Post Utme Literature in English Past Questions and Answers

Question 16:

"That pierced the fearful hollow of thine ear" is an example of ____________

A. Relative clause
B. Figure of speech
C. Personification
D. Noun clause

Question 17:

"Wilt thou be gone? It is not yet near day; It was the nightingale and not the lark, That pierced the fearful hollow of thine ear". The first sentence here is an example of ____________

A. Interrogative sentence
B. Apostrophe
C. Rhetorical statement
D. Request

Question 18:

From Andrew Marvell's "To His Coy Mistress" Had we but world enough, and time, / This coyness, lady, were no crime. / We could sit down and think which way / To walk, and pass our long love's day. This poem opens in the lines above like a ____________

A. Sonnet
B. Praise poem
C. Ballad
D. Dramatic monologue

Question 19:

Identify the odd term

A. Enjambment
B. Rhyme
C. Plot
D. Alliteration

Question 20:

In the village / Screams of delighted children / Toss and turn / In the din of whirling wind, / Women / Babies clinging on their backs / Dart about / In and out / Madly / The Wind whistles by / Whilst trees bend to let it pass. In the above extract, the movement of the women is ____________

A. Leisurely
B. Hurried
C. Orderly
D. Slow