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LITERATURE 2024 UTME PAST QUESTION

1. Dramatis personae in a play refers to

A. Cast list
B. List of characters
C. Protagonist and antagonist
D. Order of appearance

2. The writing convention in which the event in a narrative are scrambled as they come to the writer’s mind without any attempt to arrange them in orderly sequence is called

A. Psychoconsciousness style
B. Narrator’s mind style
C. Shifting style
D. Stream of consciousness

3. The tragic character is the character whose experiences arouse pity and

A. Sympathy
B. Terror
C. Horror
D. Frustration

4. The term given to a type of incident or device which recurs frequently in literature is

A. Concept
B. Myth
C. Ritual
D. Motif

5. And so, tom awoke and we rose in the dark And got with our bags and our brushes to work through the morning was cold, tom was happy and warm; so if all do their duty, they need not fear harm. In the lines, tom is warn because he

A. Is working indoors
B. Is wearing warm clothes
C. Is doing his duty
D. Has just woken from sleep

6. A limerick has

A. Ornate style, humour, irony and seven lines
B. Formal and elaborate style and humour
C. Humour, rhyme scheme, and five lines
D. A stinging climax, rhyme scheme, and five lines

7. When an object is invented with a meaning beyond its immediate reference, it becomes a

A. Symbol
B. Irony
C. Subject
D. An epigram

8. A statement that appears to say something opposite to common sense or truth, but which may contain a truth is

A. An oxymoron
B. A parable
C. An irony
D. A paradox

9. The process of creating characters and endowing them with certain attitude is

A. Action
B. Character
C. Characterization
D. Dramatis

10. A formal dignified speech or writing praising a person or a thing for past or present deeds is

A. Lampoon
B. Eulogy
C. Premiere
D. Anthology

Will college make you a better olokun priest? Will it make you serve our ancestors better? Look at me. An able-bodied, strong-hearted priest of Olokun. Did I go to college? Gracy Osifo: Dizzy Angel

The literary device used in the passage above is

A. Onomatopoeia
B. Parallelism
C. Rhetorical question
D. Simile

12. A trilogy is a

A. Set of three one-act drama written by related authors
B. Series of related stories divided into three equal parts
C. Sequence of three plays written by the same author
D. Collection of three poems of equal length

13. A panegyric poem is composed to

A. Condemn
B. Elaborate
C. Abuse
D. Praise

14. The narrative style in which the hero tells his own story directly is the

A. Objective
B. First-person
C. Subjective
D. Third-person

“… Not a few of us ended our application letter like this: ‘if yopu are kind enough to accommodate tjis humble application, sir/madam, i shall do my uttermost best to rendered you the greatest service which it is at my disposition to your best satisfactory. Yours obediently servant…’ yet without English, you had no education fit for a white collar job Cameron Daodu: The Gab Boys

15. The tone of the passage above is

A. Melancholic
B. Ironic
C. Harsh
D. Derisive

16. A structural arrangement of unit of composition by which one element of equal importance with another is similarly placed is called

A. Repetition
B. Paradox
C. Refrain
D. Parallelism

17. Using the name of one thing for something else with which it is closely associated in an instance is

A. Paradox
B. Parody
C. Parallelism
D. Metonymy

18. the placement of the two contrasting words or ideas side by side is called

A. Juxtaposition
B. Euphemism
C. Pun
D. Antithesis

“ He glanced at his bitten nails. And with his chin resting on his knees said well. I ask them to let me go below to visit my pa in the cell. They feel sory for me, and say it’s okay. So i go down to see him, this man that made my ma’s life a misery like hell. And who never had a word for me and did nothing but give me the belt.”

19. FROM WHAT HE SAYS, THE KID IN THE PASSAGE

A. LOVES HIS FATHER
B. DISLIKES HIS FATHER
C. DISOWNS HIS FATHER
D. FEELS SORRY FOR HIS FATHER

20. ____________ are generally regarded as brief but purposeful references, within a literary text, to a person, place, event, or to another work of literature

A. REFARRALS
B. CHIASMUS
C. MENTONYMY
D. ALLUSION

21. MY HEART IS AQUIET DRUM. SOMETIMES IT FLARES LIKE A PARCHED THUNDER CRACKING THROUGH A DAMASK SKY IT LIFTS ME ITS FIRED SPECTACLE. THE IMAGERY IN THE EXCERPT ABOVE IS LARGELY

A. OLFACTORY AND VISUAL
B. AUDITORY AND VISUAL
C. TACTILE AND AUDITORY
D. OLFACTORY AND TACTILE

“AS VIRTOUS MEN PASS MILDLY AWAY, AND WHISPER TO THEIR SOULS, TO GO WHILST SOME OF THEIR SAD FRIENDS DO SAY THE BREADTH GOES NOW, AND SOME SAY, ‘NO.” JOHN DONNE: A VALEDICTION: FORBIDDING MOURNING

22. THE TONE OF THIS POEM IS GENERALLY

A. CONVERSATIONAL
B. IMAGINATIVE
C. CONTEMPLATIVE
D. APPRECIATIVE

23. “SHE SWALLOWED IT ALL, JUST LIKE A NASTY PILL. “ THE LITERARY DEVICE EMPLOYED HERE IS

A. ALLITERATION
B. METAPHOR
C. SIMILE
D. APOSTROPHE

24. THE LINES, “BE HIM ENGLISH, BE HIM AFRICAN” IS AN EXAMPLE OF

A. EPIGRAM
B. ANAPHORA
C. EPITAPH
D. TAUTOLOGY

25. A POETIC DEVICE IN WHICH IDEA IN A LINE RUNS INTO ANOTHER IS CALLED

A. RHYME SCHEME
B. RUN-OFF
C. ENJAMBMENT
D. PATHOS

26. IN H. LAWRENCE’S BAT, THE POET PERSONA SEES BATS AS

A. SYMBOLIC
B. ADORABLE
C. PEACEFUL
D. CHAOTIC

27. IN BLACK WOMAN, SENGHOR EXPRESSES

A. HATRED FOR AFRICAN WOMAN
B. DISLIKE FOR AFRICAN BEAUTY
C. BEAUTY OF AFRICAN WOMEN
D. JOY OF AFRICAN MAN.

28. “THE SWEET SPECIAL SCENE RURAL SCENE, A RURAL SCENE SWEET ESPECIAL RURAL SCENE THE PREDOMINANT THOUGHT IN THE ABOVE EXCERPT FROM BINSEY POPLARS, IS THAT OF

A. BEAUTY
B. DISGUST
C. APPARITION
D. AWE

29. THE LANGUAGE OF AUGUSTINO NETO’S THE GRIEVED LANDS OF AFRICA SUGGESTS

A. THE BEAUTY OF AFRICA COUNTRY SIDE
B. THAT BLACK IS BEAUTIFUL
C. THAT THE POET IS PAINED BY WRONGS DONE TO THE AFRICA IN PAST
D. THAT THE POET SEES AFRICA AS A COLONIAL POWER

30. IN HIS POEM THE LEADER AND THE LED, NIYI OSUNDARE RECOMMENDS A LEADER WHO IS

A. RIGID
B. LOOSE
C. DYNAMIC
D. FIRM

31. IN WOLE SOYINKA’S THE LION AND THE JEWEL BAROKA CAN BE BEST DESCRIBED AS EMBODYING

A. AFICAN POLITICS
B. AFRICAN TRADITIONAL VALUES
C. AFRICAN MASCULINITY
D. AFRICAN SOCIO-ECONOMY

32. WOLE SOYINKA’s the lion and the jewel is a play that explore

A. CULTURAL CLASH
B. POLITICAL STRUGGLE
C. NATIONALIST TENDENCIES
D. TRADITIONAL ECONOMIC SYSTEMS

33. THE NOVEL WUTHERING HEIGHTS CAN BEST BE DESCRIBED AS A

A. ROMANCE
B. TRERGEDY
C. GOTHIC
D. ADVENTURE

“AND RUNNING AWAY, AND WANTING THEIR LIQUOR AND WOMEN, AND THE NIGHT-FIRES GOING OUT, AND THE LACK OF SHELTERS, AND THE CITIES HOSTILE AND THE TOWNS UNFRIENDLY”

34.THE ABOVE EXERPT FROM THE JOURNEY OF THE MAGI DESCRIBES A__________

A. FOREIGN RERRITORY
B. A QUIET NIGHT
C. HARSH ATMOSPHERE AND ENVIRONMENT
D. FRENZY SITUATION

35. THIS QUESTION IS BASED ON JOHN DONNES’S THE GOOD MORROW “AND MAKES ONE LITTLE ROOM AN EVERYWHERE,” IS AN EXAMPLE OF

A. IRONY
B. SYNESTHESIA
C. ANTITHESIS
D. HYPERBOLE

THIS QUESTION IS BASED ON THE GOOD MORROW. USE THIS EXCERPT TO ANSWER QUESTION “IF EVER ANY BEAUTY I DID SEE, WHICH I DESIRED, AND GOT, ‘TWAS BUT A DREAM OF THEE”

36. THE EXCERPT ABOVE EVOKES THE USE OF _______

A. OLFACTORY IMAGERY
B. TACTILE
C. AUDITORY
D. VISUAL IMAGERY

37. THIS QUESTION IS BASED ON MAYA ANGELOU’S CAGED BIRD THIS QUESTION IS BASED OF FREEDOM.” THE POETIC DEVICE USED THIS EXPRESSION IS M_______

A. MENTAPHOR
B. IRONY
C. HYPERBOLE
D. PARADOX

38. THIS QUESTION IS BASED ON SECOND CLASS CITIZEN. THE NOVEL IS SET AFTER WHICH MAJOR WAR?

A. FIRST WORLD WAR
B. ABA WOMEN RIOT
C. SECOND WORLD WAR
D. THE NIGERIAN CIVIL WAR

39. THIS QUESTION IS BASED ON LOOK BACK IN ANGER. WHAT WERE THE OTHER BUSSINESSES JIMMY PORTER HAD TRIED APART FROM THE SWEET STALL BUSSINESS?

A. FARMING, TEACHING AND ADVITISING
B. TEACHING, PAINTING AND TRUMPETING
C. JOURNALISM, FARMING AND TEACHING
D. JOURNALISM, AND VACUUM CLEANING

40. THIS QUESTION IS BASED ON A GOVERNMENT DRIVER ON HIS RETIREMENT. “MANY YEARS ON WHEELS” THE REFRENCE TO “WHEELS” EXAMPLIFIES THE US E OF ___ IN THE POEM.

A. CLIMAX
B. PERSONIFICATION
C. MENTONYMY
D. SYNECDOCHE