UI Literature-In-English 2014/2015 Past Questions

Considering the way Nnu Ego's life ends in The Joys of Motherhood, the title of the novel can be said to be

In 'The Old Man and the Medal', when in answer to the question if she had slept well Kelara answered 'I counted the matting in the roof', she meant that

In a novel, the antagonist is usually called a

In Nineteen Eighty-four, the most important character in the story is .....

In Nineteen Eighty-Four, the poet is

In The Joys of Motherhood, Nnaife enlisted in the army because

In 'The Joys of Motherhood', Nnu Ego at one point, tried to commit suicide because

In 'The Old Man and the Medal', when in answer to the question if she had slept well Kelara answered '1 counted the matting in the roof', she meant that

Nineteen Eighty-four can be described as a ............

The expression 'to break the leg of an antelope', which is found in The Old Man and the Medal means

The Joys of Motherhood suggests that

The major thematic preoccupation of Joys of Motherhood is

'The piercing chill I feel, My dead wife's comb in our bedroom Under my heel' (trans. By Harold Henderson). What is the form of the above poem?

A sonnet is a poem of ...... lines

A stanza of three lines linked by rhyme is called a ..........

From David Rubadiri's 'An African Thunderstorm' 'Clouds come hurrying with the wind' contains an example of

In poetry, double rhyme can be used to bring out

The stanzas which make up a ballad usually consists of lines

The tone in 'Heritage of Liberation' is

The typical rhyme scheme of an English sonnet is .............

The words 'prove' and 'above' are examples of the rhyme called

When words in poetry rise and fall in a measured way, it is referred to as .........

Which of the following is NOT a form of poetic expression?

............ is the deliberate use of exaggeration for the sole purpose of humour in poetry

A character who remains unchanged in a story is described as