Literature Past Questions And Answers

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2151

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M : No, as I am a man.

N : There's nothing ill can dwell in such a temple\If the ill spirit have so fair a house,

Good things will strive to dwell with it.

(Act 1, scene two lines 459 - 462)

The speakers are

  • A. arguing
  • B. in prison
  • C. dancing
  • D. in love
View Discussion (0)WAEC 2012 OBJ
2152

........... Is the location of the action of the plot

  • A. Setting
  • B. Narrative technique
  • C. Point of view
  • D. Characterization
View Discussion (0)WAEC 2015 OBJ
2153

This question is based on General Literary Principles

A poem written to celebrate one's wedding is

  • A. a pastoral
  • B. an epithalamium
  • C. a prothalamium
  • D. a terza rima
View Discussion (0)JAMB 2002
2154

This question is based on Ola Rotimi's Ovonramwen Nogbaisi.

GALLWAY (untying a parcel). 'Your Highness, our Queen, Her Royal Majesty Queen Victoria, asks us to extend her very best wishes to you;...... What is contained in the parcel which Gallway unties?

  • A. An inner tube of a bicycle
  • B. A royal message from Queen Victoria
  • C. A framed portrait of Queen Victoria
  • D. A bottle of gin
View Discussion (0)JAMB 1992
2155

A novel is usually written in

  • A. prose
  • B. verse
  • C. scenes
  • D. stanzas
View Discussion (0)WAEC 1998 OBJ
2156

This question is based on General Literary Principles.

A quatrain is

  • A. the last line of a poem
  • B. the fourth line of a sonnet
  • C. a poem which ends with a question
  • D. a stanza consisting of four lines
View Discussion (0)JAMB 1992
2157

The mood of the poem is

  • A. jubilant
  • B. sad
  • C. gloomy
  • D. romantic
View Discussion (0)WAEC 2016 OBJ
2158

These questions are based on General Literary Principles.

A plot structure that defies chronology can be described as

  • A. circular
  • B. episodic
  • C. organic
  • D. open-ended
View Discussion (0)JAMB 2020
2159

This question is based on selected poems from R. Johnson and D. Ker et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa : Wole Soyinka (ed.): Poems of Black Africa; K.E. Senanu and T. Vincent (eds.): A selection of African Poetry and E.W.Parker (ed.): A Pageant of Longer Poems.

The most dominant pair of poetic device in Mtshall's 'Nightfall in Soweto 'is

  • A. simile and repetition
  • B. rhythm and metaphor
  • C. metaphor and alliteration
  • D. repetition and personification
View Discussion (0)JAMB 1999
2160

This question is based on William Shakespeare's Othello.

Othello kills himself with a

  • A. bottle
  • B. sword
  • C. gun
  • D. knife
View Discussion (0)JAMB 2016