UNSEEN POETRY AND PROSE
Read the poem and answer the question
At the onset of the rain
The drought-stricken land
Suck up the wetness
And the gates to the field
Are flung widely open.
It is the signal for planting!
It is time for joyous toiling!
At various times of day
The hard and erect hoe
Would thrust and dig deep
Into the receiving wet soil.
Seeds on different quantities
Seeds of varying potency
Are broadcasted in layers
Into the womb of the earth
With time and much labour
The seed now transformed
Blossoms and grows into new life!
The dominant device used in the extract is
- A. metaphor
- B. paradox
- C. symbolism
- D. simile
UNSEEN POETRY AND PROSE
Read the poem and answer the question
At the onset of the rain
The drought-stricken land
Suck up the wetness
And the gates to the field
Are flung widely open.
It is the signal for planting!
It is time for joyous toiling!
At various times of day
The hard and erect hoe
Would thrust and dig deep
Into the receiving wet soil.
Seeds on different quantities
Seeds of varying potency
Are broadcasted in layers
Into the womb of the earth
With time and much labour
The seed now transformed
Blossoms and grows into new life!
The subject matter of the extract is
- A. harvesting
- B. rain
- C. time
- D. farming
A piece of writing or speech at the beginning of a work of art is the
- A. prologue
- B. dialogue
- C. monologue
- D. epilogue
Shakespeare’s poetry consists mainly of
- A. quartrain
- B. heroic verse
- C. blank verse
- D. couplet
A poem of fourteen lines is
- A. an elegy
- B. a dirge
- C. a sonnet
- D. an ode
A piece of writing which teaches morals is
- A. serious
- B. didactic
- C. playful
- D. analytical
Drama is meant to
- A. teach manners only
- B. criticize
- C. eduate and entertain
- D. be read and acted only
A deliberate use of exaggeration for the purpose of humour/emphasis is
- A. metaphor
- B. irony
- C. simile
- D. hyperbole
The art of creating fictional personages constitutes
- A. point of view
- B. characterization
- C. narrative tecnique
- D. symbolism
A writer’s choice of words is his
- A. diction
- B. mood
- C. tone
- D. setting
”Pregnant clouds” is an example of
- A. eliche
- B. litotes
- C. metaphor
- D. synecdoche
Pick the odd item out of the underlisted
- A. ode
- B. elegy
- C. sonnet
- D. simile
A character whose flaws combined with external force lead to his suffering is a
- A. heroine
- B. tragic-hero
- C. hero
- D. protagonist
The concluding part of a play where the conflict is resolved is the
- A. resolution
- B. enjambment
- C. denouement
- D. climax
”The lawyer addressed the bench” illustrates
- A. metonymy
- B. alliteration
- C. simile
- D. oxymoron
A literary work written in from of a letter is
- A. creative
- B. romantic
- C. tautological
- D. epistolary
A question which does not require an answer is
- A. discourse
- B. rhetorical
- C. ironic
- D. flashback
recurring dominant idea in a work of a art is called
- A. setting
- B. conflict
- C. plot
- D. motif
”O happy torment” is an example of
- A. oxymoron
- B. synecdoche
- C. innuendo
- D. simile
A stanza of four lines in poetry is
- A. a quartrain
- B. a sestet
- C. an actave
- D. an elegy
”Peter’s pretty partner paid the bills” is an example of
- A. alliteration
- B. rhyme
- C. satire
- D. digression