Literature Past Questions And Answers
UNSEEN PROSE AND POETRY
Read the passage below and answer the following questions:
Along marched the crowd, determined not to be distracted from its cause and the course it had charted. If anyone could intimidate the chief, it was Sasu, who led the crowd. The chief nurtured unruffled restraint. He knew Sasu, knew that Sasu would not waste the trust between them on renegades.
One way to divert a mob from its goal is to join in with it, lead it on, but, finally, veer it from the course of its cause. Onward, towards the chief's palace marched the crowd, singing war songs.
The sun frowned as the palace guards, rattling like leaves in a storm - fear branded on their faces, came out to survey the threatening crowd and prepare for a siege. Just then, Sasu turned about, heading away from the palace - with the crowd, and the war songs.
The last paragraph illustrates- A. anti-climax
- B. rising action
- C. suspense
- D. foreshadow
A long narrative chronicling a family's heroic deeds is a/an
- A. opera
- B. epistle
- C. fable
- D. saga
This question is based on Literary Appreciation
'Symbol of fruitfulness, symbol of barrenness Mother and destroyer,
the calm and the storm!
Life and desire and dreams and death
Frank Collymore, Hymn to the Sea,
The address to the sea in the lines above is done by the use of
- A. personification
- B. praise
- C. symbolism
- D. apostrophe
They said their prayers in a monotonous sing-song, kneeling on their bamboo bed like camels waiting to be loaded.
Based on Ferdinand Oyono's The Old Man and the Medal, the dominant figure of speech in the excerpt above
- A. rhetorical question
- B. simile
- C. metaphor
- D. mixed metaphor
This question is based on selected poems from D. Ker, C. Maduka et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa, Wole Soyinka (ed.): Poems of Black Africa, K.E. Senanu and T. Vincent (eds.): A Selection of African poetry and E.W. Parker (ed.) A Pageant of Longer Poems.
The phrase 'location indifferent' in 'Telephone Conversation' conveys Wole Soyinka's
- A. non-concern for space
- B. willingness to take an apartment anywhere
- C. critical need for accommodation
- D. awareness of the reluctance ofthe landlady
NON-AFRICAN PROSE: WUTHERING HEIGHTS
Discuss the use of the weather' the window and the setting as symbols in the novel.
View Discussion (0)WAEC 2023 THEORYThe phrase “living death†in a literary work is an example_____________
- A. Synecdoche
- B. Prose
- C. Oxymoron
- D. Aside
Read the poem below and answer the question below:
Miniver Cheevy, child of scorn,
Grew lean while he assailed the season; He wept that he was ever born,
And he had reasons.
Miniver loved the days of old
When swords were bright and steeds prancing; The vision of a warrior bold
Would set him dancing.
Reading the poem, one notices that the poet is being- A. hyperbolic
- B. euphemistic
- C. ironic
- D. sarcastic
A sonnet may be divided into an octave and a
- A. tercet
- B. quatrain
- C. sestet
- D. couplet
AFRICAN PROSE
ADICHIE CHIMAMANDA NGOZI: PURPLE HIBISCUS
Examine the relationship between Eugene and his wife in the novel.
View Discussion (0)WAEC 2015 THEORY