Literature In English Past Questions and Answers

This question is based on Literary Appreciation.<br/>'We have been asleep, Mr. Speaker, my fellow citizens; asleep in our dream of security! Asleep in our well-meaning, sportsmanlike way of wishing the other fellow well. Asleep in the false security of accepting all men of goodwill who would be free as men of honor.'<br/>Ralph Ellison, Juneteenth.<br/>The force of the speech above is sustained on.

This question is based on Literary Appreciation.<br/>'Thomas Gradgrind, sir. A man who proceeds upon the principle that two is not to be talked into allowing for anything over.'Charles Dickens, Hard Times<br/>From the passage above, Thomas Gradgrind is

This question is based on Literary Appreciation.<br/>'Jose Palacios, his oldest servant, found him floating naked with his eyes open in the purifying waters of his bath and thought he had drowned.<br/>He knew this was one of the many ways the General meditated, but the ecstasy in which he lay drifting seemed that of a man no longer of this world.'<br/>Gabriel Garcia Marquez, The General in His Labyrinth.<br/>The master in the passage above is obviously in a state of

This question is based on Ernest Hermingway's The Old Man and the Sea<br/>The character 'boy' is used alongside 'the old Man' in the novel to demonstrate.

This question is based on Ernest Hermingway's The Old Man and the Sea<br/>The skeleton of the marlin implies the