Literature Past Questions And Answers

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1061

The characters in a play constitute the

  • A. performers
  • B. chorus
  • C. audience
  • D. cast
View Discussion (0)WAEC 1999 OBJ
1062

...Lying down in the melting snow.

There were times we regretted

The summer palaces on slopes, the terraces,

And the silken girls bringing sherbert.

The emotion evoked in this passage from Journey of the Magi is that of

  • A. romance
  • B. nostalgia
  • C. sorrow
  • D. fear
View Discussion (0)JAMB 1994
1063

This question is based on Ola Rotimi's Ovonramwen Nogbaisi.

'Go tell Overami that he has nothing to fear from the white men in matter of fair play....'

In the above statement, the White man expects Ovonramwen to

  • A. allow the Whiteman free access to Benin
  • B. accept gifts from the Whiteman in exchange for land
  • C. surrender himself to the whiteman
  • D. surrender his chiefs who are in hiding
View Discussion (0)JAMB 1992
1064

'Pregnant clouds'' is an example of

  • A. eliche
  • B. litotes
  • C. metaphor
  • D. synecdoche
View Discussion (0)WAEC 2008 OBJ
1065

Comment on the poet’s use of rhetorical question in Vanity

View Discussion (0)WAEC 2019 THEORY
1066

The recurrent device used is ________

  • A. synecdoche
  • B. apostrophe
  • C. metonymy
  • D. paradox
View Discussion (0)WAEC 2019 OBJ
1067
'My heart is a quiet drum, something it flares like a parched thunder cracking through a damask sky it lifts me in its fired spectacle.' -Cynthia James; Drumology

The imagery in the excerpt above is largely

  • A. olfactory and visual
  • B. auditory and visual
  • C. tactile and auditory
  • D. olfactory and tactile
View Discussion (0)JAMB 2023
1068

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: Twelfth Night

Read the extract below and answer the question

So please my lord, I might not be admitted; But from her handmaid to return this answer:

The element itself, till seven years heat,

Shall not behold her face at ample view......

(Act 1 Scene 1)

The message is in connection with

  • A. warfare
  • B. love
  • C. revenge
  • D. shipwreck
View Discussion (0)WAEC 2000 OBJ
1069

Based on J.P Clark's The Wives Revolt.

The play is preoccupied with

  • A. the fight by women to keep their goats
  • B. the evil that oil money breeds
  • C. women liberation from males domination
  • D. Women's protest against men's wickedness
View Discussion (0)JAMB 2021
1070

AFRICAN DRAMA: THE LION AND THE JEWEL

Examine the encounter between Lakunle and Sidi in Morning.

View Discussion (0)WAEC 2023 THEORY