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1
Where is this story set?
Babylon
Canaan
Gilead
Judea
2
Which astronomer overturned the geocentric model of the universe?
Kepler
Galileo
Copernicus
Ptolemy
3
Which mark of punctuation joins two words to make a new word?
Dash
Tilde
Hyphen
Semi-colon
4
"It takes a brave person to be a coward." This is an example of
A paradox
A metaphor
A simile
An oxymoron
5
George Orwell's real name was
Eric Blair
Hugh Munro
Obadias Snooks
Clive Dodgson
6
Which famous poet died on November 04 1918?
Isaac Rosenberg
T. S. Eliot
Siegfried Sassoon
Wilfred Owen
7
The technical term for word choice is
Etymology
Dialectics
Praxis
Lexical choice
8
This is a woodcut from which poet's description of a journey to hell?
Homer
Milton
Dante
Virgil
9
What poetic form comprises 3 cross-rhymed quatrains and a final couplet?
Clerihew
Sonnet
Acrostic
Limerick
10
Who was from his mother's womb untimely ripp'd?
Lennox
Macduff
Ross
Macbeth
11
Which of these would make barrels?
Fletcher
Farrier
Cooper
Tanner
12
What style of architecture is this?
Georgian
Brutalist
Gothic
Romanesque
13
This is a
Flush
Full house
Straight
High card
14
Which of these plays is set in ancient, pre-christian Britain?
King Lear
The Two Gentlemen of Verona
Hamlet
The Merchant of Venice
15
Which of these words is spelled INCORRECTLY?
Receipt
Embarrassed
Proffessor
Parallel
16
Black to move. This is a
Checkmate
Stale mate
Fool's mate
Scholar's mate
17
Who found his way through the Labyrinth?
Achilles
Perseus
Hercules
Theseus
18
The technical term for word order in a sentence is
Register
Syntax
Lexical choice
Synecdoche
19
Unrhymed iambic pentameter is called
Heroic couplets
Blank verse
Ballad rhyme
Terza rima
20
"Per ardua ad astra" is the motto of
The Royal Navy
The British Army
The Royal Air Force
The Royal Marines
21
Who is this?
Robert Burns
William Wordsworth
Percy Shelley
John Keats
22
"Chaucer's Pardoner is an honest liar." This is
An oxymoron
A paradox
A simile
A metaphor
23
The Battle of Waterloo was fought in
1916
1513
1815
1314
24
The first person singular subjective pronoun is
I
Me
You
Us
25
Which of these was an old name for the chemical element, Sulphur?
Stibium
Wolfram
Quicksilver
Brimstone
26
Which of these is the study of historical writing systems?
Orthography
Calligraphy
Paleography
Geography
27
The art of beautiful handwriting is
Orthography
Iconography
Hagiography
Calligraphy
28
Which branch of philosophy deals with the nature of art and beauty?
Logic
Aesthetics
Metaphysics
Epistemology
29
Shakespeare was a writer of which period?
Victorian
Old English
Renaissance
Medieval
30
This painting is in which style?
Surrealist
Impressionist
Cubist
Photo-realist
31
This is
A tapestry
A portrait
An embroidery
A mural
32
Which of these figures of speech is a SOUND EFFECT?
Hyperbole
Pun
Onomatopoeia
Personification
33
"Cowardice", "Bravery", "Sharpness" are all examples of
Adjectives
Verbs
Adverbs
Abstract nouns
34
Which of these is sometimes called an INTERROBANG?
;)
:)
?!
!?
35
Which of these is the odd-one-out?
Charles Dickens
John Keats
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
William Wordsworth
36
This animal is
Ursus Americanus Horribilis
Ursus Americanus
Ursus Maritimus
Ursus Arctos
37
This shield combines the arms of
Spain and France
France and England
Scotland and England
France and Portugal
38
Who wrote
The Illiad
and
The Odyssey
?
Virgil
Shakespeare
Homer
Milton
39
A colon is for
Pausing
Introducing
Joining
Listing
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What is the time allotment for the Higher English RUAE paper?
90 minutes
45 minutes
60 minutes
120 minutes
