Post Utme Literature in English Past Questions and Answers

Question 486:

What distinguishes poetry from other forms of literature is its ____________

A. Rhyme and verse
B. Rhythm and metaphor
C. Emotion and feeling
D. Irony and paradox

Question 487:

Assonance in poetry is the repetition of ____________

A. Internal vowels in words
B. Consonant sounds in words.
C. Final sounds at the end of a line
D. Final sounds at the beginning of a line

Question 488:

There kneels a jigger a louse, a weevil. a flea. a bedbug! He is mistletoe. a parasite that lives on the trees of other people's lives! The speaker uses a string of ____________

A. Metaphors
B. Parables
C. Hyperboles
D. Riddles

Question 489:

You kiss her on the cheek. As white people do. You kiss her open-sore lips. As white people do. You suck slimy saliva. From each other's mouths, as white people do. Okot p'Bitek's Song of Lanino. The writer of the lines above uses repetition to enhance irony ____________

A. To underscore disapproval
B. For emphasis
C. For imitation

Question 490:

Mother. didn't you hear me? I've brought the goat. hen and yams. Don't you want them anymore? Why do you continue to look at me like that? I haven't done anything wrong again. have I? answer me. speak to me. mother! The dominant mood in this passage is one of ____________

A. Sadness
B. Anxiety
C. Anger
D. Nonchalance