Literature Past Questions And Answers
She swallowed it all, just like a nasty pill. The literary device employed here is
- A. alliteration
- B. metaphor
- C. simile
- D. apostrophe
This question is based on General Literary Appreciation.
O! Ceremony,show me but thy worth What is thy soul of adoration
The figure of speech in the lines above is
- A. antithesis
- B. invocation
- C. personification
- D. apostrophe
NON-AFRICAN DRAMA
NIKOLAI GOGOL: The Government inspector
Discuss the theme of deception in the play.
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The Old Man and the Sea epitomizes
- A. the relationship between a man and a fish
- B. the vain expectations of man
- C. life on the high seas
- D. a fulfilled life
This question is based on General Literary Principles
The form of poetry that celebrates with nostalgia the ideal world of the countryside is referred to as
- A. an ode
- B. a ballad
- C. an elegy
- D. a pastoral
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. epic
- B. eulogy
- C. ballad
- D. elegy
This question is based on General Literary Appreciation.
Hide me now, when night children haunt the earth
Wole Soyinka:Night
Night children in the stanza above reflects the consciousness of
- A. birds
- B. armed robbers
- C. animals
- D. spirit beings
Foreshadowing is a device used to
- A. prepare the reader for the direction a plot will take
- B. introduce the plot
- C. shed light on events through background information
- D. recall the past
This question is based on selection poems from Johnson, R. et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa; Soyinka, W.. (ed.):Poems of Black African; Senanu, K.E. and Vincent, T. (eds.):A Selection of African Poetry; Maduka, C.T. et al: Exam Focus: Literature in English; Eruvbetine, A.E. et al (eds.): Longman Examination Guides and Nwoga, D. I. (ed.):West African Verse
The concern of the poet in Serenade is to
- A. boast about the lover's wealth
- B. appeal to the lady in question
- C. examine the gloomy side of marriage
- D. express the lady's sense of grief
This question is based on General Literary Principles and Appreciation.
A stanza of three lines linked by rhyme is generally called a
- A. couplet
- B. ballad
- C. tercet
- D. quatrain