BCS Preparation English_Part 03 || বিসিএস প্রস্তুতিঃ ইংরেজি _পার্ট ০৩

1. Soliloquy is an act of speaking one's thoughts aloud when by oneself or regardless
of any hearers, especially by a character in a play.
1. What is soliloquy in English ?
সমাল াচনা
2. The word “Animadversion” means
John Keats
3. "Beauty is truth, truth is beauty." Who quote this?
Shylock is a character in William Shakespeare's play named ‘The Merchant of Venice.’
4. Who is character “Shylock”?
John Keats
5. “A thing of beauty is a joy for ever.” Who quote this?

2. John Milton, Lord Tennyson
6. Who are Epic Poets?
A short functional terms.
7. What is dirge in English literature?
S. Smiles
8. “Example is better than precept.” Who quote this?
Maupassant
9. Short story “The diamond necklace” is written by
Three times twenty.
10. What does “three score” mean?

3. The selection of words in literary work.
11. What is diction in English literature?
A famous short history
12. What is “O Henry”?
P.B. Shelley
13. "If winter comes, can spring be far behind?" Who quote this?
Smuggle. (পাচার করা)
14. What is the meaning of ‘boot leg’?
Stephen Hawking.
15. “A Brief History of Time” is written by

4. Holy place.
16. A pilgrim is a person who undertakes a journey to a
Bertrand Russell
17. “Freedom” is written by
Gautam Buddha.
18. “Pain is the outcome of sin.” Who quote this?
The language of particular district, class or a group of people.
19. What is dialect in English literature?
A funny film.
20. What is fantasy?

5. বেশি বেলে মারা বেল (an effect)
21. “Die from” preposition is used for
John Wycliffe
22. “The new testament” is written by
Archimedes.
23. “Eureka! Eureka! (I have found it).” Who quote this?
A long narrative poem composed on a grand scale and is
exalted style. Example “Paradise Last”-------Milton.
24. What is Epic?
বে শিক্ষা প্রশিষ্ঠালন বকান ছাত্র শিক্ষা াক কলরশছ ।
25. What is the bangla meaning of “Alma Mater”?

6. H.G. Wells
26. “The Time Machine” is written by
Aristotle
27. “Man is by nature a political animal.” Who quote this?
A drama is meant to perform whereas a novel is meant to read.
28. What is the difference between drama and novel?
শে ুপ্ত হওো
29. “Die out” meaning in Bangla
শেচারাধীন
30. What is “Sub Judice” meaning in Bangla?

7. Francis Bacon
31. “Opportunity makes a thief.” Who quote this?
Autocrat.
32. A person who rules without consulting other is called--
Cud chewing animal.
33. What is the meaning of the word Ruminant?
Alexander Pope
34. “Rape of the Lock” is written by
Piece of land.
35. What is the meaning of the word Parcel of land?

8. Couplet is a pair of successive lines of verse, typically rhyming and of
the same material length usually found in Shakespearean sonnet.
36. What does Couplet mean?
Shakespeare (Hamlet).
37. "To be or not to be, that is the question." Who quote this?
Emotional release of pity and fear that the tragic incidences
in a tragedy arouse to an audience.
38. What does catharsis mean?
Bribe
39. What is the meaning of Speed money?
Jane Austen
40. “Sense and Sensibility” is written by

9. A day dreamer.
41. A person whose head is in the cloud is called
A poem of fourteen lines.
42. What is Sonnet?
Shakespeare (Hamlet).
43. "Brevity is the soul of wit." Who quote this?
P.B. Shelley
44. “We look before and after.” is a quotations of
P. B. Shelley [Ode to the west wind]
45. “If winter comes, can spring be far behind” is a quotations of

10. William Shakespeare.
46. “As You Like it” is written by
P.B. Shelley [Ode to the west wind]
47. “Oh lift me as a wave a leaf a cloud !” is a Quotation of
John Milton.
48. “Lycidas” is written by
P.B. Shelley [Ode to west wind]
49. “If winter comes….” is a Quotations of
John Milton.
50. Who wrote ‘Paradise Lost’?