Literature Past Questions And Answers
In a literary work, the foil is one who ________
- A. Complements another character
- B. contrasts with another character
- C. introduces the conflict
- D. resolves the conflict
Use the excerpt to answer questions
they sang in the forlorn fields about their lives; songs of how they ploughed the terrain of their landscape for memories of lyrics lost in the vast void of time, in those days when a song beheld their lives; when servitude cuffed the ankles of their soul, and dereliction decapitated the epic of their lives.The theme of this excerpt is____
- A. All of the above
- B. the oppression of women
- C. Joys of motherhood
- D. colonization
SECTION F: NON-AFRICAN PROSE
HORACE WALPOLE: The Castle of Otranto
Examine the role of Theodore in the novel.
View Discussion (0)WAEC 2019 THEORYFRANK OGODO OGBECHE: Harvest of Corruption
3. Examine Ogeyi as a deeply religious person in the play.
4. Account for the downfall of Chief in the play.
View Discussion (0)WAEC 2020 THEORYThis question is based on William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet.
The plot of the play is
- A. simple
- B. convoluted
- C. chronological
- D. complicated
This question is based on J.P. Clark's The Wives' Revolt.
'....Those with breasts have walked out, and that leaves you, me and the old girls returned home on retirement. It's the dry season, child.'The character to whom the words are spoken in the play is in
- A. front of the verandah of Okoro's house
- B. Okoro's front yard, downstage
- C. the direction of the kitchen, offstage
- D. the kitchen, upstage
This question is based on William Shakespeare's Twelfth Night.
The significance of the sub-plot dealing with Feste,
Toby and Maria is the expression of life's
- A. fragility
- B. pleasure
- C. comedy
- D. romance
The question is based on Bayo Adebowale's LONELY DAYS
In the novel, bage cap signifies everlasting ________?
- A. happiness
- B. sorrow
- C. freedom
- D. despair
This question is based on Literary Appreciation
'Though alien to this clime its capacity for bagging crime befits a legendary scion of the soil the brief sack with bulging stomach.'The poem achieves its significant effect through the use of
- A. quatrain and imagery
- B. rhyme andsimile
- C. onomatopoeia and alliteration
- D. alliteration and personification
'Fierce harmattan sun on innocent tendrils; torrential downpour on leaking thatch roofs; painful comfort of helpless eunuchs; thorny beauty of modern witches; the falcon's call on day-old-chicks, ours is tragi- comic dialogue:... mute echoes of pains' .
The sonority and rhythmical structure of the lines above are achieved through a pause- pattern called
- A. scansion
- B. enjambment
- C. caesura
- D. apostrophe