Literature Past Questions And Answers
A band of singers and dancers in drama who acts as a link between the play and the audience is the
- A. Chorus
- B. Clown
- C. Playwright
- D. Cast
This question is based on Literary Appreciation
'That year the harvest was sad, like a funeral and many farmers wept as they dug up the miserable yams. One man tied his clothe to a tree branch and hanged himself.
Chinua Achebe: Things Fall Apart.
The mood conveyed in the excerpt above is one of
- A. frustration
- B. sympathy
- C. dilemma
- D. sadness
Othello: So please your grace, my ancient;
A man he is of honesty and trust To his conveyance i assign my wife
Grace shall think
To be sent after me
(Act 1, Scene Three, Lines 279-283)
The speech illustrates the use of________
- A. Irony
- B. Litotes
- C. Paradox
- D. Comic relief
I came down the step with my pitcher
And must wait, must stand and wait, for there he was at the trough before me.
These lines from Snakes suggests that the
- A. snake was regal and that the persona must wait as a subject
- B. snake was venomous and therefore the poet has to be very wary
- C. snake got there first, in the interest of justice, the poet should wait
- D. poet is terrified of the snake
We did not go to school on that Friday morning. The night before had been rough. It was turbulent and scary. The strange cry non-indigenes must go rent the air. Little did i Known what it meant. That carry all the same haunted me in my sleep. My dreams were horrible. Why was mum so troubled? Why was Dad suddenly so pale and sickly? That night Mum and Dad had a forboding silence. They looked at each other, they did not smile. They were utterly silent. Their silence spoke millions. Fear rules the night. When the family bell summoned us to the family altar, it seemed that it tolled its last for the humans. Death smelled in the air, death was in the eyes..... But why? We were not told. Yes during the prayer at the family altar, Dad had told us there was trouble in town. No one who was a non-indigene was safe.
The feeling is conveyed by the use of_________
- A. Long sentences
- B. Visual images
- C. Tactile images
- D. Short sentences
This question is based on William Shakespeare's Macbeth.
It is dramatic irony that the 'castle which has a gentle air' happens to be the
- A. orchard of Macbeth
- B. witches' enclave
- C. forest of Dunsinane
- D. death-place of King Duncan
NON-AFRICAN POETRY
Examine the relationship between man and nature in The Solitary Reaper
View Discussion (0)WAEC 2009 THEORY_______ is used to describe the situation where a character recognize his mistake
- A. Tragic flaw
- B. Hubris
- C. Denouement
- D. Anagnorisis
This question is based on Literary Principles.
'Otto's wife was a potter. Nessa remembered Sandra. Davis telling hr this. Not just a wife, not just a mother- as Nesa's own mother had been, as all the women in her childhood were and were expected to be: cooks and floor scrubbers, fanatical table polishers and chairback starchers nest builders.'
Georgina Hammie, Habits
In the passage above, Otto's wife
- A. scrubbed floors and polished tyables like the other women
- B. was a pooter and was therefore spared other domestic jobs
- C. was a potter like Nessa's mother
- D. was a potter in addition to being a wife and mother
NON - AFRICAN DRAMA
OSCAR WILDE: The Importance of Being Earnest
what impressions of the upper class life do you form from your study of the play?
View Discussion (0)WAEC 2014 THEORY