1. ............... is fundamental to a play or novel.

A. Mime
B. Conflict ✔
C. Flashback
D. Epilogue

Explanation:
Conflict drives the plot and action in both plays and novels.

2. A long and serious narrative about heroic characters is a/an

A. burlesque
B. ballad
C. epic ✔
D. elegy

Explanation:
An epic is a lengthy narrative poem celebrating heroic deeds.

3. The device used in “Light as wind on water laid” is

A. rhyme
B. simile ✔
C. onomatopoeia
D. pun

Explanation:
The comparison using “as” makes it a simile.

4. “The fire gnawed ceaselessly at the bark of the tree” illustrates

A. personification ✔
B. epithet
C. allusion
D. paradox

Explanation:
Fire is given the human action of “gnawing”.

5. A hyperbole is also referred to as

A. irony
B. paradox
C. exaggeration ✔
D. understatement

Explanation:
Hyperbole involves deliberate exaggeration.

6. “This book should fill the memory, rule the heart and guide the feet.” The expression illustrates

A. repetition
B. refrain
C. synecdoche
D. metaphor ✔

Explanation:
Abstract ideas are described using physical actions metaphorically.

7. The author's attitude towards the subject being treated is

A. mood
B. tone ✔
C. feeling
D. atmosphere

Explanation:
Tone reflects the writer’s attitude to the subject.

8. One of the following makes use of gesture only:

A. comedy
B. lampoon
C. mime ✔
D. satire

Explanation:
Mime relies solely on gestures and facial expressions.

9. An omniscient narrator in a novel

A. detaches himself from the story
B. knows nothing about the characters and events
C. knows everything about the characters and events ✔
D. is a character in the story

Explanation:
An omniscient narrator is all-knowing.

10. In poetry ................ is made up of stressed and unstressed syllables

A. an iambus ✔
B. an anapaest
C. trochee
D. dactyl

Explanation:
An iambus consists of one unstressed followed by one stressed syllable.

11. Blank verse has no

A. metre
B. rhyme ✔
C. rhythm
D. imagery

Explanation:
Blank verse is unrhymed but metrical.

12. A very brief story is an

A. allusion
B. autobiography
C. allegory
D. anecdote ✔

Explanation:
An anecdote is a short, interesting story.

13. An epilogue

A. introduces a play
B. develops characters
C. sums up a play ✔
D. introduces characters

Explanation:
An epilogue provides concluding remarks.

14. “The king has joined his ancestors” is an example of

A. euphemism ✔
B. eulogy
C. malapropism
D. trilogy

Explanation:
Death is expressed politely.

15. In the line “season of mist and mellow fruitfulness”, the main appeal is to the sense of

A. touch
B. sight ✔
C. hearing
D. smell

Explanation:
The imagery appeals mainly to visual perception.

16. A question used for effect which does not require an answer is

A. oratorical
B. antithetical
C. anticlimactic
D. rhetorical ✔

Explanation:
Rhetorical questions are used for emphasis.

17. “The pen is mightier than the sword” is an example of

A. symbol
B. metaphor ✔
C. metonymy
D. oxymoron

Explanation:
The pen and sword are compared metaphorically.

18. In a play, unfolding events reach their peak in the

A. climax ✔
B. denouement
C. catharsis
D. conflict

Explanation:
The climax is the highest point of tension.

19. “But at my back I always hear Time’s winged chariot hurrying near” illustrates

A. metaphor ✔
B. apostrophe
C. oxymoron
D. metonymy

Explanation:
Time is compared to a fast-moving chariot.

20. A short witty saying is a/an

A. epitaph
B. sonnet
C. limerick
D. epigram ✔

Explanation:
An epigram is brief and clever.

PART II
UNSEEN PROSE AND POETRY
Read the poem and answer questions 21 – 25

As they trooped off down the field with their sullen dogs, the farmer started the tractor up and the cutter blade blurred into life Left alone, Grooby sank into a shocked stupor. His mind whirled around like a fly that dared not alight. A blank vacancy held him. He seemed unable to move, even to wipe away the sweat that collected in his eyebrows and leaked down into his eyes. He sensed that the sun had settled over the earth, so that the air was actually burning gas. He watched the tractor dwindle in the bottom of the field, as if it were melting into a glittering muddle in the haze. ''...the cutter blade blurred into life''.

21. The above expression appeals to the sense of

A. hearing
B. touch
C. sight ✔
D. taste

Explanation:
“Blurred into life” creates a visual image.

22. “The air was actually burning gas” is a

A. personification
B. euphemism
C. metaphor ✔
D. paradox

Explanation:
Air is compared directly to burning gas.

23. The diction conveys a feeling of

A. hope
B. helplessness ✔
C. anger
D. indifference

Explanation:
The character is stunned and powerless.

24. “like a fly that dared not alight” is a/an

A. simile ✔
B. hyperbole
C. irony
D. alliteration

Explanation:
The comparison uses “like”.

25. The setting of the extract is

A. dawn
B. midday ✔
C. evening
D. night

Explanation:
The intense heat suggests midday.

POETRY

Read the poem and answer questions 26 to 30 I'm going soldering:
Mad the rhythm runs
With drumming and with trumpeting
And glory of the guns.
I've come home again:
I know that blood is red;
I know how sodden falls the rain
Where flesh lies dead.

26. The theme of the poem is best described as the

A. love of war
B. glory of war
C. excitement of war
D. reality of war ✔

Explanation:
The poem contrasts illusion with harsh reality.

27. “Mad the rhythm runs” is an example of

A. pathos
B. oxymoron
C. bathos
D. inversion ✔

Explanation:
Normal word order is reversed.

28. The rhyme scheme in the first stanza is

A. aabb ✔
B. abab
C. abbaa
D. aabc

Explanation:
The end words rhyme in pairs.

29. The dominant sound device in the second stanza is

A. alliteration ✔
B. assonance
C. onomatopoeia
D. repetition

Explanation:
Repeated consonant sounds dominate.

30. The two contrasting moods in the poem are

A. sadness and hope
B. bravery and cowardice
C. excitement and disappointment ✔
D. calmness and anxiety

Explanation:
Initial excitement contrasts later disillusionment.

THE TEMPEST

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: The Tempest

Read the extract and answer questions 31 to 35
Thou liest, most ignorant monster! I am in case to justle a constable. Why, thou deboshed fish, thou, was there ever man a coward that hath drunk so much sack as I today. Wilt thou tell a monstrous lie, being but half a fish and half a monster? (Act III, scene ii, lines 23‑27)

31. The speaker is

A. Stephano ✔
B. Caliban
C. Trinculo
D. Adrian

Explanation:
Stephano boasts while insulting Caliban.

32. The character addressed is

A. Trinculo
B. Stephano
C. Sebastian
D. Caliban ✔

Explanation:
Stephano insults Caliban directly.

33. The “lie” is that the speaker is a/an

A. drunkard
B. coward ✔
C. ass
D. idiot

Explanation:
Stephano denies being a coward.

34. The addressee asks that the speaker be

A. punished severely
B. hanged on a tree ✔
C. beaten to death
D. bitten to death

Explanation:
Caliban angrily suggests hanging.

35. Later the addressee proposes a plot to

A. make Trinculo king of the island
B. kill Prospero ✔
C. steal Miranda
D. rob Prospero of his clothes

Explanation:
Caliban plots Prospero’s murder.

Read the extract and answer questions 36 to 40 You are three men of sin, whom Destiny -
That hath to instrument this lower world
And what is it - the never‑surfeited sea
Hath caused to belch up you; and on this island,
Where man doth not inhabit - you 'mongst men
Being most unfit to live.
(Act III, scene iii, lines 53‑58)

36. The speaker is

A. Prospero
B. Miranda
C. Ariel ✔
D. Gonzalo

Explanation:
Ariel speaks under Prospero’s command.

37. The “three men of sin” are

A. Alonso, Gonzalo and Antonio
B. Alonso, Antonio and Sebastian ✔
C. Antonio, Sebastian and Gonzalo
D. Sebastian, Gonzalo and Antonio

Explanation:
They are responsible for Prospero’s exile.

38. In the first line, “Destiny” is

A. metaphor
B. personification ✔
C. allusion
D. euphemism

Explanation:
Destiny is given human agency.

39. The speaker immediately

A. reports them to Prospero
B. makes them repent
C. drives them away ✔
D. makes them go mad temporarily

Explanation:
Ariel frightens and chases them off.

40. A character in the scene whom Prospero admires is

A. Ferdinand
B. Gonzalo ✔
C. Adrian
D. Francisco

Explanation:
Prospero respects Gonzalo’s loyalty and kindness.