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Literature — 352 previous-year questions — page 10 of 15
Every Literature question TNPSC has asked in the papers we hold, under English, with the correct answer marked in Tamil and English. Explanations are free with an account.ஆங்கிலம் பாடத்தின் கீழ், எங்களிடம் உள்ள வினாத்தாள்களில் TNPSC கேட்ட அனைத்து வினாக்களும், சரியான விடை குறிக்கப்பட்டு. விளக்கங்கள் இலவசக் கணக்கில் கிடைக்கும்.
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From which play these lines occur
"The quality of mercy is not strain'd
It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven
Upon the place beneath".- Julius Caesar
- Antony and Cleopatra
- The Merchant of Venice✓
- King Lear
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"We were taken from the ore-bed and the mine,
We were melted in the furnace and the pit -
We were cast and wrought and hammered to design,
We were cut and filed and tooled and gauged to fit".
What is the poetic device used here?- Oxymoron
- Paradox
- Assonance
- Anaphora✓
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In Oscar Wilde's 'The Selfish Giant', the giant returned to his castle after seven years because
- he had urgent business at home
- his business with his friend was over✓
- his friend was sick
- he was not well
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And all I ask is a windy day with the white clouds flying,
And the flung spray and the blown spume, and the sea-gulls crying.
The rhyming words in the above lines are- windy, white
- spray, spume
- clouds, gulls
- flying, crying✓
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Identify the rhyme scheme used in the following poetic lines
Whose woods these are I think I know;
His house is in the village though;
He will not see me stopping here
To watch his woods fill up with snow.- a b a b
- a a b b
- a a b a✓
- a b b a
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In which poem does the following lines occur?
Ready to run to hiding new.
With laughter when she found us soon.- Solitary Reaper
- Earth
- Going for water✓
- The Apology
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Match the name of the characters in Column A with their characteristics in Column B.
Column A(a) M. Hamel 1. Student (b) Franz 2. Teacher (c) Hauser 3. Blacksmith (d) Wachter 4. Old man Column B
- (a)-2 (b)-1 (c)-4 (d)-3✓
- (a)-1 (b)-4 (c)-2 (d)-3
- (a)-4 (b)-1 (c)-3 (d)-2
- (a)-2 (b)-3 (c)-4 (d)-1
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The adventures of Tom Sawyer is a ____________.
- Short Story
- Novel✓
- Fiction
- Tale
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The figure of speech used in the following poetic line,
"O Ye Wheels" from the poem "The Cry of the Children" of Elizabeth Barrett Browning is- Simile
- Metaphor
- Personification✓
- Allusion
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The good is often interred with their bones. So let it be with Caesar. These are the words of ————.
- Caesar
- Cassius
- Brutus
- Antony✓
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Which of the following lines belongs to "William Shakespeare"?
- Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks But bears it out even to the edge of the doom✓
- But O heart ! heart ! heart O the bleeding drops O red !
- For I'm off to outer space tomorrow morning
- The music in my heart I bore Long after it was heard no more
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Which of the given option is a Metaphor?
- Life is like a chocolate box
- Raj is like his twin brother
- His words are pearls of wisdom✓
- The bus is slow as a snail
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Name the goddess that is worshipped in the travelogue "To the land of snow"?
- Kali Matha
- Nanda Devi✓
- Durga Devi
- Saraswathi
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Find the odd pair from those given below :
- The Apology – Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Is life, but a dream? – H. W. Longfellow✓
- The flying wonder – Stephen Vincent Benet
- English words – V. K. Gokak
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"We are not advocating Xenophobia nor isolation"
Who says these words?- M.K. Gandhi
- A.P.J. Abdul Kalam✓
- Jawaharlal Nehru
- Gopala Krishna Gokhale
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Which one of the following is the short story collection of 'Oscarwilde'
- The Happy Prince✓
- The Happy Clown
- The Happy Queen
- The Happy King
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Match the characters in Column A with their association in Column B as seen in Julius Caesar and select the correct code given below :
(a) Calphurnia 1. Eloquence of speech (b) Decius Brutus 2. Caesar's wife (c) Marcus Brutus 3. One of the conspirators (d) Mark Antony 4. Beloved friend - (a)-1 (b)-3 (c)-4 (d)-2
- (a)-2 (b)-3 (c)-4 (d)-1✓
- (a)-3 (b)-4 (c)-2 (d)-1
- (a)-2 (b)-4 (c)-3 (d)-1
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Choose the incorrect option.
The court scene in The Merchant of Venice is about —- Antonio's pleading for justice
- Portia's argument in favour of Shylock✓
- Shylock's claim of a pound of Christian flesh
- Portia's argument against Shylock's claim of a pound of flesh
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"No walls for me, No vigil gates, No flags, no machine guns that blast"
Whose words are these?- Walt Whitman
- H.W. Longfellow
- D.H. Lawrence
- Famida Y. Basheer✓
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Phatik's uncle name was ———— in "Holiday".
- Murugan
- Makhanlal
- Bishvambar✓
- Kolappan
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Helen Keller speaks about the word ———— in "The Mystery of Language".
- Book
- Water✓
- Tree
- Pencil
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Who was the only poet honoured with the title "Poet Laureate of Michigan".
- William Wordsworth
- Edgar Allen Poe
- Kalil Gibran
- Edgar A. Guest✓
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Which of the following poem does not picture childhood memories?
- A Sonnet for my incomparable mother
- Sonnet – 116✓
- Piano
- Paper boat
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Mark Antony with his ———— wins the public over to his side.
- acting
- honesty
- pride
- eloquence✓
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"The story of My Life" is the autobiography of
- Mahatma Gandhi
- Jawaharlal Nehru
- Nelson Mandela
- Helen Keller✓
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