Literature Past Questions And Answers

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2491

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
View Discussion (0)JAMB 1998
2492

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
View Discussion (0)WAEC 1999 OBJ
2493

The dominant device used in drama is

  • A. stage direction
  • B. dialogue
  • C. characterisation
  • D. solioquy
View Discussion (0)WAEC 2006 OBJ
2494

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
View Discussion (0)JAMB 1995
2495

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 THEORY
2496

Section 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 THEORY
2497

I 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
View Discussion (0)WAEC 2017 OBJ
2498

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
View Discussion (0)WAEC 1998 OBJ
2499

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
View Discussion (0)WAEC 2006 OBJ
2500

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
View Discussion (0)JAMB 1992