Literature in English Past Questions

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Question 11
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The two stanzas are built on

Aidentical rhyme
Brun on lines
Calternate rhyme
Dcouplets
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Question 12
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In the last stanza, the persona is

Amalnourished
Bfantasising
Cpretending
Dangry
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Question 13
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Reading the poem, one notices that the poet is being

Aironic
Bsarcastic
CHyperbolic
Deuphemistic
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Question 14
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The metrical structure is predominantly

Aspondaic
Biambic
Ctrochaic
Ddactylic
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Question 15
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child of scorn illustrates

Acontrast
Beuphemism
Cmetaphor
Dmetonymy
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Question 16
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The last paragraph illustrates

Arising action
Bsuspense
Cforeshadow
Danti-climax
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Question 17
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rattling like leaves in a storm, fear branded on their faces illustrates

Apersonification and simile
Bpersonification and metaphor
Csimile and metaphor
Dassonance and simile
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Question 18
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The attitude of the writer towards Sasu is one of

Aanger
Bapproval
Csurprise
Ddisdain
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Question 19
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join in with it, lead it on, but, finally, veer it from illustrates

Apersonification
Ballusion
Csimile
Dparallelism
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Question 20
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The prevailing atmosphere is

Aserene
Bdrab
Ctense
Dpleasant
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Question 21
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"At the last head count, the population of the school was three thousand" is an example of

Ametonymy
Bhyperbole
Csynecdoche
Dpun
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Question 22
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Exaggerating one's personal features for comic effect is

Acontrast
Bsatire
Clampoon
Dcaricature
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Question 23
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A fable is also known as

Aa parody
Ban apologue
Ca farce
Dan epigram
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Question 24
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The dominant literary device used in the extract is

Aparallelism
Bantithesis
Capostrophe
Dpersonification
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Question 25
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The extract presents the image of a

Adark night
Bcalm weather
Cbright day
Drough time
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Question 26
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The third stanza of the Shakespearean sonnet is

Aquatrain
Boctave
Csextet
Dcouplet
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Question 27
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A short poem lamenting the death of someone is

Aa sonnet
Ban ode
Ca threnody
Dan epic
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Question 28
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A dramatic performance with scenes played by body movements or gestures without words, known as

Amelodrama
Bpanygeric
Cpantomime
Dcomedy
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Question 29
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"The moon looked on the massacre in horror!" illustrates

Aprologue
Bepilogue
Ctransferred epithet
Dpathetic fallacy
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Question 30
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Resolution in a literary work is also referred to as

Afinal outcome
Bevents that increase action
Cevents that increase tension
Dthe complication
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