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1. A character confidently predicts that the village will remain safe, while the audience already knows that an enemy has entered it. Which dramatic device is used?
  1. Comic relief
  2. Dramatic irony
  3. A soliloquy
  4. A flashback

Answer: B. Dramatic irony

The audience knows a fact that the character does not, creating dramatic irony.

2. A narrator uses the pronoun ‘I’ and recounts events in which the narrator personally participates. What point of view is used?
  1. Second-person
  2. Omniscient third-person
  3. Objective third-person
  4. First-person

Answer: D. First-person

A participant narrator who tells the story as ‘I’ uses the first-person point of view.

3. In the line ‘The wind wailed wildly through the woods’, which sound device is most prominent?
  1. Assonance
  2. Onomatopoeia
  3. End rhyme
  4. Alliteration

Answer: D. Alliteration

The repeated initial ‘w’ sound in nearby words is alliteration.

4. In a play script, the instruction ‘[She turns away and lowers her voice.]’ is primarily an example of what?
  1. A chorus
  2. A prologue
  3. A stage direction
  4. An aside

Answer: C. A stage direction

Bracketed directions guide actors’ movements and delivery rather than forming spoken dialogue.

5. A novelist reveals a character’s impatience through clipped replies, repeated interruptions, and impatient gestures. This method is chiefly what?
  1. Direct characterization
  2. Exposition
  3. Setting
  4. Indirect characterization

Answer: D. Indirect characterization

The reader infers the trait from the character’s speech and behavior, which is indirect characterization.

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