This question is based on General Literary Principles

A poem without a regular rhyme scheme is a

• A. traditional poem
• B. ballad
• C. lyrical poem
• D. blank verse

Read the passage and answer Questions

On, on, on, over the countless miles of angry space roll the long heaving OT angry space roll the long heaving billows. Mountains and caves are here; for what is now the other; then all is but a boiling heap of rushing water. Pursuit, and flight and mad return of and savage struggle, ending up in a spouting up of foam that whitens the black night; incessant change of place and form and hue; constancy in nothing but eternal strife.

On, on, on, they roll and darker grows the night: and louder howls the wind and more clamorous and fierce become the million voices in the sea, when the wild cry goes forth upon the storm, A ship!

The most suitable title for the passage is ________

• A. A Savage Struggle at Night
• B. At Sea on a Stormy Night.
• C. The Long Heaving Waves
• D. The Million Voices in the Sea

The writing convention in which the events in narrative are scrambled as they come to the writer's mind without any attempt to arrange them in orderly sequence is called

• A. psycho-consciousness styles
• B. narrator's mind style
• C. shifting style
• D. stream of consciousness

Read the Poem and answer questions 26 to 30.

Walker, stop and let me move and check you

My sneaky, fleeting moon of reckless birth

The light of hope you flashed at dawn has dimmed

And flickers weakly, so you squint at Earth.

Walker, stand and let me sit and quiz you

Will foes and friends be irked if Mum you tell

The bitter tale of woe behind your flu?

The trickling tears unseen announce your age.

Walker, stay and let me come and tell you

My fleeting moon, I own you dim my light

Your sparkling blouse has turned a darker hue

You must, I guess, have done a steeplechase.

The stanzas are written in _________

• A. quintets
• B. quatrains
• C. sestets
• D. tercets

A struggle between opposing forces in a story/play is________

• A. Denouement
• B. Conflict
• C. Comedy
• D. Tragedy

This question is based on General Literary Principles

A limerick has

• A. ornate style, humour, irony and seven lines
• B. humour, rhyme scheme and five lines
• C. formal and elaborate style and humour
• D. a stinging climax, rhyme scheme and five lines

This question is based on General Literary Principles.

In a tragic play the device used to reduce tension is known as

• A. comic relief
• B. rhetoric
• C. anti-climax
• D. climax

UNSEEN PROSE AND POETRY

Read the passage below and answer the question

The killing of a whale at sea isn't pleasant to witness or even to contemplate. Hunted down through solar and other highly specialized equipment, the whale has no more chance of escape like a steer in a slaughterhouse. The manner of his death, however, is very different. A grenade-tipped harpoon explodes deep within his body, often causing prolonged suffering before the gentle-giant, whose intelligence may be second only to our own, is reduced to a carcass ready for processing into crayons, lipstick, shoe polish, fertilizer, margarine and pet food.

The inhumane manner of death, however, is the least part of the scandal known as the whaling industry. Much more important is the fact that the killing is quite unnecessary. Adeguate substitutes exist for every single use to which the whale carcasses are currently put, and although some 32,000 whales are killed every year, the sum of commodities are provide is insignificant in the world's economy.

The theme of the passage is (that)

• A. whales are a menace to mankind
• B. the killing of whale is unnecessary
• C. the importance of whale-hunting
• D. whales are highly intelligent

This question is based on Oliver Goldsmith's She Stoops To Conquer.

The use of the traditional verse from in the play applies to

• A. the character of Sir Charles Marlow
• B. the prologue songs and the epilogue
• C. male characters
• D. female characters

The dominant literary device in Diop's Vanity is

• A. rhetorical question
• B. allusion
• C. hyperbole
• D. dramatic irony