cameroon gce A level June 2023 literature in English 1

cameroon gce A level June 2023 literature in English 1

cameroon gce A level June 2023 literature in English 1

GENERAL (FOR ALL CANDIDATES) D Atmosphere
LITERARY APPRECIATION: ( 1 -10)
Literary criticism generally has to do with:
A Judging a work of art for its worth
B Analysing its figurative worth
C Judging the strength of its stylistic devices
D Synthesising its theoretical considerations
A poetic foot in the word “understand” can be
described as
A Dactylic
B Spondaic
C Anapaestic
D Pyrrhic
1. 8.
In literary works, verisimilitude is achieved through
the use of
i. The first person point of view.
ii. Authorial comments.
iii. History and names of actual persons and
places.
iv. Events and activities of the period under
consideration.
v. Retrospection
A ii, iii and iv
B ii, ivandv
C i, iv and v
D i, iii and iv
2.
The Prime Minister himself said that he was going
to lower taxes. The pronoun “himself’ in this
sentence is
A Indefinite
B Reflexive
C Relative
D Intensive
9.
Team pennants, rock posters and family
photographs covered the boy’s bedroom walls. In
the above sentence, the highlighted expressions can
be said to be functioning as
A Compound subject
B Compound nouns
C Compound predicate
D Noun complements
10.
The prologue in a work of drama usually is found
A In the middle of the play
B At its beginning
C At its end
D Just before its end
3.
PART ONE (OLD SYLLABUS)
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: HAMLET (11-14)
11. On which of the following characters is the
principle of poetic justice wrongly applied?
A Queen Gertrude
B King Claudius
C Ophelia
D Prince Hamlet
Farce is the kind of drama that is marked by:
A Actions that are both sad and happy
B Ridiculous actions and situations
C Both light-hearted and serious actions
D Comic and exaggerated actions
4.
5. Among the clues to identifying a novelist’s purpose
are:
His biography
His tone
The length of the novel
Word clues
Authorial comments
A ii, iv and v
B i, ii and v
C iii, iv and v
D i, iv and v
i) 12. Act 1, scene 1 of the play Hamlet begins:
A In the king’s council chamber
On a warm summer night in the Castle of
Elsinore
C On a cold winter night at the Castle of
Elsinore
D At one o’clock at the castle of Elsinore
ii)
iii) B
iv)
v)
13. Which of these strands of the story avoids a
disastrous ending?
A The territorial dispute between Denmark
and Norway
B The romance between Hamlet and
Ophelia
C The proble between King Claudius and
Laertes over the murder of Polonius
D The marriage between King Claudius and
Queen Gertrude
One of the following does not fit among the short
fixed forms of prose literature of oral form.
A Riddles
B Dirge
C Proverbs
D Tongue-twisters
6.
Pick out the odd term from among the following
A Mood
B Speaker
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