Literature Past Questions And Answers

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2731

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

Pan is used here as

  • A. an allusion
  • B. symbol
  • C. irony
  • D. metonymy
View Discussion (0)WAEC 2015 OBJ
2732

These question is based on J.C. De Graft's Sons and Daughters.

James: Let me swear, woman. And I will swear by my father's coffin that if....

The speaker is referring to

  • A. Fosuwa
  • B. Awere
  • C. Maanan
  • D. Hannah
View Discussion (0)JAMB 2013
2733

Read the extract below and answer question

But, masters, here are our parts, and I am to entreat you, request you, and desire you, to con them by to-morrow night; and meet me in the place wood, a mile without the town, by moonlight. There will we rehearse: for if we meet in the city, we shall be dogged with company, and Our devices known.

(Act I, Scene two Lines 79-84)

The rehearsal is in preparation for

  • A. Egeus' acceptance of Lysander
  • B. the dance of the faries
  • C. Theseus' wedding
  • D. Titania waking up from a dream
View Discussion (0)WAEC 2021 OBJ
2734

Adeoti's Ambush may be best described as____________

  • A. Prosaic
  • B. Lyrical
  • C. Analogical
  • D. Metaphorical
View Discussion (0)JAMB 2019
2735

This question is based on George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four.

In the novel, Orwell attempts to

  • A. satirize the artificiality of a machine controlled society
  • B. eulogize the beauty of the socialist system
  • C. condemn the disgusting hypocrisy of all communist systems
  • D. laud the boundless possibilities of the human intellect
View Discussion (0)JAMB 2008
2736

What basically distinguishes Literature from other disciplines is its

  • A. use of creative imagination
  • B. exposition of human experience
  • C. communication of ideas
  • D. portrayal of places
View Discussion (0)JAMB 1994
2737

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: Hamlet

Read the extract and answer the question

It is here,......thou art slain;

No medicine in the world can do thee good,

In thee there is not half an hour of life;

The treacherous instrument is in thy hand,

Unbated and envenom d: the foul practice

Hath turn'd itself on me; lo; here I lie,

(Act 5, Scene Two, Lines 298-303)

The queen has just

  • A. left the scene
  • B. died
  • C. run away
  • D. arrived
View Discussion (0)WAEC 2008 OBJ
2738

Answer all the questions in this section

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: The Tempest

Read the extract and anser the question.

Silence ! One word more

Shall make me chide thee, if not hate thee. What!

An advocate for an impostor! Hush!

(Act 1,Scene Two, lines 478 - 480)

The ''impostor'' is

  • A. Sebastian
  • B. Antonio
  • C. Ferdinand
  • D. Alonso
View Discussion (0)WAEC 2015 OBJ
2739

This question is based on Richard Wright's Native Son.

You want to know something then you run like a rabbit'

The device used in the line above is

  • A. pun
  • B. personification
  • C. metaphor
  • D. simile
View Discussion (0)JAMB 2016
2740

Read the extract below and answer the question

.....I owe you much, and like a wilful youth

That which I owe is lost: but if you please

To shoot another arrow that self way

which you did shoot the first.

And thankfully rest debtor for the first

(Act 1 sc 1)

The speaker is

  • A. symbolism
  • B. imagery
  • C. metaphor
  • D. allusion
View Discussion (0)WAEC 2003 OBJ