Something a character says on stage that is meant for the audience alone is

A. an epilogue

B. a mine

C. a soliloguy

D. an aside

A pause within a line of poetry is

A. an alliteration

B. a caesura

C. a metre

D. an assonance

A recurring idea, image, or a group of images that unifies a work of literature is

A. motif

B. allusion

C. legend

D. anecdote

When you are old and grey and full of sleep.The rhythmic pattern of the above line is

A. anapestic

B. dactylic

C. trochaic

D. iambic

An inscription on a tombstone is an

A. epitaph

B. epistle

C. epigram

D. ode

A three-line stanza, rhymed ABA, BCB, CDC is a

A. couplet

B. haiku

C. terza rima

D. heroic couplet

The chorus normally features prominently in

A. poetry

B. the epic

C. the novel

D. drama

A story which explains a natural phenomenon or justifies the beliefs of a society is ....................

A. myth

B. legend

C. motif

D. fable

Read the extract below and answer questions 9 to 11.

What happened to a dream deferred?
Does it dry up Like a raisin in the sun?
Or fester like a sore
And then run?
Does it stink like rotten meat?

The dominant literary device is

A. the epithet

B. the rhetorical question

C. verbal irony

D. paradox

Does it stink like rotten meat? makes use of the sense of

A. taste

B. touch

C. sight

D. smell