Pick the odd item from the list
- A. sentence
- B. paragraph
- C. expression
- D. fiction
The character that opposses the hero in a novel is called the
- A. protagonist
- B. antagonist
- C. villan
- D. clown
The main female character in a play is called
- A. hero
- B. heroine
- C. clown
- D. antagonist
The omniscient narrator
- A. uses flashback
- B. knows all about character and events
- C. makes reference to future incidents
- D. knows all about the author
Read the extract below and answer the question.
The bees are buzzing and humming with great zest, the doves are cooing; and the children chatter as they clatter downstairs to come and dabble in the cool system.
The underlined words in lines 1 and 4 are example of
- A. external rhyme
- B. internal rhyme
- C. end rhyme
- D. alternate rhyme
Read the extract below and answer the question.
The bees are buzzing and humming with great zest, the doves are cooing; and the children chatter as they clatter downstairs to come and dabble in the cool system.
The predominant sound device in the extract is
- A. assonance
- B. consonance
- C. onomatopoeia
- D. alliteration
Any expression which creates a mental picture is known as
- A. paradox
- B. exaggeration
- C. imagery
- D. symbolism
All fingers are not equal’ is an example of
- A. meiosis
- B. oxymoron
- C. huperbole
- D. synecdoche
‘penny wise; pound foolish’ is an example of
- A. metonymy
- B. hyperbole
- C. metaphor
- D. paradox
A short witty statement is called an
- A. epigram
- B. anecdote
- C. epistle
- D. analogy
Mime is the art of acting that involves the use of
- A. songs only
- B. speeches only
- C. gestures only
- D. dances only
The essential function of a tragedy is to make people
- A. laught at mankind
- B. think and feel more deeply
- C. think and laugh
- D. know their enemies
An epitaph is
- A. poem of lamentation
- B. a poem of fourteen lines
- C. an inscription on a tomb
- D. the life history of an author
A play is fully realized when it is
- A. studied
- B. memorized
- C. acted
- D. read
Pick the odd item from the list
- A. prose
- B. poetry
- C. drama
- D. tragedy
» Read the extract below and answer the question.
That age is best which is the first
When youth and blood are warmer
But being spent, the worse, and worst
Times still succeed the former.
A poem of four lines is known as a
- A. sonnet
- B. couplet
- C. sestet
- D. quatrain
A poem of 14 lines is known as a
- A. quatrain
- B. octave
- C. sestet
- D. sonnet
Read the extract below and answer the question.
That age is best which is the first
When youth and blood are warmer
But being spent, the worse, and worst
Times still succeed the former.
This kind of rhyme scheme is known as
- A. alternate
- B. irregular
- C. free verse
- D. couplet
Read the extract below and answer the question.
That age is best which is the first
When youth and blood are warmer
But being spent, the worse, and worst
Times still succeed the former.
The rhyme scheme is known as
- A. abba
- B. abab
- C. aabb
- D. bbaa
”The people’s voices rutted like pigs in the mud” is an example of
- A. simile
- B. metaphor
- C. personification
- D. metonymy