Literature in English Past Questions

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Question 11
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The meaning of the expression, Ere slumber's chain has bound me is

Aafter i wake up
Bbefore i sleep
Cbefore i dream
Dsince i cannot sleep
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Question 12
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The poet refers to memory as being 'fond' and 'sad' because it brings?

Acheers and smiles
Blove and joy
Csorrow and pity
Dsmiles and tears
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Question 13
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The two words that give hint of the poet's unhappiness are?

Alight and night
Blight and shone
Cnight and dimm'd
DShone and dimm'd
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Question 14
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The theme of the poem is presented essentially through ________

Aassonance
Bcontrast.
Cparadox
Drepetition
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Question 15
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The theme is about the poet's _________

Abroken love affairs.
Bfee the stilly night.
Csleepless night.
Dyearning for happier times
gone
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Question 16
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A ship in the last line symbolises _________

Adespair.
Bhope
Cpirates
Dsailors
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Question 17
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The expression million voices is used as _________

Aconceit
Beuphemism
Chyperbole
Dmetonymy
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Question 18
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The writer's attitude to the scene is one of _________

Aanxiety
Bawe
Ccontempt
Dindiference
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Question 19
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The predominant use of long vowels in the first sentence heightens the ______ of the waves

Aanger
Bexpanse
Cgreat noise
Dendless movement
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Question 20
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The most suitable title for the passage is ________

AA Savage Struggle at Night
BAt Sea on a Stormy Night.
CThe Long Heaving Waves
DThe Million Voices in the Sea
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Question 21
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Which of the following is written by a Non-African poet?

APiano and Drums
BThe Dining Table
CThe Schoolboy
DThe Panic of Growing Older
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Question 22
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Which of the following is written by an African playwright?

AShe Stoops to Conquer
BA Raisin in the Sun
CLonely Days
DThe Blood of a stranger
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Question 23
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I find no peace and all my war is done

I fear and hope. I burn and freeze like ice.

The feeling of the narrator in the extract is to one of ________

AConfusion
Bfatigue
Clove
Djoy
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Question 24
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The dominant literary device used in the lines is ________

Aeuphemism
Bhyperbole
Cparadox
Dunderstatement
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Question 25
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 The big boulder blasted the house illustrates _________

Aalliteration
Bcontrast
Cirony
Dparadox
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Question 26
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A short poem with a witty or sarcastic ending is a/an __________

Aballad
Ballegory
Cepigram
Dpanegyric
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Question 27
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Read the lines and answer the question:

The underlined words illustrate:

Marching along fifty score strong

Great hearted gentlemen singing this song

Aassonance
Bconsonance
Conomatopoeia
Drepetition
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Question 28
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The end of a performance is followed by ________

Aa curtain call
Ba curtain raiser
Cepilogue
Dinterlude
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Question 29
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Ascribing human moods to nature, as in a playful-breeze illustrates _________

Ahumour
Bpathetic fallacy
Csymbolism
Dzeugma
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Question 30
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In Literature, the term poetic justice applies to __________

Aa story that ends well
Bcharacters that are spared death
Cthe development of a good plot
Dthe rewarding of good characters and the punishing of bad ones.
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