The repetition of the same vowel sounds in a line is

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

Section B: NON AFRICAN DRAMA

LORRAINE HANSBERRY - A Raisin In The Sun

Discuss the living conditions of the Younger family.

The climax in a literary work is the_____________

• A. Middle
• B. Beginning
• C. Central part of the dialogue
• D. Peak of the conflict

A short introductory speech delivered as part of a play is called

• A. a preamble
• B. a prologue
• C. an introduction
• D. an epilogue

This question is based on the Literary Appreciation

'Loveliest of trees the cherry now is hung with bloom along the bough and stands out the woodland ride Wearing While for Easter tide

A.E Housman Loveliest of Trees the Cherry Tree.

In the excerpt above, the subject matter is

• A. love of trees
• B. cherry bloom
• C. snow at easter
• D. woodland tide

''Life is an empty dream'' illustrates the use of

• A. synecdoche
• B. peripeteia
• C. litotes
• D. allusion

RALPH ELLISON: Invisible Man

Examine the narrator's experiences at the eviction.

This question is based on Literary Principles

'History's stammerer when will your memory master the vowels of your father's name?

Niyi Osundare: Waiting Laughter's

The literary device used in the excerpt above is

• A. apostrophe
• B. rhetorical question
• C. pun
• D. run-on-line

This question is based on selected poems from R. Johnson and D. Ker et al (eds.): New poetry from Africa;Wole Soyinka (ed.): Poems of Black Africa; K.E. Senanu and T. Vincent (eds.): A Selection of African poetry; M. Umukoro and A Sani et al (eds.): Exam Focus: Literature in English; A.E. Eruvbetine and M. Jibril et al (eds.): Longman Examination Guides: Poetry and E.W. Parker (ed.): A Pageant of Longer Poems.

'... It is not yet dawn

And we wake from one nightmara

To another.'

• A. terrifying dream
• B. seemingly endless night
• C. vicious cycle of oppression
• D. persona's experience

Read the extract and answer the question

You arethree men of sin, whom Destiny -

That hath to instrument this lower world

And what is in't - the never-surfeited sea

Hath caused to belch up you; and on this island,

Where man doth not inhabit - you 'mongst men

Being most unfit to live.

(Act 111, scene three lines 53-58)

A character in the scene whom Prospero admires is

• A. Ferdinand
• B. Gonzalo
• C. Adrian
• D. Francisco