Literature Past Questions And Answers
Read the lines and answer Question
Marching along fifty score strong
Great hearted gentlemen singing this song
- A. assonance
- B. consonance
- C. onomatopoeia
- D. repetition
This question is based on Ernest Hermingway's The Old Man and the Sea.
The struggle between the old man and the fish symbolizes
- A. the blood thirsty nature of sharks
- B. man's refusal to grow old
- C. man's struggle for survival in a harsh world
- D. the uncertainty of life in a cruel world
A long narrative which depicts country life is a/an
- A. ballad
- B. epic
- C. ode
- D. pastoral
This question is based on Literary Principles.
'The morning mist
and chimney smoke
of White City Jabavu
flowed thick yellow
as pus oozing
from a gigantic sore'
'An Abandoned Bundle' by Oswald M. Mtsha 'i
The simile above gives rise to
- A. a graphic description
- B. an abstract presentation
- C. a philosophical statement
- D. graffitti
The dominant mood in Tennyson's Crossing the Bar is that of___________
- A. Acceptance
- B. Anxiety
- C. Uncertainty
- D. Readiness
This question is based on J.P. Clark's The Wives' Revolt.
In their flight, the women settle at lyara in order to
- A. forestall reconciliation
- B. seek peace
- C. cure cross-piece
- D. hurt their husbands
Read the poem and answer the question
In front of the gate, the guard stands with his rifle,
Above, untidy clouds are carrying away the moon,
The bedbugs are swarming around like army tanks on manoeuvers
While the mosquitoes form squadrons, attacking like fighter planes.
My heart travels a thousand miles towards my native land.
My dream interwines with sadness like a stein of a thousand threads,
Innocent, I have endured a whole year in prison
Using my tears for ink, I turn my thoughts into verses.
The impression created of the persona is one of
- A. anger
- B. competitiveness
- C. reconciliation
- D. resignation
Read the poem and answer Questions 26 to 30.
Oft in the stilly night
Ere slumber's chain has bound me
Fond memory brings the light
of other days around me:
The smiles, the tears
of boyhood years.
The words of love then spoken;
The eyes that shone
How dimm'd and.gone
The cheerful hearts now broken!
Thus in the stilly night
Ere slumber's chain has bound me.
The theme is about the poet's _________
- A. broken love affairs.
- B. fee the stilly night.
- C. sleepless night.
- D. yearning for happier times gone
NON AFRICAN DRAMA
Lorraine Hansberry: A Raisin in the Sun
Consider the importance of of the check in the play.
View Discussion (0)WAEC 2016 THEORYBased on Abubakar Gimba's Witnesses to Tears.
The witnesses to the tears in the novel are
- A. Saahir and Lahab
- B. Lahab and Hussaina
- C. Lahab and Sagiir
- D. Al-Amin and Hussaina