Literature Past Questions And Answers
This question is based on Ahmed Yerima's Attahiru.
Form the viewpoint of the British government, the attack on the Sokoto Caliphate is
- A. one of superiority
- B. a war of attrition
- C. one of vengeance
- D. a jihad
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: Hamlet
Read the extract and answer the question
Do not forget: this visitation
Is but to what thy almost blunted purpose
But, look, amazement as thy mother sits:
O, step between her and her fighting soul:
(Act 111, scene four, lines 107 -110)
The character being addressed is
- A. Polonius
- B. Laertes
- C. Ophelia
- D. Hamlet
Read the extract and answer the question
Faith, sir you need not fear. When we were boys,
Who would believe that there were mountaineers
Dew-lapped like bulls, whose throats had hanging at'em
Wallets of flesh? or that there were such men
Whose heads stood in their breasts? which now we find
Each putter-out of five for one will bring us
Good warrant of.
(Act 111, scene Three, lines 44-49)
The speaker is
- A. Gonzalo
- B. Stephano
- C. Ferdinand
- D. Caliban
This question is based on General Literary Principles.
The figure of speech in which a poet implicitly compares an object or idea with another totally different object or idea is called a
- A. simile
- B. denotation
- C. connotation
- D. metaphor
This question is based on selected poems from Wole Soyinka (ed.) poems of Black Africa, E.K. Senanu and T. Vincent (eds.) Selection of African poetry and E.W. Parker (ed.) A Pageant of Longer Poems.
The impression created of life in Kofi Awoonor's 'Songs of Sorrow' is that of
- A. an enjoyable tour
- B. a difficult journey
- C. a pleasant journey
- D. an uneventful tour
This question is based on General Literary Principles 'Nightfall! Nightfall!
You are my mortal enemy'.
The figurative name for the manner in which nightfall is directly addressed as though present in Mtshali's 'Nightfall inSoweto' is
- A. an ode
- B. allusion
- C. apostrophe
- D. dramatic
A narrative poem that relates heroic exploits is an___________
- A. Epilogue
- B. Epitaph
- C. Epic
- D. Epigram
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: A Midsummer Night's Dream
Read the extract below and answer the following question:
That fallen am I in dark uneven way,
Come, thou gentle day;
For if but once thou show me thy grey light,
I'll find , and revenge this spite.
The speaker is in- A. the woods
- B. his apartment
- C. a street
- D. the palace
This question is based on Literary Appreciation
The hunter dies and leaves his poverty to his gun
The blacksmith dies and leaves his poverty to his anvil..
The extract above is an example of
- A. elegy
- B. ballad
- C. epic
- D. eulogy
Serrated Shadows, through dark leaves,
Till, bathed in warm suffusion of your dapped cells
sensation pained me, faceless, silent as night thieves
Wole Soyinka: Night
The dominant mood in the lines above is one at____________
- A. apprehension
- B. defiance
- C. joy
- D. indifference