This question is based on selected poems from Ker, D. et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa; Soyinka, W. (ed.): Poems of Black African; Senanu, K.E. and Vincent, T.(ds.): A Selection of African Poetry; Umukoro, M. et al (eds.); Exam Focus: Literature-in-English; Eruvbetine, A.E. et al (eds.) Longman Examination Guides and Nwoga, D.I. (ed.):West African Verse

The tone of Ofeimun's We Must Learn Again to Fly is that

• A. encouragement
• B. discouragement
• C. disappointment
• D. enthusiasm

Poison ivy came up like a rose

in red and thorny garb

I look, liked and did dare touch

my pals my avid touch espied

with green and frosty eyes

I should've only looked, and not leapt,

For away and over my rising moon she flew

On clipped wings of my dream

Now a song-filled air pocket of serenades

A love's wretch, my dream is a hornbill

Flightless and tottering.

My dream remains a dream still

Now my dream is a locked-up serenade

The envy of the persona's friends is expressed in the __________

• A. Avid touch
• B. Clipped wings
• C. Green and Frosty eyes
• D. Song-filled air pocket

Read the extract and answer the question

My heart leaps up when I behold

A rainbow in the sky:

So was it when my life began,

So is it now that I am a man,

So be it when I shall grow

The child is father of the man

The rhyme scheme of the poem is

• A. ab cc ac
• B. ac bc ca
• C. ab ca cc
• D. ab ac bc

The use of sound pattern to suggest meaning in poetry is

• A. lyric
• B. lullaby
• C. mimic
• D. rhythm

_ is fundamental to a play or novel.

• A. Mime
• B. Conflict
• C. Flashback
• D. Epilogue

Read the extract below and answer the following question:

(In the Town Hall)

Jonsey: (By himself, centre right, looking sulky) How does anyone keep faith with himself In such an ill-made place?

Bassy, Ba-a-ssy!

Bassy: Here. Anything the matter?

Jonsey: (Moves front stage centre right) Your mayoral hopeful.

• A. narrator
• B. director
• C. producer
• D. character

This question is based on Ola Rotimi's Ovonramwen Nogbaisi.

'...The python, seeking assurance of adulthood, measures his length with the palm tree ...

Who is referred to as the palm tree in these lines?

• A. The chiefs
• B. Ologbosere
• C. The royal wives
• D. The soldiers

Based on General Literary Principles

'The woman whose breast I sucked is gone to the worms, 'Oculi, Orphan'. These lines illustrate the use of

• A. sadism
• B. sophism
• C. satire
• D. euphemism

Read the extract ans answer your question

M : No, as I am a man.

N : There's nothing ill can dwell in such a temple\If the ill spirit have so fair a house,

Good things will strive to dwell with it.

(Act 1, scene two lines 459 - 462)

The other character present is

• A. Alonso
• B. Caliban
• C. Prospero
• D. Antonio

... seest thou this sweet sight?

Her dotage now I do begin to pity;

For meeting her of late behind the wood,

Seeking sweet favours for this hateful fool,

I did upbraid her, and fall out with her.

For she his hairy temples then had rounded

With coronet of fresh and fragrant flowers;

(Act IV, Scene One, Lines 42 - 28)

The speaker is

• A. Egeus
• B. Oberon
• C. Puke
• D. Theseus