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Literature — 352 previous-year questions — page 13 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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Match the poem with the poet.
(a) With a Friend 1. Paul Holmes (b) Migrant Bird 2. Vivian Gould (c) The cry of the children 3. Famida Y. Basheer (d) Beautiful Inside 4. Elizabeth Barret Browning - (a)-3 (b)-2 (c)-1 (d)-4✓
- (a)-2 (b)-3 (c)-4 (d)-1
- (a)-4 (b)-3 (c)-2 (d)-1
- (a)-1 (b)-4 (c)-3 (d)-2
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Name the poem in which the following lines appear.
"A mirror of his changing moods
Now Sure, now steeped in thought"- No men are Foreign
- Shilpi✓
- Don't Quit
- My Grandmother's House
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"Bertie, why do you bound?"
The above song is mentioned in the story- Sam the Piano
- The Open Window✓
- The Wooden Bowl
- Refugee
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An implied simile is a ----------.
- metathesis
- metaphor✓
- metanymy
- metamorphosis
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What was the name of the system that Nelson Mandela fought against?
- Civil Rights
- Apartheid✓
- Violence
- Sathi
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Match the following :
Characters(a) Bagha Bagdi 1. Reflowering (b) Appa 2. The Necklace (c) Matilda 3. The Selfish Giant (d) Cornish Ogre 4. Holiday Stories
- (a)-4 (b)-1 (c)-2 (d)-3✓
- (a)-4 (b)-3 (c)-1 (d)-3
- (a)-2 (b)-1 (c)-4 (d)-3
- (a)-3 (b)-4 (c)-2 (d)-1
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"The story of My Experiments with Truth" is an autobiographical work written by
- Jawaharlal Nehru
- Mahatma Gandhi✓
- Abraham Lincoln
- Subash Chandra Bose
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"Any Tradition, however ancient, if inconsistent with morality, is fit to be banished from the land. Untouchability may be considered an ancient tradition."
These words are said by- Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru
- Gokhale
- Gandhiji✓
- Raja Ram Mohan Roy
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Match the poems under Column A with the poets under Column B and select the correct code :
Column A(a) Off to Outer Space Tomorrow Morning 1. Douglas Mallock (b) Sonnet-116 2. Norman Nicholson (c) Be the Best 3. Lewis Caroll (d) Is Life But a Dream 4. William Shakespeare Column B
- (a)-1 (b)-2 (c)-4 (d)-3✓
- (a)-2 (b)-4 (c)-1 (d)-3
- (a)-3 (b)-1 (c)-2 (d)-4
- (a)-2 (b)-4 (c)-3 (d)-1
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Pick out the words in alliteration in the below line?
'And heaven a surer heritage'- Surer, heritage
- Heaven, heritage✓
- Heritage, heritage
- And, heritage
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When did Ramayya's wife notice the jewel in the story "The Nose Jewel"?
- While sweeping the floor✓
- While washing the floor
- While dusting the floor
- While mopping the floor
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Harmonic cacophony to oblivious ears
Identify the figure of speech used in the given line- onomatopoeia
- oxymoron✓
- personification
- alliteration
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Name the poet who wrote the poem "On Killing a Tree".
- William Wordsworth
- Mark Twain
- Dr. Gieve Patel✓
- Mary Botham Howitt
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My heart was so light
That I sang day and Night
For all nature looked gay
"You sang, sir, you say?"
Mention the rhyme scheme employed in the above lines- a a b c
- a a b b✓
- a b b a
- a b b b
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Who wrote the following motivational poem, "You can't be that, No, You can't be that"?
- Hope Spencer
- Dale Carnegi
- Brian Patten✓
- Rupert Brooke
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________ is not a Nobel Prize winner.
- Rudyard Kipling
- William Golding
- Oscar Wilde✓
- Pearl S. Buck
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Identify the poet who wrote the following lines :
"We ran as if to meet the moon
That slowly dawned behind the trees".- Norman Nicholson
- Jack Prelutsky
- Robert Frost✓
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Match the following :
Column A(a) Walt Whitman 1. Chemmeen (b) Thakazhi Sivasankara Pillai 2. The Merchant of Venice (c) William Shakespeare 3. O Captain My Captain (d) Oscar Wilde 4. The Selfish Giant Column B
- (a)-3 (b)-1 (c)-4 (d)-2
- (a)-2 (b)-1 (c)-3 (d)-4
- (a)-3 (b)-1 (c)-2 (d)-4
- (a)-4 (b)-2 (c)-1 (d)-3✓
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"Dust thou art, to dust returnest" This allusion is taken from ———— book.
- The Quran
- The Bhagavad Gita
- The Bible✓
- Guru Granth Sahib
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Identify the person who fought for the preservation of many important forests, like the Bharatpur, Bird sanctuary and Silent Valley.
- Medha Patkar
- Zai Whitaker
- Dr. Salim Ali✓
- Arundhathi Roy
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Name the poem in which the following lines appear :
No nightingale did ever chaunt
More welcome notes to weary bands.- A Psalm of life
- Going for water
- Ode to a nightingale
- The Solitary Reaper✓
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And I Sunned it with smiles
Identify the alliteration in the given line.- I – it
- And – with
- Sunned – smile✓
- Sunned – with
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What figure of speech is the following?
Life is compared to pathless wood with the word 'like'.- Metaphor
- Simile✓
- Personification
- Hyperbole
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"The ship is anchor'd safe and sound, its voyage closed and done" –
The figure of speech used by Walt Whitman in these lines is ——————.- Oxymoron
- Personification
- Simile
- Metaphor✓
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Kalpana Chawla died on
- Feb 3, 2003, Space Shuttle India Disaster
- Feb 1, 2005, Space Shuttle Columbia Disaster
- Feb 1, 2003, Space Shuttle Columbia Disaster✓
- Feb 4, 2003, Space Shuttle Columbia Disaster
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