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The 'Settings' in a novel refers to

  • A. the point in the story where we first encounter the main character
  • B. the overall social and physical background of the main events in the novel
  • C. the home country of the hero or heroine
  • D. the location where the main event in the novel takes place
  • E. all the various places mentioned in the novel.
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'Then suddenly her heart was whipped up, she now rode on strange waves: alone defying the wind and the rain; alone, fighting hunger and thirst in the desert; alone, struggling with strange demons in the forest, bringing glad tidings to her people'.

The mood of the lady in this passage is one of
  • A. defeat
  • B. depression
  • C. triumphant defiance
  • D. simple elation
  • E. sorrow.
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'I breathed a sigh of relief when i was twenty-six, determined that from then on my life will take a turn for the better. To make sure this happened I did two things which made sure it never could: i got a job, and I got married'.

The quality which this passage displays is
  • A. inaccessibility
  • B. seriousness
  • C. humour
  • D. gloom
  • E. nervousness.
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'All was quiet in this park
Until the wind, like a gasping messenger, announced
The tyrant's coming
Then did the branches talk in agony'.


There is in line 2 ('like a gasping messenger...') an example of

  • A. oxymoron
  • B. metonymy
  • C. alliteration
  • D. simile
  • E. personification.
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'I have wandered on the wilderness
The great wilderness men call life
The rain has beaten me,
And the sharp stumps cut as keen as knives'

For the writer of these lines, living in an experience to be described as
  • A. pleasant
  • B. difficult
  • C. rewarding
  • D. exicting
  • E. bracing.
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