Literature In English Past Questions and Answers

This question is based on General Literary Principles
In the plot of a novel emphasis should be placed on

A Showing casual connection of incidents
B The vivid presentation of incidents
C The accurate presentation of incidents
D Narrating the truth of incidents

Question 37:

This question is based on General Literary Principles
An irredeemable reversal of the hero's fortune in a tragedy is called

A Anagnorisis
B Peripeteia
C Purgation
D Hubris

Question 38:

This question is based on General Literary Principles
A system of plot development which creates the future through anticipation and the past through memory is

A Deja vu
B Avant-garde
C Medieval
D Metaphysical

Question 39:

This question is based on General Literary Principles
A limerick has

A Ornate style, humour, irony and seven lines
B Humour, rhyme scheme and five lines
C Formal and elaborate style and humour
D A stinging climax, rhyme scheme and five lines

Question 40:

this Question is based on Oliver Goldsmith's She Stoops to Conquer.
The play is essentially about the

A Theft of Mis Neville's trinket box
B Comedy of errors of one night
C Incompatibility of Mr. and Mrs. Hardcastle
D Love affair between Kate and Marlow