Literature Past Questions And Answers
A literary device in which parts of a sentence are grammatically the same, or are similar in construction Is known as__________
- A. Simile
- B. Aside
- C. Parallelism
- D. Irony
An action in a play that stimulates the audience to pity a character is
- A. pyrrhic
- B. props
- C. pathos
- D. parody
Read the extract and answer the question
If I speak true! if hollowly, invert
What best is boded me to mischief! I,
Beyond all limit of what else i' the world,
Do love, prize, honour you.
(Act 111, scene one line 70-73)
Who is with the speaker?
- A. Miranda
- B. Gonzalo
- C. Prospero
- D. Ferdinand
A dirge is a poem sung `
- A. to send a child to sleep
- B. to make workers happy
- C. at a birthday party
- D. at a funeral
Read the extract below and answer the question:
......O, when mine eyes did see Olivia first,
Me thoughtshe purged the air of pestilence;
That instant was, I turned into a hert,
And my desires, like fell and cruel hounds,
E'er since pursue me.
(Act 1, Scene 1)
The effect of the figure of speech is to highlight Olivia's
- A. glittering eyes
- B. state of mind
- C. determination and hope
- D. beauty and purity
The all seeing sun
Ne'er saw match since first the world begun.
Based on William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet,
- A. Count Paris in praise of Juliet
- B. Romeo in praise of Juliet
- C. Romeo in praise of Roseline
- D. Lady Capulet in praise of Roseline
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: The Tempest
Read the extract and answer the question
Caliban: Ay, that I will; and I'II be wise hereafter,
And seek for grace. What a thrice-double ass
Was I, to takethis drunkard for a god,
And worship this dull foot!
Prospero : Go to; away!
Alonso : Hence, and bestowyour luggage where you found it.
Sebastian :Or stole, rather.
(Act V, scene one lines 293 - 299)
Sebastian says ''Or stole it, rather'' because the luggage
- A. does not belong to Caliban
- B. belongs to Caliban
- C. is not from the ship
- D. is from the ship
Salute to the Elephant is an example of _ poetry
- A. traditional
- B. dramatic
- C. epic
- D. narrative
Based on J.C. De Graft's Sons and Daughters:
Who is the paternal aunt to Aaron and Maanan?
- A. Mrs Bonu
- B. Hannah
- C. Fosuwa
- D. Adwao
A poem of fourteen lines is
- A. an elegy
- B. a dirge
- C. a sonnet
- D. an ode