This question is based on General Literary Principles. With beaded bubbles winking at the brim,

And purple-stained mouth,'

John Keats, 'Ode to a Nightingale'. The above lines are an example of

• A. tautology
• B. comic relief
• C. euphemism
• D. consonance

The Comstocks belonged to the most dismal of all classes, the middle-middle class, the landless gentry. In their miserable poverty, they had not even the snobbish consolation of regarding themselves as an old family fallen on evil days. The writer's tone is _______

• A. melancholic
• B. matter-of-fact
• C. bitterly humourous
• D. sympathethic

Dramatis personae refers to ________

• A. audience
• B. characters
• C. chorus
• D. cast

This question is based on General Literary Principles.

The arrangement of incidents in a novel in which one action precipitates another is called

• A. sub theme
• B. chronology
• C. suspense
• D. causality

Read the extract and answer the question

I prithee, when thou seest that act afoot,

Even with the very comment of thy soul

Observe mine uncle: if his occulted guilt

Do not itself unkennel in one speech,

It is a dammed ghost that we have seen.....

(Act 1, Scene Two, Lines 73-77)

The scene after this consists of the

• A. closet scene
• B. dumb show
• C. graveyard scene
• D. ghost scene

This question is based on General Literacy Principles

An example of a narrative poem is ________?

• A. elegy
• B. epic
• C. dirge
• D. sonnet

This question is based on General Literary Principles.

The three main unities in drama are those of

• A. action, time and place
• B. time, space and action
• C. place, time and space
• D. space, action and time

UNSEEN PROSE AND POETRY

Read the extract below and answer the question

His mind flitted back memory lane. He remembered how time walked quietly in. like a thief in the night and then put a sword in the heart of the land. He remembered all his life's sweat. drained away by the strife.He remembered his wife and two lovely kids, all slain pitilessly by the beasts in khaki. He remembered his only sister, a tender rose, defiled in turns by them and then slaughtered like a lamb upon the ritual table.

The extract is about

• A. armed robbery
• B. ritual killing
• C. the tragedy of war
• D. the tragedy of oppression

A poem in which a lone speaker seems to be addressing someone else is a

• A. pathetic fallacy
• B. verbal irony
• C. dramatic irony
• D. dramatic monologue

These questions are based on William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet.

'O' serpent heart,hid with a flowering face!

the statement above refers to

Thy fault our law calls death, but the kind Prince, Taking thy part,

hath rushed aside the law And turned that black word....'

The play is mostly written in

• A. Romeo
• B. Tybalt
• C. Benvolio
• D. Juliet