SPSC Past papers of English Lecturer 2024

“My Last Duchess” is a_____?

1. Soliloquy
2. Monologue
3. Satire
4. Aside

Which two cities does the title ‘A Tale of Two Cities’ refers to?

1. London and Athens
2. London and Geneva
3. London and New York
4. London and Paris

What is the name of play staged for Claudius in the drama Hamlet?

1. The murder of Gonzago
2. The murder of a king
3. The murder of a brother
4. The murderer

Who is the poet of famous elegy "In Memoriam"?

1. Robert Browning
2. Walter Scott
3. Philip Sidney
4. Lord Tennyson

Which part of speech is the underlined word/word in the bracket in the given sentence “He is fond of (Shakespearian) drams”?

1. Comparative Adjective
2. Compound Adjective
3. Proper Adjective
4. Proper Noun

What is Apical Sound?

1. A sound produced by obstructing the air passage with the tip of the tongue
2. Consonant produced by bringing one articulator close to another
3. A sound produced with any friction
4. Vowels sound produced when the back part of the tongue raised

What is Catharsis in literature?

1. The expression of one’s meaning the signifies the opposite meaning
2. To discover the true identity
3. Art to ridicule somebody
4. Emotional purgation of purification

How is Puzzo different in Second Act than in the First Act in Beckett’s waiting for Godot?

1. He is mute
2. He is crippled
3. He is deaf
4. He is blind

A picaresque novel is about?

1. Pictures and Paintings
2. Picturisation
3. Adventures of a rogue
4. Letters

Cymbeline was written by?

1. William Shakespeare
2. Christopher Marlowe
3. GB Shaw
4. H. Ibsen