43rd BCS English Literature 2021 - ৪১ তম বিসিএস এ আশা করি এখান থেকে ১/২ কমন পাবেন,এর বাহিরে পড়তে হবে না

 43rd BCS-2021.

 English literature

 (Literary Terms):

Memory CHECK  :(10)

(৪১ তম বিসিএস এ আশা করি এখান থেকে ১/২  কমন পাবেন,এর বাহিরে পড়তে হবে না)

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1.A song Embodying religious & secred emotions............. 

a)Lyric. b)Ode.

c)Hymn★, d)Ballad.


2."Dramatic Monologue ' is used in.............

a)Drama,  b)Short story, 

c)Novel,  d)Poetry ★,


3.Who Excels in dramatic monologue? 

a)John Milton,. b)Robert Browning ★,

c)S.T.Coleridge,  d)William Wordsworth,


4.A drama is a....... 

a)novel retold in dialogues, 

b)magical performance on the stage★,

c)Fairy tale,

d)story translated into action. 


5.Drama originated in the ancient Greece in the 5th century as a religious rite to worship............. 

a)Zeus,. b)Dionysus ★,

c)Cupid,   d)Apollo, 


6."A short speech by a player at the end of a play " is called.............

a)Monologue,  b)an epilogue ★,

c)A prologue,  d)a soliloquy. 


7.A person who writes plays is called........ 

a)Play-write, b)dramatiser,

c)Playwright ★, d)Play writer. 


8.What is the meaning of "Chorus"?

a)a song which is sing alone,

b)A part of song,

c)a duet song,

d)A group of people trained to sing together ★


9.It is impossible to write a drama without a.........

a)pen,  b)director, 

c)Plot★, d)pencil. 


10."Pantomime " is action on stage without.......  

a)gesture, b)song,.

c)Speech ★, 

d)exaggerated facial expression. 


11.The Hero or central character of a literary work is..........

a)Villain, b)Protagonist ★,

c)Antagonist,  d)Chorus.


12.A "Prologue" is............

a)a poem /speech at the end of a play,

b)an introduction to a play or literary work,★

c)A song of mourning,. 

d)the Science versification. 


13.What is the meaning of "Soliloquy "?

a)action of body,. 

b)action of speech, 

c)to memorial part, 

d)Long self speech by an actor.★


14.A tragedy does not have.....

a)a tragic hero, b)a plot,

c)an act, d)an octave sestet division ★


15.A comedy doesn’t have.........

a)a happy ending, 

b)a plot, 

c)catharsis ★,.

d)Comic elements. 


16.Tragedy means................

a)a serious play with a happy ending, 

b)a serious play with a sad Ending ★,

c)a humorous play with a sad ending, 

d)a funny play with a touchy ending. 


17.What is" Catastrophe "?

a)The comical end of dramatic events,

b)The Tragic end of dramatic events ★,

c)the comic -tragic end of play,

d)none of the above.


18.Which of the following school of literary writings is connected with a " Medical theory "?

a)Comedy of manners,

b)Theatre of the absurd,

c)Heroic tragedy, 

d)Comedy of Humours★,


19.The Only Medium of Literature " is.........

a)Language ★, b)painting, 

c)Sculpture,  d)Architecture. 


20.What is the salient feature of all literature? 

a)Artistic Quality ★, b)Sensuous Quality, 

c)Suggestive quality,  d)Reflective quality. 


21.A novel in the form of a letter is called............... 

a)picaresque novel, b)novelette, 

c)non -fictional novel,  d)epistolary novel★.


22. When a poem has a speaker, what does a novel have?

a)narrator ★, b)Character, 

c)author,  d) speaker. 


23.The narrator of a novel in Third person is called................... 

a)a dedicated,  b)an evanescent, 

c)a Ubiquitous,  d)an omniscient ★★,


24.The Literary term"Euphemism "means.......

a)Vague idea,

b)in offensive expression ★

c)a sonnet, 

d)wise saying. 


25.Which of the Following is not a poetic tradition? 

a)The Epic, b)The Comic,

c)The Occult★, d)The Tragic.


26.What is a funny poem of five lines called? 

a)Quarted, b)Limerick ★,

c)Sixted,     d)Haiku.


27.The comparison of unlike things using the words "Like or As" is known to be......

a)metaphor,  b)Simile★,

c)Alliteration,   d)Personification, 


28.The Climax of a plot is what happens.................

a)in the beginning,  b)at the height ★,

c)at the end,  d)in the confrontation. 


29.The sentence "Who would have thought Shylock was so unkind? 

a)Hyperbole, b)interrogation, 

c)command,  d)Wonder★,


30."The Poet Laureate" means........

a)the best poet of the country,. 

b)a winner of the novel prize,

c)the Court poet  of England "★

d)a classical poet.


31.Melodrama is a kind of Play of ............

a)Violent & sensational themes★

b)Historical themes, 

c)Philosophical themes.

d)Pathetics themes.


32.What is "Limerick "?

a)A form of light Verse★,

b)A form of One-act play,

c)A kind of short narrative poem,.

d)A kind of love poem.


33.Which word does not related to literature? 

a)epilogue,  b)monologue, 

c)Prologue,  d)Demalogue★★


34.A poem of fourteenth lines is called............ 

a)Elegy,  b)Sonnet,★★

c)Ode,    d)Epic.


35.An Account of a Person's life is called............. 

a)Biography ★,  b)Autobiography, 

c)Autography,  d)Life history. 


36.Protagonist indicates.......................

a)The Villain in a play,

b)The Leading character or actor in a play★,.

c)the Clown of a play.

d)The Stage Director. 


37.When a person writes the story of his own life, it is called............ 

a)an autobiography ★,

b)A biography,. 

c)Sonnet,.

d)a Diary.


38."Ballad' is a.........

a)A kind of short narrative poem, ★,

b)a kind of long poem,

c)A kind of condoling poem,.

d)A Rhyme verse.


39.A sonnet is a poem having........  Lines.

a)sixteen,  b)ten,

c)twelve,  d)Fourteen ★★,.


40.A Machiavellian character is..............

a)an Honest person,  b)a selfish person ★,

c)a courageous person,.  

d) a judicious person.


41.What is Elegy?

a)Historical poem,  b)figurative story,

c)Enemy,  d)Song of Lamentations ★,


42.What is an Epic?

a) a prose composition, b) a romance,

c)a sonnet,  

d)A long poem of Heroic deeds.★★


43.What is the meaning of "Dirge"?

a)A kind of sonnet sequence,.

b)A Petronic sentiment,. 

c)A long verse of Adventure themes,

d)a Song expressing grief, lamentations 

&  mourning ★

44."Blank Verse"is a kind of verse.............

a)having no Rhyming End★.

b)having blanks in the Verse,.

c)having no significance,.

d)having no Problem. 


45.If a part of a Speech or Writing breaks the Theme, it is called........... 

a)pomposity,   b)Digression ★★,

c)Exaggeration,  d)anti-climax.


46.A fantasy is.............. 

a)An imaginary story★,

b) A funny film,

c) Real life evens, 

d)A funny place.


47.The patriot is the star of the country. Here the "star ''is used as a/an........

a)simile,  b)metaphor ★★,

c)Allegory,   d)Personification. 


48." Jaws of death" is an example of..............

a)Metaphor,   b)Simile,.

c)Personification ★★,  d)Symbol. 


49.The repetition of beginning consonant sound is known as................

a)Personification,  b)Onomatopoeia, 

c)Alliteration ★, d)Rhyme. 


50.Shakespeare composed much of his plays in what sort of verse?

a)Alliterative verse,

b)sonnet forms,

c)Iambic Pentameter ★

d)Dactylic Hexameter.

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Eros Sultan Mahmud 

B.A.Hon's & M.A.English (NU)

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