Shakespeare, according to T. S.
Eliot, is ‘artistic failure’?
(A) The Tempest
(B) Hamlet
(C) Henry IV, Pt I
(D) Twelfth Night
• 316. Who is Thomas Percy in Henry IV, Pt I?
(A) Earl of Northumberland
(B) Earl of March
(C) Earl of Douglas
(D) Earl of Worcester
• 317. Paradise Lost was originally written in?
(A) ten books
(B) eleven books
(C) nine books
(D) eight books

318. In Pride and Prejudice, Lydia elopes with?

(A) Darcy
(B) Wickham
(C) William Collins
(D) Charles Bingley
• 319. Who coined the phrase ‘Egotistical Sublime’?
(A) William Wordsworth
(B) P.B.Shelley
(C) S. T. Coleridge
(D) John Keats
• 320. Who is commonly known as ‘Pip’ in Great Expectations?
(A) Philip Pirrip
(B) Filip Pirip (C)Philip Pip
(D) Philips Pirip
• 321. The novel The Power and the Glory is set in?
(A)Mexico
(B) Italy
(C)France
(D) Germany
• 323. Which of the following is Golding’s first novel?
(A) The Inheritors
(B) Lord of the Flies
(C) Pincher Martin
(D) Pyramid
• 324.Identify the character who is a supporter of Women’s Rights in Sons and Lovers?
(A) Mrs. Morel
(B) Annie
(C) Miriam
(D) Clara Dawes
• 325. Vanity Fair is a novel by?
(A) Jane Austen
 (B) Charles Dickens
(C) W. M. Thackeray
(D) Thomas Hardy
• 326. Shelley’s Adonais is an elegy on the death of?
(A) Milton
(B) Coleridge
(C) Keats
(D) Johnson
• 327. Which of the following is the first novel of D. H. Lawrence?
(A) The White Peacock
(B) The Trespasser
(C) Sons and Lovers
(D) Women in Love
• 328. In the poem ‘Tintern Abbey’, ‘dearest friend’ refers to?
(A) Nature
(B) Dorothy
(C) Coleridge
(D) Wye
• 329. Who, among the following, is not the second generation of British Romantics?
(A) Keats
(B) Wordsworth
(C) Shelley
(D) Byron
• 330. Which of the following poems of Coleridge is a ballad?
(A) Work Without Hope
(B) Frost at Midnight
(C) The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
(D) Youth and Age
• 331. Identify the writer who was expelled from Oxford for circulating a pamphlet— (A) P. B.
Shelley
(B) Charles Lamb
(C) Hazlitt
(D) Coleridge
• 332. Keats’s Endymion is dedicated to?
(A) Leigh Hunt (B) Milton
(C) Shakespeare
(D) Thomas Chatterton
• 333. The second series of Essays of Elia by Charles Lamb was published in?
(A) 1823
(B) 1826
(C) 1834
(D) 1833
• 334. Which of the following poets does not belong to the ‘Lake School’?
• (A) Keats
• (B) Coleridge
(C) Southey
(D) Wordsworth
• 335.Who, among the following writers, was not educated at Christ’s Hospital School, London?
 (A) Charles Lamb
(B) William Wordsworth
(C) Leigh Hunt
(D) S. T. Coleridge
• 336. Who derided Hazlitt as one of the members of the ‘Cockney School of Poetry’?
(A) Tennyson
(8) Charles Lamb
(C) Lockhart
(D) T. S. Eliot

337. Tennyson’s poem ‘In Memoriam’was written in memory of?

(A) A. H. Hallam
(B) Edward King
(C) Wellington
(D) P. B. Shelley
• 338. Who, among the following, is not connected with the Oxford Movement?
(A) Robert Browning
(B) John Keble
(C) E. B. Pusey
(D) J. H. Newman
• 339. Identify the work by Swinburne which begins “when the hounds of spring are on winter’s
traces..”?
(A) Chastelard
(B) A Song of Italy
(C) Atalanta in Calydon
(D) Songs before Sunrise
• 340. Carlyle’s work On Heroes, Hero Worship and the Heroic in History is a course of?
(A) six lectures
(B) five lectures
(C) four lectures
(D) seven lectures
• 341. Who is praised as a hero by Carlyle in his lecture on the ‘Hero as King’?
(A) Johnson
(B) Cromwell
(C) Shakespeare
(D) Luther
• 342. Identify the work by Ruskin which began as a defence of contemporary landscape artist
especially Turner? (A) The Stones of Venice
(B) The Two Paths
(C) The Seven Lamps of Architecture
(D) Modem Painters

343. The term ‘the Palliser Novels’ is used to describe the political novels of?
(A) Charles Dickens
(B) Anthony Trollope
(C) W. H. White
(D) B. Disraeli
 344. Identify the poet, whom Queen Victoria, regarded as the perfect poet of ‘love and loss’—
(A) Tennyson (B) Browning
(C) Swinburne
(D) D. G. Rossetti

345. A verse form using stanza of eight lines, each with eleven syllables, is known as?
(A) Spenserian Stanza
(B) Ballad
(C) Ottava Rima
(D) Rhyme Royal
• 346. Identify the writer who first used blank verse in English poetry?
(A) Sir Thomas Wyatt
(B) William Shakespeare
(C) Earl of Surrey
(D) Milton
• 347. The Aesthetic Movement which blossomed during the 1880s was not influenced by?
(A) The Pre-Raphaelites
(B) Ruskin
(C) Pater
(D) Matthew Arnold
• 348. Identify the rhetorical figure used in the following line of Tennyson “Faith un-faithful kept him
falsely true.”
(A) Oxymoron
(B) Metaphor
(C) Simile
(D) Synecdoche
• 349. W. B. Yeats used the phrase ‘the artifice of eternity’ in his poem?
(A) Sailing to Byzantium
(B) Byzantium
(C) The Second Coming
(D) Leda and the Swan
• 350. Who is Pip’s friend in London?
(A) Pumblechook
(B) Herbert Pocket
(C) Bentley Drummle
(D) Jaggers
• 351. Who is Mr. Tench in The Power and the Glory?
(A) A teacher
(B) A clerk (C) A thief (D) A dentist

English Grammar Mcqs Practice Test for

Improving English Skills
Posted by administrator on 30 April 2014, 3:22 am
English Grammar Mcqs Practice Test For
Improving English Skills
English Grammar Mcqs Practice Test for Improving English Skills

1. THE SCENERY OF SWAT ______ LOVELY

2.
3. CATTLE ______ EATING GRASS.
4.
5. POLITICS ______ A GAME.
6.
7. HE ENJOYED HIMSELF _______ THE CLASS.
8.
9. ARSLAN & ASLAM _____ THIEVES.
10.
11. AHMED KEEP AWAY _____ SMOKING.
12.
13. EVERY BOY IS DOING ______ DUTY.
14.
15. MR ASLAM GROWS A VARIETY _____ FRUITS.
16.
17. ONE OF THE GIRLS _____ WISE.
18.
19. WE ARE THE CANDIDATES _____ THIS POST.
20.
21. I AM CAPABLE ______ SOLVING THIS PROBLEM.
22.
23. SAIRA WAS CERTAIN _____ HER SUCCESS.
24.
25. AHMED IS NOT CONSISTENT _____ WHAT HE SAYS.
26.
27. DO HE BELIEVE _____ GOD.
28.
29. MY BOOK IS COMPOSED _____ LETTERS.
30.
31. RESEARCH OF INSPECTOR IS BASED _____ FACTS.
32.
33. THE BEGGAR WAS BEGGING _____ BREAD.
34.
35. SHE IS ANXIOUS _____ HER SON’S HEALTH.
36.
37. ASLAM ASSURE ME _____ HIS COOPERATION.
38.
39. SHE TURNED _____ THE LIGHT.
40.
41. PLEASE WRITE _____ HIS PHONE NUMBER.
42.
43. HER MOTHER PASSED _____ HER SKILLS TO HER.
44.
45. GOVERNMENT WANTS TO ROOT _____ CORRUPTION.
46.
47. SAM RAN OFF _____ THE MONEY.
48.
49. SHUT ______ THE COMPUTER PROPERLY.
50.
51. IT IS BELOW YOUR DIGNITY _____ DISOBEY YOUR TEACHER.
52.
53. HIS BETTER HALF ______ A GOOD HOUSE KEEPER.
54.
55. THEY _____ BIRDS OF A FEATHER.
56.
57. WE WILL DEFEND OUR COUNTRY _____ ANY COST.
58.
59. MY SON IS THE APPLE _____ MY EYES.

60. PMS Exam English Subject Important

Idioms Mcqs
61. Posted by administrator on 29 April 2014, 6:38 am

62. PMS Exam English Subject Important

Idioms Mcqs
63. PMS Exam English Subject Important Idioms Mcqs
64. A Bird In The Hand Is Worth Two In The Bush:
65. Having something that is certain is much better than taking a risk for more, because
66. chances are you might lose everything.
67. A Blessing In Disguise:
68. Something good that isn’t recognized at first.
69. A Chip On Your Shoulder:
70. Being upset for something that happened in the past.
71. A Dime A Dozen:
72. Anything that is common and easy to get.
73. A Doubting Thomas:
74. A skeptic who needs physical or personal evidence in order to believe something.
75. A Drop in the Bucket:
76. A very small part of something big or whole.
77. A Fool And His Money Are Easily Parted:
78. It’s easy for a foolish person to lose his/her money.
79. A House Divided Against Itself Cannot Stand:
80. Everyone involved must unify and function together or it will not work out.
81. A Leopard Can’t Change His Spots:
82. You cannot change who you are.
83. A Penny Saved Is A Penny Earned:
84. By not spending money, you are saving money (little by little).
85. A Picture Paints a Thousand Words:
86. A visual presentation is far more descriptive than words.
87. A Piece of Cake:
88. A task that can be accomplished very easily.
89. A Slap on the Wrist:
90. A very mild punishment.
91. A Taste Of Your Own Medicine:
92. When you are mistreated the same way you mistreat others.
93. A Toss-Up:
94. A result that is still unclear and can go either way.
95.
96. Actions Speak Louder Than Words:
97. It’s better to actually do something than just talk about it.
98. Add Fuel To The Fire:
99. Whenever something is done to make a bad situation even worse than it is.
100. Against The Clock:
101. Rushed and short on time.
102. All Bark And No Bite:
103. When someone is threatening and/or aggressive but not willing to engage in a fight.
104. All Greek to me:
105. Meaningless and incomprehensible like someone who cannot read, speak, or 106.
understand any of the Greek language would be.
107. All In The Same Boat:
108. When everyone is facing the same challenges.
109. An Arm And A Leg:
110. Very expensive. A large amount of money.
111. An Axe To Grind:
112. To have a dispute with someone.
113. Apple of My Eye:
114. Someone who is cherished above all others.
115. As High As A Kite:
116. Anything that is high up in the sky.
117. At The Drop Of A Hat:
118. Willing to do something immediately.
119. B
120. Back Seat Driver:
121. People who criticize from the sidelines, much like someone giving unwanted advice 122.
from the back seat of a vehicle to the driver.
123. Back To Square One:
124. Having to start all over again.
125. Back To The Drawing Board:
126. When an attempt fails and it’s time to start all over.
127. Baker’s Dozen:
128. Barking Up The Wrong Tree:
129. A mistake made in something you are trying to achieve.
130. Beat A Dead Horse:
131. To force an issue that has already ended.
132. Beating Around The Bush:
133. Avoiding the main topic. Not speaking directly about the issue.
134. Bend Over Backwards:
135. Do whatever it takes to help. Willing to do anything.
136. Between A Rock And A Hard Place:
137. Stuck between two very bad options.
138. Bite Off More Than You Can Chew:
139. To take on a task that is way to big.
140. Bite Your Tongue:
141. To avoid talking.
142. Blood Is Thicker Than Water:
143. The family bond is closer than anything else.
144. Blue Moon:
145. A rare event or occurance.
146. Break A Leg:
147. A superstitious way to say ‘good luck’ without saying ‘good luck’, but rather the
148. opposite.
149. Buy A Lemon:
150. To purchase a vehicle that constantly gives problems or stops running after you drive
151. it away.
152. Can’t Cut The Mustard :
153. Someone who isn’t adequate enough to compete or participate.
154. Cast Iron Stomach:
155. Someone who has no problems, complications or ill effects with eating anything or 156.
drinking anything.
157. Charley Horse:
158. Stiffness in the leg / A leg cramp.
159. Chew someone out:
160. Verbally scold someone.
161. Chip on his Shoulder:
162. Angry today about something that occured in the past.
163. Chow Down:
164. To eat.
165. Close but no Cigar:
166. To be very near and almost accomplish a goal, but fall short.
167. Cock and Bull Story:
168. An unbelievable tale.
169. Come Hell Or High Water:
 170. Any difficult situation or obstacle.
171. Crack Someone Up:
172. To make someone laugh.
173. Cross Your Fingers:
174. To hope that something happens the way you want it to.
175. Cry Over Spilt Milk:

Words Synonyms

Gigantic Huge, Massive

Glow Shine, Glisten

Grief Sorrow, Sadness

Grievous Painful, Hurtful

Hamper Impede, Hinder

176. When you complain about a loss from the past.

177. Cry Wolf:
178. Intentionally raise a false alarm.
179. Cup Of Joe:
180. A cup of coffee.
181. Curiosity Killed The Cat:
182. Being Inquisitive can lead you into a dangerous situation.
183. Cut to the Chase:
184. Leave out all the unnecessary details and just get to the point.

185. English Synonyms for Public Service

Commission Exams
186. Posted by administrator on 29 April 2014, 6:16 am

187. English Synonyms For Public Service

Commission Exams
188. English Synonyms for Public Service Commission Exams
Happiness Joy, Delight, Mirth

Hate Despise, Detest, Scorn

Healthy Hearty, Wholesome, Strong

Heaven Paradise

Help Aid, Assistance

Hide Conceal

High Elevated, Lofty, Exalted

Honour Prestige

Humility Modesty, Humbleness

Illegal Unlawful

Imagine Fancy, Think

Imperial Kingly, Royal

Industrious Hardworking, Diligent

Inherit Inborn, Natural

Injure Harm, Wound

Intend Propose, Mean

Journey Travel, Tour, Trip

Jubilant Exultant, Joyful

Just Right, Proper

Knave Villain

Knowledge Information, Awareness

Lenient Mild, Liberal

Lethal Deadly, Fatal

Lethargy Sluggishness, Laziness

Liberty Freedom, Independence

Light Ignite, Inflame

Likeness Resemblance, Similarity

Loyal Devoted, Faithful

Lucky Fortunate

Manifest Clear, Evident

 Words Synonyms

Abnormal Unusual, Irregular

Abolish Eradicate, Remove

Abound Flourish, Overflow

Academical Educational, Scholarly

Accede Consent, Agree

Accumulate Collect, Gather

Accurate Correct, Exact

Acquaintance Awareness, Familiarity

Acquire Obtain, Procure

Active Alert, Lively, Energetic

Adequate Sufficient, Suitable

Admire Appreciate, Praise

Admit Confess

Aid Help, Assistance

Aim Goal, Purpose, Objective

Alien Foreigner, Stranger

Allow Permit, Admit

Ancient Old

Anger Fury Wrath

Anguish Agony, Pain

Arrogant Haughty, Proud

Attack Aggression, Assault

Authentic Genuine, Acceptable

Battle Fight, Encounter, Conflict

Begin Start, Commence

Blame Accuse, Censure

Bleak Dismal, Hopeless

Bliss Joy, Pleasure

Blunder Big Mistake, Error

Bold Fearless, Courageous

Brave Gallant, Courageous

Brief Concise

Brutal Sawage, Cruel

Build Construct

Calculation Count

Catch Grab, Grasp

Change Shift, Exchange, Alter

Charming Attractive, Bewitching

Clever Skillful, Ingenious

Coarse Rough

Collision Clash, Conflict, Impact

Compromise Settlement, Adjustment

Conscious Aware, Assured, Certain

Convey Communicate, Shift, Transport

Costly Precious, Expensive

English Mcqs Paper for Pcs Exam

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Paper For Pcs Exam

English Mcqs Paper for Pcs Exam

1)Repetition of same vowel sound ?

Assonance
2)The poet who used extensive alliteration ?
Keats
3)Withering heights written by ?
Hardy
4)The poem “Byzantium” is written about ?
Imaginary city
5)Carl sad burg born at ? Illinois
6)T.S Eliot was ?
Irish poet
7)Wasteland of Eliot is dedicated to ?
Ezra Pound
8)Shakespeare acted in one of plays of ?
Ben Johnson
9)Elizabeth Sewell born in ?
England
10) Linguistics is combination of ______ words ? Two
11)Sound produced with obstruction of air ?
I chose “diphthongs” but later I came to know right option was other,don’t remember right now.
12)Semantics meaning ?
Study of meanings
13)Word language consists of two_____ words
Latin
14)Simon is character in one of ________ novels
Golding
15)”Everyman in his humor” written by ?
Ben johnson
16) Caretaker written by ?
Pinter
17)Waiting for Godot’s original language ?
French
18) Stream of consciousness ?
Virginia Woolf
19) “Sejanus” is satirical tragedy by ?
Ben johnson
20)Unified sensibility ?
Donne
21)Winding Stair is poem by ?
W.B.Yeats
22) Synaethesia
Unification of senses
23) Time machine-the invisible man written by ?
H.G Wells
24)The egoist written by ?
George Meredith
25) Hardy’s own classification of novels?
Three
26)George Eliot wrote Adam Bede at age of ? I
wrote 20 but it was 40
27)Age of George Eliot ?
Victorian 28)
Chaucer was ?
sarcastic poet 29)Renaissance
period ?
1550-1660
30)King Lear written in ?
1603 to 1606
31)17th century’s historical event ?
Famine or Civil war
32)Paradise lost was written in ?
1667
33)1660 – 1790 is rise of ?
34)Literature became secular towards end of ?
35)Tragicomedy of Shakespeare is also called ?
Reconciliation play
36)Type of literature,art or music is called ?
Genre
37)Enthusiastic addiction to study of Greek and Roman antiquity led to ?
None (Because it led to Hellenism, romantism) 38)Prospero was
protagonist of ?
Pata nae
39)Age of Pope is called?
Augusten
40)Metaphysical poet is essay by ?
T.S Eliot
41) Treatise on liberty written by ?
42)Figure of speech,exaggeration for emphasis ?
Rhetoric
43) Adonis written for ?
Keats
44)Songs of innocence and experience belong to ?
William Blake
45)Original title of Pride and Prejudice First
Impressions
46)Shelley’s first work? Queen
Mab
47)First writer of Picaresque novel ?
48)The road not taken by Frost is included in his collection ?
Mountain Interval
49)Bacon was intellectually great but morally weak.Who said this ?
50)Swift’s irony fused into ? humor
51)Nothing is beneath science,nor above science.who said ?
Russell
52)Bird in “Ancient mariner” ?
Albatross
53) Milton got blind in age of ?
43
54)Hemingway’s nick in later age ?
Papa
55)Donne’s faith ?
Protestant
56)John Keats gave up career of ____ to become a poet farming
or medicine
57) Poet who studied at Cambridge but got no degree ? pata nae
58) Which century is most important epoch in intellectual history ?
14th
59)During age of Chaucer,England passed through ?
Medievalism
60)Marlow’s primitive tragedy ?
Dr.Faustus
61)Shakespeare comedy rival ?
62)Shakespeare comedy contain continental and ?
Mediterranean
63) Shakespeare’s heroines have ?
Feminine traits
64)Who emerged as philosopher in “Merchant of Venice” ?
65) Which play started with incident of ship wreck ? 66)Sir
Gwain and Green knight poems were written in ___ age
67)Process of introducing new words ?
68)War between flesh and spirit in which novel of Hardy ?
69)Norman conquest in ?
70)Queen Elizabeth descended throne from ?

Lecturer English MCQs Past Paper

Lecturer English MCQs Past Paper
1) Who belongs to the Absurd School of Drama?
(a) Shaw (b) Beckett (c) Pinter
(d) Eliot (e) None of these
2) To the Light House” is written by:
(a) Lawrence (b) Dylan Thomas (c) Hemingway
(d) Forster (e) None of these
3) I am too much in the sun in “Hamlet” is spoken by:
(a) Polonius (b) Claudius (c) Hamlet
(d) Ophelia (e) None of these 4)
“Ullyses” is written by:
(a) James Joyce (b) Virginia Woolf (c) Hardy
(d) Forster (e) None of these
5) Elizabeth is a character from Jane Austen’s:
(a) Emma (b) Pride and Prejudice (c) Mansfield Palck
(d) Northanger Abby (e) None of these 6) “Tear Idle
Tears” is a poem by:
(a) Frost (b) Browning (c) Yeats
(d) Eliot (e) None of these 7)
“Thought Fox” is written by:
(a) Ted Hughes (b) Philip Larkin (c) Heaney
(d) Sylvia Plath (e) None of these 8) “Major
Barbra” is written by:
(a) Beckett (b) Pinter (c) Eliot
(d) Shaw (e) None of these
9) Lilliput is a character from:
(a) Gulliver’s Travels (b) Pygmalion (c) Sons & lovers
(d) Old man and the sea (e) None of these 10) “Fire
and Ice” is written by:
(a) Eliot (b) Yeats (c) Frost
(d) Auden (e) None of these
11) Swift belong to:
(a) Renassiance period (b) Restoration (c) Romantic period
(d) Augustan age (e) None of these
12) The Novel of Lawrence banned by the government was:
(a) Sons and Lovers (b) Lady Chatterley’s Lover (c) Women in Love
(d) The Rainbow (e) None of these
13) “Undo this Button” is a line from Shakespeare’s:
(a) Hamlet (b) Othello (c) King Lear (d)
Julius Caeser (e) None of these 14)
“Ode to Psyche” is a poem by:
(a) Milton (b) Byron (c) Keats
(d) Blake (e) None of these
15) “I am no Prince Hamlet” is a line written by:
(a) Shakespeare (b) Yeats (c) Eliot
(d) Auden (e) None of these
16) “Things fall apart” is a line from Yeats’s:
(a) Among School Children (b) Byzentium (c) Sailing to Byzentium
(d) The Second coming (e) None of these
17) “Good flences make good neighbours” is from Frosts’:
(a) Revelation (b) Mending (c) Pasture
(d) Birches (e) None of these
18) ‘April is the Cruelest month of all is taken from Eliot’s:
(a) The Wasteland (b) The Hollow men (c) East Coker
(d) Prufrock (e) None of these 19) “A
Farewell to Arms” is written by:
(a) Faulkner (b) Hemmingway (c) James Joyce
(d) Virginia Woolf (e) None of these 20)
“A passage to India” is written by:
(a) Forester (b) Conrad (c) Lawrence
(d) Hardy (e) None of these
21) “Ode to West Wind was written by:
(a) Keats (b) Shelley (c) Byron
(d) Blake (e) None of these 22)
Keats was born in:
(a) 1770 (b) 1779 (c) 1795
(d) 1790 (e) None of these 23.
Dream Children was written by:
(a) Leigh Hunt (b) Charles Lamb (c) Hazzlit
(d) Ruskin (e) None of these
24) “Picture of Dorian Gray” was written by:
(a) Oscar Wild (b) Dickens (c) Hardy
(d) George Eliot (e) None of these 25)
Ruskin belonged to:
(a) Romantic age (b) Modern age (c) Victorian age
(d) Augustan age (e) None of these 26)
Wordsworth lived from:
(a) 1770 – 1832 (b) 1775 – 1859 (c) 1770 – 1850
(d) 1770 – 1802 (e) None of these
27) Heroes and Hero Worship” was written by:
(a) Mill (b) Carlyle (c) Macaulay
(d) Coleridge (e) None of these
28) “Fair Seed time had my Soul” is from:
(a) Ode to autumn (b) To a Highland girl (c) Ancient Mariner
(d) Child Harold’s Pilgrimage (e) None of these 29) “Great
Expectations” was written by:
(a) George Eliot (b) Thackeray (c) Hardy
(d) Dickens (e) None of these 30)
“Lotus Eaters” is written by:
(a) Tennyson (b) Browning (c) Mathew Arnold
(d) Hardy (e) None of these
31) Lamb, Leigh Haut and Hazzlit are:
(a) Poets (b) Dramatists (c) Essayists
(d) Novelists (e) None of these 32)
“My Last Duchess” was written by:
(a) Keats (b) Coleridge (c) Tennyson
(d) Browning (e) None of these 33)
Emity Bronte is the writer of:
(a) Wuthering Heights (b) Emma (c) Under the greenwood Tree
(d) Mr Chips (e) None of these
34) “Poetry is a spontaneous overflow of powerful feeling” is a definition of poetry by:
(a) Keats (b) Wordsworth (c) Shelley
(d) Coleridge (e) None of these
35) “Heard Melodies are sweet but those unheard are sweeter” is a line from:
(a) Ode on a Grecian Urn (b) Ode to a nightingale (c) The Prelude
(d) Ode to Autumn (e) None of these 36) “Waverley” was written
by:
(a) Scott (b) Hardy (c) Jane Austen
(d) Dickens (e) None of these (37)
“We are Seven” is written by:
(a) Keats (b) Shelly (c) Byron
(d) Hardy (e) None of these
38) “Past and present” is written by:
(a) Mill (b) Lamb (c) Hazlitt
(d) Carlyle (e) None of these
39) “Modern Painters” is written by:
(a) Ruskin (b) Carlyle (c) Mill
(d) Macaulay (e) None of these 40)
“Byron is the” writer of:
(a) Don Jaun (b) Prometheus Unbound (c) Adonias
(d) Lucy Gray (e) None of these
41 In Shakespeare’s Tragedies Character is not Destiny but there is Character and Destiny is a
remark by:
(a) Nicoll (b) Goddord (c) Bradley
(d) Coleridge (e) None of these
42 “How came he dead? I shall not be juggled with: Tohell allegiance! Vows, to the blackest devil!
Is a speech in Hamlet spoken by:
(a) Hamlet (b) Laertes (c) Polonius
(d) Claudius (e) None of these
43) Aspect of the Novel is written by:
(a) David Cecil (b) Walter Allen (c) Arnold Kettle
(d) E.M. Forster (e) None of these 44) Lotos
Eaters is a poem by:
(a) Browning (b) Tennyson (c) Yeats
(d) Frost (e) None of these
45) ‘The Hollow Men’ is written by:
(a) T.S. Eliot (b) Ezra Pound (c) Yeats
(d) Larkin (e) None of these
46) William Faulkner was awarded Nobel Prize for literature in:
(a) 1949 (b) 1950 (c) 1951
(d) 1953 (e) None of these
47) G.B. Shaw was awarded Nobel Prize for literature in:
(a) 1925 (b) 1929 (c) 1930
(d) 1949 (e) None of these
48 ‘The Winding Stair’ is written by:
(a) Ted Hughes (b) T.S. Eliot (c) W.B. Yeats
(d) W.H. Auden (e) None of these
49) ‘Murder in the Cathedral’ is a play written by:
(a) Shakespeare (b) Marlowe (c) Oscar Wilde (d)
T.S. Eliot (e) None of these

English Synonyms Mcqs Test

Posted by administrator on 2 April 2014, 1:51 am
English Synonyms Mcqs Test
English Synonyms Mcqs Test

Abandon
vacate
foil lose gain

Abdicate
give ukp
imperious rude dissent

Blasphemy
impiety
reverence
divide fuse

Cajole
lure
warm
suggest doubtful

Dubious
unreliable
recede prokpound
exculpate

Ebb
recede
swell propound
exculpate

Foment
provoke
extirpate
isolation abrasion

Gag
silence
animate avoke
superb

Havoc
devastation
knowledge
prosperity fact

Idolize
adore
execrate loathe
fickle

Huddle
confuse
arrange neutral
genuine

Illusion
hallucination
reality fact purge

Imbecile
idiotic pure
shrewd innate

Jocund
gay
barren mourning
puzzle

Kernel
nucleus
broad stranger
kind

Limpid
clear muddy
resembling strict

Melancholy
sadness
dissolbe joy
petty
Nullify
slanting
horizontal bore
disregard

Purulent
corrupt
peaceable healthy
prudish

Prosal
c
dull
dashing litigious
petulant

Quack
imposter
gull
amount defy

Stupendous
marvelous
ordinary weak
abandon

Tacit
silent
formal fear
celestial

Vin
dica
te
justify
accustiom
perverse pungent

Abhor
detest
crave reconcile rude

Abnegation
rejection complete
indulgence final

Bellicose
pugnacious
agile peaceful stupefy

Capricious
uncertain
constant brave pause

Desuetude
obsoleteness custom
argue dissent

Ebullient
exuberant
deight
still

obscure Fulminate
clamour
barren misfire
prodigal

Grugal
thrifty
prolific clamour
efficacious

Garb
dress
rage trivial distort

Hypocrite
pretender
tumult noise genuine

Impeccable
perfect
trivial
penniless spare

Impair
Injure
better saucy plite

Juvenile
youthful
akin mature
related

Kindle
light
burn extingusih
dark

Lucid
clear
broad lovely fidelity

Mendacity
deception
beggary candour
promise

English Preposition Mcqs For Lecturer Test

English Preposition Mcqs for Lecturer Test

Akhtar was broken________from his old

friends.
away

with of in I was amazed ________ his

misbehavior
at

in for with Saleem amused us ______

jokes.
with
in for
of

Arifa has been fully cured _______ the

chronic pain in her legs
of in

from with I was astonished _____ his

failure.
at

in on for The rains have set

_______.
in

of on out He is capable ______ doing

anything
of
in about for He is fully contented _____
his life.
with

of ro in Aslam is not known ______ my

brother.
to for with about You should not jest ______
his poverty
at
in for
with

There was no heir ______ the throne.

to

in on over He got ______ his illness in two

weeks
over
on by
with

The shopkeeper has charged me ten rupees

_______ this book
for

on in of We can compare life _______ a

drama
to in for from He is not living _______ his
means.
within
for in
from

I am aware _______ my short-comings

of

at over with He is lax _______

morals
in

on with of He part _______ all his possessions

happily
with

on for from Piety makes _______

happiness
for
on with
from

You should refrain _______ hurting her

feelings
from
to of over
I had the privilege _______ knowing him
inimately
of

in for with She provoked him _______

anger
to
for on
after

This course of action will be prejudicial

_______ the interests of our country
in

of after with Amer has been blessed _______

a soon
of
with for

upon He is always boasting _______ his

wealth
of
for with
upon

Our neighbor died _______ over work

from
to in for Alia parted _______ her parents in
tears
from
of with
by

I took strong objection _______ the

prokkposal
to

with against on She was mistaken _______ a

switch
for with over from I am badly in need
_______ money
of
for on
with

Aslim was married _______ Amina

to

by with for He has disposed _______ his

house
of
in at
from He was never entitled _______ this high
post
to

of for over Razia is fit _______ joining her

duty
for
to in

from We have full faith _______ our

leaders
in
of from
with

He has servants to attend _______ him

upon

in over to He is averse _______ hard

work
to

on upon with He has recently taken _______

drinking
to
from on for I prefer death _______
dishonor
to
than from
in

His father prevailed _______ him to join the

government service
upon
on in

from He was excluded _______ the

team
from

on by for There is an exception _______ every

rule
to

in for with He is very grateful

_______ me
to

for from with He has copied this letter word _______

word
from
with in by The water supply at last gave
_______
out
of off
about

English MCQs for Public Service Commission Lecturers’ Test

English MCQs for Public Service Commission Lecturers’ Test
“Soldier’s pay” is the work of
2. “War and Peace” is written by
3. Metaphysical Poets belong to
4. “Adventures of the Wonder Land” is the work of
5. Off-spring of a horse is called
6. Sound of elephants is called
7. What is the basic difference between Simile and Metaphor?
8. Analogy. Hacked:Original
9. Antonym of Brawl is
10. Synonym of the word Caesarian is
11.Originally English Language is taken from
12. Synonym of the word “Promiscuous” is
13.originator of historical novel?
14.Synonymn of abate
15. emendation
16. syn:grandeur
17…………………..change in circumstances.
18.who is called mother of poor?
19. interested about
20. Absalum and abysilence
21.hottest planet
22.distance b/w sun and earth
23.shape of planets and satellites of sun
24.Commander in of infidels in battle badr
25.second kalima
26.last sonnet of keats
27.play on-words
28.natural beauty and imagination 29.English
is family of …….language.
30.The position of earth from pnumbra
31.Crime and Punishment is wrtten by
32. Cogito ergo sum
33.what was the name of the first fort that Brits built in India?
34.what’s the date of Mairaj?
35.when was the capital changed from Calcutta to Delhi?
36.when is the prayer of Kasuf offered?
37. whats the old word for storehouse?
38. whats the word for the formation of a word from a sound associated with what is named?
39. he left his father’s roof is a____?
40. headlights of the car____?
41. what was keats last poem?
42.whose title was Mother of the poor?
43.Hindu Muslims came in reflectionEnglish MCQs for Public Service Commission Lecturers’ Test
English MCQs Lecturers’ Test
1)Repetition of same vowel sound ?

Assonance

2)The poet who used extensive alliteration ?

Keats

3)Wuthering heights written by ?

Emily Brontë

4)The poem “Byzantium” is written about ?

Imaginary city

5)Carl sadburg born at ?

Illinois

6)T.S Eliot was ? American by birth;

British from 1927 7)Wasteland of

Eliot is dedicated to ?

Ezra Pound

8)Shakespeare acted in one of plays of ?

Ben johnson

9)Elizabeth Sewell born in ?

England

10) Linguistics is combination of ______ words ?

Two
11)Sound produced with obstruction of air ? consonant

12)Semantics meaning ?

“Study of meanings”

13)Word language consists of two_____ words

Latin

14)Simon is character in one of ________ novels

Golding

15)”Everyman in his humour” written by ?

Ben johnson

16) Caretaker written by ?

Pinter

17)Waiting for Godot’s originol language ?

French

18) Stream of consciousness ?

Virginia woolf

19) “Sejanus” is satirical tragedy by ?

Ben johnson
20)Unified sensibility ?

Donne

21)Winding Stair is poem by ?

W.B.Yeats

22) Synaethesia

Unification of senses

23) Time machine-the invisible man written by ?

H.G Wells

24)The egoist written by ?

George Meredith

25) Hardy’s own classification of novels?

Three

26)George Eliot wrote Adam Bede at age of ?

40

27)Age of George Eliot ?

Victorian 28)

Chaucer was ?

sarcastic poet

29)Renaissance period ?
1550-1660

30)King Lear written in ?

1603 to 1606

31)17th century’s historical event ?

Civil war

32)Paradise lost was written in ?

1667

33)1660 – 1790 is rise of ?

I chose “Drama” but it’s not confirm.Kindly confirm it 34)Literature

became secular towards end of ?

18th century

35)Tragicomedy of Shakespeare is also called ?

Reconciliation play

36)Type of literature,art or music is called ?

Genre

37)Enthusiastic addiction to study of Greek and Roman antiquity led to ?

None (Because it led to hellenism,romantism) 38)Prospero

was protagonist of ?

The Tempest
39)Age of Pope is called?

Augusten

40)Metaphysical poet is essay by ?

T.S Eliot

41) Treatise on liberty written by ?

Martin Luther

42)Figure of speech,exaggeration for emphasis ?

Rhetoric

43) Adonis written for ?

Keats

44)Songs of innocence and experience belong to ?

William Blake

45)Original title of Pride and Prejudice

First Impressions

46)Shelley’s first work?

Queen Mab

47)First writer of Picaresque novel ?

I chose Thackeray.Kindly confirm it.

48)The road not taken by Frost is included in his collection ?

Mountain Interval

49)Bacon was intellectually great but morally weak.Who said this ?

50)Swift’s irony fused into ?

humour

51)Nothing is beneath science,nor above science.who said ?

I chose Russell

52)Bird in “Ancient mariner” ?

Albatross

53) Milton got blind in age of ?

43

54)Hemingway’s nick in later age ?

Papa

55)Donne’s faith ?

Protestant

56)John Keats gave up career of ____ to become a poet medicine

57) Poet who studied at Cambridge but got no degree ?

ST Colerdige
58) Which century is most important epoch in intellectual history ?

14th

59)During age of Chaucer,England passed through ?

Medievalism

60)Marlow’s primitive tragedy ?

Tamberlaine

61)Shakespeare comedy rival ?

Ben Jonson
62)Shakespeare comedy contain continental and ?

Mediterranean

63) Shakespeare’s heroines have ?

Feminine traits

64)Who emerged as philosopher in “Merchant of Venice” ?

Portia

65) Which play started with incident of ship wreck ?

66)Sir Gwain and Green knight poems were written in ___ age 67)Process

of introducing new words ?

Coinage
68)War between flesh and spirit in which novel of Hardy ?

Jude of the Obscure

69)Norman conquest in ?

1066

70)Queen Elizabeth descended throne from ?

1. Robert Stuart 2. Robert…. 3. James Stuart

71)University wits estimated literary period is little more than …….. years.

10 years, 8 years, 7 years, 6 years

72)Brazen
“Shy”

73)Capricious

“Recollect”

74)Extrinsic

===========

75)fluster

==================

76) Obdurate

submissive Synonyms

77)Truncate
shorten

78)Impetuous

“irrational”

79)nincompoop

Foolish

80)Elocution

————–

81)Ulysses poem was written by?

Tennyson

82)Far fetched metaphor ?

Conceit

83)Because I couldnot stop for death written by ?

Emily Dickinson

84)Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath were?

Husband and wife

85. People do not exist in _______but in functioning______

Isolation,communities

86. The military censors______passages in letters that they thought might_____ security.
=========

87. Only a ____person could be ______to the suffering of people

88. Volcanic rock very often looks shiny because it had been _____

Igneous

89. Fire station had been gone on______ at once To

90) antonym of callous is

English Word Meaning For PCS,PMS & CSS Exams

Abbreviation A shortened form of a word or phrase
Abolish Do away with wholly
Accelerate To increase the speed; to hasten the progress of
Accountable Liable to be called to account
Actuary One who calculates premium
Adolescence The period between childhood and adulthood
Aggravate To increase the gravity of an offence or the intensity of a disease
Aggressor A person who attacks first
Agnostic One who doubts the existence of god
Alienate To turn friends in enemies
Altruist A person who loves every body
Amateur One who does something not professionally but for pleasure
Ambidextrous Of a person who can use both hands equally well
Ambiguous A sentence whose meaning is unclear
Ambivalent Having opposing feelings
Amnesty General pardon
Amphibian A land animal that breeds in water
Anarchist One who is out to subvert a government
Anarchy Absence of government
Anonymous A book written by an unknown author
Answerable A person liable to be called to account for his action
Antedate To date before the true time
Anthropology A study of man
Antidote A medicine to counteract the effect of another medicine
Antiseptic A medicine that prevents decomposing
Antonym A word opposite in meaning to another
Appreciate To rise in value
Arbitrator A person appointed by parties to settle the disputes between them
Archaeology A study of ancient things
Aristocracy A Government by the Nobles
Arsenal A place where weapons and ammunitions are stored
Atheist One who does not believe in the existence of God
Audience An assembly of hearers at a lecture or concert
Auditor One who makes an official examination of accounts
Autobiography A life history written by oneself
Autocracy A Government by one
Avaricious Of a person extremely desirous of money
Behead Cut off the head
Bibliophile A great lover of books
Bigamy Practice of having two wives or husbands
Bigot One who has narrow and prejudiced religious views
Bilingual A person who speaks two languages
Biography A life history written by somebody else
Biology The science which treats with life
Botany The branch of biology dealing with plant life
Brittle Hard but liable to be easily broken
Bureaucracy A Government by the officials
Callous A man devoid of kind feeling and sympathy
Cannibal Of a man or animal that feeds on its own species
Carnivorous A flesh eating animal
Catalogue A list of books
Celibacy Abstinence from sex
Celibate One who is unmarried
Centenarian A person who is above hundred years
Centenary Celebration of a hundredth year, once –a-century
Colleague A co-worker or a fellow-worker in the same institution
Congenital Belonging or pertaining to an individual from birth
Contemporaries People living at the same time
Contemporary Belonging to the same period of time
Convalescent One who is recovering from illness
Cosmology Science of origin of universe
Cosmopolitan One who can make himself at home in all countries
Cosmopolite A citizen of the world
Credulous A person who readily believes whatever is told to him/her.
Cynic One who questions everything
Delegate To give one
Democracy Government of the people, for the people, by the people
Depreciate To go down in value
Deteriorate To go from bad to worse
Disenfranchisement To take away some one
Draw A game in which neither party wins
Drawn/ Tie A game or batter in which neither party wins
Word Meaning
Eccentric One who has strange habits
Ecology Study of environment
Edible A thing that is fit to be eaten
Effeminate Of a man showing feminine attributes
Egotist A person who always thinks of himself ; somebody who is selfish or self-centered
Eligible One who is qualifies for election
Elucidate To explain something mysterious or difficult
Embezzlement Misappropriation of money
Emphasize To lay special stress on
Epicure Somebody who has refined taste for food; somebody who loves sensual pleasure and luxury
Epidemic A contagious disease which spreads over a huge area
Epitaph Inscription on a tombstone
Equestrian A person who rides on horse-back
Equilibrium A state of perfect balance
Eradicate Destroy or get rid of something completely; root out an evil or bad practice Ethnology
A study of races
Etiquette Established rules of conduct; rules of acceptable behavior
Etymology A study of derivation of words
Exonerate Free somebody from blame or guilt
Extempore A speech delivered without any previous preparation
Facsimile An exact copy
Fanatic A man who has too much enthusiasm for his own religion
Fastidious A person difficult to please
Fatal Anything that leads to death
Fatalist A person who believes in fate
Feminist One who thinks only of welfare of women
Foregone Something that has been determined beforehand
Fratricide The murder or murderer of one
Germicide A medicine that kills germs
Glutton One who eats too much
Gratis Without payment
Gregarious Of animals living in flocks
Gullible One who is easily deceived
Herbivorous A grass eating animal
Homicide Murder of a human being
Honorary A position for which no salary is paid
Hostility Intense aggression or anger state of antagonism
Humanitarian One who feels sympathetic towards human beings
Hung Assembly or parliament in which no party has got clear majority
Hypocrite One who pretends to be what he is not
Idiosyncrasy A person’s peculiar habit
Idolatry Worship of idols
Illegal That which is against law
Illegible A handwriting that cannot be read
Illicit That is prohibited by law
Illiterate A person who cannot read or write
Immigrant One who lives in a foreign country
Imperceptible That which cannot be noticed
Impervious A person who remains unmoved and unaffected by other people’s opinions, suggestions
Impracticable That which cannot be practiced
Impregnable Incapable of being seized by attack
Improbable That which is not likely to happen
Inanimate Without life
Inaudible A sound that cannot be heard
Incomprehensible A statement which cannot be understood
Incorrigible One who cannot be corrected
Incredible That which cannot be believed
Incurable That which cannot be cured
Indefatigable One incapable of being tired
Indefensible That which cannot be defended
Indescribable That which cannot be described
Indispensable Something that is essential and cannot be dispensed with
Inevitable That which cannot be avoided
Inexplicable That which cannot be explained
Infallible A remedy which never fails
Infanticide The act of killing an infant
Inflammable Something that is quickly and easily set on fire and burned
Inimitable A method that cannot be imitated
Insatiable That which cannot be satisfied
Insoluble Incapable of being dissolved in a liquid
Insolvent One who is unable to pay his debts
Intestate One who dies without a Will
Introspection The action of looking back on past time
Invincible That which cannot be conquered
Invisible A thing that cannot be seen with human eyes
Invulnerable That which cannot be hurt
Irrelevant Not applicable
Irreparable A loss of damage that cannot be compensated
Irrevocable That cannot be altered or withdrawn
Irritable A man who is easily irritated
Jurisdiction The area over which an official has control
Word Meaning
Legal That which is lawful
Maiden The first speech made by a person
Manuscript Handwritten book
Matinee A cinema show which is held in the afternoon
Matricide Killing of one’s own mother; killer of one’s own mother
Medieval Belonging to the Middle Ages
Mercenary One who can do anything for money
Misanthrope One who hates mankind
Misanthropist Hater of mankind
Misogamist A person who does not believe in the institution of marriage
Misogynist A person who hates women
Mobocracy Rule by the mob
Monarchy A Government by a king or queen
Monogamy Practice of having one wife or husband
Namesake Somebody or something with the same name as somebody or something else
Neophyte One who is a newcomer
Notorious A person with an evil reputation
Novice One who is new to a trade or profession
Numismatics Science of coins or medals
Obsolete A thing no longer in use
Oligarchy A Government by the few
Omnipotent All-powerful; possessing complete power and authority
Omnipresent One who is present everywhere
Omniscient A person who knows everything
Omnivorous An animal or a human being that eats any kind of food
Opaque That through which light cannot pass
Optimist One who looks at the bright side of things; somebody positive
Ornithology A study of birds
Orphanage A place where orphans live
Panacea A supposed cure for all diseases or problems
Parasite A person supported by another and giving him/her nothing in return
Patricide Killing of one’s own father; killer of one’s own father
Pauper One who has no money
Pedestrian One who goes on foot
Pessimist One who looks on the dark side of things
Philanthropist Lover of mankind
Philistine One who does not care for art, literature etc
Physiology A study of the body
Plagiarist One who copies from other writers
Plutocracy A Government by the rich
Polyandry Practice of having several husbands
Polygamy Practice of having several wives
Polyglot One who knows many languages
Posthumous A book published after the death of its author
Postmortem Medical examination of a dead body
Postscript A short message added on to the end of a letter after the signature
Potable Water fit for drinking
Predator An animal who preys on other animals
Psephology Systematic study of election trends
Pseudonym To write under a different name
Regicide Murder of the king
Reticent One who speaks less
Sacrilege Violating the sanctity of a church
Samaritan One who helps others Good
Sinecure An office with high salary but no work
Smuggler A person who imports or exports goods into or from a country secretly because they are illegal or in
order to avoid paying duty on them
Soporific A drug or other substance that induces sleep
Stoic One who is indifferent to pleasure or pain
Suicide Murder of self
Synonyms Words which have the same meaning
Theist One who believes in God
Translucent That through which light can partly pass
Transparent That through which light can pass
Turncoat One who changes sides
Valetudinarian One who always thinks himself to be ill
Vandal One who damages public property
Vegetarian Somebody who doesn’t eat meat or fish
Venial A pardonable offense
Ventriloquist One who can throw his voice
Veteran Somebody who is considerably experienced in something
Volunteer One who works for free
Zoology A study of animals
Zoology The branch of biology dealing with the study of animals

English Mcqs Practice Test

WHAT IS ANTONYMS OF WORD TORSION
straightening

talk turn

emotion

COMPLETE THE FOLLOWING SENTENCE THIS

IS THE BEST BOOK
of all others on History

of any other on History

of all on History of any

other in History

WHAT IS ANTONYMS OF WORD INIQUITY

cruelty injustice

equitable

intensity

COMPLETE THE FOLLOWING SENTENCE

NO SOONER DID THE THIEF SEE THE POLICEMAN

he ran away he had run away when he ran away than he

ran away

WHAT IS ANTONYMS OF WORD STUBBORN

suborn

obstinate

ductile stub

COMPLETE THE FOLLOWING SENTENCE

HE IS A fine, young, tall

energetic man young, fine, tall &

energetic man tall, young,

energetic & fine man fine, tall,

young & energetic man

WHAT IS SYNONYMS OF WORD FORAY

fire

brightness lineage

dump-founded

COMPLETE THE FOLLOWING SENTENCE

IF I WERE NOT BUSY, I

shall go with you will go

with you would have gone

with you would go with

you

COMPLETE THE FOLLOWING SENTENCE WHAT

DO YOU
say to a cup of tea

tell a cup of tea utter

to a cup of tea

narrate a cup of tea

COMPLETE THE FOLLOWING SENTENCE I

DONT AGREE WITH YOU; I THINK
it is fairly good film it is

rather a good film it is

rather fairly good film it is

fairly rather good film

COMPLETE THE FOLLOWING SENTENCE

IT IS TIME THAT
the children go to bed the

children went to bed the

children go to their bed the

children went to their bed

COMPLETE THE FOLLOWING SENTENCE
HARDLY
he reached the college, it began to rain we

reached college, then it began to rain we reached

college, when it began to rain had we reached the

college, when it began to rain

PICK THE CORRECT RESPONSE FROM FOLLOWING SENTENCE

I ALWAYS PRAISE HIM FOR HIS MERITS, BUT HE ALWAYS TURNS …………. YOU

POINTING OUT YOUR DEMERITS at to on

for

WHAT IS ANTONYMS OF WORD RESTORATION

lexicon balm hoarding depredation

WHAT IS SYNONYMS OF WORD NIGHTMARE

story journey incubus owl