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  • Which contemporary author wrote “Normal People”?
    Bernardine Evaristo
    Dolly Alderton
    Sally Rooney
    Ali Smith
  • Which novel opens with “Call me Ishmael”?
    Heart of Darkness
    The Great Gatsby
    Moby-Dick
    The Old Man and the Sea
  • Which author wrote “The Handmaid’s Tale”?
    Hilary Mantel
    Margaret Atwood
    Zadie Smith
    Kazuo Ishiguro
  • Which novel features the character Sethe?
    Song of Solomon
    Sula
    The Bluest Eye
    Beloved
  • What is the function of a prologue?
    To end the text
    To provide dialogue
    To introduce context or background
    To summarise themes
  • What form are many of Shakespeare’s sonnets written in?
    Haiku
    Epic poetry
    Free verse
    Fourteen-line structured poem
  • Who wrote “The Crucible”?
    Arthur Miller
    David Mamet
    Tennessee Williams
    Harold Pinter
  • What is free indirect speech?
    Reported speech only
    Direct dialogue
    First-person narration
    A blend of third-person narration with character thoughts
  • What is pathetic fallacy?
    A narrative twist
    Weather reflecting mood
    A character flaw
    A humorous mistake
  • Which playwright wrote “A Streetcar Named Desire”?
    Samuel Beckett
    Arthur Miller
    Edward Albee
    Tennessee Williams
  • What is an elegy?
    A poem of mourning
    A dramatic piece
    A narrative poem
    A comic poem
  • What is a history play?
    A play based on historical events
    A tragedy
    A comedy
    A poem
  • What is synecdoche?
    A repetition
    A part representing the whole
    A symbol only
    A full comparison
  • What is a cyclical motif?
    A repeated element that returns throughout a text
    A theme only
    A character
    A single idea
  • Which Shakespeare play features three witches?
    Much Ado About Nothing
    Othello
    Macbeth
    Hamlet
  • Which book features the character Offred?
    Beloved
    The Handmaid’s Tale
    The Testaments
    The Road
  • What is allegory?
    A story with a deeper symbolic meaning
    A simple narrative
    A dialogue
    A poem
  • Which text includes the dystopian society of Panem?
    Divergent
    Uglies
    The Maze Runner
    The Hunger Games
  • Which author wrote “Mrs Dalloway”?
    Jane Austen
    George Eliot
    Mary Shelley
    Virginia Woolf
  • Which Shakespeare play features the characters Viola and Orsino?
    Othello
    Hamlet
    Macbeth
    Twelfth Night
  • What is magical realism?
    Pure fantasy
    Historical writing
    Blending realistic narrative with magical elements
    Science fiction only
  • What is hubris in tragedy?
    Excessive pride leading to downfall
    Wisdom
    Kindness
    Fear
  • What is a semantic field?
    A group of related words
    A paragraph form
    A single word
    A sentence structure
  • Which Shakespeare play features the line “To be, or not to be”?
    King Lear
    Hamlet
    Othello
    Macbeth
  • What is anaphora?
    Repetition at the end
    A rhyme scheme
    Repetition at the start of clauses
    A metaphor
  • Who betrays Julius Caesar?
    Mark Antony
    Cassius
    Brutus
    Octavius
  • What is iambic pentameter?
    A line of ten syllables with alternating stress
    A line with no rhythm
    A free verse style
    A rhyming couplet
  • Which Shakespeare play is a tragedy about a jealous general?
    Romeo and Juliet
    Othello
    Macbeth
    Hamlet
  • What is intertextuality?
    A structure
    A type of rhyme
    A character trait
    References between texts
  • Which character manipulates Othello into jealousy?
    Brabantio
    Roderigo
    Iago
    Cassio
  • What is a bildungsroman?
    A comedy
    A coming-of-age story
    A tragedy
    A short poem
  • Which Shakespeare play involves mistaken identities and twins?
    Macbeth
    Hamlet
    Twelfth Night
    Othello
  • Who wrote “The Kite Runner”?
    Arundhati Roy
    Jhumpa Lahiri
    Mohsin Hamid
    Khaled Hosseini
  • What is a narrative arc?
    The structure of a story’s progression
    The setting
    A single event
    A character list
  • What is blank verse?
    Rhymed couplets
    Free verse
    A poetic refrain
    Unrhymed iambic pentameter
  • What is a homophone?
    Words that rhyme
    Words with similar meaning
    Words that sound the same but differ in meaning
    Words spelled the same
  • Who wrote “Half of a Yellow Sun”?
    Alice Walker
    Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
    Helen Oyeyemi
    Toni Morrison
  • Which poet wrote “The Waste Land”?
    Seamus Heaney
    W.B. Yeats
    Ted Hughes
    T.S. Eliot
  • What is a soliloquy?
    A chorus speech
    A conversation between characters
    A narrator’s voice
    A speech expressing a character’s thoughts alone on stage
  • What is a juxtaposition?
    A paragraph break
    A rhyme scheme
    Placing two things side by side for contrast
    Repeating ideas
  • What is a fragmented narrative?
    A story told in non-linear pieces
    A chronological story
    A short poem
    A simple structure
  • What is an unreliable narrator?
    A fully accurate narrator
    A third-person voice
    A factual report
    A narrator whose credibility is questionable
  • Which playwright wrote “Waiting for Godot”?
    Tom Stoppard
    Samuel Beckett
    Arthur Miller
    Harold Pinter
  • What is a motif in literature?
    A narrative voice
    The climax
    A recurring element with symbolic significance
    A single event
  • Who is Cordelia in King Lear?
    A queen
    A servant
    Lear’s honest daughter
    His wife
  • What is symbolism?
    Use of objects to represent ideas
    A plot twist
    A direct statement
    A repeated word
  • Which play includes the characters Benvolio and Mercutio?
    Romeo and Juliet
    The Tempest
    Hamlet
    Twelfth Night
  • What is enjambment in poetry?
    A repeated sound
    A pause at the end of a line
    A rhyming pattern
    A sentence running over more than one line
  • What is the volta in a sonnet?
    A shift in tone or argument
    A repeated word
    A rhyme
    A line break
  • Which novel features the character Humbert Humbert?
    1984
    The Sun Also Rises
    Catch-22
    Lolita
  • What is pastiche?
    Imitation of a style
    A direct critique
    A metaphor
    A rhyme scheme
  • Which novel by George Orwell explores surveillance and control?
    Animal Farm
    Fahrenheit 451
    Brave New World
    1984
  • What is a satire?
    A text that uses humour to criticise
    A tragedy
    A love story
    A biography
  • What is a dystopia?
    A historical period
    A perfect world
    A biography
    An imagined oppressive society
  • What is a tragic flaw?
    A character weakness leading to downfall
    A minor mistake
    A happy ending
    A setting feature
  • What is dramatic irony?
    A plot twist ending
    When characters know everything
    A humorous situation
    When the audience knows more than the characters
  • What is a foil character?
    The narrator
    A background figure
    A character who contrasts with another
    The main hero
  • What is a cyclical structure?
    A text that ends where it begins
    A chronological order
    A fragmented narrative
    A random structure
  • Which contemporary author wrote “The Testaments”?
    Hilary Mantel
    Ali Smith
    Jeanette Winterson
    Margaret Atwood
  • Which author created the character Atticus Finch?
    Harper Lee
    Toni Morrison
    Alice Walker
    Maya Angelou
  • What is a monologue?
    A long speech by one character
    A conversation
    A poem
    A narrator’s comment
  • What is stream of consciousness?
    Dialogue-heavy writing
    Writing that reflects continuous thoughts
    Simple description
    Formal narration
  • Which contemporary author wrote “Girl, Woman, Other”?
    Bernardine Evaristo
    Sally Rooney
    Zadie Smith
    Hilary Mantel
  • Which author wrote “Life of Pi”?
    Salman Rushdie
    Yann Martel
    Aravind Adiga
    Rohinton Mistry
  • Which Shakespeare play is set partly on a stormy island?
    Henry V
    The Tempest
    Julius Caesar
    Macbeth
  • What is a narrative voice?
    The setting
    The perspective from which a story is told
    The theme
    The title
  • What is epiphora?
    A sentence fragment
    Repetition at the start
    A simile
    Repetition at the end of clauses
  • Who wrote “Atonement”?
    Martin Amis
    Ian McEwan
    Kazuo Ishiguro
    Julian Barnes
  • Which Shakespeare play focuses on ageing and madness in a king?
    Macbeth
    Othello
    King Lear
    Hamlet
  • What is metonymy?
    A metaphor
    A comparison
    Using a related word to represent something
    A rhyme
  • Which Shakespeare play includes the character Shylock?
    King Lear
    Othello
    Hamlet
    The Merchant of Venice
  • Which modern author wrote “White Teeth”?
    Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
    Arundhati Roy
    Zadie Smith
    Malorie Blackman
  • Who wrote “Brave New World”?
    Aldous Huxley
    George Orwell
    Ray Bradbury
    H.G. Wells
  • Who is the tragic hero of Macbeth?
    Duncan
    Banquo
    Macbeth
    Malcolm
  • Who wrote “Beloved”?
    Zora Neale Hurston
    Alice Walker
    Maya Angelou
    Toni Morrison
  • Which Shakespeare play includes the line “All the world’s a stage”?
    As You Like It
    Macbeth
    The Tempest
    Hamlet
  • What is a caesura?
    A pause within a line of poetry
    A stanza
    A repeated sound
    A rhyme scheme
  • Who wrote “The Road”?
    Cormac McCarthy
    Don DeLillo
    Stephen King
    John Grisham
  • What is absurdist theatre?
    Drama focused on meaninglessness and confusion
    Historical drama
    Realistic drama
    Comedy only
  • Who wrote “Never Let Me Go”?
    David Mitchell
    Salman Rushdie
    Kazuo Ishiguro
    Ian McEwan
  • Who wrote “The Bell Jar”?
    Emily Dickinson
    Doris Lessing
    Sylvia Plath
    Virginia Woolf
  • Which author wrote “Americanah”?
    Bernardine Evaristo
    Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
    Arundhati Roy
    Zadie Smith
  • What is an extended metaphor?
    A repeated phrase
    A type of rhyme
    A comparison developed over several lines or throughout a text
    A short comparison using like
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