Literature Past Questions And Answers
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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
........... Is the location of the action of the plot
- A. Setting
- B. Narrative technique
- C. Point of view
- D. Characterization
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
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
A novel is usually written in
- A. prose
- B. verse
- C. scenes
- D. stanzas
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
The mood of the poem is
- A. jubilant
- B. sad
- C. gloomy
- D. romantic
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
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
This question is based on William Shakespeare's Othello.
Othello kills himself with a
- A. bottle
- B. sword
- C. gun
- D. knife

