ABU Literature in English 2005/2006 Past Questions

```Question 1 - 56 are based on Hamlet, Read the passage below carefully and answer the questions that follow.

Good Hamlet, cast thy righted color off, and let thine eyes look like a friend in Denmark. Do not for ever with thy vailed lids, seek for thy noble father in the dust. Thou knowest 'tis common - all that live must die. Passing through nature to eternity [Act 1 Scene 1]```
Who is the speaker of the above excerpt?

```Question 1 - 56 are based on Hamlet, Read the passage below carefully and answer the questions that follow.

Good Hamlet, cast thy righted color off, and let thine eyes look like a friend in Denmark. Do not for ever with thy vailed lids, seek for thy noble father in the dust. Thou knowest 'tis common - all that live must die. Passing through nature to eternity [Act 1 Scene 1]```
'.......... nighted colour' means

```Question 1 - 56 are based on Hamlet, Read the passage below carefully and answer the questions that follow.

Good Hamlet, cast thy righted color off, and let thine eyes look like a friend in Denmark. Do not for ever with thy vailed lids, seek for thy noble father in the dust. Thou knowest 'tis common - all that live must die. Passing through nature to eternity [Act 1 Scene 1]```
Is it correct to say that 'nighted colour' means

```Question 1 - 56 are based on Hamlet, Read the passage below carefully and answer the questions that follow.

Good Hamlet, cast thy righted color off, and let thine eyes look like a friend in Denmark. Do not for ever with thy vailed lids, seek for thy noble father in the dust. Thou knowest 'tis common - all that live must die. Passing through nature to eternity [Act 1 Scene 1]```
I do wish that your beauties be tha happy cause of hamlet's wildness. So i hope your virtue will bring him to wonted way again. To both your honours [Act 3 Scene 1] The phrase "good beauties" refers to

```Question 1 - 56 are based on Hamlet, Read the passage below carefully and answer the questions that follow.

Good Hamlet, cast thy righted color off, and let thine eyes look like a friend in Denmark. Do not for ever with thy vailed lids, seek for thy noble father in the dust. Thou knowest 'tis common - all that live must die. Passing through nature to eternity [Act 1 Scene 1]```
By 'Hamlet's wildness', the speaker means

```Question 1 - 56 are based on Hamlet, Read the passage below carefully and answer the questions that follow.

Good Hamlet, cast thy righted color off, and let thine eyes look like a friend in Denmark. Do not for ever with thy vailed lids, seek for thy noble father in the dust. Thou knowest 'tis common - all that live must die. Passing through nature to eternity [Act 1 Scene 1]```
Hamlet's 'wonted way' means his

Identify the odd item in the following list

An epilogue in a play refers to the

Reversal of fortune as used in the central character of a literary work describes the

A poem of mourning and dedication written on the death of an individual is called

Any works of literature which sets out to instruct may be called

A quatrain is

In literature, a round character is associated with

The antagonist in a tragedy is

A statement that appears to say something opposite to common sense or the truth, but which may contain truth is

The substitution of a mild and pleasant expression for a harsh and blunt one is called

In literary criticism the vocabulary or language used by the writer is generally known as

An allegory is a story

```Read the following poem carefully and answer the question that follow.
Love you my gentle one, my love in the fresh milk in the runbind. Which you drink on the wedding day. My love is the butter we were smeared with, to steal fidelity inot our hearts. You are the cattle-bird's egg. For those who say you are wealthy.You are the papyrus reed of the lake. WHich they pull out with both hands And i sing for you with tears, because you possess my heart. I love you gentle one.```
The poem is an example of

```Read the following poem carefully and answer the question that follow.
Love you my gentle one, my love in the fresh milk in the runbind. Which you drink on the wedding day. My love is the butter we were smeared with, to steal fidelity inot our hearts. You are the cattle-bird's egg. For those who say you are wealthy.You are the papyrus reed of the lake. WHich they pull out with both hands And i sing for you with tears, because you possess my heart. I love you gentle one.```
The predominant literary device used in the extract is

```Read the following poem carefully and answer the question that follow.
Love you my gentle one, my love in the fresh milk in the runbind. Which you drink on the wedding day. My love is the butter we were smeared with, to steal fidelity inot our hearts. You are the cattle-bird's egg. For those who say you are wealthy.You are the papyrus reed of the lake. WHich they pull out with both hands And i sing for you with tears, because you possess my heart. I love you gentle one.```
The underlined expression contains a

```Read the following poem carefully and answer the question that follow.
Love you my gentle one, my love in the fresh milk in the runbind. Which you drink on the wedding day. My love is the butter we were smeared with, to steal fidelity inot our hearts. You are the cattle-bird's egg. For those who say you are wealthy.You are the papyrus reed of the lake. WHich they pull out with both hands And i sing for you with tears, because you possess my heart. I love you gentle one.```
The poem is a blank verse because

```Read the following poem carefully and answer the question that follow.
Love you my gentle one, my love in the fresh milk in the runbind. Which you drink on the wedding day. My love is the butter we were smeared with, to steal fidelity inot our hearts. You are the cattle-bird's egg. For those who say you are wealthy.You are the papyrus reed of the lake. WHich they pull out with both hands And i sing for you with tears, because you possess my heart. I love you gentle one.```
The feeling of the poem is one of

Dialogue is important in drama because it

Art over used expression is a

The expression "The sun kisses"

What basically distinguishes Literature from other discipline is its

A story that explains the origin of a natural phenomenon is a