LITERATURE PAST QUESTIONS APP Leave a Comment / Android Question Bank (SSCE/NECO/GCE/NABTEB) / By Acadlly / Literature in English, LITERATURE PAST QUESTIONS, Past Questions LITERATURE PAST QUESTIONS 0% SSCE/NECO/GCE (LITERATURE PAST QUESTIONS) LITERATURE PAST QUESTIONS APP Questions will be picked at random from the question bank.You can use the NEXT button to move to the next question, use the PREV button to move to the previous question, the CLEAR button to clear any answer of your choice and you have the FINISH button to end the exam if you choose to.Any question not answered before the end of the exam time, will be marked as wrong and the exam will end by itself. so try to attempt all questions on time.Goodluck! 1 / 80 Category: LITERATURE PAST QUESTIONS Othello: So please your grace, my ancient;A man he is of honesty and trustTo his conveyance i assign my wifeGrace shall thinkTo be sent after me(Act 1, Scene Three, Lines 279-283) Othello is speaking to_____________ Brabantio Montano Duke Roderigo 2 / 80 Category: LITERATURE PAST QUESTIONS Oral literature is part of poetry drama music folklore 3 / 80 Category: LITERATURE PAST QUESTIONS The character assumed by the author in his writing is protagonist persona pseudonym chorus 4 / 80 Category: LITERATURE PAST QUESTIONS 'Many hands make light work' illustrates the use of' synecdoche zeugma metonymy hyperbole 5 / 80 Category: LITERATURE PAST QUESTIONS Hamartia, in a literary work refers to a hero's_________ tragic flaw good works Inordinate ambition strength of character 6 / 80 Category: LITERATURE PAST QUESTIONS But the towering earth was tired of sitting in one position.She moved suddenly and the houses crumbled, the mountains heaved horrible, and the work of a million years was lost The effect of the extract is conveyed through the use of___________ Climax Antithesis Conceit Parallelism 7 / 80 Category: LITERATURE PAST QUESTIONS Read the stanza and answer this questionFor days I wept and felt depressedThe one and all I loved had leftBut then on me our Bill impressed'Your love is where she looks bereft'The rhyme scheme is abbc abab abcc aaba 8 / 80 Category: LITERATURE PAST QUESTIONS Othello: So please your grace, my ancient;A man he is of honesty and trustTo his conveyance i assign my wifeGrace shall thinkTo be sent after me(Act 1, Scene Three, Lines 279-283) The speech illustrates the use of________ Irony Litotes Comic relief Paradox 9 / 80 Category: LITERATURE PAST QUESTIONS A praise poem is ____________ An Allegory A Ballad A Panegyric An Epigram 10 / 80 Category: LITERATURE PAST QUESTIONS The major part of the Petrarch sonnet is the sestet quintet octave tercet 11 / 80 Category: LITERATURE PAST QUESTIONS The leading character in a literary work is the________ Villain Protagonist Foil Antagonist 12 / 80 Category: LITERATURE PAST QUESTIONS ...... refers to the structure of a work of art. Setting Style Plot Form 13 / 80 Category: LITERATURE PAST QUESTIONS Read the extract and answer the questionWork on,My medicine work! Thus credulous fools are caught,And many worthy and chaste dames even thus,All guiltless, meet reproach. What ho! My lord!My lord, I say!(Act IV, Scene One, Lines 45 - 49)The speaker is lago Othello Bianca Lodovico 14 / 80 Category: LITERATURE PAST QUESTIONS ''The sun smiled gently on the scene'' illustrates" hyperbole euphemism paradox personification 15 / 80 Category: LITERATURE PAST QUESTIONS Yet, let me flap this bug with gilded wings,This painted child of dirt, that stinks and stings The lines illustrates________ Free Verse End ryhme Internal rhyme Blank Verse 16 / 80 Category: LITERATURE PAST QUESTIONS A play that moves the audience to pity and fear is a ____________ Pantomime Farce Tragedy Comedy 17 / 80 Category: LITERATURE PAST QUESTIONS Over the cobbles it clattered and crashed is an example of__________ Pun Oxymoron Onomatopoeia Paradox 18 / 80 Category: LITERATURE PAST QUESTIONS A dramatic performance with ONLY bodily movements and no speech is a _____________ Slapstick Mime Burlesque Farce 19 / 80 Category: LITERATURE PAST QUESTIONS Yet, let me flap this bug with gilded wings,This painted child of dirt, that stinks and stings The poets intention is to___________ Arouse sympathy Create Humor Show Contempt Create fun 20 / 80 Category: LITERATURE PAST QUESTIONS Who lied in the chapelNow lies in the Abbey The dominant device used is___________ Zeugma Pun Chiasmus Paradox 21 / 80 Category: LITERATURE PAST QUESTIONS A short play is also called a novelette slapstick farce playlet 22 / 80 Category: LITERATURE PAST QUESTIONS Read the extract and answer the questionWork on,My medicine work! Thus credulous fools are caught,And many worthy and chaste dames even thus,All guiltless, meet reproach. What ho! My lord!My lord, I say!(Act IV, Scene One, Lines 45 - 49)The speaker is addressing Cassio himself Duke herself 23 / 80 Category: LITERATURE PAST QUESTIONS Speaker: I durst, my Lord, to wager she is honestLay down my soul at stake. If you think other,Remove your thought. It doth abuse your bosomIf any wretch have put this your head,Let heaven requite it with the serpents curseFor if she be not honest, chaste and trueThere's no man happy. The purest of their wivesIs foul as slander (Acts IV, Scene Two, Lines 12-19) The speaker is addressing__________ Montano Duke Roderigo Othello 24 / 80 Category: LITERATURE PAST QUESTIONS Othello: Why, how now, ho? from whence ariseth this?Are we turned Turks, and to Ourselves do thatWhich heaven hath forbid the ottomites?For Christian shame put by this barbarous brawl!He hat stirs next to carve for his own rageHolds his soul light; he dies upon his motion.Silence the dreadful bell, it frights the isleFrom her propriety, What is the matter, masters?Honest Iago, that looks dead with grievingSpeak, Who began this? On thy love, I charge theeIago: I do not know (Acts II, Scene Three, Lines 155 - 165) To Othello, Iago is________________ A loyal senator Sincere Untrustworthy A negligent guard 25 / 80 Category: LITERATURE PAST QUESTIONS A narrative poem that relates heroic exploits is an___________ Epilogue Epigram Epitaph Epic 26 / 80 Category: LITERATURE PAST QUESTIONS Oh spite! Oh Hell!! I see you are all bentTo set aganist me for your merriment. The lines illustrate__________ Epitaph Apostrophe Epigram Allusion 27 / 80 Category: LITERATURE PAST QUESTIONS Speaker: I think this tale would win my daughter too,Good Brabantio, take up this mangled matter at the bestMen do their broken weapons rather useThan their bare hands(Act 1, Scene Three, Lines 171-174) The speaker is_____________ Brabantio Duke Cassio Othello 28 / 80 Category: LITERATURE PAST QUESTIONS A Sonnet has a final couplet when it has___________ A sestet Three quatrains Two sestets An octave 29 / 80 Category: LITERATURE PAST QUESTIONS Read the extract and answer the questionWork on,My medicine work! Thus credulous fools are caught,And many worthy and chaste dames even thus,All guiltless, meet reproach. What ho! My lord!My lord, I say!(Act IV, Scene One, Lines 45 - 49)Just before this speech, Montano fights with Cassio Bianca flings a handkerchief at Cassio Roderigo is killed Othello falls into a trance 30 / 80 Category: LITERATURE PAST QUESTIONS But the towering earth was tired of sitting in one position.She moved suddenly and the houses crumbled, the mountains heaved horrible, and the work of a million years was lost The predominant figure of speech in the extract is____________ Personification Paradox Oxymoron Contrast 31 / 80 Category: LITERATURE PAST QUESTIONS Death be not proud, though some have called thee might and dreadful is an example of___________ Apostrophe Aliteration Euphemism Metaphor 32 / 80 Category: LITERATURE PAST QUESTIONS Catharsis is normally associated with____________ Tragedy Comedy Farce Pantomime 33 / 80 Category: LITERATURE PAST QUESTIONS Beware her faintly failing health, and gentle gallands around her speed Illustrates_________ Alliteration Oxymoron Repetition Synecdoche 34 / 80 Category: LITERATURE PAST QUESTIONS Conflict in a literary work begins to unfold with episode resolution exposition climax 35 / 80 Category: LITERATURE PAST QUESTIONS Othello: Why, how now, ho? from whence ariseth this?Are we turned Turks, and to Ourselves do thatWhich heaven hath forbid the ottomites?For Christian shame put by this barbarous brawl!He hat stirs next to carve for his own rageHolds his soul light; he dies upon his motion.Silence the dreadful bell, it frights the isleFrom her propriety, What is the matter, masters?Honest Iago, that looks dead with grievingSpeak, Who began this? On thy love, I charge theeIago: I do not know (Acts II, Scene Three, Lines 155 - 165) Othello is brought to the scene because___________ Iago is drunk Cassio has stabbed Montano A bell has been rung People are fighting 36 / 80 Category: LITERATURE PAST QUESTIONS The cast appears at the end of a play for the ___________ Musical Intermission Introduction Curtain Call 37 / 80 Category: LITERATURE PAST QUESTIONS Dramatis personae is the same as ____________ Chorus Prompter Cast Foil 38 / 80 Category: LITERATURE PAST QUESTIONS A literary work in which the characters are animals is a ____________ Lampoon Fable Pantomine Parody 39 / 80 Category: LITERATURE PAST QUESTIONS A humorous poem with five lines, the first two ryhming with the last is______________ A Limerick Sestet Octave An ode 40 / 80 Category: LITERATURE PAST QUESTIONS Weeping Pilliow illustrates________ Transferred epithet Pathetic Fallacy Dramatic Irony Dramatic Monologue 41 / 80 Category: LITERATURE PAST QUESTIONS Poetry is written in lines paragraphs scenes chapters 42 / 80 Category: LITERATURE PAST QUESTIONS A short play perfomed during the pause between the acts of a longer play is____________ A prologue An interval An epilogue An Interlude 43 / 80 Category: LITERATURE PAST QUESTIONS An essential part of the plot is____________ Atmosphere Characterization Exposition Foreshadow 44 / 80 Category: LITERATURE PAST QUESTIONS A Poem that celebrates an object, person or event is a dirge a sonnet an ode a balled 45 / 80 Category: LITERATURE PAST QUESTIONS An essential features of drama is___________ Aside Irony Conflict Soliloquy 46 / 80 Category: LITERATURE PAST QUESTIONS Othello: Why, how now, ho? from whence ariseth this?Are we turned Turks, and to Ourselves do thatWhich heaven hath forbid the ottomites?For Christian shame put by this barbarous brawl!He hat stirs next to carve for his own rageHolds his soul light; he dies upon his motion.Silence the dreadful bell, it frights the isleFrom her propriety, What is the matter, masters?Honest Iago, that looks dead with grievingSpeak, Who began this? On thy love, I charge theeIago: I do not know (Acts II, Scene Three, Lines 155 - 165) The underlined expression refers to the____________ Intervention of the storm in the war Return of the victorious army to Cyprus Stabbing of Montano by Cassio Killing of Roderigo by Iago 47 / 80 Category: LITERATURE PAST QUESTIONS Speaker: I durst, my Lord, to wager she is honestLay down my soul at stake. If you think other,Remove your thought. It doth abuse your bosomIf any wretch have put this your head,Let heaven requite it with the serpents curseFor if she be not honest, chaste and trueThere's no man happy. The purest of their wivesIs foul as slander (Acts IV, Scene Two, Lines 12-19)The speaker is__________ Emilia Cassio Desdemona Iago 48 / 80 Category: LITERATURE PAST QUESTIONS Othello: Why, how now, ho? from whence ariseth this?Are we turned Turks, and to Ourselves do thatWhich heaven hath forbid the ottomites?For Christian shame put by this barbarous brawl!He hat stirs next to carve for his own rageHolds his soul light; he dies upon his motion.Silence the dreadful bell, it frights the isleFrom her propriety, What is the matter, masters?Honest Iago, that looks dead with grievingSpeak, Who began this? On thy love, I charge theeIago: I do not know (Acts II, Scene Three, Lines 155 - 165) The major consequence of the brawl is that___________ Roderigo demands his money back Iago is given charge of the city Cassio is dismissed Montano is killed 49 / 80 Category: LITERATURE PAST QUESTIONS "Its a matter of sad joy" Iillustrates__________ Metonymy Irony Euphemism Oxymoron 50 / 80 Category: LITERATURE PAST QUESTIONS The eight-line part of a Petrarchan sonnet is the________________ Octameter Quartet Quatrain Octave 51 / 80 Category: LITERATURE PAST QUESTIONS Othello: So please your grace, my ancient;A man he is of honesty and trustTo his conveyance i assign my wifeGrace shall thinkTo be sent after me(Act 1, Scene Three, Lines 279-283) A man he is honesty and trust refers to_________ Gratiano Lodovico Cassio Iago 52 / 80 Category: LITERATURE PAST QUESTIONS Before a play is performed, it is ___________ Rehearsed Applauded Auditioned Recited 53 / 80 Category: LITERATURE PAST QUESTIONS Othello: Why, how now, ho? from whence ariseth this?Are we turned Turks, and to Ourselves do thatWhich heaven hath forbid the ottomites?For Christian shame put by this barbarous brawl!He hat stirs next to carve for his own rageHolds his soul light; he dies upon his motion.Silence the dreadful bell, it frights the isleFrom her propriety, What is the matter, masters?Honest Iago, that looks dead with grievingSpeak, Who began this? On thy love, I charge theeIago: I do not know (Acts II, Scene Three, Lines 155 - 165) In "Who began this" This refers to the ______________ Bell War Brawl Theft 54 / 80 Category: LITERATURE PAST QUESTIONS Yet, let me flap this bug with gilded wings,This painted child of dirt, that stinks and stings The alliteration in stinks and stings effectively conveys__________ Approval Indifference Distaste Admiration 55 / 80 Category: LITERATURE PAST QUESTIONS Speaker: I think this tale would win my daughter too,Good Brabantio, take up this mangled matter at the bestMen do their broken weapons rather useThan their bare hands(Act 1, Scene Three, Lines 171-174) According to the speaker__________ There were other matters demanding the attention of the Senate The tale was good enough to win a woman's heart The charges were a waste of time The fight was unnecessary 56 / 80 Category: LITERATURE PAST QUESTIONS A poem which celebrates simple country life is___________ An ode A dirge A pastoral An epic 57 / 80 Category: LITERATURE PAST QUESTIONS The Main Character in a Play or Novel is the ____________ Narrator Villain Antagonist Protagonist 58 / 80 Category: LITERATURE PAST QUESTIONS A short single act drama is called____________ Opera Farce Allusion Playlet 59 / 80 Category: LITERATURE PAST QUESTIONS The climax in a literary work is the_____________ Middle Beginning Peak of the conflict Central part of the dialogue 60 / 80 Category: LITERATURE PAST QUESTIONS Read the stanza and answer this questionFor days I wept and felt depressedThe one and all I loved had leftBut then on me our Bill impressed'Your love is where she looks bereft'The lines are iambic pentameter trimeter hexameter tetrameter 61 / 80 Category: LITERATURE PAST QUESTIONS Read the stanza and answer this questionFor days I wept and felt depressedThe one and all I loved had leftBut then on me our Bill impressed'Your love is where she looks bereft'The lines constitute a sestet an epic a quatrain an ode 62 / 80 Category: LITERATURE PAST QUESTIONS Poetry is written in dramatic poetic narrative descriptive 63 / 80 Category: LITERATURE PAST QUESTIONS Othello: So please your grace, my ancient;A man he is of honesty and trustTo his conveyance i assign my wifeGrace shall thinkTo be sent after me(Act 1, Scene Three, Lines 279-283)Othello is leaving to__________ Fight in Rhodes Meet the government of Cyprus Make peace with the Turks Take over the government of Cyprus 64 / 80 Category: LITERATURE PAST QUESTIONS Through the trees, I'll hear a singleRinging sound, a cowbell jingle The underlined is an example of____________ryhme End Feminine Internal Masculine 65 / 80 Category: LITERATURE PAST QUESTIONS Diction is a writer's choice of___________ Syntax Style Rhythm Words 66 / 80 Category: LITERATURE PAST QUESTIONS Ten thousand saw i at glance....... Illustrates_________ Hyperbole Climax Caesura Bathos 67 / 80 Category: LITERATURE PAST QUESTIONS ''That it will rain is not unlike'' illustrates the use of" irony metonymy metaphor lilotes 68 / 80 Category: LITERATURE PAST QUESTIONS The metrical beat in the The Splendor falls on castle walls is___________ Iambic Dactylic Anapaestic Trochaic 69 / 80 Category: LITERATURE PAST QUESTIONS An...... is an indirect and usually unfavourable remark irony innuendo allusion aside 70 / 80 Category: LITERATURE PAST QUESTIONS Speaker: I think this tale would win my daughter too,Good Brabantio, take up this mangled matter at the bestMen do their broken weapons rather useThan their bare hands(Act 1, Scene Three, Lines 171-174) ........this tale justifies_________ Desdemona's attraction to Othello Roderigo's unrequited love for Desdemona Cassio's promotion above Iago Brabantio's rejection of Othello's love for his daughter 71 / 80 Category: LITERATURE PAST QUESTIONS Speaker: I think this tale would win my daughter too,Good Brabantio, take up this mangled matter at the bestMen do their broken weapons rather useThan their bare hands(Act 1, Scene Three, Lines 171-174) The tale being referred to is___________ Othello's war exploits Brabantio's rejection of the Othello and Desdemona relationship Brabantio's rejection of Othello's love for his daughter Duke's war exploits 72 / 80 Category: LITERATURE PAST QUESTIONS Through ........ the ills of society are criticised with the objective of having them corrected dramatic irony satire comic relief farce 73 / 80 Category: LITERATURE PAST QUESTIONS A play on words for literary effect is_________ A Paradox A Satire An Elegy A Pun 74 / 80 Category: LITERATURE PAST QUESTIONS Othello: So please your grace, my ancient;A man he is of honesty and trustTo his conveyance i assign my wifeGrace shall thinkTo be sent after me(Act 1, Scene Three, Lines 279-283) Othello then_________ Leaves with Desdemona Calls his lieutenant Entrusts Desdemona to Iago's care Confers with the Duke 75 / 80 Category: LITERATURE PAST QUESTIONS He is my most beloved enemy ilustrates__________ Metonymy Synecdoche Oxymoron Litotes 76 / 80 Category: LITERATURE PAST QUESTIONS Speaker: I think this tale would win my daughter too,Good Brabantio, take up this mangled matter at the bestMen do their broken weapons rather useThan their bare hands(Act 1, Scene Three, Lines 171-174) The underlined expression means___________ Seek counsel elsewhere Make the best out of this Take your revenge Wait till the war is ended 77 / 80 Category: LITERATURE PAST QUESTIONS Read the following lines to answer this questionThe livid waters roared and snarled and flappedAt the poor battered and weeping yacht.The dominant device used in the lines is alliteration simile assonance personification 78 / 80 Category: LITERATURE PAST QUESTIONS But the towering earth was tired of sitting in one position.She moved suddenly and the houses crumbled, the mountains heaved horrible, and the work of a million years was lost The extract is about____________ A flood A storm An explosion An earthquake 79 / 80 Category: LITERATURE PAST QUESTIONS The ....... produces comic relief in drama clown protagonist antagonist chorus 80 / 80 Category: LITERATURE PAST QUESTIONS Read the following lines to answer this questionThe livid waters roared and snarled and flappedAt the poor battered and weeping yacht. The picture presented is one of calm season quiet sea stormy weather dark sky Your score is 0% Restart quiz