SPSC English Lecturer Paper 2020

Only a small proportion of medieval books survive, large numbers having been destroyed in____?

1. The Anglo-Saxon Conquest beginning in the 1450s
2. The Norman Conquest of 1066
3. The Peasant Uprising of 1381
4. The Dissolution of the Monasteries in the 1530s.

Sarojini Naidu is chiefly a ______ poet.

1. Narrative
2. Epic
3. Lyric
4. Satirical

Which of the following terms are assigned to the 13 properties identified by Hockett (1960)?

1. Linguistic Universe
2. Relative Scripts
3. Universal Scripts
4. Linguistic Nodes

What was a new system of printing books developed in the 1400s?

1. Block Style writing
2. movable type
3. calligraphy
4. computer

Restoration period saw the rise of:

1. Heroic tragedy
2. classical tragedy
3. domestic tragedy
4. None of the above

When the baby is three months old he can produce velar sounds /k/, /g/ and vowels /l/ and /u/, this stage is as:

1. Babbling
2. holophrastic
3. cooing
4. telegraphic

Which poet belongs to the Victorian age, but is modern in matters of technique?

1. Swinbume
2. Rossetti
3. Hopkins
4. Hardly

“Old Norse” is almost the same as which modern Scandinavian language?

1. Danish
2. Norwegian
3. Icelandic
4. Swedish

کافور ہونا ایک محاورہ ہے۔ اس کا مفہوم کیا ہے؟

1. غائب ہونا
2. ٹھنڈا پڑ جانا
3. محتاط ہونا
4. شرمندہ ہونا

اشغلا چھوڑنا ایک محاورہ ہے۔ اس کا مفہوم کیا ہے؟

1. دھاڑیں مار مار کر رونا
2. کھل کھلا کر ہنسنا
3. بری عادت ترک کردینا
4. انوکھی یا فساد والی بات کہنا