Post Utme Literature in English Past Questions and Answers

Question 86:

Eat of poem I offer Like an apple Filched from the tree forbidden

Eat of it, swallow it sour wholesomeness

And your eyes will fast

Shed scales snakes' mouth

Awake to the evil contraction

That emasculates the mum, agonizing people

And empowers few despoiling lords.

The poem can ha e the following effects on the reader except _____________

A. Creates awareness
B. Dikes pleasure
C. Warns of the danger's snakebites
D. Highlights the class difference in Nigeria

Question 87:

Eat of poem I offer Like an apple Filched from the tree forbidden

Eat of it, swallow it sour wholesomeness

And your eyes will fast

Shed scales snakes' mouth

Awake to the evil contraction

That emasculates the mum, agonizing people

And empowers few despoiling lords.

The expression "the tree forbidden" is an example of _____________

A. Allusion
B. Metaphor
C. Simile
D. Synecdoche

Question 88:

Eat of poem I offer Like an apple Filched from the tree forbidden

Eat of it, swallow it sour wholesomeness

And your eyes will fast

Shed scales snakes' mouth

Awake to the evil contraction

That emasculates the mum, agonizing people

And empowers few despoiling lords.

What sound device is used in the line "fliched from the tree forbidden"?

A. Rhyme
B. One
C. Consonant
D. Alliteration

Question 89:

Eat of poem I offer Like an apple Filched from the tree forbidden

Eat of it, swallow it sour wholesomeness

And your eyes will fast

Shed scales snakes' mouth

Awake to the evil contraction

That emasculates the mum, agonizing people

And empowers few despoiling lords.

"Evil contraption" in the poem means _____________

A. The evil done by Nigerian elites
B. The unjust and inequitable
C. The poem itself
D. The Nigerian society filled with all kinds of evil

Question 90:

Identify the Figure of Speech used in each sentence

The moon has gone to bed.

A. Synecdoche
B. Oxymoron
C. Personification
D. Comedy