Post Utme University of Calabar Literature in English Past Questions and Answers

Question 1:

“Singing songs of sorrow is symbolic of sincere sympathy” illustrates ____________

A. Assonance
B. Refrain
C. Alliteration
D. Anecdote

Question 2:

The predominant use of the third person pronoun in a novel creates a ____________

A. Sense of detachment on the part of the wnte
B. Sense of detachment on the part of the reade
C. Psychological affinity with the characters
D. Balance of opinion among the characters

Question 3:

A tragic hero, according to the Aristotella an precept must be a ____________

A. De ardcter with nubns
B. Y aracler wno suddenly stumbles on some fortune
C. King with deep affection for his subjects
D. Haracter after whom the play is named

Question 4:

The writing convention in which the events in a narrative are scrambled as they come to the writers mind without any attempt to arrange them in orderly sequence is called ____________

A. Shifting style
B. Narrator mind
C. Psycho-consciousness style
D. Stream or conscious

Question 5:

A stanza of three lines linked by rhyme is generally called a ____________

A. Metapho
B. Apostropne
C. Oxymoron
D. Metonymy