Literature Past Questions And Answers
This question is based on Ayi Kwei Armah's Fragments
The outdooring ceremony of Araba's child, fixed for the fifth day after his birth, is opposed to by Naana because the child
- A. is reincarnated in the father
- B. is still in the custody of the spirits
- C. makes the spirits angry
- D. needs the uncle's support
Utopia is a term used to describe
- A. strange circumstances
- B. difficult conditions
- C. pleasant feelings
- D. ideal societies
This question is based on General Literature Principles and Literary Appreciation. The basic idea of any given work of art is its
- A. imagery
- B. style
- C. theme
- D. tone
The atmosphere of a poem has to do with_________
- A. Time and Place
- B. Rhythm and Rhyme
- C. Tone and Mood
- D. Versification and Lineation
This question is based on Amma Darko's Faceless.
'Ordaley ignored the two young women plating their hair because she didn't want to generate another war with a simple greeting'
The image depicted in the lines above is
- A. ironic
- B. personification
- C. hyperbolic
- D. metaphoric
This question is based on General Literary Appreciation
The setting in pastoral poetry is usually
- A. oceanic
- B. urban
- C. encumenical
- D. idyllic
Examine the poet’s use of sight and sound images in Frost’s Birches.
This question is based on General Literary Principles.
An anti-social taken by the tragic hero which results in a catastrophe is called
- A. anagnorisis
- B. premonition
- C. harmatia
- D. empathy
AFRICAN DRAMA
KOBINA SEKYI: The Blinkards.
Consider Barrister Onyimdze as a defender of African culture.
Weeping Pilliow illustrates________
- A. Dramatic Monologue
- B. Pathetic Fallacy
- C. Transferred epithet
- D. Dramatic Irony