Literature Past Questions And Answers
This question is based on S.I Osammor's The Triumph of the Water Lily.
The persona of the novel sees death as a welcome event provided one
- A. has loved and cared for one's spouse
- B. has left behind children to be remembered by
- C. has fulfilled one's destiny on earth
- D. will haunt the living for the past offences
Read the extract and answer the question
Work on,
My medicine work! Thus credulous fools are caught,
And many worthy and chaste dames even thus,
All guiltless, meet reproach. What ho! My lord!
My lord, I say!
(Act IV, Scene One, Lines 45 - 49)
''medicine'' in the extract refers to the speaker's
- A. hatred
- B. passion
- C. lies
- D. loyalty
NON-AFRICAN DRAMA
NIKOLAI GOGOL: The Government Inspector
How is corruption exposed in the play?
View Discussion (0)WAEC 2007 THEORYBased on George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty Four
Winston writes that the hope of the country lies on the
- A. ministry of the truth
- B. proles
- C. party
- D. party
Yet, let me flap this bug with gilded wings,
This painted child of dirt, that stinks and stings
The alliteration in stinks and stings effectively conveys__________-
- A. Distaste
- B. Admiration
- C. Indifference
- D. Approval
Read the poem and answer the question
I'm going soldering:
Mad the rhythm runs
With drumming and with trumpeting
And glory of the guns.
I've come home again:
I know that blood is red;
I know how sodden falls the rain
Where flesh lies dead.
The dominant sound device in the second stanza is
- A. alliteration
- B. assonance
- C. onomatopeia
- D. repetition
Read the passage below and answer the question:
The long column of misery tended continually to grow longer, as the more robust struggled to get as far as possible from the pursuing French, and as the weaker fell farther and farther behind. There were enough weaklings in all conscience; even in summer the had been badly clothed, and even in victory insufficiently fed, and now it was winter, and Espinosa had been fought and lost, and the route of the retreat lay away from the fertile plains and up into the inhospitable mountains. The rain had fallen upon them in deluges for days and now as they climbed higher it was turning into sleet. and a bitter cold wind blew. Ahead of them they could see the snow lying thick on the mountain passes through which they would have to climb, without food or fuel or rest, and with the terror of the French to urge them on. Disease had come inevitably to complete the work so well begun by hunger, exposure, and the sword
The writer's mood is one of
- A. anger
- B. fear
- C. pity
- D. disappointment
This question is based on Richard Wright's Native Son
The story is narrated using the
- A. Omniscient
- B. limited omniscient
- C. objective
- D. first person
“I cannot rest from travel: I will drink, life to the lees, all times I have enjoyed greatly, have suffered greatlyâ€. A.L. Tennyson: “Ulyssesâ€
The lines above inform the reader that the poet
- A. Is determined to suffer
- B. Has his poetic imagination kindled
- C. Will cure his sour mood
- D. Will not drink much
Consider the mood of the person in The Good Morrow .
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