Literature Past Questions And Answers

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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
View Discussion (0)WAEC 2012 OBJ
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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
View Discussion (0)JAMB 2006
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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 THEORY
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William Shakespeare: A Midsummer Night's Dream Read the extract below and answer the following questions Go, Philostrate, Sir up the Athenian youth to merriments; Awake the pert and nimble spirit of mirth; Turn melancholy forth to funerals: The pale companion is not our pomp Hippolyta, I wooed thee with my sword, And won thy love doing thee injuries; But I will wed thee in another key, With pomp with triumph, and with reveling ( Act 1, Scene One, Lines 12-20)

To win Hippolyta's love, the speaker

  • A. disowned his friends
  • B. had to fight against her
  • C. killed his father
  • D. sent Puck away
View Discussion (0)WAEC 2022 OBJ
1165

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
View Discussion (0)JAMB 1993
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Section B: NON AFRICAN DRAMA

LORRAINE HANSBERRY - A Raisin In The Sun

Consider the relationship between Mama and Travis.

View Discussion (0)WAEC 2019 THEORY
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This 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
View Discussion (0)JAMB 1990
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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
View Discussion (0)JAMB 1994
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AMMA DARKO: Faceless

Consider Baby T as a victim of Social Injustice?

View Discussion (0)WAEC 2017 THEORY
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Based 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
View Discussion (0)JAMB 2021