Literature Past Questions And Answers
This question is based on General Literary Appreciation.
Unequal laws unto a savage race,
That board, and sleep, and feed....
The lines above show that the speaker
- A. detects discrimination
- B. is desirous of adventure
- C. hates his old wife
- D. knows much of his city men
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RICHARD WRIGHT: Black Boy
Comment on the theme of racism in the novel.
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What, drawn and talk of peace?
I hate the word As I hate hell, all Montagues,
and thee Have at thee,coward!
Based on William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, the lines above reveal the speaker as a
- A. real Montague
- B. trouble shooter
- C. violence seeker
- D. peace maker
A fable is also known as
- A. an apologue
- B. an epigram
- C. a farce
- D. a parody
This question is based on William Shakespeare's Hamlet
'Fear it, Ophelia, fear it, my dear sister;
And keep you in the rear of your affection, Out of the shoot and danger of danger of desire.
The Chariest maid is prodigal enough if she unmask her beauty to the moon.
In the excerpt above, Laertes warns Ophelia to beware of Hamlet's attentions because
- A. of his insanity
- B. such attentions cannot be given by too young a person
- C. of his mournful state
- D. the sincerity of his love is in doubt
a short play performed in the pause between the act of a longer play is
- A. denouement
- B. interlude
- C. prologue
- D. epilogue
...... refers to the structure of a work of art.
- A. form
- B. Plot
- C. Setting
- D. Style
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: Hamlet
Read the extract and answer the question
Your leave and favour to return to France;
From whence though willingly I came to Denmark,
To show my duty in your coronation.
Yet now, I must confess, that duty done.
My thoughts and wishes bend again toward France
And bow them to your gracious leave and pardon.
(Act 1, Scene two, Lines 51 -57)
The speaker is addressing
- A. Hamlet
- B. Claudius
- C. Horatio
- D. Marcellus
A poem with fourteen lines of rhymed iambic pentrametre is
- A. an epic
- B. a sonnet
- C. a quatrain
- D. an octave
The whole town was present at the wedding ceremony is an example of
- A. oxymoron
- B. hyperbole
- C. onomatopoeia
- D. repetition