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In Great Expectations. while Pip was going away from home to take the coach in London, Joe and Biddy threw old shoes at him because

  • A. Pip had in a haste forgotten to pack those old shoes of his
  • B. they wanted to play a practical joke on Pip for the last time
  • C. Pip had made them angry by his joy to leave home
  • D. they believede that the act would bring him good luck.
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Pip's Flippant remarks concerning the tombstones in the opening chapter of Great Expectations indicate

  • A. his longing for death
  • B. the child's inability to understand
  • C. his yearning for his parents
  • D. his fascination for inscriptions on stonework.
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Caricature is used to
  • A. ridicule a person by distorting his most prominent features
  • B. censure an individual by emphasizing his weakness
  • C. expose the folly in literature
  • D. elicit the artistic potential of dramatists.
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The substitution of mild and pleasant expression for harsh and blunt one is called
  • A. ambiguity
  • B. climax
  • C. peripety
  • D. euphemism.
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Any work of literature which sets out to instruct may be called
  • A. dialetic
  • B. decadent
  • C. definitive
  • D. didactic.
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