List of top English Questions on Literary Terms

'Hamartia' refers to a trait in the protagonist in plays, that are:

Select the traditional definition of the ”ballad” from the following:

Which of the following is the correct rhyme scheme for the Petrarchan sonnet?

In the excerpt from Daphne Du Maurier’s Rebecca, what figure of speech is displayed in the line described as “poor fretful sea”?

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.

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

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

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.”

How are autumn and summer related to spring?

Name three areas of English language in which rapid changes have been noticed in the last few decades.