Literature Past Questions And Answers
Read the poem below and answer the question
Dillgent foot-worker
legs lithe, foot loose
to frantic drums
and frenetic flutes
Acrobat strokes swift in the air
wrought masterly like
a frenzied antelope
Gyrating to the April music
of the lush Savannah
''frenetic flutes'' illustrates the use of
- A. hyperbole
- B. symbolism
- C. metaphor
- D. metonymy
A poem of lamentation on death is
- A. a lyric
- B. a ballad
- C. an ode
- D. an elegy
This question is based on Ernest Hemingway's The Old Man the Sea.
The author's thematic concern is
- A. the boy's assistance to the man
- B. life in a fishing community
- C. the achievements of the old man
- D. the ability to rise above defeat
NON-AFRICAN POETRY
Comment on the use of pun in Herberts the Pulley?
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- A. Burlesque
- B. Resolution
- C. Pantomime
- D. Opera
Which of the following best describes Literature? It
- A. tells the story of great men and women
- B. is a reflection of man's life in society
- C. is a record of past events
- D. describes what never happened and cannot happen
This question is based on William Golding's Lord of the Flies.
That the rescue ship was attracted not by a fire made for the purpose but by one aimed at smoking Ralph out for destruction is a case of
- A. oxymoron
- B. paradox
- C. irony
- D. catastrophe
This question is based on Selected Poems from Johnson, R et al(eds): New Poetry from Africa; Soyinka, (ed); Poems of Black Africa; Senanu, K.E, and Vicent, T.(ed.): A Selection of African Poetry; Gbemisola A.: Naked Soles; Hayward, J.(ed.); The Penguin Book of English Verse and Nwoga, D.(ed.): West African Verse.
One of the thematic preoccupations of Awonoor's The Anvil and the Hammer is
- A. clash of cultures
- B. revival of colonalism
- C. the changing face of colonial masters
- D. the good attributes of colonalism
A humorous scene in a play intended to ease tension is
- A. climax
- B. tragic-comedy
- C. comedy
- D. comic relief
An...... is an indirect and usually unfavourable remark
- A. allusion
- B. irony
- C. aside
- D. innuendo