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This question is based on General Literary Principles and Literary Appreciation
In literary criticism, the vocabulary or language used by a writer is generally known as
  • A. diction
  • B. figures of speech
  • C. characterization
  • D. rhythms
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'Hall to then, blithe spirit!
Bird thou wert,
That from Heaven, or near it,
In profuse strains of unpremeditated art!
'To A Shylark' by P.B. Shelley
The main figure of speech in the above passage is
  • A. apostrophe
  • B. hyperbole
  • C. euphemism
  • D. metonymy
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This question is based on General Literary Principles and Literary Appreciation
'The story of my life, which I am about to record Is one full of striking incident Keener pange, deeper joys more singular vicissitudes, few have been led in God's providence to experience. As I look back on it through the vista of more than sixty years and scene on scene it rise before me an ever fresh wonder fils my mind. I delight to recall it, I dwell on it as did the Jews on the marvellous history of thir rescue from the bondage of Egypt'
Black Slave Narratives J.F. Bayliss (ed)
The literary term used for this kind of writing is
  • A. biography
  • B. autograph
  • C. orthography
  • D. autobiography
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This question is based on General Literary Principles and Literary Appreciation
'I have said too much unto a heart of stone
And laid mine honour too unchary out'
Twelveth Night by W. Shakespeare
The above lamentation is an example of a

  • A. simile
  • B. metaphor
  • C. personification
  • D. zeugma
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This question is based on General Literary Principles and Literary Appreciation
'Though nothing can bring back the hour of splendour in the grass, of glory in the flower.'
We will grieve not, rather find
Strength in what remains behind',....
'Ode- Intimations of Immorality
by William Worthsworth
The above lines convey a sense of
  • A. dejection
  • B. uneasy acceptance
  • C. deep distress
  • D. nostalgia
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