Literary Techniques Literary Techniques Time: 30 minutes. Read the instructions carefully Total number of questions: 35 Answer all questions. Do not close the tab/disconnect without submitting your responses. Do not open other tabs in your browser. Do not search for answers in the internet. First Name Student ID Which line contains the most suitable example for a simile? As yet but knock, breathe, shine, and seek to mend As after sunset fadeth in the west As o’er the fragrant steams she bends her head. As on the nosegay in her breast reclin’d, None Which line contains the most suitable example for a metaphor? So your chimneys I sweep & in soot I sleep O, for a draught of vintage! A two-edged weapon from her shining case Tasting of Flora and the country green None Which line contains the most suitable example for an alliteration? Rolled round in earth’s diurnal course, But hardier far, once more I see thee bend Remember me when I am gone away I walk through the long schoolroom questioning None Which line contains the most suitable example for a consonance? It will come to such sights colder I knew a simple soldier boy And along the trampled edges of the street The children learn to cipher and to sing None Which line contains the most suitable example for an assonance? And mid-May’s eldest child, A slumber did my spirit seal; No motion has she now, no force; The touch of earthly years. None Which line contains the most suitable example for an anastrophe? And so Tom awoke; and we rose in the dark Thrice she look’d back, and thrice the foe drew near. To the same goal did both our studies drive: Darkling I listen; and for many a time None Which line contains the most suitable example for a paradox? Lone Flower, hemmed in with snows and white as they She seemed a thing that could not feel When you can no more hold me by the hand I walk through the long schoolroom questioning; None Which line does not contain the most suitable example for a mythological allusion? By Janus, I think no. when light-wing'd toys Of feather'd Cupid seal with wanton dullness My speculative and officed instruments I dream of a Ledaean body Or else, to alter Plato's parable None Which line contains the most suitable example for an in medias res? That time of year thou mayst in me behold There were only two Americans stopping at the hotel She sat at the window watching the evening invade the avenue Tush! never tell me; I take it much unkindly None Which line contains the most suitable example for an Irony? Or to be naked with her friend in bed An hour or more, not meaning any harm? To kiss in private? “Il piove,” the wife said. She liked the hotel-keeper. Batter my heart, three-personed God; for you None Which line contains the most suitable example for a cacophony? Go and catch a falling star, To cease upon the midnight with no pain, Reason, your viceroy in me, me should defend, No motion has she now, no force; None Which line does not contain the most suitable example for an euphemism? your daughter and the Moor are now making the beast with two backs. No motion has she now, no force; a bonfire, and some fireworks, and they’re burning You had grown so familiar as my hand None What best describes the rhyme available in the below lines? Leaves like the things of man, youWith your fresh thoughts care for, can you? Masculine rhyme Feminine rhyme Slant rhyme Internal rhyme None What best describes the rhymes available in the text in bold? I knew a simple soldier boyWho grinned at life in empty joy,Slept soundly through the lonesome dark,And whistled early with the lark. Masculine rhymes Feminine rhymes Slant rhymes Internal rhymes None What best describes the rhymes available in the text in bold? Quarterly, is it, money reproaches me:‘Why do you let me lie here wastefully?I am all you never had of goods and sex.You could get them still by writing a few cheques.’ Masculine rhymes Feminine rhymes Slant rhymes Internal rhymes None Which animal symbolizes the idea of laziness in relation to the context of the literary work from which it has been taken? Draw me a lion when gulls returned new-plumed and wild A hive of honey bees a peacock spreads its lines None What is the symbolical meaning of the text in bold? "A cobra, I touched it." (Nectar in a Sieve, Kamala Marakandaya - Indian) The upcoming death of a character The birth of a male child The birth of a female child The ongoing urbanization None What is the symbolical meaning of the text in bold? The desperate tempest hath so bang'd the Turks (Othello-Shakespeare,William, British) Upcoming disaster Upcoming shifting of power Upcoming death of a woman None of the available answers None Which line contains the least suitable example for a synecdoche? Witness that here Iago doth give up The execution of his wit, hands, heart, To wrong'd Othello's service! The rose remaining in her breast accidentally pricked her chin Batter my heart, three-personed God But ’tis my heart that loves what they despise, None Which line contains the most suitable example for an adynaton? So ladies, in romance, assist their knight My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains One minute past, and Lethe-wards had sunk: Mrs Durbeyfield was only too delighted at this tractability None What best describes the rhymes available in the text in bold? No motion has she now, no force;She neither hears nor sees;Rolled round in earth’s diurnal course,With rocks, and stones, and trees. Alternate rhymes Feminine Rhymes Internal Rhymes Slant rhyme None Which line contains the most suitable example for ambiguity? What, are you hurt, lieutenant? Ira was seven when my first son was born He crawled under a lorry. A stationary lorry. None of the available answers None Which line contains the most suitable example for an enumeration? You smug-faced crowds with kindling eye A snow-drop spider, a flower like a froth, They are rattling breakfast plates in basement kitchens, Quarterly, is it, money reproaches me: None What dramatic technique is associated with the below statement? 'Are there no stones in heavenBut what serve for the thunder?--Precious villain!"' Anagnorisis Anaphora Anastrophe Anadiplosis None Which line contains the most suitable example for an epiphany? She stood up in a sudden impulse of terror. Escape! She must escape! “Excuse me,” she said, “the padrone asked me to bring this for the Signora.” She put on some sunglasses that hid everything above the tip of her nose and chin. “Is it really pain you feel, Mrs. Das, or is it guilt?” None What best describes the structure of the following stanza? Lone Flower, hemmed in with snows and white as theyBut hardier far, once more I see thee bendThy forehead, as if fearful to offend,Like an unbidden guest. Though day by day,Storms, sallying from the mountain-tops, waylayThe rising sun, and on the plains descend;Yet art thou welcome, welcome as a friendWhose zeal outruns his promise! Blue-eyed May Ottava rima Octave Sestet Double quatrain None Which word best describes the structure of the following stanza? If thou find'st one, let me know, Such a pilgrimage were sweet;Yet do not, I would not go, Though at next door we might meet;Though she were true, when you met her,And last, till you write your letter, Yet she Will beFalse, ere I come, to two, or three. Octave Anisometric Irregular Structured None Which line contains the least suitable example for an antithesis? 'Zounds, sir, you are one of those that will not serve God, if the devil bid you. He that is robb'd, not wanting what is stol'n, Let him not know't, and he's not robb'd at all. In following him, I follow but myself; You rise to play and go to bed to work None Which line contains the least suitable example for an aphorism? Knavery's plain face is never seen tin used Good Michael, look you to the guard to-night: And, I'll warrant her, fun of game. Is your Englishman so expert in his drinking? None What dramatic technique is not associated with the below statement? I think my wife be honest and think she is not;I think that thou art just and think thou art not. Anaphora Aporia Epistrophe Oxymoron None What dramatic technique is associated with the below statement? "That would to cinders burn up modesty" Anastrophe Inversion Hypallage Hyperbaton None What dramatic technique is associated with the below context? What wife? I have no wife. Rhetorical question Hypophora Paradox Oxymoron None What type of an imagery is associated with the below line? "Tasting of Flora and the country green," Gustatory imagery Synaesthetic imagery Visual imagery Olfactory imagery None What narrative technique is associated with the below context? "In this county there was a seat of yours at Kingsbere, and another at Sherton, and another in Millpond, and another at Lullstead, and another at Wellbridge." Syndeton Allusion Neologism Metaphor None Which line contains the most suitable example for a neologism? A wretched sylph too fondly interposed But mellows what we write to the dull sweets of rhyme Though worlds of wanwood leafmeal lie You smug-faced crowds with kindling eye None
