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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: A Midsummer Night's Dream

Read the extract below and answer the following question:
That fallen am I in dark uneven way,
Come, thou gentle day;
For if but once thou show me thy grey light,
I'll find , and revenge this spite.
 

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Come, thou gentle day illustrates

  • A. apostrophe
  • B. irony
  • C. paradox
  • D. euphemism
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3952

After the speech, the speaker

  • A. begins to dance
  • B. laughs uncontrollably
  • C. falls asleep
  • D. starts crying
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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: A Midsummer Night's Dream

Read the extract below and answer the following question: 

The boat nodded in timing with the gentle
Bobbing of the float on the unhurrying
Tide as the angler awaited the bite and
Pull of a salmon

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The extract presents the image of a

  • A. enough time
  • B. bright day
  • C. dark night
  • D. calm weather
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3954

The dominant literary device used in the extract is

  • A. parallelism
  • B. apostrophe
  • C. personification
  • D. antithesis
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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: A Midsummer Night's Dream
Read the extract and answer the following question.

As wagish boys in a game themselves forswear;
So the boy Love is perjured everywhere;
For ere Demetrius looked on Hermia's eyne,
He hailed down oaths that he was only mine;
And when this hail some heat from Hermia felt,
So he dissolved and showers of oaths did melt

 

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The speaker is

  • A. Egeus
  • B. Hermia
  • C. Demetrius
  • D. Helena
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