Literature Past Questions And Answers
This question is based on Wole Soyinka's
The Trials of Brother Jero.
Jero's opening speech in the is a
- A. soliloquy
- B. monologue
- C. narrative
- D. confession
This question is based on General Literary Principles and Appreciation.
A burlesque is
- A. an exaggerated mockery of a literary work
- B. a sentimental comedy
- C. an account of a famous person's life
- D. a rhetorical device used for effect in poetry
This question is based on Wole Soyinka's The Lion and the Jewel.
The two characters that symbolize the lion and the jewel respectively are
- A. Lakunle and Sidi
- B. Baroka and Sadiku
- C. Sadiku and Sidi
- D. Baroka and Sidi
This question is based on selected poems from Wole Soyinka (ed.) poems of Black Africa, E.K. Senanu and T. Vincent (eds.) Selection of African poetry and E.W. Parker (ed.) A Pageant of Longer Poems.
'... And the laughter or cannon, of thunder arraigns the multitude of wills in savage tutelage...'
In the context of these lines from Odia Ofeimun's
For Christopher Okigbo', misfortune was
- A. foressen
- B. predetermined
- C. anticipated
- D. unexpected
NON-AFRICAN POETRY
Comment on the poet's message to 'the court', 'Church', and Potentates in 'the soul's Errand".
View Discussion (0)WAEC 2011 THEORYThis question is based on William Shakespeare'' s Twelfth Night.
The traditional verse from of speech as dialogue in Twelfth Night is used to symbolize the
- A. impressiveness of the character
- B. distinction between verse and prose
- C. function of poetry in the play
- D. traditionality of the play
The first four lines of the Shakespearian sonnet rhyme
- A. abcd
- B. abba
- C. abab
- D. cdcd
This question is based on Oliver Goldsmith's She Stoops To Conquer. Mr. Hardcastle asks Young Marlow to leave his house because
- A. Marlow is not fit to be Kate's husband
- B. Young Marlow is more demanding than Hasting
- C. he is fed up with Marlow annoying behaviour
- D. Kate objects to being betrothed in absentia
SECTION E - African Prose
AMMA DARKO - FACELESS
Show how women are discriminated against in the novel.
View Discussion (0)WAEC 2018 THEORY''Poetry gets bored of being alone. It wants to go outdoors to chew on the winds''
The dominant figure of speech in the above lines is
- A. Paradox
- B. pun
- C. Parallelism
- D. personification