Literature-in-English Mock 2026

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A play that ends sadly, usually with the downfall of the main character, is a

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A play written mainly to amuse, with a happy ending, is a

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A poem of fourteen lines with a fixed rhyme scheme is a

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A poem that mourns the dead is

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The story of a person's life written by himself or herself is

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A short story that teaches a moral, often with animals as characters, is

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Identify the figure of speech: "The wind whispered through the trees."

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Identify the figure of speech: "She is as busy as a bee."

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Identify the figure of speech: "My brother is a lion in battle."

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Identify the figure of speech: "I have told you a million times."

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Identify the figure of speech: "Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers."

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A long narrative poem about the deeds of a hero is

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A story in which characters and events stand for ideas or moral qualities is

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Writing that ridicules human weakness or society in order to correct it is

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Identify the figure of speech: "The bees buzzed in the garden."

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Identify the figure of speech: "All hands on deck!" (meaning all sailors)

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Identify the figure of speech: "The pen is mightier than the sword."

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Identify the figure of speech: "O Death, where is thy sting?"

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Identify the figure of speech: "He is not a bad singer" (meaning he is a good singer).

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When the audience knows something a character does not, it is called

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Unrhymed iambic pentameter is called

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A character whose qualities contrast with another's, highlighting them, is a

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A story told through a sequence of letters is

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"He is not a bad singer", meaning he sings well, is an example of

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"The pen is mightier than the sword" uses

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"All hands on deck" (meaning all sailors) is an example of

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"The child is father of the man" is an example of

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Unrhymed lines in iambic pentameter are called

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The running on of a sentence from one line of poetry to the next is

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"The pen is mightier than the sword" is an example of

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"O Death, where is thy sting?" is an example of

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"He is not a bad singer" (meaning he is good) is an example of

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A character who contrasts with another to highlight their qualities is a

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Iambic pentameter has

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A caesura is

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The tragic flaw that leads to the downfall of a hero is called

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Satire differs from simple comedy because satire

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"The silence was deafening" is an example of

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Situational irony occurs when

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Pathos in literature refers to

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Tragedy, according to Aristotle, produces in the audience

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The tragic hero's fatal flaw is called

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A sudden shift from the serious to the trivial for comic effect is

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"Friends, Romans, countrymen" uses

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An unreliable narrator is one whose

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Stream of consciousness is a technique that

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A bildungsroman is a novel about

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A Petrarchan sonnet is divided into

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The rhyme scheme of a Shakespearean sonnet is

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The turn in thought or argument in a sonnet is the