30 Literature Questions for Examination preparation with Answers (part 2)

 

1. In prose, a narrator who is not anyway attached to the mind of the character is known as the ______ A. first person narrator B. objective narrator C. omniscient narrator D. subjective narrator

2. The repetition of a word or phrase at the end of a line such that its begins the next line is ________                                                                           A. refrain B. Anadiplosis C. Anaphora D. enjambment 

3. William Wordsworth defined poetry in a simple term as ___   A. the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings recollected in tranquility B. the criticisms of life in a spontaneous flow of emotion C. the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings recollected in dissonance D. the critical overflow of life in a feeling recollected in tranquility

“Where palsy shakes a few, sad last gray hairs

Where youth grows pale, and a spectre thin and dies”

4.   The tone of the writer here is that of _________                                                           A. optimism B. Rejection C. Pessimism D. withdrawal

5.  “Where palsy shakes a few” is an example of __________                  

A. metaphor B. Personification C. Irony D. paradox

“Three years to come seemed waste of breadth

A waste of years the years behind”

6. The above line illustrates the use of                  A. assonance B. Zeugma C. Apostrophe D. chaosmos

7. What literary technique is adopted here        A. allusion B. Ambiguity C. Inversion D. polarization

8.     Sublime and invested language is mostly associated with ___________ 

A. prose B. Poetry C. Haiku D. drama

9.    The masked voice in poetry as a core participant is called                  

A. speaker B. Poet C. Persona D. poet persona

10. A freely improvised lyrically poem is called ___________                

A. canto B. Limerick C. Calypso D. coronach

11. A narrative poem must  

A. preach a sermon     B. tell a story                

C. describe natural scenery   D. argue a question  E. propound a philosophy

12. Literature is studied as a subject at school because

A. it exposes students to the realities of life

B. it provides entertainment

C. it merely gives additional work to students

D. it teaches the use of words

E. it provides a means to kill time

13. One of the following is a mark of good poetry

A. An interesting story  B. Imaginative use of language

C. Realistic Characterisation    D. Flashback

E. Audience participation

14. ‘Exposition’ in a play means

A. the initial unfolding of the necessary background of the play    B. its climax   C. the marriage of the hero and heroine    D. the untangling of the plot  E. the private speech of a character

15. Poetry deals with one of the following

A. emotion only B. death only  C. ideas only   D. emotion and ideas       E. beauty only

16. Drama is essentially different from poetry because

A. always involve many characters

B. exist mainly in action    

C. uses elevated language 

D. uses localized imagery    

E. deals with tragic experience

17. The clouds were thickening in the red sky

And night and charmed

A black power into the pounding waves…’

The figure of speech used in these lines from Kwesi 

Brew’s ‘The Sea Eats Our Land’s is  A. oxymoron B. personification C. metaphor   D. simile E. synecocdoche.

18.  The word ‘Fence’ in peter’s poem ‘The Fence’symbolizes

A. racial prejudice B. falsehood

C. truth D. moral indecision E. social classes.

19. Dramatic irony entails

A. a statement that means more than is evident to its maker

B. a hilarious statement   C. satirical comment

D. a sarcastic announcement   E. praise of the audience.