Literature Past Questions And Answers
This question is based on Zaynab Alkali's The Stillborn.
Habu Adams ends up in the novel as a
- A. married man
- B. repentant husband
- C. successful businessman
- D. lame lover
This question is based on General Literature Principles and Literary Appreciation.
A statement whose meaning is contrary to that openly expressed is an example of
- A. metaphor
- B. oxymoron
- C. irony
- D. personification
This question is based on William Shakespeare's Othello.
The handkerchief that Othello inherits from his mother is made by
- A. a female prophet
- B. Desdemona's maid
- C. Othello's mother
- D. Othello's lover.
This question is based on William Shakespeare's Hamlet.
The call made on Hamlet to avenge his father's death makes him
- A. purposeful
- B. impoverished
- C. confused
- D. amused
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: A Midsummer Night's Dream
Use the following extract to answer the question that follows:
Lie bath rid his prologue like a rough colt: he knows not the stop.
A good moral, my lord: it is not enough to speak, but to speak true.
it is not enough to speak, but to speak true illustrates- A. parable
- B. epitaph
- C. wisecrack
- D. epigram
In the above lines, ''flow,'' and ''show''
- A. alliterate
- B. contrast
- C. rhyme
- D. parallel
This question is based on Zaynab Alkali's The Stillborn.
Li's initial aspiration in the novel is to
- A. escape from village life to the city
- B. marry a handsome man
- C. join her husband in the city
- D. remain in the peaceful village
UNSEEN POETRY AND PROSE
Read the poem and answer the question
Bent-double, like old beggars under sacks,
Knock-kneed, coughing like hags, we curse throughsludge
Till on the haunting flares we turned our backs,
And towards our distant rest began to trudge,
Men marched asleep, many had lost their boots,
But limped on, blood-shed. All went lame, all blind;
Drunk with fatigue; even deaf to the hoots
Of gas-shells dropping softy behind.
The rhyme scheme of the first stanza is
- A. aabb
- B. abab
- C. abcd
- D. abba
UNSEEN POETRY AND PROSE
Read the poem and answer the question
Bent-double, like old beggars under sacks,
Knock-kneed, coughing like hags, we curse throughsludge
Till on the haunting flares we turned our backs,
And towards our distant rest began to trudge,
Men marched asleep, many had lost their boots,
But limped on, blood-shed. All went lame, all blind;
Drunk with fatigue; even deaf to the hoots
Of gas-shells dropping softy behind.
Sludge in the extract means
- A. water
- B. fire
- C. snow
- D. mud
Based on General Literary Principles.
An elegy is a poem that mourns for the
- A. deceased
- B. bereaved
- C. accused
- D. king