Post Utme Literature in English Past Questions and Answers

Question 276:

Questions are based on African and non-African poetry

In Langston Hughes Negro speaks of rivers". Euphrates" refers to a ____________

A. Mountain
B. Nation
C. River
D. Forest

Question 277:

The juxtaposition of two contrasting ideas in the line of a poem is ____________

A. Irony
B. Litotes
C. Euphemism
D. Oxymoron

Question 278:

A limerick is made up of ____________

A. Fourteen lines
B. Eight lines
C. Fivelines
D. Ten lines

Question 279:

The common metrical pattern in a sonnet is ____________

A. Iambic
B. Spondee
C. Trochaic
D. Dactylic

Question 280:

A form of entertainment that is marked by music song dance and elaborate costume is called ____________

A. Masque
B. Cantata
C. Reggae
D. Jazz