Literary terms and genres MCQs

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Government Job and Other Recruitment Exams #1

The profession of Teaching is known as-

A: history
B: pedagogy
C: Linguistic
D: Unknown
Government Job and Other Recruitment Exams #2

Which of the following dramas is not a tragedy?

A: Julius Caesar
B: The Tempest
C: Othelo
D: King Lear
Government Job and Other Recruitment Exams #3

'King Liar' is a-

A: Comedy
B: Tragi-Comedy
C: Tragedy
D: Fars
Government Job and Other Recruitment Exams #4

'pride and prejudice' is -

A: Short story
B: A drama
C: Ode
D: A novel
Government Job and Other Recruitment Exams #5

The wrath of Achilies is the theme of -

A: Aeneid
B: Iliad
C: Odyssy
D: Don juan
Government Job and Other Recruitment Exams #6

"The canterbury tell" are told by-

A: Geofray chaucer
B: John wyclif
C: Boccacio
D: Thomas barth
Government Job and Other Recruitment Exams #7

What is catastrophe?

A: The comic and tragic end of the play
B: None of the above
C: The comical end of dramatic events
D: The tragic end of dramatic events
Bangladesh Railway Assistant Station Master #8

'Agrostology' deals with?

A: the brance of botany concerned with grasses.
B: -
Government Job and Other Recruitment Exams #9

An elegy is a _____

A: hymn
B: limerick
C: poem of lamentation
D: satire
Government Job and Other Recruitment Exams #10

A paragraph has _____ important parts in a single para .

A: 1
B: 2
C: 3
D: 4
Police Station Education Officer #11

"Faerie Queene" is a ---

A: play
B: short story
C: an epic
D: novel
Police Station Education Officer #12

A poem of fourteen lines is called ---

A: Elegy
B: Sonnet
C: Ode
D: Epic
Government Job and Other Recruitment Exams #13

'Ballad' is--

A: a kind of short narrative poem
B: a kind of short condoling poem
C: a kind of short love poem
D: a rhymic verse
Government Job and Other Recruitment Exams #14

Which one is not a literary ornament?

A: Simile
B: Similar
C: Similitude
D: Sarcasm
Bangladesh Bank #15

PyongYang and Washington have finally come to a consensus.'this is an exampul of--

A: metaphor
B: metonym
C: euphemism
D: dysphemism
Government Job and Other Recruitment Exams #16

I wondered lonely as a cloud' is an example of_____

A: a sympol
B: a simile
C: a metaphone
D: an alliteration
Government Job and Other Recruitment Exams #17

The repetition of the beginning consonant sound is known as

A: personification
B: alliteration
C: onomatopoeia
D: rhyme
Government Job and Other Recruitment Exams #18

The study of meter, rhythm and intnation of a poem is called as:

A: Prosody
Probashi Kallyan Bank #19

A Lyric poem mourning for the death of an individual is called-

A: Ode
B: elegy
C: ballad
D: epic
Government Job and Other Recruitment Exams #20

Free market' is an example of-

A: Irony
B: Oxymoron
C: Synecdoche
D: Hyperbole
Government Job and Other Recruitment Exams #21

A mournful poem written on the death of someone loved and lost-

A: Tragedy
B: Homage
C: Ode
D: Elegy
বিসিএস প্রশাসন একাডেমির | অফিস সহায়ক) #22

A Fantasy is _____

A: An imaginary story
B: A funny film
C: A real life event
D: A funny place
Government Job and Other Recruitment Exams #23

"Youth like summer morn" ____ can be an example of -

A: metaphor
B: personification
C: rhume
D: simile
Government Job and Other Recruitment Exams #24

"Frailty, thy name is woman." Here frailty is-

A: a symbol
B: a metaphor
C: a conceit
D: a personification
Bangladesh Railway Assistant Station Master #25

`Ballad' is-

A: a kind of short narractive poem
B: a kindof short condoling poem
C: a kind of short love poem.
D: A rhyme verse
Bangladesh Railway Assistant Station Master #26

Jaws of Death is an example of-

A: personification
B: metaphor
C: Irony
D: Satire
কুমিল্লা বিশ্ববিদ্যালয় (B Unit) #27

He was moving as fast as train. Here 'as fast as' is a _

A: Metaphor
B: Simile
C: Irony
D: Satire
চট্টগ্রাম বিশ্ববিদ্যালয় (E Unit) #28

'Elegy' is-

A: historical poem
B: figurative story
C: song of lamentation
D: short story
ঢাকা বিশ্ববিদ্যালয় (B Unit) #29

The underlined part in She felt it was taking"a hundred years to complete the exam. is an example of

A: a simile
B: an understatement
C: a symbol
D: a hyperbole
ঢাকা বিশ্ববিদ্যালয় (B Unit) #30

'Jaws of death' is an example of ---.

A: Metaphor
B: simile
C: personification
D: Symbol
ঢাকা বিশ্ববিদ্যালয় (B Unit) #31

The figure of speech found in "I have known the eyes already, known them all" is-

A: Synecdoche
B: Personification
C: Irony
D: Eulogy
ঢাকা বিশ্ববিদ্যালয় (B Unit) #32

"Euphemism" is -

A: A direct expression of admiration
B: A witty remark
C: An indirect expression for a harsh one
D: An unpleasant expression
ঢাকা বিশ্ববিদ্যালয় (B Unit) #33

'Eulogy' is :

A: A lament for the Dead
B: A study of the Church building and decorations
C: A speech or piece of writing expressing praise
D: A writing record of personal events
ঢাকা বিশ্ববিদ্যালয় (B Unit) #34

What figure of speech do you find in "budding beauty"?

A: Assonance
B: Alliteration
C: Simile
D: Metaphor
ঢাকা বিশ্ববিদ্যালয় (B Unit) #35

"Life is a broken-winged bird." - is an example of-

A: Simile
B: Metaphor
C: Personification
D: Symbol
ঢাকা বিশ্ববিদ্যালয় (B Unit) #36

Biman Banglasesh your home in the air an example of -

A: metaphor
B: simile
C: metronym
D: oxymorom
ঢাকা বিশ্ববিদ্যালয় (B Unit) #37

What figure of speech do you find "budding beauty"?

A: Assononace
B: Alliteration
C: Simile
D: Metaphor
ঢাকা বিশ্ববিদ্যালয় (B Unit) #38

which figure of speech do you find in the expression "I wandered lonely as a cloud"?

A: metaphor
B: personification
C: simile
D: imagery
ইসলামী বিশ্ববিদ্যালয় (B Unit) #39

The figure of speech in which the author makes an obvious exaggeration for emphasis or to create some other specific effect is -

A: metaphor
B: personification
C: metonymy
D: hyperbole
জগন্নাথ বিশ্ববিদ্যালয় (খ Unit) #40

So that I saw deeper into the clear well of his eyes'- what ornamentation of language has been used here??

A: metaphor
B: personification
C: simile
D: exaggeration
জাহাঙ্গীরনগর বিশ্ববিদ্যালয় (C Unit) #41

"Continuous as the stars --- they stretched" (from " I wandered lonely as a cloud") is an example of :

A: metaphor
B: metonymy
C: simile
D: personification
জাহাঙ্গীরনগর বিশ্ববিদ্যালয় (C Unit) #42

'dreary shower' is an example of ---

A: metaphor
B: simile
C: image
D: personification
খুলনা বিশ্ববিদ্যালয় (B Unit) #43

"There is no one so poor as a wealthy miser".This is an example of-

A: paradox
B: syecdoche
C: consonance
D: Caesura
খুলনা বিশ্ববিদ্যালয় (B Unit) #44

'There is no one so poor as a wealthy miser', This is an example of--

A: paradox
B: syeedoche
C: consonance
D: Caesura
খুলনা বিশ্ববিদ্যালয় (B Unit) #45

King Lear banished his youngest daughter Cordelia from his Kingdom; but in the end, she became her only shelter, This is an example of-----.

A: sarcasm
B: irony
C: hyperbole
D: metaphor
খুলনা বিশ্ববিদ্যালয় (খ Unit) #46

The poem that deals with the memory of a dead person is know as---

A: epic
B: dramatic monologue
C: elegy
D: novels
খুলনা বিশ্ববিদ্যালয় (খ Unit) #47

Elegy is a poem of-------

A: humor
B: laughter
C: lamentation
D: elebatoin
খুলনা বিশ্ববিদ্যালয় (খ Unit) #48

A simile is-----.

A: A comparison between two similar things
B: A comparison between two dissimilar things
C: A comparison between a ballad and a sonnet
D: A comparison between male and female
নোয়াখালী বিজ্ঞান ও প্রযুক্তি বিশ্ববিদ্যালয় #49

Jaws of death' is an example of ----

A: Metaphor
B: smile
C: personification
D: symbol
নোয়াখালী বিজ্ঞান ও প্রযুক্তি বিশ্ববিদ্যালয় #50

A hyperbole is a/an -------

A: authentic statement of something
B: overstatement of something
C: understatement of something
D: hesitant statement of something
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