IMSU Literature-In-English 2012/2013 Past Questions

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A.an actor is alone on stage
B.other actors on stage do not overhear the speaker
C.an actor thinks but does not speak
D.only the protagonist confides in the audience.

One of these is not crucial in drama

A.action
B.dialogue
C.theatre
D.actors

Which is the odd item in the group

A.Things Fall Apart
B.A man of the People
C.The Slave
D.Arrow of God.

The figure of speech used in the statement, "Death, be not proud," is

A.hyperbole
B.personification
C.allusion
D.hubris

The book 'To Live or Not Live' was written by

A.V.X. Naipaul
B.Alexandra Dumas
C.George Elliot
D.Nirad C. Chaudhari

A Voice for Freedom' is a book written by

A.Corazon Aquino
B.Nayantara Sahgal
C.Aung San Suu Kyi
D.Benazir Bhutto

Who is the father of English Poetry?

A.Milton
B.Wordsworth
C.Chaucer
D.Charles Dickens

The final unravelling of the main conflict of a story is called

A.denouement
B.apogee
C.intervention
D.denotation

"Blank verse" means?

A.nonsense
B.rhymed hexameter
C.Unrhymed iambic pentameter
D.a poem on nothingness.

A strong phrasal pause within a line of verse is called

A.caesura
B.free verse
C.conceit
D.consonance

One of these is not related to point of view in fiction?

A.first-person narrator
B.omniscient narrator
C.third person narrator
D.author-narrator

Identify the odd item in the group?

A.Macbeth
B.Julius Caesar
C.Romeo and Juliet
D.As you Like it

The figure of speech used in the statement, "The pen is mightier than the sword," is known as?

A.synecdoche
B.metonymy
C.Simile
D.Metaphor