This question is based on Mariama Ba's So Long a Letter

'Friendship has splendours that love knows not.

It grows stronger when crossed, whereas obstacles kill love.

Friendship resists time, which wearies and severs couples. It has heights unknown to love'.

The friendship referred to in these lines is that between

• A. Binetou and Modou Fall
• B. Ramatoulaye and Daouda Dieng
• C. Modou Faill and Mawdo Ba
• D. Aissatou and Ramatoulaye

This question is based on selection poems from Johnson, R. et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa; Soyinka, W.. (ed.):Poems of Black African; Senanu, K.E. and Vincent, T. (eds.):A Selection of African Poetry; Maduka, C.T. et al: Exam Focus: Literature in English; Eruvbetine, A.E. et al (eds.): Longman Examination Guides and Nwoga, D. I. (ed.):West African Verse

In Milton's On His Blindness, the poet's attitude towards his blindness is one of

• A. anger
• B. sorrow
• C. fortitude
• D. apathy

Poison ivy came up like a rose

in red and thorny garb

I look, liked and did dare touch

my pals my avid touch espied

with green and frosty eyes

I should've only looked, and not leapt,

For away and over my rising moon she flew

On clipped wings of my dream

Now a song-filled air pocket of serenades

A love's wretch, my dream is a hornbill

Flightless and tottering.

My dream remains a dream still

Now my dream is a locked-up serenade

The last line illustrates___________

• A. Parallelism
• B. Contrast
• C. Hyperbole
• D. Metaphor

AFRICAN POETRY

Consider the use of alliteration, assonance and repetition in Black Woman

Read the poem below and answer the following questions

Your lies are the withering strokes still, they come from the inner recesses of your dungeoned heart. And though venomous than the venom, they inspire our once dociled minds to disorders even as your angels of death pass us by with messages of hopeless hope.

Did you read our mind in your lies? We know the seat of power in a castle of your evil heart; where your lies are imprisoned to be released again and again; they are never in rain! but they have soothed us calmly , your lies; the war is not of you anymore, it is of the angels who pass us by with messages of peace.

Did your read our minds in your lies? exemplifies

• A. personification
• B. oxymoron
• C. pathetic fallacy
• D. rhetorical question

This question is based on General Literary Principles.

The word 'image' is associated with

• A. attitude
• B. mood
• C. tone
• D. abstraction

This question is based on Ayi Kwei Armah's 'The Beautyful Ones are Not Yet Born'. 'Ah, you know, the chichidodo is a bird

The chichidodo hates excrement with all its soul.

But the chichidodo only feeds on maggots, and you know the maggots grow best inside the lavatory.

This is the chichidodo'. Which character in the novel is likened to his bird?

• A. Koomson
• B. Oyo
• C. The man
• D. Teacher

This question is based on Mariama Ba's So Long a Letter

''...The sugar-daddy of the boutique dresses wants to marry Binetou. Just imagine...'''

What is ironical about this statement ?

• A. The speaker is Binetou's friend
• B. The sugar-daddy is the speaker's husband
• C. Binetou is the speaker's rival
• D. The sugar-daddy is the speaker's father

Read the poem and answer the question

''No longer mourn for me when I am dead

Then you shall hear the surly sullen bell

Give warning to the world that I am fled

from this vile world, with vilest worms to dwell''

The poet uses

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

...If someone threw you a rope when you were drowning. If a doctor said take this because if you don't take this because if you

don't take it, you will die- you would, wouldn't you? I mean? Based on the novel Piggy's,the rope and the doctor's prescription refers to the

• A. pig
• B. beast
• C. conch
• D. smoke signal