This question is based on General Literary Principles.

Persona refers to the

• A. central character in a play
• B. voice of the character
• C. the image a character presents
• D. the personality of a character

This question is based on Literary Principles.

'At the start of the winter came the permanent rain and with the rain came the cholera. But it was checked and in the end only seven thousand died of it in the army'.

Hemingway 'Farewell to Arms'

The passage above is an example of

• A. hyperbolism
• B. juxtaposition
• C. understatement
• D. didactism

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

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A melodramatic play is based on

• A. a melodious manipulation of events
• B. ingredients that mellow down events
• C. sensational plot and characters
• D. the playwright's didactic overtones

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

The play is built on

• A. mistaken identities
• B. sentiments and realities
• C. comedy of errors
• D. conttrasts of characters and ideas

This question is based on General Literary Principles.

An elegy is a poem that morns for the

• A. deceased
• B. beeaved
• C. accused
• D. king

This question is based on Wole Soyinka's The Trials of Brother Jero.

Brother Jero displays an act of ingratitude to his master by

• A. enticing the French Jehovah witnesses
• B. dispossessing him of his piece of land
• C. conniving with the Cherubims and Seraphims
• D. organizing a deceitful dancing competition

This question is based on General Literary Principles.

When two statements or comparisons are apparently contradictory, we have an example of

• A. irony
• B. paradox
• C. contrast
• D. parallelism

This question is based on Thomas Hardy's The Mayor of Casterbridge.

The statement, 'Time the magician, had wrought much here' is made when

• A. Susan Newson sees Henchard at Casterbridge
• B. Elizabeth-Jane discovers her true father
• C. Farfrae gets married to Elizabeth-Jane
• D. Farfrae becomes the Mayor of Casterbridge

This question is based on Literary Principles.

'El - Hadji Abdou Kader Beye was received in princely style at the girl's home. The food was exquisite and the scent of incense filled N'Gone's small wooden room. Nothing was omitted in the careful process of conditioning the man.'

Sembane Ousmane, 'Xala'

The writer suggests in the passage above that El-Hadji is

• A. a prince
• B. a food lover
• C. being entertained
• D. being manipulated