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Goodluck! 1 / 80 Category: LITERATURE PAST QUESTIONS A literary work in which the characters are animals is a ____________ Fable Lampoon Pantomine Parody 2 / 80 Category: LITERATURE PAST QUESTIONS A poem which celebrates simple country life is___________ An epic A dirge A pastoral An ode 3 / 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 Cassio himself herself Duke 4 / 80 Category: LITERATURE PAST QUESTIONS Catharsis is normally associated with____________ Tragedy Farce Pantomime Comedy 5 / 80 Category: LITERATURE PAST QUESTIONS The cast appears at the end of a play for the ___________ Introduction Intermission Musical Curtain Call 6 / 80 Category: LITERATURE PAST QUESTIONS A narrative poem that relates heroic exploits is an___________ Epitaph Epigram Epilogue Epic 7 / 80 Category: LITERATURE PAST QUESTIONS The character assumed by the author in his writing is persona protagonist chorus pseudonym 8 / 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 Duke Roderigo Montano 9 / 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 Oxymoron Paradox Contrast 10 / 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 Othello's war exploits Brabantio's rejection of Othello's love for his daughter Duke's war exploits 11 / 80 Category: LITERATURE PAST QUESTIONS ...... refers to the structure of a work of art. Plot Style Form Setting 12 / 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 An earthquake A storm An explosion 13 / 80 Category: LITERATURE PAST QUESTIONS Weeping Pilliow illustrates________ Dramatic Monologue Transferred epithet Pathetic Fallacy Dramatic Irony 14 / 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 Take over the government of Cyprus Make peace with the Turks Fight in Rhodes 15 / 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 Stabbing of Montano by Cassio Intervention of the storm in the war 16 / 80 Category: LITERATURE PAST QUESTIONS The Main Character in a Play or Novel is the ____________ Protagonist Villain Antagonist Narrator 17 / 80 Category: LITERATURE PAST QUESTIONS A play that moves the audience to pity and fear is a ____________ Tragedy Pantomime Comedy Farce 18 / 80 Category: LITERATURE PAST QUESTIONS The eight-line part of a Petrarchan sonnet is the________________ Octave Octameter Quatrain Quartet 19 / 80 Category: LITERATURE PAST QUESTIONS A Poem that celebrates an object, person or event is an ode a sonnet a dirge a balled 20 / 80 Category: LITERATURE PAST QUESTIONS A short play is also called a playlet farce slapstick novelette 21 / 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 tetrameter trimeter pentameter 22 / 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 23 / 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 Blank Verse Free Verse 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 Make the best out of this Wait till the war is ended Take your revenge 25 / 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___________ Roderigo demands his money back Iago is given charge of the city Montano is killed Cassio is dismissed 26 / 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_________ Gratiano Iago Cassio Lodovico 27 / 80 Category: LITERATURE PAST QUESTIONS Before a play is performed, it is ___________ Rehearsed Applauded Recited Auditioned 28 / 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 abcc abab aaba abbc 29 / 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________ Irony Comic relief Litotes Paradox 30 / 80 Category: LITERATURE PAST QUESTIONS An essential part of the plot is____________ Exposition Atmosphere Characterization Foreshadow 31 / 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 ______________ Theft Brawl Bell War 32 / 80 Category: LITERATURE PAST QUESTIONS Beware her faintly failing health, and gentle gallands around her speed Illustrates_________ Synecdoche Repetition Alliteration Oxymoron 33 / 80 Category: LITERATURE PAST QUESTIONS Diction is a writer's choice of___________ Words Style Rhythm Syntax 34 / 80 Category: LITERATURE PAST QUESTIONS A humorous poem with five lines, the first two ryhming with the last is______________ A Limerick Octave Sestet An ode 35 / 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 epic a sestet an ode a quatrain 36 / 80 Category: LITERATURE PAST QUESTIONS The major part of the Petrarch sonnet is the sestet quintet octave tercet 37 / 80 Category: LITERATURE PAST QUESTIONS He is my most beloved enemy ilustrates__________ Litotes Metonymy Synecdoche Oxymoron 38 / 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 simile personification assonance alliteration 39 / 80 Category: LITERATURE PAST QUESTIONS A dramatic performance with ONLY bodily movements and no speech is a _____________ Slapstick Mime Burlesque Farce 40 / 80 Category: LITERATURE PAST QUESTIONS The ....... produces comic relief in drama antagonist clown protagonist chorus 41 / 80 Category: LITERATURE PAST QUESTIONS "Its a matter of sad joy" Iillustrates__________ Metonymy Euphemism Oxymoron Irony 42 / 80 Category: LITERATURE PAST QUESTIONS Oral literature is part of poetry drama folklore music 43 / 80 Category: LITERATURE PAST QUESTIONS An essential features of drama is___________ Soliloquy Conflict Aside Irony 44 / 80 Category: LITERATURE PAST QUESTIONS A short single act drama is called____________ Playlet Allusion Farce Opera 45 / 80 Category: LITERATURE PAST QUESTIONS An...... is an indirect and usually unfavourable remark innuendo allusion aside irony 46 / 80 Category: LITERATURE PAST QUESTIONS The metrical beat in the The Splendor falls on castle walls is___________ Iambic Dactylic Trochaic Anapaestic 47 / 80 Category: LITERATURE PAST QUESTIONS Conflict in a literary work begins to unfold with resolution exposition climax episode 48 / 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 charges were a waste of time There were other matters demanding the attention of the Senate The tale was good enough to win a woman's heart The fight was unnecessary 49 / 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 Bianca Lodovico 50 / 80 Category: LITERATURE PAST QUESTIONS ''That it will rain is not unlike'' illustrates the use of" metonymy metaphor irony lilotes 51 / 80 Category: LITERATURE PAST QUESTIONS Through ........ the ills of society are criticised with the objective of having them corrected satire comic relief farce dramatic irony 52 / 80 Category: LITERATURE PAST QUESTIONS A praise poem is ____________ A Panegyric An Epigram An Allegory A Ballad 53 / 80 Category: LITERATURE PAST QUESTIONS Dramatis personae is the same as ____________ Prompter Cast Foil Chorus 54 / 80 Category: LITERATURE PAST QUESTIONS Hamartia, in a literary work refers to a hero's_________ strength of character tragic flaw good works Inordinate ambition 55 / 80 Category: LITERATURE PAST QUESTIONS The climax in a literary work is the_____________ Peak of the conflict Middle Central part of the dialogue Beginning 56 / 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, Othello falls into a trance Montano fights with Cassio Roderigo is killed Bianca flings a handkerchief at Cassio 57 / 80 Category: LITERATURE PAST QUESTIONS ''The sun smiled gently on the scene'' illustrates" personification hyperbole euphemism paradox 58 / 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_________ Confers with the Duke Entrusts Desdemona to Iago's care Leaves with Desdemona Calls his lieutenant 59 / 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 60 / 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 Distaste Indifference 61 / 80 Category: LITERATURE PAST QUESTIONS Poetry is written in lines scenes chapters paragraphs 62 / 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 Emilia Iago 63 / 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___________ Cassio has stabbed Montano A bell has been rung Iago is drunk People are fighting 64 / 80 Category: LITERATURE PAST QUESTIONS A play on words for literary effect is_________ A Pun A Paradox A Satire An Elegy 65 / 80 Category: LITERATURE PAST QUESTIONS A short play perfomed during the pause between the acts of a longer play is____________ An Interlude An interval An epilogue A prologue 66 / 80 Category: LITERATURE PAST QUESTIONS Over the cobbles it clattered and crashed is an example of__________ Pun Onomatopoeia Oxymoron Paradox 67 / 80 Category: LITERATURE PAST QUESTIONS A Sonnet has a final couplet when it has___________ Two sestets An octave A sestet Three quatrains 68 / 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________________ A loyal senator A negligent guard Sincere Untrustworthy 69 / 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_____________ Duke Roderigo Montano Brabantio 70 / 80 Category: LITERATURE PAST QUESTIONS Who lied in the chapel Now lies in the Abbey The dominant device used is___________ Paradox Chiasmus Pun Zeugma 71 / 80 Category: LITERATURE PAST QUESTIONS Poetry is written in poetic descriptive dramatic narrative 72 / 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 Humor Arouse sympathy Create fun 73 / 80 Category: LITERATURE PAST QUESTIONS 'Many hands make light work' illustrates the use of' synecdoche metonymy zeugma hyperbole 74 / 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_________ Brabantio's rejection of Othello's love for his daughter Cassio's promotion above Iago Roderigo's unrequited love for Desdemona Desdemona's attraction to Othello 75 / 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 76 / 80 Category: LITERATURE PAST QUESTIONS The leading character in a literary work is the________ Villain Foil Antagonist Protagonist 77 / 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 78 / 80 Category: LITERATURE PAST QUESTIONS Ten thousand saw i at glance....... Illustrates_________ Caesura Climax Bathos Hyperbole 79 / 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 calm season dark sky stormy weather quiet sea 80 / 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__________ Epigram Allusion Epitaph Apostrophe 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)