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PPSC Lecturer English Paper 2022 Analysis
This analysis categorizes the 92 available questions (out of 100) from the 2022 paper. The breakdown shows the distribution of topics in this set of questions, with a clear focus on English, especially literature.
English Subject: 74 Questions
General Knowledge Section: 18 Questions
Part 1: English (72 Questions)
This is the main portion of the paper, covering core knowledge in literature, linguistics, and grammar.
Literature (52 Questions)
This was the largest section, covering a wide range of English, American, and European literature.
Poetry & Poets: 20 Questions
Topics: A primary focus, with questions on John Donne (Valediction, The Sun Rising, imprisonment), Milton’s Paradise Lost, and Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales.
Robert Browning (A Grammarian’s Funeral), the Romantics (Keats, Wordsworth, Byron), Robert Frost, and Oliver Goldsmith.
William Langland (Piers Plowman), Dante’s Divine Comedy, and Pakistani poets like Taufiq Rafat.
Drama & Dramatists: 12 Questions
Topics: This section covered Shakespearean plays like The Winter’s Tale, The Tempest, Cymbeline, Henry IV, and Twelfth Night.
It also included questions on European dramatists such as Bertolt Brecht (Epic Theatre) and Ibsen, as well as the Jacobean and Restoration periods.
And modern playwrights like Harold Pinter (The Caretaker).
Novel & Novelists: 7 Questions
Topics: Included questions on Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse, Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita, Zulfikar Ghose’s The Murder of Aziz Khan.
Attia Hosain’s Sunlight on a Broken Column, Aldous Huxley’s Antic Hay, Thackeray’s Pendennis, and Jonathan Swift.
Literary Terms, Theory & Prose: 13 Questions
Topics: Focused on definitions of key concepts like Archaism, Picaresque, Aubade, and Hyperbole. It also covered critical theory from figures like Lacan.
Edward Said (Orientalism), Raymond Williams, and Dr. Johnson, as well as questions on prose works by Mary Astell and Charles Lamb.
Linguistics (18 Questions)
Topics: A significant section with questions on core concepts like Orthography, Philology, Morpheme, Phoneme, Allophone, Polysemy, Semiotics, and Acrolect.
It also tested knowledge of linguistic theories and figures like Saussure (Structural Grammar) and John Sinclair (Corpus Linguistics).
Grammar & Vocabulary (4 Questions)
Topics: Included questions on antonyms (Diligent), types of adjectives, determiners (many/much), and the meaning of idioms (“Red Letter’s Day”).
Part 2: General Knowledge (18 Questions)
This section tested a broad range of topics outside the core English syllabus.
World History & Politics (9 Questions)
Topics: First Asian Games, Tughluq Dynasty, Potala Palace, Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, Industrial Revolution, Neo-Colonialism.
Karl Marx’s Das Kapital, the use of sugarcane as fuel, and proponents of learning theories (Albert Bandura).
Pakistan Affairs & History (4 Questions)
Topics: Article 25 of the Constitution, Amanat Ali Khan (Patiala Gharana), Central Mohammadan Association, and the historical context of polio.
Science & IT (4 Questions)
Topics: Earth’s atmosphere zones, the IPCC acronym, MS PowerPoint options, and logical operations in computing.
Basic Math (2 Questions)
Topics: Two math problems (one algebraic, one incomplete).
PPSC English Lecturer Past Papers
PPSC English Lecturer Solved Paper 2022
1. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them (a quote taken from which of the following works)?
A. Twelfth Night
B. Hamlet
C. Romeo & Juliet
D. Julius Caesar
2. Who said ‘Dryden,’ the father of Criticism?
A. James Boswell
B. Dr Johnson
C. Elizabeth Johnson
D. Alexander Pope
3. What is the name of Bertolt Brecht’s theatre?
A. Royal National Theatre
B. Epic theatre
C. The Old Vic
D. None of these
4. Red Letters’ Day
A. The worst day
B. A gloomy day
C. A day of great Joy
D. A writing day
5. Where does the David in the play ”Caretaker” want to go?
A. Blackfen
B. Sidcup
C. Orpington
D. New Eltham
6. Who wrote the History of Pendennis?
A. Charles Dickens
B. William Makepeace
C. George Eliot
D. Thomas Hardy
7. Who wrote the Novel ”Antic Hay”?
A. Aldous Huxley
B. George Orwell
C. H. G. Wells
D. Ray Bradbury
8. A figure of speech that includes exaggeration but is not taken in the literal meaning
A. Oxymoron
B. Hyperbole
C. Hypophora
D. Asterismos
9. When did Keats write his Odes?
A. 1817
B. 1819
C. 1820
D. 1822
10. Imogen is a ”female” character in which play?
A. The Winter’s Tale
B. Cymbeline
C. All’s Well That Ends Well
D. As You Like It
11. Deformed Character in the play ”Tempest”
A. Prospero
B. Ariel
C. Sycorax
D. Caliban
12. What is common in Wordsworth, Byron, and Keats’s poetry?
A. Reform
B. Philosophy
C. War
D. Love
13. A low-born person’s adventure on the road fits perfectly with?
A. Romantic
B. Historical
C. Action
D. Picaresque
14. Robert Browning’s poem has the characteristics of:
A. Dramatic Monologue and Optimist
B. Dramatic Monologue and Pessimist
C. Dramatic Monologue and Misogynist
D. All of these
15. Restoration age is represented as?
A. Comedy of Manners
B. Comedy of Morals
C. Romantic Comedy
D. Comedy of Humors
16. What is the name of the First poem of ”Lyrical Ballads”?
A. The Prelude
B. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
C. I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud
D. Tintern Abbey
17. Charles Lamb’s “Dream Children” is notable for its:
A. Crushing tragedy
B. Humor
C. Whimsical Pathos
D. Cynicism
18. Falstaff is a clown (described in)
A. Twelfth Night
B. Hamlet
C. Romeo & Juliet
D. In Henry IV, Part 1 and Henry IV, Part 2
19. The title of Attia Hussian’s Novel?
A. Sunlight on a Broken Column
B. Sunlight on a Glass
C. Sunlight on a Stream
D. Sunlight on a Broken Wood
20. What is the literary genre of Sun Rising?
A. Allegory
B. Ballad
C. Blason
D. Aubade
21. What form was used in Divine Comedy?
A. Blank Verse
B. Free Verse
C. Haiku
D. Terza Rima
22. Sign and Sign Handling (Study of Signs)
A. Semiotics
B. Syntax
C. Semantics
D. Morphology
23. After Shakespeare European drama was promoted by?
A. Eliot
B. Gower
C. Dryden
D. Ibsen
24. Why was Donne imprisoned?
A. Clandestine Marriage
B. Theft
C. Murder
D. Heresy
25. Who wrote Hamlet and Oedipus?
A. Karl Abraham
B. Earnest Jones
C. Wilhelm Fliess
D. Melanie Klein
26. Who wrote Wedding in Flood?
A. Taufiq Rafat
B. Maki Kureishi
C. Alamgir Hashmi
D. Kaleem Omar
27. Swift is a misanthrope because?
A. He envies people
B. He hates people.
C. He loves animals
D. None of these
28. Jacobian theatre and drama were associated with?
A. James I
B. Elizabeth
C. Charles I
D. Charles II
29. The current Poet Laureate was appointed as the first Professor of Poetry at which university?
A. University of Oxford
B. Leeds University
C. Cambridge University
D. King’s College
30. Who wrote grammarian funeral?
A. Elizabeth Barrett Browning
B. Robert Browning
C. Matthew Arnold
D. William Wordsworth
31. The epic poem Beowulf is shorter than Homer’s Illiad having_______lines
A. 3182
B. 3820
C. 3082
D. None of These
32. The Clerk in the ”Prologue to the Canterbury Tales” has been portrayed as:
A. Ironically
B. Ideally
C. Realistically
D. All of these
33. What is the cause of Sylvia Plath’s death?
A. Firearms
B. Sleeping Pills
C. Poisoning
D. Suffocation
34. Sophonisba is a _______written by James Thomson.
A. Comedy
B. Fantasy
C. Tragedy
D. Science fiction
35. The concept of Orientalism was expiated and expanded by?
A. Frantz Fanon
B. Edward Said
C. Bacon
D. Swift
36. Who wrote ”Murder of Aziz Khan”?
A. Maya Angelou
B. Salman Rushdie
C. Zulfiqar Ghose
D. None of these
37. The bourgeoisie tragedy is attributed to which class by Raymond Williams?
A. Middle Class
B. Working Class
C. Lower Class
D. Elite Class
38. Who wrote Das Capital?
A. Karl Marx
B. Friedrich Engels
C. Vladimir Lenin
D. Max Weber
39. Nature’s first green is gold, her hardest hue to hold is a poem by?
A. Emily Dickinson
B. Robert Frost
C. Maya Angelou
D. Walt Whitman
40. Who is the pioneer (originator) of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood?
A. Dante Gabriel Rossetti
B. John Everett Millais
C. William Holman Hunt
D. Christina Rossetti
41. How many days did it take for Satan to finally speak to Beelzebub?
A. 9
B. 7
C. 6
D. 4
42. How many types of Phonetic Transcription are used?
A. Two
B. Three
C. Four
D. One
43. The ”Deserted Village” by Oliver Goldsmith is a/an ______Poem.
A. Tragedy
B. Drama
C. Comedy
D. Elegy
44. Who wrote Lolita?
A. Vladimir Nabokov
B. Véra Nabokov
C. Fyodor Dostoevsky
D. Franz Kafkae
45. Who is a modern-day corpus linguist?
A. Noam Chomsky
B. Ferdinand de Saussure
C. John Sinclair
D. Edward Sapir
46. What is the complete name of Earl of Surrey?
A. Henry Howard
B. Thomas Wyatt
C. Elizabeth Stafford
D. None of these
47. Alamein to Zem Zem by?
A. Keith Douglas
B. Alfred Tennyson
C. William Wordsworth
D. Sylvia Plath
48. Who was the first Poet Laureate to serve 10 years fixed period?
A. Andrew Motion
B. Philip Larkin
C. Blake Morrison
D. John Keats
49. Some reflections upon marriage (1706) initiated a powerful strain of modern feminism by?
A. Mary Astell
B. Mary Wollstonecraft
C. Catharine Macaulay
D. John Locke
50. Florizel’s servant Autolycus has the role of?
A. Clown
B. A protagonist
C. An antagonist
D. None of these
51. In valediction forbidding mourning, John Donne alludes to the growing field in the renaissance. Which field was growing at that time?
A. geometry
B. astrology
C. Cartography
D. Medicine
52. What was the profession of Mr Ramsay in the novel “To the Light House”?
A. Metaphysical philosopher
B. A Doctor
C. A poet
D. None of these
53. The German playwright Bertolt Brecht proposed which contrasting idea as opposed to the mimetic theatre of Aristotle?
A. Diegetic
B. Problematic
C. Apocalyptic
D. Prophetic
54. Paradigmatic Relation is based upon:
A. Axis of chain
B. Axis of choice
C. Both of these
D. None of these
55. The first and second sounds of ”I” in Little are an example of:
A. Allophone
B. Homophonic variation
C. Minimal Pair
D. Allomorph
56. After creolization the new founded language takes up its______ from the lower prestige.
A. Vocabulary
B. Dialect
C. Accent
D. All of these
57. She has______ coins.
A. Many
B. Much
C. More
D. All of these
58. A person who has equal efficiency in many languages?
A. Polyglot
B. Multilingual
C. Bilingual
D. All of these
59. Words with multiple meanings (word senses)
A. Polysemy
B. Metonymy
C. Homosemy
D. All of these
60. What is the minimum unit of the meaningful word?
A. Phoneme
B. Syllable
C. Morpheme
D. Consonant Cluster
61. What is the prestigious dialect?
A. Basilect
B. Acrolect
C. Mesolect
D. None of these
62. Who introduced Structural grammar/associated with it?
A. Noam Chomsky
B. Ferdinand de Saussure
C. John Sinclair
D. Edward Sapir
63. A string of letters that provide us with a meaningful unit?
A. Morpheme
B. Phoneme
C. Lexis
D. Word
64. Pedagogical grammar is grammatical analysis and instructions designed for?
A. Native Speakers
B. Bilingual
C. Second Language Learners
D. All of these
65. The use of forms whose obsoleteness or obsolescence is manifest …
A. Realism
B. lmagism
C. Archaism
D. obsoletism
66. An adjective that is used to express relative positions in space and time is known as
A. Demonstrative Adjective
B. Descriptive Adjective
C. Quantitative Adjective
D. Possessive Adjective
67. Communicative competence requires that speakers be aware of which two aspects of their language?
A. linguistic and syntactic
B. linguistic and pragmatic
C. semantic and syntactic
D. pragmatic and semantic
68. What is the first and foremost function of a literary critic?
A. To get full value out of literary quality
B. To satisfy the readers
C. To distinguish between a good book and a bad book
D. None
69. Function of Language directive, informative______?
A. Expressive
B. Interrogative
C. Exclamatory
D. Denotative
70. Who said, ”unconsciousness is structured like a language”?
A. Sigmund Freud
B. Lacan
C. Slavoj Žižek
D. Jacques-Alain Miller
71. Whom does the doctor blame for the disease ”polio” being brought to the subcontinent?
A. British
B. American
C. Indian
D. French
72. If 3(x) is equal to 10, then 3(x-3) is equal to?
A. 10/27
B. 10/26
C. 9/27
D. 8/25
73. Nagorno-Karabagh issue is?
A. ethnic and territorial conflict
B. Religious conflict
C. Ideological
D. Moral Conflict
74. Industrial Revolution coincides with?
A. Modernity
B. Globalism
C. Colonialism
D. Neo-colonialism
75. Potala Palace is located in:
A. Tibet
B. Nepal
C. Bhutan
D. Mongolia
76. AND, NANO, AND XOR operations are called?
A. Logical
B. Electromagnetic
C. Acoustic
D. None of these
77. Slides sorter is an option on which ribbon in MS PowerPoint?
A. View
B. Review
C. Insert
D. Design
78. Opposite of Diligent
A. Austere
B. Firm
C. Studious
D. Lazy
79. Philology can be defined as?
A. Historical Development
B. Physical Development
C. Mind Development
D. Thought development
80. What Is Orthography?
A. The study of spelling
B. The Study of Grammar
C. The Study of Science
D. The Study of Signs
81. The subtle way of governing institutions_______.
A. Colonialism
B. Imperialism
C. Neo-Colonialism
D. None of these
82. In which country is sugarcane justice used as a fuel?
A. Brazil
B. France
C. Japan
D. England
83. IPPC stands for?
A. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate
B. The Intergovernmental Panel on Class
C. The Intergovernmental Policy on Climate
D. None of these
84. Founder of the Taghluq dynasty?
A. Ghiyas-ud-din Tughluq
B. Muhammad ibn Tughluq
C. Ghiyas ud din Balban
D. Khusrau Khan
85. Who started the Central Mohammadan Association?
A. Chaudhri Rehmat Ali
B. Amir Ali
C. Mohsan-ul-Haq
D. Khadim Hussain
86. Amanat ALI belongs to which family?
A. Patiala gharana
B. Jut Gharana
C. Gujjar Gharana
D. Syed Gharana
87. Which article ensures equality before the law and equal protection of the law, and states?
A. Article 25
B. Article 58 2B
C. Article 19
D. Article 92
88. If 3 is subtracted from X digit?
A. 12
B. 6
C. 5
D. 7
89. Who is the proponent of learning from the environment?
A. B.F. Skinner
B. John B. Watson
C. Edward Thorndike
D. Albert Bandura
90. The First Asian Games were conducted in?
A. 1951
B. 1952
C. 1953
D. 1960
91. Total Earth atmosphere zones?
A. 6
B. 7
C. 8
D. 5
92. Total Earth atmosphere zones?
A. 6
B. 7
C. 8
D. 5