Literature Past Questions And Answers

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2601

AFRICAN DRAMA

Joe De Graft: Sons and Daughters

Discuss the character and the role of Aunt Fosuma in the play

View Discussion (0)WAEC 2008 THEORY
2602

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: The Tempest

Read the extract and answer the question

Be not afeard; the isle is full of noises,

Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight, and hurt not.

Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments

Will hum about mine ears; and sometime voices,

That, if I then had waked after long sleep,

Will make me sleep again.And then, in dreaming,

The clouds methought would open, and show riches

Ready to drop upon me; that, when I waked,

I cried to dream again.

(Act 111, scene two, lines 132-140)

The speaker is

  • A. Ferdinand
  • B. Gonzalo
  • C. Alonso
  • D. Caliban
View Discussion (0)WAEC 2011 OBJ
2603

Read the stanza and the question

Pan, O great Pan, to thee

Thus do we sing!

Thou who keep'st chaste and free

As the young spring:

Ever be thy honour spake

From that place the more is broke

To the place day doth unyoke

The rhyme scheme of the stanza is

  • A. abcabcc
  • B. ababcdd
  • C. babacc
  • D. bcbccaa
View Discussion (0)WAEC 2015 OBJ
2604

This question is based on General Literary Principles

A metrical foot of two stressed or long syllables is called

  • A. a spondee
  • B. a trochee
  • C. an anapest
  • D. an iamb
View Discussion (0)JAMB 2009
2605

This question is based on selected poems from Ker,D. et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa; Soyinka,(ed.): Poems of Black Africa; Selection of African Poetry; Umukoro, M et al (eds.): Exam Focus: Literature in English; Eruvbetine, A,E. et al (eds.): Longman Examination Guides and Nwoga, D.I. (eds.): West Africa Verse.

In Kunene's A Heritage of Liberation,the persona is concerned with the

  • A. people's struggle for survival
  • B. intolerance of the new generation
  • C. celebration of African tradition
  • D. criticism of modern tradition
View Discussion (0)JAMB 2011
2606

The hero in a story is the

  • A. observer
  • B. protagonist
  • C. antagonist
  • D. actor
View Discussion (0)WAEC 1999 OBJ
2607

A stanza of four lines is a

  • A. couplet
  • B. quintet
  • C. septet
  • D. quatrain
View Discussion (0)WAEC 2014 OBJ
2608

In Angira's Expelled, the poet persona laments the

  • A. Loss of his property
  • B. Harrowing experiences from the stranger's visit
  • C. presence of the strangers
  • D. Problem of his family and their economic implications
View Discussion (0)JAMB 2021
2609

This question is based on J.C De Graft Sons and Daughters.

> 'I simply don't understand what's the matter with everybody today. everybody let me down, and ......

Where does the play takes place

  • A. In George's place
  • B. In Aunt's place
  • C. In Ofosu's place
  • D. On the street
View Discussion (0)JAMB 2010
2610

SECTION F: NON-AFRICAN PROSE

THE CASTLE OF OTRANTO - HORACE WALPOLE

Examine the relationship between Manfred and Hippolita

View Discussion (0)WAEC 2018 THEORY