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Goodluck! 1 / 80 Category: LITERATURE PAST QUESTIONS A Sonnet has a final couplet when it has___________ An octave A sestet Two sestets Three quatrains 2 / 80 Category: LITERATURE PAST QUESTIONS An...... is an indirect and usually unfavourable remark allusion aside innuendo irony 3 / 80 Category: LITERATURE PAST QUESTIONS Read the extract and answer the question Work on, My medicine work! Thus credulous fools are caught, And many worthy and chaste dames even thus, All guiltless, meet reproach. What ho! My lord! My lord, I say! (Act IV, Scene One, Lines 45 - 49) Just before this speech, Othello falls into a trance Montano fights with Cassio Bianca flings a handkerchief at Cassio Roderigo is killed 4 / 80 Category: LITERATURE PAST QUESTIONS Othello: Why, how now, ho? from whence ariseth this? Are we turned Turks, and to Ourselves do that Which heaven hath forbid the ottomites? For Christian shame put by this barbarous brawl! He hat stirs next to carve for his own rage Holds his soul light; he dies upon his motion. Silence the dreadful bell, it frights the isle From her propriety, What is the matter, masters? Honest Iago, that looks dead with grieving Speak, Who began this? On thy love, I charge thee Iago: I do not know (Acts II, Scene Three, Lines 155 - 165) In "Who began this" This refers to the ______________ War Theft Bell Brawl 5 / 80 Category: LITERATURE PAST QUESTIONS Read the extract and answer the question Work on, My medicine work! Thus credulous fools are caught, And many worthy and chaste dames even thus, All guiltless, meet reproach. What ho! My lord! My lord, I say! (Act IV, Scene One, Lines 45 - 49) The speaker is addressing Cassio Duke herself himself 6 / 80 Category: LITERATURE PAST QUESTIONS Speaker: I durst, my Lord, to wager she is honest Lay down my soul at stake. If you think other, Remove your thought. It doth abuse your bosom If any wretch have put this your head, Let heaven requite it with the serpents curse For if she be not honest, chaste and true There's no man happy. The purest of their wives Is foul as slander (Acts IV, Scene Two, Lines 12-19) The speaker is addressing__________ Roderigo Montano Othello Duke 7 / 80 Category: LITERATURE PAST QUESTIONS A short single act drama is called____________ Allusion Playlet Farce Opera 8 / 80 Category: LITERATURE PAST QUESTIONS A humorous poem with five lines, the first two ryhming with the last is______________ Sestet An ode A Limerick Octave 9 / 80 Category: LITERATURE PAST QUESTIONS Diction is a writer's choice of___________ Style Rhythm Syntax Words 10 / 80 Category: LITERATURE PAST QUESTIONS Read the following lines to answer this question The livid waters roared and snarled and flapped At the poor battered and weeping yacht. The picture presented is one of dark sky stormy weather calm season quiet sea 11 / 80 Category: LITERATURE PAST QUESTIONS Speaker: I think this tale would win my daughter too, Good Brabantio, take up this mangled matter at the best Men do their broken weapons rather use Than their bare hands (Act 1, Scene Three, Lines 171-174) The underlined expression means___________ Take your revenge Make the best out of this Seek counsel elsewhere Wait till the war is ended 12 / 80 Category: LITERATURE PAST QUESTIONS The metrical beat in the The Splendor falls on castle walls is___________ Anapaestic Dactylic Trochaic Iambic 13 / 80 Category: LITERATURE PAST QUESTIONS The character assumed by the author in his writing is pseudonym persona chorus protagonist 14 / 80 Category: LITERATURE PAST QUESTIONS Speaker: I think this tale would win my daughter too, Good Brabantio, take up this mangled matter at the best Men do their broken weapons rather use Than their bare hands (Act 1, Scene Three, Lines 171-174) ........this tale justifies_________ Roderigo's unrequited love for Desdemona Brabantio's rejection of Othello's love for his daughter Cassio's promotion above Iago Desdemona's attraction to Othello 15 / 80 Category: LITERATURE PAST QUESTIONS A short play perfomed during the pause between the acts of a longer play is____________ A prologue An Interlude An epilogue An interval 16 / 80 Category: LITERATURE PAST QUESTIONS Speaker: I think this tale would win my daughter too, Good Brabantio, take up this mangled matter at the best Men do their broken weapons rather use Than their bare hands (Act 1, Scene Three, Lines 171-174) The speaker is_____________ Cassio Othello Brabantio Duke 17 / 80 Category: LITERATURE PAST QUESTIONS Othello: Why, how now, ho? from whence ariseth this? Are we turned Turks, and to Ourselves do that Which heaven hath forbid the ottomites? For Christian shame put by this barbarous brawl! He hat stirs next to carve for his own rage Holds his soul light; he dies upon his motion. Silence the dreadful bell, it frights the isle From her propriety, What is the matter, masters? Honest Iago, that looks dead with grieving Speak, Who began this? On thy love, I charge thee Iago: I do not know (Acts II, Scene Three, Lines 155 - 165) To Othello, Iago is________________ Untrustworthy A negligent guard Sincere A loyal senator 18 / 80 Category: LITERATURE PAST QUESTIONS Poetry is written in poetic descriptive dramatic narrative 19 / 80 Category: LITERATURE PAST QUESTIONS Yet, let me flap this bug with gilded wings, This painted child of dirt, that stinks and stings The poets intention is to___________ Create Humor Create fun Arouse sympathy Show Contempt 20 / 80 Category: LITERATURE PAST QUESTIONS Speaker: I think this tale would win my daughter too, Good Brabantio, take up this mangled matter at the best Men do their broken weapons rather use Than their bare hands (Act 1, Scene Three, Lines 171-174) According to the speaker__________ The tale was good enough to win a woman's heart The fight was unnecessary There were other matters demanding the attention of the Senate The charges were a waste of time 21 / 80 Category: LITERATURE PAST QUESTIONS Read the stanza and answer this question For days I wept and felt depressed The one and all I loved had left But then on me our Bill impressed 'Your love is where she looks bereft' The lines constitute an epic a quatrain a sestet an ode 22 / 80 Category: LITERATURE PAST QUESTIONS Through the trees, I'll hear a single Ringing sound, a cowbell jingle The underlined is an example of____________ryhme Masculine Feminine End Internal 23 / 80 Category: LITERATURE PAST QUESTIONS Death be not proud, though some have called thee might and dreadful is an example of___________ Aliteration Euphemism Apostrophe Metaphor 24 / 80 Category: LITERATURE PAST QUESTIONS Read the following lines to answer this question The livid waters roared and snarled and flapped At the poor battered and weeping yacht. The dominant device used in the lines is simile personification assonance alliteration 25 / 80 Category: LITERATURE PAST QUESTIONS Catharsis is normally associated with____________ Comedy Pantomime Farce Tragedy 26 / 80 Category: LITERATURE PAST QUESTIONS Over the cobbles it clattered and crashed is an example of__________ Oxymoron Paradox Pun Onomatopoeia 27 / 80 Category: LITERATURE PAST QUESTIONS Read the stanza and answer this question For days I wept and felt depressed The one and all I loved had left But then on me our Bill impressed 'Your love is where she looks bereft' The lines are iambic hexameter pentameter trimeter tetrameter 28 / 80 Category: LITERATURE PAST QUESTIONS Hamartia, in a literary work refers to a hero's_________ strength of character tragic flaw Inordinate ambition good works 29 / 80 Category: LITERATURE PAST QUESTIONS Othello: Why, how now, ho? from whence ariseth this? Are we turned Turks, and to Ourselves do that Which heaven hath forbid the ottomites? For Christian shame put by this barbarous brawl! He hat stirs next to carve for his own rage Holds his soul light; he dies upon his motion. Silence the dreadful bell, it frights the isle From her propriety, What is the matter, masters? Honest Iago, that looks dead with grieving Speak, Who began this? On thy love, I charge thee Iago: I do not know (Acts II, Scene Three, Lines 155 - 165) The underlined expression refers to the____________ Stabbing of Montano by Cassio Return of the victorious army to Cyprus Intervention of the storm in the war Killing of Roderigo by Iago 30 / 80 Category: LITERATURE PAST QUESTIONS The cast appears at the end of a play for the ___________ Introduction Curtain Call Intermission Musical 31 / 80 Category: LITERATURE PAST QUESTIONS ...... refers to the structure of a work of art. Form Style Plot Setting 32 / 80 Category: LITERATURE PAST QUESTIONS An essential features of drama is___________ Soliloquy Aside Conflict Irony 33 / 80 Category: LITERATURE PAST QUESTIONS Through ........ the ills of society are criticised with the objective of having them corrected dramatic irony comic relief farce satire 34 / 80 Category: LITERATURE PAST QUESTIONS Speaker: I think this tale would win my daughter too, Good Brabantio, take up this mangled matter at the best Men do their broken weapons rather use Than their bare hands (Act 1, Scene Three, Lines 171-174) The tale being referred to is___________ Brabantio's rejection of the Othello and Desdemona relationship Duke's war exploits Brabantio's rejection of Othello's love for his daughter Othello's war exploits 35 / 80 Category: LITERATURE PAST QUESTIONS The major part of the Petrarch sonnet is the quintet sestet tercet octave 36 / 80 Category: LITERATURE PAST QUESTIONS Othello: So please your grace, my ancient; A man he is of honesty and trust To his conveyance i assign my wife Grace shall think To be sent after me (Act 1, Scene Three, Lines 279-283) The speech illustrates the use of________ Irony Paradox Comic relief Litotes 37 / 80 Category: LITERATURE PAST QUESTIONS The leading character in a literary work is the________ Villain Protagonist Antagonist Foil 38 / 80 Category: LITERATURE PAST QUESTIONS Yet, let me flap this bug with gilded wings, This painted child of dirt, that stinks and stings The lines illustrates________ Internal rhyme End ryhme Free Verse Blank Verse 39 / 80 Category: LITERATURE PAST QUESTIONS Yet, let me flap this bug with gilded wings, This painted child of dirt, that stinks and stings The alliteration in stinks and stings effectively conveys__________ Distaste Admiration Approval Indifference 40 / 80 Category: LITERATURE PAST QUESTIONS A praise poem is ____________ An Allegory A Panegyric A Ballad An Epigram 41 / 80 Category: LITERATURE PAST QUESTIONS The Main Character in a Play or Novel is the ____________ Villain Antagonist Narrator Protagonist 42 / 80 Category: LITERATURE PAST QUESTIONS A Poem that celebrates an object, person or event is a balled a sonnet a dirge an ode 43 / 80 Category: LITERATURE PAST QUESTIONS Who lied in the chapel Now lies in the Abbey The dominant device used is___________ Zeugma Pun Chiasmus Paradox 44 / 80 Category: LITERATURE PAST QUESTIONS Beware her faintly failing health, and gentle gallands around her speed Illustrates_________ Alliteration Repetition Oxymoron Synecdoche 45 / 80 Category: LITERATURE PAST QUESTIONS ''That it will rain is not unlike'' illustrates the use of" metonymy irony metaphor lilotes 46 / 80 Category: LITERATURE PAST QUESTIONS Conflict in a literary work begins to unfold with resolution climax episode exposition 47 / 80 Category: LITERATURE PAST QUESTIONS Dramatis personae is the same as ____________ Prompter Chorus Cast Foil 48 / 80 Category: LITERATURE PAST QUESTIONS Othello: So please your grace, my ancient; A man he is of honesty and trust To his conveyance i assign my wife Grace shall think To be sent after me (Act 1, Scene Three, Lines 279-283) Othello is speaking to_____________ Duke Montano Roderigo Brabantio 49 / 80 Category: LITERATURE PAST QUESTIONS "Its a matter of sad joy" Iillustrates__________ Oxymoron Metonymy Euphemism Irony 50 / 80 Category: LITERATURE PAST QUESTIONS Poetry is written in scenes chapters lines paragraphs 51 / 80 Category: LITERATURE PAST QUESTIONS Othello: So please your grace, my ancient; A man he is of honesty and trust To his conveyance i assign my wife Grace shall think To be sent after me (Act 1, Scene Three, Lines 279-283) Othello then_________ Confers with the Duke Calls his lieutenant Entrusts Desdemona to Iago's care Leaves with Desdemona 52 / 80 Category: LITERATURE PAST QUESTIONS ''The sun smiled gently on the scene'' illustrates" hyperbole personification paradox euphemism 53 / 80 Category: LITERATURE PAST QUESTIONS The eight-line part of a Petrarchan sonnet is the________________ Quartet Octameter Octave Quatrain 54 / 80 Category: LITERATURE PAST QUESTIONS But the towering earth was tired of sitting in one position. She moved suddenly and the houses crumbled, the mountains heaved horrible, and the work of a million years was lost The extract is about____________ A flood An explosion A storm An earthquake 55 / 80 Category: LITERATURE PAST QUESTIONS Speaker: I durst, my Lord, to wager she is honest Lay down my soul at stake. If you think other, Remove your thought. It doth abuse your bosom If any wretch have put this your head, Let heaven requite it with the serpents curse For if she be not honest, chaste and true There's no man happy. The purest of their wives Is foul as slander (Acts IV, Scene Two, Lines 12-19) The speaker is__________ Cassio Iago Desdemona Emilia 56 / 80 Category: LITERATURE PAST QUESTIONS 'Many hands make light work' illustrates the use of' synecdoche metonymy hyperbole zeugma 57 / 80 Category: LITERATURE PAST QUESTIONS A poem which celebrates simple country life is___________ A pastoral An epic An ode A dirge 58 / 80 Category: LITERATURE PAST QUESTIONS Oh spite! Oh Hell!! I see you are all bent To set aganist me for your merriment. The lines illustrate__________ Epigram Apostrophe Allusion Epitaph 59 / 80 Category: LITERATURE PAST QUESTIONS Read the extract and answer the question Work on, My medicine work! Thus credulous fools are caught, And many worthy and chaste dames even thus, All guiltless, meet reproach. What ho! My lord! My lord, I say! (Act IV, Scene One, Lines 45 - 49) The speaker is lago Bianca Lodovico Othello 60 / 80 Category: LITERATURE PAST QUESTIONS The ....... produces comic relief in drama protagonist antagonist chorus clown 61 / 80 Category: LITERATURE PAST QUESTIONS Weeping Pilliow illustrates________ Pathetic Fallacy Dramatic Monologue Dramatic Irony Transferred epithet 62 / 80 Category: LITERATURE PAST QUESTIONS But the towering earth was tired of sitting in one position. She moved suddenly and the houses crumbled, the mountains heaved horrible, and the work of a million years was lost The predominant figure of speech in the extract is____________ Oxymoron Contrast Personification Paradox 63 / 80 Category: LITERATURE PAST QUESTIONS Othello: So please your grace, my ancient; A man he is of honesty and trust To his conveyance i assign my wife Grace shall think To be sent after me (Act 1, Scene Three, Lines 279-283) Othello is leaving to__________ Meet the government of Cyprus Fight in Rhodes Take over the government of Cyprus Make peace with the Turks 64 / 80 Category: LITERATURE PAST QUESTIONS The climax in a literary work is the_____________ Central part of the dialogue Peak of the conflict Beginning Middle 65 / 80 Category: LITERATURE PAST QUESTIONS But the towering earth was tired of sitting in one position. She moved suddenly and the houses crumbled, the mountains heaved horrible, and the work of a million years was lost The effect of the extract is conveyed through the use of___________ Climax Antithesis Parallelism Conceit 66 / 80 Category: LITERATURE PAST QUESTIONS A play on words for literary effect is_________ A Satire An Elegy A Paradox A Pun 67 / 80 Category: LITERATURE PAST QUESTIONS A dramatic performance with ONLY bodily movements and no speech is a _____________ Burlesque Mime Slapstick Farce 68 / 80 Category: LITERATURE PAST QUESTIONS Othello: Why, how now, ho? from whence ariseth this? Are we turned Turks, and to Ourselves do that Which heaven hath forbid the ottomites? For Christian shame put by this barbarous brawl! He hat stirs next to carve for his own rage Holds his soul light; he dies upon his motion. Silence the dreadful bell, it frights the isle From her propriety, What is the matter, masters? Honest Iago, that looks dead with grieving Speak, Who began this? On thy love, I charge thee Iago: I do not know (Acts II, Scene Three, Lines 155 - 165) Othello is brought to the scene because___________ A bell has been rung Cassio has stabbed Montano Iago is drunk People are fighting 69 / 80 Category: LITERATURE PAST QUESTIONS A play that moves the audience to pity and fear is a ____________ Comedy Farce Pantomime Tragedy 70 / 80 Category: LITERATURE PAST QUESTIONS He is my most beloved enemy ilustrates__________ Synecdoche Oxymoron Litotes Metonymy 71 / 80 Category: LITERATURE PAST QUESTIONS Othello: So please your grace, my ancient; A man he is of honesty and trust To his conveyance i assign my wife Grace shall think To be sent after me (Act 1, Scene Three, Lines 279-283) A man he is honesty and trust refers to_________ Lodovico Gratiano Iago Cassio 72 / 80 Category: LITERATURE PAST QUESTIONS Before a play is performed, it is ___________ Auditioned Rehearsed Recited Applauded 73 / 80 Category: LITERATURE PAST QUESTIONS A short play is also called a farce novelette slapstick playlet 74 / 80 Category: LITERATURE PAST QUESTIONS Oral literature is part of drama music folklore poetry 75 / 80 Category: LITERATURE PAST QUESTIONS A literary work in which the characters are animals is a ____________ Lampoon Fable Parody Pantomine 76 / 80 Category: LITERATURE PAST QUESTIONS An essential part of the plot is____________ Exposition Atmosphere Foreshadow Characterization 77 / 80 Category: LITERATURE PAST QUESTIONS Othello: Why, how now, ho? from whence ariseth this? Are we turned Turks, and to Ourselves do that Which heaven hath forbid the ottomites? For Christian shame put by this barbarous brawl! He hat stirs next to carve for his own rage Holds his soul light; he dies upon his motion. Silence the dreadful bell, it frights the isle From her propriety, What is the matter, masters? Honest Iago, that looks dead with grieving Speak, Who began this? On thy love, I charge thee Iago: I do not know (Acts II, Scene Three, Lines 155 - 165) The major consequence of the brawl is that___________ Cassio is dismissed Roderigo demands his money back Iago is given charge of the city Montano is killed 78 / 80 Category: LITERATURE PAST QUESTIONS Read the stanza and answer this question For days I wept and felt depressed The one and all I loved had left But then on me our Bill impressed 'Your love is where she looks bereft' The rhyme scheme is abbc aaba abab abcc 79 / 80 Category: LITERATURE PAST QUESTIONS A narrative poem that relates heroic exploits is an___________ Epilogue Epigram Epic Epitaph 80 / 80 Category: LITERATURE PAST QUESTIONS Ten thousand saw i at glance....... 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