Post Utme Literature in English Past Questions and Answers

Question 156:

Questions are based on T S.Eliot's poem, "The Journey of the Magi"

The expression, "an old horse galloped in the meadow" is ____________

A. A metaphor
B. An allusion
C. A synecdoche
D. A metonymy

Question 157:

In Strugnell's Sonnet (VI), the expression "I have no sparehenceforth I will bear the sear" refers to ____________

A. True swine
B. A big car
C. A heart
D. The poet's wings

Question 158:

One or the causes of the tragedy in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet is ____________

A. Quack doctor
B. The banishment
C. Misinformation
D. Too much love

Question 159:

Which of the following is not a figurative expression in An African Thunderstorm by Rubadiri?

A. Pregnant clouds
B. Plague of locusts
C. Tattered nags
D. Dangling breasts

Question 160:

Questions are based on general literary concepts.

The line "Your mouth, O Katty, is a museum with many monuments" is both ____________

A. Metaphoric and hyperbolic
B. A synecdoche and a metonymy
C. Metaphoric and epigrammatic
D. A metaphor and an allusion