SS1 Literature Exams Questions for Second Term Session

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SS1 Literature Exams Questions for Second Term Session

SECTION ONE

What is the major device deployed in the following remark: ‘At the fall of the house they live in, the widow lost her husband, her sewing machine and her earings? (a) metaphor (b) oxymoron (c) bathos (d) simile

What is the dominant device exemplified in this sentence: ‘I came, I saw, but was conquered’? (a) allusion (b) blank verse (c) free verse (d) illusion

A deliberate understatement in which one uses the negative in order to express the opposite of what is meant is: (a) anti-thesis (b) litotes (c) hyperbole (d) apostrophe

The expression of the exact opposite of what one means of has in mind even though the words are not supposed to be taken at face value is: (a) sarcasm (b) euphemism (c) irony (d) metonymy

What figure of speech is prominent in ‘The US is making use of many Nigerian scientific brains in her technological programmes’ ? (a) synecdoche (b) metonymy (c) metaphor (d) oxymoron

When two words opposite in meaning stand shoulder to shoulder in a remark, the figure of speech is known as ______ (a) enjambment (b) oxymoron (c) melodrama (d) hyperbole

‘Jolliba stood on the middle of the road, unafraid of the surging trafic, as if he was no longer alive’ the major literary device in the preceding sentence is: (a) synaesthesia (b) innuendo (c) syncopation (d) simile

This question is based on General Literary Principles.A literary genre which directly imitates human action is (a) drama (b) comedy (c) prose (d) poetry

Comic relief occurs in (a) comedies (b) pastorals (c) romance (d) tragedies

The end of a performance is followed by (a) a curtain call. (b) a certain raiser. (c) epilogue (d)interlude.

In literature, words that imitate or echo sounds is known as ________________ (a) pun (b) onomatopoeia (c) mime (d) simile

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SECTION TWO

UNSEEN PROSE AND POETRY

Read the passage poem and answer the questions correctly UNSEEN POETRY Question 12 – 15

Your world is as big as you make it

I know for I used to abide

In the narrowest rent in corner

My wings pressing close to my side

But I sighted the distant horizon

Where the sky line encircled sea,

And I throbbed a burning desire

To travel this immensity.

I battered the cordon around me

And cradled my wings on the breeze

Then soared to the uttermost

With rapture, with power, with ease.

 

The poet is _______________ (a) angry (b) frustrated (c) excited (d)indifferent

The theme of the poem is the ______________ (a) need to overcome limitations (b) joy of travelling (c) the flight of birds (d) the sighting of the see

“your world is as big as you make it” illustrates ______________ (a) epigram (b) metonymy (c) paradox (d) simile

The poem is best described as a/an _______________ (a) ode (b) epic (c) pastoral (d) lyric

UNSEEN PROSE

Read the passage and answer the questions correctly UNSEEN POETRY Question 16 – 20

Ignorance, as all tyrants know, is the tonic of servitude. An illiterate person is easy to enslave because he is not aware of his own hidden strengths or of other possibilities in existence elsewhere around him but length such as man to read and allow him to a library, you witness how suddenly, all his world, litter to close and restricted, exploded.

The book transports him to wonderful places where people live without chains because the rulers there are more human and more generous or because they ruled themselves are loss timid and more aggressive and better organized.

The following themes are portrayed in the passage, except ________________ (a) effectiveness of teaching to read (b) limitation of illiterate person (c) uselessness of books (d) usefulness of reading.

The figure of speech involved in the book transport him to wonderful places is ______________ (a) metonymy (b) oxymoron (c) personification (d) pun (e) synecdoche.

The underline expression in the passage is an example of _________________ (a) apostrophe (b) irony (c) litotoes (d) metaphor (e) simile

The passage is a comparison of ________________ (a) book and libraries (b) ignorant and the intelligent (c) the illiterate and the literate (d) the libraries and the books (e) the ruled and the ruler

The tone of the passage advocate that ______________ (a) many worlds exist in the book (b) ruler should read more books (c) the library should be opened to all

 

SECTION THREE

Fill in the gaps with the most accurate answers;

The main opposing character in a play is called ________________

________ is a dramatic technique used to tell an action in the past.

Autobiography is story told by __________________

_____________ narrator knows everything about the characters and event.

A playwright can otherwise be called a/an ________________

Poem is to stanza, as prose is to _______________

Clatter clang bang bang boom and the carpenter’s job is done. The dominant figure of speech in this statement is _________

A figure of speech in which a part stands for a whole or a whole for a part is referred to as ________

The setting of a work of art involves _________

The antagonist is also known as __________

SECTION FOUR (THEORY)

Answer any three questions from this section

1a. Explain concisely the meaning of literature.

b. Critically explain five importance of literature.

2a. Name and discuss in full the genres of literature.

b. List five elements of drama and critically explain each.

3a. What is prose?

b. Explain the characteristics of prose.

c. List and explain the main classification of prose.

4a. What is poetry?

b. List five types of poetry.

5a. Give the meaning of the following terms:

• Novel
• Novella
• Short Story
• Myths and Legends
• Fables
• Autobiography
• Biography
• Diaries and Journals
• Narrative Nonfiction

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