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🡆 PPSC English Lecturer Exam Guide
PPSC Lecturer English Paper 2011 Analysis
This analysis categorizes the 100 available questions from the 2011 paper, showing the heavy emphasis on literary history, major authors, and vocabulary.
Literature (History & Theory): 68 Questions
Vocabulary & Grammar: 16 Questions
Linguistics: 16 Questions
Part 1: Literature (68 Questions)
This was by far the largest section, covering a vast range of English and American literary history, genres, authors, and critical concepts.
Poetry (20 Questions)
Topics: A major focus, with questions on T.S. Eliot’s nationality and essay, the works of W.B. Yeats (The Winding Stair), and William Blake.
Shelley’s Adonis and first work, Robert Frost’s collections, Tennyson’s Ulysses.
The characteristics of Metaphysical poets like John Donne (faith, unified sensibility) and Emily Dickinson.
Drama (15 Questions)
Topics: Covered Ben Jonson’s plays (Everyman in His Humor, Sejanus) and his rivalry with Shakespeare.
Shakespeare’s acting career and his plays (King Lear, The Tempest, The Merchant of Venice).
Marlowe’s tragedies, Pinter’s The Caretaker, and the original language of Waiting for Godot.
Novel (12 Questions)
Topics: Questions included the authorship of Wuthering Heights and “The Egoist,” Thomas Hardy’s classification of novels and themes.
H.G. Wells’ science fiction, the first picaresque novelist, and the original title of Pride and Prejudice.
George Eliot’s intellectual leanings, Virginia Woolf and stream of consciousness, and Hemingway’s nickname.
Literary History & Periods (13 Questions)
Topics: This section tested broad knowledge of literary timelines, including the Norman Conquest, Chaucer’s medieval period, the Renaissance, and its connection to Humanism.
The rise of the novel (1660-1790), the timing of the English Civil War, and the secularization of literature in the 17th century. The University Wits were also covered.
Literary & Critical Theory (8 Questions)
Topics: Included definitions of literary terms like Genre, Assonance, Hyperbole, Synaesthesia, Tragicomedy, and Conceit. It also covered J.S. Mill’s On Liberty and T.S. Eliot’s essay, The Metaphysical Poets.
Part 2: Vocabulary & Grammar (16 Questions)
This section focused on word knowledge and sentence logic.
Synonyms & Antonyms (12 Questions)
Topics: Tested knowledge of synonyms (for words like Nincompoop, Impetuous, Truncate) and antonyms (for words like Obdurate, Extrinsic, Capricious).
Sentence Completion (4 Questions)
Topics: Required the logical completion of sentences to test vocabulary in context and reasoning skills.
Part 3: Linguistics (16 Questions)
This section covered the scientific and structural study of language.
Phonetics & Semantics
Topics: Questions covered the definition of a vowel, repetition of vowel sounds (Assonance), the study of meaning (Semantics), the origin of the word language (Latin), and the process of creating new words (Coinage).
PPSC English Lecturer Past Papers
PPSC English Lecturer Solved Paper 2011
1. T.S. Eliot was a/an…?
A. American poet
B. Russian poet
C. British poet
D. French poet
2. Carl Sanburg was born at?
A. Milan
B. Galena
C. Quincy
D. Illinois
3. The poem Byzantium is written about?
A. A city
B. A continent
C. A country (An ancient roman place’s name)
D. A class
4. Wuthering Heights is written by?
A. Emile Bronte
B. George Eliot
C. Thomas Hardy
D. Charles Dickson
5. The poet who used extensive alliteration?
A. John Donne
B. Spencer
C. Milton
D. Sidney
6. Repetition of the same vowel sound is called?
A. Alliteration
B. Consonance
C. Assonance
D. Anaphora
7. Caretaker is written by?
A. Joseph Losey
B. Pinter
C. Hall
D. Fraser
8. Everyman in His Humor is written by?
A. Christopher Marlowe
B. John Dryden
C. John Webster
D. Ben Johnson
9. Word language consists of two_____ words.
A. Greek
B. Spanish
C. Latin
D. French
10. Semantics is the…
A. Study of the sound system
B. Study of word formation
C. Study of structure
D. Study of meanings
11. Sound produced without obstruction of air?
A. Consonant
B. Diphthongs
C. Vowel
D. Plosives
12. Linguistics is a combination of ______ words?
A. One
B. Three
C. Two
D. Four
13. Elizabeth Sewell was born in?
A. New Zealand
B. England
C. Australia
D. America
14. Shakespeare acted in one of the plays of ?
A. Christopher Marlowe
B. Sheridan
C. Ben johnson
D. John Webster
15. The Wasteland of Eliot is dedicated to?
A. William Carlos
B. T.S. Eliot
C. Ezra Pound
D. Gertrude Stein
16. Hardy’s own classification of novels was?
A. Three
B. Four
C. Two
D. Five
17. The Egoist was written by?
A. Thomas Hardy
B. Hubert Parry
C. George Meredith
D. Hubert Bancroft
18. Time Machine and The Invisible Man written by?
A. George Orwell
B. H.G. Wells
C. Jules Verne
D. Orson Welles
19. Synaesthesia is?
A. Unification of the soul
B. Unification of thoughts
C. Unification of senses
D. Unification of people
20. Winding Stair is a poem by?
A. T.S. Eliot
B. W.B.Yeats
C. James Joyce
D. John Keats
21. Unified sensibility?
A. Donne
B. Milton
C. Herbet
D. Marvell
22. Sejanus is a satirical tragedy by?
A. Christopher Marlowe
B. John Dryden
C. Ben Johnson
D. John Webster
23. Stream of consciousness was used by
A. Thomas Hardy
B. Virginia Woolf
C. Leonardo Woolf
D. Vanessa Bell
24. Waiting for Godot’s original language?
A. French
B. Italian
C. Greek
D. Spanish
25. Literature became secular towards the end of?
A. 16th century
B. 13th century
C. 17th century
D. 15th century
26. 1660 – 1790 span is the rise of ?
A. Novel
B. Prose
C. Poetry
D. Drama
27. Paradise lost was written in?
A. 1662
B. 1667
C. 1669
D. 1600
28. The period from 1642 to 1651 was of?
A. Prosperity
B. Inventions
C. Civil war
D. Critical thinking
29. King Lear was written in?
A. 1608
B. 1604
C. 1603
D. 1605
30. The span of the Renaissance period was?
A. 1540-1600
B. 1550-1660
C. 1510-1600
D. 1600-1700
31. Chaucer’s writing was?
A. Serious
B. Humorous poet
C. Satirical
D. both a and b
32. George Eliot’s inclination regarding her approach to thought is towards ………
A. Modern
B. Romantics
C. Enlightenment
D. Conservative
33. George Eliot wrote Adam Bede at the age of?
A. 25
B. 40
C. 35
D. 20
34. Adonis was written for?
A. Byron
B. Shelley
C. Wordsworth
D. Keats
35. A figure of speech that is used for exaggeration is called?
A. Irony
B. Satire
C. Hyperbole
D. Aphorism
36. The Treatise on Liberty was written by?
A. Jeremy Bentham
B. Adam Smith
C. J.S. Mill
D. John Locke
37. Metaphysical Poets is an essay by?
A. W.B. Yeats
B. Ezra Pound
C. T.S. Eliot
D. Valerie Eliot
38. The Age of the Pope is called?
A. Augusten
B. Ciceronian period
C. Age of reason
D. Romantics
39. Prospero was the protagonist of?
A. Macbeth
B. Hamlet
C. The Merchant of Venice
D. The Tempest
40. Enthusiastic addiction to study of Greek and Roman antiquity led to?
A. Humanism
B. Existentialism
C. Idealism
D. Empiricism
41. Types of literature, art or music is called?
A. Theme
B. Genre
C. Central idea
D. Paradigm
42. Tragicomedy is also called?
A. Tragic play
B. Reconciliation play
C. Romantic play
D. Satirical play
43. Nothing is beneath science, nor above science. Who said this?
A. Swift
B. Bacon
C. Russell
D. William Congreve
44. Swift’s irony is fused into?
A. Alliteration
B. Assonance
C. Allegory
D. Metaphor
45. Bacon was intellectually great, but morally weak. Who said this?
A. Dryden
B. Pope
C. Eliot
D. Marlowe
46. The Road Not Taken by Frost is included in his which collection?
A. Mountain Interval
B. A Boy’s Will
C. North of Boston
D. New Hampshire
47. The first writer of a Picaresque novel was?
A. Henry Fielding
B. Smollett
C. Samuel Richardson
D. Lawrence Sterne
48. Shelley’s first work was?
A. Adonis
B. To a skylark
C. Ode to the west wind
D. Queen Mab
49. The original title of Pride and Prejudice was?
A. Marriage hunt
B. Elizabeth’s judgment
C. First Impressions
D. Discrimination
50. Songs Of Innocence And Experience belong to?
A. William Blake
B. Catherine Blake
C. John Milton
D. John Keats
51. Shakespeare rival in comedy writing is?
A. Ben Johnson
B. Dryden
C. John Webster
D. George Chapman
52. Which one is Marlow’s prímitive tragedy?
A. The Jew of Malta
B. Dr. Faustus
C. Tamburlaine
D. Edward ||
53. During Chaucer’s age England passed through which period?
A. Classical antiquity
B. Medievalism
C. Modernism
D. Renaissance
54. Which century is the most important epoch in the intellectual history?
A. 14th
B. 15th
C. 13th
D. 12th
55. Poet who studied at Cambridge but got no degree was?
A. Tennyson
B. Coleridge
C. Herbert
D. Byron
56. John Keats gave up the career of ____ to become a poet?
A. Medicine
B. lawyer
C. Economist
D. Engineer
57. Donne’s faith at the start was?
A. Catholicism
B. Protestant
C. Restorationism
D. Anabaptism
58. Hemingway’s nickname in his later age was?
A. Papa
B. Jonny
C. Adam
D. Nick
59. Repetition of the same vowel sound is?
A. 44
B. 45
C. 56
D. 43
60. Queen Elizabeth descended from which family?
A. Robert Stewart
B. King James
C. Norman
D. Alfred
61. Norman conquest happened in?
A. 1065
B. 1067
C. 1066
D. 956
62. War between flesh and spirit Is in which novel of Hardy?
A. Far from the madding crowd
B. Jude of the Obscure
C. The mayor of Casterbridge
D. The return of the native
63. The process of introducing new words is called?
A. Clipping
B. Borrowing
C. Coinage
D. Conversion
64. Sir Gawain and Green knight poems were written in ___ age.
A. Modern age
B. Renaissance
C. Medieval age
D. Romantic age
65. Which play started with the incident of shipwreck?
A. Twelfth Night
B. Tempest
C. Othello
D. King Lear
66. Who emerged as a philosopher in The Merchant of Venice ?
A. Portia
B. Cordelia
C. Sylvia
D. Ophelia
67. Shakespeare’s heroines have a____trait?
A. Feminine trait
B. Masculine trait
C. Euphorian trait
D. Eunuch trait
68. Shakespeare comedies contain continental and………?
A. Pacific
B. Arabian
C. Atlantic
D. Mediterranean
69. The synonym of Nincompoop is?
A. Wise
B. Rational
C. Foolish
D. Scholar
70. The synonym of Impetuous is?
A. Irrational
B. Reasonable
C. Cautious
D. Meticulous
71. The synonym of Truncate is?
A. Elongate
B. Increment
C. Shorten
D. Widen
72. The antonym of Obdurate is?
A. Stony
B. Obstinate
C. Submissive
D. Granitic
73. The synonym of Fluster is?
A. Calm
B. Collected
C. Embarrassed
D. Indifferent
74. The antonym of Extrinsic is?
A. External
B. Outside
C. International
D. Interior
75. The antonym of Capricious is
A. Impulsive
B. Whimsical
C. Recollect
D. Fickle
76. The antonym of Brazen is?
A. Straightforward
B. Unscrupulous
C. Shy
D. Blunt
77. University Wit estimated literary period is a little more than …….. years.
A. 10 years
B. 9 years
C. 6 years
D. 10 years
78. Volcanic rocks very often look shiny because it had been _____
A. Igneous
B. Pressurized
C. Cooled
D. Polished
79. Only a ____person could be ______to the suffering of people.
A. philanthropist, a cure
B. righteous, a medicine
C. sympathetic, understanding
D. tyrant, lovely
80. The military censors______passages in letters that they thought might_____ security.
A. Scandalous, Compromise
B. Controversial, strengthen
C. Literary, Enlighten
D. Informative, test
81. People do not exist in _______but in functioning______.
A. Home, Heart
B. Books, Reality
C. Isolation, Communities
D. Misery, Society
82. Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath were?
A. Cousins
B. Husbànd and wife
C. Siblings
D. Friends
83. Because I Could Not Stop For Death was written by?
A. William Shakespeare
B. Sylvia Plath
C. Allan Poe
D. Emily Dickinson
84. A Farfetched metaphor is called?
A. Conceit
B. Hyperbole
C. illusion
D. Analogy
85. Ulysses poem was written by?
A. Robert Browning
B. Arthur Hallam
C. Alfred Tennyson
D. Hallam Tennyson
86. The synonym of Elocution is?
A. illegible
B. Stutter
C. Fluent
D. Incongruous
87. The antonym of Obdurate is?
A. Stony
B. Obstinate
C. Submissive
D. Granitic
88. The antonym of Extrinsic is?
A. External
B. Outside
C. International
D. Interior
89. The antonym of Brazen is?
A. Straightforward
B. Unscrupulous
C. Shy
D. Blunt
90. The antonym of Capricious is
A. Impulsive
B. Whimsical
C. Recollect
D. Fickle
91. The synonym of Fluster is?
A. Calm
B. Collected
C. Embarrassed
D. Indifferent
92. The synonym of Truncate is?
A. Elongate
B. Increment
C. Shorten
D. Widen
93. The synonym of Impetuous is?
A. Irrational
B. Reasonable
C. Cautious
D. Meticulous
94. The synonym of Nincompoop is?
A. Wise
B. Rational
C. Foolish
D. Scholar
95. Shakespeare comedies contain continental and………?
A. Pacific
B. Arabian
C. Atlantic
D. Mediterranean
96. Shakespeare’s heroines have a____trait?
A. Feminine trait
B. Masculine trait
C. Euphorian trait
D. Eunuch trait
97. Who emerged as a philosopher in The Merchant of Venice?
A. Portia
B. Cordelia
C. Sylvia
D. Ophelia
98. Which play started with the incident of the shipwreck?
A. Twelfth Night
B. Tempest
C. Othello
D. King Lear
99. Sir Gawain and Green knight poems were written in ___ age.
A. Modern age
B. Renaissance
C. Medieval age
D. Romantic age
100. The process of introducing new words is called?
A. Clipping
B. Borrowing
C. Coinage
D. Conversion