SPSC English Lecturer Paper 2020

In Anglo-Saxon heroic poetry, what is the fate of those who fail to observe the sacred duty of blood vengeance?

1. Banishment
2. Everlasting shame
3. conversation to Christianity
4. Mild melancholia

In which novel of his Lawrence dealt with psychological phenomenon known as “Oedipus Complex”?

1. Lady Chatterly`s Lover
2. Sons of lovers
3. The Trespasser
4. The boy in the bunch

John Keats died of:

1. Cancer
2. Tuberculosis
3. Malaria
4. None of the above

Two words with very close meanings called.

1. Antonyms
2. Synonyms
3. Homonyms
4. None of the above

Transistor invented by:

1. Edison
2. Thomson
3. Bardeen
4. None of the above

To which of these language groups does English belong?

1. Baltic
2. Romance
3. Germanic
4. Slavonic

The “old wives” Tale is a novel by:

1. Hardy
2. Henry James
3. Arnold Bennett
4. John Galsworthy

The word “Novel” is derived from the Italian word:

1. Novella
2. Novelle
3. Novelette
4. Noval

The title of Sir Philip Sidney’s pastoral romance in prose is:

1. Utopia
2. Arcadia
3. Hydriotaphia
4. Lamia

The study of which words occur together, and their frequency of co-occurrence:

1. connotation
2. collocation
3. implication
4. location