Literature In English Past Questions and Answers

These questions are based on general Literary principles Plays are basically meant to

A Change the world
B Be read for pleasure
C Be presented on stage
D Keep people out of trouble

Question 37:

These questions are based on general Literary principles A character who re-enacts familiar experiences that readers easily identify with is

A Round character
B Stock character
C Static character
D Flat character

Question 38:

These questions are based on general Literary principles The plot of a story generally refers to the

A Intrigue made by a character against the hero
B Way in which the events of the story are organized
C Way in which the writer begin the story
D Way the writer ends the story

Question 39:

These questions are based on general Literary principles The metric pattern in a line of poetry with five stressed and five unstressed syllabus is

A Trochaic decametre
B Iambic pentametre
C Anapestic metre
D Dactylic metre

Question 40:

These question are based on literary Appreciation. Theseus: now, fair Hippolyta,our nuptial hour Draw on space for happy day bring in Another moon. But, O, me thinks how slow.The old moon wanes,she lingers my desires,Like to a step-drama or a dowager,Long withering out a young man's revenue. William Shakespeare: A Midsummer Night's Dream. The literary device used in the excerpt above are

A Personification and simile
B Alliteration and synechdocheand
C Rhyme and refrain
D Irony and suspense