Literature Past Questions And Answers
NON-AFRICAN POETRY
What is the poet's attitude to affliction in "On His Blindness"?
View Discussion (0)WAEC 2008 THEORYA scene in fiction enacting past events is __________
- A. allusion
- B. foreshadow
- C. flashback
- D. interlude
This question is based on Ernest Hemingway's The Old Man the Sea.
'Th old man was dreaming about the lions suggests that he is
- A. going to hunt lions
- B. still determined and hopeful
- C. afraid of future struggle
- D. about to enter new jungles
Read the extract below and answer question
But, masters, here are our parts, and I am to entreat you, request you, and desire you, to con them by to-morrow night; and meet me in the place wood, a mile without the town, by moonlight. There will we rehearse: for if we meet in the city, we shall be dogged with company, and Our devices known.
(Act I, Scene two Lines 79-84)
The speaker is A. Bottom B. PeaseblossomC.
- A. Bottom
- B. Peaseblossom
- C. Quince
- D. Puck
This question is based on Literary Appreciation.
The imagery created in the excerpt below is achieved through
'........They do not see the funeral piles
At home eating up the forests.......'
_ _ J.P. -Clark: Casualties
- A. metaphor
- B. personification
- C. synecdoche
- D. antonym
The poetic device in the expression Rage is chief is ___
- A. oxymoron
- B. simile
- C. metaphor
- D. hyperbole
A didactic piece is one in which the writer
- A. teaches human lessons
- B. condemns human foibles
- C. dictates to his readers
- D. discusses dialectic themes
Based on William Shakespeare's The Tempest, Before the shipwreck that occurred at the beginning of the play, Prospero and his daughter lived in the island for
- A. eighteen months
- B. two decades
- C. twelve years
- D. fourty days
This question is based on Femi Ademiluyi''s The New Man
In terms of religion, the people of Ipaja can be described as
- A. conformists
- B. liberals
- C. fanatics
- D. puritans
This question is based on selected poems from Ker, D, et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa; Syinka, W. (ed.): Poems of Black African; Senanu, K.E. and Vincent, T. (eds.): A Selection of African Poetry; Umukoro, M. et al (eds.): Exam Focus: Literature-in-Enghish; Eruvbetine, A. E. et al (eds.): Longman Examination Guides and Nwoga, D. I. (ed.)west African Verse.
The allusion to Eurydice's experience in Robert Frost's Wild Grapes in an imagery of death and
- A. reincarnation
- B. resurrection
- C. rebirth
- D. growth