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Literature — 352 previous-year questions — page 7 of 15
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"My computer has always been so brainy and smart
It seems to know mountains of information by heart"
The figure of speech used in the above lines is- Simile
- Hyperbole✓
- Repetition
- Anaphora
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"Be a hero in the strife" - In whose poem this line comes?
- Shakespeare
- Walt Whitman
- Wordsworth
- H.W. Longfellow✓
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Whose message is this?
"Listen to the sounds of nature... Take good care of our fragile planet".- Abdul Kalam
- Kalpana Chawla✓
- Saralabehn
- Sunita Williams
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Remember, no men are strange, no countries foreign
Beneath all uniforms, a single body breathes
... ... ... ... ... ...
Of air that is everywhere our own,
Remember, no men are foreign, no countries strange.
What literary device is used here?- Metaphor
- Repetition✓
- Epithet
- Simile
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"Broad and deep, and still as time;
Seeming still, yet still in motion"
The given lines are taken from the poem- The Comet
- A Poison tree
- The River✓
- Stopping by woods on a Snowy Evening
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The following line is from the play Julius Caesar.
"O judg'ment! Thou art fled to brutish beasts"
The figure of speech employed in the above line is- Antithesis
- Personification✓
- Metaphor
- Oxymoron
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'I received love ..... That woman died'
This line expresses the love enjoyed by- Tagore
- R.K. Narayan
- Kamala Das✓
- Deepa Agarwal
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Who says these words?
"Brutus is an honourable man".- Julius Caesar
- Mark Antony✓
- Cleopatra
- Calphurnia
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'Ingratitude, more strong than traitor's arm
Quite vanquished him'
Identify the speaker who uttered these words.- Antony✓
- Antonio
- Brutus
- Bassanio
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For Brutus is an honorable man.
Which poetic device is used by Shakespeare in this line?- Irony✓
- Euphemism
- Diction
- Epithet
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Match the following :
(a) Takazhi Sivasankaran Pillai 1. Sonnet 116 (b) William Shakespeare 2. Kuttichovan (c) Douglas Malloch 3. Is Life but a dream? (d) Lewis Carroll 4. Be the Best - (a)-2 (b)-1 (c)-4 (d)-3✓
- (a)-1 (b)-2 (c)-4 (d)-3
- (a)-2 (b)-1 (c)-3 (d)-4
- (a)-4 (b)-1 (c)-2 (d)-3
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"Now drops that floated on the pool
Like pearls, and now a silver blade".
What figure of speech can you find in the underlined part of the above lines?- Personification
- Metonymy
- Metaphor✓
- Transferred epithet
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"Everything must yield to the paramount duty of finishing this war". These are the words of
- Subash Chandra Bose
- Nelson Mandela
- Jawaharlal Nehru
- Abraham Lincoln✓
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Every soul that touches yours
Be it the slightest contact
Who wrote the above lines?- William Shakespeare
- Robert Frost
- George Eliot✓
- John Masefield
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Which of the following works is not a poem?
- Be the Best
- Manliness
- Swept Away✓
- The Man He Killed
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What is the theme highlighted in the lesson, 'The Mark of Vishnu'?
- Patriotism
- Friendship
- Integration
- Superstition✓
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But the gladdest sort of people, when the busy day is done,
Are the brothers and the sisters who together share their fun.
Who wrote the above poem?- D.H. Lawrence
- Edgar Albert Guest✓
- William Wordsworth
- Mary Botham Howitt
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A child sitting under the Piano, in the boom of the tingling strings.
The figure of speech in the above underlined phrase is- Simile
- Metaphor
- Onomatopoeia✓
- Personification
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Choose the correct answer from the options given below :
"There was never mystery
But 'tis figured in the flowers;
Was never secret history
But birds tell it in the bowers".
These lines are taken from the poem- My Native Land
- To India
- The Apology✓
- Laugh and be Merry
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In 'The Merchant of Venice' Portia disguises herself as a ————
- judge
- money lender
- doctor of law✓
- clerk
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In Julius Caesar, Antony speaks the following line :
"This was the most unkindest cut of all".
The 'cut' in the above line refers to the stab of- Casca
- Cassius
- Brutus✓
- Pompey
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The poet, Khalil Gibran was born in —. Fill in the blank by choosing the right option given below.
- Greece
- Lebanon✓
- Syria
- Egypt
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In whose poem the following lines occur :
"No Nightingale did ever Chaunt
More welcome notes to Weary bands".- Robert Frost
- John Keats
- William Wordsworth✓
- Robert Bridges
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The African National Congress (ANC) was founded in 1912 to oppose
- Discrimination
- Suppression
- Violation of human rights
- All the above✓
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'Romance at short notice was her speciality'.
Whose speciality is romance?- Mrs. Sappleton
- Vera✓
- Masha
- Johnsy
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