HPPSC Assistant Professor English Previous Year Paper 2018

Himachal Pradesh PSC Assistant Professor English Question Paper 2018

 

HPPSC – Assistant – Professor – English – 2018 – Professional Subject
Sr. No. Questions with multiple options
1. Which of the following is not a part of trilogy by David Lodge?

(a)    Changing Places: A Tale of Two campuses

(b)   The History Man

(c)    Small World : An Academic Romance

(d)   Nice Work

2. “Aesthetic ideology” is a term most associated with the later writing of ______

(a)    Paul de Man

(b)   Jacques Derrida

(c)    Roland Barthes

(d)   Friedrich Schiller

3. A story told as a particular instance of the general theme in a religious sermon is called ___

(a)    Fable

(b)   Proverb

(c)    Exemplum

(d)   Epigram

4. “Dialogic criticism” is modeled on the theory and critical procedures of _____

(a)    Roland Barthes

(b)   Roman Jacobson

(c)    Wolfgang Iser

(d)   Mikhail Bakhtin

5. A poem written to celebrate a marriage is called ______

(a)    Epiphany

(b)   Epithet

(c)    Epithalamion

(d)   None of the above

   
6. Who, of the following, is credited to have introduce the term, ‘phallogocerntric’?

(a)    Elaine Showalter

(b)   Jacques Lacan

(c)    Rita Felski

(d)   Nina Baym

7. How many syllables should there be in an ideal ‘haiku’ poem?

(a)    Fifteen

(b)   Seventeen

(c)    Nineteen

(d)   Twenty one

8. Transformational-generative grammar was initiated by _______

(a)    Course in General Linguistics

(b)   The Structure of Language

(c)    The Pursuit of Signs

(d)   Syntactic Structures

9. Who is the author of Syntactic Structures?

(a)    Noam Chomsky

(b)   Jonathan Culler

(c)    Leonard Bloomfield

(d)   Selling S. Harris

10. Malaproprism derives from Mrs. Malaprop in ______.

(a)    She Stoops to Conquer

(b)   The Rivals

(c)    The Way of the World

(d)   Volpone

  Data Collected & Published by – K. Jeyanthi
  Published on – 4th Oct 2021
   

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