Literature Past Questions And Answers
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: The Tempest
Read the extract and answer the question
P : Mark his condition, and the answer questions
If this might be a brother.
Q: I should sun
To think but nobly of my grandmother:
Good wombs have borne bad sons.
(Act 1, scene two lines 116-120)
Speaker P is
- A. Alonso
- B. Antonio
- C. Ferdinand
- D. Proospero
This question is on Literary Appreciation
'... Not a few of us ended our application letters like this:. If you are kind enough to accommodate this humble application, Sir/Madam, I shall do my uttermost best to rendered you the greatest services which it is at my disposition to your best satisfactory. Yours obediently servant...'Yet without English, you had no education fit for a white collar job.'
Cameron Daodu: The Gab Boys
The tone of the passage above is
- A. derisive
- B. ironic
- C. melancholic
- D. harsh
SECTION A: African Drama
DELE CHARLEY: The Blood of a Stranger
Consider the view that tradition triumphs in the play.
View Discussion (0)WAEC 2018 THEORYTo win Hippolyta's love, the speaker
- A. disowned his friends
- B. had to fight against her
- C. killed his father
- D. sent Puck away
This question is based on Literary Principles.
To stop himself from cutting off the sound in anger the man turned and just watched the fan, only just then another feeble, useless movement would happen and blades would be drawn through another arc. Only a long hour later did the noise finally stop - 4:30p.m
A.K Amah. The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born
In this passage, the writer
- A. creates a mood of suspense
- B. enhances an oppressive atmosphere
- C. describes the man's anger
- D. captures the man's habitual impatience
Section B: NON AFRICAN DRAMA
LORRAINE HANSBERRY - A Raisin In The Sun
Consider the relationship between Mama and Travis.
View Discussion (0)WAEC 2019 THEORYThis question is based on General Literature Principles and Literary Appreciation
'I had a tent impression that there was something decidedly fine in Mr. Wopsle's elocution-not for old association's sake, I am afraid, but because it was very slow, very dreary, very up-hill and down-hill, and very unlike any way in which any man in any natural circumstances of life or death ever expressed himself about anything'.
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens.
The uniqueness of Mr. Wopsle's
- A. a metaphor
- B. an irony
- C. a hyperbole
- D. a flashback
Now take this boat business for instance. There is a lot of money to be made in it,but start something, and fools will start shouting slogans at you.
Based on Ayi Kwei Armah's , The Beautiful Ones are Not Yet Born, who made the above statement?
- A. Amankwa
- B. Oyo
- C. Koomson
- D. Osagyefo
AMMA DARKO: Faceless
Consider Baby T as a victim of Social Injustice?
View Discussion (0)WAEC 2017 THEORYBased on William Shakespeare's Twelfth Night.
The significance of the sub-plot dealing with Feste, Toby and Maria is the expression of life's
- A. fragility
- B. pleasure
- C. comedy
- D. romance

