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This set of Reading Prose Multiple Choice Questions & Answers (MCQs) focuses on Reading Prose Set 12
Q1 | Biography written with the permission, cooperation, and, at times, participation of asubject or a subject's heirs is called
- Secular autobiography
- Spiritual autobiography
- Legacy writing
- Authorized biography
Q2 | ‘Parallel Lives’ was written by
- Plutarch
- Goethe
- Montaigne
- Dryden
Q3 | ……………is the source of Shakespeare’s Roman plays
- Parallel Lives
- The Invisible Man
- The Prelude
- On the Road
Q4 | The record of the lives of Christian saints based on legends rather than on facts is called
- Secular autobiography
- spiritual autobiography
- hagiographoies
- none of these
Q5 | ‘Le Morte d’Arthur’ was written by
- John Henry Newman
- Goethe
- Montaigne
- Thomas Malory
Q6 | Isaac Walton wrote the short biographies of Donne and Herbert in his
- Lives
- Parallel Lives
- The Prelude
- On the Road
Q7 | Who is referred to as ‘the father of English essays’
- Bacon
- Montaigne
- Stevenson
- none of these
Q8 | The presentation of the initial situation of a fiction is called....
- exposition
- climax
- resolution
- none of these
Q9 | The technique used to provide clues regarding what might occur later in the story is.....
- foreshadowing
- flash back
- resolution
- none of these
Q10 | Flash back is also known as......
- foreshadowing
- linear plot analysis
- Analepsis
- none of these
Q11 | The technique that takes the narrative back in time is called......
- flash back
- flash forward
- forshadowing
- none of these
Q12 | ………..reveals events that will occur in the future
- flash back
- flash forward
- foreshadowing
- none of these
Q13 | A flash back to an earlier point in the narrative is called..........
- flash back
- flash forward
- Internal Analepsis
- external Analepsis
Q14 | External analepsis is a …... to before the narrative started.
- flash back
- flash forward
- foreshadowing
- none of these
Q15 | ….....in a fiction leads to climax
- rising action
- Climax
- Exposition
- falling Action
Q16 | …..... is a phase of a fiction, where the story is about to settle down.
- falling action
- rising action
- Climax
- Exposition
Q17 | A typical character is referred to as.......
- Flat
- round cahracter
- protagonist
- none of these
Q18 | An individualised character is referred to as …...
- Flat
- round character
- protagonist
- none of these
Q19 | A character whose behaviour illuminates the personality of the protagonist is.......
- Foil
- round character
- protagonist
- none of these
Q20 | When a text is narrated through an external narrator, it is referred to as.....
- omniscient point of view
- participating figure
- second person narration
- none of these
Q21 | In first person narrative the events are narrated by.......
- participating figure
- omniscient point of view
- second person narration
- none of these
Q22 | A context beyond the immediate surroundings of the story in the fiction is called.....
- Milieu
- country
- setting
- none of these
Q23 | …..... is a concise form of prose fiction.
- short story
- essay
- article
- none of these
Q24 | …..... can be considered as a precursor of short story.
- fairy tales
- novel
- epic
- none of these
Q25 | A narrative frame within which one or more of the characters proceed to tell a series ofshort narratives is called....
- frame story
- novel
- essay
- novella