SS3 First Term Literature In English Past Questions And Answers

 

20 SS3 First Term Literature in English questions with options and answers:

 

Question: Who is the author of the novel “Things Fall Apart”?

 

A) Wole Soyinka

B) Chinua Achebe

C) Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

D) Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o

Answer: B) Chinua Achebe

 

Question: In William Shakespeare’s play “Romeo and Juliet,” which family does Juliet belong to?

 

A) Montague

B) Capulet

C) Verona

D) Tybalt

Answer: B) Capulet

 

Question: Who wrote the poem “The Waste Land”?

 

A) T.S. Eliot

B) Langston Hughes

C) Robert Frost

D) W.B. Yeats

Answer: A) T.S. Eliot

 

Question: Which literary term refers to the use of hints or clues to suggest what will happen later in a story?

 

A) Irony

B) Foreshadowing

C) Allegory

D) Simile

Answer: B) Foreshadowing

 

Question: In the novel “To Kill a Mockingbird,” who is the mysterious neighbor that the children are curious about?

 

A) Boo Radley

B) Atticus Finch

C) Tom Robinson

D) Mayella Ewell

Answer: A) Boo Radley

 

Question: What literary device involves a direct comparison between two unlike things using “like” or “as”?

 

A) Metaphor

B) Simile

C) Personification

D) Hyperbole

Answer: B) Simile

 

Question: Who wrote the play “Death of a Salesman”?

 

A) Arthur Miller

B) Tennessee Williams

C) Eugene O’Neill

D) Samuel Beckett

Answer: A) Arthur Miller

 

Question: In George Orwell’s “Animal Farm,” what does the character Napoleon represent?

 

A) The working class

B) The ruling elite

C) The intellectuals

D) The revolutionaries

Answer: B) The ruling elite

 

Question: What literary term describes the perspective from which a story is told?

 

A) Theme

B) Point of View

C) Symbolism

D) Tone

Answer: B) Point of View

 

Question: Who is the author of the poem “The Raven”?

 

A) Edgar Allan Poe

B) Emily Dickinson

C) Walt Whitman

D) Robert Frost

Answer: A) Edgar Allan Poe

 

Question: In the play “Othello,” who is Iago’s wife?

 

A) Desdemona

B) Emilia

C) Bianca

D) Cordelia

Answer: B) Emilia

 

Question: What literary term refers to the emotional atmosphere created by a piece of writing?

 

A) Mood

B) Symbolism

C) Alliteration

D) Epiphany

Answer: A) Mood

 

Question: Who wrote the novel “Pride and Prejudice”?

 

A) Jane Austen

B) Charlotte Brontë

C) Emily Brontë

D) Charles Dickens

Answer: A) Jane Austen

 

Question: What is the central idea or message in a literary work called?

 

A) Plot

B) Theme

C) Conflict

D) Setting

Answer: B) Theme

 

Question: In the play “Macbeth,” what title is given to Macbeth for his bravery in battle?

 

A) Duke

B) King

C) Thane of Cawdor

D) Earl

Answer: C) Thane of Cawdor

 

Question: Who wrote the short story “The Lottery”?

 

A) Shirley Jackson

B) Edgar Allan Poe

C) Nathaniel Hawthorne

D) Ray Bradbury

Answer: A) Shirley Jackson

 

Question: What literary term refers to the use of words that imitate the sound they describe?

 

A) Alliteration

B) Onomatopoeia

C) Metaphor

D) Oxymoron

Answer: B) Onomatopoeia

 

Question: In the novel “1984” by George Orwell, what is the oppressive government called?

 

A) Oceania

B) Big Brother

C) Ingsoc

D) Eurasia

Answer: C) Ingsoc

 

Question: Who is the protagonist in the novel “One Hundred Years of Solitude”?

 

A) José Arcadio Buendía

B) Úrsula Iguarán

C) Amaranta Buendía

D) Aureliano Buendía

Answer: A) José Arcadio Buendía

 

Question: What is the literary term for the use of exaggeration for emphasis or effect?

 

A) Hyperbole

B) Irony

C) Symbolism

D) Allegory

Answer: A) Hyperbole.