SS3 Third Term Literature In English Past Questions And Answers

 

SS3 Third Term Literature in English questions with options and answers:

 

Question: Who wrote 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 “Macbeth,” what is Macbeth’s tragic flaw?

 

A) Ambition

B) Jealousy

C) Cowardice

D) Indecision

Answer: A) Ambition

 

Question: Who is the author of the play “Oedipus Rex”?

 

A) Sophocles

B) Euripides

C) Aeschylus

D) Aristophanes

Answer: A) Sophocles

 

Question: What literary term refers to a recurring theme or idea in a work of literature?

 

A) Motif

B) Allegory

C) Irony

D) Epiphany

Answer: A) Motif

 

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

 

A) The working class

B) The ruling elite

C) The intellectuals

D) The revolutionaries

Answer: A) The working class

 

Question: Who wrote the poem “The Road Not Taken”?

 

A) Robert Frost

B) Langston Hughes

C) Emily Dickinson

D) Walt Whitman

Answer: A) Robert Frost

 

Question: What literary term involves a sudden realization or understanding by a character?

 

A) Climax

B) Epiphany

C) Foreshadowing

D) Denouement

Answer: B) Epiphany

 

Question: In the novel “Jane Eyre,” who is the mysterious figure in the attic?

 

A) Mr. Rochester

B) Bertha Mason

C) St. John Rivers

D) Helen Burns

Answer: B) Bertha Mason

 

Question: What literary term refers to the use of humor, irony, or ridicule to criticize or mock people or society?

 

A) Satire

B) Parody

C) Farce

D) Allegory

Answer: A) Satire

 

Question: Who is the author of the play “A Doll’s House”?

 

A) Henrik Ibsen

B) Anton Chekhov

C) August Strindberg

D) George Bernard Shaw

Answer: A) Henrik Ibsen

 

Question: In the novel “Lord of the Flies,” what does the character Piggy symbolize?

 

A) Wisdom

B) Leadership

C) Civilization

D) Savagery

Answer: A) Wisdom

 

Question: What literary term refers to the emotional or psychological state of the main character?

 

A) Mood

B) Tone

C) Atmosphere

D) Setting

Answer: A) Mood

 

Question: Who is the author of the play “Waiting for Godot”?

 

A) Samuel Beckett

B) Harold Pinter

C) Tom Stoppard

D) Eugene O’Neill

Answer: A) Samuel Beckett

 

Question: In the novel “The Scarlet Letter,” what does the scarlet letter ‘A’ symbolize?

 

A) Adultery

B) Redemption

C) Ambition

D) Alienation

Answer: A) Adultery

 

Question: What literary term refers to the repetition of vowel sounds in a series of words?

 

A) Alliteration

B) Assonance

C) Consonance

D) Rhyme

Answer: B) Assonance

 

Question: Who wrote the play “Long Day’s Journey into Night”?

 

A) Eugene O’Neill

B) Tennessee Williams

C) Arthur Miller

D) Lorraine Hansberry

Answer: A) Eugene O’Neill

 

Question: In the novel “The Grapes of Wrath,” what historical event is depicted?

 

A) The Dust Bowl

B) The Great Depression

C) World War II

D) The Roaring Twenties

Answer: B) The Great Depression

 

Question: What is the literary term for a figure of speech in which a part represents the whole or vice versa?

 

A) Metonymy

B) Synecdoche

C) Hyperbole

D) Oxymoron

Answer: B) Synecdoche

 

Question: Who is the author of the novel “The Old Man and the Sea”?

 

A) Ernest Hemingway

B) F. Scott Fitzgerald

C) John Steinbeck

D) William Faulkner

Answer: A) Ernest Hemingway

 

Question: In the play “Julius Caesar,” who delivers the famous speech beginning with “Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears”?

 

A) Brutus

B) Mark Antony

C) Cassius

D) Caesar

Answer: B) Mark Antony.