This question is based on Literary Principles. 'Ibadan,

running splash of rust

and gold - flung and scattered

among seven hills like broken

china in the sun.'

J.P Clark, 'Ibadan'

The poem above is memorable for its

• A. pun
• B. heroism
• C. metaphor
• D. lyricism

The officer, surrounded by these noises, was moved and a little embarrassed.

He turned away to give them time to pull themselves together, and waited, allowing his eyes to rest on the trim cruiser in the distance.

Based on the novel Piggy's,in the above passage,Golding focuses on the

• A. sympathy and pity the officer feels for the children
• B. contrast between savagery and order
• C. inability of the children to organize themselves
• D. children's emotional state and its consequences

''A black beautiful brilliant bride'' is an example of

• A. alliteration
• B. assonance
• C. onomatopoeia
• D. pun

Based on Chimamanda Adichie's Purple Hibiscus, one of the changes introduced into St Agnes' Church by Father Benedict is that

• A. everyone must take holy communion
• B. there must be fasting every month
• C. the Credo must be recited in igbo
• D. the Kyrie must be rendered only in Latin

NON-AFRICAN POETRY

Examine the theme of Endurance in Birches?

This question is based on General Literary Principles

A couplet refers to

• A. two successive lines of rhyming verse
• B. two stanzas that cannot stand alone
• C. four irregular verses in stanzas
• D. poetry that is actd on stage

This question i based on selected poems from Wole Soyinka (ed.) Poems of Black Africa, E.K. Senanu and T. Vincent (ed.)Selection of African Poetry and E.W. Parker (ed.) A Pageant of Longer Poems.

Kofi Awoonor's poem 'Songs of Sorrow' suggests that

• A. death is temporary
• B. life is continuous
• C. the living communicate with the dead
• D. death is final

Twelfth Night is an example of

• A. farce
• B. comedy
• C. tragi-comedy
• D. burlesque

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 about

• A. war
• B. dirt
• C. travelling
• D. prison life

''But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near'' illustrates

• A. metaphor
• B. apostrophe
• C. oxymoron
• D. metonymy