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Literature — 352 previous-year questions — page 2 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.
- 352questionsவினாக்கள்
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The common link between Ramkant Achrekar and Sachin Tendulkar was both started playing cricket at the age of
- 12
- 11✓
- 17
- 10
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'A thing of beauty is a joy forever'
The above line is written by- John Keats✓
- John Kennedy
- John Smith
- William Wordsworth
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Match the Column A the author with the Column B of the title.
Column-A(a) Dr. Arignar Annadurai 1. The queen of boxing (b) Khushwant Singh 2. Forgetting (c) M.C. Mary Kom 3. The portrait of a lady (d) Robert Lynd 4. Convocation address Column-B
- (a)-3 (b)-1 (c)-4 (d)-2✓
- (a)-4 (b)-3 (c)-1 (d)-2
- (a)-2 (b)-1 (c)-3 (d)-4
- (a)-4 (b)-2 (c)-3 (d)-1
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Love's not time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks within his bending sickle's compass come;
These lines refers to the ________.- Destructive power of love
- Destructive power of time✓
- Permanency of external beauty
- Constructive power of beauty
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Robert Frost received ———— Pulitzer Prizes.
- 4✓
- 6
- 8
- 5
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William Shakespeare married Anne Hathaway in the year
- 1580
- 1579
- 1582✓
- 1583
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Peter stopped the water by
- Keeping the mud over the hole
- Keeping his finger in the hole✓
- Keeping a stone in the hole
- Keeping wooden piece in the hole
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What game did Ferdinand play with Miranda in the Island?
- Carrom
- Hide and Seek
- Cards
- Chess✓
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All of the sights of the hill and plain
Fly as thick as driving rain;
The figure of speech used in the above line is- Simile✓
- Oxymoron
- Repetition
- Metaphor
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"... though he had no hand in his death, Shall receive the benefit of his dying, a place in the commonwealth".
Who is speaking about whom in the above passage from Julius Caesar?- Antony about Brutus
- Brutus about Antony✓
- First Citizen about Brutus
- Octavious about Antony
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Who among the following has flavoured with sentimental preachment in his poems?
- Walt Witman
- A.L. Walker
- H.W. Longfellow✓
- V.K. Gokak
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"Through the flowers and foliage glancing
Like a child at play".
Mention the figure of speech used in the above lines.- Imagery
- Simile✓
- Epithet
- Metaphor
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Match the Poets with their Poems :
(a) Mary Botham Howitt 1. The River (b) Caroline Ann Bowles 2. The Stick-together Families (c) Robert Frost 3. The Spider and the Fly (d) Edgar Albert Guest 4. Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening - (a)-3 (b)-1 (c)-4 (d)-2✓
- (a)-4 (b)-2 (c)-3 (d)-1
- (a)-3 (b)-4 (c)-2 (d)-1
- (a)-2 (b)-4 (c)-1 (d)-3
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"Don't give up, though pace seems slow"
What is the figure of speech employed here?- Assonance✓
- Allusion
- Apostrophe
- Anaphora
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Whose words are these?
"I too possess a body and mind, a heart and soul – just like you".- Kalpana Chawla
- Hughie
- Gaia✓
- Saralabehn
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Match the lines under Column A with the poets under Column B :
(a) Art is long and Time is fleeting 1. V.K. Gokak (b) And I like a second comer, waiting 2. H.W. Long fellow (c) O' tongues of fire 3. Thomas Hardy (d) Or help to half a crown 4. D.H. Lawrence - (a)-3 (b)-2 (c)-1 (d)-4
- (a)-1 (b)-3 (c)-2 (d)-4
- (a)-4 (b)-1 (c)-3 (d)-2
- (a)-2 (b)-4 (c)-1 (d)-3✓
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What was the expected arrival time of the train in the story - The Woman On Platform 8?
- One o'clock
- Twelve o'clock✓
- Two o'clock
- Eleven o'clock
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Mention the poem in which the following lines occur.
Your eagle pinion is chained down at last
And gravelling in the lowly dust are you.- Laugh And Be Merry
- The Apology
- To India – My Native Land✓
- A Tiger in the Zoo
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A Sonnet is written in a single stanza consisting of ———— lines.
- 12
- 14✓
- 16
- 18
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"As Caesar loved me, I weep for him" – these are the words quoted by
- Octavious Caesar
- Amelius Lepidus
- Brutus✓
- Mark Antony
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Who has uttered these words?
His sceptre shows the force of temporal power.- Shylock
- Bassanio
- Portia✓
- Antonio
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Which of the following lines does not occur in William Shakespeare's works?
- The evil that men do lives after them
- My deeds upon my head! I crave the law
- O judgement! Thou art fled to breetish beasts
- Was it cowardice, that I dared not kill him?✓
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Which figure of speech does the expression, "the hissing noise of the snake" contain?
- logopoeia
- anaphora
- diaspora
- onomatoepia✓
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Mahatma Gandhiji was inspired and influenced by
- Tolstoy's "Civil disobedience"
- John Ruskin's "Unto this Last"✓
- Thoreau's "The Kingdom of God"
- John's "The Struggle"
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Identify the play in which the following lines appear.
"Ambition should be made of Sterner stuff".- Antony and Cleopatra
- Julius Caesar✓
- The Merchant of Venice
- Macbeth
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