A device used by a writer to recall past event in a literary work is
- A. anti-climax
- B. interlude
- C. flashback
- D. foreshadowing
Which of these is the oldest genre of literature?
- A. Poetry
- B. Prose
- C. Aroma
- D. Drama
‘The fair breeze blew
The white foam flew
The furrow followed free
We were the first that ever burst into that silent sea.’
The dominant figure of speech in the above passage is
- A. repetition
- B. alliteration
- C. paradox
- D. rhyme scheme
Chanson is a term denoting a
- A. popular Korean verse
- B. Song from the middle Ages
- C. Form of love song
- D. poem of Varied Metrical forms
“I had not taken the first step in knowledge, I had not learnt to let go with the hands”.The above lines is an example of a
- A. Aspotrophe
- B. Alliteration
- C. Repetitiion
- D. Assonance
‘To see a world in a grain of sand
And a heaven in a wild flower
Hold infinity in the palm of your hand
And eternity in an hour’
– William Blake
To see a World In a Grain of Sand.
The predominant figure of speech used in the lines above is
- A. metaphor
- B. simile
- C. paradox
- D. hyperbole
“Rays of sun peeping through the cloud “, the line is an example of
- A. Synecdoche
- B. Irony
- C. Apostrophe
- D. Personification
The narrator in a prose work who is also a character is
- A. omniscient narrator
- B. participatory narrator
- C. objective narrator
- D. subjective narrator
“I hate brave cowards like you” is an example of
- A. Irony
- B. Antithesis
- C. Eulogy
- D. Oxymoron
An irredeemable reversal of the hero’s fortune in a tragedy is called.
- A. purgation
- B. peripeteia
- C. hubris
- D. anagnorisis
Dramatis personae in a play refers to
- A. cast list
- B. list of characters
- C. protagonist and antagonist
- D. order of appearance
‘I am jealous and passonate
Like Jehovah, God of the Jews.’
J.P Clark: Olokun
A device used in the second line of the excerpt above is
- A. simile
- B. paradox
- C. metaphor
- D. hyperbole
“A time to sow,
A time to reap,
A time to born,
A time to die”
This exemplies the use of …
- A. hendiadys
- B. chiasmus
- C. anaphora
- D. anadiplosis
A dramatic type directed against an individual or a private institute with the intent to severely ridicule is called
- A. lampoon
- B. caricature
- C. burlesque
- D. satire
The subject matter of a literary work is the
- A. plot
- B. setting
- C. theme
- D. structure
…… is also called a dynamic character
- A. Protagonist
- B. Round character
- C. Flat character
- D. Foil
Mock-heroic poetry elevates
- A. the important tales of heroes of the past era
- B. trivial subject-matter by using the style of the classical epic
- C. the stripping off of appearances in a witty manner
- D. the beauty in human relationships as exemplified in Homer
Empathy is achieved when the audience
- A. feels betrayed by the director
- B. vicariously participates in the stage experience
- C. attacks the character foil
- D. denounces and humiliates the protagonist
The exclusive right given to authors to protect their works from unlawful production is
- A. a constitutional provision
- B. a copyright
- C. an authority to write
- D. an author's right
A Literary work that ridicules the shortcomings of people or ideas is ……
- A. a satire
- B. a masque
- C. a fable
- D. an irony
A travelogue is
- A. a record of the writer's experience during a journey
- B. the account of the experiences of an individual during his lifeline
- C. the account of the travails of a character in a novel
- D. a variant of a novel written in a free style on a writer's journey