A group of lines separated from other groups in a poem is known as

• A. verse
• B. caesura
• C. stanza
• D. metre

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On, on, on, over the countless miles of angry space roll the long heaving OT angry space roll the long heaving billows. Mountains and caves are here; for what is now the other; then all is but a boiling heap of rushing water. Pursuit, and flight and mad return of and savage struggle, ending up in a spouting up of foam that whitens the black night; incessant change of place and form and hue; constancy in nothing but eternal strife.

On, on, on, they roll and darker grows the night: and louder howls the wind and more clamorous and fierce become the million voices in the sea, when the wild cry goes forth upon the storm, A ship!

The expression million voices is used as _________

• A. conceit
• B. euphemism
• C. hyperbole
• D. metonymy

The plot of the novel is

• A. linear
• B. cyclical
• C. achronological
• D. convoluted

This question is based on Buchi Emecheta's The Joys of Motherhood.

Nnaife and Nnu Ego Second Child but the first to live is

• A. Adim
• B. Ngozi
• C. Oshia
• D. Adaku

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... Man is but an ass if he go about to

expound this dream. Methought I was - there

is no man can tell

what. Methought I was, and methought I had -

but man is

But a patched fool, if he will offer

To say what methought I

had. The eye of man hath not heard, the ear of

man hath not

seen, man's hand is not able to taste, his

tongue to conceive, nor

his heart to report, what my dream was

(Act IV, Scene One, Lines 201 - 207)

The speaker has just come out of

• A. an appalling experience
• B. a nightmare
• C. an induced sleep
• D. a rehearsal

This question is based on General Literary Principles.

Poems that are not written in meter or regular line length are called

• A. short verses
• B. rhythmic verses
• C. free verses
• D. irregular verses

An African author who has written plays, poems and prose is

• A. Wole Soyinka
• B. Zaynab Alkali
• C. Chinua Achebe
• D. Flora Nwapa

This question is based on General Literary Principles.

The continuation of meaning without pause, from one line to the next is

• A. synecdoche
• B. melodrama
• C. enjambment
• D. alliteration

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world have been Heathcliff's miseries, and I watched and felt each from the beginning.My great thought in living is himself.If all else perished, and he remained, I should still continue to be. And if all else remained, and he wereannihilated, the universe would be turned to a mighty stranger _ is should not seem a part of it.My love for Linton is like the foliage in the woods; time will change it, I'm well aware, as winter changes the trees.My love for Heathcliff resembles the eternal rocks beneath _ as source of little visible delight, but necessary. Nelly, I am Heathcliff!. He's always, always in my mind _ not as a pleasure to myself, but as my own being....

The speaker's love for Heathcliff is

• A. platonic
• B. indestructible
• C. ephemeral
• D. universal

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

Catherine's natural looks portray her as a

• A. sophisticated lady
• B. soldier's wife
• C. mountain farmer's wife
• D. business woman