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State whether true or false:
Parody is capable of involving satirical elements or more serious goals, but usually, it is more for entertainment than policy making.

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  1. True

  2. False

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Correct Option: A
Explanation:

A parody is a work created to imitate, make fun of, or comment on an original work—its subject, author, style, or some other target—by means of satiric or ironic imitation. It can also make a comment on a serious issue but it is generally meant for entertainment purposes. So, we can conclude that the given statement is true. Option A is the answer.

State whether true or false:
Parody mimics a subject directly to produce a comical effect. Satire, on the other hand, makes fun of a subject without a direct imitation.

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  1. True

  2. False

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Correct Option: A
Explanation:

A parody is a work created to imitate, make fun of, or comment on an original work—its subject, author, style, or some other target—by means of satiric or ironic imitation whereas a satire uses ridicule, sarcasm, humor, irony, or exaggeration, to expose and criticize people's stupidity or vices, particularly in the context of contemporary politics and other topical issues. In this context, we can conclude that while parody imitates a subject directly to create a comical effect, satire uses humor to make a social commentary but never directly imitates. So, the given statement is true. Option A is the answer.

State whether true or false:
Parody and satire are very similar: both use comedy to criticize or question an original thing or idea.

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  1. True

  2. False

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Correct Option: A
Explanation:

A parody is a work created to imitate, make fun of, or comment on an original work—its subject, author, style, or some other target—by means of satiric or ironic imitation whereas a satire uses ridicule, sarcasm, humor, irony, or exaggeration, to expose and criticize people's stupidity or vices, particularly in the context of contemporary politics and other topical issues. In this context, we can conclude that parody and satire are similar and that the given statement is true. Option A is the answer.

State whether true or false:
It was dark and dim in the forest.
The words 'dark' and 'dim' in the above-mentioned sentence are visual images.

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  1. True

  2. False

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Correct Option: A
Explanation:

Imagery, in a literary text, is an author's use of vivid and descriptive language to add depth to their work. It appeals to human senses to deepen the reader's understanding of the work. In the given sentence, words like "dark" and "dim" are an example of imagery where it appeals to our sense of visual perception: it creates visual images of darkness for us. So the given statement is true. A is the answer.

State whether true or false:
The word imagery is often associated with mental pictures.

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  1. True

  2. False

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Correct Option: A
Explanation:

Imagery, in a literary text, is an author's use of vivid and descriptive language to add depth to their work. It appeals to human senses to deepen the reader's understanding of the work. Its use creates vivid mental pictures for the reader. In this context, we can conclude that the given statement is true. Option A is thus the answer.

What is the relation of the second poem to the first?

The Passionate Shepherd to His Love
Come live with me and be my love,
And we will all the pleasures prove,
That Valleys, groves, hills, and fields,
Woods, or steepy mountain yields.

And we will sit upon the Rocks,
Seeing the Shepherds feed their flocks,
By shallow Rivers to whose falls
Melodious birds sing Madrigals

The Bait
Come live with me, and be my love,
And we will some new pleasures prove
Of golden sands, and crystal brooks,
With silken lines, and silver hooks.

There will the river whispering run
Warm'd by thy eyes, more than the sun;
And there the 'enamour'd fish will stay,
Begging themselves they may betray.

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  1. The second poem takes inspiration from the first

  2. The second poem is written as an extension of the first

  3. The second poem is a parody of the first

  4. The second poem is a modernized version of the first

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Correct Option: C
Explanation:

Parody is an imitation of a particular work, exaggerating it deliberately to produce a comic effect- pokes fun at the work it immigrates. Here, the second poem is a parody of the first. So, the correct answer is C.

Identify the literary device in the following passage:

He had meant the best in the world, and been treated like a dog, like a
very dog. She would be sorry someday, maybe when it was too late. Ah, if
he could only die TEMPORARILY!

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  1. Alliteration

  2. Pathos

  3. Parable

  4. Satire

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Correct Option: B
Explanation:

The given lines appeal to the emotions of the reader and evoke sympathy. This is usually done by employing pathos. So, the correct answer is option B.

Ross: That now
Sweno, the Norways king, craves composition:
Nor would we deign him burial of his men
Till he disbursed at Saint Colmes inch
Ten thousand dollars to our general use.

In these lines, the dollar is not the currency during the period in which the play is set. These lines contain an example of

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  1. synecdoche

  2. hyperbole

  3. metaphor

  4. anachronism

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Correct Option: D
Explanation:

Anachronism is the action of attributing something to a period to which it does not belong. Here, "ten thousand dollars" does not belong to the period in which the play is set. So, the correct answer is option D.

Read the poems carefully, and accordingly, fill in the blank:
The Old Man's Comforts
"You are old, father William," the young man cried,
"The few locks which are left you are grey;
You are hale, father William, a hearty old man;
Now tell me the reason, I pray."

"In the days of my youth," father William replied,
"I remember'd that youth would fly fast,
And abus'd not my health and my vigour at first,
That I never might need them at last."

You are Old, Father William
You are old, Father William, the young man said,
And your hair has become very white;
And yet you incessantly stand on your head
Do you think, at your age, it is right?

In my youth, Father William replied to his son,
I feared it might injure the brain;
But, now that I'm perfectly sure I have none,
Why, I do it again and again.

The second poem takes inspiration from the first poem. The second poem may be said to be a ________________.

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  1. parable

  2. parody

  3. modernization

  4. extension

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Correct Option: B
Explanation:

Parody is an imitation of a particular work, exaggerating it deliberately to produce a comic effect- pokes fun at the work it immigrates. Here, the second poem is a parody of the first. So, the answer to the question asked is option B.

Identify the literary device in the following passage:
   

   Wherefore Christian was left to tumble in the Slough of Despond alone: but still he endeavoured to struggle to that side of the slough that was still further from his own house, and next to the wicket-gate; the which he did, but could not get out, because of the burden that was upon his back: but I beheld in my dream, that a man came to him, whose name was Help, and asked him, What he did there?
CHR: Sir, said Christian, I was bid go this way by a man called Evangelist, who directed me also to yonder gate, that I might escape the wrath to come; and as I was going thither I fell in here.

HELP: But why did not you look for the steps?

CHR: Fear followed me so hard, that I fled the next way, and fell in.

HELP: Then said he, Give me thy hand: so he gave him his hand, and he drew him out, and set him upon sound ground, and bid him go on his way. [Ps. 40:2]

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  1. Irony

  2. Satire

  3. Metaphor

  4. Allegory

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Correct Option: D
Explanation:

The passage here is not ironic or satiric. It is also not a metaphor. Allegory refers to a story, poem, or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning, typically a moral or political one. The given passage has a moral or religious meaning- it belongs to Psalm 40 1-2. So, the correct answer is option D.