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SS 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 perfomed during the pause between the acts of a longer play is____________ An epilogue A prologue An interval An Interlude 2 / 80 Category: LITERATURE PAST QUESTIONS Poetry is written in scenes lines chapters paragraphs 3 / 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 Cassio is dismissed Iago is given charge of the city Montano is killed 4 / 80 Category: LITERATURE PAST QUESTIONS ...... refers to the structure of a work of art. Plot Setting Style Form 5 / 80 Category: LITERATURE PAST QUESTIONS Hamartia, in a literary work refers to a hero's_________ strength of character Inordinate ambition good works tragic flaw 6 / 80 Category: LITERATURE PAST QUESTIONS A poem which celebrates simple country life is___________ A pastoral A dirge An ode An epic 7 / 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_____________ Duke Brabantio Montano Roderigo 8 / 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__________ Fight in Rhodes Take over the government of Cyprus Make peace with the Turks Meet the government of Cyprus 9 / 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 pentameter tetrameter trimeter hexameter 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 bestMen do their broken weapons rather useThan their bare hands(Act 1, Scene Three, Lines 171-174) The underlined expression means___________ Wait till the war is ended Seek counsel elsewhere Take your revenge Make the best out of this 11 / 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 12 / 80 Category: LITERATURE PAST QUESTIONS Before a play is performed, it is ___________ Recited Rehearsed Applauded Auditioned 13 / 80 Category: LITERATURE PAST QUESTIONS A Poem that celebrates an object, person or event is a balled an ode a dirge a sonnet 14 / 80 Category: LITERATURE PAST QUESTIONS Weeping Pilliow illustrates________ Pathetic Fallacy Dramatic Monologue Transferred epithet Dramatic Irony 15 / 80 Category: LITERATURE PAST QUESTIONS ''The sun smiled gently on the scene'' illustrates" euphemism paradox hyperbole personification 16 / 80 Category: LITERATURE PAST QUESTIONS ''That it will rain is not unlike'' illustrates the use of" lilotes metonymy irony metaphor 17 / 80 Category: LITERATURE PAST QUESTIONS The character assumed by the author in his writing is chorus pseudonym protagonist persona 18 / 80 Category: LITERATURE PAST QUESTIONS Through the trees, I'll hear a singleRinging sound, a cowbell jingle The underlined is an example of____________ryhme End Feminine Masculine Internal 19 / 80 Category: LITERATURE PAST QUESTIONS A literary work in which the characters are animals is a ____________ Fable Lampoon Parody Pantomine 20 / 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 Othello lago Lodovico Bianca 21 / 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 assonance alliteration simile personification 22 / 80 Category: LITERATURE PAST QUESTIONS Oral literature is part of poetry folklore drama music 23 / 80 Category: LITERATURE PAST QUESTIONS The Main Character in a Play or Novel is the ____________ Antagonist Protagonist Narrator Villain 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 Cassio Gratiano Iago 25 / 80 Category: LITERATURE PAST QUESTIONS Diction is a writer's choice of___________ Words Syntax Style Rhythm 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) ........this tale justifies_________ Roderigo's unrequited love for Desdemona Brabantio's rejection of Othello's love for his daughter Desdemona's attraction to Othello Cassio's promotion above Iago 27 / 80 Category: LITERATURE PAST QUESTIONS Over the cobbles it clattered and crashed is an example of__________ Onomatopoeia Oxymoron Pun Paradox 28 / 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 Return of the victorious army to Cyprus Killing of Roderigo by Iago Intervention of the storm in the war 29 / 80 Category: LITERATURE PAST QUESTIONS The eight-line part of a Petrarchan sonnet is the________________ Quartet Octave Quatrain Octameter 30 / 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, Othello falls into a trance Roderigo is killed Bianca flings a handkerchief at Cassio Montano fights with Cassio 31 / 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 A flood An earthquake A storm 32 / 80 Category: LITERATURE PAST QUESTIONS He is my most beloved enemy ilustrates__________ Oxymoron Litotes Metonymy Synecdoche 33 / 80 Category: LITERATURE PAST QUESTIONS An essential part of the plot is____________ Foreshadow Exposition Characterization Atmosphere 34 / 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___________ Iago is drunk People are fighting A bell has been rung Cassio has stabbed Montano 35 / 80 Category: LITERATURE PAST QUESTIONS An essential features of drama is___________ Soliloquy Conflict Irony Aside 36 / 80 Category: LITERATURE PAST QUESTIONS The major part of the Petrarch sonnet is the sestet tercet quintet octave 37 / 80 Category: LITERATURE PAST QUESTIONS Dramatis personae is the same as ____________ Foil Chorus Cast Prompter 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 bestMen do their broken weapons rather useThan their bare hands(Act 1, Scene Three, Lines 171-174) The speaker is_____________ Brabantio Cassio Duke Othello 39 / 80 Category: LITERATURE PAST QUESTIONS A praise poem is ____________ An Allegory A Panegyric An Epigram A Ballad 40 / 80 Category: LITERATURE PAST QUESTIONS The cast appears at the end of a play for the ___________ Curtain Call Musical Introduction Intermission 41 / 80 Category: LITERATURE PAST QUESTIONS The leading character in a literary work is the________ Antagonist Villain Protagonist Foil 42 / 80 Category: LITERATURE PAST QUESTIONS Oh spite! Oh Hell!! I see you are all bentTo set aganist me for your merriment. The lines illustrate__________ Epitaph Apostrophe Allusion Epigram 43 / 80 Category: LITERATURE PAST QUESTIONS A Sonnet has a final couplet when it has___________ A sestet Two sestets Three quatrains An octave 44 / 80 Category: LITERATURE PAST QUESTIONS A short single act drama is called____________ Opera Allusion Playlet Farce 45 / 80 Category: LITERATURE PAST QUESTIONS Through ........ the ills of society are criticised with the objective of having them corrected satire comic relief dramatic irony farce 46 / 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 47 / 80 Category: LITERATURE PAST QUESTIONS Beware her faintly failing health, and gentle gallands around her speed Illustrates_________ Repetition Synecdoche Alliteration Oxymoron 48 / 80 Category: LITERATURE PAST QUESTIONS Poetry is written in poetic dramatic descriptive narrative 49 / 80 Category: LITERATURE PAST QUESTIONS The metrical beat in the The Splendor falls on castle walls is___________ Iambic Anapaestic Dactylic Trochaic 50 / 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 abab abcc abbc aaba 51 / 80 Category: LITERATURE PAST QUESTIONS A humorous poem with five lines, the first two ryhming with the last is______________ A Limerick Sestet Octave An ode 52 / 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________ Free Verse Blank Verse Internal rhyme End ryhme 53 / 80 Category: LITERATURE PAST QUESTIONS Conflict in a literary work begins to unfold with resolution exposition climax episode 54 / 80 Category: LITERATURE PAST QUESTIONS A dramatic performance with ONLY bodily movements and no speech is a _____________ Farce Mime Burlesque Slapstick 55 / 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 herself himself Duke Cassio 56 / 80 Category: LITERATURE PAST QUESTIONS Ten thousand saw i at glance....... Illustrates_________ Bathos Climax Hyperbole Caesura 57 / 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________ Litotes Comic relief Paradox Irony 58 / 80 Category: LITERATURE PAST QUESTIONS The ....... produces comic relief in drama clown antagonist chorus protagonist 59 / 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 quiet sea stormy weather dark sky calm season 60 / 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__________ Duke Roderigo Montano Othello 61 / 80 Category: LITERATURE PAST QUESTIONS An...... is an indirect and usually unfavourable remark allusion innuendo irony aside 62 / 80 Category: LITERATURE PAST QUESTIONS A play on words for literary effect is_________ A Pun An Elegy A Satire A Paradox 63 / 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 negligent guard Sincere A loyal senator Untrustworthy 64 / 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 Approval Admiration Indifference 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 poets intention is to___________ Show Contempt Arouse sympathy Create Humor Create fun 66 / 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 fight was unnecessary The charges were a waste of time The tale was good enough to win a woman's heart 67 / 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 a sestet a quatrain an ode an epic 68 / 80 Category: LITERATURE PAST QUESTIONS The climax in a literary work is the_____________ Middle Beginning Central part of the dialogue Peak of the conflict 69 / 80 Category: LITERATURE PAST QUESTIONS Catharsis is normally associated with____________ Farce Tragedy Comedy Pantomime 70 / 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 Othello's love for his daughter Brabantio's rejection of the Othello and Desdemona relationship Duke's war exploits Othello's war exploits 71 / 80 Category: LITERATURE PAST QUESTIONS A play that moves the audience to pity and fear is a ____________ Tragedy Comedy Pantomime Farce 72 / 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__________ Cassio Iago Emilia Desdemona 73 / 80 Category: LITERATURE PAST QUESTIONS 'Many hands make light work' illustrates the use of' synecdoche zeugma metonymy hyperbole 74 / 80 Category: LITERATURE PAST QUESTIONS "Its a matter of sad joy" Iillustrates__________ Irony Euphemism Metonymy Oxymoron 75 / 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_________ Calls his lieutenant Leaves with Desdemona Entrusts Desdemona to Iago's care Confers with the Duke 76 / 80 Category: LITERATURE PAST QUESTIONS A short play is also called a novelette farce playlet slapstick 77 / 80 Category: LITERATURE PAST QUESTIONS A narrative poem that relates heroic exploits is an___________ Epitaph Epic Epigram Epilogue 78 / 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 Conceit Climax 79 / 80 Category: LITERATURE PAST QUESTIONS Death be not proud, though some have called thee might and dreadful is an example of___________ Metaphor Aliteration Euphemism Apostrophe 80 / 80 Category: LITERATURE PAST QUESTIONS Who lied in the chapelNow lies in the Abbey The dominant device used is___________ Chiasmus Paradox Pun 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)