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The line 'A thing of beauty is a joy forever' has been written by which of the following?

• William Wordsworth

• John Keats

• Robert Frost

• PB Shelley

Fill in the blank with the correct phrasal verb.

It isn't easy to _______ children now-a-days.

• train up

• bring up

• put up

• leave out

Pick out the comparative form of the sentence.

He is as wise as Soloman

• Soloman is wiser than he is

• Soloman is not wiser than he is

• He is wiser than Soloman

• Soloman is the wisest among them

Point out the figure of speech in the following sentence.

'Here's the smell of the blood still; all the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand'

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

• Oxymoron

• Personification

Who wrote 'Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed and some few to be chewed and digested'?

• EV Lucas

• VS Naipaul

• Francis Bacon

• EM Forster

'Shylock' is a character in which play?

• Othello

• The Monkeys Paw

• The Merchant of Venice

• Romeo and Julie

Complete the following proverb.

The pen is mightier ________ .

• than the King

• than the artist

• than the actor

• than the sword

Fill in the blank with the correct preposition.

He killed two birds ________ one stone.

• by

• at

• of

• with

'Arms and the Man' was written by which playwright?

• John Osborne

• William Shakespeare

• George Bernard Shaw

• Eugene O'Neill

Point out the active voice of the following sentence.

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