Literature Past Questions And Answers
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 THEORYWILLIAM 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
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
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
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
The hero in a story is the
- A. observer
- B. protagonist
- C. antagonist
- D. actor
A stanza of four lines is a
- A. couplet
- B. quintet
- C. septet
- D. quatrain
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
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
SECTION F: NON-AFRICAN PROSE
THE CASTLE OF OTRANTO - HORACE WALPOLE
Examine the relationship between Manfred and Hippolita
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