An elegy is a poem

• A. commemorating a birth
• B. commemorating a national celebration
• C. mourning the dead
• D. mourning the passage of time

ldentify the odd item:

• A. third-person narrative
• B. literary appreciation
• C. first-person narrative
• D. epistolary technique

A Midsummer Night's Read the extract below and answer question

X: You do impeach your modesty too much,

To leave the city and commit yourself

Into the hands of one that loves you not;

To trust the opportunity of night

And the ill counsel of a desert place

Y: With the rich worth of your virginity.

Your virtue is my privilege: for that

it is not night when I do see your face,

Therefore I think I am not in the night;

Speaker X is

• A. Hermia
• B. Philostrate
• C. Demetrius
• D. Lysander

A short poem with a witty or sarcastic ending is a/an __________

• A. ballad
• B. allegory
• C. epigram
• D. panegyric

This question is based on the Literary Appreciation

'And so Tom awake and we rose in the dark

And got with our bags and our brushes to work

Though the morning was cold. Tom was happy and warm;

So if all do their duty they need not fear harm.'

In the lines above. Tom is warm because he

• A. has just woken from sleep
• B. is doing his duty
• C. is wearing warm clothes
• D. is working indoors

This question is based on General Literary Principles.

A literary genre which directly imitates human action is

• A. drama
• B. comedy
• C. prose
• D. poetry

The basic elements of drama are

• A. character, plot, episode
• B. dialogue, chorus, plot
• C. character, action, setting
• D. character, monoloue, plot

Dramatis personae in a play refers to

• A. a list of characters
• B. order of appearance
• C. cast list
• D. protagonist and antagonist

Use the extract below to answer questions

Line 1: My heart leaps up when I behold

Line 2: A rainbow in the sky

Line 3: so was it when my life began

Line 4: so is it now

Line 5: so is it when I have grown

Line 6: the child is the father of the man.

The rhyme scheme of the poem is_________

• A. acbcca
• B. abccdc
• C. abcdcc
• D. abacbc

This question i based on William Shakespeare's Macbeth.

'... I think our country skins beneath the yoke; It weeps, it bleeds, and each new day a gash is added to her wounds.'

Who made the above statement and to whom?

• A. Macduff to Ross
• B. Malcolm to Macduff
• C. Malcolm to Ross
• D. Macduff to Malcolm.