Literature Past Questions And Answers
The feelings and attitudes of a water are conveyed by
- A. mood
- B. style
- C. theme
- D. setting
The trees bowed their heads in shame illustrates ________
- A. personification
- B. alliteration
- C. assonance
- D. paradox
Read the extract below and answer the question
Alack, what heinous sin is it in me
To be ashamed to be my father's child!
But though I am a daughter to his blood
I am not to his manners.....
(Act 11 Scene Three lines 15 - 18)
The extract is
- A. a soliloguy
- B. an epilogue
- C. an aside
- D. a flashback
The process of creating character and endowing them with certain attitude is ......
- A. Action
- B. Character
- C. Characterization
- D. Dramatis personae
This question is based on literary Appreciation.
I have said too much unto a heart of stone,And laid my honour too unchary on it', There's something in me that reproves my fault, But such a headstrong potent fault it is that That is but mocks reproof.' William Shakespeare: Twelfth Night
A heart of stone in the line above is an example of
- A. metonymy
- B. assonance
- C. metaphor
- D. litotes
Read the passage and answer Questions
On, on, on, over the countless miles of angry space roll the long heaving OT angry space roll the long heaving billows. Mountains and caves are here; for what is now the other; then all is but a boiling heap of rushing water. Pursuit, and flight and mad return of and savage struggle, ending up in a spouting up of foam that whitens the black night; incessant change of place and form and hue; constancy in nothing but eternal strife.
On, on, on, they roll and darker grows the night: and louder howls the wind and more clamorous and fierce become the million voices in the sea, when the wild cry goes forth upon the storm, A ship!
The most suitable title for the passage is ________
- A. A Savage Struggle at Night
- B. At Sea on a Stormy Night.
- C. The Long Heaving Waves
- D. The Million Voices in the Sea
The addressee is enjoined to Go, make money for ___________
- A. wooing Desdemona
- B. enriching lago
- C. placating Brabantio
- D. rewarding Bianca
In the passage above, the speaker can be described as
- A. hungry
- B. domineering
- C. friendly
- D. treacherous
This question is based on Ahmed Yerima's Attahiru.
'I wish him luck with his infidel friends But he must remember that there is only one moon at a time, one sun at a time'
The speaker in the passage above is referring to a
- A. moon gazer
- B. slave raider
- C. muezzin
- D. usurper
This question is based on William Shakespeare's Macbeth.
'Accursed be that tongue that tells me so,
For it hath cowed my better part of man;
And be these juggling fiends no more believed,...
That keep the word of promise to our ear,
And break it to our hope...'
The speech above was made when
- A. Macduff confronted Macbeth for the final battle
- B. Macbeth realized the truth of the witches prediction
- C. Duncan heard that Malcolm and Macduff had descended on Dunsinane to attack Macbeth
- D. Macbeth heard that his wife had been killed

