Section 6: General Knowledge of Literature

Alright gabrielnfersaa — let's do this. Section 6: General Knowledge of Literature 74. A line of five feet of iamb is a An iamb is a metrical foot with an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable. "Penta-" means five. Therefore, five iambic feet constitute an iambic pentameter. 74. C. pentameter 75. The Petrarchan sonnet has the rhyme scheme A Petrarchan (or Italian) sonnet consists of an octave (eight lines) rhyming ABBAABBA and a sestet (six lines) rhyming CDECDE or CDCDCD. 75. A. abba abba cde cde 76. "Oh death, why are you so wicked!" Which figure of speech is used in the above expression? Apostrophe is a figure of speech in which a speaker directly addresses an absent person, an inanimate object, or an abstract concept as if it were alive and present. 76. B. Apostrophe Read the following extract and answer Questions 77 – 80 'About mid-morning (Amamule is seated in his lapa, a glass of red wine sitting on a side table by the chair on which he sits; he is all by himself) Amamule: I don't know what they want from me. As for that Korokoto man, always taking news where he has no business to – we shall see.' 77. Amamule is a ______ in Amamule is a person who performs actions and speaks in the narrative, making him a character. 77. A. character 78. The expression About mid-morning ______ "About mid-morning" indicates the time of day, which is an element of the setting of a story or play. 78. C. setting 79. The underlined words in the extract are: (Amamule is seated in his lapa, a glass of red wine sitting on a side table by the chair on which he sits; he is all by himself) These words, enclosed in parentheses, describe the actions, appearance, or atmosphere of a scene in a play, which are known as stage directions. 79. D. stage direction 80. Amamule's speech illustrates Amamule is "all by himself" and speaking his thoughts aloud, which is the definition of a soliloquy in drama. 80. D. soliloquy Send me the next one 📸