NON-AFRICAN POETRY

Examine the theme of rejected love in Marvel's "To His Coy Mistress".

Read the extract and answer the question

Here lies our sovereign Lord the King

Whose word no man relies on

Who never said a foolish thing

And never did a wise one.

The extract is an example of a/an

• A. dirge
• B. epigram
• C. oxymoron
• D. parody

This question is based on Literary Appreciation

'Fierce harmattan sun on innocent tendrils; torrential downpour on leaking thatch roofs; paintfull comfort of helpless eunuchs; thorny beauty of modern witches; the fatcon's call on day-old-chicks, ours is tragi-comic dialogue.... mute echoes of pains.'

The sonority and rhythmical structure of the lines above are achieved through a pause pattern called

• A. enjambment
• B. caesura
• C. apostrophe
• D. scansion

''I have read Shakespeare' is an example of

• A. litotes
• B. paradox
• C. parody
• D. metonymy

Read the extract and answer the question

If thou hast any sound, or use of voice,

Speak to me;

That may be any good thing to be grace to me,

Speak to me;

If thou art privy to thy country's fate,

Which, happily, foreknowing may avoid,

O, speak!

Or if thou has uphoarded in thy life

Extorted treasure in the womb of earth,

For which, they say, you spirits oft walk in death

Speak of it:

(Act 1 scene one, lines 129-139)

The speaker's mood is one of

• A. anger
• B. regret
• C. anxiety
• D. disappointment

This question is based on William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet

.....So tedious is this day

As is the night before some festival

To an impatient child that hath new robes And may not wear them'.

The literary device used in the excerpt is

• A. euphemism
• B. simile
• C. sarcasm
• D. bathos

This question is based on General Literary Appreciation

For a play to be successful on stage, it must not be short of

• A. audiences
• B. speeches
• C. actions
• D. characters

Read the extract and answer the question

Tell me, heavenly bow,

If Venus or her son, as thou dost know,

Do now attend the queen? Since they did plot

The means that dusky Dis my daughter got,

Her and her blind boy's scandalled company

I have forsworn.

(Act IV, scene one lines 86-91)

The speaker is

• A. Ferdinand
• B. Miranda
• C. Ceres
• D. Iris

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 play above is basically a

• A. tragi-comedy
• B. historical tragedy
• C. dramatic tragedy
• D. documentary

Read the extract below and answer the following questions

... 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's language is best described as

• A. comic
• B. satiric
• C. conceit
• D. metaphoric