Literature Past Questions And Answers
UNSEEN PROSE AND POETRY
Read the passage and answer the question
''Diversion through Larteh!'' This is the sign in the middle of the road. They have diverted the 24 - Kilometre Mamfe-Aburi-Adenta Road because of the major read works. The Mamfe-Larteh-Adenta diversion makes the journey twice as long. The longer route is the shorter.
\The little jeep flashes past the deserted police checkpoint. The howling wind, like a stretching comb, stretches Kwyeiwa's hair in flapping furrows behind her as she stands clinging to metal support in the back of the open jeep, petrified. The jeep negotiates the hairpin bend below the overhang near Tamara's place at breakneck speed; now it is on the stretch to the Kodiable junction.The little vehicle laps up the distance. Presently the travellers arrive at the last crossroads. Kodiabe lies as the crow flies, Somanya to the left. The jeep turns right towards Accra.
''The little vehicle laps up the distance'' conveys the impression of
- A. leizure
- B. pleasure
- C. strength
- D. speed
A long narrative poem which deals with heroic deeds is
- A. lyric
- B. epic
- C. ode
- D. euphony
This question is based on General Literary Principles
Zeugma is a figurative device in which a
- A. noun refers to two parts of an expression
- B. conjunction governs two parts of an expression
- C. verb refers to two parts of an expression
- D. pronoun governs two parts of an expression
One of the following terms applies to the discussion of both tragedy and comedy
- A. climax
- B. happy ending
- C. tragic hero
- D. alliteration
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.
'The cell is a cruel place, sometimes a haven
Nowhere as absolute as the grave.
The poetic device used in these lines from J.P. Clark's 'The Casualties' is
- A. an allusion
- B. a paradox
- C. an anecdote
- D. an oxymoron
This question is based on Mariama Ba's So Long a Letter
The letter from used in the novel is particularly effective because it
- This question is based on Mariama Ba's So Long a Letter The letter from used in the novel is particularly effective because it A. is dramatic in impact
- B. dispenses with dialogue
- C. is an intimate form of expression
- D. is tragic in content
NON-AFRICAN PROSE; GEORGE ELIOT: Silas Marner
Comment on the friendship between Silas Marner and William Dane
NON-AFRICAN POETRY
Comment on the poet's attitude to nature in Frost's "Birches
This question is based on Oliver Goldsmith's She Stoops to Conquer.
X: I am told he's a man of an excellent understanding
Y: Is he?
X: Very generous.
Y: I believe I shall like him.
X: Young and brave.
Y: I'm sure I shall like him.
X: And very handsome.
Y:....,I'll have him.
Who are the speakers X and Y and about whom are they speaking ?
- A. Neville and Kate about Hastings
- B. Kate and her mother about Marlow
- C. Miss Hardcastle and Mr. Hardcastle about Tony
- D. Mr. Hardcastle and Kate about Marlow
This question is based on selected poems from D. Ker, C. Maduka et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa, Wole Soyinka (ed.): Poems of Black Africa, K.E. Senanu and T. Vincent (eds.): A Selection of African poetry and E.W. Parker (ed.) A Pageant of Longer Poems.
Wordsworth's 'The Solitary Reaper' is preoccupied with the
- A. relieveing effect of the song on the reaper's
- B. enduring impact of the reaper's song
- C. sweetest human voice of the poet ever heard
- D. similarity between the voice of the reaper and the cuckoo-bird