Literature Past Questions And Answers
This question is based on Wole Soyinka's
The Trials of Brother Jero.
The spotlight on the dark stage in the opening of the reveals
- A. Amope
- B. the prophet
- C. Jero's house
- D. Chume
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OSCAR WILDE: The Importance of Being Earnest
Discuss the significance of the revelation of Jack's true identity
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Read the passage below and answer the question
The fact was that, no sooner had the sickles began o play than, the
atmosphere suddenly felt as if cress would grow in it without other
nourishment. it rubbed people's cheeks like damp flannel when they
walked abroad: There was a gusty, high warm wind: isolated raindrops atarred the window-panes at remote distancees; the sunlight
would flap out like a quickly opened fan, throw the pattern of the window
upon the floor of the room in a milky, colourless shine, and withdraw as suddenly as it had passed.
The passage deals with
- A. atmosphere
- B. temperature
- C. scene
- D. clouds
The most effective way of monitoring public opinion is
- A. by examining the questions asked by journalists
- B. by the frequency of the press releases of pressure groups
- C. by referendum
- D. through opinion poll
An elegy is a poem of ________
- A. mourning
- B. complain
- C. hope
- D. joy
Read the extract and answer question
Said the Lion: ''On music I dote
But something is wrong with my throat
When I practice a scale
The listeners quail
And flee at the first note''.
The rhyme scheme of the poem is
- A. aabba
- B. ababa
- C. ababb
- D. abbaa
Read the extract and answer the question
At mine unworthiness, that dare not offer
What I desire to give; and much less take
What I shall die to want. But this is trifling;
And all the more it seeks to hide itself,
The bigger bulk it shows. Hence, bashful cunning!
And prompt me, plain and holy innocence!
(Act 111, scene one lines 78 - 83)
After this speech, the character addressed
- A. sings
- B. dances
- C. kneels
- D. weeps
The writer's attitude is one of ________
- A. anger
- B. indifference
- C. sympathy
- D. mockery
This question is based on General Literary Principles.
A figure of speech in which an absent person or an object is addressed as if present is referred to as
- A. assonance
- B. apostrophe
- C. elegy
- D. personification
Based on Femi Osofisan's Women of Owu, Balogun Kusa is killed by a
- A. soldier
- B. god
- C. herbalist
- D. lunatic