Literature Past Questions And Answers
This question is based on selected poems from Ker, D, et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa; Syinka, W. (ed.): Poems of Black African; Senanu, K.E. and Vincent, T. (eds.): A Selection of African Poetry; Umukoro, M. et al (eds.): Exam Focus: Literature-in-Enghish; Eruvbetine, A. E. et al (eds.): Longman Examination Guides and Nwoga, D. I. (ed.)west African Verse.
Kalu Uka's Earth to Earth concerned with the
- A. fertilization of the earth by moisture
- B. loss of man's property
- C. seasonal flow of nature
- D. happy beginning and sad end of life
This question is based on Ahmed Yerima's Attahiru.
How does Lugard describe the battle between the white man and the Sokoto Caliphate?
- A. One between superior and inferior powers
- B. One of life and death
- C. One between Christians and Muslims
- D. One of the superiority of wills
Based on Ernest Hemingway's The Old Man and The Sea
The novel demonstrates the
- A. struggle of man against defeat
- B. attempt to catch fish
- C. desire to understand life
- D. influence of the sea on man
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
The poet's tone is one of__________
- A. Anxiety
- B. Defiance
- C. Nostalgia
- D. Regret
A device that reveals a discrepancy between appearance and reality is
- A. oxymoron
- B. irony
- C. antithesis
- D. bathos
NON-AFRICAN POETRY
Examine the use of poetic devices in "The Solitary Reaper."
View Discussion (0)WAEC 2006 THEORY''She waited for him for a thousand years'' illustrates
- A. euphemism
- B. hyperbole
- C. assonance
- D. ellipsis
Love blurs your vision; but after it recedes,you
can see more clearly than ever. It's like the tide
going out revealing whatever has been thrown away
and sunk; broken bottles, old gloves,rusting
pop-cans, nibbled fish bodies, bones.The ruin you've made.
Margaret Atwood, Cat's Eye
- A. clean up broken bottles
- B. come to self-knowledge
- C. realize your vision is blurred
- D. surrender to your weakness
The big boulder blasted the house illustrates _________
- A. alliteration
- B. contrast
- C. irony
- D. paradox
This question is based on Oliver Goldsmith's She Stoops To Conquer.
The story of the play would have been different but for
- A. Miss Hardcastle's attitude towards her guests
- B. Mr. Hardcastle's ignorance of Young Marlow's true identity
- C. the insensitivity of Mrs Hardcastle
- D. Tony's misinformation of Young Marlow and Mr. Hastings