Literature Past Questions And Answers
A piece of writing or speech at the beginning of a work of art is the
- A. prologue
- B. dialogue
- C. monologue
- D. epilogue
NON-AFRICAN PROSE
RICHARD WRIGHT: Black Boy
Discuss the relationship between Richard and the members of his family.
View Discussion (0)WAEC 2010 THEORYThis question is based on Richard Wright's Native Son.
This novel can be described as
- A. satirical
- B. metaphysical
- C. paradoxical
- D. allegorical
Based on George Orwell's Animal Farm.
After the expulsion of Snowball from the farm, the truim virate that ran the farm was composed of
- A. Minimus, Napoleon and Squealer
- B. Jesse, Napoleon and Bluebell
- C. Boxer, Old Major and Napoleon
- D. Squealer, Boxer and Napoleon
Read the extract and answer the question
Thrift, thrift,....! the funeral baked meats
Did coldly furnish forth the marriage tables.
Would I had seen that day,.....!
My father! _ Me thinks I see my father.
(Act 1, Scene Two, Lines 180-184)
The setting is
- A. a room in Polonius house
- B. a room in the castle
- C. the queen's room
- D. the king's room.
This question is based on General Literary Principles.
Romantic poetry emphasizes
- A. the beauty of nature
- B. intimate relationships
- C. the love in human nature
- D. the romance in human aspirations
A question used for effect which does not require an answer is
- A. oratorial
- B. antithetical
- C. anticlimactic
- D. rhetorical
This question is based on J.P. Clark's The Wives' Revolt.
'...Great orators in the assembly, and poor nannies at home.'Those being ridiculed here are the
- A. spinsters
- B. husbands
- C. wives
- D. old women
Read the extract and answer the question
Y : Do you know me, my lord?
Z : Excellent well;you are a fishmonger
Y : Not I, my lord.
Z : Then I would you were so honest a man.
Y : Honest, my lord!
Z : Ay, sir; to be honest, as this world goes. Is to be one man picked out of ten thousand.
(Act Two, Scene II, lines 173-179)
Speaker Z thinks Y is
- A. very honest
- B. as dishonest as most people
- C. more dishonest than anyone
- D. more dishonest than ten thousand people
This question is based on General Literary Principles
Farce thrives on
- A. big events
- B. premonition
- C. absurdity
- D. incidents