Read the passage and answer the question
Here in the station it is in no way different save that the city is busy in its snow. But the old men cling to their seats as though they were symbolic and could not be given up. Now and then they sleep, their grey old heads resting with painful awkwardness on the backs of the benches
Also they are not at rest. For an hour they may sleep in the gasping exhaustion of the ill-nourished and aged. who have to walk in the night. Then a policeman comes by on his rounds and nudges them upright.
”You can’t sleep here”, he growls.
A strange ritual then begins. An old man is difficult to wake. One man after a slight lurch, does not move at all, droning centre of the hive rather than in some lonely room fulfilled.
This style of writing is
- A. argumentative
- B. epistolary
- C. narrative
- D. expository
UNSEEN PROSE AND POETRY
Read the poem and answer the question
What a morning!
The sound of guns was everywhere
The city was trapped,
I heave a mournful sigh-
Rebels!
Boom Boom Boom!
The heart pants at the sound of the blast
Lord! When will all this end?
This is the fourth day.
You say you are free
Oh no, you are not
You are trapped-
A prisoner in your own home.
The song is everywhere.
What next?
Food – water – a hiding place
Far from the sound of the gun.
”The song is everywhere” refers to
- A. freedom
- B. anxiety
- C. pleasure
- D. satisfaction
UNSEEN PROSE AND POETRY
Read the poem and answer the question
What a morning!
The sound of guns was everywhere
The city was trapped,
I heave a mournful sigh-
Rebels!
Boom Boom Boom!
The heart pants at the sound of the blast
Lord! When will all this end?
This is the fourth day.
You say you are free
Oh no, you are not
You are trapped-
A prisoner in your own home.
The song is everywhere.
What next?
Food – water – a hiding place
Far from the sound of the gun.
The second stanza refers to
- A. the uncertainty of life
- B. the pleasures of life
- C. the meaning of life
- D. the joys of life
UNSEEN PROSE AND POETRY
Read the poem and answer the question
What a morning!
The sound of guns was everywhere
The city was trapped,
I heave a mournful sigh-
Rebels!
Boom Boom Boom!
The heart pants at the sound of the blast
Lord! When will all this end?
This is the fourth day.
You say you are free
Oh no, you are not
You are trapped-
A prisoner in your own home.
The song is everywhere.
What next?
Food – water – a hiding place
Far from the sound of the gun.
The atmosphere of the poem implies
- A. danger and confusion
- B. peace and reconciliation
- C. happiness
- D. hope
UNSEEN PROSE AND POETRY
Read the poem and answer the question
What a morning!
The sound of guns was everywhere
The city was trapped,
I heave a mournful sigh-
Rebels!
Boom Boom Boom!
The heart pants at the sound of the blast
Lord! When will all this end?
This is the fourth day.
You say you are free
Oh no, you are not
You are trapped-
A prisoner in your own home.
The song is everywhere.
What next?
Food – water – a hiding place
Far from the sound of the gun.
”Boom Boom Boom” is an example of
- A. symbols
- B. onomatopoeia
- C. metonymy
- D. allusion
UNSEEN PROSE AND POETRY
Read the poem and answer the question
What a morning!
The sound of guns was everywhere
The city was trapped,
I heave a mournful sigh-
Rebels!
Boom Boom Boom!
The heart pants at the sound of the blast
Lord! When will all this end?
This is the fourth day.
You say you are free
Oh no, you are not
You are trapped-
A prisoner in your own home.
The song is everywhere.
What next?
Food – water – a hiding place
Far from the sound of the gun.
The theme of the poem is
- A. peace
- B. war
- C. love
- D. death
”Poetry gets bored of being alone. It wants to go outdoors to chew on the winds”
The dominant figure of speech in the above lines is
- A. Paradox
- B. pun
- C. Parallelism
- D. personification
Pick the odd item out of the options listed
- A. Euphemism
- B. Oxymoron
- C. Hyperbole
- D. Rhythm
”The strong gongs groaming as the guns born far” illustrates
- A. metonymy
- B. refrain
- C. onomatopoeia
- D. repetition
”My bounty is as boundless as the sea
My love as deep” The above lines illustrate
- A. epigram
- B. hyperbole
- C. apostrophe
- D. parody
Pick the odd item out of the options listed
- A. the joys of the motherhood
- B. sons and daughters
- C. a man for all seasons
- D. the last duty
The major genres of Literature are
- A. fiction, non-fiction, drama
- B. prose, farce, comedy
- C. prose, drama, poetry
- D. poetry, prose, fiction
The elegy
- A. conforms to a fixed pattern of lines
- B. is set in the countryside
- C. has a mournful tone
- D. celebrates heroic deeds
The timing and location of a literary work is
- A. theme
- B. plot
- C. setting
- D. atmosphere
An emphasis placed on a syllable in pronunciation is
- A. meter
- B. rhythm
- C. accent
- D. rhyme
The central idea of a story or a poem is the
- A. title
- B. climax
- C. theme
- D. conflict
”But at my back I always hear
Time’s winged chariot hurrying near” illustrates
- A. metaphor
- B. apostrophe
- C. oxymoron
- D. metonymy
Read the poem and answer the question
”No longer mourn for me when I am dead
Then you shall hear the surly sullen bell
Give warning to the world that I am fled
from this vile world, with vilest worms to dwell”
The rhyming pattern of the lines is
- A. abab
- B. abba
- C. aabb
- D. aaab
Read the poem and answer the question
”No longer mourn for me when I am dead
Then you shall hear the surly sullen bell
Give warning to the world that I am fled
from this vile world, with vilest worms to dwell”
The poet uses
- A. eye-rhyme
- B. run-on-lines
- C. end-stopped-lines
- D. internal rhyme
Read the poem and answer the question
”No longer mourn for me when I am dead
Then you shall hear the surly sullen bell
Give warning to the world that I am fled
from this vile world, with vilest worms to dwell”
The mood of the poet is one of
- A. anger
- B. humour
- C. metancholy
- D. gaiety
A poem written in praise of someone or something is
- A. a ballad
- B. an epic
- C. a sonnet
- D. an ode