Correction for 13/8/2020
1. C 2. D 3. D 4 .D 5. B
6. C 7. D 8. D 9. C 10. B
11. B 12. B 13. D
13/8/2020
Hello Students,
Revision exercises
on William Shakespeare’s
Othello.
Read and answer questions 1 to 5
“Amen to that, sweet powers”
I cannot speak enough of this
content;
It stops me here;
it is too much of
joy .
- The speaker
responds to a wish
of A. Cassio
B. Lago
C. Desdemona
D. Roderigo - The speaker is……
A. Brabantio
B. Lago
C. Roderigo
D. Othello - The speaker is……
A. a Venetian
senator
B. the governor of
Venice
C. a suitor to
Desdemona
D. a moor - The excitement
of the speaker is
based on……..
A. the speaker love
for the addressee
B. the suspicious of
infidelity
C. the shock of
being in love with
a Moor
D. the joy of
experiencing
everlasting love - What does the
speaker share with
the addressee in
the middle of the
speech ?
A. money B kiss
C. jewellery
D. words
Read and answer questions 6 to 10
X: What was he that
you followed with
your sword.
What had he done
to you?
Y : I know not .
- Who is speaker x?
A. Othello
B. Roderigo
C. Lago D. Cassio - Who is speaker?
A. Othello
B. Roderigo
C. Lago
D. Cassio - Where are the
duo when these
expression were
made?
A. a Street B .a hall
in the castle
C. Venice
D. Cypons - While the duo
discuss, who enters?
A. Emilia
B . Montano
C. Desdemona
D. Roderigo - All but one of the following is
absent in Act ii ,
scene ii
A. Lago
B. Brabantio
C. Montano
D . Cassio - A character we
never met in
Othello is
A . Gratiano
B. Signor-Angelo
C. Bianca
D. Signor Montano - Othello is a…..
Play
A. historical
B. tragic
C .tragi-comic
D. comic
13.one of the
themes of Othello
is …….
A. ignorance
B. ability
C. piety
D. rascism
Kindly write only your answers in the
form provided below.
Thursday, 30TH JULY, 2020.
Hello dear students!
Below are the exercises for today’s class.
Literary Devices Quiz.
- The repetition of the same sounds at the beginning of words or in a stresses syllable.
A. alliteration
B. assonance
C. oxymoron
D. pun - Giving human characteristics to objects and phenomena.
A. metaphor
B. simile
C. personification
D. hyperbole - A comparison of two things, often using the words “like” or “as”.
A. metaphor
B. simile
C. personification
D. hyperbole - The use of words that imitate the sounds they describe.
A. alliteration
B. assonance
C. onomatopoeia
D. pun - Where the true meaning behind a statement is intentionally quite the opposite of its literal
A. pun
B. hyperbole
C. irony
D. simile - The setting is … in which the story takes place.
A. the time
B. the place
C. the time and the place
D. the climax event - Language that appeals to the five senses and uses vivid details to help the reader feel and imagine what’s going on.
A. Tone
B. Falling action
C. Mood
D. Imagery - The story of a real person’s life that is written by that person
A. Biography
B. Autobiography
C. Journal - The story of a real person’s life written by another person.
A. Biography
B. Autobiography
C. Diary - A person or creature in a story.
A. Character
B. Conflict
C. Plot
D. Climax - Any struggle between two forces.
A. Plot
B. Mood
C. Point of View
D. Conflict. - The perspective from which a story is told, or who is telling the story.
A. Character
B. Plot
C. Tone
D. Point of view - The main character of the story. (they change from the beginning to the end
A. Protagonist
B. Resolution
C. Antagonist
D. Plot - Which point of view has a narrator that is outside the story and uses “him/her,” “he/she,” or “they/their”?
A. First person point of view
B. Second person point of view
C. Third person point of view
D. Fourth person point of view - Moana takes place 3,000 years ago in the islands of Polynesia. This is the –
A. mood
B. drama
C. setting
D. theme - The flowers are dancing beside the lake.
A. metaphor
B. simile
C. hyperbole
D. personification - I’m a chicken when it comes to getting an injection.
A. metaphor
B. imagery
C. personification
D. hyperbole - Six silly sisters all saw the swan.
A. alliteration
B. simile
C. mood
D. hyperbole - The darkness was filled with a cold so bitter it seemed to freeze the air.
A. imagery
B. personifcation
C. setting
D. metaphor - Mr. Peter gets excited sometimes and talks a million miles an hour.
A. hyperbole
B. metaphor
C. simile
D. personification
20/7/2020
Correction for 16/7/2020
- C. 2. A 3. B 4. C
- A 6. A 7. C 8. D
- A 10. A 11. A 12. B 13. A 14. D 15. B
16/07/2020
Hello Students, how are you doing?
Today’s Topic: Revision Questions on General Knowledge of Literature.
- The pursuit of literature in the secondary school is meant to (A) provide a means to kill time. (B) teach readers the use of words. (C) expose students to life’s realities. (D) provide readers with entertainment.
- ‘As the Alsatians roared and howled, the car screeched and squelched its back tyres on the tarmac road.’ The above statement is an illustrative use of a(n)
(A) onomatopoeia (B) metonymy (C) litotes
(D) Synecdoche - With respect to dramatic form whose outcome is funny and its action rather hard to believe, we may say that such a play is a (A) Melodrama (B) farce (C) comedy (D) prosaic drama
- A ‘tragic flaw’ in a story or drama refers to the
(A) element of plot whose prominence makes an artistic work fault. (B) unsuccessful play written by an otherwise remarkable dramatist. (C) slip made by a character which results in his/her fall. (D) typographical error which recurs in a work of drama. - A common attribute of a play is its possession of a(n) (A) conflict (B) epilogue (C) sarcasm (D) prologue
- In the remark, ‘The loud mouths in the National Assembly thought they could dissuade Senetor Igbeke from taking his hard-won seat in that August assembly,’ the phrase ‘loud mouths’ is a case of (A) synecdoche
(B) irony (C) hyperbole (D) apostrophe - The tone of a piece of writing determines its (A) voice
(B) structure (C) atmosphere (D) theme - A literary technique in a piece of drama or fiction which recalls an earlier scene or incident is known as
(A) look-back (B) comeback (C) head-back (D) flashback - An incredulous piece of drama which is also known as a tragic farce is called a(n) (A) Melodrama (B) epic drama (C) denouement (D) enjambment
- In the remark, ‘There is no armour against Fate,’ has been: (A) personified (B) intensified (C) understated
(D) overstated - ‘It is tempting to think that a delicious music signals
an eventful day.’ The prominent figure of speech
deployed in the remark is (A) synaesthesia
(B) onomatopoeia (C) bathos (D) euphemism - If the sound of a word suggests its probable
meaning, we have a case of (A) euphemism
(B) onomatopoeia (C) criticism (D) synaesthesia - The main objective of drama is to (A) educate us
( B) entertain us (C) educate and entertain us
(D) strengthen and beautify us - A play is
conclusively
tragic if (A) a flaw’
in the main figure
is the cause of
his/her downfall
(B) the author
paints life as a
hopeless
venture or
adventure
(C) the author
presents life
as absurd.
(D) there is
much
bloodshed in
the play. - If a word is used
in its ordinary
sense, we say it’s
been used in its
(A) literary sense
(B) literal sense
(C) figurative
sense
(D) metaphorical
sense
Kindly write only your answers in the form provided below.
9TH JULY, 2020.
TOPIC :METRE IN POETRY
Hello dear students!
I believe you are all doing great. It’s nice reaching out to you through this medium. Today, we shall be learning about Metre in poetry.
Metre is a way of measuring a line of poetry based on the rhythm of the words.
Metre measures lines of poetry based on stressed and unstressed syllables.
Don’t worry, I will explain that ……. Remember your primary and secondary stress in English Language.
When we speak, we put the stress on a certain part of each word. For example, take the words “apple” and “fantastic.”
When we say the word “apple,” we stress the first syllable, the “ap” part. We say “AP-ple,” and not “ap-PLE.”
When we say the word “fantastic,” we stress the second syllable. We say, “fan-TAS-tic,” not “FAN-tas-tic” or “fan-tas-TIC.”
In poetry, a unit of stressed and unstressed syllables is called a foot. For example, look at this line from Shakespeare:
“No longer mourn for me when I am dead.”
The rhythm is, “bah-BAH bah-BAH bah-BAH bah-BAH bah-BAH.
We read it like this:
“no LON-ger MOURN for ME when I am DEAD.”
The type of foot Shakespeare used here is called an iamb. An iamb or an iambic foot has the rhythm bah-BAH. An unstressed syllable, then a stressed one. The iamb is the most common kind of foot in English poetry.
Here are three examples of words that have an iambic rhythm (bah-BAH).
above (we say, “a-BOVE”)
support (we say, “sup-PORT”)
hurray (we say, “hur-RAY”).
Here’s a sentence written in iambic meter: “His noisy snoring woke the neighbors’ dog.
” Bah-BAH bah-BAH bah-BAH bah-BAH bah-BAH.
Poetry meter – other types of foot include :
** The trochee or trochaic foot.
This is the opposite of an iamb — the rhythm is BAH-bah, like the words “apple,” and “father.”
**The anapest or anapestic foot.
This sounds like bah-bah-BAH, like the words “underneath” and “seventeen.”
**The dactyl or dactylic foot.
This is the opposite of an anapest — the rhythm is BAH-bah-bah,” like the words “elephant” and “stepmother.”
***Poetry metre – counting the feet
When we think about the meter of a poem, in addition to looking at the kind of foot, we count the number of feet in each line. For instance…..
***If there’s one foot per line, it is called monometer. Poetry written in monometer is very rare.
***If there are are two feet per line, it is called dimeter. Here is a sentence in trochaic dimeter: “Eat your dinner.
” BAH-bah (1) BAH-bah (2).
**Three feet per line = trimeter. Here is a sentence in iambic trimeter: “I eat the bread and cheese.
” Bah-BAH (1) bah-BAH (2) bah-BAH (3).
**Four feet per line = tetrameter. Here is a sentence in trochaic tetrameter: “Father ordered extra pizza.
” BAH-bah (1) BAh-bah (2) BAH-bah (3) BAh-bah (4).
**Five feet per line = pentameter. Here is a sentence in iambic pentameter:
“I’ll toast the bread and melt a piece of cheese.
” Bah-BAH (1) bah-BAH (2) bah-BAH (3) bah-BAH (4) bah-BAH (5).
**Six feet per line = hexameter or Alexandrine. A sentence in iambic hexameter:
“I’ll toast the bread and melt a piece of cheese, okay?”
Bah-BAH (1) bah-BAH (2) bah-BAH (3) bah-BAH (4) bah-BAH (5) bah-BAH (6
QUESTIONS
(1) What is metre?
(2) Explain what a foot means in your own words.
(3) Mention and briefly explain the types of feet in poetry.
Correction for 02/07/2020
1) A. 2). C 3). B 4). D 5). D 6). B. 7) B 8). D 9) C. 10). B 11). D 12). D 13). B 14). C
2/7/2020
Hello Students, how are you doing?
Today’s Topic: REVISION EXERCISE ON UNSEEN PROSE AND POETRY
Read the passage
below and answer questions 1 to 5
His mind flitted back memory lane .
He remembered how time worked quietly in, like a thief
in the night, and then put a sword in
the heart of the land .
He remembered all his life’s sweat, drained away by the
strife. He remembered his wife and two lovely
kids, all slain pitilessly by the beasts in Khaki. He
remembered his only sister, a tender
rose , defiled in turns by them and then slaughtered like a Lamb upon the ritual table.
- The mood of the
passage is one of ……..
A. gloom B.serinity
C. anxiety D. indifference. - The passage is about A. armed robbery B. ritual killings C. the tragedy of wars
D. the tragedy of oppression. - The dominant Literary device used
in the passage is…..
A. metaphor B. repetition C. simile
D. personification - “……..a tender rose ” is an example
of a/an
A. personification
B . imagery C. symbol ism D . metaphor.
5.”………put a sword in the heart of the land” implies
A. murder B. danger
C. strife D . destruction.
Read the poem below and answer Questions 6 — 10.
Thou art the judge of man
Judging his plans and behaviour
Judging his speech and egotism
You are the patient judge
Nations plan without having the in view
They boast of their will
But soon you show them their follies
You are the patient judge
Tomorrow and Tomorrow, go here and there
Time smiles and laughs
He frowns his face and consults with fate
You are the patient judge
- The poetic device used in the first line is (A) apostrophe (B) personification (C) euphemism (D) litotes
- The last line of each stanza illustrates (A) repetition (B) refrain (C) chorus (D) alliteration
- The dominant device used in stanza three is (A) alliteration (B) assonance (C) onomatopoeia (D) personification
- The poem is about (A) judgement (B) fate (C) time (D) life
- The extract teaches us to use time (A) to the fullest (B) wisely (C) to plan (D) for pleasure.
Read the poem below and answer questions 11 — 14
I’m going soldering:
Mad the rhythm runs
With drumming and with trumpeting
And the glory of guns.
I’ve come home again:
I’ve come home again:
I know that blood is red;
I know how sodden falls the rain
Where flesh lies dead.
- The theme of the poem is best described as the (A) love of war (B) Glory of war (C) excitement of war (D) reality of war
- The dominant sound device in the second stanza is (A) alliteration (B) Assonance (C) onomatopoeia (D) repetition.
- The rhyme scheme in the first stanza is (A) aabb (B) Abab (C) abaa (D) aabc
- The two contrasting moods in the poem are_________ (A) sadness and hope (B) Bravery and cowardice (C) excitement and disappointment (D) calmness and anxiety.
Kindly write only your answers in the form provided below.
25TH JUNE, 2020.
SUBJECT : LITERATURE IN ENGLISH.
TOPIC :REVISION EXERCISES ON FIGURES OF SPEECH.
Hello dear students! ✍️✍️✍️
I hope you are all faring well in spite of the lock down. The Lord will continually preserve us all and we shall surely see the end of it in Jesus name.
In today’s class, we will be doing some exercises on FIGURES OF SPEECH.
Identify the following figures of speech.
1) As shines the moon in clouded skies. She in her poor attire was seen.
2) The city’s voice itself is soft like solitude’s.
3) Hope is the poor man’s bread.
4) We are the voices of the wandering wind.
5) Death lays his icy hands on kings.
6) The daisy smiled at the morning sun.
7) O, Julius Caesar! Thou art mighty yet.
8) O world! Oh, Life! O Time! On Whose last stems I climb.
9) Why, man, if the river were dry I am able to fill it with tears.
10). James, I was the wisest fool.
11) But patient, to prevent That murmur, soon replies
12) I hear lake water lapping with low sounds by the shore.
13) So like a shattered column lay the king?
14) I wandered lonely as a cloud.
15) He passed a sleepless night.
16). The frog began his concert.
17) I saw her with a sad book.
18) The flames ate hungrily at the wood.
19) The noisy class was punished.
20) The news was a dagger to her heart.
21) The sun sheds its beams on the rich and poor alike.
22) When the gates were opened, the children surged forward like a swarm of bees
23) I gazed at the silent mountains.
24) Hope is a tattered flag.
25) The sun is like a ball of fire.
26) The slow hours passed in agony.
27) Time stood still.
28) The man is an innocent criminal.
29) Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.
30) Selena is the life of the party.
Best of luck!
19/6/2020
Correction for 18/6/2020 on Othello
1.(D) 2.(D) 3.(A) 4.(D) 5(C) 6(B) 7.(A) 8.(D) 9(A) 10 (C)
11.(D) 12.(A) 13.(C) 14.(D) 15.(B)
18/06/2020
Hello students, hope you are keeping safe.
Correction for 11/06/2020
- C 2. A 3. B 4. C 5. A 6. D 7. B 8. D 9. A 10. B 11. D 12. D, 13. C 14. B 15. C
Today’s Topic:
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE’S OTHELLO
Read the extract and answer questions 1to 5
Speaker: Let me speak like yourself and lay a sentence
Which, as a grise or step, may help these
Lovers.
When remedies are past, the griefs are ended
By seeing the worst, which late on hopes
Depended.
(Act 1, Scene Three)
- The speaker is (A) Brabantio. (B) Duke. (C) Montano. (D) Lodovico.
- He is responding to (A) Montano. (B) lago. (C) Roderigo. (D) Brabantio.
- The setting is (A) a council chamber. (B) Venice. A street. (C) another street outside the Sagittary. (D) the citadel of Cyprus.
- These lovers refers to (A) Lago and Emilia. (B) Cassio and Bianca. (C) Rodrigo and Desdemona. (D) Othello and Desdemona.
- The expression lay a sentence means (A) decide who is guilty. (B) offer criticism. (C) give advice. (D) speak politely.
Read the extract and answer questions 6 to 10
Othello: why, how now, ho? From whence ariseth this?
Are we turned Turks, and to ourselves do that
Which heaven hath forbid the Ottomites?
For Christian shame put by this barbarous
Brawl!
He that stirs next to carve for his own rage
Holds his soul light; he dies upon his motion.
Silence that dreadful bell. It frights the isle
From her propriety. What is the matter, masters?
Honest Lago, that looks dead with grieving,
Speak. Who began this? On the love, I charge
Thee.
Lago: I do not know.
(Act II, Scene Three)
- Othello is brought to the scene because (A) lago is drunk. (B) a bell has been rung. (C) people are fighting. (D) Cassio has stabbed Montano.
- The underlined expression refers to the (A) intervention of the storm in the war. (B) return of the victorious army to Cyprus. (C) killing of Rodrigo by lago. (D) stabbing of Montano by Cassio.
- In “Who began this?” this refers to the (A) theft. (B) war. (C) bell. (D) brawl.
- To Othello, lago is (A) sincere. (B) a negligent guard. (C) untrustworthy. (D) a loyal senator.
- The major consequence of the brawl is that (A) Montano is killed. (B) Roderigo demands his money back. (C) Cassio is dismissed as Othello’s lieutenant. (D) lago is given charge of the city.
Read the extract and answer questions 11 to 15
Speaker: I durst, my Lord, to wager she is honest,
Lay down my soul at stake. If you think other,
Remove your thought. It doth abuse your
Bosom.
If any wretch have put this in your head,
Let heaven require it with the serpent’s curse,
For if she be not honest, chaste, and true,
There’s no man happy. The purest of their
Wives, is foul as slander.
(Act IV, Scene Two)
- The speaker is (A) lago. (B) Desdemona. (C) Cassio. (D) Emilia.
- The speaker is addressing (A) Othello. (B) Montano. (C) Duke. (D) Roderigo.
- The speech is in response to (A) the allegation that the speaker has lied about Desdemona. (B) lago’s disdain for Othello. (C) Othello’s suspicion that Cassio and Desdemona are lovers. (D) Brabantio’s rejection of his daughter.
- The line Remove your thought. It doth abuse your bosom is best paraphrased as (A) You are not wise. (B) Do not kill yourself. (C) You are ungrateful. (D) You demean yourself by thinking so.
- The character being spoken of is described as (A) unhappy. (B) virtuous. (C) generous. (D) wretched.
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11th June 2020
Hello students. How are you doing? I am highly delighted to have you on this platform. I hope you are having fun with the classes online. Please make good use of this opportunity.
This week we shall be looking at more revision questions on General Knowledge of Literature.Topic: Revision on General Knowledge of Literature.
- What is the major device deployed in the following remark: ‘At the fall of the house they lived in, the widow lost her husband, her sewing machine and her ear-ring’? (A) metaphor (B) oxymoron (C) bathos (D) simile
- What is the dominant device exemplified in this sentence: ‘I came, I saw, but was conquered’? (A) allusion (B) blank verse (C) free verse (D) illusion
- A deliberate understatement in which one uses the negative in order to express the opposite of what is meant is: (A) anti-thesis (B) litotes (C) hyperbole (D) apostrophe
- The expression of the exact opposite of what one means or has in mind even though the words are not supposed to be taken at face value is: (A) sarcasm (B) euphemism (C) irony (D) metonymy
- What figure of speech is prominent in ‘The US is making use of many Nigerian scientific brains in her technological programmes (A) synecdoche (B) metonymy (C) metaphor (D) oxymoron
- To derive the meaning of a word through it’s sound is referred to as: (A) phonetics (B) phoneme (C) oxymoron (D) onomatopoeia
- When two words opposite in meaning stand shoulder to shoulder in a remark, a figure of speech known as …………..has been used. (A) enjambment (B) oxymoron (C) Melodrama (D) hyperbole
- ‘Jolliba stood on the middle of the road, unafraid of the surging traffic, as if he was no longer alive.’ The major literary device in the preceding sentence is: (A) synaesthesia (B) innuendo (C) syncopation (D) simile
- In the remark, ‘The child is the father of the man’, the user deploys……….? (A) paradox (B) oxymoron (C) pun (D) onomatopoeia
- ‘The sunshine of her smile left me restless for days.’ What is the most outstanding literary device deployed in the sentence? (A) personification (B) metaphor (C) metonymy (D) apostrophe
- ‘For me a delicious music and then prayers start my typical day. ‘ The preceding sentence is an example of the use of: (A) simile (B) litotes (C) bathos (D) synaesthesia
- The figure of speech which states an unpleasant fact in a mild, pleasant manner is called: (A) oxymoron (B) echoism (C) sarcasm (D) euphemism
- A figure of expression in which a part stands for a whole or a whole stands for a part is referred to as: (A) personification (B) amplification (C) synecdoche (D) metonymy
- A question asked in a poem, drama or prose which does not demand an answer before it makes an impact is known as: (A) leading question (B) rhetorical question (C) paradoxical question (D) heeding question.
- ‘Hillary, the heiress of the Clinton political dynasty, held her head high as she harangued hooligans in Harlem.’ The dominant literary dance deployed in the preceding sentence is: (A) metonymy (B) denouement (C) alliteration (D) anagnoris
Kindly write only your answers in the form below.
10TH JUNE, 2020.
Corrections to last week’s exercise on Othello
- D, 2. C, 3. B, 4. D, 5. D, 6. B, 7. A, 8. C, 9. B, 10. A, 11. C, 12. D, 13. B, 14. C
4TH JUNE, 2020.
SUBJECT : LITERATURE IN ENGLISH.
TOPIC :REVISION QUESTIONS ON SHAKESPEARE’S OTHELLO.
Hello dear students!
It’s cool to get across to you once again through this medium. Before today’s lesson, here are the corrections to last week’s exercise.
- B. Lullaby
- B. Mime
- D. Appeals to the senses
- A. Metaphor
- C. Setting
- A. Fable
- B. Antithesis
- A. Suspense
- A. Farce
- D. Oxymoron.
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Othello Multiple Choice Test Questions
William Shakespeare: Othello
Read the Act 1,Scenes 1-111 of the text above and answer the questions below numbers 1-14:
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Act 1, Scene 1
- What are Iago and Roderigo discussing as the first scene opens?
(a) The gossip of the town.
(b) Iago’s wife and her treachery.
(c) The status of the war.
(d) The marriage of Othello and Desdemona. - Why is Roderigo so unhappy about Desdemona’s marriage?
(a) He wants his son to marry Desdemona.
(b) He hates Othello.
(c) He loves Desdemona.
(d) He lost a bet. - Why is Iago so upset with Othello at the beginning of the play?
(a) He is a moor.
(b) He promoted Cassio instead of Iago.
(c) He slept with his wife.
(d) He married Desdemona. - Why does Iago want to ruin Othello?
(a) He is in love with Desdemona .
(b) He is jealous of Othello’s military adventures.
(c) He is just following orders from Roderigo - (d) Othello promoted another man to lieutenant over Iago.
- Act 1,Scene 11
5) Which island are the Turks moving to attack?
(b Rhodes
b) Venice
c) Crete
d) Cyprus
6) What does Brabantio accuse Othello of having done?
a) Selling state secrets to the Turks
b) Casting spells on Desdemona
Accepting a bribe to promote Cassio
d) Breaking Desdemona’s heart
7) What does Othello claim made Desdemona love him?
a) The stories of his adventures
b) The kindness he showed her
c) His handsome and imposing physique
D) His immense wealth
8) Whom does Desdemona say she is most loyal to?
a) Brabantio
b) The Duke
Othello
d ) God
9) What does Iago suspect Othello of?
a) Plotting to kill him
b) Sleeping with Emilia
c) Mistreating Desdemona
D) Stealing from Roderigo
Act I, scene iii Quiz
10) Why are Roderigo and Iago arguing when the play begins?
a) Roderigo paid Iago to help him woo Desdemona, but it hasn’t worked.
b) Roderigo asked Iago to help get him a promotion, but without success.
c) Iago thought that Roderigo would help overthrow Othello, but he won’t.
D) Iago believes that Roderigo has seduced Emilia, but he hasn’t.
11) What does Iago cite as a reason why he should be lieutenant?
a) His close friendship with Othello
b) His longstanding protection of Desdemona
c) His experience and the fact that others have recommended him
D) His innovative ideas for winning the war
12) Who has been promoted over Iago?
a) Roderigo
b) Brabantio
c) Othello
D) Cassio
13) Why is Brabantio initially skeptical of Roderigo’s accusations?
a) He doesn’t think that Desdemona ever met Othello.
b) He has told Roderigo to stay away from Desdemona.
c) He has a life-long suspicion of both Roderigo and Iago.
D) He notices that Roderigo keeps changing his story.
14) What does Iago claim about Desdemona and Othello?
a) They are planning to kill Brabantio.
b) They have duped Roderigo.
c) They are having an intimacy.
D) They have eloped to Cyprus.
Best Wishes!
28th May, 2020
Hello dear students!✍️✍️
That you are in the last stage of secondary school and about to write your final examination is no more news. Though it’s been delayed due to the pandemic but let me assure you that living prepared must be your watchword. This is because the Covid-19 thingy😷 will soon be over sooner than you think.
The importance of doing revision with past exams questions cannot be over stressed. Like have always told you, make past questions your inseparable companion, as this will go a long way in helping you to find out about what you already know and also find out what you do not know well enough or don’t know at all. Hence, revising with past exams questions give you a better chance of passing excellently.
May I also remind you that you will be writing 3papers in literature which are :
Literature 1(objectives)
Literature 2(Prose, both papers 1&2 would be done together)
Literature 3(Drama and Poetry)
The objectives consists of 20 questions on general questions on literary appreciation, 5 questions each on both unseen Prose and Poetry , while the remaining 20 questions will be context questions on Shakespeare’s Othello. So, for the objectives (Please, practise, practise and practise more!!)
This is also a good time to go over all your literature texts 📚including all the poems. Do not forget that have always emphasized the fact that literature is the only subject you can study on your own, without the help of a teacher, and pass very well, if you are very serious about it. I enjoin you to make hay while the sun 🌞shines. You must not be found among the 5 foolish virgins, your place, I believe, must be among the 5 wise ones. Stop thinking….. There’s still time⌚, I tell you… There’s no time left.
I hope you have not forgotten also that your set is the last set for this 2016-2020 syllabus in literature in English , and the more reason you have to do whatever it takes (except cheating 😜) to pass literature once and for all.
I would have loved to still have many revision classes with you but be rest assured that if time permits us before your exams, we will surely do so.
Enough of the preamble!
Do the following, in addition to your normal revision. I would love to have a feedback from you.
OBJECTIVES)
[General Knowledge on Literature]
- __ is sung to put a child to sleep.
A. A ballad
B. A lullaby
C. A dirge
D. A pastoral - In drama the purposeful use of gestures and actions is
A. soliloquy.
B. mime.
C. eulogy.
D. aside. - Imagery in a literary work
A. creates suspense.
B. accentuates humour.
C. heightens the dramatic atmosphere.
D. appeals to the senses
- All the world’s a stage, is an example of
A. metaphor.
B. paradox.
C. allusion.
D. personification. - _ is the time and place in which the action of a narrative takes place.
A. Denouement
B. Mood
C. Setting
D. Plot - A tale in which the characters are often animals is
A. a fable.
B. an epic.
C. a ballad.
D. an ode. - Love indeed is anything,
Yet indeed is nothing
illustrates the use of
A. apostrophe.
B. antithesis.
C. oxymoron.
D. parody. - A reader’s curiosity is sustained through
A. suspense.
B. conflict.
C. flashback.
D. climax. - A hilarious and absurd play can be referred to as
A. a farce.
B. a pantomime.
C. an ode.
D. a comedy.
- It is a bitter sweet experience is an example of
A. metonymy.
B. pun.
C. onomatopoeia
D. Oxymoron
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