WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: Hamlet

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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)

''Duty'' in the extract refers to

• A. job
• B. faith
• C. loyalty
• D. task

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: The Merchant of Venice

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A : My people do already know my mind,

And will acknowledge you and Jessica

In place of Lord Bassanio and myself

So fare thee till we shall meet again

B : Fair thoughts and happy hours attend on you

(Act 111, sc IV)

Speaker B is

• A. Lorenzo
• B. Solerio
• C. Solarino
• D. Launcelot

UNSEEN PROSE AND POETRY

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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.

''.....gentle giant'' conveys the picture of being

• A. ferocious
• B. tame
• C. timid
• D. brave

This question is based on General Literary Principles.

'If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?

Shelly''Ode to the West Wind'

The literary device used here is

• A. an apostrophe
• B. an allegory
• C. a poetic license
• D. a rhetoric

Based on J.C. De Graft's Sons and Daughters:

From the play, George is a

• A. laboratory assistant
• B. pharmacist
• C. nurse
• D. medical doctor

Based on William Shakespeare's The Tempest, Ariel is identified as

• A. assistant to Sycorax
• B. leader of the spirits
• C. Prospero's daughter
• D. Alonso's wife

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I am sorry thou wilt leave my father so

Our house is hell, and thou a merry devil

Didst rob it of some taste of tediousness

But fare thee well: there is a ducat for thee

(Act 11, sc lll)

The speaker is contemplating on

• A. marriage
• B. love
• C. elopement
• D. disguise

The part of a play when climax approaches is known as

• A. Catastasis
• B. Catharsis
• C. protasis
• D. Epitasis

A word or a phrase that is repeated at regular intervals in a poem or a play is a

• A. dirge
• B. refrain
• C. lullaby
• D. verse

An action in a play that stimulates the audience to pity a character is

• A. pyrrhic
• B. props
• C. pathos
• D. parody