At the last head count, the population of the school was three thousand is an example of

• A. synechdoche
• B. hyperbole
• C. metonymy
• D. pun

This question is based on Camara Laye's The African Child

The most important objects in the hut are the

• A. prayer-rugs
• B. implements used in the workshop
• C. tool-boxes o Camara's father
• D. pots containing the magic charms

A three-line stanza, rhymed ABA, BCB, CDC is a

• A. couplet
• B. haiku
• C. terza rima
• D. heroic couplet

This question is based on William Shakespheare's Othello

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

In the excerpt it is implied that daughters are

• A. lascivious
• B. petty
• C. pretentious
• D. thieves

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: Twelfth Night

Read the extract below and answer the question

So please my lord, I might not be admitted;

But from her handmaid to return this answer:

The element itself, till seven years heat,

Shall not behold her face at ample view......

(Act 1 Scene 1)

The speaker is

• A. Cesario
• B. Fabian
• C. Valentine
• D. Feste

Read the extract below and answer the question

A : How dost thou like this tune?

B : It gives a very echo to the seat

Where Love is throned

A : Thou dost speak masterly

My life upon't , young though thou art, thine eye

Hath stayed upon some favour that it loves;

Hath is not, boy?

B : A little, by your favour (Act ll Scene 4)

Speaker A is

• A. Sir Toby
• B. Sir Andrew
• C. Duke Orsino
• D. Countess Olivia

AFRICAN DRAMA

DELE CHARELY: The Blood Of Stranger

Examine Wara's role in the development of the plot

*For seven days it rained that June;

A storm half out to sea kept turning around like a dog trying to settle himself on a rug; We were the fleas that

complained in his hair.

John Updike,Wash

The image set in the lines above are of

• A. rain and flood in June
• B. discomfort and likely destruction
• C. the days of Noah
• D. an animal insects and fun

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.

The confusion in the poet in D.H. Lawrence's poem 'Snake' arises from

• A. education and love
• B. fascination and fear
• C. anger and hospitability
• D. protest and regret

How can I look at Oyo and say I hate long shiny cars? How can I come to the children and despise international schools? And Koomson comes; and the family sees Jesus Christ in him...

The feeling conveyed by the speaker above is one of_________

• A. anger
• B. alienation
• C. hope
• D. despair