This question is based on William Shakespeare' s Twelfth Night.

Duke: Be clamorous, and leap all civil bounds,

Rather than make unprofited return.

Duke's statement above to Cesario means that he should

• A. make trouble to see Olivia
• B. jump the fence to see Olivia
• C. shout be seen and heard by Olivia
• D. fortify himself against any denial to see Olivia

This question is based on Ayi Kwei Armah's Fragments

In the novel, the most prominent from of literature used is

• A. myth
• B. drama
• C. poetry
• D. folktale

AFRICAN DRAMA

FRANK OGODO OGBECHE: Harvest Of Corruption

Assess the character of Ogeyi in the play?

This question is based on selected poems from Wole Soyinka (ed.) Poems of Black Africa and D.I. Nwoga (ed.) West African Verse.

...'the hawk will flutter and turn

On its wings and swoop for the mouse,

The dogs will run for the hare,

The hare for its little life.'

These lines from Kwesi Brew's 'The Dry Season' mean that

• A. this is a hunting season
• B. there is chaos
• C. the hare will be killed
• D. the hawk and the dogs are strong

This question is based on literary Appreciation. 'You are the silent cold of pleasure locked in the world worldless wonder

You are the hive of pleasure no dragon can plunder'

Gbemisola Adeoti: Dream code

The excerpt above achieves its rhetorical effect through the use of

• A. repetition and meiosis
• B. caesura and hyperbole
• C. alliteration and irony
• D. metaphor and rhyme

'They are as fearsome as they are fearless' is an example of______

• A. antithesis
• B. pun
• C. oxymoron
• D. simile

This question is based on selected poems from R. Johnson and D. Ker, et al (ed.): New poetry from Africa; Wole Soyinka (ed.): poems Black Africa; K.E. senanu and T. Vincent (eds.): A Selection of African poetry; M. Umukoro and A Sani, et al (eds.): Exam Focus: Literature - in - English; A.E. Eruvbetine and M. Jibril, et al (eds.): Longman Examination Guides: poetry: E.W. Parker (ed.): A Pageant of Longer poems and D.I. Nwoga (ed.): West African Verse.

The theme of Browning's My Last Duchess

• A. an aristocrats's marital problems
• B. the pitfalls of a duchess now dead
• C. an ambassador's personal life
• D. the pride and arrogance of an aristocrat

Men swift to see things done , do not run their commanding.

The words in italics exemplify

• A. pun
• B. end rhyme
• C. internal rhyme
• D. paradox

...He who sharpened the edge of hearts....

In Kunene's To The Soldier Hero is

• A. a soldier
• B. a swordsman
• C. a blacksmith
• D. an artist

This question is based on Literary Principles.

The madman has entered our house with violence

Defiling our sacred grounds

Claiming the single truth of the universe

Bending down our high priests with iron,'

Mazizi Kunene, 'Progress'

The imagery of the lines above captures the idea of

• A. coercion
• B. religiousity
• C. truth
• D. persuasion