A. Metahor
B. Oxymoron
C. Simile
D. Irony
Related Mcqs:
- What historical figure promoted the rapid growth of a high Anglican faction within the church whose ceremony, ritual, and doctrine more closely resembled Roman Catholicism ?
A. William Collins
B. William Laud
C. William Shakespeare
D. William Tyndale - “O my death mother! I am miserable, truly miserable! But yet, don’t be frightened, I am honest! God, of his goodness, keep me so!” These lines characterize Samuel Richardson’s Pamela in all of the following ways EXCEPT ______________?
A. through the personal, direct appeal enabled by his epistolary form.
B. by emphasizing the character’s fright.
C. by emphasizing sexual morality.
D. through the sentimental attempt to make readers strongly identify with the character’s feelings. - Which figure of speech is it when a statement is exaggerated in a poem ?
A. Onomatopeia
B. Metonymy
C. Alliteration
D. Hyperbole - There was aware of her true love, at length come riding by – This is a couplet from the Bailiff’s Daughter of Islington. What figure of speech is used by the poet ?
A. Metaphor
B. Synecdoche
C. Euphemism
D. Irony - ________ is a unit of speech which is at a level higher than the speech sound or phoneme ?
A. Syllable
B. Stress
C. Intonation
D. Pitch. - Christian writers like the Beowulf poet looked back on their pagan ancestors with_______________?
A. nostalgia and ill-concealed envy.
B. bewilderment and visceral loathing.
C. admiration and elegiac sympathy.
D. bigotry and shallow triumphalism. - Christian writers like the Beowulf poet looked back on their pagan ancestors with____________?
A. nostalgia and ill-concealed envy.
B. bewilderment and visceral loathing.
C. admiration and elegiac sympathy.
D. bigotry and shallow triumphalism. - I have said that the sole effect of my somewhat childish experiment—that of looking down within the tarn—had been to deepen the first singular impression. There can be no doubt that the consciousness of the rapid increase of my superstition— for why should I not so term it?—served mainly to accelerate the increase itself. Such, I have long known, is the paradoxical law of all sentiments having terror as a basis. This work exemplifies ?
A. Unity of effect
B. Ratiocinactive effect
C. Cataleptic effect
D. Didactic effect - Wilfred Owen’s “Anthem for Doomed Youth” begins with the following lines: “What passing-bells for these who die as cattle?/ Only the monstrous anger of the guns./ Only the stuttering rifles’ rapid rattle/Can patter out their hasty orisons.” Which of the following statements best describes these lines ?
A. These lines suggest that it was difficult to define patriotism during the Great War, but soldiers who died in battle provided the best example of patriotism.
B. These lines suggest that the Great War lasted much longer than it should have.
C. These lines equate humans with animals, and they anthropomorphize weapons to show a world where there is no place for human values.
D. These lines represent a modern funeral dirge that mimics the rhythm of ancient Greek funeral dirges. - Who is the central Figure in O Nell’s The Hairy Ape_____________?
A. Mildred
B. Yank
C. The Secretary of I.W.W.
D. None of the above
