WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: Twelfth Night.

Read the extract below and answer the question

O that I served that lady,

And might not be delivered to the world

Till I had made mine own occasion mellow,

What my estate is!

(Act 1 Sc. 11)

The speaker is

• A. Orsino
• B. Sir Andrew
• C. Viola
• D. Valentine

A narrative poem must

• A. preach a sermon
• B. tell a story
• C. describe natural scenery
• D. argue a question

From forth the fatal loins of these two foes

A pair of star-crossed lovers take their life...

Based on William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, the lines above suggests that the tragedy in the play

• A. could have been averted
• B. is predestined
• C. is brought on enmity
• D. brought misfortune on the lovers

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: Hamlet

Read the extract below and answer the question

A : What, hasthis thing appeared again tonight?

B : I have seen nothing

(Act I, Scene one, lines 21-22)

Speakers A and B are

• A. officers
• B. soldiers
• C. servants
• D. courtiers

Read the extract and answer the question

Look thou be true. Do not give dalliance

Took much the rein. The strongest oaths are straw

To the fire i' the blood. Be more abstemious.

Or else, good night your vow!

(Act IV, scene one lines 51-54)

Another character present in the scene is

• A. Caliban
• B. Trinculo
• C. Stephano
• D. Miranda

In drama, the protagonist is ________

• A. the writer of the drama
• B. the leading character
• C. the “nice guy”
• D. the actor

This question is based on General Literary Principles

A body of imaginative men and women of letters is generally referred to as

• A. litterateur
• B. laureattes
• C. literaria
• D. literati

UNSEEN PROSE AND POETRY

Read the passage below and answer the question

Tell me not (sweet) I am unkinde,

That from the Nunnerie

of thy chaste breast and quiet minde,

To warre and Armes I flie.

True, a new Mistresse now I chase,

The first Foe in the field;

And with a stronger faith imbrace,

A Sword, a Horse, a Shield.

Yet this Inconstancy is such,

As you too shall adore;

I could not love thee (Deare) so much,

Lov'd I not Honour more.

The dominant device used is

• A. contrast
• B. paradox
• C. oxymoron
• D. parallelism

A literary device that creates a mental picture of a situation is

• A. imagery
• B. symbolism
• C. flashback
• D. epilogue

The climax in a literary work is the

• A. middle of the work
• B. beginning of the story
• C. central part of the dialogue
• D. most intense point of the conflict