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A character who re-enacts familiar experiences that readers easily identify with is

  • A. round character
  • B. stock character
  • C. static character
  • D. flat character
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Plays are basically meant to

  • A. change the world
  • B. be read for pleasure
  • C. be presented on stage
  • D. keep people out of trouble
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Travellogue is a work of art written

  • A. by a famous playwright
  • B. by an unpopular novelist
  • C. on a journey
  • D. before the death of the author
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In  drama, dramaturge is he who

  • A. writes or edits plays
  • B. directs a play
  • C. acts a film
  • D. features in a play
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A ballad is meant to be

  • A. acted
  • B. discussed
  • C. read
  • D. sung
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The repetition of single words or phrases at the beginning of a line is

  • A. assonance
  • B. onomatopoeia
  • C. alliteration
  • D. parallelism
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‘Good warriors make others come to them and do not go to others…
When you induce an opponent to come to you, then their force is always empty,
like attacking emptiness with fullness is throwing stones on eggs.’
Zhang Yu: The Art of War
The theme of the passage above is

  • A. folly of soldiers
  • B. spurring people to action
  • C. war
  • D. inspiration
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The large space above the proscenium in a theatre from which the scenes are controlled is called

  • A. aside
  • B. anachronism
  • C. flies
  • D. setting
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