TN TRB Assistant Professor English Paper-1 Exam - English

தமிழில் மொத்த எழுத்துக்கள் எத்தனை?

குறில் எழுத்துக்களின் ஒலிக்கும் கால அளவு என்ன?

நெடில் எழுத்துக்களின் ஒலிக்கும் கால அளவு என்ன?

மெய்யெழுத்துக்களின் ஒலிக்கும் கால அளவு என்ன?

"க்" என்பது எந்த வகை எழுத்து?

"அ" என்பது எந்த வகை எழுத்து?

"க" என்பது எந்த வகை எழுத்து?

"ஃ" என்பது எந்த வகை எழுத்து?

வல்லினத்திற்கான சரியான வரிசையைத் தேர்ந்தெடுங்கள்.

மெல்லினத்திற்கான சரியான வரிசையைத் தேர்ந்தெடுங்கள்.

இடையினத்திற்கான சரியான வரிசையைத் தேர்ந்தெடுங்கள்.

கீழ்க்கண்டவற்றில் எது குறில் எழுத்து?

கீழ்க்கண்டவற்றில் எது நெடில் எழுத்து?

"க் + உ" சேர்ந்தால் கிடைக்கும் எழுத்து எது?

"ச் + ஆ" சேர்ந்தால் கிடைக்கும் எழுத்து எது?

"ட் + ஈ" சேர்ந்தால் கிடைக்கும் எழுத்து எது?

"ப் + ஊ" சேர்ந்தால் கிடைக்கும் எழுத்து எது?

"ற் + ஒ" சேர்ந்தால் கிடைக்கும் எழுத்து எது?

"ல் + ஐ" சேர்ந்தால் கிடைக்கும் எழுத்து எது?

"வ் + ஏ" சேர்ந்தால் கிடைக்கும் எழுத்து எது?

பின்வரும் சொற்களில் எது எழுத்துக்களைப் பிரித்து எழுதப்பட வேண்டும்?

"வானம்" என்ற சொல்லை இணைத்து எழுதும்போது சரியான வடிவம் எது?

பின்வரும் சொற்களில் எது எழுத்துக்களை இணைக்கும்போது தவறாக உள்ளது?

"நிலா" + "நிறம்" இணைக்கும்போது சரியான வடிவம் எது?

கோடுகளை இணைப்பதற்கு எடுத்துக்காட்டு சொல் எது?

பின்வரும் பத்தியைப் படித்து, "கட்டுரைகள் எதை விளக்குகின்றன?" என்ற கேள்விக்கு பதிலளிக்கவும்: "கட்டுரைகள் ஒரு குறிப்பிட்ட தலைப்பை ஆழமாக விளக்குகின்றன."

பின்வரும் பத்தியைப் படித்து, "பத்திரிகைகள் மக்களுக்கு எவ்வாறு உதவுகின்றன?" என்ற கேள்விக்கு பதிலளிக்கவும்: "பத்திரிகைகள் செய்திகள், தகவல்கள் மற்றும் கருத்துக்களை வழங்குகின்றன."

பின்வரும் பழமொழியைப் படித்து, "கற்றது கை மண்ணளவு, கல்லாதது உலகளவு என்றால் என்ன பொருள்?" என்ற கேள்விக்கு பதிலளிக்கவும்: "கற்றது கை மண்ணளவு, கல்லாதது உலகளவு."

பின்வரும் பழமொழியைப் படித்து, "நல்லவன் நெடுங்காலம் வாழ்வான் என்றால் என்ன பொருள்?" என்ற கேள்விக்கு பதிலளிக்கவும்: "நல்லவன் நெடுங்காலம் வாழ்வான்."

பின்வரும் பழமொழியைப் படித்து, "காக்கை கரைந்தால் காக்கும் என்றால் என்ன பொருள்?" என்ற கேள்விக்கு பதிலளிக்கவும்: "காக்கை கரைந்தால் காக்கும்."

------  the very word is like a bell To toll me back from thee to my sole self which word ?

In poems like "The Altar" and "Easter Wings" ---------------------  exploits ----------------- .

 No, no thou hast not felt the lapse of hours ! For what wears out the life of moral men?'  Tis that repeated shocks, again and numb the elastic powers.............. Who does the poet address here?

The roman a clef ( French for "novel with a key") uses contemporary historical figures as its chief character. They are of course given fictional names. One explain is Aldous Hixley's point Counter Point. Its Mark Rampion is modelled on  ---------------------- .

She was a worthy woman al hir lyve, Housbondes at chirche - dore she hadde fyve, In the  'Prologue' Chaucer represents the Wife of Bath as :
I.   crude and Vulgar
II.   outspoken and boastfully licentious
III.   a witness to masculine oppression
IV.   bubbling with vitality
Find the correct combination according to the code :

Laurence Sterne's Tristram Shandy contains :

Which of the following statements is NOT true of Areopagitica ?

Thomas Hardy's last major novel was...........   .

The Hind and the Panther Transvers'd to the Story of the Country Mouse and the City Mouse is a satire on :

Match the  columns :
   Terms                                   Theorists
I. Apollonian - Dionysian         1. Matthew Arnold 
II.  Fancy - Imagination           2. Friedrich Nietzsche
III.  Hellenism - Hebraism        3. G. H. Hopkins
IV. Inscape - Instress              4. S. T. Coleridge

Who among the following advanced the theory that the mind is a tabula rasa at birth and acquires all ideas by experience?

Which of the following authors wrote Studie in the History of the Renaissance?

Whom does Harriet Smith finally marry in one of Jane Austen's novels?

A poet once referred to an old man as " A tattered coat upon a stick ". That is an example of......................   .

Which of these is not a pastoral elegy ?

Identify from the following the work Nirad C. Chaudhuri Called "The finest novel in the English language with an Indian theme" .

Who is the author of the poem "The Defence of Lucknow" dealing with the siege of Lucknow, one of the terrible incidents of the Indian Mutiny ?

Who among the following theorists holds that metaphor and metonymy are the two fundamental structures of language ?

From among the following, who are the Dashwood sisters in Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility ?
(I) Elinor         (II) Marianne
(III) Mary         (IV) Amanda
The right combination according to the code is :

Which among the following texts can be characterised as a lesbian Bildungsroman ?

Which British University figures in William Wordsworth 's Prelude ?

Who is the author of A Woman Killed with Kindness ?

In William Congreve's The Way of the World identify the speaker of the line :"One's cruelty is one's power, and when one parts with one's cruelty, one parts with one's power".

T. S. Eliot found spiritual support in

By what name is Gulliver know in Brobdingag?

To refer to the unresolvable difficulties a text may open up, Derrida makes use of the term.

Who, among the following English play wrights, scripted the film Shakespeare in Love ?

Arrange the following in the chronological order.
1.   Mary Wollstonecraft's Vindication of the Rights of Women.
2.   Lyrical Ballads
3.  French Revolution
4.  Percy's Reliques of Ancient English Poetry

Which of the following employs a narrative structure in which the main action is relayed at second hand through an enclosing frame story?

The Irish Dramatic Movement was heralded by such figures as

In Pinter's Birthday Party, Stanley is given a birthday present. What is it ?

How does Lord Jim end ?

"Where I lacked a political purpose, I wrote lifeless books," To which of the following authors can we attribute the above admission?

Modernism has been described as being concerned with "Disenchantment of our culture with culture itself ". Who is the critic?

"Only that film, which fluttered on the grate, Still flutters there, the sole unquiet thing." The above lines are quoted from

The just man justices. What kind of  foregrounding do you find in the above lines ?

Match the items in List - I with items in List - II according to the code given :
List - I                     List - II
(a)   Lambic        1. An unstressed syllable  followed by a stressed syllable 
(b)  Anapaestic   2. A stressed is followed by two unstressed syllables.
(c)  Dactylic       3. An unstressed syllable is  followed by a stressed syllable.
(d)  Trochaic       4. A stressed syllable is followed by an unstressed syllable.

The separation of styles in accordance with class in medieval works of literature and art.

"Had we but world enough, and time, This coyness, lady, were no crime." This statement is an example of

A Spencerian stanza has

Mathew Arnold's "touchstones" were "short passages, even single lines" of classic poetry beside which the lines of other poets may be placed in order to detect the presence or absence of high poetic quality. In his "Study of Poetry " Arnold cited "touchstones" from poets as Homer and Dante and also from the English poets, Shakespeare and Milton. Which English poet did he disapprovingly call "not one of the great classics" in the list below?

Samuel Pepys began his diary on................

On which of the following authors has Peter Ackroyd not written a biography ?

Which group of the following poets was called the Auden Group because they developed a style and viewpoint similar to that of W. H. Auden?

When one line of poetry runs into the next, with no punctuation to slow the reading, it is a case of...........................   .

Which of the following terms describes a novel of fashionable high life in 19th-century English literature ?

What term did Beetroot Brecht use for his mode of drama-writing to distinguish it from traditional theatre ?

Which of the following terms is used to describe spurious words which are the result of inadvertent errors made by copyists, printers and editors ?

Which two of the following are works by I.A. Richards ?
(a) Concepts of Criticism
(b) Science and Poetry
(c) The Philosophy of Rhetoric
(d) English Literature in Our Time and the University
Choose the correct answer from the options given below :

In "The Function of Criticism at the Present Time" what is propose by Matthew Arnold as the essence of criticism ?

Who wrote the epic poem "Paradise Lost"?

Which novel features the character Mr. Rochester and the protagonist Jane Eyre?

Who wrote the poem "The Waste Land," often regarded as one of the most important poems of the 20th century?

Which Shakespearean play features the character Hamlet?

Who wrote the novel "1984," a dystopian masterpiece set in a totalitarian regime?

Which poet is known for his "Songs of Innocence" and "Songs of Experience"?

Who wrote the poem "Dover Beach," which reflects on the erosion of faith in the modern world?

In which novel would you find the character Elizabeth Bennet?

Who wrote the poem "To His Coy Mistress," a persuasive argument for seizing the day?

Which poet is known for his "Ode to a Nightingale" and "Ode on a Grecian Urn"?

"Lyrical Ballads," co-written by William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, is considered a landmark work of which literary movement?

What is the focus of William Blake's poetry, such as "Songs of Innocence and of Experience"?

"I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud" is a famous poem by which Romantic poet?

Who wrote the satirical novel "Gulliver's Travels"?

What is the narrative style used in Daniel Defoe's "Robinson Crusoe"?

"The Rape of the Lock" by Alexander Pope is an example of which poetic form?

What is a major theme explored in Samuel Richardson's epistolary novel "Pamela"?

What is the predominant form used by Shakespeare for his plays?

"To be or not to be" is a famous soliloquy from which Shakespearean play?

What is the genre of Christopher Marlowe's play "Doctor Faustus"?

"Carpe diem" is a Latin phrase meaning "seize the day" and is a central theme in the poems of which poet?

Who wrote "The Canterbury Tales"?

What is the social satire in "The Canterbury Tales" primarily focused on?

"Utopia" by Thomas More is an example of which literary genre?

What is a major theme explored in Edmund Spenser's "The Faerie Queene"?

Who wrote the novel "Frankenstein," often considered one of the earliest examples of science fiction?

In which novel would you find the character Heathcliff?

Who wrote the poem "Ozymandias," exploring the theme of the transient nature of power?

Which Shakespearean play features the character Lady Macbeth?

Who wrote the novel "Dracula," introducing the famous vampire Count Dracula?

Which poet is known for his "Lyrical Ballads" collaboration with William Wordsworth?

Who wrote the novel "Sense and Sensibility"?

Which poet wrote "Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night"?

Who wrote the novel "Middlemarch," often considered one of the greatest novels in the English language?

Which poet wrote "The Prelude," an autobiographical poem about the development of the poet's mind?

"Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austen is a classic example of which genre?

"Things Fall Apart" by Chinua Achebe is a novel that critiques the impact of colonialism on traditional Igbo society in Nigeria. What literary movement is it associated with?

"One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel García Márquez is a magical realist novel that blends fantasy and reality to explore the history of a Colombian town. What is a key element of magical realism?

"The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy is a novel that explores themes of caste, family secrets, and forbidden love in India. What is a major concern in postcolonial literature?

"Nervous Conditions" by Tsitsi Dangarembga is a coming-of-age novel that explores the experiences of a young woman in colonial Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe). What is a Bildungsroman?

"Interpreter of Maladies" by Jhumpa Lahiri is a collection of short stories that explores the lives of Indian immigrants in the United States. What is a common theme in immigrant literature?

What is a major focus of postcolonial literature?

What is a characteristic of magical realism?

Who wrote the novel "To Kill a Mockingbird," which explores themes of racial injustice and moral growth in the American South?

Which American author is known for his works "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" and "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer"?

Who wrote the novel "The Great Gatsby," a classic portrayal of the Jazz Age in America?

In which novel would you find the character Atticus Finch?

Who wrote the novel "The Catcher in the Rye," a seminal work in American literature?

Which American author is known for his novels "The Old Man and the Sea" and "A Farewell to Arms"?

Who wrote the novel "Of Mice and Men," depicting the lives of migrant workers during the Great Depression?