WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Read the extract below and answer the question:
So should the murdered look, and so should I,
Pierced through the heart with your stern cruelty;
Yes you the murdered look so bright in clear
As yonder, Venus in her, glimmering sphere
The speaker and the addressee are
- A. Demetrius and Lysander
- B. Hermia and Lysander
- C. Demetrius and Hermia
- D. Lysander and Helena
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Read the extract below and answer the question:
Where I have come, great clerks have purposed
To greet me with premeditated welcomes;
Where I have seen them shiver and look pale,
Make periods in the midst of sentences,
Throttle their practised accent I their fears,
And in conclusion, dumbly have broken off,
Not paying me a welcome…
At the end of the speech,
- A. Hippolyta storms out of the place
- B. Philostrate announces the prologue
- C. the ladies settle down
- D. the curtain is drawn
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Read the extract below and answer the question:
So should the murdered look, and so should I,
Pierced through the heart with your stern cruelty;
Yes you the murdered look so bright in clear
As yonder, Venus in her, glimmering sphere
The speaker’s experience is that
- A. the poor are eloquent
- B. even the eloquent can falter in their speech
- C. the poor are inhibited
- D. even the poor can be tongue-tied
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Read the extract below and answer the question:
Where I have come, great clerks have purposed
To greet me with premeditated welcomes;
Where I have seen them shiver and look pale,
Make periods in the midst of sentences,
Throttle their practised accent I their fears,
And in conclusion, dumbly have broken off,
Not paying me a welcome…
The speech is in reaction to
- A. Hippolyta's rejection of the burden the poor bear
- B. Philostrate's rejection of the play-within-the play
- C. the address of the chorus
- D. the arrival of the players
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Read the extract below and answer the question:
Where I have come, great clerks have purposed
To greet me with premeditated welcomes;
Where I have seen them shiver and look pale,
Make periods in the midst of sentences,
Throttle their practised accent I their fears,
And in conclusion, dumbly have broken off,
Not paying me a welcome…
The speaker is addressing
- A. Hippolyta
- B. Lysander
- C. Philostrate
- D. Quince
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Read the extract below and answer the question:
Where I have come, great clerks have purposed
To greet me with premeditated welcomes;
Where I have seen them shiver and look pale,
Make periods in the midst of sentences,
Throttle their practised accent I their fears,
And in conclusion, dumbly have broken off,
Not paying me a welcome…
The speaker is
- A. Helena
- B. Hermia
- C. Philostrate
- D. Theseus
UNSEEN POETRY
Read the poem and answer the question
My heart was in fearful flight
Pursued by Cupid, arrow poised
Waiting for my flight’s end
When I’d turn about
Or I’d fall supine
My fleeing heart to pierce
Enslave or enthrall and ravish hopeless
So, I’m pining and pining away
For you high up there have perched
Out of reach of my now yearning
Which was why my heart’d been fleeing
From cupid’s poised arrow
In the poem, cupid is
- A. an allusion
- B. a metonymy
- C. the persona's mistress
- D. the persona's rival
UNSEEN POETRY
Read the poem and answer the question
My heart was in fearful flight
Pursued by Cupid, arrow poised
Waiting for my flight’s end
When I’d turn about
Or I’d fall supine
My fleeing heart to pierce
Enslave or enthrall and ravish hopeless
So, I’m pining and pining away
For you high up there have perched
Out of reach of my now yearning
Which was why my heart’d been fleeing
From cupid’s poised arrow
The dominant image is one of
- A. beginning
- B. flying
- C. running
- D. waiting
UNSEEN POETRY
Read the poem and answer the question
My heart was in fearful flight
Pursued by Cupid, arrow poised
Waiting for my flight’s end
When I’d turn about
Or I’d fall supine
My fleeing heart to pierce
Enslave or enthrall and ravish hopeless
So, I’m pining and pining away
For you high up there have perched
Out of reach of my now yearning
Which was why my heart’d been fleeing
From cupid’s poised arrow
The poem is a
- A. haiku
- B. kenning
- C. limerick
- D. lyric
The lines that provide evidence for what the poem is about is are _____
- A. 2 and 3
- B. 7 and 8
- C. 9 and 10
- D. 11 and 12
UNSEEN POETRY
Read the poem and answer the question
My heart was in fearful flight
Pursued by Cupid, arrow poised
Waiting for my flight’s end
When I’d turn about
Or I’d fall supine
My fleeing heart to pierce
Enslave or enthrall and ravish hopeless
So, I’m pining and pining away
For you high up there have perched
Out of reach of my now yearning
Which was why my heart’d been fleeing
From cupid’s poised arrow
The poem is about
- A. unforgettable
- B. sacrificial
- C. unrequited
- D. selfish
UNSEEN PROSE
Read the passage and answer the following question
The message was unambiguous: her John was on his way back. For how long had he been gone? Jenny wondered.
She wrung her hands in silent expectation. She stood, turned about, and sat, motionless. She was listening in the silence of the room and looking into the gloom of the unlit room.
She seemed to pull herself together as she rose to her full height, switched on the light and turned on the TV, to no station in particular, selecting no programme at all. She sat in front of the TV, not watching. Her heart was pounding, slowly, she hoisted herself from the armchair and moved towards the kitchen, like one sleepwalking.
She must get some food ready for the sojourner. Her rapid heartbeat did not show in her slow-motion actions. Her cooking done, Jenny was carrying the dish on a tray to the dining table when the doorbell rang. Jenny dropped the tray.
The mood is one of
- A. anxiety
- B. despondency
- C. sorrow
- D. regret
UNSEEN PROSE
Read the passage and answer the following question
The message was unambiguous: her John was on his way back. For how long had he been gone? Jenny wondered.
She wrung her hands in silent expectation. She stood, turned about, and sat, motionless. She was listening in the silence of the room and looking into the gloom of the unlit room.
She seemed to pull herself together as she rose to her full height, switched on the light and turned on the TV, to no station in particular, selecting no programme at all. She sat in front of the TV, not watching. Her heart was pounding, slowly, she hoisted herself from the armchair and moved towards the kitchen, like one sleepwalking.
She must get some food ready for the sojourner. Her rapid heartbeat did not show in her slow-motion actions. Her cooking done, Jenny was carrying the dish on a tray to the dining table when the doorbell rang. Jenny dropped the tray.
The mood is one of
- A. anxiety
- B. despondency
- C. sorrow
- D. regret
UNSEEN PROSE
Read the passage and answer the following question
The message was unambiguous: her John was on his way back. For how long had he been gone? Jenny wondered.
She wrung her hands in silent expectation. She stood, turned about, and sat, motionless. She was listening in the silence of the room and looking into the gloom of the unlit room.
She seemed to pull herself together as she rose to her full height, switched on the light and turned on the TV, to no station in particular, selecting no programme at all. She sat in front of the TV, not watching. Her heart was pounding, slowly, she hoisted herself from the armchair and moved towards the kitchen, like one sleepwalking.
She must get some food ready for the sojourner. Her rapid heartbeat did not show in her slow-motion actions. Her cooking done, Jenny was carrying the dish on a tray to the dining table when the doorbell rang. Jenny dropped the tray.
In _____ and moved inwards the kitchen, like one sleepwalking, the simile portrays one who is
- A. absent minded
- B. disappointed
- C. passion driven
- D. morose
UNSEEN PROSE
Read the passage and answer the following question
The message was unambiguous: her John was on his way back. For how long had he been gone? Jenny wondered.
She wrung her hands in silent expectation. She stood, turned about, and sat, motionless. She was listening in the silence of the room and looking into the gloom of the unlit room.
She seemed to pull herself together as she rose to her full height, switched on the light and turned on the TV, to no station in particular, selecting no programme at all. She sat in front of the TV, not watching. Her heart was pounding, slowly, she hoisted herself from the armchair and moved towards the kitchen, like one sleepwalking.
She must get some food ready for the sojourner. Her rapid heartbeat did not show in her slow-motion actions. Her cooking done, Jenny was carrying the dish on a tray to the dining table when the doorbell rang. Jenny dropped the tray.
The technique of narration is
- A. First person
- B. Second person
- C. Third person
- D. stream of consciousness
UNSEEN PROSE
Read the passage and answer the following question
The message was unambiguous: her John was on his way back. For how long had he been gone? Jenny wondered.
She wrung her hands in silent expectation. She stood, turned about, and sat, motionless. She was listening in the silence of the room and looking into the gloom of the unlit room.
She seemed to pull herself together as she rose to her full height, switched on the light and turned on the TV, to no station in particular, selecting no programme at all. She sat in front of the TV, not watching. Her heart was pounding, slowly, she hoisted herself from the armchair and moved towards the kitchen, like one sleepwalking.
She must get some food ready for the sojourner. Her rapid heartbeat did not show in her slow-motion actions. Her cooking done, Jenny was carrying the dish on a tray to the dining table when the doorbell rang. Jenny dropped the tray.
The figure of speech used in she was listening to the silence of the room is
- A. conceit
- B. irony
- C. oxymoron
- D. zeugma
UNSEEN PROSE
Read the passage and answer the following question
The message was unambiguous: her John was on his way back. For how long had he been gone? Jenny wondered.
She wrung her hands in silent expectation. She stood, turned about, and sat, motionless. She was listening in the silence of the room and looking into the gloom of the unlit room.
She seemed to pull herself together as she rose to her full height, switched on the light and turned on the TV, to no station in particular, selecting no programme at all. She sat in front of the TV, not watching. Her heart was pounding, slowly, she hoisted herself from the armchair and moved towards the kitchen, like one sleepwalking.
She must get some food ready for the sojourner. Her rapid heartbeat did not show in her slow-motion actions. Her cooking done, Jenny was carrying the dish on a tray to the dining table when the doorbell rang. Jenny dropped the tray.
The passage is about
- A. a meeting place
- B. jenny's expert cooking
- C. the disappointment of love
- D. the passion of love
The _______ comes after the loose ends of the plot have been tied up.
- A. climax
- B. denouncement
- C. epilogue
- D. epilogue
Characters in a play that the author uses as a vehicle for commentary is
- A. chorus
- B. dancers
- C. drummers
- D. singers
Read the lines below and answer the question:
The curl of my lips, the swing of my waist, the
The ride of my breast, the stride of my steps, the
Flash of my tech and the palm of my hand
The image created in the line appeals to the sense of
- A. sight
- B. taste
- C. smell
- D. touch
Read the lines below and answer the question:
The curl of my lips, the swing of my waist, the
The ride of my breast, the stride of my steps, the
Flash of my tech and the palm of my hand
The line is an example of
- A. euphemism
- B. parallelism
- C. personification
- D. synecdoche