Državna Matura (Montenegro) · Montenegrin Language and Literature (State Matura Montenegro)

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  1. Who wrote the verse drama 'Gorski vijenac' (The Mountain Wreath), first printed in 1847?
  2. In which verse form is 'Gorski vijenac' mainly written?
  3. Who is the central figure of 'Gorski vijenac'?
  4. What is the 'gusle' in Montenegrin tradition?
  5. Which work by Njegoš is described as a philosophical and religious epic about the human soul and the place of humans in the universe?
  6. Marko Miljanov's 'Primjeri čojstva i junaštva' is best described as
  7. Which novel by Mihailo Lalić, published in 1957, is set in Montenegro during the Second World War?
  8. Stefan Mitrov Ljubiša is known mainly for which book?
  9. Which book, printed in 1494 in the printing house of the Crnojević rulers, is one of the earliest printed books in Cyrillic among the South Slavs?
  10. How many letters does the standard Montenegrin alphabet have?
  11. In which year was Montenegrin declared the official language of Montenegro, in the Constitution of the country?
  12. How many grammatical cases does Montenegrin have?
  13. Montenegrin is standardised in the ijekavian form of the old Slavic vowel yat. Which statement about the word for 'river' is correct?
  14. Which part of speech names a person, place or thing?
  15. What is a simile?
  16. How many lines does a sonnet have?
  17. Which literary genre is divided into acts and scenes and is written to be performed?
  18. What does the word 'metaphor' describe in the sentence 'Time is a thief'?
  19. Which pair shows the rhyme scheme ABAB in this original quatrain? 'We walked beside the sea / and counted every stone / the evening set us free / and left us there alone.'
  20. What is the narrator's point of view in: 'I climbed the hill and saw the town below me'?
  21. Which sentence is written in the passive voice?
  22. In a simple sentence, which part says what the subject does or what is said about it?
  23. Which statement correctly defines an antonym?
  24. Which of the following is a complete sentence?
  25. What does the figure of speech 'oxymoron' combine?
  26. What is the name of the part of a story where the main conflict reaches its highest point?
  27. Which figures of speech appear in: 'The mountain wore the evening like a borrowed cloak, and every stone remembered a name'?
  28. How many clauses are in 'Although the road was closed, we reached the village because the shepherd knew a path'?
  29. 'All hands on deck!' is an example of which figure of speech?
  30. Why is 'Gorski vijenac' often called a dramatic poem?
  31. Read: 'He praised the report loudly, and then handed back a sheet covered in red corrections.' What is the best reading of the narrator's tone?
  32. Which sentence best states a theme, as opposed to a plot summary, of a story in which a young man leaves his village, fails in the city, and returns to find his village changed?
  33. Which choice shows an error in parallel structure?
  34. In a story, what is an antagonist?
  35. In oral epic poetry, what is an epithet?
  36. What is the main subject matter of epic poetry?

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