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HSST JUNIOR/SENIOR QUESTIONS 1 st January 2011

In the last scene of Hamlet ________________ bids flights of angels to sing Hamlet to his rest.   Horatio   The critic who has commented that Shakespeare uses images of physical corruption to suggest the rottenness in Denmark is _________________ The first regular comedy by Ralph Roister Doister was written by _____________ Nicholas Udall “ It expresses Shakespeare’s highest and serenest view of life.” This is a comment made by the critic Dowden on Shakespeare’s ____________- The Tempest The Elizabethan Revenge tragedy was inspired by the plays of ____________ Seneca the Younger. The mysterious woman present in the sonnets of Shakespeare is known as  ____________ Dark Lady. Prothalamion and Epithalamion are called ________ odes. Irregular Odes ‘ The Fairie Queene” and ‘The Pilgrim’s Progress’ are examples of _________ Allegory ____________ is a tragedy on the Greek model written by Mil...

Kerala PSC HSA English 2004 Question paper- Solved

Kerala PSC HSA English 2004 Question paper PART I Section - A Q.1-30 Answer all the questions. Each question carries one mark.      1. The first revenge tragedy in English is ____ Thomas Kyd's The Spanish Tragedy     2.____is called the Father of English Essay.           Father of English Essay Francis Bacon (1561 – 1626) Gray, Collins and Cowper are called ____ poets. Graveyard Poets (or Pre-Romantic Poets) The only literary epic in English literature is ____ Paradise Lost by Milton. The writer of 'Holy Sonnets' is ____ John Donne Where do we read: 'The paths of glory lead but to the grave ? The Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard by Thomas Gray Who first used the word 'Metaphysics' in association with Donne's poetry ? Dryden Shakespeare wrote ____ sonnets. 154     9.  ____ reproduced 'King Lear' with a comic e...