Literature Past Questions And Answers
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 use of enjambment in Cheney-Coker's Myopia emphasizes the
- A. anger of the peasants
- B. beauty of the poem
- C. distressed mood of the persona
- D. arrangement of the stanzas
This question is based on general Literary principles
Plays are basically meant to
- A. change the world
- B. be read for pleasure
- C. be presented on stage
- D. keep people out of trouble
This question is based on General Literary Principles.
Satire employs the use of
- A. onomatopeia
- B. irony
- C. synecdoche
- D. melancholy
This question is based on Ademiluyi's
- A. As soon as Ayo becomes the cocoa inspector
- B. Shortly before the beggars strike
- C. As soon as his mother starts kicking against it.
- D. After their contemptuous treatment at the hands of Layeni
This question is based on Selected Poems from Johnson, R et al(eds): New Poetry from Africa; Soyinka, (ed); Poems of Black Africa; Senanu, K.E, and Vicent, T.(ed.): A Selection of African Poetry; Gbemisola A.: Naked Soles; Hayward, J.(ed.); The Penguin Book of English Verse and Nwoga, D.(ed.): West African Verse.
Piano and Drums according to Okara's Piano and Drums are musical instruments of __________
- A. contradictory tunes
- B. complementary tunes
- C. different cultural milieus
- D. different rhythmic appeals
NON-AFRICAN DRAMA
ROBERT BOLT: A Man For All Seasons
Examine the characters of Sir Thomas More and Master Cromwell.
View Discussion (0)WAEC 2010 THEORY''That it will rain is not unlike'' illustrates the use of
- A. irony
- B. lilotes
- C. metaphor
- D. metonymy
At the fall of their house, the widow lost her husband, her sewing machine and her ear-rings illustrates
- A. bathos
- B. epigram
- C. pathos
- D. oxymoron
The pattern of a poem without reference to its content is referred to as the
- A. limerick
- B. metre
- C. free verse
- D. form
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: The Tempest
Read the extract and answer the question
Be not afeard; the isle is full of noises,
Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight, and hurt not.
Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
Will hum about mine ears; and sometime voices,
That, if I then had waked after long sleep,
Will make me sleep again.And then, in dreaming,
The clouds methought would open, and show riches
Ready to drop upon me; that, when I waked,
I cried to dream again.
(Act 111, scene two, lines 132-140)
Another character presents is
- A. Trinculo
- B. Ferdinand
- C. Miranda
- D. Prospero

