Literature Past Questions And Answers
Based on Chimamanda Adichie's Purple Hibiscus, Eugene Achike in the novel is portrayed as
- A. a tough retired soldier
- B. a soft and gentle husband
- C. an uncompromising traditionalist
- D. a fanatical Catholic adherent
Use the following lines to answer the question
Truth may bend but will never break:
It will ever rise above falsehood as oil above water.
The alliteration in the first line
- A. draws attention to the key ideas
- B. draws attention to the rhythm of the line
- C. makes the idea sound more true
- D. makes the line sound more pleasant
These questions are based on General Literary Principles. Satirical writing employs
- A. synecdoche
- B. irony
- C. onomatopoeia
- D. epigram
SECTION E - African Prose
LONELY DAYS - BAYO ADEBOWALE
Examine the author's narrative technique in the novel?
View Discussion (0)WAEC 2018 THEORYThese question are based on selected poems from Johnson, R. et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa; Soyinka, W. (ed.): Poems of Black Africa; Senanu, K.E. and Vincent, T. (eds): A Selection of African Poetry; Umukoro M. et al: Exam Focus: Literature in English; Eruvbetine, A.E. et al (eds.): Longman Examination Guides: Poetry for Senior Secondray Schools NWOGA, d.i. (ED.) West African Verse.
The dominant poetic technique employed in Adeoti's Naked Soles is
- A. hyperbole
- B. onomatopoeia
- C. zeugma
- D. oxymoron
Read the extract and answer the question
If thou hast any sound, or use of voice,
Speak to me;
That may be any good thing to be grace to me,
Speak to me;
If thou art privy to thy country's fate,
Which, happily, foreknowing may avoid,
O, speak!
Or if thou has uphoarded in thy life
Extorted treasure in the womb of earth,
For which, they say, you spirits oft walk in death
Speak of it:
(Act 1 scene one, lines 129-139)
The character being addressed is
- A. the queen
- B. the ghost
- C. Bernado
- D. Reynaldo
A humorous poem with five lines, the first two ryhming with the last is______________
- A. An ode
- B. Sestet
- C. Octave
- D. A Limerick
This question is based on Literary Appreciation.
That age is best which the first is.
When youth and blood are Warner;
But being spent, the worse ,
and worst Times still succeed the former.
The rhyme scheme is
- A. abba
- B. abab
- C. aabb
- D. bbaa
A dramatic performance with only bodily movements and without words is
- A. a mime
- B. an aside
- C. a soliloquy
- D. an opera
Catharsis is normally associated with____________
- A. Pantomime
- B. Tragedy
- C. Comedy
- D. Farce