Section 6: General Knowledge of Literature

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