SS 3 LITERATURE PAST QUESTIONS (WAEC/NECO) HomeWAEC/NECO Exam Past QuestionsSS 3 LITERATURE PAST QUESTIONS (WAEC/NECO) 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 A short play is also called a playlet slapstick novelette farce 2 / 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 3 / 80 Category: LITERATURE PAST QUESTIONS "Its a matter of sad joy" Iillustrates__________ Metonymy Euphemism Oxymoron Irony 4 / 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 assonance personification simile alliteration 5 / 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 quiet sea dark sky calm season stormy weather 6 / 80 Category: LITERATURE PAST QUESTIONS Over the cobbles it clattered and crashed is an example of__________ Onomatopoeia Paradox Pun Oxymoron 7 / 80 Category: LITERATURE PAST QUESTIONS A praise poem is ____________ An Epigram An Allegory A Ballad A Panegyric 8 / 80 Category: LITERATURE PAST QUESTIONS A play that moves the audience to pity and fear is a ____________ Comedy Pantomime Tragedy Farce 9 / 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 There were other matters demanding the attention of the Senate The fight was unnecessary The charges were a waste of time 10 / 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 abbc aaba abcc abab 11 / 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 Free Verse Internal rhyme Blank Verse 12 / 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 an ode an epic a quatrain a sestet 13 / 80 Category: LITERATURE PAST QUESTIONS An...... is an indirect and usually unfavourable remark innuendo aside allusion irony 14 / 80 Category: LITERATURE PAST QUESTIONS A play on words for literary effect is_________ An Elegy A Pun A Satire A Paradox 15 / 80 Category: LITERATURE PAST QUESTIONS The eight-line part of a Petrarchan sonnet is the________________ Quartet Quatrain Octave Octameter 16 / 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 Montano is killed Iago is given charge of the city 17 / 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 Arouse sympathy Create Humor 18 / 80 Category: LITERATURE PAST QUESTIONS The ....... produces comic relief in drama chorus antagonist protagonist clown 19 / 80 Category: LITERATURE PAST QUESTIONS Before a play is performed, it is ___________ Auditioned Rehearsed Applauded Recited 20 / 80 Category: LITERATURE PAST QUESTIONS The metrical beat in the The Splendor falls on castle walls is___________ Anapaestic Trochaic Dactylic Iambic 21 / 80 Category: LITERATURE PAST QUESTIONS A humorous poem with five lines, the first two ryhming with the last is______________ Octave Sestet A Limerick An ode 22 / 80 Category: LITERATURE PAST QUESTIONS A Poem that celebrates an object, person or event is a sonnet a balled a dirge an ode 23 / 80 Category: LITERATURE PAST QUESTIONS A literary work in which the characters are animals is a ____________ Pantomine Parody Fable Lampoon 24 / 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___________ Seek counsel elsewhere Wait till the war is ended Take your revenge Make the best out of this 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) A man he is honesty and trust refers to_________ Iago Lodovico Cassio Gratiano 26 / 80 Category: LITERATURE PAST QUESTIONS The climax in a literary work is the_____________ Beginning Middle Central part of the dialogue Peak of the conflict 27 / 80 Category: LITERATURE PAST QUESTIONS The Main Character in a Play or Novel is the ____________ Protagonist Villain Narrator Antagonist 28 / 80 Category: LITERATURE PAST QUESTIONS A short play perfomed during the pause between the acts of a longer play is____________ An epilogue An Interlude An interval A prologue 29 / 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 Iago is drunk People are fighting Cassio has stabbed Montano 30 / 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____________ Killing of Roderigo by Iago Return of the victorious army to Cyprus Intervention of the storm in the war Stabbing of Montano by Cassio 31 / 80 Category: LITERATURE PAST QUESTIONS Hamartia, in a literary work refers to a hero's_________ strength of character good works tragic flaw Inordinate ambition 32 / 80 Category: LITERATURE PAST QUESTIONS Oral literature is part of poetry drama folklore music 33 / 80 Category: LITERATURE PAST QUESTIONS A short single act drama is called____________ Opera Allusion Playlet Farce 34 / 80 Category: LITERATURE PAST QUESTIONS A poem which celebrates simple country life is___________ A dirge An ode A pastoral An epic 35 / 80 Category: LITERATURE PAST QUESTIONS ''The sun smiled gently on the scene'' illustrates" euphemism personification paradox hyperbole 36 / 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__________ Make peace with the Turks Meet the government of Cyprus Fight in Rhodes Take over the government of Cyprus 37 / 80 Category: LITERATURE PAST QUESTIONS Ten thousand saw i at glance....... Illustrates_________ Hyperbole Caesura Bathos Climax 38 / 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_________ Desdemona's attraction to Othello Roderigo's unrequited love for Desdemona Brabantio's rejection of Othello's love for his daughter Cassio's promotion above Iago 39 / 80 Category: LITERATURE PAST QUESTIONS ...... refers to the structure of a work of art. Plot Setting Form Style 40 / 80 Category: LITERATURE PAST QUESTIONS A dramatic performance with ONLY bodily movements and no speech is a _____________ Slapstick Farce Burlesque Mime 41 / 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 lago Othello Lodovico Bianca 42 / 80 Category: LITERATURE PAST QUESTIONS Weeping Pilliow illustrates________ Dramatic Irony Transferred epithet Dramatic Monologue Pathetic Fallacy 43 / 80 Category: LITERATURE PAST QUESTIONS Conflict in a literary work begins to unfold with climax resolution episode exposition 44 / 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________ Paradox Litotes Irony Comic relief 45 / 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 Feminine End Internal Masculine 46 / 80 Category: LITERATURE PAST QUESTIONS Who lied in the chapel Now lies in the Abbey The dominant device used is___________ Zeugma Pun Chiasmus Paradox 47 / 80 Category: LITERATURE PAST QUESTIONS Catharsis is normally associated with____________ Farce Pantomime Tragedy Comedy 48 / 80 Category: LITERATURE PAST QUESTIONS A Sonnet has a final couplet when it has___________ An octave A sestet Three quatrains Two sestets 49 / 80 Category: LITERATURE PAST QUESTIONS ''That it will rain is not unlike'' illustrates the use of" lilotes irony metonymy metaphor 50 / 80 Category: LITERATURE PAST QUESTIONS An essential part of the plot is____________ Atmosphere Exposition Characterization Foreshadow 51 / 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 hexameter pentameter tetrameter trimeter 52 / 80 Category: LITERATURE PAST QUESTIONS Poetry is written in paragraphs chapters scenes lines 53 / 80 Category: LITERATURE PAST QUESTIONS Through ........ the ills of society are criticised with the objective of having them corrected satire dramatic irony farce comic relief 54 / 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 Conceit Parallelism Antithesis 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 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 Brabantio's rejection of Othello's love for his daughter Othello's war exploits Duke's war exploits 56 / 80 Category: LITERATURE PAST QUESTIONS Diction is a writer's choice of___________ Rhythm Syntax Style Words 57 / 80 Category: LITERATURE PAST QUESTIONS He is my most beloved enemy ilustrates__________ Oxymoron Litotes Synecdoche Metonymy 58 / 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_____________ Brabantio Duke Othello Cassio 59 / 80 Category: LITERATURE PAST QUESTIONS The cast appears at the end of a play for the ___________ Intermission Introduction Curtain Call Musical 60 / 80 Category: LITERATURE PAST QUESTIONS Beware her faintly failing health, and gentle gallands around her speed Illustrates_________ Alliteration Synecdoche Oxymoron Repetition 61 / 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, Bianca flings a handkerchief at Cassio Othello falls into a trance Roderigo is killed Montano fights with Cassio 62 / 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 Brawl Bell Theft 63 / 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__________ Duke Roderigo Montano Othello 64 / 80 Category: LITERATURE PAST QUESTIONS Dramatis personae is the same as ____________ Chorus Cast Foil Prompter 65 / 80 Category: LITERATURE PAST QUESTIONS A narrative poem that relates heroic exploits is an___________ Epitaph Epic Epigram Epilogue 66 / 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_____________ Brabantio Duke Roderigo Montano 67 / 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 Allusion Epigram Epitaph 68 / 80 Category: LITERATURE PAST QUESTIONS The character assumed by the author in his writing is protagonist pseudonym persona chorus 69 / 80 Category: LITERATURE PAST QUESTIONS The major part of the Petrarch sonnet is the octave quintet sestet tercet 70 / 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 herself Cassio himself Duke 71 / 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__________ Indifference Distaste Approval Admiration 72 / 80 Category: LITERATURE PAST QUESTIONS An essential features of drama is___________ Conflict Soliloquy Irony Aside 73 / 80 Category: LITERATURE PAST QUESTIONS Poetry is written in poetic descriptive dramatic narrative 74 / 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____________ Contrast Oxymoron Paradox Personification 75 / 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____________ An earthquake A storm A flood An explosion 76 / 80 Category: LITERATURE PAST QUESTIONS Death be not proud, though some have called thee might and dreadful is an example of___________ Apostrophe Euphemism Aliteration Metaphor 77 / 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_________ Calls his lieutenant Entrusts Desdemona to Iago's care Confers with the Duke Leaves with Desdemona 78 / 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__________ Cassio Emilia Iago Desdemona 79 / 80 Category: LITERATURE PAST QUESTIONS The leading character in a literary work is the________ Antagonist Protagonist Villain Foil 80 / 80 Category: LITERATURE PAST QUESTIONS 'Many hands make light work' illustrates the use of' synecdoche hyperbole metonymy zeugma 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)