This question is based on Amma Darko's Faceless

The narrative style adopted in the novel is

• A. second persons
• B. third person
• C. interior monologue
• D. first person

During this speech

• A. the palace soldiers arrived
• B. Hamlet attacked the speaker
• C. the queen fainted
• D. a cock crowed

Use the passage below to 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 million years was lost'.

The subject matter of the passage is

• A. earthquake
• B. demolition
• C. flood
• D. storm

'penny wise; pound foolish' is an example of

• A. metonymy
• B. hyperbole
• C. metaphor
• D. paradox

A praise poem is

• A. a dirge
• B. an epic
• C. a ballad
• D. an ode

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.

A poem whose shape resembles the object described is a/an

• A. emblematic poem
• B. romantic poem
• C. elegy
• D. sonnet

Read the extract below and answer question

But, masters, here are our parts, and I am to entreat you, request you, and desire you, to con them by to-morrow night; and meet me in the place wood, a mile without the town, by moonlight. There will we rehearse: for if we meet in the city, we shall be dogged with company, and Our devices known.

(Act I, Scene two Lines 79-84)

They intend to rehearse the play

• A. a Midsummer Night's Dream
• B. Pyramus and Thisby
• C. The tradegy of lovers
• D. The Battle of Royal

This question is based on General Literary Principles.

A metaphor in which objects, persons and events in a story are equated with meanings that lie outside the narrative itself is

• A. fable
• B. personification
• C. allegory
• D. symbolism

The subject matter of a literary work is the

• A. plot
• B. setting
• C. theme
• D. structure

This question is based on Literary Principles.

'BEHOLD her, single in the field,

Yon solitary Highland Lass!

Reaping and singing by herself;

Stop here, or gently pass!

Alone she cuts and blinds the grain,

And sings a melancholy strain;

O listen! for the Vale profound

Is overflowing with the sound.'

The rhyming scheme in the first stanza of 'The Solitary Reaper' above is

• A. abcbddee
• B. ababccdd
• C. abcabcdd
• D. abcbddef