Literature Past Questions And Answers

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2811

Bayo Adebowale portrayed Yaremi as resilient, self reliant and strong willed particularly to__________

  • A. rebuke African superstitious beliefs
  • B. represent the image of African traditionalism
  • C. condemn male chauvinism
  • D. demonstrate the plight of widowhood
View or Post an Explanation 10399 (0)JAMB 2019
2812

Lines that usualling have a set pattern of metre and rhyme constitute

  • A. stanza
  • B. verse
  • C. rhyme scheme
  • D. falling metre
View or Post an Explanation 18078 (0)WAEC 2005 OBJ
2813

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: Twelfth Night

Read the extract below and answer the question

I have said too much unto a heart of stone,

And laid my honour too unchary on 't;

There's something in me that reproves my fault,

But such a headstrong potent fault it is

That it but mocks reproof.

(Acts iii, Scene 4)

The person being referred to in the figure of speech is

  • A. Olivia
  • B. Malvolio
  • C. Viola
  • D. Sebastian
View or Post an Explanation 17839 (0)WAEC 1999 OBJ
2814

''Mathematics is my Achilles' heel'' is an example of

  • A. litotes
  • B. metonymy
  • C. allusion
  • D. analogy
View or Post an Explanation 18254 (0)WAEC 2009 OBJ
2815

Read the prose passage and answer the question:

Ngotho was pleased. And Nyolabi and Njeri were full of joy at the news. For the first time many years something like a glimmer of light shone in Ngotho's eyes. He could even be seen making an effort to walk upright. Here at last was a son who might eventually be a match for the Howlands and Jacobos and any others who at all despised him. Kamanu too was pleased. He hoped he could go on helping Njoroge. Njoroge might do something for the family. Njoroge was happy. His first impulse when he learnt what he had gone through was to kneel down and thank God for all He had done for him. ' Give me more and more learning and make me the instrument of thy light and peace. 'To go to Secondary School, the big mission at Siriana, was no small achievement.

The theme of the extract is the

  • A. resistance to oppression
  • B. ambition to become a priest
  • C. quest for education
  • D. desire for happiness
View or Post an Explanation 17833 (0)WAEC 1999 OBJ