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These multiple-choice questions (MCQs) are designed to enhance your knowledge and understanding in the following areas: Bachelor of Arts in English (BA English) .
| 1. |
………… is a literary device that demonstrates the long and short patterns through stressed and unstressed syllables, particularly in verse form. |
| A. | metre |
| B. | rhythm |
| C. | rhyme |
| D. | alliteration |
| Answer» B. rhythm | |
| 2. |
………. is a stressed and unstressed syllabic pattern in a verse, or within the lines of a poem. |
| A. | metre |
| B. | rhythm |
| C. | rhyme |
| D. | alliteration |
| Answer» A. metre | |
| 3. |
A ………….is a repetition of similar sounding words, occurring at the end of lines in poems or songs |
| A. | metre |
| B. | rhyme |
| C. | alliteration |
| D. | rhythm |
| Answer» B. rhyme | |
| 4. |
………….is a stylistic device in which a number of words, having the same first consonant sound, occur close together in a series. |
| A. | rhythm |
| B. | rhyme |
| C. | metre |
| D. | alliteration |
| Answer» D. alliteration | |
| 5. |
“Men sell the wedding bells.” is an example of ………. |
| A. | rhyme |
| B. | alliteration |
| C. | assonance |
| D. | diction |
| Answer» C. assonance | |
| 6. |
Diction can be defined as style of speaking or writing, determined by the choice of words by a speaker or a writer |
| A. | alliteration |
| B. | assonance |
| C. | diction |
| D. | metonymy |
| Answer» C. diction | |
| 7. |
The figure of speech that uses to compare two distinctly different things is indicated by words “like” and “as” |
| A. | metaphor |
| B. | simile |
| C. | metonymy |
| D. | hyperbole |
| Answer» B. simile | |
| 8. |
What device is a comparison of two unlike things which says one thing is another? |
| A. | simile |
| B. | metaphor |
| C. | metonymy |
| D. | hyperbole |
| Answer» B. metaphor | |
| 9. |
What figurative language is used in the given sentence? “The boy was as fast as a rocket as he sped on his bicycle” |
| A. | simile |
| B. | metaphor |
| C. | personification |
| D. | hyperbole |
| Answer» A. simile | |
| 10. |
………..is a figure of speech that attributes human qualities to that which is non – human. |
| A. | oxymoron |
| B. | metonymy |
| C. | personification |
| D. | hyperbole |
| Answer» C. personification | |
| 11. |
…………is a figure of speech in which two opposite ideas are joined to create an effect. |
| A. | metonymy |
| B. | personification |
| C. | hyperbole |
| D. | oxymoron |
| Answer» D. oxymoron | |
| 12. |
Name of the figure of speech in which a thing or concept is replaced by the name of something closely associated with the same thing or concept |
| A. | oxymoron |
| B. | metonymy |
| C. | hyperbole |
| D. | personification |
| Answer» B. metonymy | |
| 13. |
…………………..is a type of metonymy in which a part of something represents the whole, or it may use a whole to represent a part. |
| A. | oxymoron |
| B. | transferred epithet |
| C. | synecdoche |
| D. | hyperbole |
| Answer» C. synecdoche | |
| 14. |
What is the literary device which use as a modifier (usually an adjective ) qualifies a noun other than the person or thing it is actually describing ? |
| A. | synecdoche |
| B. | hyperbole |
| C. | oxymoron |
| D. | transferred epithet |
| Answer» D. transferred epithet | |
| 15. |
The poetic form that is written today is defined as a short poem expressing the thoughts and feelings of a single speaker |
| A. | ode |
| B. | satire |
| C. | lyric |
| D. | ballad |
| Answer» C. lyric | |
| 16. |
“The Lake Isle of Innisfree” by W B Yeats is a …………….poem. |
| A. | lyric |
| B. | ballad |
| C. | sonnet |
| D. | ode |
| Answer» A. lyric | |
| 17. |
. In ………….the poets praise people, natural scenes, and abstract ideas. |
| A. | ballad |
| B. | lyric |
| C. | sonnet |
| D. | ode |
| Answer» D. ode | |
| 18. |
A………. has 14 lines, and is written in iambic pentameter. |
| A. | sonnet |
| B. | ode |
| C. | lyric |
| D. | ballad |
| Answer» A. sonnet | |
| 19. |
…………is a literary device that can be defined as having two successive rhyming lines in a verse, and has the same meter to form a complete thought. |
| A. | lyric |
| B. | couplet |
| C. | ballad |
| D. | sonnet |
| Answer» B. couplet | |
| 20. |
A poetic form in which a person is speaking to himself or to an imaginary listener dramatically to reveal specific intentions of his actions. |
| A. | narrative poetry |
| B. | free verse |
| C. | dramatic monologue |
| D. | performance poetry |
| Answer» C. dramatic monologue | |
| 21. |
he poem that tells a story is called……. |
| A. | dramatic monologue |
| B. | haiku |
| C. | free verse |
| D. | narrative poetry |
| Answer» D. narrative poetry | |
| 22. |
Poetry that has no regular rhythm, metre, rhyme and structure. |
| A. | haiku |
| B. | ode |
| C. | narrative poetry |
| D. | free verse |
| Answer» D. free verse | |
| 23. |
Unrhymed iambic pentameter |
| A. | cinquain |
| B. | haiku |
| C. | blank verse |
| D. | couplet |
| Answer» C. blank verse | |
| 24. |
Japanese poem with 5-7-5 syllables |
| A. | jintisha |
| B. | haiku |
| C. | tanka |
| D. | couplet |
| Answer» B. haiku | |
| 25. |
A type of literature that exposes and criticizes foolishness and corruption of an individual or a society, by using humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule. |
| A. | satire |
| B. | haiku |
| C. | dramatic monologue |
| D. | ballad |
| Answer» A. satire | |
| 26. |
The ………….is a thirty-one-syllable poem, traditionally written in a single unbroken line originated in Japan in 7th century |
| A. | haiku |
| B. | jintisha |
| C. | tanka |
| D. | ghazal |
| Answer» C. tanka | |
| 27. |
…………….. is a Persian verse form in the stanzaic structure of a quatrain. |
| A. | ghazal |
| B. | jintisha |
| C. | rubai |
| D. | haiku |
| Answer» C. rubai | |
| 28. |
The…………… is a highly structured poem made up of five tercets (three line stanza) followed by a quatrain, with two repeating rhymes and two refrains. |
| A. | villanelle |
| B. | haiku |
| C. | tanka |
| D. | rubai |
| Answer» A. villanelle | |
| 29. |
Which among the following is an example for Performing Poetry? |
| A. | hiroshima |
| B. | piano |
| C. | tyger |
| D. | dover beach |
| Answer» D. dover beach | |
| 30. |
In the poem “Shall I compare Thee to a Summer’s Day”, “eye of heaven” refers to |
| A. | summer |
| B. | sun |
| C. | death |
| D. | flower bud |
| Answer» B. sun | |
| 31. |
The bronze statue of Neptune in My Last Duchess is taming a __________. |
| A. | innsbruck |
| B. | sea-horse |
| C. | white mule |
| D. | fair daughter |
| Answer» B. sea-horse | |
| 32. |
John Donne belongs to the __________ school of poetry |
| A. | metaphysical |
| B. | romantic |
| C. | cavalier |
| D. | modernist |
| Answer» A. metaphysical | |
| 33. |
In A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning, “twin compasses” are compared to _________. |
| A. | soul |
| B. | lovers |
| C. | virtuous men |
| D. | love |
| Answer» B. lovers | |
| 34. |
______________ is not one of the gifts given by the knight to the mysterious young woman in Keats’ La Belle Dame Sans Merci. |
| A. | honey wild |
| B. | garlands |
| C. | fragrant zone |
| D. | bracelets |
| Answer» A. honey wild | |
| 35. |
“Shall I compare Thee to a Summer’s Day ” is the ___th sonnet of Shakespeare's collection of 154 sonnets. |
| A. | 19 |
| B. | 20 |
| C. | 17 |
| D. | 18 |
| Answer» D. 18 | |
| 36. |
The poem “Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer’s Day” immortalizes ________. |
| A. | the poem |
| B. | the poet |
| C. | the young man |
| D. | summer |
| Answer» C. the young man | |
| 37. |
Cohen’s “I am your Man” conveys the speaker’s ____________. |
| A. | desperateness |
| B. | anger |
| C. | sorrow |
| D. | happiness |
| Answer» A. desperateness | |
| 38. |
_________ gives a reply to the speaker within the poem in Milton’s “When I consider how my light is spent” |
| A. | time |
| B. | patience |
| C. | light |
| D. | darkness |
| Answer» B. patience | |
| 39. |
Who is “alone and palely loitering” in “La Belle Dame Sans Merci”? |
| A. | faery |
| B. | child |
| C. | knight |
| D. | king |
| Answer» C. knight | |
| 40. |
The mysterious lady’s eyes in La Belle Dame Sans Merci are described as ____. |
| A. | light |
| B. | fading |
| C. | moist |
| D. | wild |
| Answer» D. wild | |
| 41. |
‘Spirit’ in Ode to a Skylark refers to |
| A. | skylark |
| B. | poet |
| C. | poetry |
| D. | weather |
| Answer» A. skylark | |
| 42. |
“Do not go gentle into that good night” is a ____________. |
| A. | elegy |
| B. | ode |
| C. | villanelle |
| D. | lyric |
| Answer» C. villanelle | |
| 43. |
“Do not go gentle into that good night” is a plea to the poet’s _______. |
| A. | lover |
| B. | friend |
| C. | father |
| D. | brother |
| Answer» C. father | |
| 44. |
Whose frail deeds dance in a ‘green bay’ in Do not go Gentle into that good night? |
| A. | wise men |
| B. | good men |
| C. | wild men |
| D. | grave men |
| Answer» B. good men | |
| 45. |
Who sees with ‘blinding sight’ in Do not go gentle into that good night? |
| A. | wise men |
| B. | good men |
| C. | wild men |
| D. | grave men |
| Answer» D. grave men | |
| 46. |
‘I have walked through many lives’ is a line of ____ poem. |
| A. | i am your man |
| B. | essay on man |
| C. | the layers |
| D. | ode to a skylark |
| Answer» C. the layers | |
| 47. |
Pope’s “Essay on Man” was published in __________. |
| A. | 1733-1734 |
| B. | 1777-1778 |
| C. | 1732-1733 |
| D. | 1731-1732 |
| Answer» A. 1733-1734 | |
| 48. |
Donne wrote A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning when he left to _____ leaving his wife behind. |
| A. | london |
| B. | france |
| C. | australia |
| D. | canada |
| Answer» B. france | |
| 49. |
Who was ‘Too easily impressed’ in Browning’s “My Last Duchess”? |
| A. | the duke |
| B. | the envoy |
| C. | the last duchess |
| D. | the count’s daughter |
| Answer» C. the last duchess | |
| 50. |
Fra Pandolf is the ______ in My Last Duchess. A) the painter B) the envoy C) the servant D) the duke 55) Who is the he in “He disappeared in the dead of winter” in Auden’s elegy. |
| A. | w.h.auden |
| B. | w.b.yeats |
| C. | the speaker |
| D. | poets |
| Answer» A. w.h.auden | |
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