General Awareness Questions: Know your Literature

General Awareness Questions:  Know your literature

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Questions on Literature

1. What is the term for a lengthy poem about heroism or important events?

2. What is the term for the Japanese poem of three un rhymed lines of 5, 7, 5 syllables?

3. In what type of literature an author ridicules a vice or folly through humor and wit?

4. What is the term for a type of moral story whose main characters are animals?

5. What is the category of literature which is imaginary?

6. The type of drama that typically has a "happy' ending is referred to as what?

7. The term for a commerative poem praising the deceased?

8. The day to day recording of someone's life is referred to as what?

9. The genre of novels that looks at magic and other supernatural activities as its inspiration?

10. A type of poem that tells a story similar to a folk tale or a legend is called what?

Answers to General Awareness Questions

1. Epic
2. Haiku
3. Satire
4. Fable
5. Fiction
6. Comedy
7. Epitaph
8. Diary
9. Fantasy
10. Ballad