Questions of West Bengal School Service Examination, 2004 (English Hons./PG)

Questions of West Bengal School Service Examination, 2004 (English Hons./PG)

(Collected from Memory)

Here are the questions for the West Bengal School Service Examination, 2004. The questions for the WBSSC- 2004 (English Hons./PG) are collected from memory of the school service aspirants. Hence, there is possibility of having an iota of discrepancies or differences in the expression of the questions. The questions for the prestigious West Bengal School Service Examination 2004 (English Hons./PG)  are given below. If you want you can Download the PDF copy of the same WBSSC 2004 ENGLISH (HONS./PG) from the links given below.

    1. In Sydney’s poem ‘Loving in Truth’ what is meant by “Look in thy heart and write”?
    2. Why does Donne allude to the “Seven Sleepers den” in ‘The Good Morrow’?
    3. Why does Shakespeare assert that “Thy eternal summer shall not fade”?
    4. Who was Belinda’s protector in “The Rape of the Lock”? What was the content of the warning given to Belinda?
    5. Why is West Wind called a ’preserver’ by Shelley?
    6. Show how Keats’s ”To Autumn’ ends on a note of rootlessness and despair.
    7. Why is Browning’s  ‘My Last Duchess’ called dramatic monologue?
    8. Explain the symbolism of the swans in Yeats’s ‘The Wild Swans at Coole’.
    9. Bring out the meaning of the title of the poem ‘Strange Meeting’.
    10. From which work did Eliot take the epigraph of ‘The Hollow Men’? What is the significance of the line?
    11. Macbeth says – “A dagger of the mind a false creation”. Explain the meaning and the significance of the line.
    12. Bring out two features from Greek Classical Drama which occur in ‘Riders to the Sea’.
    13. Briefly indicate the  importance of Elizabeth’s visit to Pemberley in ‘Pride and Prejudice’.
    14. Why is ‘Dream Children’ called a reverie?
    15. Bring out the irony in the title of ’The Lotus Eater’.
    16. Give one appropriate example of each of the following figure of speech : metaphor, paradox, wote hyperbole.
    17. Explain with example the difference in the use of the prepositions ‘for’ and ‘since’ with respect to time.
    18. What is an Abstract Noun? Give two examples of its use.
    19. Join these sentences using  Adverbial Clauses: (a) You turn to the left. You will see the house. (b) He has gone to the village. His mother lives there.
    20. Rewrite the following sentence correctly and explain the reason for the change: Mohan is resembling his father.

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