WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: The Tempest

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P : Mark his condition, and the answer questions

If this might be a brother.

Q: I should sun

To think but nobly of my grandmother:

Good wombs have borne bad sons.

(Act 1, scene two lines 116-120)

Speaker P wants his partner to

• A. pity his condition
• B. fight his brother
• C. justify his action
• D. love him

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As thou art to thyself:

Such was the very armour he had on

When he the amitious Norway combated;

So frown'd he once, when , in an angry parle,

He smote the sledded Polacks on the ice....

(Act 1, Scene one, lines 59-63)

The passage conveys an atmosphere of

• A. peace
• B. celebration
• C. war
• D. anxiety

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Here stood our ancestral home

The crumbling wall marks the spot

Here a sheep was led to the slaughter

To appease the goods and atone

For fauilts which our destiny

Has blossomed into crimes

There my cursed father once stood

And shouted to us, his children

To come back from our play

To our evening meal and sleep.

The image used in line six is taken from

• A. war
• B. the moon
• C. flowers
• D. prison

UNSEEN PROSE AND POETRY

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Now, Joy is born of parents poor,

And Pleasure of our richer kind;

Though Pleasure's free, she cannot sing

As sweet a song as Joy confined.

Pleasure's a moth, that sleeps by day

And dances by false glare at night;

But joy's a Butterfly, that loves

To spread its wings in Nature's light.

''False glare'' refers to

• A. man-made light
• B. nature's light
• C. the moon's light
• D. the sun's light

He is a faithful liar

The line above is an example of

• A. euphemism
• B. antithesis
• C. epigram
• D. oxymoron

A deliberate violation of the rules of verification constitutes

• A. imperfect rhyme
• B. poetic license
• C. verbal irony
• D. comic relief

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 funny incident within a serious situation is

• A. comedy
• B. comic relief
• C. tragic comedy
• D. tragic hero

This question is based on General Literary Appreciation.

The old man slept in his favourite chair

The wind ran its fingers through his hair

He looked like a tree gone dry of sap

And his hands were dry upon his lap

The rhyme scheme of the poem above is

• A. bbaa
• B. aabb
• C. abab
• D. baba

This question is based on General Literary Principles.

The speech made by a character to himself on stage is

• A. epilogue
• B. aside
• C. soliloquy
• D. monologue