Post Utme Literature in English Past Questions and Answers

Question 111:

In Keats' "On the Grasshopper and Cricket" the poet ____________

A. Sees these insects as nuisance which should be eradicated
B. Emphasizes that each is active in different time of day
C. Describes the difference in the physical features
D. Establishes the fact that the insect lives on nectar

Question 112:

"And their sun does never shine And their fields are bleak and bare And their ways are filled with thorn It is eternal winter there" - Blake

The dominant literary device employed in above lines is ____________

A. Apostrophe
B. Allusion
C. Simile
D. Repetition

Question 113:

"Cruelty has a human heart and jealousy and, human terror The human form divine and secrecy the human dress" - Blake

From the lines above Blake's perspective on man is ____________

A. Inspiring
B. Hopeful
C. Gloomy
D. Fortunate

Question 114:

"The curfew tells the knell of parting day. The lowing herd wind slowly over The plowman homeward plods the way And leaves the told to darkling me"Gary. The time of the capture in the lines above is ____________

A. Early morning
B. Mid-afternoon
C. Sunday
D. Evening

Question 115:

"Air love let us be true

To one another for the world which seems

To lie before us like a land of dreams

So various, so beautiful, so new Hath really better joy, nor love, nor light

Nor certificate nor peace nor help from pain...."

The tone or mood expressed in the lines above is ____________

A. Optimistic
B. Elated
C. Melancholic
D. Expectant