Literature Past Questions And Answers

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411

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 setting is

  • A. a hall in the castle
  • B. the battlefield
  • C. a platform in front of the castle
  • D. the queen's room
View Discussion (0)WAEC 2008 OBJ
412

A story in which characters or actions represent abstract ideas or moral qualities is

  • A. an epic
  • B. a legend
  • C. an allegory
  • D. a satire
View Discussion (0)WAEC 2015 OBJ
413

A bitter remark intended to wound the feelings is

  • A. a satire
  • B. an allusion
  • C. a sarcasm
  • D. an ambiguity
View Discussion (0)WAEC 2007 OBJ
414

Careened',

These oily tears

Dripping down the tears on your depressed face,

Will one day be staunched, I swear!

Ibiwari Ikiriko,Oily Tears.

The tone of the poet is

  • A. supplicatory
  • B. optimistic
  • C. sympathetic
  • D. piteous
View Discussion (0)JAMB 2023
415

This question is based on selected poems from R. Johnson and D. Ker et al (eds.): New poetry from Africa;Wole Soyinka (ed.): Poems of Black Africa; K.E. Senanu and T. Vincent (eds.): A Selection of African poetry; M. Umukoro and A Sani et al (eds.): Exam Focus: Literature in English; A.E. Eruvbetine and M. Jibril et al (eds.): Longman Examination Guides: Poetry and E.W. Parker (ed.): A Pageant of Longer Poems.

'Hurrah for Thunder'by Christopher Okigbo could be regarded as a call to

  • A. beware of the animals in the jungle
  • B. beware of the effects of thunder
  • C. condemn the destructive qualities of elephants
  • D. be conscious and vigilant of man's abuse of power
View Discussion (0)JAMB 2000
416

AFRICAN PROSE

ASARE KONADU: A Woman In Her Prime

What does the death of Yaw Boakye reveal about the Brenhoma society?

View Discussion (0)WAEC 2014 THEORY
417

Read the extract below and answer question

What happened to a dream deferred?

Does it dry up Like a raisin in the sun?

Or fester like a sore

And then run?

Does it stink like rotten meat?

The mood of the poem is one of

  • A. joy
  • B. doubt
  • C. anger
  • D. certainty
View Discussion (0)WAEC 2021 OBJ
418

Read the extract below and answer the Question

.....Thus ornament is but the guilded shore

To a most dangerous sea...........

The seeming truth which cunning times put on

To entrap the wisest. Therefore thou gaudy gold

Hard food for Midas. I will none of thee.....

(Act 111 sc 11)

The first two lines convey an impression of

  • A. radiance
  • B. deception
  • C. beauty
  • D. destruction
View Discussion (0)WAEC 2003 OBJ
419

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

James Ofosu's desire is to see Maanan trained as

  • A. a choreographer
  • B. an attorney
  • C. an accountant
  • D. a surgeon
View Discussion (0)JAMB 2009
420

AFRICAN DRAMA

FEMI OSOFISAN: Women of Owu

Discuss Maye Okunade's reasons for attacking Owu Kingdom

View Discussion (0)WAEC 2013 THEORY