TNPSC TRB TET ENGLISH 100 QUESTION AND ANSWER | 201-300
Literature and Authors (201-214, 230, 235-245, 247, 248, 250-254, 269-270, 277-285, 287-292, 300)
- 201. Snake is the only selection that is not a piece of prose.
- 202. The literary work that expresses a theme of optimism is Laugh and be Merry.
- 203. Lakshmibai was the queen who fought against the British during the Sepoy Mutiny.
- 204. Rabindranath Tagore, a Bengali poet, was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1913.
- 205. Jean Jacques Rousseau is the author credited with the sentence: "Man is born free but is everywhere in chains."
- 206. Matching authors to their short stories:
- R.K. Narayan - Swami and the Sum
- Tammy Ruggles - Sam
- Mackinlay Kantor - A man who had no eyes
- Rex Coker - The Cornish Ogre
- 207. Matching characters to their story titles:
- Matilda - The Necklace
- Masha - Lottery Ticket
- Behrman - The Last Leaf
- Morissot - Two friends
- 208. The author of the story "The Lottery Ticket" is from Russia.
- 209. Wings of Fire is the autobiography of Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam.
- 210. Matching characters to their stories:
- Vera - Open Window
- Johnsy - The Last Leaf
- Phatik Chakrabarthi - Holiday
- 211. A masterpiece of Egyptian cultural heritage is a Tomb for a Pharaoh.
- 212. Oscar Wilde wrote the lesson, "The Model Millionaire."
- 213. In the short story, "The Summer Flight," Kumar enjoyed his life in the United States.
- 214. Playing it, my way is the autobiography written by Sachin Tendulkar.
- 230. My experiments, with Truth is the autobiography of Mahatma Gandhiji.
- 235. The poem written by Walt Whitman is O Captain! My Captain!
- 236. Matching poetic lines with their poets:
- Famida Y. Basheer - "No maps, no boundaries to block"
- Robert Frost - "The well was dry beside the door"
- H.W. Longfellow - "Trust no future, how'er pleasant"
- Thomas Hardy - "Right many a nipperkin!"
- 237. Carry on, Jeeves is the novel that was not written by an Indian author.
- 238. Kalpana Chawla was born in India.
- 239. Kalpana Chawla's birthplace is Haryana (Karnal).
- 240. The sun beam is not a poem.
- 241. The line "Echoes fade and memories die" is from Lewis Carroll's "Is Life But A Dream."
- 242. Kalpana Chawla spoke the words: "the journey matters as much as the goal-listen to the sounds of nature Take good care of our fragile planet."
- 243. The lines "Like gnomes that hid us from the moon" appear in the poem Going for Water.
- 244. The lines "Stalking the length of his cage ignoring visitors" are found in the poem A Tiger in the Zoo.
- 245. Dipti Bhatia is the poet who wrote "Inclusion."
- 247. Sonnet No. 116 is the poem written by William Shakespeare.
- 248. In the line "Man's little Day in haste we spend ...," "Man's little Day" refers to the Entire life time.
- 250. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam is the author of the book from which the line "This means the vision should become a part of the nation, transcending governments - the present and the future" is taken.
- 251. Road To Success is not a poem.
- 252. 'He' in the statement "He belongs to the rare breed of individuals who are gifted to inspire and lead" refers to Diwakar.
- 253. Aryabhatta was the ancient Indian astronomer who scientifically explained that the earth rotates on its own axis.
- 254. Ruskin Bond wrote the story "Ranji's Wonderful Bat."
- 269. The Giant's final journey was to The paradise.
- 270. In the context "The attainment of a developed status by 2020 does not mean that we can then rest on our laurels," laurels means rewards.
- 277. The power of Laughter is not a poem.
- 278. The lines "I won't look down. No I will not With speed of wings I hasten past" are from the poem of Famida Y. Basheer.
- 279. John Masefield wrote the poem 'Laugh and be Merry'.
- 280. The central theme in the story "The mark of Vishnu" is Riddance of superstition.
- 281. To India- My Native Land is a poem.
- 282. Matching poets with their poems:
- Thomas Hardy - The Man He killed
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning - The Cry of the children
- D.H. Lawrence - Piano
- Kamala Surayya - My Grandmother's house
- 283. The lines "A note as from a single place, A slender tinkling fall that made" are found in the poem Going for Water.
- 285. Walt Whitman wrote "O Captain! My Captain!" as a dirge for the death of Abraham Lincoln.
- 287. The line "But once within the wood, we paused" belongs to Robert Frost.
- 288. The line "And You O my soul where you stand" occurs in the poem A noiseless patient spider.
- 289. The Merchant of Venice is a drama.
- 290. In the poem "Migrant Bird," the poet contrasts the life of a migrant bird with that of human beings.
- 291. To The Land of Snow is not a poem.
- 292. The figure of speech in the line "Let me not to the marriage of true minds" is metaphor.
- 300. The two short stories written by Oscar Wilde are The Selfish Giant and The Happy Prince.
- 215. Matching phrases with their meanings:
- give in - yield
- give up - return or relinquish
- get on - cope with
- get back - move back
- 226. The synonym for the underlined word "indispensable" in the sentence is essential.
- 228. In the sentence "As he was ambitious, I "slew" him," slew means killed.
- 264. The synonym for the underlined word "conservative" in the sentence is traditional.
- 271. The word "menacing" means threatening.
- 272. Matching British English words with their American English equivalents:
- chips - french fries
- dustbin - garbage can
- jam - jelly
- fellow - guy
- 273. The American English equivalent of 'washbasin' is sink.
- 294. The phrase "going back on his word" means acting against one's words.
- 295. 'Connect immediately' means to establish a rapport with others.
- 296. The underlined words "flesh and blood" mean real and living.
- 216. The sentence "Please leave your footwear outside the hall" is an Imperative sentence.
- 217. The correct tense form is "The Queen bee with her workers presides over the hive."
- 218. The part of the sentence "Have anyone seen my purse?" that has an error is Have. (Should be Has)
- 219. The suitable verb is "The street dog bit a small boy ten minutes ago."
- 220. The compound sentence is "Man proposes, but God disposes."
- 221. Matching sentences with their types:
- Please avoid use of plastic bags - Imperative
- What a simple question it is? - Exclamatory
- Education refines one's mind - Assertive
- Why are you in a hurry? - Interrogative
- 222. The correct option to complete the sentence is "If we had saved rain water more in ponds and lakes We could have survived the drought."
- 223. The correct plural form of 'Ox' is Oxen.
- 224. The sentence pattern for "Surprisingly, Meena presented Aru a gold watch" is ASVIODO (Adverbial, Subject, Verb, Indirect Object, Direct Object, Object Complement - Correction: Should be ASVIODO if 'surprisingly' is A, Meena is S, presented is V, Aru is IO, a gold watch is DO. The given answer ASVIODO seems to imply a different breakdown than S V IO DO).
- 225. The correct question tag for "They came by car" is didn't they?
- 227. Matching underlined words with their parts of speech:
- Ram - subject (Noun/Subject)
- nurse - complement
- fruits - object (Noun/Object)
- wrote - verb
- 229. The line is "If you can't be the sun, be a star."
- 231. Rani Lakshmibai travelling 24 hours at a stretch with her child on her back speaks of her dynamism and bravery.
- 232. The children want the wheels to stop because they are very weary and tired.
- 233. The correct verb is "Lalitha has taken medical leave..."
- 246. The poem "The cry of the children" tells about the theme of Child Labour.
- 255. The correct tense forms are "We have been living in this house since 2011 which was built in 2010."
- 256. Matching underlined words with their parts of speech:
- quickly - Adverb
- him - Object
- ate - Verb
- doctor - Compliment (Should be Complement)
- 257. The correct prepositions are "Behind the cupboard, very near the wall, there is a narrow gap, into which a few charts have been kept."
- 258. The sentence pattern for "One of the boys had been singing well" is SVA.
- 259. The phrasal verb that suits the sentence is give up your bad habits.
- 260. The incorrect sentence is "Japanese are the industrious people in the world" (Should be 'the most industrious').
- 261. The correct sentence is "One of the bicycles is defective."
- 262. The correct question tag for "She goes to school by van" is doesn't she?
- 263. The wrong sentence is "The police have catch the motorcyclist for speeding" (Should be 'caught').
- 265. Possessive Adjectives answer the question whose.
- 266. Matching the phrases:
- The cream Cake is - so costly
- The new sweets are - more expensive
- The new waiters are - better
- It is getting - harder and harder
- 267. The sentence where a gerund is used is "Writing is always better than to read."
- 268. The Rhyme Scheme in the given lines of the poem is abab.
- 274. According to Edwin C Bliss, the first step in the road to success is to set yourself clear goals.
- 275. Gopala Krishna Gokhale was a freedom fighter.
- 276. The lines "Or, all day, we drive the wheels of iron In the factories, round and round" occur in the poem The cry of the children.
- 286. A statement that tells something but actually means the opposite is known as Irony.
- 293. The correct sequence of prepositions is: A friend of mine returned from Moscow with a beautiful story about a missionary.
- 297. The positive degree of comparison for "Japan is one of the wealthiest countries in Asia" is Very few countries in Asia are as wealthy as Japan.
- 298. The correct tense form is "I shall ring you up as soon as I arrive."
- 299. The suitable article is "The harder you work, the greater are the chances of your success."
- 234. The poetic line that differs in figure of speech from the others is "You were the dawn and sunlight filled the spaces" (Metaphor, while the others use Simile with 'like' or 'as').
- 284. The figure of speech used in the poetic line "In the world's broad field of battle" is Metaphor.
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