Literature Past Questions And Answers
The characters in a play constitute the
- A. performers
- B. chorus
- C. audience
- D. cast
...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
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
'Pregnant clouds'' is an example of
- A. eliche
- B. litotes
- C. metaphor
- D. synecdoche
Comment on the poet’s use of rhetorical question in Vanity
View Discussion (0)WAEC 2019 THEORYThe recurrent device used is ________
- A. synecdoche
- B. apostrophe
- C. metonymy
- D. paradox
The imagery in the excerpt above is largely
- A. olfactory and visual
- B. auditory and visual
- C. tactile and auditory
- D. olfactory and tactile
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
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
AFRICAN DRAMA: THE LION AND THE JEWEL
Examine the encounter between Lakunle and Sidi in Morning.
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