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This question is based on Charles Dicken's Great Expectations.
An autobiography becomes a literary work when

  • A. it is a faithful account of the author's
  • B. it underlines the salient events in the author's life
  • C. it relates the author's life to the major events of the day
  • D. its value resides principally in its style
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This question is based on Charles Dicken's Great Expectations.
In poetry, a quatrain is a group of four

  • A. lines
  • B. stanzas
  • C. refrains
  • D. poems
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This question is based on Charles Dicken's Great Expectations.
Criticism is a literary activity which seeks to

  • A. discover the beauty of a literary work
  • B. finds faults in a literary work
  • C. analyse and evaluate a literary work
  • D. compare literary works
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This question is based on Charles Dicken's Great Expectations.
In poetry, 'run-on-line' can be found

  • A. in most kinds of poems
  • B. only in free verse
  • C. uniquely in blank verse
  • D. peculiarly in rhyming couplets
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This question is based on Charles Dicken's Great Expectations.
'I find no peace, and all my war is done;
Ifear and hope, I burn and freeze like ice;
I flee above the wind, yet can I not arise;
And nought I have and all the world in season'.
The fight of speech most prominently used in the passage above is

  • A. oxymoron
  • B. alliteration
  • C. euphemism
  • D. hyperbole
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