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Below are the scanned copy of Kerala Public Service Commission (KPSC) Question Paper with answer keys of Exam Name 'HSST ENGLISH KERALA HSE' And exam conducted in the year 2018. And Question paper code was '035/2018'. Medium of question paper was in Malayalam or English . Booklet Alphacode was 'A'. Answer keys are given at the bottom, but we suggest you to try answering the questions yourself and compare the key along wih to check your performance. Because we would like you to do and practice by yourself.
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Periphrasis is :
(ಹ) Inversion of Word order (8) Circumlocution
(ಲ) Pursuit of novelty (D) Dignified composition
‘Art as Technique’ highlights the concept of :
(A) Alienation (8) Concretization
(C) Defamiliarization (D) Historical sense
The statement ‘One may be a poet without versing, and a versifier without poetry’ was made
by:
(A) Longinus (B) Plato (9) Sidney (D) Aristotle
Which poem by Wordsworth is cited by Cleanth Brooks as based on a paradoxical situation ?
(ಹ) Itisa beauteous evening (B) Lucy Gray
(ಲ) Daffodils (D) The Solitary Reaper
The way in which linguistic elements are put together to form phrases or clauses are called :
(A) semantics (8) syntax (C) deconstruction (D) phonetics
Specific features that are superimposed on the utterance of speech are :
(A) Suprasegmentals (B) Stress
(ಲ) intonation (D) Phonemes
“Derivation” and “compounding” are terms related to .
(ಹ) Vocabulary (8) Grammar (ಲ) Morphology (D) Phonology
Naom Chomsky is generally associated with :
(A) Generative Grammar (8) Traditional Grammar
(ಲ) Informal Grammar (D) English Grammar
The signifier and the signified are terms used in the linguistic theory of :
(A) LA. Richards (8) Ferdinand Saussure
(ಲ) T.S. Eliot (D) Roland Barthes
The first Germanic sound shift is also known as :
(ಹಿ) Verner's Law (8 Grimm's Law (0) Kluges Law (D) None of these
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