Hallowell's The Dining Table can be referred to as a

• A. traditional poem
• B. a lyric
• C. dramatic monologue
• D. ballad

This question is based on General Literary Principles.

Satire employs the use of

• A. onomatopeia
• B. irony
• C. synecdoche
• D. melancholy

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

This question is based on General Literary Principles.

The continuation of meaning without pause, from one line to the next is

• A. synecdoche
• B. melodrama
• C. enjambment
• D. alliteration

This question is based on William Shakespeare's Othello.

The handkerchief that Othello inherits from his mother is made by

• A. a female prophet
• B. Desdemona's maid
• C. Othello's mother
• D. Othello's lover.

This question is based on General Literary Principles.

An art that is both literary and theatrical is

• A. a prose
• B. a poem
• C. drama
• D. prosody

''Chief, the boys are getting more expensive to handle. They continue to demand for increased pay and you know what you give for expenses. Please try and look into a possible increase in the overhead allocation.

This smuggling racket is becoming too hot to handle you know, the risk involved'.

The setting of the play is

• A. Gbossa
• B. Benue
• C. Nassarawa
• D. Jabu

This question is based on General Literary Principles.

A literary work that teaches moral is said to be

• A. didactic
• B. instructive
• C. corrective
• D. impressive

'But such a tide as moving seems asleep. Too full for sound and foam.

When that which drew from out the boundless deep. Turns again home.'

The rhyme scheme in the excerpt above from Tennyson's crossing the Bar is

• A. abac
• B. abba
• C. abab
• D. abcb

This question is based on General Literary Principles.

The speech made by a character to himself on stage is

• A. epilogue
• B. aside
• C. soliloquy
• D. monologue