OAU Literature-In-English 2009/2010 Past Questions

An autobiographical novel is:

Plot in prose fiction is best defined as:

Which of these is not true about unity of action in a novel?

Action in a novel is best defined as

Suspense in a novel means

A realistic novel is one in which the characters are

Theme is best defined as

What figure of speech does the following quotation contain? Life's but a walking shadow (Macbeth)

Which of the following statement is most true about poetry?

Which of these best defined exposition in drama?

When the speaker in a poem cannot be identified with the poet, that speaker is called:

Which of these definitions best describes a lyric?

Read the following extract from a poem to answer questions 13 and 14 : Among rocks, I am the loose one; among arrows, I am the heart among daughters, I am the recluse, among sons, the one who dies young. 13. What kind of repetition is used in the extract?

Apart from emphasis, what other effect does the repetition have?

The following liens from poem Western wind, when will thou blow? Is an example of:

Identify the odd one out of these types of imagery

When a poet uses mainly soft vowel sounds in a poem, the texture of the poem is:

The sounds in the following lines may be described as an example of: The moan of doves in immemorial elms, And murmuring of innumerable bees

'The man dies in him who keeps silent in the face of tyranny'. This statement can be described as:

The literary technique in which a reader is taken to the past of a current action is known as:

One rhyme scheme typical of the English sonnet is

Farce thrive on

A literary device that creates a mental picture of a situation is

' ............... This is a Montague, our foe:

In Gbemisola Adeoti's 'Naked Soles', the expression 'red milk of grief' means