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Resolution in a literary work is also referred to as

  • A. events that increase action
  • B. final outcome
  • C. the complication
  • D. event that increases tension
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86

A character that is built around a single idea or quality is a _______ character.

  • A. heroic
  • B. flat
  • C. choral
  • D. sound
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87

A fable is also known as

  • A. an apologue
  • B. an epigram
  • C. a farce
  • D. a parody
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88

Jonsey’s speech Your mayoral hopeful is addressed to

  • A. the audience
  • B. Bassey
  • C. no one
  • D. himself
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89

Bassy is a ____ in the play.

  • A. narrator
  • B. director
  • C. producer
  • D. character
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90

Read the extract below and answer the following question:

(In the Town Hall)
Jonsey: (By himself, centre right, looking sulky) How does anyone keep faith with himself In such an ill-made place?
Bassy, Ba-a-ssy!
Bassy: Here. Anything the matter?
Jonsey: (Moves front stage centre right) Your mayoral hopeful.

In the Town hall is the

  • A. setting
  • B. location
  • C. atmosphere
  • D. stage
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91

Read the extract below and answer the following question:

(In the Town Hall)
Jonsey: (By himself, centre right, looking sulky) How does anyone keep faith with himself In such an ill-made place?
Bassy, Ba-a-ssy!
Bassy: Here. Anything the matter?
Jonsey: (Moves front stage centre right) Your mayoral hopeful.

Jonsey’s opening speech illustrates

  • A. epilogue
  • B. soliloquy
  • C. mime
  • D. aside
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92

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Read the extract and answer the following question.

As wagish boys in a game themselves forswear;
So the boy Love is perjured everywhere;
For ere Demetrius looked on Hermia’s eyne,
He hailed down oaths that he was only mine;
And when this hail some heat from Hermia felt,
So he dissolved and showers of oaths did melt

 

The speaker resolves to tell

  • A. Lysander of Hermia's infidelity
  • B. Demetrius of Hermia's flight
  • C. Egeus of Hermia's flight
  • D. Theseus of Hermia's infidelity
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93

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Read the extract and answer the following question.

As wagish boys in a game themselves forswear;
So the boy Love is perjured everywhere;
For ere Demetrius looked on Hermia’s eyne,
He hailed down oaths that he was only mine;
And when this hail some heat from Hermia felt,
So he dissolved and showers of oaths did melt

 

The speaker has just said farewell to

  • A. Helena
  • B. Demetrius
  • C. Hermia
  • D. Lysander
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94

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Read the extract and answer the following question.

As wagish boys in a game themselves forswear;
So the boy Love is perjured everywhere;
For ere Demetrius looked on Hermia’s eyne,
He hailed down oaths that he was only mine;
And when this hail some heat from Hermia felt,
So he dissolved and showers of oaths did melt

 

The speaker’s mood stems from

  • A. being rejected by the lover
  • B. having to go into the forest
  • C. wanting to punish Hermia
  • D. meeting with Hermia
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95

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Read the extract and answer the following question.

As wagish boys in a game themselves forswear;
So the boy Love is perjured everywhere;
For ere Demetrius looked on Hermia’s eyne,
He hailed down oaths that he was only mine;
And when this hail some heat from Hermia felt,
So he dissolved and showers of oaths did melt

 

The speech shows that the speaker is

  • A. high spirits
  • B. dissappointed
  • C. excited
  • D. in a bad mood
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96

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Read the extract and answer the following question.

As wagish boys in a game themselves forswear;
So the boy Love is perjured everywhere;
For ere Demetrius looked on Hermia’s eyne,
He hailed down oaths that he was only mine;
And when this hail some heat from Hermia felt,
So he dissolved and showers of oaths did melt

 

The speaker is

  • A. Egeus
  • B. Hermia
  • C. Demetrius
  • D. Helena
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97

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Read the extract below and answer the following question: 

The boat nodded in timing with the gentle
Bobbing of the float on the unhurrying
Tide as the angler awaited the bite and
Pull of a salmon

The dominant literary device used in the extract is

  • A. parallelism
  • B. apostrophe
  • C. personification
  • D. antithesis
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98

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Read the extract below and answer the following question: 

The boat nodded in timing with the gentle
Bobbing of the float on the unhurrying
Tide as the angler awaited the bite and
Pull of a salmon

The extract presents the image of a

  • A. enough time
  • B. bright day
  • C. dark night
  • D. calm weather
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99

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Read the extract below and answer the following question:
That fallen am I in dark uneven way,
Come, thou gentle day;
For if but once thou show me thy grey light,
I’ll find , and revenge this spite.
 

After the speech, the speaker

  • A. begins to dance
  • B. laughs uncontrollably
  • C. falls asleep
  • D. starts crying
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100

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Read the extract below and answer the following question:
That fallen am I in dark uneven way,
Come, thou gentle day;
For if but once thou show me thy grey light,
I’ll find , and revenge this spite.
 

Come, thou gentle day illustrates

  • A. apostrophe
  • B. irony
  • C. paradox
  • D. euphemism
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101

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Read the extract below and answer the following question:
That fallen am I in dark uneven way,
Come, thou gentle day;
For if but once thou show me thy grey light,
I’ll find , and revenge this spite.
 

The speaker is in

  • A. the woods
  • B. his apartment
  • C. a street
  • D. the palace
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102

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Read the extract below and answer the following question:
That fallen am I in dark uneven way,
Come, thou gentle day;
For if but once thou show me thy grey light,
I’ll find , and revenge this spite.
 

The speaker is addressing

  • A. Helena
  • B. Hermia
  • C. Demetrius
  • D. himself
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103

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Read the extract below and answer the following question:
That fallen am I in dark uneven way,
Come, thou gentle day;
For if but once thou show me thy grey light,
I’ll find , and revenge this spite.
 

The speaker is

  • A. Lysander
  • B. Thisbe
  • C. Egeus
  • D. Tatiana
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104

At the last head count, the population of the school was three thousand is an example of

  • A. synechdoche
  • B. hyperbole
  • C. metonymy
  • D. pun
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105

That girl is too young to be put in the family way illustrates

  • A. euphemism
  • B. hyperbole
  • C. oxymoron
  • D. paradox
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