Your answers are shown below:

1. A bitter remark intended to wound the feelings is

• a satire
• an allusion
• a sarcasm
• an ambiguity

2. “She waited for him for a thousand years” illustrates

• euphemism
• hyperbole
• assonance
• ellipsis

3. A literary device which expresses meaning in its direct opposite is

• metaphor
• paradox
• parady
• irony

4. “They also serve who only stand and waif illustrates

• an epigram
• a synecdoche
• a simile
• an antithesis

5. Pick the odd item out of the options listed below.

• verse
• stanza
• rhythm
• dialogue

. In drama, ‘denouement’ is the same as

• resolution
• climax
• anti-climax
• conflict

7. Which of the following is NOT true of a ballad?

• They were originally sung
• They are mostly part of oral tradition
• They tell a popular story
• They are written in iambic metre.

8. Read the extract and answer Questions 8-12 ! My heart leaps up when I behold â– A rainbow in the sky: So was it when my life began, So is it now that I am a man, So be it when I shall grow The child is father of the man.

• e mood of the poem is that of
• sorrow
• elation
• anxiety
• sarcasm

9. The rhyme scheme of the poem is

• ab cc ac
• ac be ca
• ab ca cc
• ab ac be.

10. The subject of the extract is

• childlessness
• the adverse effects of the rainbow on man
• the unchanging cycle of nature
• the adverse effects of old age.

11. The literary device used in line 1 is

• simile
• alliteration
• litotes
• personification

12. The literary device used in line 6 is an example of

• synecdoche
• irony
• paradox
• hyperbole

13. “Forty hands descended on the devilish head” illustrates

• epigram
• synecdoche
• metonymy
• allegory

14. Pick the odd item out of the options listed below:

• sonnet
• epic
• allusion
• ode

15. A deliberate violation of the rules of versification constitutes

• impefect rhyme
• poetic licence
• verbal irony
• comic relief

16. A praise poem is

• a dirge
• an epic
• a ballad
• an ode

17. Lines of regular recurrence in a poem constitutes

• an alliteration
• a refrain
• an assonance
• a theme

18. An individual who acts, appears or is referred to as playing a part in a literary work is a

• villain
• character
• clown
• narrator

19. A repular group of lines in poetry constitute

• stanza
• rhythm
• verse
• metre

20. “A black beautiful brilliant bride” is an example of

• alliteration
• assonance
• onomatopoeia
• pun

21. Read the poem and answer Questions 21 – 25, Bent-double, like old beggars under sacks, Knock-kneed: coughing like hags, we curse through sludge Till on the haunting flares we turned our backs, And towards our distant rest began to trudge, Men marched asleep, many haa lost their boots, But limped on, blooa-shed. All went lame, all blind; Drunk with fatigue: even deaf to the hoots Of gas-shells dropping softly behind.

• e extract conveys a mood of
• dejection
• desperation
• resentment
• resignation

22. The dominant figure of speech in the first stanza is

• hyperbole
• simile
• euphemism
• pun

23. The expression Drunk with fatigue illustrates

• metaphor
• synecdoche
• litotes
• irony

24. The rhyme scheme of the first stanza is

• aabb
• abab
• abed
• abba

25. Siudge in the extract means

• water
• fire
• snow
• mud

26. Read the passage and answer Questions 26 – 30. …What were the use of my creation if I were entirely contained here? My great miseries in the 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 ne were annihilated . the universe would be turned to a mighty stranger — I 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 speaker s love for Heathcliff is

• platonic
• indestructible
• ephemeral
• universal

27. My love for Heathcliff resembles the eternal rocks beneath illustrates

• metaphor
• allusion
• euphemism
• simile

28. Annihilated in the extract implies

• rebirth
• death
• marriage
• problems

29. If all else perished and he remained illustrates

• paradox
• irony
• bathos
• antithesis

30. The diction ofthe extract conveys the speaker’s

• contempt
• despair
• assurance
• determination

31. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: Hamlet I ! Read the extract below and answer Questions 31 – 35. A: What, has this thing appeared again tonight? B: I have seen nothing (Act I, Scene one, lines 21 – 22).

• eaker A is
• Bemado
• Horatio
• Francisco
• Marcellus

32. Speaker B is

• Hamlet
• Francisco
• Marcellus
• Bemado

33. This thing refers to a

• ghost
• horse
• guard
• soldier

34. The speakers were

• in a room in the castle
• in the courtyard
• on a platform in front of the castle
• on the battlefield

35. Speakers A and B are

• officers
• soldiers
• servants
• courtiers

36. Read the extract and answer Questions 36 – 39. As thou art to thyself: Such was the very armour he had on When he the ambitious Norway combated: So frown’d he once, when, in an angry parle, He smote the sledded Polacks on the ice… (Act I, Scene one, lines 59 – 63).

• e speaker is
• Horatio
• Marcellus
• Bemado
• Francisco

37. The speaker is addressing

• nswer]A
• peace
• celebration
• war
• anxiety
•  
• .Thepassage conveys an atmosphere of

38. The subject of discussion is

• Hamlet
• the ghost
• Claudius
• Laertes
• 39. Read the extract and answer Questions 40 – 44, X: What is the matter? L Y: Save yourself, my lord: I j The ocean, overpeering of his list, Eats not the flats with more impetuous haste i Than young Laertes,… (Act 4, Scene five, lines 97 – 101J. Speaker X is
• a messenger
• the king
• the queen
• Laertes

40. Speaker Y is

• the queen
• Polonius
• an attendant
• Ophelia

41. The characters who come on, the scene shortly afterwards are

• Laertes and the Danes
• the Queen and Hamlet
• Ophelia and the Danes
• Hamlet and Laertes

42. The other character present in the scene is

• the Queen
• Hamlet
• Horatio
• Marcellus

43. The King had just requested that all the

• doors be broken
• doors be guarded
• windows be locked
• windows be opened

44. Read the extract and answer Questions 45 – 50. Angels and ministers of grace defend us! Be thou a spirit of hfalth, or goblin damn’d, Bring with thee airs from heaven, or blasts from hell, Be thy intents, wicked or charitable, Thou comest in such a questionable shape… (Act I, Scene four, lines 39 – 43).

• e speaker is
• Hamlet
• Marcellus
• Horatio
• Laertes

45. The character being addressed is

• the King
• the ghost
• Angels
• God

46. The character who just spoke before the speaker is

• Horatio
• Laertes
• Hamlet
• Marcellus

47. The setting of the extract is

• a room in the castle
• the platform
• the queen’s closet
• a graveyard

48. The passage creates an atmosphere of

• surprise and determination
• insecurity and resignation
• security and assurance
• courage and assurance

49. Line 1 suggests the speaker’s belief in

• ghosts
• spirits
• purgatory
• magic

ANSWERS

1. C
2. B
3. D
4. B
5. D
6. A
7. D
8. B
9. A
10. D
11. D
12. C
13. B
14. C
15. B
16. D
17. B
18. B
19. A
20. A
21. D
22. B
23. A
24. B
25. D
26. D
27. A
28. B
29. A
30. D
31. B
32. D
33. A
34. C
35. B
36. A
37. D
38. B
39. B
40. C
41. A
42. A
43. B
44. A
45. B
46. A
47. B
48. A
49. B