Literature in English Past Questions

This question is based on UNEXPECTED JOY AT DAWN.
Which of these characters is at the center of the impact of the xenophobic attack in the novel?

This question is based on THE LION AND THE JEWEL.
The use of language in the play is written in both___ and ___ forms.

This question is based on LOOK BACK IN ANGER.
What were the other businesses Jimmy porter had tried apart from the sweet stall business?

This question is based on SECOND CLASS CITIZEN.
The novel is set after which major war?

A novel that features spiritual apparitions as major character is

This question is based on A GOVERNMENT DRIVER ON HIS RETIREMENT.

"Many years on wheels" The reference to "wheels" exemplifies the use of ___ in the poem.

A long story narrating a series of complicated events is called a

The moment of recognition of truth when ignorance gives way to knowledge is known as

This question is based on THE GOOD MORROW.
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"If ever any beauty I did see,
Which I desired, and got, 'twas but a dream of thee."

The excerpt above evokes the use of ____

'Senhor Jose got cold during the night. After having uttered those redundant useless words, here she is, he wasn't sure what else he should do. It was true that, after long and arduous labours, he had managed, at last, to find the unknown woman, or rather, the place where she lay, a good six feet beneath an earth that still sustained him'
Jose Saramago: All the Names

What happens to the unknown woman in the passage above?

This question is based on BLACK WOMAN.

"fruit with firm flesh" illustrates the use of ____

'Fierce harmattan sun on innocent tendrils; torrential downpour on leaking thatch roofs; painful comfort of helpless eunuchs; thorny beauty of modern witches; the falcon's call on day-old-chicks, ours is a tragicomic dialogue:... mute echoes of pains' .

The sonority and rhythmical structure of the lines above are achieved through a pause- pattern called

The overwhelming pride that destroys the tragic hero is called

*For seven days it rained that June;
A storm half out to sea kept turning around like a dog trying to settle himself on a rug; We were the fleas that
complained in his hair.
John Updike, Wash

The image set in the lines above are of

This question is based on RAIDER OF THE TREASURE TROVE.

The poetic device in the expression "Rage is chief" is ___

A tragic hero, according to the Aristotelian precept, must be a

A story with elements that have both literal and figurative meanings is

When an object is invested with a meaning beyond its immediate reference, it becomes

This question is based on BAT.

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"Where light pushes through;
A sudden turning upon itself of a thing in the air.
A dip to the water.
And you think:
"The swallows are flying so late!"
Swallows?"

The dominant poetic device in the excerpt is___