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Literature in English Past Questions

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This question is based on William Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice

Read the extract below and answer the question
.....I owe you much, and like a wilful youth
That which I owe is lost: but if you please
To shoot another arrow that self way
which you did shoot the first.
And thankfully rest debtor for the first
(Act 1 sc 1)

1926

The underlined expression is an example of

  • A. symbolism
  • B. imagery
  • C. metaphor
  • D. allusion
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Read the extract below and answer the Question

.....Thus ornament is but the guilded shore
To a most dangerous sea...........
The seeming truth which cunning times put on
To entrap the wisest. Therefore thou gaudy gold
Hard food for Midas. I will none of thee.....
(Act 111 sc 11)

1927

The speaker is

  • A. Arragon
  • B. Lorenzo
  • C. Bassanio
  • D. Morocco
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1928

The first two lines convey an impression of

  • A. radiance
  • B. deception
  • C. beauty
  • D. destruction
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1929

The underlined expression is an example of

  • A. onomatopoeia
  • B. personification
  • C. hyperbole
  • D. metonymy
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1930

'' Midas'' in the extract illustrates a/an

  • A. anecdote
  • B. pun
  • C. allusion
  • D. allegory
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