Olufilade SS3 Literature Exam 1st term 2021

That age is best which is the first

When youth and blood are warmer;

But being spent, the worse, and worst

Times still succeed the former

The rhyme scheme is

• abba

• abab

• aabb

• bbaa

A poem of fourteen lines is known as

• Quatrain

• Octave

• Sestet

• Sonnet

In a play, a long speech by a single character in the presence of other characters is called

• Soliloquy

• Monologue

• Aside

• Prologue

'Penny wise; pound foolish' is an example of

• Metonymy

• Hyperbole

• Metaphor

• Paradox

A poem written or rendered in praise of a person or thing is called

• a lyric

• An ode

• An elegy

• A panegyric

Which of the following is a likely source of traditional oral poetry

• Theatre

• Fiction

• Books

• Songs

A humorous imitation of a serious literary work is

• An ode

• A parody

• An epitaph

• A burlesque

The specific literary term used to distinguish a novel from a play

• Genre

• Verse

• Diction

• Style

A pause within a line of a poem is a

• Zeugma

• Foot

• Caesura

• Stress

In drama, 'denouement' is the same as

• Resolution

• Climax

• Anti-climax

• Conflict