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