GCE Literature in English 2020
Past Questions

In Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart, Okonkwo's fear of being seen as weak like his father, Unoka, is best described as

In poetry, a group of lines forming a unit within a poem is called a

Read the following extract: 'O Death, where is thy sting? / O Grave, where is thy victory?' The poet is addressing

A poem in which the first letter of each line, read downward, spells out a word or message is called

An 'aside' in drama differs from a soliloquy in that an aside is

A playwright who employs the 'Brechtian' technique of 'alienation effect' (Verfremdungseffekt) intends primarily to

The title of Chinua Achebe's novel Arrow of God is derived from

In Achebe's No Longer at Ease, Obi Okonkwo's moral downfall is MOST directly caused by

Which of the following best describes the mood of David Diop's poem 'Africa'?

A major characteristic that distinguishes African poetry from Western poetry is the

Robert Frost's poem 'The Road Not Taken' is most accurately interpreted as being about

In Gerard Manley Hopkins's poem 'Pied Beauty', the term 'pied' in the title refers to

A foil character in a literary work primarily serves to

The technique by which an author presents a character's random, unfiltered thoughts as they occur in the character's mind, without logical sequence or editorial organisation, is known as

Read the following passage and answer the question. 'Amaka stood at the threshold of the decaying building, her heart hammering against her ribs. The smell of damp walls and rotting wood filled her n…

Drama often uses soliloquy, aside, and dialogue as key dramatic techniques to reveal character and advance plot. (a) Distinguish between a soliloquy and an aside as dramatic techniques, giving one ch…

Read the following poem carefully and answer the questions that follow: We are all dying, the old man said, and the young ones nodded as if they understood. But the baobab stands still, rooted in the…

Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions that follow. 'The old woman sat at the threshold of her mud house, her eyes fixed on the distant hills as though searching for something …

Read the following poem carefully and answer the questions that follow. The Market Woman She rises before the cock, before the sun remembers its duty, and loads her basin with the weight of yams and…