UTME Past Questions

Literature · 2024

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Question 01

Dramatis personae in a play refers to

Question 02

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

Question 03

The tragic character is the character whose experiences arouse pity and

Question 04

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

Question 05
And so, Tom awoke and we rose in the dark
And got with our bags and our brushes to work though 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 warm because he

Question 06

A limerick has

Question 07

When an object is invested with a meaning beyond its immediate reference, it becomes a

Question 08

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

Question 09

The process of creating characters and endowing them with certain attitudes is

Question 10

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

Question 11
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

Question 12

A trilogy is a

Question 13

A panegyric poem is composed to

Question 14

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

Question 15
"… Not a few of us ended our application letter like this: 'If you are kind enough to accommodate this humble application, sir/madam, I shall do my uttermost best to render you the greatest service which it is at my disposition to your best satisfaction. Yours obediently servant…' Yet without English, you had no education fit for a white collar job."
— Cameron Duodu: The Gab Boys

The tone of the passage above is

Question 16

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

Question 17

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

Question 18

The placement of two contrasting words or ideas side by side is called

Question 19
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 sorry 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.

From what he says, the kid in the passage

Question 20

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

Question 21
My heart is a quiet 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

Question 22
As virtuous men pass mildly away, and whisper to their souls, to go whilst some of their sad friends do say the breath goes now, and some say, "No."
— John Donne: A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning

The tone of this poem is generally

Question 23

"She swallowed it all, just like a nasty pill." The literary device employed here is

Question 24

The lines, "Be him English, be him African" is an example of

Question 25

A poetic device in which the idea in a line runs into another is called

Question 26

In D. H. Lawrence's Bat, the poet persona sees bats as

Question 27

In Black Woman, Senghor expresses

Question 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

Question 29

The language of Agostinho Neto's The Grieved Lands of Africa suggests

Question 30

In his poem The Leader and the Led, Niyi Osundare recommends a leader who is

Question 31

In Wole Soyinka's The Lion and the Jewel, Baroka can best be described as embodying

Question 32

Wole Soyinka's The Lion and the Jewel is a play that explores

Question 33

The novel Wuthering Heights can best be described as a

Question 34
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.

The above excerpt from The Journey of the Magi describes a__________

Question 35
This question is based on John Donne's The Good Morrow.

"And makes one little room an everywhere," is an example of

Question 36
This question is based on The Good Morrow.
"If ever any beauty I did see, which I desired, and got, 'twas but a dream of thee."

The excerpt above evokes the use of _______

Question 37
This question is based on Maya Angelou's Caged Bird, and the reference to "freedom."

The poetic device used in this expression is M_______

Question 38
This question is based on Second Class Citizen.

The novel is set after which major war?

Question 39
This question is based on Look Back in Anger.

What were the other businesses Jimmy Porter had tried apart from the sweet-stall business?

Question 40
This question is based on A Government Driver on His Retirement.

"Many years on wheels" — the reference to "wheels" exemplifies the use of ___ in the poem.

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