Literature Past Questions And Answers
In a play, unfolding events reach their peak in the
- A. climax
- B. denouement
- C. catharsis
- D. conflict
A literary work is didactic f it
- A. entertains
- B. comforts
- C. criticizes
- D. teaches
AFRICAN DRAMA
FEMI OSOFISAN: Women of Owu
Comment on the agreement between Anlugbua and Lawumi to punish the allied forces
View Discussion (0)WAEC 2012 THEORYNON-AFRICAN DRAMA
ROBERT BOLT: A Man For All Seasons
Discuss the notion that Sir Thomas More is naive
View Discussion (0)WAEC 2009 THEORYSpeaker: Let me speak like yourself and
Lay a sentence
Which, as a grise or step, may help these lovers, When
remediea are past, the griefs are ended
By seeing the worst, which late on hopes depended
(Act !, Scene Three, lines 198-201)
These lovers refers to_________
- A. Iago and Emilia
- B. Cassio and Bianca
- C. Roderigo and Desdemona
- D. Othello and Desdemona
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)
The speaker is
- A. Ferdinand
- B. Stephano
- C. Miranda
- D. Prospero
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: Hamlet
Read the extract and answer the question
Think it no more:
For nature, crescent, does not grow alone
Inthews and bulk, as this temple waxes,
The inward service of the mind and soul
Grows wide withal. Perhaps he loves you now.
And now no soil or cantle doth besmirch
The virtue of his will
(Act One, Scene 111, Lines 10 - 16)
Thews and bulk means
- A. power
- B. body and soul
- C. strength and size
- D. brain
A stanza of four lines is a (n)
- A. octave
- B. couplet
- C. quatrain
- D. tercet
This question is based on General Literary Principles.
What sustains the interest of a reader in all literature is
- A. ambiguity
- B. characterization
- C. suspense
- D. plot
A short single act drama is called____________
- A. Opera
- B. Allusion
- C. Farce
- D. Playlet

