Literature Past Questions And Answers
Pick the odd item from the options listed below.
- A. Euphemism
- B. Oxymoron
- C. Hyperbole
- D. Rhythm
SECTION E: African Prose
AMMA DARKO: Faceless
Discuss parental negligence in the novel.
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I need to be cared for, like a potted plant.
A little pruning, a little watering, a little weeding and straightening up to bring out the best in me.
Based on Margaret Atwood, Cat's Eye, the me in the above passage is seen as
- A. dynamic, to be cherished
- B. an object to be protected
- C. an ornament to be admired
- D. something to be tended
Read the extract below and answer the question
Alack, what heinous sin is it in me
To be ashamed to be my father's child!
But though I am a daughter to his blood
I am not to his manners.....
(Act 11 Scene Three lines 15 - 18)
The speaker is in love with
- A. Gratiano
- B. Lorenzo
- C. Antonio
- D. Bassanio
This question is based on General Literature Principles and Literary Appreciation
'She certainly doesn't want to play Other Woman in some conventional, boring triangle. She doesn't feel like an other Woman; she isn't weedling or devious, she doesn't wear negligees or paint her toe nails. William may think she's exotic but she isn't really; she's straightforward, narrow and unadomed, a scientist; not of web-spinner, expert at the entrapment of husbands.
Life before Man by Margaret Atwo
- A. beautiful and vivacious
- B. dishonest and deceitful
- C. careless and dowdy
- D. manipulative and predatory
Beware her faintly failing health, and gentle gallands around her speed Illustrates_________
- A. Oxymoron
- B. Alliteration
- C. Synecdoche
- D. Repetition
This question is based on Ayi Kwei Armah's Fragments.
Naana's attitude is one of
- A. contempt
- B. neutrality
- C. fulfillment
- D. enthusiasm
The literary device used in the passage above is
- A. onomatopoeia
- B. parallelism
- C. metaphor
- D. simile
The persons created of presented in a literary work are
- A. heroes
- B. actors
- C. clowns
- D. characters
AFRICAN PROSE: UNEXPECTED JOY AT DAWN
Consider the contribution of Massa and Marshak to the development of the plot?
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