Literature Past Questions And Answers
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
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
NON —AFRICAN POETRY
Discuss the changing mood of the poet in "The Sun Rising"
View Discussion (0)WAEC 2015 THEORYThe repetition of a consonant sound in quick succession of sound effect is
- A. Alliteration
- B. Pun
- C. onomatopoeia
- D. Assonance
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
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
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
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
''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
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
