TNPSC GROUP 4 & VAO

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TEST NO: 2 DATE: 02.12.2017
TOTAL QUESTIONS: 50 TIME: 45 MINS

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1. “Still, like muffled drums, are beating” which one used here? 8.”Whom are you bringing dancing down? ”Whom said this
A) Metaphor B) Simile C) Anaphora D) Allusion line to whom?
B) Simile A) Sun beam to butterfly
B) Butterfly to sun beam
2. Hughie was popular with everyone C)Butterfly to dust particles
A) The answer remains unknown D)Butterfly to wind
B) Kolkata is a populous city
C) The rat peeped out of its hole B) Butterfly to sun beam
D) Dhoni is a well-known cricketer
9. Choose the correct answer from the choices given below
D) Dhoni is a well-known cricketer “Laugh and be merry together, like brothers akin”
A) Anaphora B) Ellipsis C)Metaphor D) None of the above
3. He cursed himself for his inability to fulfill the condition. D) None of the above
A) Inadequacy B) capacity C) ability D) sincerity
C) Ability 10. There will be an exodus because of the lack of water.
A) An end of life B) a great famine C) mass departure
4. “Dust thou art, to dust returnest” D) an exciting argument
Pick out the apt
A) Repetition and Ellipsis C) mass departure
B) Anaphora and Ellipsis
C) Allusion and Anaphora 11. Women’s marvelous power is lying dormant
D) Personification and Oxymoron A) Ordinary B) magnificent C) bright D) dull
A) Ordinary
C) Allusion and Anaphora
12. These lines are from “The well was dry besides the door
5. What an miraculous model! And so we went with pail and can”
A) Amazing B) unwilling C) unremarkable A) Women’s right B) Snake C) Going for water
D) None of the above D) None of the above
A) Amazing C) Going for water

6. Such men as the Baron are very rare. 13. ”And out for zero
A) Common B) uncommon C) difficult D) dear He’s in again
To Strike a ton
A) Common A lovely shot”
These lines belongs to _______
7. From which poem, these lines took? A) Child Labor B) Our Local Team C) biking
“If you can dream and not make dreams your master” D) None of the above
A) Manliness B) The piano C) Going for water A) Child Labor
D) None of the above

A) Manliness

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14. Pick out the suitable figures of speech 23. Yet, with Gandhi a new, unique element emerged
“You were the dawn, and sunlight filled the spaces” A) Disappeared B) Identified C) Arose D) Found
A) Smile B) Anaphora C) Metaphor D) All the above A) Disappeared
C) Metaphor
24. “I can talk with a friend , And walk with a friend ”
15. Choose the Figures of speech from the given lines From which poem these lines took?
“It launched forth filament filament filament, out of itself,” A) With a friend B) To cook and Eat C) English Words
A) Anaphora B) Repetition A) With a friend
C) Alliteration D) Rhyme scheme
B) Repetition 25. ”Kari needed forty pounds of twigs a day” Who is Kari?
A)Butterfly B)Elephant C)Ant D)Ant Eater
16. We keep shooting them away to find water B) Elephant
A) Chasing B) silencing C) provide D) All the above
A) Chasing 26. The meaning of “nagging” is
A)annoying B)unfriendly C)wavering D)only
17. Find the correct one “A mirror of his changing moods” A)annoying
A) Repetition B) Oxymoron C) Alliteration D) Simile
C) Alliteration
27. The meaning of the word “fiendish”
18. Read the given line and find the best one.
A)holiness B)wicked C)pure D)Shone
“If you can meet with triumph and disaster”
B)wicked
A) Personification B) Oxymoron C) Alliteration D) Ellipsis
B) Oxymoron
28. Which is the timely one for the given lines? “With the great
black piano appassionato”
19. Choose the correct meaning for the underlined word in the
A) Metaphor B) Smile C) Allusion D) None of the above
sentence. She was told to ascertain the validity of training
C) Allusion
certificates.
A) discuss B) confirm C) ask D) get
29. Choose the correct antonym for the given word “hidden”
B) confirm
A)Overt B)Concealed C)Covered D)Curtain
A)Overt
20. Choose the correct antonym for “wizened”
A)dirty B)weird C)fresh D)lazy
30. Identity the figures of speech for the given line
C)fresh
“Let me not to the marriage of true minds”
A) Alliteration B) Metaphor C) Repetition D) Smile
21. Choose the apt one for this “They sometimes skinned their
A) Alliteration
noses”
A) Anaphora B) Ellipsis C) Personification D) Alliteration
31. The meaning of “Prey” ______
D) Alliteration
A) Victim B) Target C) Kill D) All the above
D) All the above
22. Pick out the best one “but birds tell it in the bowers”
32. Pick out the applicable figures of speech for this line
A) Oxymoron and Anaphora B) Smile and Personification C)
“And you want to smile, but you have to sigh”
Alliteration and Personification D) None of the above
A) Alliteration B) Repetition C) Allusion D) Oxymoron
C) Alliteration and personification
D) Oxymoron
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33. Mention the figure of speech for “Here, Captain! Dear 41. Choose the correct antonym for the underlined word.
father” ”What are you looking so glum about?
A) Allusion B) Ellipsis C) Anaphora D) Metaphor A)Sad B)Cheerful C)Depressed D)Worry
D) Metaphor B)Cheerful

42. Read the given lines and find the best Rhyme Scheme
34. “There won’t be any calendar,
“Life is real! Life is earnest!
There won’t be any clock”
And the grave is not its goal;
Pick the best one
Dust thou art, to dust returnest,
A) Metaphor B) Anaphora C) Assonance D) Oxymoron
Was not spoken of the soul .”
B) Anaphora
A)aabb B) abba C) abab D) All the above
C) abab
35. The opposite of “Triumph”
A) Success B) victory C) Failure D) All the above
43. Match the lines with the appropriate figures of speech
C) Failure
Column A Column B
(A) Had he and I but met 1.Repetition
36. “Remember no men are strange. No countries foreign”
(B)I shot at him as he at me 2.Personification
Which poem lines are these? (C) Pining for a new agony, a new birth 3. Alliteration
(D) To sleep our life away 4. Simile
A) The Man He killed B) No Men Are foreign
C) O captain! My Captain D) None of the above A) 3, 4 ,2, 1 B) 1,4, 2, 3
C) 3, 1, 4, 2 D) 4, 3, 2, 1
B) No Men Are foreign
A) 3, 4, 2, 1

37. Whose works is “Gitanjali”? 44. The child mentioned by the poet in the poem “THE PIANO”
A) Rabindranath Tagore B) Shakespeare C) Walt Whiteman A) The poet’s child B) A child on the roadside
D) None of the above C) The poet himself D) The singer’s child
A) Rabindranath Tagore C) The poet himself

38. Write the suitable figures of speech 45. Choose the correct antonyms for the underlined word in the
“The splendid joy of the stars: the joy of the earth.” sentence. She had to under a year’s rigorous training and
A) Metaphor B) Personification C) Oxymoron evaluation.
D) All the above A)professional B)easy C)intense D)arduous
B) Personification B)easy

39. Find the incorrect figures of speech 46. From the given lines choose the best figures of speech
“I’ll doze when I’m sleepy and wake without a knock” “And looked around like a god”
A) Metaphor B) Anaphora C)Allusion D) Ellipsis A) Anaphora B) Simile
D) Ellipsis C) Allusion D) Repetition
B) Simile
40. “Where Words come out from the depth of truth”
This line from________ 47. Choose the correct meaning for the word “defunctness”
A) Is life But a dream B) Nine Gold Medals A)plenty B)extinct C)survive D)profound
C) Where the mind is without fear D) None of the above B)extinct
C) Where the mind is without fear

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48. Find the odd one out “Let the dead past bury its dead”
A)Allusion B) Personification 50. Find the best figures of speech “was not spoken of the
C) Anaphora D) Simile soul”
D) Simile A)Alliteration B) Ellipsis C) Anaphora D) Allusion
A)Alliteration
49. Choose the best one “But gathering up the brightness of
home sunshine”
A) Simile B) Oxymoron C) Metaphor D) None of these
C) Metaphor

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