Now that the NET exam is looming large, let us have an assortment of all sorts of MCQ types.
1)Complete this quotation: "The year is at the spring/And day's at the morn;/ Morning's at seven;/ The hill-side's dew-pearled;// ...../....../... All's right with the world!// "
The quote is from Robert Browning's "Pippa's Song", a reflection in a way on the self-satisfied smug feel of the Victorian era. The three missing lines are:
"The lark's on the wing;/The snail's on the thorn;/God's in his heaven"
and hence this famous stanza ends with "All's right with the world!"
2) Who wrote the following lines?
"And not by eastern windows only,/When daylight comes, comes in the light,/In front, the sun climbs slowly, /But, westward, look, the land is bright."
The options are: a) Rudyard Kipling b) W. H. Davies c) Walter de la Mare d) A. C. Clough
The correct option is (d). Clough was a brilliant poet. Often quoted by Churchill during World War II, he was Matthew Arnold's close friend.
3) " And we are here as as on a darkling plain/swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight,/Where ignorant armies clash by night."
Thus ends Mathew Arnold's " Dover Beach." The figures of speech in these lines are: 1) simile 2) metaphor 3) imagery 4) symbolism
The choices are: a) 1 and 2 b) 1 and 4 c) 1 and 3 d) 2 and 3.
The correct option is (c). The lines are one of the best examples of simile, that is, two dissimilar notions obviously compared. The simile here is extensively stated as well, with traces thus of an "extended simile." There is also a clear indication of a visual-aural image.
Pratima Agnihotri Pune
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