Post Utme Literature in English Past Questions and Answers

Question 356:

Questions are based on General literary principles.

Verfremdungeffekt is often associated with the plays of ____________

A. Samuel Becket
B. Luigi Pirandello
C. Jean-Baptiste Poquelin
D. Bertolt Brecht

Question 357:

Questions are based on General literary principles.

A closet! drama is a play meant to be ____________

A. Read rather than performed
B. Read and performed
C. Performed and screened
D. Performed behind closed door

Question 358:

Questions are based on General literary principles.

A comic play performed or spoken to music is called ____________

A. Bulletin
B. Opera
C. Melodrama
D. Farce

Question 359:

Questions are based on Literary Appreciation.

"I was born by the stroke of wars
I was born by the ravages of disease
By the events of plagues
I know the stencil of this land'
Sipho Sepanla The Sowetol Love. p. 17
The central concern of the excerpt above is ____________

A. War
B. Disease
C. The poet's homeland
D. The plagues of stench

Question 360:

Questions are based on Literary Appreciation.

"Look at my father! He never had a bath in his life: and he lived to be ninety-eight, the healthiest man in Bulgaria".
Benard Shaw Arms and the Man, p. 39
From the excerpt above, it can be deduced that ____________

A. The speaker loathes bathing
B. There is a connection between bath and longevity
C. Bulgarians out-law bathing
D. The speaker condemns his father