BUK Literature in English 2008/2009 Past Questions

‘Stream of consciousnessʼ is the name for

‘But everything does have a beginning , and so if Iʼm to tell this story, I must begin. Yet I do not know the starting point of my taleʼ. - Nawal El Saadwi ‘The Circling Song The speaker in this statement is the

‘The fair breeze blew, the white foam flew
The furrow followed free
We were the first that ever burst
Into that silent sea.ʼ
Coleridge, ‘The Rime of the Ancient Marinerʼ. The most dominant figure of speech in the above lines is

‘Here lies our Sovereign Lord the King,
Whose word no man relies on,
Who never said a foolish thing
Nor even did a wise one.ʼ
John Wilmot Rochesterʼs Epitaph on the King Charles II. The form of the above stanza is an example of

‘He considers also a little fragile, because artistic: I need to be cared for, like a potted plant. A little pruning, a little watering, a little weeding and straightening up to bring out the best in me.ʼ
-Margaret Atwood, Catʼs Eye. The ‘meʼ in the passage is seen as

Zeugma is a figurative device in which a

A final stanza of a poem that is shorter than the preceding one is called

That quality in a literary work that provokes tenderness, pity or sorrow is

When a story is told in a song and passed down by a word of mouth, it is called

A quatrain is

An exaggeration or overstatement in literature is

A form of symbolism in which ideas or abstract ideas are represented in a poem is

The word ‘imageʼ is associated with

The stylistic device that uses the name of one thing to describe another is called a

The poetic device that forcefully brings together two seemingly unrelated ideas or concepts is

The term given to a type of incident or device which recurs frequently in literature is

The figure of speech in which a character makes a statement that has or would have deep or serious implications in the play is

The term for the moral flow of weakness that leads to the downfall of a major character in a drama is