NPTEL Effective Writing Week 8 Assignment Answers 2025
1. Horace Walpole’s Castle of Otranto comes under which category of fiction?
- Historical Fiction
- Sentimental Fiction
- Gothic Fiction
- Regional Fiction
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2. A novel of character focuses on the protagonist’s motives for what he/ she does and how he/she will turn out.
- True
- False
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3. Non-fictional type of novel depicts living people and recent events fictionalised in the form of a story.
- True
- False
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4. In which type of novel first-person narrative progresses in the form of letters, journals, or diaries?
- Historical Novel
- Epistolary Novel
- Sentimental Novel
- Detective Novel
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5. What is the term for the main struggle or challenge that drives the story?
- Protagonist
- Climax
- Conflict
- Resolution
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6. The __________ sets the stage for the story by introducing characters, setting, and context.
- Denouement
- Exposition
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7. The word drama is derived from the Greek word ……….. which means to ‘do’ or to ‘act’.
- ‘drao’
- ‘drmo’
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8. A well-crafted _____________ serves as the driving force of a fictional narrative.
- plot
- climax
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9. What are the important elements of a short story?
- Theme
- Dialogue
- Prolonged subplots
- Voices
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10. Which of the following is not a type of play?
- Tragedy
- Tragi-comedy
- Comedy
- Monodrama
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