Literature Past Questions And Answers
Your head is like a drum that is beaten for spirits
Your ears are like the fans used for blowing fire.
The lines above are a good example of_________
- A. caricature
- B. ridicule
- C. satire
- D. lampoon
Read the extract and answer the question
Here lies our sovereign Lord the King
Whose word no man relies on
Who never said a foolish thing
And never did a wise one.
The ominscient narrator is
- A. all knowing
- B. limited
- C. realistic
- D. always humorous
'...Sir, nose-painting, sleep and urine.Lechery,
Sir, it provokes:it provokes the desire, but it takes away the performance.'
Based on William Shakespeare's Macbeth, the statement above can best be described as
- A. equivocation
- B. allusion
- C. paradox
- D. monologue
This question is based on selected poems from Wole Soyinka (ed.) Poems of Black Africa and D.I. Nwoga (ed.) West African Verse.
'The Fulani Creation Story' shows that
- A. the world came about by a series of chance happenings
- B. the world was created in three days
- C. a logic of cause-and-effect underlies all creation
- D. death came into the world when man set himself up as God's rival
AFRICAN PROSE
ASARE KONADU: A WOMAN IN HER PRIME
Discuss the significance of Tano Kofi in the novel.
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The literary device which anticipates that an event will take place is best described as
- A. foreshadowing
- B. rising action
- C. flashback
- D. parody
In the theatre, words spoken by a character that are meant to be heard by the audience but not by the other characters on stage is called_________?
- A. aside
- B. soliloquy
- C. acoustic
- D. tone
Oh spite! Oh Hell!! I see you are all bent
To set aganist me for your merriment.
The lines illustrate__________
- A. Epitaph
- B. Epigram
- C. Apostrophe
- D. Allusion
This question is based on selected poems from Ker, D. et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa; Soyinka, W. (ed.): Poems of Black African; Senanu, K.E. and Vincent, T.(ds.): A Selection of African Poetry; Umukoro, M. et al (eds.); Exam Focus: Literature-in-English; Eruvbetine, A.E. et al (eds.) Longman Examination Guides and Nwoga, D.I. (ed.):West African Verse
In Keats'On the Grassihopper and Cricket 'poetry of earth' refers to
- A. poetry written about earth
- B. songs by grasshopper and cricket
- C. poetry written by mother earth
- D. songs by birds, grasshoppers and crickets
'And my blood ripples, turns torrent.'
The line above in Okara's Piano and Drums depicts the persona as
- A. smart
- B. sick
- C. weak
- D. strong