Read the extract below and answer this question. But the towering earth was tired of sitting in one position.

She moved, suddenly, and the houses crumbled, the mountains heaved horribly, and the work of a million years was lost.

The subject matter of the above extract is

• A. earthquake
• B. house movement
• C. sea waves
• D. storm

Read the poem and answer the question

In front of the gate, the guard stands with his rifle,

Above, untidy clouds are carrying away the moon,

The bedbugs are swarming around like army tanks on manoeuvers

While the mosquitoes form squadrons, attacking like fighter planes.

My heart travels a thousand miles towards my native land.

My dream interwines with sadness like a stein of a thousand threads,

Innocent, I have endured a whole year in prison

Using my tears for ink, I turn my thoughts into verses.

The poem is written in

• A. blank verse
• B. pentameter
• C. free verse
• D. trochee

This question is based on J.C. De Graft's Sons and Daughters

The device used by Aaron in the excerpt below is___________

'Now look what we have: a permanent bloom of ugly paper flowers!

• A. Rhetorical question
• B. Oxymoron
• C. Alliteration
• D. Euphemism

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: The Tempest

Read the extract and answer the question

Caliban: Ay, that I will; and I'II be wise hereafter,

And seek for grace. What a thrice-double ass

Was I, to take this drunkard for a god,

And worship this dull foot!

Prospero : Go to; away!

Alonso : Hence, and bestow your luggage where you found it.

Sebastian : Or stole, rather.

(Act V, scene one lines 293 - 299)

What is Caliban promising to do?

• A. Carry more wood
• B. Behave appropriately for forgiveness
• C. Denounce Stephano and Trinculo
• D. Confess his part in the conspiracy

This question is based on General Literary Principles

Which of the following forms of poetry is an example of a monologue?

• A. Lament
• B. Ode
• C. Sonnet
• D. Epic

This question is based on General Literary Principles.

The stylistic device that uses the name of one thing to describe another is called a

• A. synonym
• B. metonym
• C. mataphor
• D. antonym

These question are based on selected poems from Johnson, R. et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa; Soyinka, W. (ed.): Poems of Black Africa; Senanu, K.E. and Vincent, T. (eds): A Selection of African Poetry; Umukoro M. et al: Exam Focus: Literature in English; Eruvbetine, A.E. et al (eds.): Longman Examination Guides: Poetry for Senior Secondray Schools NWOGA, d.i. (ED.) West African Verse.

The dominant technique used in Serenade is

• A. apostrophe
• B. metaphore
• C. simile
• D. oxymoron

This question is based on William Shakesphere's Othello.

...Fathers, from hence trust not your daughters' minds. By what you see them act. Is there not charms. By which the property of youth and maidhood May be abused?.....

The speaker in the excerpt above addresses _______?

• A. Othello
• B. Iago
• C. Brabantio
• D. Roderigo

This question is based on literary Appreciation.

''Blood was to prove no solace to the king. The rejection he had suffered at Idama's hands pushed his spirit into a comfortless hole in which, alone with himself,he searched in vain for ways to run from his inner emptiness.'

Ayi Kwei Armah: Two Thousand Seasons.

The narrator's attitude to the king is one of

• A. envy
• B. suspicion
• C. contempt
• D. sympathy

This question is based on Chinua Achebe's Arrow of God ''' It is not bravery for a man to beat his wife.

I know a man and his wife must quarrel; there is no abomination in that... No, you may quarrel; but let it not end in fighting...''

These words concern

• A. Obika and his mother
• B. Obika and Okuata
• C. Akueke and her husband
• D. all the young men in the village