This question is based on selected poems from R. Johnson and D. Ker, et al (ed.): New poetry from Africa; Wole Soyinka (ed.): poems Black Africa; K.E. senanu and T. Vincent (eds.): A Selection of African poetry; M. Umukoro and A Sani, et al (eds.): Exam Focus: Literature - in - English; A.E. Eruvbetine and M. Jibril, et al (eds.): Longman Examination Guides: poetry: E.W. Parker (ed.): A Pageant of Longer poems and D.I. Nwoga (ed.): West African Verse.

' ... In Tempe or the dales of Arcady?

• A. admiration and amazement
• B. confusion and fear
• C. shock and surprise
• D. worry and sadness

This Question is based on General Literacy principles and Literacy Appreciations.

A poem used to express grief on the occasion of someone's death is _______?

• A. elegy
• B. epic
• C. dirge
• D. sonnet

This question is based on selected poems from R. Johnson and D. Ker 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; M. Umukoro and A Sani et al (eds.): Exam Focus: Literature in English; A.E. Eruvbetine and M. Jibril et al (eds.): Longman Examination Guides: Poetry and E.W. Parker (ed.): A Pageant of Longer Poems.

'My bottom raven black-one moment madam!- sensing

Her receiver rearing o

• A. madam and receiver
• B. tenant and telephone
• C. landlady and tenant
• D. receiver and thunderclap

Poetry is written in

• A. descriptive
• B. dramatic
• C. narrative
• D. poetic

I had not taken the first step in knowledge, I had not learnt to let go with the hands. The above lines is an example of a

• A. Apostrophe
• B. Alliteration
• C. Repetition
• D. Assonance

John K. Kargbo: Let me Die Alone

Discuss Gbanya as a remarkable character

This question is based on Literary Appreciation.'

You do not have to be brutal to be a soldier, or rather you are brutal not because you are a soldier, but because there is a murderer in you who is waiting for war and army uniforms to give them expression.

'Festus lyayi:Heroes

The speaker here contends that

• A. soldiers are generally wicked
• B. human nature has to do with a profession
• C. soldiers are characteristically gentle
• D. the latent brutality in man finds expression in war

This question is based on General Literary Principles.

Limerick is a light verse which consist of five lines that are

• A. anapestic
• B. trochaic
• C. spondaic
• D. dactylic

The device used in 'Light as wind on water laid' is

• A. rhyme
• B. simile
• C. onomatopeia
• D. pun

When two statements or comparisons are apparently contradictory, we have an example of

• A. irony
• B. paradox
• C. contrast
• D. parallelism