Literature In English Past Questions and Answers

In Mine Boy, the dominant shebeen queen who is described as 'tall and big, with the smooth yellowness of the Basuto women...'is

A Ma Plank
B Leah
C Eliza
D Lena
E Maisy.

Question 522:

'Local colour'in a novel or play is feature which

A Defines the nature of the vegetation of the setting
B Explains the difference in patterns of behaviours of our characters
C Refers to the racial backgrounds of the major characters in the novels or play
D Emphazises the customs, norms, values and setting of the novel or play
E Highlights thye ethnic origins of the various characters in the novel or play.

Question 523:

''London'' I wander thro'' each charter''d street Near where the charter''d Thames does flow, And mark in every face i meet Marks of weakness, marks of woe In every cry of every Man In every infant''s cry of fear, In every voice, in every ban, The mind-forged manacles i hear. How the chimney-sweeper''s cry Every black''ning Church appalls; And the hapless Soldier''s sigh Runs in blood down Palace walls. But most thro'' midnight streets i hear How the youthful Harlot''s curse Blasts the new born infant''s tear, And blights with plagues the marriage hearse. The stanza form in ''London'' is referred to as

A A quartet
B A quatrain
C A quadruple
D Quintet
E Sestet.

Question 524:

Kaunda's reminiscences of his boyhood in Lubwa were

A Completely happy
B A mixture in Lubwa and hatred of his playmates
C Dominated by entirely painful incidents
D A mixture od sad and happy expiriences
E A combination of regret and hatred of the teachers

Question 525:

Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness. Close bosom-friend of the mating sun: Conspiring with him how to load and bless With fruit the vines that round the thatch-eves run; To bend with apples and moss'd cottage tress And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core; To swell the ground, and plump the hazel shells With a sweet kernel; to set budding more, And still more, later flowers for bees, Until they think warm days will never cease, For summer has o'er brimm'd their clammy cells. The most important figure of speech in the above passage is

A Paradox
B Personification
C Metaphor
D Simile
E Onomatopoeia.