Literature in English Past Questions

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Question 81
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Speaker Y's intention is to stop

Aplan
Bfight
Cplot
Dflight
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Question 82
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Speaker Y speaks in the voice of

ABottom
BDemetrius
COberon
DLysander
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Question 83
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Speakers X and Y are

ADemetrious and Puck
BLysander and Demetrius
CHermia and Helen
DLysander and Puck
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Question 84
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To win Hippolyta's love, the speaker

Adisowned his friends
Bhad to fight against her
Ckilled his father
Dsent Puck away
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Question 85
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While the speaker is talking

AEgeus departs
BFlute arrives
Cthe fairies sing
DPhilostrate departs
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Question 86
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The speaker's attitude towards melancholy is

Aadoration
Bdislike
Cintolerance
Dtolerance
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Question 87
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Philostrate is

AClown of Hippolyta
BDuke's entertainer
CFairy king's cuckold
DRival of Puck
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Question 88
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Who is the speaker?

ADemetrius
BEgeus
CHermia
DTheseus
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Question 89
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The last lines of both stanzas present

ANegative but similar ideas
Bopposite ideas
CPositive but opposite ideas
Dsimilar ideas
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Question 90
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But they have soothed us calmly, your lies illustrate

Aparadox
Birony
Csynecdoche
Dzeugma
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Question 91
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Did your read our minds in your lies? exemplifies

Apersonification
Boxymoron
Cpathetic fallacy
Drhetorical question
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Question 92
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The tone of the speaker shows

Acontentment
Bhelplessness
Cpatience
Dresilience
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Question 93
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The main theme of the poem is

Aevil of lying
Bhopeless hope
Cmessage of peace
Dmessage of war
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Question 94
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The last sentence conveys the mood of

Aanxiety
Bdespondency
Cexcitement
Dnonchalance
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Question 95
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Flood waters met in a mocking kiss illustrates

Acontrast
Beuphemism
Cpersonification
Dlitotes
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Question 96
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The overall feeling evoked by the passage is one of

Aanger
Bempathy
Clove
Drelief
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Question 97
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The reference to mountain illustrates

Aallusion
Birony
Cparallelism
Dantithesis
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Question 98
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The narrative technique used is

A1st person
BDialogue
C3rd person
Dstream of consciousness
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Question 99
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At the fall of their house, the widow lost her husband, her sewing machine and her ear-rings illustrates

Abathos
Bepigram
Cpathos
Doxymoron
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Question 100
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A novel that recounts the adventures of a likeable rogue is

Apanegyric
Bgothic
Cpicaresque
Dgrotesque
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