Literature Past Questions And Answers

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1361

Which of the following is central to narrative fiction ?

  • A. Verisimilitude
  • B. Dialogue
  • C. Objectivity
  • D. Subjectivity
View Discussion (0)JAMB 2014
1362

AFRICAN DRAMA

Athol Fugard: Sizwe Bansi is Dead

Examine the view that life is meaningless for the blacks in South Africa

View Discussion (0)WAEC 2008 THEORY
1363

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: Hamlet

Read the extract and answer the question

It is here,......thou art slain;

No medicine in the world can do thee good,

In thee there is not half an hour of life;

The treacherous instrument is in thy hand,

Unbated and envenom d: the foul practice

Hath turn'd itself on me; lo; here I lie,

(Act 5, Scene Two, Lines 298-303)

The character being addressed is

  • A. Hamlet
  • B. the queen
  • C. the king
  • D. fortinbras
View Discussion (0)WAEC 2008 OBJ
1364

These question are based on literary Appreciation.

Theseus: now, fair Hippolyta,our nuptial hour Draw on space for happy day bring in Another moon. But, O, me thinks how slow.The old moon wanes,she lingers my desires,Like to a step-drama or a dowager,Long withering out a young man's revenue.

William Shakespeare: A Midsummer Night's Dream.

The literary device used in the excerpt above are

  • A. personification and simile
  • B. alliteration and synechdocheand
  • C. rhyme and refrain
  • D. irony and suspense
View Discussion (0)JAMB 2011
1365

Poison ivy came up like a rose

in red and thorny garb

I look, liked and did dare touch

my pals my avid touch espied

with green and frosty eyes

I should've only looked, and not leapt,

For away and over my rising moon she flew

On clipped wings of my dream

Now a song-filled air pocket of serenades

A love's wretch, my dream is a hornbill

Flightless and tottering.

My dream remains a dream still

Now my dream is a locked-up serenade

The theme of the poem is_______

  • A. Love in the garden
  • B. The acceptance
  • C. The rising moon
  • D. Unrequited Love
View Discussion (0)WAEC 2018 OBJ
1366

A pause within a line of poetry is

  • A. an alliteration
  • B. a caesura
  • C. a metre
  • D. an assonance
View Discussion (0)WAEC 2021 OBJ
1367

The protagonist is the

  • A. author
  • B. villain
  • C. hero
  • D. speaker
View Discussion (0)WAEC 2011 OBJ
1368

This question is based on Thomas Hardy'

The death of Prince can be said to

  • A. portray Tess as a fated character
  • B. reveal the family's total dependence on the animal
  • C. cause Tesas'misfortunes
  • D. foreshadow Tess'ultimate fate
View Discussion (0)JAMB 2006
1369

This question is based on General Literary Principles.

Pun as a literary device deals with

  • A. placing words side by side
  • B. playing on words
  • C. arrangement of words
  • D. placing two opposite phrases
View Discussion (0)JAMB 2010
1370

This question is based on General Literary Principles.

A poet's use of regular rhythm is known as

  • A. allegory
  • B. assonance
  • C. metre
  • D. onomatopoeia
View Discussion (0)JAMB 2012