UI Post-UTME Literature in English 2023 (Model questions) past questions and answers

Which of the following poets is known for metaphysical poetry?

1. A.William Shakespeare
2. B.John Donne
3. C.John Milton
4. D.William Blake

One of these is not a type of sonnet.

1. A.Shakespearean sonnet
2. B.Petrarchan sonnet
3. C.Spenserian sonnet
4. D.Germanic sonnet

Sonnet is traditionally divided into two parts namely

1. A.Octave and septet
2. B.Octave and sestet
3. C.Octave and triplet
4. D.Octave and quintet

Extract from Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, Wizard of the Crow

Read the extract and answer the question. The dominant device used in the passage is

1. A.erotema
2. B.monologue
3. C.question tag
4. D.reported speech

Who wrote The Canterbury Tales?

1. A.Andrew Marvel
2. B.William Blake
3. C.William Shakespeare
4. D.Geoffrey Chaucer

The poem "Telephone Conversation" was written by

1. A.Wole Soyinka
2. B.Okinba Launko
3. C.J.P Clark
4. D.Niyi Osundare

Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream is divided into

1. A.Two Acts
2. B.Five Acts
3. C.Three Acts
4. D.Four Acts

Which of the following is a novel?

1. A.Esiaba Irobi's Nwokedi
2. B.Wole Soyinka's The Lion and the Jewel
3. C.August Wilson's Fences
4. D.Chimamanda Adichie's Americanah

Pick the odd one out.

1. A.ritual
2. B.myth
3. C.folktale
4. D.parable

Which of the following novels is a bildungsroman?

1. A.Second Class Citizen by Buchi Emecheta
2. B.Unexpected Joy at Dawn by Alex Agyei Agyiri
3. C.Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
4. D.Lonely Days by Bayo Adebowale

The play Let Me Die Alone is set in

1. A.Liberia
2. B.Sierra Leone
3. C.Ghana
4. D.Nigeria

The concluding stanza of a sonnet is known as

1. A.envoi
2. B.aposiopesis
3. C.prosopopoeia
4. D.chanson

Femi Osofisan's Women of Owu is an adaptation of

1. A.Sophocles' King Oedipus
2. B.Aristophanes' Lysistrata
3. C.Farouk Sesay's 'The Song of the Women of My Land'
4. D.Euripides' Women of Troy

Apartheid often reflects in the literatures of

1. A.South Africa
2. B.North Africa
3. C.East Africa
4. D.West Africa

Which of the following is a Negritude poem?

1. A."The Grieved Lands of Africa" by Agostinho Neto
2. B."Black Woman" by Leopold Sedar Senghor
3. C."The Leader and the Led" by Niyi Osundare
4. D."The Song of the Women of My Land" by Farouk Oumar Sesay

Which of the following is not a historical play?

1. A.Wole Soyinka's The Lion and the Jewel
2. B.John Kargbo's Let Me Die Alone
3. C.Ahmed Yerima's Attahiru
4. D.Ola Rotimi's Ovoramwen Nogbaisi

The following plays are revolutionary in orientation except

1. A.Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o's The Trials of Dedan Kimathi
2. B.Femi Osofisan's Morountodun
3. C.Ebrahim Hussein's Kinjeketile
4. D.Wole Soyinka's The Lion and the Jewel

________ mocks societal ills with the view to correcting them.

1. A.aside
2. B.lampoon
3. C.satire
4. D.caricature

The play Look Back in Anger is set against the backdrop of

1. A.World War II
2. B.World War I
3. C.Cold War
4. D.Gulf War

The term "Angry Young Man" describes

1. A.an entire generation of artists and working class young men in the post-World-War II British society
2. B.An entire generation of artists and working class young men in the post-World-War I British society
3. C.Men and women of the working class in the post-World-War II British society
4. D.Men and women of the working class in the post-World War I British society

T.S Eliot's "The Journey of the Magi" is a typical example of ________ poem.

1. A.Romantic
2. B.Modernist
3. C.Victorian
4. D.Renaissance

The term 'stream of consciousness' is associated with

1. A.poetry
2. B.drama
3. C.performance
4. D.prose

The term 'metaphysical conceit' refers to preponderance of ________ in poetry.

1. A.Mysticism
2. B.Antithesis
3. C.Contradiction
4. D.Metaphors

Who wrote the poem 'The Good Morrow'?

1. A.Don Juan
2. B.John Doe
3. C.John Done
4. D.John Donne