Read the extract below and answer Question

With the pen, he wrote kings into reality

With his words, kingdoms arose,

Those same words, slaves inhaled

Their hands building walls, their feet tromping territories

His pen was like the breath of life.

The underlined words illustrate ________

• A. hyperbole
• B. irony
• C. metonymy
• D. paradox

These questions are based on General Literary Principles.

The account of an experience of an individual during the course of a journey is known as

• A. an autobiography
• B. a catalogue
• C. a memoir
• D. a travelogue

This question is based on General Literary Principles

The use of gestures to communicate in drama is known as

• A. mime
• B. melodrama
• C. soliloquy
• D. burlesque

Read the following lines and answer the question

But since, alas! frail beauty must decay,

curled or uncurled, since looks will turn to gray;

since painted or unpainted, all shall fade.

A literary device used in the first line is

• A. paradox
• B. litotes
• C. hyperbole
• D. metaphor

Dramatis personae in a play refers to

• A. a list of characters
• B. order of appearance
• C. cast list
• D. protagonist and antagonist

This question is based on George Bernard Shaw's Arms and the Man .

In what particular way did Raina demonstrate that she had fallen in love with Captain Bluntschli by the end of their first meeting?

• A. By giving him chocolate creams which he preferred to bullets
• B. By introducing him to hermother
• C. By giving him her portrait with an inscription
• D. By saving his life from the Serbian soldiers

Read the extract and answer the question

X : Tis gone will not answer.

Y : How now....! You tremble and look pale;

Is not this something more than fantasy?

What think you on't?

Z : Before my God. I might not this believe

Without the sensible and true avouch

Of mine own eyes.

(Act One, Scene I, lines 52-58)

Tis gone and will not answer refers to the

• A. gravedigger
• B. ghost
• C. servant
• D. soldier

UNSEEN PROSE AND POETRY Read the extract below and answer the question

His mind flitted back memory lane. He remembered how time walked 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 extract is one of

• A. gloom
• B. serenity
• C. anxiety
• D. indifference

This question is based on selected poems from D. Ker, C. Maduka et al (eds.): New poetry from Africa, Wole Soyinka (ed.): Poems of Black Africa, K.E. Senanu and T. Vincent (eds.): A Selection of African poetry and E.W. Parker (ed.): A Pageant of Longer Poems.

The recurrence of the first person pronoun 'I' in Gabriel Okara's 'The callof the River Nun' creates the feeling of

• A. detachment
• B. immediacy
• C. alienation
• D. nostalgia

The first eight lines of a sonnet is a/an

• A. tercet
• B. sestet
• C. octave
• D. quatrain