WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: Twelfth Night

Read the extract below and answer the question

I have said too much unto a heart of stone,

And laid my honour too unchary on 't;

There's something in me that reproves my fault,

But such a headstrong potent fault it is

That it but mocks reproof.

(Acts iii, Scene 4)

This person has

• A. refused to accept the ring
• B. refused to see Orsino
• C. decided not to go out with Antonio
• D. tricked Malvolio

This question is based on General Literary Principles

The author of a novel sustains readers' interest through the use of

• A. ambiguity
• B. anecdotes
• C. prologue
• D. suspense

UNSEEN PROSE AND POETRY

The month of July crept in. The sky, like a hooded monk wore black, as in mourning, ready to shed its load. The sun was mystified while heaps of sand and dust spiralled high up in the sky, sending high and low alike scurrying into hiding. The town had never known such a downpour, it was forty-eight hours of weeping by both the heavens and the inhabitants of Olusi who lost most of their life's savings in this destructive blessing.

........destructive blessing shows the use of

• A. antithesis
• B. oxymoron
• C. apostrophe
• D. parallelism

Read the poem and answer the question

Move him into the sun

Gently its touch awoke him once,

At home, whispering of fields unsown

Always it woke him even in France

Until this morning and this snow

If anything might rouse him now

This kind old sun will know

Think how it wakes the seeds

Woke,once, the clays of a cold star

Are limbs, so dear achieved, are sides,

Full-nerved still warm too hard to stir?

Was it for this the clay grew tall?

O what made fatuous sunbeams toil

To break earth's sleep at all?

The mood in the last two lines is one of

• A. surprise
• B. lament
• C. uncertainty
• D. indifference

Answer all the question in this section

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: Othell0

So opposite to marriage that she shunned

The wealthy, curled darlings of our nation,

Run from her guardage to thesooty bosom

Of such a thing as thou to fear, not to delight?

(Act 1, Scene Two, Lines 66 - 70)

The addressee is

• A. Othello
• B. Duke
• C. Roderigo
• D. Montano

Read the extract below and answer the question

.....I owe you much, and like a wilful youth

That which I owe is lost: but if you please

To shoot another arrow that self way

which you did shoot the first.

And thankfully rest debtor for the first

(Act 1 sc 1)

The person addressed is

• A. Antonio
• B. Shylock
• C. Gratiano
• D. Solanio

Poetry gets bored of being alone

It wants to go outdoors to chew the winds.

The mental picture evoked in the above lines is that of

• A. smell and touch
• B. sight and hearing
• C. taste and touch
• D. sight and taste

The idea of metre as used in a literary piece is

• A. stanza
• B. rhythm
• C. rhyme
• D. verse

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: The Tempest

Read the extract and answer the question

Caliban: Ay, that I will; and I'II be wise hereafter,

And seek for grace. What a thrice-double ass

Was I, to takethis drunkard for a god,

And worship this dull foot!

Prospero : Go to; away!

Alonso : Hence, and bestowyour luggage where you found it.

Sebastian :Or stole, rather.

(Act V, scene one lines 293 - 299)

The contents of ''your luggage'' are

• A. Alonso's satchel and swords
• B. food and water from the ship
• C. paddles fur and a harpoon
• D. the clothing put up by Ariel

________ are generally regarded as brief but purposeful references, within a literary text, to a person, place, event, or to another work of literature.

• A. Referrals
• B. Chiasmus
• C. Metonymy
• D. Allusions