Literature in English Past Questions

This question is based on Literary Appreciation

“ How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world ” Anne Frank The Diary of a young Girl

The writer of the passage above is ________?

This question is based on Amma Darko's Faceless

The narrative style adopted in the novel is

This question is based on General Literacy Principles

A prose work which centres on moral growth and character formation of an individual is called

This question is based on Frank Ogodo Ogbeche's Harvest of Corruption

The play portrays the judiciary as

This question is based on Frank Ogodo Ogbeche's Harvest of Corruption

The Two dominant themes of the play are

This question is based on William Shakesphere's Othello.

"...Fathers, from hence trust not your daughters' minds. By what you see them act. Is there not charms. By which the property of youth and maidhood May be abused?....."

The speaker in the excerpt above addresses _______?

This question is based on Selected Poems from Johnson, R et al(eds): New Poetry from Africa; Soyinka,(ed); Poems of Black Africa; Senanu, K.E, and Vincent, T.(ed): A Selection of African Poetry; Gbemisola A.: Naked Soles; Hayward, J.(ed.); The Penguin Book of English Verse and Nwoga, D.(ed): West African verse.

... goodness lead him not, yet weariness May toss him to my breast'

The literary device in the extract above from Herbert's The Pulley is

This question is based on Selec ted Poems from Johnson, R et al(eds): New Poetry from Africa; Soyinka,(ed); Poems of Black Africa; Senanu, K.E, and Vincent, T.(ed): A Selection of African Poetry; Gbemisola A.: Naked Soles; Hayward, J.(ed.); The Penguin Book of English Verse and Nwoga, D.(ed): West African verse.

 ...where guerillas walk the land while crocodiles surf. 

The lines above in Hallowell's The Dining Table signify _______?

This question is based on William Shakespeare's Othello.

"Though I do hate him as I do pains, yet for necessity of present life, I must show out a flag and sign of love, which is indeed but sign..."

The speaker of the excerpt above can be described as

This question is based on Selected Poems from Johnson, R et al(eds): New Poetry from Africa; Soyinka, (ed); Poems of Black Africa; Senanu, K.E, and Vicent, T.(ed.):
A Selection of African Poetry; Gbemisola A.: Naked Soles; Hayward, J.(ed.); The Penguin Book of English Verse and Nwoga, D.(ed.): West African Verse.

In Morris' The Proud King, Jovinian assembled the throne when he was

This question is based on Richard Wright's Native Son.

This novel can be described as

This question is based on General Literary principle

Myths differ from legend in that myths

This question is based on Frank Ogodo Ogbeche's Harvest of Corruption

It can be deduced from the play that

This question is based on Amma Darko's Faceless

The dominant tone of the novel is one of

A character whose name is also the source of the title of the narrative is called ___?

Who succeeded Othello as Governor of Cyprus?

"And blossoms blown away"

The line above from William Blake's poem " The school boy" is an example of