Literature Past Questions And Answers
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
Lines that usualling have a set pattern of metre and rhyme constitute
- A. stanza
- B. verse
- C. rhyme scheme
- D. falling metre
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
''Mathematics is my Achilles' heel'' is an example of
- A. litotes
- B. metonymy
- C. allusion
- D. analogy
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