Literature Past Questions And Answers

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2361

This question is based on Literary Appreciation.

'My song is the root touching other roots in a covenant below the crust...

Niyi Osundara: Waiting Laughters

The imagery used in the second line of the extract above is

  • A. olfactory
  • B. visual
  • C. tactile
  • D. auditory
View Discussion (0)JAMB 2009
2362

This question is based on Femi Osofisan's Morountodun.

....We have no electric, and we still drink tanwiji from the stream. Many of our children are in jail... We protested and your police mounted expeditions to maim us and reduce our houses to ashes...'

The images depicted are those of

  • A. poverty and opulence
  • B. opulence and brutality
  • C. suffering and depression
  • D. suffering and brutality
View Discussion (0)JAMB 2000
2363

NON —AFRICAN POETRY

Discuss the changing mood of the poet in "The Sun Rising"

View Discussion (0)WAEC 2015 THEORY
2364

The repetition of a consonant sound in quick succession of sound effect is

  • A. Alliteration
  • B. Pun
  • C. onomatopoeia
  • D. Assonance
View Discussion (0)JAMB 2021
2365

This question is based on Thomas Hardy's The Mayor of Casterbridge.

The statement, 'Time the magician, had wrought much here' is made when

  • A. Susan Newson sees Henchard at Casterbridge
  • B. Elizabeth-Jane discovers her true father
  • C. Farfrae gets married to Elizabeth-Jane
  • D. Farfrae becomes the Mayor of Casterbridge
View Discussion (0)JAMB 1998
2366

Chanson is a term denoting a

  • A. popular Korean verse
  • B. Song from the middle Ages
  • C. Form of love song
  • D. poem of Varied Metrical forms
View Discussion (0)JAMB 2022
2367

Read the extract below and answer the question

Lock up my doors, and when you hear the drum

And the vile squealing of the wry-necked fife.

Clamber not you up to the casements then

Nor thrust you up to the casements then

TO GAZE ON CHRISTIAN FOOLS WITH VARNISHED FACES.

(Act 11 sc V)

The dominant literary device used in the extract is

  • A. allusion
  • B. irony
  • C. symbolism
  • D. metonymy
View Discussion (0)WAEC 2002 OBJ
2368

This question is based on S.I Osammor''s The Triumph of the Water Lily.

The metaphor of the Water Lily'' in the novel is indicative of

  • A. the tragic demise of Odibe
  • B. death as the finality of man''s experience
  • C. victory over tribulation
  • D. the tragic demise of Nkem
View Discussion (0)JAMB 2002
2369

''True wit is nature to advantage drest.

What oft was thought but ne'er so well expressed''.

The extract is an example of

  • A. rhythm
  • B. pun
  • C. rhyme
  • D. paradox
View Discussion (0)WAEC 2004 OBJ
2370

AFRICAN DRAMA

Dele Charley: The Blood of a Stranger

Examine the role of Kindo as a warlord in the play.

View Discussion (0)WAEC 2016 THEORY