Literature Past Questions And Answers
Its a matter of sad joy Iillustrates__________
- A. Metonymy
- B. Oxymoron
- C. Euphemism
- D. Irony
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: A Midsummer Night's Dream
Read the extract below and answer the following question:
The boat nodded in timing with the gentle
Bobbing of the float on the unhurrying
Tide as the angler awaited the bite and
Pull of a salmon
The extract presents the image of a- A. enough time
- B. bright day
- C. dark night
- D. calm weather
This question is based on Ferdinand Oyono's The Old Man and the Medal
'' We are here to die of rage! say die of rage because this time the uncircumcised have gone too far...''
The word uncircumcised in the statement above by Nti refers to
- A. Nua and Mvondo
- B. the whites
- C. the people of Doum
- D. the white farmers
The term used for the unraveling of the complications of the plot at the end of a literary works is
- A. climax
- B. denouement
- C. conflict
- D. tension
THIS QUESTION IS BASED ON SELECTED POEMS FROM wOLE sOYINKA (ED) pOEMS OF BLACK AFRICA, E.K. SENANU AND T. VINCENT (EDS.) SELECTION OF AFRICAN POETRY AND E.W. PARKER (ED.) A PAGEANT OF LONGER POEMS.
The effect of the repetition of the words
'There where' in Lenne Peters' The Fence' is that
- A. a mood of bitterness is created
- B. the poet easily reveals his anger
- C. it captures the poet's desperation
- D. it underscores the poet's sense of fulfilment
This question is based on General Literary Principles.
An insincere literary work is known as
- A. parody
- B. paradox
- C. satire
- D. pathos
In Buchi Emecheta's The Joys of Motherhood, Nnu Ego is blamed for the misfortunes of her
- A. parents
- B. husband
- C. siblings
- D. children
This question is based on William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet.
What can you infer about Benvolio based on his interaction with Romeo and parents
- A. Benvolio is a troublemaker
- B. Benvolio is a cabinet maker
- C. Benvolio is kingmaker
- D. Benvolio is a peacemaker
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: Hamlet
Read the extract below and answer the question
A : What, hasthis thing appeared again tonight?
B : I have seen nothing
(Act I, Scene one, lines 21-22)
Speaker A is
- A. Bernado
- B. Horatio
- C. Francisco
- D. Marcellus
The main aim of caricature is to_______?
- A. describe
- B. expose
- C. emphasize
- D. ridicule