LITERATURE IN ENGLISH POST UTME PAST QUESTIONSby School Portal NGAndroid Question Bank (POST UTME)LITERATURE IN ENGLISH POST UTME PAST QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 0% LITERATURE IN ENGLISH POST UTME (APP) LITERATURE IN ENGLISH POST UTME LITERATURE IN ENGLISH POST UTMEPractice with our Post UTME CBT for Universities, Polytechnics, College of Agriculture, College ofMedicine, College of Technology and College of Education and pass your examination. 1 / 50 Category: LITERATURE IN ENGLISH POST UTME The title of the poem “Myopia” connotes . poverty eye defect wickedness lack of focus 2 / 50 Category: LITERATURE IN ENGLISH POST UTME _________ is the playwright of The Importance of Being Earnest. Oscar Wide Oscar Wild Oscar Wilde Oscar Wade 3 / 50 Category: LITERATURE IN ENGLISH POST UTME The time of the events in a literary text is referred to as .............. setting. special spatial temporary temporal 4 / 50 Category: LITERATURE IN ENGLISH POST UTME As a medium for exposing and correcting ills in the society literature is ............. political satirical allegorical abusive 5 / 50 Category: LITERATURE IN ENGLISH POST UTME Use the following passage to answer question belowWe have led the ‘mules’ to the green pastures near the brook with a view to guiding them to feeduntil they develop the appetite for sipping from the foundation of the literary world. Really, wecannot and we do not need to force the mules to drink. All that needs to be done is to providethe necessary atmosphere and encouragement that will sensitize “the mules” towards aspontaneous wish to write. This, I believe, has been addressed in this brief lecture.The point of view used in this passage is . first person omniscient stream of consciousness third person 6 / 50 Category: LITERATURE IN ENGLISH POST UTME One of the following is not a function of literature Inciting Entertaining Correcting Exposing 7 / 50 Category: LITERATURE IN ENGLISH POST UTME Use the poem below to answer question belowLife is rise and fallA tale of comings and goings Of travails and doingsBut death ends allThe rhyme scheme of the poem is . aaba abba aabb abab 8 / 50 Category: LITERATURE IN ENGLISH POST UTME Use the following passage to answer question belowWe have led the ‘mules’ to the green pastures near the brook with a view to guiding them to feeduntil they develop the appetite for sipping from the foundation of the literary world. Really, wecannot and we do not need to force the mules to drink. All that needs to be done is to providethe necessary atmosphere and encouragement that will sensitize “the mules” towards aspontaneous wish to write. This, I believe, has been addressed in this brief lecture.The ‘mules’ in this passage are . animals potential writers students reliable clients 9 / 50 Category: LITERATURE IN ENGLISH POST UTME Use the extract below to answer question belowWilliam Shakespeare: The TempestSpeaker A: The hour’s now comeThe very minute bids thee ope thine ear Obey, and be attentive. Canst thou remember A time before we came unto this cell?I do not think thou canst, for then thou wast not Out three years oldSpeaker B: Certainly, Sir, I can!The response of speaker B shows that speaker A . approves of her carriage dislikes her behavior understands her feelings underrates her memory 10 / 50 Category: LITERATURE IN ENGLISH POST UTME “Wisdom cries out in the open places” is an example of . ellipsis oxymoron metaphor personification 11 / 50 Category: LITERATURE IN ENGLISH POST UTME One of these characters in The Importance of Being Earnest is a clergy Cardew Bracknell Algemon Chasuble 12 / 50 Category: LITERATURE IN ENGLISH POST UTME Literature is referred to as a slice of life when it accuses leaders of insensitiveness reveals reality in society entertains its audience recounts real event 13 / 50 Category: LITERATURE IN ENGLISH POST UTME Lenrie Peter’s “The Fence” has the refrain . we want change we are necessary there I lie O elephant 14 / 50 Category: LITERATURE IN ENGLISH POST UTME Use the poem below to answer question belowLife is rise and fallA tale of comings and goings Of travails and doingsBut death ends allThe type of rhyme in lines 2 and 3 is . internal alternate medial couplet 15 / 50 Category: LITERATURE IN ENGLISH POST UTME What distinguishes drama from other literary genres is that it is meant to be . recited viewed read acted 16 / 50 Category: LITERATURE IN ENGLISH POST UTME Use the extract below to answer question belowWilliam Shakespeare: The TempestSpeaker A: The hour’s now comeThe very minute bids thee ope thine ear Obey, and be attentive. Canst thou remember A time before we came unto this cell?I do not think thou canst, for then thou wast not Out three years oldSpeaker B: Certainly, Sir, I can!Speaker B is . Miranda Caliban Ariel Andrian 17 / 50 Category: LITERATURE IN ENGLISH POST UTME “The boy showed his love to his father by killing the man” is an example of . metaphor paradox allusion irony 18 / 50 Category: LITERATURE IN ENGLISH POST UTME In The Importance of Been Earnest Jack Worthing’s real surname is . Fairface Earnest Moncrief Algernon 19 / 50 Category: LITERATURE IN ENGLISH POST UTME _______ misplaced Jack Worthing in a leader handbag. Cecily Mrs. Prism Lady Bracknell Gwendolen 20 / 50 Category: LITERATURE IN ENGLISH POST UTME Use the extract below to answer question belowWilliam Shakespeare: The TempestSpeaker A: The hour’s now comeThe very minute bids thee ope thine ear Obey, and be attentive. Canst thou remember A time before we came unto this cell?I do not think thou canst, for then thou wast not Out three years oldSpeaker B: Certainly, Sir, I can!Who is speaker A? Prospero Caliban Alonso Antonio 21 / 50 Category: LITERATURE IN ENGLISH POST UTME The style of presentation of “The Fence” is . flashback stream of consciousness third person narration persona 22 / 50 Category: LITERATURE IN ENGLISH POST UTME In “The Fence”, the expression, “my head goes round and” portrays . disappointment confusion scorn anger 23 / 50 Category: LITERATURE IN ENGLISH POST UTME Use the poem below to answer question belowLife is rise and fallA tale of comings and goings Of travails and doingsBut death ends allThe central theme of the poem is . love vanity hope faith 24 / 50 Category: LITERATURE IN ENGLISH POST UTME _________ is a moment of relief in a tragic play brought about through a comic scene. Tragic relief Comedy Suspense Comic relief 25 / 50 Category: LITERATURE IN ENGLISH POST UTME Who is the protagonist of Kobina “ekyi’s The Blinkards? Mrs. Brofuseun Banister Onyimdzi Dr. Ohweyie Mr. Tisba 26 / 50 Category: LITERATURE IN ENGLISH POST UTME Use the following passage to answer question belowWe have led the ‘mules’ to the green pastures near the brook with a view to guiding them to feed until they develop the appetite for sipping from the foundation of the literary world. Really, we cannot and we do not need to force the mules to drink. All that needs to be done is to provide the necessary atmosphere and encouragement that will sensitize “the mules” towards a spontaneous wish to write. This, I believe, has been addressed in this brief lecture.The passage is ________ in nature declarative conversational descriptive explanatory 27 / 50 Category: LITERATURE IN ENGLISH POST UTME _________ is the playwright of Women of Owu. Willam Golding Femi Osofisan Wole Soyinka Kobina Sekyi 28 / 50 Category: LITERATURE IN ENGLISH POST UTME One of the following is not a figure of speech. Climax mime antitheses Oxymoron 29 / 50 Category: LITERATURE IN ENGLISH POST UTME Use the following passage to answer question belowWe have led the ‘mules’ to the green pastures near the brook with a view to guiding them to feeduntil they develop the appetite for sipping from the foundation of the literary world. Really, wecannot and we do not need to force the mules to drink. All that needs to be done is to providethe necessary atmosphere and encouragement that will sensitize “the mules” towards aspontaneous wish to write. This, I believe, has been addressed in this brief lecture. The underlined expression is an example of . oxymoron simile metaphor paradox 30 / 50 Category: LITERATURE IN ENGLISH POST UTME In Arms and the Man Major Saranoff eventually marries Louka Raina Nicola Catherine 31 / 50 Category: LITERATURE IN ENGLISH POST UTME A predominant figure of speech in “The Fence” is . metaphor personification oxymoron irony 32 / 50 Category: LITERATURE IN ENGLISH POST UTME Use the extract below to answer question belowWilliam Shakespeare: The TempestSpeaker A: The hour’s now comeThe very minute bids thee ope thine ear Obey, and be attentive. Canst thou remember A time before we came unto this cell?I do not think thou canst, for then thou wast not Out three years oldSpeaker B: Certainly, Sir, I can!“This cell”, in the extract illustrates the use of . synecdoche irony metaphor metonymy 33 / 50 Category: LITERATURE IN ENGLISH POST UTME A predominant theme in Lord of the Flies is . the uselessness of adult religious fanaticism necessity for social order the innateness of evil 34 / 50 Category: LITERATURE IN ENGLISH POST UTME The perspective from which the story in a novel is narrated is referred to as angle point of view focus technique 35 / 50 Category: LITERATURE IN ENGLISH POST UTME The last six lines of a patrachan sonnet is called . Sextet septet Octave quatrain 36 / 50 Category: LITERATURE IN ENGLISH POST UTME The expression “emaciated bones” in “Myopia” is an example of . innuendo ellipsis transferred epithet poetic license 37 / 50 Category: LITERATURE IN ENGLISH POST UTME The expression “boulevards of misery” in “Myopia” exemplifies the use of . irony metaphor assonance personification 38 / 50 Category: LITERATURE IN ENGLISH POST UTME Who is the author of Lord of the Flies? Lord Baron Williams Golding Williams Shakespeare Earnest Hemmingway 39 / 50 Category: LITERATURE IN ENGLISH POST UTME “The Fence” is presented in the form of a/an admonition protest lamentation accusation 40 / 50 Category: LITERATURE IN ENGLISH POST UTME ................ is an indirect reference to an event, speech or action in the past Pun exaggeration Innuendo Allusion 41 / 50 Category: LITERATURE IN ENGLISH POST UTME The writer of a play text is referred to as . playwrite playright playwriter playwright 42 / 50 Category: LITERATURE IN ENGLISH POST UTME The major divisions of a novel is called . stanza scene act chapter 43 / 50 Category: LITERATURE IN ENGLISH POST UTME When literature teaches moral lessons, it is said to be ..................... informative dynamic instructive didactic 44 / 50 Category: LITERATURE IN ENGLISH POST UTME A misuse of a word in place of another one due to similarity in their sounds is known as . mistake parallelism malapropism error 45 / 50 Category: LITERATURE IN ENGLISH POST UTME One major theme in Women of Owu is . the folly of war tolerance hatred political bigotry 46 / 50 Category: IRK POST UTME The reason Q. 2: 219 forbids wine ad gambling is because they lead to poverty ultimately they result in intolerance and public disorder they lead to extravagance and intoxication they make a Muslim to abandon religion they lead one to greater sin than gain 47 / 50 Category: LITERATURE IN ENGLISH POST UTME _________ is a device used to bring past event into focus to clarify present events in literature. Flashbacka Foreshadowing Prologue Exposition 48 / 50 Category: LITERATURE IN ENGLISH POST UTME When literature recreates real events, it is said to be ................... fictitious factual allegorical didactic 49 / 50 Category: LITERATURE IN ENGLISH POST UTME Which song is meant to lull a baby to sleep? Ballad Ode Dirge Lullaby 50 / 50 Category: LITERATURE IN ENGLISH POST UTME A quatrain contains ________ lines. four five three six Your score is 0% Restart quiz SUBSCRIBE BELOW FOR A GIVEAWAY First name or full name Email previousPHYSICS PAST QUESTIONS APPnextIRK POST UTME PAST QUESTIONS Leave a Reply Cancel replyYour email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *Name * Email * Website Comment *