This question is based on Ademiluyi's

• A. digression and rubric
• B. intrigues and metaphors
• C. setting and design
• D. suspense and irony

This question is based on Wole Soyinka's

The Trials of Brother Jero.

The most significant factors driving members to Jero's church in the play are

• A. poverty and dissatisfaction
• B. fulfillment and security
• C. wealth and ignorance
• D. poverty and lust for power

The tone of the passage above is

• A. Melancholic
• B. Ironic
• C. Harsh
• D. Derisive

This question is based on General Literary Principles.

A device used in poetry to achieve emphasis or stress a point is known as

• A. assonance
• B. repetition
• C. alliteration
• D. rhyme

The dominant device in this excerpt is ___

• A. metaphor
• B. synecdoche
• C. simile
• D. paradox

Read the extract and answer the question

And for your part,..., I do wish

That your good beauties be the happy cause

Of ...wildness: so shall I hope your virtues

Will bring him to his wonted way again,

To both your honours,

(Act Three, Scene I, lines 37-42)

The wildness referred to can also be called

• A. love
• B. madness
• C. happiness
• D. death

This question is based on William Shakespeare's Macbeth.

'The Prince of Cumberland!- That is a step On which I must fall down, or else o' erleap,

For in my way it lies. Stars, hide your fires!

Let not light see my black and deep desires;...

Macbeth in this soliloquy refers to his secret longing to become the

• A. King of Scotland
• B. Prince of Cumberland
• C. Thane of Cawdor
• D. Thane of Glamis

This question is based on J.C. De Graft's Sons and Daughters. The Major issues at hand in the Sons and Daughters play is that

• A. Laboratory attendant is trying to act as a nurse
• B. The medical doctor is in love with Maanan
• C. James sees Awere as a bad influence
• D. Lawyer B is trying to Kiss Maanan.

Read the passage below and answer the question:

The long column of misery tended continually to grow longer, as the more robust struggled to get as far as possible from the pursuing French, and as the weaker fell farther and farther behind. There were enough weaklings in all conscience; even in summer the had been badly clothed, and even in victory insufficiently fed, and now it was winter, and Espinosa had been fought and lost, and the route of the retreat lay away from the fertile plains and up into the inhospitable mountains. The rain had fallen upon them in deluges for days and now as they climbed higher it was turning into sleet. and a bitter cold wind blew. Ahead of them they could see the snow lying thick on the mountain passes through which they would have to climb, without food or fuel or rest, and with the terror of the French to urge them on. Disease had come inevitably to complete the work so well begun by hunger, exposure, and the sword

The device used in the last sentence is

• A. climax
• B. sarcasm
• C. euphemism
• D. hyperbole

Section A: AFRICAN DRAMA

FRANK OGODO OGBECHE - Harvest of Corruption

To what extent can Aloho’s tragedy be blamed on the society?