Literature Past Questions And Answers
This question is based on Zaynab Alkali's The Stillborn.
By allowing Sule to return to the village in spite of his earlier vow, the author suggests the existence of
- A. a destiny that awaits mankind
- B. a bond between man and his roots
- C. homesickness in city dwellers
- D. kind feelings in all villagers
Read the extract and answer the question:
I do I know not what, and fear to find
Mine eye to great a flatterer for my mind
Fate, show thy force; ourselves we do not owe,
'What is decreed must be, and be this so
(Act 1, Scene 5)
How does fate treat the speaker at the end of the play?
- A. She marries Sebastian
- B. He marries Maria
- C. She marries Orsino
- D. He falls in love with Olivia
The dominant device used in drama is
- A. stage direction
- B. dialogue
- C. characterisation
- D. solioquy
This question is based on zaynab Alkali's The Stillborn.
The dominant tone of the novel is one of
- A. detachment
- B. anger
- C. despondency
- D. militancy
NON AFRICAN PROSE
WILLIAM GOLDING: Lord Of The Flies
Consider the view that the struggle for power is a major issue in the novel.
View Discussion (0)WAEC 2013 THEORYSection B: NON AFRICAN DRAMA
LORRAINE HANSBERRY - A Raisin In The Sun
Comment on the character and role of Asagai in the play.
View Discussion (0)WAEC 2019 THEORYI know not, Amina
When again on your brightness of smile
My eyes will rest awhile
Nor when again of your softness of voice
My ears will rest awhile
When again into the silver moonshine
You early at night or late venture
As is your wont in weather fine
Astute, awake in bed as doters may, i'll lie
Dreaming of grasping your velvety texture
My ears will drink by eager of choice illustrates________
- A. Oxymoron
- B. Onomatopoeia
- C. Synecdoche
- D. Meiosis
In a play, a long speech by a single character in the presence of other characters is called
- A. soliloquy
- B. monologue
- C. aside
- D. prologue
Read the extract and answer the question
Y : Do you know me, my lord?
Z : Excellent well;you are a fishmonger
Y : Not I, my lord.
Z : Then I would you were so honest a man.
Y : Honest, my lord!
Z : Ay, sir; to be honest, as this world goes. Is to be one man picked out of ten thousand.
(Act Two, Scene II, lines 173-179)
Speakers Y and Z are
- A. Polonius and Hamlet
- B. Claudius and Laertes
- C. Laertes and Horatio
- D. Marcellus and Reynaldo
This question is based on General Literary Principles.
'Whether the nymph shall break Diana's law, Or some frail China jar receive a flaw; Or stain her honour, or her new brocade;.
The Rape of the Lock by Alexander Pope
The figure of speech used here is
- A. pathetic fallacy
- B. similitude
- C. repetition
- D. zeugma

