Literature Past Questions And Answers
AFRICAN POETRY
Discuss the clash of cultures in Okara's "Piano and Drum".
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A device used by a writer to recall past event in a literary work is
- A. flashback
- B. foreshadowing
- C. interlude
- D. anti-climax
Read the extract below and answer the question
Lock up my doors, and when you hear the drum
And the vile squealing of the wry-necked fife.
Clamber not you up to the casements then
Nor thrust you up to the casements then
TO GAZE ON CHRISTIAN FOOLS WITH VARNISHED FACES.
(Act 11 sc V)
After this scene the person addressed
- A. portrays love for his suitor
- B. informs of the loss at sea
- C. elopes with her lover
- D. delivers letter to a suitor
This question is based on Zaynab Alkali's The Stillborn.
The tell-tale of Li's going to the dance is a
- A. burnt finger
- B. broken promise
- C. torn dress
- D. broken fence
Read the extract and answer Questions
Zounds, sir, y' are robbed! For shame, put on your gown!
Your heart is burst, you have lost half your soul.
Even now, very now, an old blackram
is tupping your white eww. Arise. arise!
Awake the snorting citizens with the bell,
Or else the devil will make a grandsire of you
Arise i say! (Act 1, scene one,lines 83 - 89)
... y' are robbed! refers to
- A. Brabantio's r-ejection of Othello
- B. Desdemona's stout defense of Othello
- C. Iago's stealing of Rodrigo's purse
- D. Othello's elopement with Desdemona
The choice of appropriate words to convey the thoughts of an author is called
- A. idiomatic language
- B. setting
- C. figure of speech
- D. diction
This question is based on General Literary Principles.
The technique used in bringing the plot of a play to an abrupt end is called
- A. deus ex machina
- B. endnote
- C. climax
- D. denouement
Based on Abubakar Gimba's Witnesses to Tears.
In the novel, Al-Amin's initial reservations about his daughter's engagement to Lahab are dormed by
- A. a premonition of his death
- B. Lahab's doubtful morality
- C. Hussaina's immaturity
- D. his fear of loneliness
This question is based on J.C. De Graft's Sons and Daughters
Where does the play take place?
- A. In George's place
- B. In Ofosu's place
- C. On the street
- D. On the stage
The end of a performance is followed by ________
- A. a curtain call
- B. a curtain raiser
- C. epilogue
- D. interlude