Explanation

Some of the characters demonstrate love for money. ie. greed and ambition, throughout the play. Whitehead. the White man and Stranger, Maligu, the King's adviser and Soko the Village Shrine Priest, are three of the characters that demonstrate this vice. Their sole objective is to get rich. Whitehead comes to Mando land intending to plunder the wealth of the people and carry away their diamonds, under the pretext of tobacco farming.

Greed sets in when Maligu and Soko begin to lose trust in one another and plan to get rid of each other for the greater advantage of the diamond wealth. The three want Kondo, the son of the king of Mando nd and head of the warriors, out of the way for em to succeed in their plan. Kindo recognizes it when he tells Maligu to pray for greed and ambition not to destroy him. Whitehead also wants Parker, an African who acts as his secretary and as assistant interpreter, and Soko killed as they do not exactly fit into his plan beyond using them to achieve his aim. When Maligu stands the chance to save Whitehead from death on his hands, he betrays him and simply thanks him for the diamond wealth that now apparently belongs to him alone.

It is clear that some of the major characters of the play do not show concern for the good of all in Mando land but for themselves alone.

Correct Answer: D. Visual imagery

Explanation

The excerpt uses visual imagery. Imagery is a literary device that uses descriptive language to create mental images and stimulate the senses. In this case, the speaker is creating a visual image of the beauty he has seen and desired, which is a 'dream' of the person he is addressing.

Correct Answer: B. refrain

Correct Answer: C. companionship

Correct Answer: B. allegory

Correct Answer: A. descriptive

Explanation

The following points are expected from the candidates.

i. The setting up of MUTE and its mission.

ii. Kabria's scoop which leads MUTE to investigate the plight of street children like Fofo and Baby T.

iii. The exposure of the reluctance of the law enforcers to investigate street crime.

iv. The combined efforts of MUTE and Harvest FM which unearth street crime and its perpetrators and prick public conscience.

v. The discovery of atrocities of children against children.

vi. The fight against crime and immorality in the society.

Correct Answer: B. personification

Correct Answer: D. the plight of the black woman does not change

Explanation

The effectiveness of Houseman's use of imagery in "To an Athlete Dying Young". Houseman uses imagery very effectively to express his major themes in the poem. The most important themes are mutability, pessimism and doomed youth. The poem is elegiac and focuses on the supposed achievement of the dead youth rather than on any loss which his death may have brought.

Many of Houseman's images in the poem express the transience of life on earth. There is a preponderance of metaphors which focus on this. The world becomes "fields where glory does not stay" from which the dead youth has departed untimely. The world is a place where "early though the laurel grows / it withers quicker than the rose". The suggestion is that in our world, fame does not last, that in fact it fades ("the laurel") even more quickly than beauty ("the rose") does.

Houseman throws up the athlete's image as a celebrated compatriot, champion and a man of the people. He was always celebrated as a hero any time he won sports honours and laurel. Both the old and the young always mounted informal guards of honour on roadsides to cheer him and carried him shoulder — high round the town. Upon his death, the whole town including his sportsmen never abandoned him. His corpse was equally taken round mournfully.

Several metaphors also express the theme of pessimism. Death, destitution and suffering are seen as inevitable in this world. Thus, Houseman suggests that the dead youth has gained rather than lost in his fate. He has been transported from a world in which youths are doomed to suffer. He "will not swell the rout/of lads that wore their hours out". This metaphor suggests the inevitability of desolation, frustration and disillusionment. So also does the metaphor "Runners whom renown outran". Rather than settle for a life of disillusionment in this world, the youth has gone to his grave early in his life.

Houseman paints an image of the athlete as a dear soul to his people, even in death, judging from the befitting burial given him. The athlete is portrayed as a man full of untapped resources right to his grave.

Death might be welcome to provide escape from the vicissitudes of life, but Houseman's images create an atmosphere of fatalism and a mood of resignation. He uses somber images to relate to death. The grave is a "stiller town", death is a "shady night", the youth is being laid to rest "on the sill of shade" and the dead are "strength less".