10 questions. Try each one, then open the answer to check yourself and read the explanation.
He is a citizen of no mean city illustrates
Answer: D (litotes)
Litotes is understatement using a negative ('no mean city' means a great city).
The introductory part of a play, a novel or a poem is
Answer: D (prologue)
A prologue comes before the main work and introduces it; an epilogue comes at the end.
An elegy is a poem of
Answer: A (mourning)
An elegy is a poem that mourns someone who has died.
The trees bowed their heads in shame illustrates
Answer: A (personification)
Trees are given human actions and feelings (bowing heads, shame), which is personification.
A character whose actions are predictable in a literary work is
Answer: B (a flat character)
A flat character has a few fixed traits and does not change, so we can predict what he or she will do.
A scene in fiction enacting past events is
Answer: C (flashback)
A flashback interrupts the story to show events that happened earlier.
Poetic licence is a term applied to a poet's
Answer: D (freedom in the use of language.)
Poetic licence is the freedom poets take to bend the normal rules of grammar, spelling or fact.
Milton! Thou should'st be living at this hour.
The literary device used in the line above is
Answer: B (apostrophe)
The speaker addresses Milton, who is dead and absent, as if he could hear: that is apostrophe.
Here lie I, Martin Eliginbrodde
Have mercy on my soul, Lord God.
The extract above illustrates
Answer: A (epitaph)
'Here lie I' marks words written on a tombstone, which is an epitaph.
We live to die, we die to live is an example of
Answer: A (paradox.)
The statement seems to contradict itself but carries a deeper truth, which is a paradox.