CUET-PG SERIES English
Literary Terms
7 previous year questions.
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2024 Chapter Questions 7 MCQs
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Select the traditional definition of the ”ballad” from the following:
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A long lyric poem that is serious in subject and treatment, elevated in style and elaborate in its stanzaic structure.
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A song transmitted orally, that tells a story.
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A poem written in alternating hexameter and pentameter lines to refer to the subject matter of change and loss.
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Any fairly short poem, consisting of the utterance by a single speaker, who expresses a state of mind or a process of perception, thought, and feeling.
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Which of the following is the correct rhyme scheme for the Petrarchan sonnet?
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ABABCDCD EFEFGG
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ABBAABBACDCDCD
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ABBAABBA CDECDE
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ABABCBCB CDECDE
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In the excerpt from Daphne Du Maurier’s Rebecca, what figure of speech is displayed in the line described as “poor fretful sea”?
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Simile
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Alliteration
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Anthesis
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Metaphor
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Which of the following are the characteristics of figures of speech?
(A) Figures of speech are words or phrases that are related to the literal usage of language.
(B) Figures of speech use words or phrases that are related to the figurative usage of language.
(C) Anecdote, antithesis, and diction are examples of figures of speech.
(D) Figures of speech do not constitute the literal usage of language.
(A) Figures of speech are words or phrases that are related to the literal usage of language.
(B) Figures of speech use words or phrases that are related to the figurative usage of language.
(C) Anecdote, antithesis, and diction are examples of figures of speech.
(D) Figures of speech do not constitute the literal usage of language.
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Figures of speech are words or phrases that are related to the literal usage of language.
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Figures of speech use words or phrases that are related to the figurative usage of language.
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Anecdote, antithesis, and diction are examples of figures of speech.
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Figures of speech do not constitute the literal usage of language.
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Match the literary term (List I) with its representative textual example (List II):
| List I (Literary Term) | List II (Example) |
| A. Dramatic Irony | I. The Option Room |
| B. Anagnorisis | II. Julius Caesar |
| C. Epic Simile | III. The Iliad |
| D. Bildungsroman | IV. Jane Eyre |
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(A)- (I), (B)- (II), (C)- (III), (D)- (IV)
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(A)- (II), (B)- (I), (C)- (III), (D)- (IV)
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(A)- (III), (B)- (IV), (C)- (I), (D)- (II)
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(A)- (III), (B)- (II), (C)- (IV), (D)- (I)
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Match the rasa (List I) with the bhava it evokes (List II):
| List I (Rasa) | List II (Bhava) |
| A. Shringar | II. Rati |
| B. Hasya | III. Hasa |
| C. Shoka | I. Raudra |
| D. Veera | IV. Vira |
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(A)- (I), (B)- (II), (C)- (III), (D)- (IV)
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(A)- (II), (B)- (III), (C)- (I), (D)- (IV)
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(A)- (III), (B)- (IV), (C)- (I), (D)- (II)
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(A)- (II), (B)- (III), (C)- (I), (D)- (IV)
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In the following lines from John Donne’s sonnet Death, Be Not Proud, when the speaker proclaims Death, thou shalt die, what figure of speech is being employed?
“You are not sleep; you wake eternally,
And death shall be no more; Death, thou shalt die.”
“You are not sleep; you wake eternally,
And death shall be no more; Death, thou shalt die.”
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Antithesis
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Paradox
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Oxymoron
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Metaphor