1Whowastheauthorofthefamousstorybook

'Alice'sAdventuresinWonderland'?
a)RudyardKipling
b)JohnKeats
c)LewisCarroll
d)HGWells
2Howmanylinesdoesasonnethave?
a)10
b)12
c)14
d)Theyvary
3Whowrote'Whereignoranceisbliss,itisfolly
tobewise'?
a)Browning
b)Marx
c)Shakespeare
d)Kipling
4Namethebook,whichopenswiththeline'All
children,exceptonegrewup'?
a)TheRailwayChildren
b)WinniethePoo
c)Junglebook
d)PeterPan
5WhichisthefirstHarryPotterbook?
a)HPandtheGobletofFire
b)HPandthePhilosophersStone
c)HPandtheChamberofSecrets
6InwhichcenturywereGeoffreyChaucer's
CanterburyTaleswritten?
a)14th
b)15th
c)16th
d)17th
7WhatnationalitywasRobertLouisStevenson,
writerof'TreasureIsland'?
a)Scottish
b)Welsh
c)Irish
d)French
8'JaneEyre'waswrittenbywhichBrontesister?
a)Anne
b)Charlotte
c)Emily
9 - What is the book 'Lord of the Flies'
about?

a) A round trip around the USA

b) A swarm of killer flies
c) Schoolboys on the desert island
10 - In the book' The Lord of the Rings',
who or what is Bilbo?
a) Dwarf
b) Wizard
c) Hobbit
d) Troll
11 - Who wrote the crime novel "Ten
Little Niggers"?
a) Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
b) Irvine Welsh
c) Agatha Christie
d) Emile Zola
12. 1.
Means "advance guard" or
"vanguard" and is used to refer to
people or works that are experimental
or innovative, particularly with respect
to art, culture, and politics.
a. Anachronism
b. Catharsis
c. Avant-garde
d. Vernacular
13. The structure of a story; the
sequence in which the author arranges
events in a story; the structure of a fiveact play often includes the rising action,
the climax, the falling action, and the
resolution.
a. Pathetic Fallacy
b. Verisimilitude
c. Allusion
d. Plot
14. A statement which can contain two
or more meanings.
a. Ambiguity
b. Anecdote
c. Epigraph
d. Foil
15. The dictionary definition of a word.
a. Connotation
b. Figure of Speech
c. Denotation
d. Epithet
16. A mild word or phrase which
substitues for another, which would be

undesirable because it is too direct,

unpleasant, or offensive.
a. Euphem.
b. Genre
c. Point of view
d. Picaresque Novel
17. The result of an action is the reverse
of what the actor expected.
A. Understatement
B. Situational Irony
C. Postmodernism
D. Oxymoron
18. The audience knows something that
the characters in the drama do not.
A. Adage
B. Bildungsroman
C. Apostrophe
D. Dramatic Irony
19. The contrast is between the literal
meaning of what is said and what is
meant.
A. Verbal Irony
B. Analogy
C. Paradox
D. Juxtaposition
20. The use of angry and insulting
language.
A. Jargon
B. Invective
C. Malapropism
D. Mood
21. A statement, which lessens or
minimizes the importance of what is
meant.
A. Verisimilitude
B. Understatement
C. Colloquialism
D. Hyperbole
22. An author's choice of words.
A. Epic
B. Diction
C. Syntax
D. Genre
23. A word or phrase preceding or
following a name, which serves to
describe the character in literature.
A. Hamartia
B. Hubris

C. Epigraph
D. Epithet
23. A revolt against the conservative
values of realism.
A. Naturalism
B. Malapropism
C. Modernism
D. Postmodernism
24. In literature, an extreme form of
realism that developed in France in the
19th Century.
A. Naturalism
B. Surrealism
C. Modernism
D. Postmodernism
25.vA play on words wherein a word is
used to convey two meanings at the
same time.
A. Pun
B. Satire
C. Hyperbole
D. Paradox
26. Use of historically inaccurate details
in a text.
A. Classicism
B. Realism
C. Anachronism
D. Colloquialism
27. A novel or story whose theme is the
moral or psychological growth of the
main character.
A. Bildungsroman
B. Avant-garde
C. Knstlerroman
D. Pathetic Fallacy
28. A brief quotation, which appears at
the beginning of a literary work.
A. Preface
B. Epigraph
C. Epitaph
D. Epithet
29. An overused expression.
A. Motif
B. Pun
C. Colloquialism
D. Clich

30. Latin phrase for in the middle of

things, meaning that a story begins in
the middle of the plot, usually at an
exciting part.
A. In Medias Res
B. Hamartia
C. Hubris
D. Literary Theory