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Literature — 352 previous-year questions — page 3 of 15
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Identify the poetic device used in the following poetic line
"The woods are lovely, dark and deep"- Repetition
- Simile
- Alliteration✓
- Metaphor
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"It is an attribute to god himself"
Identify the speaker of the given line.- Macbeth
- Portia✓
- Nerrisa
- Jessica
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At last Ivan thought to hang himself on first ___________ tree.
- Oak
- Neem
- Aspen✓
- Sal
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Who was the President of United States of America from the year 1861 to 1865?
- Franklin
- John. F. Kennady
- Abraham Lincoln✓
- George Bush
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Who said this?
If non-violence is the law of our being, the future is with women.- Mahatma Gandhi✓
- Mother Teresa
- Rajaram Mohan Roy
- Subramania Bharathi
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"Good friends, Sweet friends, let me not stir you up
To Such a sudden flood of mutiny"
Who uttered these words?- Brutus
- Antony✓
- Casca
- Cassius
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"Music" The Hope raiser is written by
- Oscar Wilde
- Robert Frost
- Dr. Karl Paulnack✓
- Kalpana Sharma
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It forgets to 'Save' my work, and store it away
And instead, makes it vanish in the most dreadful way
Mention the title of the poem for the above lines- Special Hero
- My Computer Needs a Break✓
- Lessons in Life
- A Thing of Beauty
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Which of the following is not a poem?
- Shilpi
- Snake
- A Psalm of life
- Our Heritage✓
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"A Psalm of Life" appeared in the collection of poems titled ____.
- Wayside Inn (1855)
- Evangeline (1847)
- Miles Standish (1858)
- Voices of the Night (1839)✓
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Mr. Pneumonia figures in ——————.
- The Last Leaf✓
- The Selfish Giant
- The Lottery Ticket
- The Open Window
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Lights flicker on and off
But fear takes over me.
Identify the Onomatopoeic word in the given stanza.- fear
- lights
- flicker✓
- on and off
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Caesar's wife ———— forbids him to go to Senate House.
- Calphurnia✓
- Octavia
- Cleopatra
- Helena
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"Now drops that gloated on the pool like pearls and now a silver blade"
The above lines are taken from- Sonnet No 116
- Where the mind is without fear
- The Solitary Reaper
- Going for water✓
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"On the day of Sicilian July, with Etna Smoking".
What type of allusion is used here?- Cultural allusion
- Biblical allusion
- Geographical allusion✓
- Political allusion
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Which historical character inspired Young Indira?
- Rani of Jhansi
- Joan of Arc✓
- Sarojini Naidu
- Vijayalakshmi Pandit
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"With the tea-cups circling round me like the planets round the sun"
Identify the figure of speech in the above lines.- Personification
- Simile✓
- Alliteration
- Metaphor
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The woods are lovely, dark and deep
But I have promises to keep
Who wrote the above lines?- Robert Frost✓
- Sarojini Naidu
- Nisha Dyrene
- John Masefield
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The poem "On Killing a Tree" is written by
- Norman Littleford
- Caroline Ann Bowles
- Edgar Albert Guest
- Gieve Patel✓
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The Giant's final journey was to
- Paradise✓
- The neighbouring village
- The hell
- Friend's place
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In which poem the river is referred to as "a silver blade"?
- Going for water✓
- River
- West Running Brooke
- Standing upon the West Minister Bridge
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On Reading Oscar Wilde's "The selfish Giant" We find that the school children used to go and play ———— in the giant's garden
- Every afternoon✓
- Every month
- Every week
- None
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Identify the sentence with Hyperbole.
- He has fallen asleep
- Why man, if the river were dry I am able to fill it with tears✓
- The child is father of Max
- You are telling me a fairy tale.
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Identify the work which is not written by Oscar Wilde?
- The Selfish Giant
- The Happy Prince
- The Importance of Being Earnest
- Snake✓
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Choose the correct pair :
The Play and its author.- 'Comedy of Errors' by William Shakespeare✓
- 'Love's Labour's Lost' by Bacon
- 'Cymbeline' by Bernard Shaw
- 'Henry IV' by Ben Johnson
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