BUK Literature in English 2010/2011 Past Questions

The persons created or presented in a literary work are

Pick the odd item

A group of lines separated from other groups in a poem is known as

Dialogue is the predominant feature of

Pick the odd item

A literary work in which animals are used as characters is a

‘True wit is nature to advantage drest
What oft was thought but neʼer so well expressed.ʼ
The extract above is an example of

A short witty statement in poetry constitutes a/an

A literary work is didactic if it

A poem that expressed grief over the death of a notable figure in the society is a/an

Pick the odd item

A recurrent image in a literary work is the

A dominant feature of poetry is its

The position from which a story is presented is the

‘For my yoke is easy and my burden is lightʼ illustrates the use of a

The dominant literary device used in ‘A drowsing numbness pains my senseʼ is

‘And yonder all before us lie. Deserts of vast eternityʼ illustrates the use of

```Read the passage below and answer questions 58-62.
The fact that, no sooner had the sickles began to play than, the atmosphere suddenly felt as if cress would grow in it without other nourishment. It rubbed peopleʼs cheek like damp flannel when they walked abroad. The gusty, high warm wind: isolated raindrops started the windowpanes at remote distances; the sunlight would flap out like a quickly opened fan, throw the pattern out of the window upon the floor of the room in a milky, colorless shine and withdraw as suddenly as it had passed.```
The passage deals with

```Read the passage below and answer questions 58-62.
The fact that, no sooner had the sickles began to play than, the atmosphere suddenly felt as if cress would grow in it without other nourishment. It rubbed peopleʼs cheek like damp flannel when they walked abroad. The gusty, high warm wind: isolated raindrops started the windowpanes at remote distances; the sunlight would flap out like a quickly opened fan, throw the pattern out of the window upon the floor of the room in a milky, colorless shine and withdraw as suddenly as it had passed.```
The passage illustrates the use of .......... prose

```Read the passage below and answer questions 58-62.
The fact that, no sooner had the sickles began to play than, the atmosphere suddenly felt as if cress would grow in it without other nourishment. It rubbed peopleʼs cheek like damp flannel when they walked abroad. The gusty, high warm wind: isolated raindrops started the windowpanes at remote distances; the sunlight would flap out like a quickly opened fan, throw the pattern out of the window upon the floor of the room in a milky, colorless shine and withdraw as suddenly as it had passed.```
The dominant literary device used in the passage is

```Read the passage below and answer questions 58-62.
The fact that, no sooner had the sickles began to play than, the atmosphere suddenly felt as if cress would grow in it without other nourishment. It rubbed peopleʼs cheek like damp flannel when they walked abroad. The gusty, high warm wind: isolated raindrops started the windowpanes at remote distances; the sunlight would flap out like a quickly opened fan, throw the pattern out of the window upon the floor of the room in a milky, colorless shine and withdraw as suddenly as it had passed.```
The last five lines make use of ........ imagery

```Read the passage below and answer questions 58-62.
The fact that, no sooner had the sickles began to play than, the atmosphere suddenly felt as if cress would grow in it without other nourishment. It rubbed peopleʼs cheek like damp flannel when they walked abroad. The gusty, high warm wind: isolated raindrops started the windowpanes at remote distances; the sunlight would flap out like a quickly opened fan, throw the pattern out of the window upon the floor of the room in a milky, colorless shine and withdraw as suddenly as it had passed.```
The feeling induced is one of

```Read the poem below and answer questions 63-73
Diligent foot-worker
Legs lithe, foot loose
To fantastic drums
And frenetic flutes
Acrobat strikes swift in the air
Wrought masterly like
A frenzied antelope.
Gyrating to the April music
Of the lush savannah```
The poem describes

```Read the poem below and answer questions 63-73
Diligent foot-worker
Legs lithe, foot loose
To fantastic drums
And frenetic flutes
Acrobat strikes swift in the air
Wrought masterly like
A frenzied antelope.
Gyrating to the April music
Of the lush savannah```
The atmosphere of the poem is one of

```Read the poem below and answer questions 63-73
Diligent foot-worker
Legs lithe, foot loose
To fantastic drums
And frenetic flutes
Acrobat strikes swift in the air
Wrought masterly like
A frenzied antelope.
Gyrating to the April music
Of the lush savannah```
‘Frenetic flutesʼ illustrates the use of

```Read the poem below and answer questions 63-73
Diligent foot-worker
Legs lithe, foot loose
To fantastic drums
And frenetic flutes
Acrobat strikes swift in the air
Wrought masterly like
A frenzied antelope.
Gyrating to the April music
Of the lush savannah```
The dominant literary device in the poem is

```Read the poem below and answer questions 63-73
Diligent foot-worker
Legs lithe, foot loose
To fantastic drums
And frenetic flutes
Acrobat strikes swift in the air
Wrought masterly like
A frenzied antelope.
Gyrating to the April music
Of the lush savannah```
The poem is an example of a/an

```WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: The Merchant of Venice
Read the extract below and answer questions 68-70
A: I pray thee over-name then, and as thou namely them, I will describe them. And according to my description level at my affection.
B: First there is the Neapolitan prince,
A: Ay, thatʼs a colt indeed, for he doth nothing but talk of his horse, and he makes it a great appropriation to his own good parts that he can show himself. I am much afeared my lady his mother played false with a smith.
-Act One Scene II```
Speaker A is

```WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: The Merchant of Venice
Read the extract below and answer questions 68-70
A: I pray thee over-name then, and as thou namely them, I will describe them. And according to my description level at my affection.
B: First there is the Neapolitan prince,
A: Ay, thatʼs a colt indeed, for he doth nothing but talk of his horse, and he makes it a great appropriation to his own good parts that he can show himself. I am much afeared my lady his mother played false with a smith.
-Act One Scene II```
Speaker B is

```WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: The Merchant of Venice
Read the extract below and answer questions 68-70
A: I pray thee over-name then, and as thou namely them, I will describe them. And according to my description level at my affection.
B: First there is the Neapolitan prince,
A: Ay, thatʼs a colt indeed, for he doth nothing but talk of his horse, and he makes it a great appropriation to his own good parts that he can show himself. I am much afeared my lady his mother played false with a smith.
-Act One Scene II```
The attitude of speaker A to the person mentioned by speaker B is one of