1. Which one does not relate to literature?
a) Epilogue
b) Monologue
c) Demogogue
d) Prologue
Answer: Demogogue
2. A long speech by one actor in a play or movie is called-
a) Dialogue
b) Monologue
c) Prologue
d) Epilogue
Answer: Monologue
3. Soliloquy means -
a) to memorise
b) talking to oneself
c) action of speech
d) rehearsal of a play
Answer: talking to oneself
4. A drama is a/an-
a) novel retold in dialogue
b) magical performances on the stage
c) fairy tale
d) story translated into action
Answer: magical performances on the stage
5. A comedy does not have-
a) a happy ending
b) a plot
c) catharsis
d) comic element
Answer: catharsis
6. The 'climax' of a plot is what happens-
a) in the beginning
b) at the end
c) at the height
d) in the confrontation
Answer: at the height
7. 'Comb' rhymes with-
a) dome
b) bomb
c) tomb
d) boom
Answer: dome
8. Which of the following words does not rhyme with the rest?
a) said
b) made
c) raid
d) paid
Answer: said
9. What is a funny poem of five lines called?
a) Quartet
b) Limerick
c) Sixtet
d) Haiku
Answer: Limerick
10. 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
Answer: A form of light verse
11. A sonnet is a kind of poem containing......lines.
a) sixteen
b) ten
c) twelve
d) fourteen
Answer: fourteen
12. A lyrical poem of fourteen lines is called-
a) Elegy
b) Ode
c) Sonnet
d) Ballad
Answer: Sonnet
13. An epic is based on......performed by a hero.
a) heroic deeds
b) a narrative
c) intervention
d) trifle subjects
Answer: heroic deeds
14. A 'Canto' is-
a) an act of a play
b) a part of play
c) a chapter of a novel
d) a division of an epic
Answer: a division of an epic
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15. A mournful poem written on the death of someone's love is called-
a) homage
b) ode
c) elegy
d) saga
Answer: elegy
16. Ballad means-
a) classical music
b) classical dance
c) street drama
d) romantic folk song
Answer: romantic folk song
17. A song embodying religious and sacred emotions.
a) Lyric
b) Ode
c) Hymn
d) Ballad
Answer: Hymn
18. 'Myth' means -
a) The story of the old time heroes
b) The story of the civilization
c) The story of the childhood
d) The store of the ancient history
Answer: The store of the ancient history
19. The term 'fiction' is related to-
a) fact
b) faction
c) friction
d) imagination
Answer: imagination
20. A novel in the form of letters is called-
a) picaresque novel
b) novelette
c) non-fiction novel
d) epistolary novel
Answer: epistolary novel
21. The literary term which says one thing in disguise of another is-
a) Satire
b) Allegory
c) Metaphor
d) Symbol
Answer: Allegory
22. .....is a reference to another literary work that the reader should understand in order to make connections.
a) Satire
b) Allusion
c) Genre
d) Climax
Answer: Allusion
23. Stream of consciousness technique was pioneered by-
a) W. B. Yeats
b) James Joyce
c) Ezra Pound
d) Matthew Arnold
Answer: James Joyce
24. A short speech by a player at the end of a play is-
a) a memorandum
b) an epilogue
c) a prologue
d) a soliloquy
Answer: an epilogue
25. It is impossible to write a drama without a-
a) pen
b) director
c) plot
d) pencil
Answer: plot
26. Animal can speak in a-
a) mock-epic
b) lampoon
c) parable
d) fable
Answer: fable
