Get up you shameless hussy’, she bellowed, ‘ you strumpet, you fallen woman! I don’t know what your father and I have done to deserve such a child the events that happened later in Mission to Kala show that the speaker in the passage is
- A. milly offended by the daughter's behaviour
- B. truly outraged by the daughter's behaviour
- C. merely pretending to be outraged by the daughter's behaviour
- D. deeply offended by the daughter's behaviour
- E. indifferent to the daughter's behaviour
‘How many ages hence Shall this our lofty scene be acted over?’In this passage, lofty scene refers to
- A. a great event
- B. the meeting of the conspirators
- C. the funeral of Caesar
- D. a scene acted on a raised platform
- E. the assassination of Caesar.
As a literary from the short story is most closely related to
- A. poetry
- B. the discourse
- C. tragedy
- D. the novel
- E. drama.
Brenda suddenly stiffened in her chair and half turned her ear to the window, silent like an animal waiting to spring, an alertness that transformed her face to temporary ugliness. Arthur noticed it,
‘He’s coming’, she said ‘i heard the gate open.’
In this short passage, the writer succeeds in creating
- A. anti-climax
- B. pity
- C. comic relief
- D. suspense
- E. characters.
In poetry, the elegiac mood typically attends the occasion or experience of
- A. triumph and fulfilment
- B. birth and growth
- C. death and decay
- D. joy and ecstacy
- E. illumination and discovery.
‘The pen is mightier than the sword’ is an example of
- A. metonymy
- B. antonomasia
- C. comparison
- D. synecdoche
- E. paradox.
A deliberate use of exaggeration for humour or emphasis is known as
- A. exclamation
- B. litotes
- C. metonymy
- D. hyperbole
- E. antonym.
At the end of that week I set off for Caxley. It was a grey day, with the downs covered in thick mist. The trees dripped sadly along the road to the market town, and the wet pavements were even more depressing.
The setting is best described as
- A. bracing
- B. dismal
- C. exhilarating
- D. delightful
- E. pleasant.
A trade, Sir, that, i hope, i may use with a safe conscience; which is, indeed, Sir, a mender of bad soles.
The passage is referring to a
- A. religious preacher who saves sinful souls
- B. physician who cures diseases of the sole
- C. workman who repears shoes
- D. trader who prevents bad sales
- E. trader who cheats customers during sales.
‘There kneels a jigger, a louse, a weevil, a flea, a bedbug! He is mistletoe, a parasite that lives on the trees of other people’s lives!’
The speaker uses a string of
- A. hyperbole
- B. parables
- C. metaphors
- D. riddles
- E. understatements.
‘When we got off the bus he helped me to cross the road, holding me by the elbow. Submissively, I allowed my self to be led. Out on the square there was an African sun, and in my heart too, shading a flood of light’.
The narrator here is full of
- A. gloom
- B. fears
- C. doubts
- D. cheer
- E. uncertainty.
”Mother, didn”t you hear me? I”ve bought the goat, hen and yams. don”t you want them anymore? Why do you continue to look at me like that?
I haven”t done anything wrong again, have i?
Answer me, speak to me, mother!”
The dominant mood in this passage is one of
- A. sadness
- B. anger
- C. anxiety
- D. nonchalance
- E. joy.
‘I too crossed the rivers, and the virgin ambushes of the forests,
Where Lianas hung down, more treacherous than serpents’.
In the eyes of the writer of these lines, the word ‘Forests’ stands for
- A. friendliness
- B. insecurity
- C. innocence
- D. fertility
- E. safety.
The central organizing idea which unites character, action, language and style in a work of fiction is known as
- A. theory
- B. plot
- C. theme
- D. characterization
- E. fable.
In a play denouement is the
- A. entry of the central character
- B. development of the central conflict
- C. introduction of the minor conflict along side the major conflict
- D. climatic point in the development of the plot
- E. the resolution of the conflicts in the plot.
‘All day long, all along the line
Through tiny station, each exactly like the last chattering little black girls uncaged from school all day long,…’
For the girls mentioned here, the hours spent at school means
- A. creativity
- B. amusement
- C. relaxation
- D. restriction
- E. freedom.
Assonance in poetry is the repetition of
- A. internal vowels in words
- B. stressed syllables in words
- C. consonant sounds in words
- D. final sounds at the end of a line
- E. final sounds at the begining of a line.
Which of the following is a correct definition of the balled?
- A. A climatic episode
- B. An impersonal dramatic piece
- C. An allusive dialogue
- D. A love story told by balled singer
- E. A poem that tells a folk story
In a work of Literature, the hero is one
- A. whose name is mentioned the greatest number of times in the text
- B. who is antagonistic to every one else
- C. whose experience provide the central conflict in the work
- D. who dies in the course of the story
- E. who performs brave and heroic deeds.
A play is a Tragedy when
- A. the autor presents life as a hopeless adventure
- B. the main chracter dies before the play ends
- C. there is much blood shed in the play
- D. the main character is a wicked person
- E. a weakness in the main character leads to his downfall.
What distinguishes poetry from other forms of literature is its
- A. emotion and feeling
- B. ungrammatical expressions
- C. irony and paradox
- D. rhyme and verse
- E. rhyme and metaphor.