Literature Past Questions And Answers
A play on words for literary effect is_________
- A. A Paradox
- B. A Pun
- C. A Satire
- D. An Elegy
Section A: AFRICAN DRAMA
FRANK OGODO OGBECHE - Harvest of Corruption
How is ACP Yakubu presented in the play?
View Discussion (0)WAEC 2019 THEORYNON-AFRICAN DRAMA
NIKOLAI GOGOL: The Government Inspector
Discuss the significance of the encounter between the protesters and Hlestakov in the Mayor's house.
View Discussion (0)WAEC 2008 THEORYBased on General Literary Principles.
The three main unities in drama are those of
- A. action, time and place
- B. time, space and action
- C. place, time and space
- D. space, action and time
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: The Tempest
Read the extract and answer the question
Thou liest, most ignorant monster! I am in case to justle a constable. Why, thou deboshed fish, thou, was there ever man a coward that hath drunk so much sack as I today. Wilt thou tell a monstrous lie, being but half a fish and half a monster? (act 111, scene two lines 23-27)
The speaker is
- A. Stephano
- B. Caliban
- C. Trinculo
- D. Adrian
This question is based on William Shakespeare's Romeo's and Juliet.
'I will be brief, for my short date of breath is not so long as is a tedious tale.'
The statement above is in reference to the speaker's
- A. retirement
- B. imminent death
- C. state of health
- D. short-tempered nature
A poem consisting of fourteen lines is
- A. a narrative
- B. a sonnet
- C. an ode
- D. an elegy
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: A Midsummer Night's Dream
Read the extract below and answer the following question:
That fallen am I in dark uneven way,
Come, thou gentle day;
For if but once thou show me thy grey light,
I'll find , and revenge this spite.
Come, thou gentle day illustrates- A. apostrophe
- B. irony
- C. paradox
- D. euphemism
This question is based on Ernest Hemingway's The Old Man the Sea.
The pot of the novel revolves around
- A. the adventure of a great fish
- B. a man's adventure on the sea
- C. a man's fightwith a great fish
- D. a boy's fight with a great fish
This question is based on William Shakespeare's Macbeth.
......Out, out, brief candle!....
This statement was made when
- A. Macbeth received news of Banquo's death
- B. Banquo received news of his son's death
- C. Macbeth received news of his wife's death
- D. Macbeth killed King Duncan