Read the passage below and answer questions 21 to 25
When he was little, he would ask his mother. sometimes as he lay in the cold little room and looked up at her as she sat beside the bed stroking his hair why two boys from his class had thrown stones at a dog; or why on another occasion a gang of them had broken into an empty house, smashing the thick door which had curved mouldings on the front which had been turned by carpenters years before; or why he had ended up in a fight which had begun when a little girl had shouted names at him which made no sense about his house and his mother and others had joined in and he had rushed at them, scattering them as some shricked and some laughed and he flaied about with his hard little fists and tears in his eyes. His mother would smile, say ‘shhh’ and he would drift to sleep with the heart shape of her face imprinted on his mind.
The dominant literary device in the passage is
- A. personification
- B. antithesis
- C. litotes
- D. parallelism
Read the passage below and answer questions 21 to 25
When he was little, he would ask his mother. sometimes as he lay in the cold little room and looked up at her as she sat beside the bed stroking his hair why two boys from his class had thrown stones at a dog; or why on another occasion a gang of them had broken into an empty house, smashing the thick door which had curved mouldings on the front which had been turned by carpenters years before; or why he had ended up in a fight which had begun when a little girl had shouted names at him which made no sense about his house and his mother and others had joined in and he had rushed at them, scattering them as some shricked and some laughed and he flaied about with his hard little fists and tears in his eyes. His mother would smile, say ‘shhh’ and he would drift to sleep with the heart shape of her face imprinted on his mind.
The feelings is conveyed by the
- A. mouldings on the door
- B. boys; actions
- C. tender care of his mother
- D. little girl's taunts
Read the passage below and answer questions 21 to 25
When he was little, he would ask his mother. sometimes as he lay in the cold little room and looked up at her as she sat beside the bed stroking his hair why two boys from his class had thrown stones at a dog; or why on another occasion a gang of them had broken into an empty house, smashing the thick door which had curved mouldings on the front which had been turned by carpenters years before; or why he had ended up in a fight which had begun when a little girl had shouted names at him which made no sense about his house and his mother and others had joined in and he had rushed at them, scattering them as some shricked and some laughed and he flaied about with his hard little fists and tears in his eyes. His mother would smile, say ‘shhh’ and he would drift to sleep with the heart shape of her face imprinted on his mind.
The dominant feeling in the passage is that of
- A. nostalgia
- B. anger
- C. expectancy
- D. fear
The lawyer addressed the bench illustrates
- A. simile
- B. oxymoron
- C. alliteration
- D. metonymy
Utopia is a term used to describe
- A. strange circumstances
- B. difficult conditions
- C. pleasant feelings
- D. ideal societies
A dramatic performance without words is
- A. mime
- B. an aside
- C. a monologue
- D. a soliloguy
Nando’s family lives within the lower income bracket illustrates
- A. sarcasm
- B. allusion
- C. climax
- D. euphemism
A dramatist is someone who….plays
- A. writes
- B. dírects
- C. commissions
- D. promotes
ldentify the odd item:
- A. third-person narrative
- B. literary appreciation
- C. first-person narrative
- D. epistolary technique
I feel a million times better than I felt yesterday is
- A. an apostrophe
- B. a euphemism
- C. an irony
- D. a hyperbole
The most intense part of a conflict is the
- A. resolution
- B. climax
- C. denouement
- D. deus ex machina
a short play performed in the pause between the act of a longer play is
- A. denouement
- B. interlude
- C. prologue
- D. epilogue
Read the extract below and answer questions9 to 11.
What happened to a dream deferred?
Does it dry up Like a raisin in the sun?
Or fester like a sore
And then run?
Does it stink like rotten meat?
The mood of the poem is one of
- A. joy
- B. doubt
- C. anger
- D. certainty
Read the extract below and answer questions9 to 11.
What happened to a dream deferred?
Does it dry up Like a raisin in the sun?
Or fester like a sore
And then run?
Does it stink like rotten meat?
does it stink like rotten meat? makes use of the sense of
- A. taste
- B. touch
- C. sight
- D. smell
Read the extract below and answer questions9 to 11.
What happened to a dream deferred?
Does it dry up Like a raisin in the sun?
Or fester like a sore
And then run?
Does it stink like rotten meat?
The dominant literary device is
- A. the epithet
- B. the rhetorical question
- C. verbal irony
- D. paradox
A story which explains a natural phenomenon or justifies the beliefs of a society is A. myth B. legend C. motif D. fable
- A. myth
- B. legend
- C. motif
- D. fable
The chorus normally features prominently in
- A. poetry
- B. the epic
- C. the novel
- D. drama
A three-line stanza, rhymed ABA, BCB, CDC is a
- A. couplet
- B. haiku
- C. terza rima
- D. heroic couplet
An inscription on a tombstone is an
- A. epitaph
- B. epistle
- C. epigram
- D. ode
When you are old and grey and full of sleep.
The rhythmic pattern of the above line is
- A. anapestic
- B. dactylic
- C. trochaic
- D. iambic
A recurring idea, image, or a group of images that unifies a work of literature is
- A. motif
- B. allusion
- C. legend
- D. anecdote