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This question is based on General Literature Principles and Literary Appreciation
'She certainly doesn't want to play
Other Woman in some conventional, boring triangle. She doesn't feel like an other Woman; she isn't weedling or devious, she doesn't wear negligees or paint her toe nails. William may think she's exotic but she isn't really; she's straightforward, narrow and unadomed, a scientist; not of web-spinner, expert at the entrapment of husbands.
Life before Man by Margaret Atwood
According to the passage, the 'Other Woman' by definition is
  • A. beautiful and vivacious
  • B. dishonest and deceitful and
  • C. careless and dowdy
  • D. manipulative and predatory
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This question is based on General Literature Principles and Literary Appreciation
'I had a tent impression that there was something decidedly fine in Mr. Wopsle's elocution-not for old association's sake, I am afraid, but because it was very slow, very dreary, very up-hill and down-hill, and very unlike any way in which any man in any natural circumstances of life or death ever expressed himself about anything'.
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens.
The uniqueness of Mr. Wopsle's speech is expressed in this passage through
  • A. a metaphor
  • B. an irony
  • C. a hyperbole
  • D. a flashback
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This question is based on General Literature Principles and Literary Appreciation
'As soon as the fellows were departed, the lawyer,
Who had, it seems, a case of pistols in the seat of the coach, informed the company, that if it had been daylight, and he could have submitted to the robbery; he likewise set forth that he had often met highwaymen when he travelled on horseback, but none ever durst attack him; concluding, that if he had not been more afraid for the lady than for himself, he should not have now parted with his money so easily.'
Joseph Andrews by Henry Fielding
It can be inferred that the lawyer mentioned above is a
  • A. brave man
  • B. law-enforcement agent allowed to carry pistols
  • C. coward
  • D. gallant man who always protects ladies
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This question is based on General Literature Principles and Literary Appreciation
'I have a sin of fear, that when I have spun
My last thread, I shall perish on the shore;
But swear by thyself, that at my death thy sun
Shall shine as he shines now, and heretofore;
And, having done that, thou hast done,
I fear no more.'
These lines from John Donne's 'Hymn to God the Father' contain examples of
  • A. pun
  • B. personification
  • C. hyperbole
  • D. quibble
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This question is based on General Literature Principles and Literary Appreciation
'A slight breeze murmured in the air. Grasses swayed as if in resentment. Over in the horizon, just beneath the spectrum of the ascending sun, horizontal brands of red cloud hung menacingly above the tips of the trees and morning air smelled of burnt clay.
The Victims by Isidore Okpewho
Effect in the above passage is achieved through the use of
  • A. subdued tone
  • B. visual images
  • C. detailed description
  • D. adequate punctuation
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