A situation where an audience is aware of an action a character is ignorant of is ________

A. dramatic irony

B. comic relief

C. aside

D. satire

A fictional prose which is neither a novel nor a short story is a/an __________

A. allegory

B. fable

C. novella

D. novelette

Condensed use of language is a dominant feature of ___________

A. comedy

B. poetry

C. prose

D. tragedy

The sudden reversal of a character's fortune in a literary work is _________

A. denouement

B. hamartia

C. hubris

D. peripeteia

Read the extract below and answer Questions 5 to 7.

With the pen, he wrote kings into reality
With his words, kingdoms arose.
Those same words, slaves inhaled
Their hands building walls, their feet tromping territories
His pen was like the breath of life.

The underlined words illustrate ________

A. hyperbole

B. irony

C. metonymy

D. paradox

Hands and feet in line 4 illustrate _________

A. contrast

B. litotes

C. personification

D. synecdoche

His pen was like the breath of life exemplifies ________

A. bathos

B. pathos

C. satire

D. simile

Comic relief occurs in ________

A. comedies

B. pastorals

C. romance

D. tragedies

Students rarely read Julius Caesar these days illustrates ________

A. caesura

B. eponym

C. oxymoron

D. zeugma

In Literature, the term poetic justice applies to __________

A. a story that ends well

B. characters that are spared death

C. the development of a good plot

D. the rewarding of good characters and the punishing of bad ones.