This question is based on Ernest Hermingway's The Old Man and the Sea

The skeleton of the marlin implies the

• A. sharks' predatory inclination
• B. futility of human struggle
• C. old man's lack of faith
• D. old man's incompetence in fishing

The repetition of similar vowel sounds within lines is

• A. parallelism
• B. allusion
• C. assonance
• D. alliteration

Read the poem and answer the question

Move him into the sun

Gently its touch awoke him once,

At home, whispering of fields unsown

Always it woke him even in France

Until this morning and this snow

If anything might rouse him now

This kind old sun will know

Think how it wakes the seeds

Woke,once, the clays of a cold star

Are limbs, so dear achieved, are sides,

Full-nerved still warm too hard to stir?

Was it for this the clay grew tall?

O what made fatuous sunbeams toil

To break earth's sleep at all?

The dominant images are associated with

• A. Death
• B. Nature
• C. Life
• D. Age

A speech or writing used to praise a person or a thing for past or present deeds is

• A. eulogy
• B. synecdoche
• C. epigram
• D. epilogue

AFRICAN DRAMA

ATHOL FUGARD: Sizwe Bansi is Dead

Discuss the theme of racial discrimination in the play.

The subject of discussion is

• A. Hamlet
• B. the ghost
• C. Claudius
• D. Laertes

This question is based on Wole Soyinka's The Lion and the Jewel.

'This is the words of women. At this moment our star sits in the center of the sky

We are supreme.'

These words were spoken by

• A. The favourite
• B. Sadiku
• C. Sidi
• D. the third girl

The dominant literary device used in ''A drowsing numbness pains my sense'' is

• A. parallelism
• B. symbolism
• C. repetition
• D. diction

Read the extract and answer the question

You cramthese words into mine ears against

The stomach of my sense. Would I had never

Married my daughter there! For, coming thence,

My son is lost, and,in my rate, she too,

(Act II, Scene One, lines 99 - 102)

''.......in my rate'' means

• A. I'm very certain
• B. so far as I can see
• C. there's no doubt
• D. as it appears

We did not go to school on that Friday morning. The night before had been rough. It was turbulent and scary. The strange cry non-indigenes must go rent the air. Little did i Known what it meant. That carry all the same haunted me in my sleep. My dreams were horrible. Why was mum so troubled? Why was Dad suddenly so pale and sickly? That night Mum and Dad had a forboding silence. They looked at each other, they did not smile. They were utterly silent. Their silence spoke millions. Fear rules the night. When the family bell summoned us to the family altar, it seemed that it tolled its last for the humans. Death smelled in the air, death was in the eyes..... But why? We were not told. Yes during the prayer at the family altar, Dad had told us there was trouble in town. No one who was a non-indigene was safe.

The family bell summoned us is an example of__________

• A. Apostrophe
• B. Personification
• C. Allusion
• D. Euphemism