1. In drama, comic relief often occurs in

A. comedies
B. tragedies ✔
C. historical plays
D. romantic plays

Explanation:
Comic relief is commonly used in tragedies to reduce tension and provide temporary humour.

2. A struggle between opposing forces in a story or play is

A. denouement
B. conflict ✔
C. comedy
D. tragedy

Explanation:
Conflict is the central struggle that drives the plot of a literary work.

3. An expression from which one derives a mental picture is

A. paradox
B. exaggeration
C. imagery ✔
D. photography

Explanation:
Imagery appeals to the senses and helps readers form mental pictures.

4. The repetition of the same vowel sounds in a line is

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

Explanation:
Assonance is the repetition of vowel sounds within nearby words.

5. A character in the story who narrates what happens to him or her is

A. a second person narrator
B. a first person narrator ✔
C. an omniscient narrator
D. a third person narrator

Explanation:
A first-person narrator tells the story from personal experience using “I”.

6. An understatement is otherwise called

A. litotes ✔
B. conceit
C. pun
D. contrast

Explanation:
Litotes is a figure of speech that deliberately understates something.

7. The loneliest people live in the most crowded places illustrates

A. paradox ✔
B. anecdote
C. allegory
D. parody

Explanation:
A paradox presents an apparent contradiction that reveals a deeper truth.

8. A person's life story written by another person is

A. a commentary
B. a biography ✔
C. an autobiography
D. an epistolary

Explanation:
A biography is written by someone other than the subject.

9. The term used to depict the freedom of a poet with language is

A. poetic diction
B. bathos
C. graphology
D. poetic licence ✔

Explanation:
Poetic licence allows poets to break grammatical rules for artistic effect.

10. A poem in which a lone speaker seems to be addressing someone else is a

A. pathetic fallacy
B. verbal irony
C. dramatic irony
D. dramatic monologue ✔

Explanation:
A dramatic monologue features a single speaker addressing a silent listener.

11. A story which explains a natural phenomenon is

A. legend
B. parable
C. myth ✔
D. fiction

Explanation:
Myths explain natural events through supernatural elements.

12. A short which expresses an idea in a clever way is

A. an epigram ✔
B. a limerick
C. an ode
D. a lyric

Explanation:
An epigram is a brief, witty statement expressing a clever idea.

13. A literary work that vividly portrays life can be described as

A. realistic ✔
B. romantic
C. idealistic
D. sarcastic

Explanation:
Realism focuses on accurate representation of everyday life.

14. A character whose actions or qualities serve to heighten those of the hero through contrast is

A. an adversary
B. a protagonist
C. an antagonist
D. a foil ✔

Explanation:
A foil highlights the qualities of another character by contrast.

15. One of the following is used to develop character

A. Climax
B. Atmosphere
C. Setting
D. Dialogue ✔

Explanation:
Dialogue reveals character traits through speech and interaction.

16. A curtain raiser is an introductory performance that is

A. not part of the main play ✔
B. the first part of the main play
C. not separate from the play
D. the first part of the final scene

Explanation:
A curtain raiser is a short performance before the main play begins.

17. A stanza of four lines is a

A. couplet
B. quintet
C. septet
D. quatrain ✔

Explanation:
A quatrain is a stanza consisting of four lines.

18. ............. in drama operates against a character who is unaware of a situation which the audience know about

A. Verbal irony
B. Dramatic irony ✔
C. Satire
D. Parody

Explanation:
Dramatic irony occurs when the audience knows more than the character.

Read the extract and answer questions 19 and 20

Said the Lion: ''On music I dote
But something is wrong with my throat
When I practice a scale
The listeners quail
And flee at the first note''.

19. What type of poem is this?

A. Epic
B. Limerick ✔
C. Ode
D. Sonnet

Explanation:
The poem has humour and the typical limerick structure.

20. The rhyme scheme of the poem is

A. aabba ✔
B. ababa
C. ababb
D. abbaa

Explanation:
Limericks traditionally follow the aabba rhyme scheme.

PART II
UNSEEN PROSE AND POETRY

Read the passage and answer questions 21 to 25
The goldsmith at work is a priest at the altar. As though he were performing the Eucharist, he is engaged in deliberate motions of reverence. The small vials of various liquids such as mercury are little vessels of communion wine. The minuscule rings of intricately crafted gold are like miniature wafers. He dips one tiny ring into a liquid, lifts it up to the sky and presses it onto a space in the growing length of necklace. It fits – it is like dipping bread into wine and slipping it between the parted lips of a communicant. Our lent vigils are not as solemn as the goldsmith's silent solemnity that directs his work. We look on as the wizardry of the master matter craftsman displays itself. We are held in thrall....

21. The subject matter of the passage is

A. a goldsmith at work ✔
B. celebrating the Eucharist
C. a priest at the altar
D. communion wine and wafers

Explanation:
The passage centres on the goldsmith and his careful craftsmanship, likened to religious ritual.

22. The dominant devices used are

A. personification and irony
B. parallelism and repetition
C. metaphor and simile ✔
D. metonymy and synecdoche

Explanation:
The goldsmith’s actions are repeatedly compared to religious acts using metaphor and simile.

23. The use of the above devices creates an atmosphere of

A. fear
B. doom
C. hope
D. awe ✔

Explanation:
The religious comparisons elevate the goldsmith’s work, creating reverence and awe.

24. The writer's attitude is one of

A. bewilderment
B. reverence ✔
C. indifference
D. arrogance

Explanation:
The careful, respectful tone shows deep admiration for the goldsmith’s craft.

25. The narrative technique captures the .............. of the scene.

A. seriousness
B. vividness ✔
C. ordinariness
D. loneliness

Explanation:
Detailed imagery makes the scene lively and clearly visualized.

Read the poem and answer questions 26 to 30

At dawn must I rise to till the rock
That our land has turned into
The land whereon we'd gleefully harvested paddy
Planted and nurtured and tended on plots marshy
Our woes are bloody woes of accursed revenges
Of the land spirits aggrieved and by his fellow
Kindred blood has counted for less than no value
Brother's wife has been wife to other brother's brother
Communal loot has emptied our country silos
The earth has stopped breathing and sighed
Soldered tears has the moon shed
The earth was scorched at noon-day night
And our land has turned to hoeing rock.

26. The theme of the poem is

A. famine and disease
B. drought and heat
C. abomination and retribution ✔
D. sickness and death

Explanation:
The poem links moral wrongdoing to punishment visited upon the land.

27. The mood of the poet is one of

A. recklessness
B. hopelessness ✔
C. happiness
D. loneliness

Explanation:
Images of destruction and suffering convey despair and loss of hope.

28. “The earth has stopped breathing and sighed” illustrates

A. bathos
B. climax
C. personification ✔
D. paradox

Explanation:
Human qualities are given to the earth, which is personification.

29. The run-on lines convey the speaker's

A. indignation
B. lamentation ✔
C. disappointment
D. defiance

Explanation:
The flowing lines reflect sorrow and mourning over communal suffering.

30. There is a predominance of words associated with

A. celebration
B. nature ✔
C. governance
D. nurture

Explanation:
References to land, earth, moon, and farming dominate the poem.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: The Tempest

Read the extract and answer questions 31 to 35

Caliban: Ay, that I will; and I'II be wise hereafter,
And seek for grace. What a thrice-double ass
Was I, to take this drunkard for a god,
And worship this dull foot!

Prospero: Go to; away!
Alonso: Hence, and bestow your luggage where you found it.
Sebastian: Or stole, rather.
(Act V, scene i, lines 293‑299)

31. What is Caliban promising to do?

A. Carry more wood
B. Behave appropriately for forgiveness ✔
C. Denounce Stephano and Trinculo
D. Confess his part in the conspiracy

Explanation:
Caliban resolves to seek grace and act wisely henceforth.

32. Prospero has asked Caliban to

A. go and bring Miranda
B. go to Prospero's cell ✔
C. fetch more wood
D. learn his language lessons

Explanation:
Prospero orders Caliban to return items to Prospero’s cell.

33. The contents of “your luggage” are

A. Alonso's satchel and swords
B. food and water from the ship
C. paddles fur and a harpoon
D. the clothing put up by Ariel ✔

Explanation:
The luggage refers to garments magically provided by Ariel.

34. “this drunkard” is

A. Trinculo
B. Stephano ✔
C. Gonzalo
D. Alonso

Explanation:
Stephano is frequently drunk and was mistakenly worshipped by Caliban.

35. Sebastian says “Or stole it, rather” because the luggage

A. does not belong to Caliban ✔
B. belongs to Caliban
C. is not from the ship
D. is from the ship

Explanation:
The items were taken dishonestly and did not belong to Caliban.

Read the extract and answer questions 36 to 40

Prospero: Of my instruction hast thou nothing bated
In what thou hadst to say. So, with good life
And observation strange, my meaner ministers
Their several kinds have done. My high charms work,
And these, mine enemies are all knit up
In their distractions. They now are in my power;
And in these fits I leave them,...
(Act III, scene iii, lines 85‑91)

36. Prospero is speaking to

A. Caliban
B. Miranda
C. Ferdinand
D. Ariel ✔

Explanation:
Prospero addresses Ariel, praising his obedience.

37. The first line means that the addressee

A. obeyed Prospero's instructions exactly ✔
B. did not carry out Prospero's instructions
C. modified the instruction of Prospero
D. failed to understand the instructions of Prospero

Explanation:
Ariel carried out Prospero’s orders without deviation.

38. Prospero's enemies include the voyagers but not

A. Alonso
B. Antonio
C. Ferdinand ✔
D. Stephano

Explanation:
Ferdinand is innocent and favoured by Prospero.

39. What has just taken place is that

A. the enemies have been tantalized with a banquet ✔
B. Caliban brought home some wood
C. Ferdinand is splitting wood
D. Miranda has offered to help Ferdinand

Explanation:
A magical banquet was presented and then taken away to torment the enemies.

40. Prospero decides to

A. sit back and watch ✔
B. kick Caliban in the mouth
C. go to Ferdinand
D. discharge Ariel

Explanation:
Prospero chooses to leave his enemies temporarily in confusion.