SS1 Literature in English: Stories, Stages and Verse

Question 1

In a play, the audience knows a visitor is the king in disguise, but the other characters treat him as a beggar. Which technique creates the tension?

Accepted Answer

Dramatic irony

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Foreshadowing

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Verbal irony

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Flashback

Question 2

A first-person narrator insists she never entered a house, although she earlier described its interior in detail. What should a reader question?

Accepted Answer

The narrator's reliability

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The story's chronological order

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The author's use of dialogue

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The story's geographical setting

Question 3

A poet ends a line with 'I waited for the' and completes the sentence on the next line. What is the most likely effect of this line break?

Accepted Answer

It draws the reader forward to complete the thought.

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It establishes a regular end rhyme.

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It signals a change of speaker.

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It brings the sentence to a firm stop.

Question 4

Alone onstage, a character speaks at length about a secret plan that no other character hears. Which dramatic device is being used?

Accepted Answer

A soliloquy

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An aside

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A chorus

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A prologue

Question 5

Throughout a story, a traveller's journey represents the stages of a person's education. Which description best fits this sustained second meaning?

Accepted Answer

An allegory

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A flashback

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An allusion

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An onomatopoeia

Question 6

In the sentence 'The classroom was a beehive after the bell,' how is the classroom compared with a beehive?

Accepted Answer

Through a metaphor

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Through a simile

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Through an apostrophe

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Through an oxymoron

Question 7

A four-line stanza ends its lines with 'night,' 'rain,' 'light,' and 'pain,' in that order. What is its rhyme scheme?

Accepted Answer

ABAB

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AABB

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ABBA

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ABCB

Question 8

A novelist repeatedly contrasts an impulsive character with a friend who considers every decision carefully. What is the friend's main function in this contrast?

Accepted Answer

To act as a foil who highlights the character's impulsiveness

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To provide a flashback to the past

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To narrate events from an objective viewpoint

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To resolve the story's conflict before it develops

Question 9

Near the end of a story, a flashback reveals a promise the protagonist made years earlier. Why might the writer place it there?

Accepted Answer

To clarify the motive behind a present-day choice

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To replace the story's central conflict

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To introduce a new narrator without warning

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To show that all earlier events were imaginary

Question 10

During an oral storytelling performance, the audience answers the storyteller's recurring call. What does this exchange most directly encourage?

Accepted Answer

Active participation in the telling

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A fixed written version of the tale

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A change from narration to stage acting

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An ending without a moral lesson

SS1 Literature in English: Stories, Stages and Verse

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