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Part-A SECTION–A Q-1 (A) MCQs – Solved i) Who gave the slogan “ Back to Nature ”? ✔ Jean-Jacques Rousseau ii) Name of Wordsworth ’s long poem: ✔ The Prelude iii) Negative Capability refers to: ✔ To live with uncertainty and mystery ( Keats ) iv) Famous elegy written by Shelley : ✔ Adonais v) The “ Augustan Age ” belongs to: ✔ 18th Century vi) Literary figure who influenced Keats most: ✔ Shakespeare vii) Most successful genre of Victorian Literature : ✔ The Novel viii) “ In Memoriam ” by Tennyson is: ✔ An elegy ix) Dickens ’ novel about French Revolution : ✔ A Tale of Two Cities x) “ Gulliver’s Travels ” is a: ✔ Satire Q-1 (B) Fill in the Blanks i) At the beginning of the 16th century the outstanding humanist was Sir Thomas More (author of Utopia ). ii) The Romantic Age began with the publication of Lyrical Ballads . iii) “ The heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter ” appears in Ode on a Grecian Urn . iv) A poem dealing with shepherds a...

Part one  Solved Question paper of Linguistic of BPSC  -17 Q-1 (a) Select the correct answer i. Who introduced the concepts of Competence and Performance ? a) Noam Chomsky ii. Language originated as a result of involuntary exclamations of pain, surprise, pleasure or wonder: c) The Pooh-pooh theory iii. Ability to talk about present, past and future: c) Displacement iv. The study of rules of language covers: a) Grammar v. Sounds articulated by the tip/blade of the tongue against the teeth ridge with raising of the front of the tongue towards the palate: c) Palato-alveolar vi. Word formation by subtracting a root through deleting the final syllable which is misunderstood as a suffix: d) Back-formation vii. Morphemes having more than one meaning and understood in more than one way: d) Homonyms viii. Final /l/ in bottle, cattle, little are examples of: a) Syllabic consonants ix. Which is not a characteristic feature of language? d) Language is instinctive x....