Literature Past Questions And Answers

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2371

Read the stanza and answer this question

For days I wept and felt depressed

The one and all I loved had left

But then on me our Bill impressed

'Your love is where she looks bereft'

The lines are iambic

  • A. pentameter
  • B. trimeter
  • C. tetrameter
  • D. hexameter
View Discussion (0)WAEC 2016 OBJ
2372

AFRICAN DRAMA

FEMI OSOFISAN: Women of Owu

Justify the assertion that the people of Owu are the architects of their own destruction.

View Discussion (0)WAEC 2011 THEORY
2373

This question is based on General Literary Principles.

When a protagonist is purged of the dominant emotions of pity and fear at the end of a tragedy, it is called

  • A. catharsis
  • B. dementia
  • C. purgation
  • D. redemption
View Discussion (0)JAMB 1997
2374

A character who creates humour in a play is a

  • A. flat character
  • B. heroine
  • C. round character
  • D. clown
View Discussion (0)WAEC 2004 OBJ
2375

Condensed use of language is a dominant feature of ___________

  • A. comedy
  • B. poetry
  • C. prose
  • D. tragedy
View Discussion (0)WAEC 2020 OBJ
2376

In drama, comic relief often occurs in

  • A. comedies
  • B. tragedies
  • C. historical plays
  • D. romantic plays
View Discussion (0)WAEC 2014 OBJ
2377

This question is based on selected poems from Wole Soyinka (ed.) poems of Black Africa, E.K. Senanu and T. Vincent (eds.) Selection of African poetry and E.W. Parker (ed.) A Pageant of Longer Poems.

In' Sunset Sonata', the description 'To stones that strangle the dawn,'is used

  • A. metaphorically
  • B. literally
  • C. imaginatively
  • D. figuratively
View Discussion (0)JAMB 1993
2378

George Orwell's Animal Farm is an example of a

  • A. farce
  • B. burlesque
  • C. satire
  • D. lampoon
View Discussion (0)WAEC 2000 OBJ
2379

A short play is also called a

  • A. farce
  • B. novelette
  • C. playlet
  • D. slapstick
View Discussion (0)WAEC 2016 OBJ
2380
Jibunoh was simply a difficult man. He was hated by all his neighbours and deserted by his relations. He was the first and only person to beat a policeman in the entire village. He also had ten cases instituted against him for either stealing or violating the rights of others. He had no regard for deanery or normal conduct. No lover of peace or order could be his friends. It is not surprising that his death elicited jubilation rather than mourning'

The passage above reveals that Jibunoh symbolizes

  • A. insanity
  • B. wickedness
  • C. lawlessness
  • D. isolation
View Discussion (0)JAMB 2023