Literature Past Questions And Answers
AFRICAN DRAMA: LET ME DIE ALONE
Consider Lamboi and Musa as conspirators.
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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 rehearsal is in preparation for
- A. Egeus' acceptance of Lysander
- B. the dance of the faries
- C. Theseus' wedding
- D. Titania waking up from a dream
Which of the following is NOT true of balled?
- A. They were originally sung
- B. They are mostly part of oral tradition
- C. They tell a popular story
- D. They are written in iambic metre
A character whose actions are predictable in a literary work is _________
- A. round character
- B. a flat character
- C. the hero
- D. the villain
The most intense part of a conflict is the
- A. resolution
- B. climax
- C. denouement
- D. deus ex machina
This question is based on William Shakespeare's Macbeth.
Which of the following is the most fitting moral lesson that the reader can derive from the play?
- A. It is not good to be over -ambitious
- B. A determined wife is a curse to the husband
- C. Power is sweet but always over-used
- D. Every evil is punishable
A poem is said to be good if it________
- A. has elevated style
- B. has rhyme and reason
- C. is difficult to understand
- D. has a regular rhythm
SECTION E - African Prose
BAYO ADEBOWALE: Lonely Days
How does Ajumobi’s death contribute to the development of the plot?
View Discussion (0)WAEC 2018 THEORYThis question is based on George Bernard Shaw's Arms and the Man.
'That is a photograph of the gentleman - the patriot and hero - to whom I am betrothed',. The gentleman referred to in this passage is
- A. Bluntschli
- B. Sergius
- C. Petkoff
- D. Don Quixote
Based on William Shakespeare's The Tempest,the character associated with savagery in the play is
- A. Ferdinand
- B. Ariel
- C. Stephano
- D. Caliban