Post Utme Literature in English Past Questions and Answers

Question 211:

Questions are based on General Literary Principles

Which of the following is central to narrative fiction?

A. Verisimilitude
B. Dialogue
C. Objectivity
D. Subjectivity

Question 212:

Questions are based on General Literary Principles

The speech made by a character to himself on stage is ____________

A. Aside
B. Soliloquy
C. Monologue
D. Epilogue

Question 213:

Question is based on Chukwuemeka Ike's The Potter's Wheel

If you have not beheld your chi in his stark nakedness, he prepared to do so as soon as you set foot in that man's house.

From the excerpt above, whose house was being referred to?

A. Mazi Nwokike
B. Teacher Zacchaeus
C. Mazi Okeke
D. Mazi Laza

Question 214:

Questions is based on William Shakespeare's Hamlet.

The call made on Hamlet to avenge his father's death makes him

A. Purposeful
B. Impoverished
C. Confused
D. Amused

Question 215:

Questions is based on William Shakespeare's Hamlet.

The principal function of playwithin-the-play in Hamlet is to ____________

A. Amuse Claudius
B. Confirm the claim of the ghost
C. Divert attention from the main event
D. Create some comic relief in the tragedy