Literature Examination Questions and Answers for SS2
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Sample Literature Examination Questions and Answers for SS2
LITERARY APPRECIATION
DIRECTION: Choose the correct options from the lettered options.
1. The main female character in a play is called a _______.
A. hero
B. heroine
C. heroin
D. herodian
2. A couplet is formed by _________.
A. five alternate rhyming lines of poetry
B. two rhyming lines of poetry
C. four rhyming lines of poetry
D. five rhyming lines of poetry
3. The moment of heightened tension in a play is called _________.
A. denouement
B. denotation
C. conflict
D. climax
Read the passage and answer the question
4. Joseph turned around, ” Be careful you don’t slip”, he called. Her heel dug for a third step and then the moss stripped off a little. Her hands gripped the moss and tore it out. Joseph saw her head describe a little arc and strike the ground.
As he ran towards her, she turned on her side. Her whole body shuddered violently for a second and then relaxed. He stood over her for an instant before he ran to the spring and filled his hands with water. But when he came back to her, he let the water fall to the ground for he saw the position of her neck, and the gray that was stealing into her cheeks. ” It was too simple, too easy, too quick “, he said.
Joseph’s companion has just ______
A. died
B. arrived
C. relaxed
D. collapsed
5. The short story as a literary form is like the __________.
A. play
B. poetry
C. tragedy
D. novel
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6. “Here comes the princess; now heaven walks on earth”, illustrates the use of ________.
A. contrast
B. metaphor
C. metonym
D. meiosis
7. “All is fair in love and war” is an example of __________.
A. rhyme
B. rhythm
C. hyperbole
D. alliteration
Read the passage and answer the question.
8. The killing of a whale at sea isn’t pleasant to witness or even to contemplate. Hunted down through solar and other many specialised equipment, the whale has no more chance of escape like a steer in a slaughter house. The manner of its death, however, is very different. A grenade tipped-harpoon explodes deep within his body often causing prolonged suffering before the gentle giant, whose intelligence may be second only to our own, is reduced to a carcass ready for processing into crayons, lipsticks, shoe polish, fertilizer, margarine and pet food.
THE HUMAN MANNER OF DEATH, however, is the least part of the scandal known as the whaling industry. Much more important is the fact that the killing is quite unnecessary.
Adequate substitutes exist for every single use to which the whale carcass are currently put, and although some 32,000 whales are killed every year, the sum of commodities they provide is insignificant in the world’s economy.
This article is best described as ________.
A. a descriptive
B. a narrative
C. an argumentative
D. an exposition
9. Read the poem below and answer the following question
I love you; my gentle one
My love is the fresh milk of rubindi
Which you drank on the wedding day
My love is the butter we were smeared with
To seal fidelity into our hearts
You are the cattle – birds egg
For those who say you are wealthy
YOU ARE THE PAPYRUS REED OF THE LAKE
WHICH THEY PULL OUT WITH BOTH HANDS
And I sing for you with tears
Because you possess my heart
I love you, my gentle one
The poem is an example of _______.
A. lyric
B. dirge
C. an ode
D. an epic
10. “It is cruel to be kind” is an example of an __________.
A. anti-climax
B. oxymoron
C. anecdote
D. antithesis
E. internal rhyme
