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