Literature In English Practice Tests (Literary Appreciation) Questions with Answers and Explanations

One rhyme scheme typical of the English sonnet is _______

A. abab cded efef gg
B. abab cded cde dee
C. abba abba cde dee
D. abba abba cde cde.

'I'm not going to be drawn into that old trap
of an argument and be picked up by the tail
like some wet rat out of a sewer.’

The speaker in the statement above is being _____

A. symbolical    B. analogical   C. metaphorical    D. parabolical

'The guilty are too well-fed to pass
through the needle's eye of our scorn the
noose of public contempt hangs idle at
the market place'

- Odia Ofeimun: The Poet Lied and Other Poems

The allusion in the excerpt above is ______

A. mythical     B. biblical    C. historical     D. classical

‘What eyes will watch our large
mouths
Shaped by the laughter of big children
What eyes will watch our large
mouths?

Birago Diop: Vanity

The tone of the lines above is one of ______

A. sarcasm    B. sacrilege    C. chiasmus    D. eulogy.

Fights by the book of arithmetic.

The figure of speech in the line above is _____

A. Iitotes.    B. Innuendo.    C. hyperbole.    D. euphemism.