Literature I First Term Exam_UCG_3ABB_26-1

Which of the following is NOT typically considered a characteristic of literature?

• A body of written texts recognized for aesthetic qualities.

• A form of expression that primarily uses language.

• An art that exclusively depicts strictly factual events.

What does the term “literariness” refer to?

• Features that distinguish a work as literary art.

• The variety of genres and subgenres found in literature.

• The method used to critically analyze a text.

Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of literary language?

• It relies heavily on connotation and multiple meanings.

• Its form is inseparable from its content.

• It is strictly denotative and concretely literal.

A category of literature defined by shared style, form, or subject matter is called:

• Genre.

• Literary text.

• Book.

What does the phrase “Get drunk on wine, poetry, virtue, whatever” suggest in connotative terms?

• It encourages living with intensity beyond literal intoxication.

• It recommends drinking alcohol as the only way to escape reality.

• It illustrates the poet’s physical struggle with addiction.

Select the text that does NOT use literary language.

• Robert Armstrong had walked just over two miles, as far as he could judge, when his torch failed. He stood still for a moment, unable to believe that such a misfortune could really have befallen him. Then, half maddened with rage, he hurled the useless instrument away. It landed somewhere in the darkness, disturbing the silence of this little world. A metallic echo came ringing back from the low hills: then all was quiet again.

• A Wolf had been feasting too greedily, and a bone had stuck crosswise in his throat. He could get it neither up nor down, and of course he could not eat a thing. Naturally that was an awful state of affairs for a greedy Wolf.

• The Indian feminist movement focused on the freedom and power for the gendered subalterns underwent various developmental phases and got strength from empowerment strategies constituted in post-independence phase. Feminism in postcolonial India got a new face with the shift from social activism to theoretical and political interventions.

Which of the following lines is an example of a metaphor?

• “Now I am a lake.”

• “Rises toward her day after day, like a terrible fish.”

• “She rewards me with tears and an agitation of hands.”

Which of the following lines illustrates a simile?

• “Each morning it is her face that replaces the darkness.”

• “Rises toward her day after day, like a terrible fish.”

• “Searching my reaches for what she really is.”

Based on the passage above, which option best identifies the literary subgenre and the primary rhetorical device used?

• A. Fable — personification.

• B. Anecdote — situational irony.

• C. Allegory — anthropomorphism.

Which option correctly pairs a drama subgenre with an appropriate example description?

• Tragedy — a noble character falls because of a fatal flaw.

• Comedy — a serious moral downfall ends in disaster.

• Farce — long, quiet scenes focused on inner thought.