Literature Past Questions And Answers
This question is based on Buchi Emecheta's Second Class Citizen.
The novel is an expose of the
- A. pre-eminent position of boys in lgboland
- B. experiences of Adah's mother in the police cell
- C. travalls of the girl-child
- D. marriage customs of the lgbo
These question is base on Buchi Emecheta's The Joy of Motherhood.
In the novel, the handing over of a baby boy in a dream to Nnu Ego by her personal god signifies
- A. reincarnation
- B. idol worship
- C. doom
- D. future blessing
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 your MP with a shining head and triple chin Will mourn your fate in a supplementary question at Question Time'.
These lines in the context of Richard Ntiru's 'The Pauper', portray the MP as being
- A. sympathetic
- B. sad
- C. indifferent
- D. hypocritical
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 theme of the poem is best described as the
- A. love of war
- B. glory of war
- C. excitement of war
- D. reality of war
NON-AFRICAN PROSE
GEORGE ELIOT: Silas Marner
Examine the role of money and gold in the life of Silas in the novel.
View Discussion (0)WAEC 2009 THEORYThe attitude of a writer towards the subject matter is the
- A. tone
- B. plot
- C. crisis
- D. climax
This question is based on General Literary Principles
Catharsis is experienced
- A. after one has written a play
- B. when a play is still being staged
- C. before watching a play
- D. after watching a play
This question is based on Frank Ogodo Ogbeche's Harvest of Corruption
It can be deduced from the play that
- A. drug pushing is lucrative
- B. no crime will go unpunished
- C. the wealthy also cry
- D. people will always complain
An epilogue
- A. introduces a play
- B. develops characters
- C. sums up a play
- D. introduces characters
Speaker: Let me speak like yourself and
Lay a sentence
Which, as a grise or step, may help these lovers, When
remediea are past, the griefs are ended
By seeing the worst, which late on hopes depended
(Act !, Scene Three, lines 198-201)
The expression lay a sentence means _________
- A. Decide who is guilty
- B. Offer criticism
- C. Give advice
- D. Speak politely