This question is based on General Literary Principles

A short, carefully phrased expression meant to elicit amusement and surprise is

• A. hyperbole
• B. limerick
• C. tercet
• D. wit

This question is based on General Literary Principles.

'When to the Sessions of sweet silent thought,

I summon up remembrance of things past,...

Shakespeare, 'Sonnet XXX'

The lines above contain the predominant use of

• A. a motif
• B. irony
• C. sarcasm
• D. alliteration

This question is based on William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet.

The play reaches reaches the point of denouement

• A. at the family feast
• B. at the reconciliation of the feuding families
• C. when Romeo is informed of Juliet's death
• D. when Romeo kills Paris at the tomb

NON-AFRICAN DRAMA

NIKOLAI GOGOL: The Government Inspector

Compare the characters of the Mayor and Anna Andreyevna.

That girl is too young to be put in the family way illustrates

• A. euphemism
• B. hyperbole
• C. oxymoron
• D. paradox

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X : So they are.

My spirits, as in a dream, are all bound up.

My father's loss, the weakness which I feel,

The wrack of all my friends, nor this man's threats

To whom I am subdued, are but light to me,

Might I but through my prison once a day

Behold this maid. All corners else o'th' earth

Let liberty make use of,...

(Act 1, scene two lines 487-496)

The speaker is

• A. Alonso
• B. Ferdinand
• C. Gonzalo
• D. Boatswain

Based on Ernest Hemingway's The Old Man and The Sea

The type of fish caught by Santiago after days of effort is

• A. geisha
• B. shark
• C. iris
• D. marlin

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world have been Heathcliff's miseries, and I watched and felt each from the beginning.My great thought in living is himself.If all else perished, and he remained, I should still continue to be. And if all else remained, and he wereannihilated, the universe would be turned to a mighty stranger _ is should not seem a part of it.My love for Linton is like the foliage in the woods; time will change it, I'm well aware, as winter changes the trees.My love for Heathcliff resembles the eternal rocks beneath _ as source of little visible delight, but necessary. Nelly, I am Heathcliff!. He's always, always in my mind _ not as a pleasure to myself, but as my own being....

The diction of the extract conveys the speaker's

• A. contempt
• B. despair
• C. assurance
• D. determination

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Sleep, O sleep

With thy Rod of Incantation

Charm my Imagination,

Then, only then, I cease to weep

By thy power,

The virgin, by Time O' ertaken,

For Years forlorn, forsaken,

Enjoys the happy Hour.

What's to sleep?

'Tis a visionary Blessing;

A dream that's past expressing;

Our utmost Wish possessing;

So may I always keep.

The power of ''sleep'' is described as

• A. majestic
• B. magical
• C. poetic
• D. worshipful

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Look thou be true. Do not give dalliance

Took much the rein. The strongest oaths are straw

To the fire i' the blood. Be more abstemious.

Or else, good night your vow!

(Act IV, scene one lines 51-54)

The speaker is

• A. Alonso
• B. Prospero
• C. Gonzalo
• D. Ferdinand