Read the poem and answer the question

Sleep, O sleep

With thy Rod of Incantation

Charm my Imagination,

Then, only then, I cease to weep

By thy power,

The virgin, by Time O' ertaken,

For Years forlorn, forsaken,

Enjoys the happy Hour.

What's to sleep?

'Tis a visionary Blessing;

A dream that's past expressing;

Our utmost Wish possessing;

So may I always keep.

The poem makes use of

• A. end-stopped lines
• B. run-on lines
• C. rhyme
• D. metaphor

This question is based on Buchi Emecheta's Second Class Citizen.

For her act of child neglect, Adah's mother was forced by the police to

• A. taste raw and black pepper
• B. sleep in solitary cell
• C. drink a bowl of garri
• D. pay a fine of ten shillings

AFRICAN DRAMA

FEMI OSOFISAN: Women of Owu

Discuss Gesinde's contribution to the development of the plot.

UZAZAKPO: In my madness, I served Oba Adolo, your

father. That same madness has helped me

keep my body in this palace as jester under

your full moon. If you will listen to me and my

madness, I will tell you frankly that the way you

talked to the chiefs was not the right way

The tone of the above statement is

• A. ironic
• B. parabolic
• C. humorous
• D. satiric

This question is based on General Literary Principles and Appreciation.

'...Akosua Nowa has touched my manhood;

Tell her, red ant upon the tree;

If she passes this way, I am gone,

I am gone to load my gun

No matter how hidden deep her treasure,

By my father's coffin I swear

I'll shoot my way to it this day;

Son of the hunter King

There is liquid fire in my gun!

' Akosua Nowa' by Joe de Graft

The beauty of this poem is built upon its

• A. rhythm
• B. extended images of treasure and gun
• C. the protagonist's boastfulness
• D. the arrangement of the lines

This question is based on General Literary Appreciation.

....They do not see the funeral piles

At home eating up the forests...

J.P. Clark:Casualties

The imagery created in the above excerpt is achieved through

• A. metaphor
• B. personification
• C. synedoche
• D. metonym

Read the extract and answer the uestion

Ariel: All hail, great master! Grave sir, hali ! I come

To answer the best pleasure; be't to fly,

To swim, to dive into the fire, to ride

On the curled clouds, to thy strong bidding task

Ariel and all his quality.

(Act I Scene Two, lines 189 - 193)

Ariel has 'come' because

• A. he has been invited by Prospero
• B. he wants to make a request
• C. he desires a meeting
• D. flying is no problem to him

The limerick

• A. is written to be sung
• B. has a serious subject matter
• C. is always light and humorous
• D. uses lofty language

Othello: So please your grace, my ancient;

A man he is of honesty and trust To his conveyance i assign my wife

Grace shall think

To be sent after me

(Act 1, Scene Three, Lines 279-283)

A man he is honesty and trust refers to_________

• A. Cassio
• B. Lodovico
• C. Gratiano
• D. Iago

'The king has joined his ancestors' is an example of

• A. euphemism
• B. eulogy
• C. malapropism
• D. trilogy