FDE EST English Past Paper April 2024

He has been living in Switzerland _____ two years.

1. Till
2. For
3. Since
4. From

I was surprised by the large ____ people who came.

1. Number of
2. Amount of
3. Sum of
4. None of these

The sales of Jules Verne’s books continue to ___ like a runaway balloon?

1. Plummet
2. Soar
3. Decline
4. Stabilize

My CEO, however, feels that having time off is a(n) ____ crime?

1. Minor
2. Acceptable
3. Heinous
4. Trivial

Which of the following terms best describes an exaggeration?

1. Metaphor
2. Simile
3. Hyperbole
4. Irony

Which of the following terms best describes the imitation of natural sounds in word form?

1. Alliteration
2. Onomatopoeia
3. Assonance
4. Consonance

Which of the following is not a poet?

1. William Shakespeare
2. Terry Saylor
3. Browning
4. Emily Dickinson

Which of the following is not an English poet (i. e. from England)?

1. William Wordsworth
2. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
3. John Keats
4. Victor Hugo

What is a poem called whose first letters of each line spell out a word?

1. Sonnet
2. Haiku
3. Acrostic
4. Limerick

Which of the following words describes the prevailing attitude of High-Modern Literature?

1. Skeptical
2. Fragmentation
3. Impressionistic
4. Both A and C