A Literary work that ridicules the shortcomings of people or ideas is ......
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36 questionsA travelogue is
A hero whose weakness contributes to his downfall is called?
The idea of metre as used in a literary piece is
A character that is always against the interest of the protagonist is
One of the following terms applies to the discussion of both tragedy and comedy
That year, the harvest was sad, like a funeral, and many farmers wept as they dug up the miserable yams. One man tied his cloth to a tree branch and hanged himself.
The mood conveyed here is one of _____
Pick out the odd item
Another shoal of cars swam past.
One, in particular, caught his eyes, a long slender thing,
elegant as a swallow, all gleaming blue and silver;
a thousand guineas it would have cost, he thought.
In the first sentence, cars are described in terms of
You cannot know
And should not bother
Tide and market come and go
And so shall your mother
In this verse the poet uses
If we describe Kossoh Town Boy as an autobiography, we mean that it is
In The Flight to Australia', the following line occurs: 'Tier upon tier it towered, the terrible Apennines'. The figure of speech used in this line is known as
Literature is studied as a subject at school because
A narrative poem must
One of the following writers is better known as a playwright than as a novelist
Flat characters stay unchanged.