SPSC English Lecturer Paper 2020

Sarojini Naidu`s poem THE QUEEN`S RIVAL is based on a ___ legend.

1. Greek
2. Indian
3. Persian
4. Roman

Faustus asks two magicians to aid him in summoning the devil. What are their names?

1. Valdes and Cornelius
2. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern
3. Troilus and Cressida
4. Pyramus and Thisbe

Maya is the central character in Anita Desai's novel:

1. Bye, Bye, Blackbird
2. Voices in the City
3. Cry, the Peacock
4. None of these

What is the similar word of “Circumvent”?

1. Satire
2. Sensuality
3. Avoid
4. Reform

Mastropieri and Turkewitz (1999) identified that newborn could differentiate between what?

1. Between tone and pitch
2. Between music and prose
3. Between speech patterns
4. None of these

Uncle Tom's Cabin is written by

1. Cotton Mather
2. Sarah Ome Jewett
3. Harriet Elisabeth Beecher
4. Willa Cather

Casanova's Chinese restaurant is a novel by:

1. Anthony Hope
2. Anthony Powell
3. Anthony Trollope
4. Virgina Woolf

What is defined as the study of sentence structure?

1. Morphology
2. Semantics
3. Phonology
4. Syntax

Grammar-Translation Method stresses on:

1. Accuracy
2. Fluency
3. Appropriateness
4. Listening skill

Speakers learn how to participate in conversation. Conversational exchanges can be viewed as ___ (describes how people normally behave in conversation).

1. Coherence
2. cohesion
3. co-operative
4. conversation