Which one does not relate to literature?
a) Epilogue
b) Monologue
c) Demagogue
d) Prologue
Ans: c
A ‘Prologue’ is –
a) the science of versification
b) an introduction to a play or a literary work
c) a song of mourning
d) a poem or speech at the end of a play
Ans: b
A long speech by one actor in a play or movie is called-
a) Dialogue
b) Monologue
c) Prologue
d) Epilogue
Ans: b
When a speaker speaks his thoughts aloud is called-
a) aside
b) monody
c) soliloquy
d) negative capability
Ans: c
Soliloquy means-
a) to memorise
b) talking to oneself
c) action of speech
d) rehearsal of a play
Ans: b
What is the meaning of ‘soliloquy’ ?
a) action of body
b) action of speech
c) to memorirea part
d) long self speech by an actor
Ans: d
A drama is a –
a) novel retold in dialogue
b) magical performances on the stage
c) fairy tale
d) story translated into action
Ans: b
Tragedy means-
a) a serious play with a happy ending
b) a serious play with a sad ending
c) a humorous play with a sad ending
d) a funny play with a touchy ending
Ans: b
A tragedy does not have-
a) a tragic hero
b) a plot
c) an act
d) an octave-sestet division
Ans: d
Comedy is-
a) a light play with a happy ending
b) an amusing play with a serious ending
c) a serious play with a humorous ending
d) a play that shows terrible things .
Ans: a
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A comedy does not have –
a) a happy ending
b) a plot
c) catharsis
d) comic element
Ans: c
Pantomime is action on the stage without –
a) gesture
b) song
c) speech
d) exaggerated facial expression
Ans: c
The hero or central character of a literary work is-
a) villain
b) protagonist
c) antagonist
d) chorus
Ans: b
‘Protagonist’ refers to –
a) the villain in a play
b) the leading character or actor in a play
c) the clown in a play
d) the stage director of a play
Ans: b
A Machiavellian character is-
a) an honest person
b) a scheming person
c) a adventurous person
d) a learned person
Ans: b
What is catastrophe?
a) the comical end of dramatic events
b) the tragic end of dramatic events
c) the comic tragic end of the play
d) none
Ans: b
Climax is related to –
a) prose
b) drama
c) poetry
d) novel
Ans: b
The ‘climax’ of a plot is what happens-
a) in the beginning
b) at the end
c) at the height
d) in the confrontation
Ans: c
Which of these words rhymes with the word ‘won’ ?
a) zone
b) done
c) cone
d) moan
Ans: b
Find the odd one.
a) host
b) ghost
c) coast
d) cost
Ans: d
Which of the following words rhymes with the word ‘iron’?
a) lion
b) siren
c) Byron
d) nylon
Ans: a
Which of the following words rhymes with the word ‘wear’?
a) dear
b) near
c) we’re
d) hair
Ans: d
‘Comb’ rhymes with—
a) dome
b) bomb
c) tomb
d) boom
Ans: a
Which of the following words rhymes with the word ‘paid’?
a) made
b) red
c) head
d) said
Ans: a
Which word rhymes with ‘brow’-
a) crow
b) through
c) crew
d) now
Ans: d
Find the ‘odd one out’
a) host
b) most
c) lost
d) coast
Ans: c
Which of the following words does not rhyme with the rest?
a) said
b) made
c) raid
d) paid
Ans: a
Find the ‘odd one out’-
a) above
b) love
c) dove
d) prove
Ans: d
What is a funny poem of five lines called?
a) quartet
b) limerick
c) sixtet
d) haiku
Ans: b
Couplet can occur in-
a) short story
b) essay
c) poetry
d) novel
Ans: c
Lines of a song or a poem repeated at the end of each verse is called a-
a) simile
b) metaphor
c) quatrain
d) refrain
Ans: d
What is trimeter?
a) a line of a poem consisting of three feet
b) a line of a poem consisting three syllables
c) a poem consisting of three rhymes
d) all are correct
Ans: a
What is limerick ?
a) a form of light verse
b) a form of one act play
c) a kind of short narrative poem
d) a kind of love poem
Ans: a
Blank verse’ is a kind of verse-
a) having no rhyming end
b) having blanks in the verse
c) having no significance
d) having no rhythmic flow
Ans: a
A sonnet is a poem having —— lines.
a) sixteen
b) ten
c) twelve
d) fourteen
Ans: d
A sonnet is a lyric poem of
a) 12 lines
b) 24 lines
c) 14 lines
d) 10 lines
Ans: c