Lesson C01.2.1

C01.2.1 Comparing drama and poetry: connections and contexts Quiz: OCR English Literature, Unit 1

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The 20 questions

  1. What term describes a speech where a character speaks their thoughts aloud alone on stage?

    • Soliloquy
    • Aside
    • Monologue
    • Apostrophe

  2. In Chaucer's The Merchant's Tale, which genre is parodied through the tale of January and May?

    • Petrarchan sonnet
    • Sensibility novel
    • Chivalric epic
    • Courtly love

  3. Which literary genre features humorous, often bawdy medieval tales of trickery and lust?

    • Fabliau
    • Pastoral
    • Elegy
    • Ballad

  4. In Milton's Paradise Lost Book 9, what key argument does Satan use to tempt Eve?

    • Financial wealth
    • Absolute monarchism
    • Physical beauty
    • Intellectual equality

  5. In Webster's The Duchess of Malfi, what motif symbolises corruption and moral decay?

    • Spring flowers
    • Light and stars
    • Uncut diamonds
    • Disease and poison

  6. In Christina Rossetti's poetry, what key Victorian gender ideal is frequently critiqued?

    • Femme fatale
    • New Woman
    • Angel in the House
    • Suffragette

  7. What structural feature distinguishes a Shakespearean sonnet from a Petrarchan sonnet?

    • Three quatrains, couplet
    • Octave and sestet
    • Four rhyming couplets
    • Unrhymed tercets

  8. In Ibsen's A Doll's House, what object symbolises Nora's deceit and Torvald's control?

    • Macaroons
    • Christmas tree
    • Letterbox key
    • Tarantella dress

  9. Which theatrical device involves a character addressing the audience directly while other characters remain unaware?

    • Soliloquy
    • Aside
    • Proscenium
    • Dramatic irony

  10. In Ibsen's A Doll's House, what dance does Nora perform to distract Torvald?

    • Waltz
    • Polka
    • Mazurka
    • Tarantella

  11. Which literary movement emphasised emotion, nature, individualism, and a reaction against Rationalism?

    • Modernism
    • Realism
    • Neoclassicism
    • Romanticism

  12. What literary term describes a contrast between expectation and reality, particularly known to the audience?

    • Verbal irony
    • Dramatic irony
    • Cosmic irony
    • Situational irony

  13. In Paradise Lost, what figure does Satan transform into to enter the Garden of Eden undetected?

    • Lion
    • Cormorant
    • Toad
    • Mist

  14. In Marlowe's Edward II, what historical institution creates conflict with Edward's devotion to Gaveston?

    • The Papacy
    • The peasantry
    • The nobility
    • The judiciary

  15. Which concept, defined by Aristotle, refers to the emotional purging experienced by an audience during tragedy?

    • Catharsis
    • Hamartia
    • Hubris
    • Anagnorisis

  16. In Christina Rossetti's poem Goblin Market, what do the goblin merchant men sell?

    • Golden coins
    • Magic potions
    • Silk dresses
    • Forbidden fruit

  17. What form of stage projects out into the audience, creating three-sided viewing in Renaissance drama?

    • End stage
    • In-the-round
    • Thrust stage
    • Proscenium arch

  18. What poetic form, consisting of unrhymed iambic pentameter, is predominantly used in Renaissance drama?

    • Blank verse
    • Rhyme royal
    • Heroic couplet
    • Free verse

  19. Which literary device occurs when a poem or play directly addresses an absent person or abstract idea?

    • Epistrophe
    • Anaphora
    • Antithesis
    • Apostrophe

  20. In pre-1900 drama, what Greek term refers to the tragic flaw or error that brings down a hero?

    • Hubris
    • Peripeteia
    • Anagnorisis
    • Hamartia

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