This question is based on General Literary Appreciation.

Fights by the book of arithmetic

The figure of speech in the line above is

• A. hyperbole
• B. euphemism
• C. litotes
• D. innuendo

Read the extract below and answer the question

I am sorry thou wilt leave my father so

Our house is hell, and thou a merry devil

Didst rob it of some taste of tediousness

But fare thee well: there is a ducat for thee

(Act 11, sc lll)

The speaker is

• A. Jessica
• B. Servingman
• C. Nerissa
• D. Portia

The, thyme pattern is ______

• A. abc abc
• B. aa bb cc
• C. ab ab cc
• D. aa bc bc

This question is based on Amma Darko's Facesless.

The street phenomenon in the novel is a universal theme because

• A. It only occurs in Ghana
• B. It could be found only in Africa
• C. It is common to almost all nations of the world
• D. the novel is read in all parts of the world

Read the poem and answer questions 13 to 15.

Here she lies, a pretty bud,

Lately made of flesh and blood;

Who as soon fell fast asleep

As her little eyes did peep.

Give her strewings, but not stir

The earth that lightly covers her.

The poem is about a/an ___________

• A. flower
• B. old woman
• C. little child
• D. traveller

Read the passage below and answer the question

Stella had to do her midweek shopping. There were four people before her in the queue. She watched the blond at the counter striking feverishly away at the numbers on the cold, light-flickering machine. There seemed to be a raging war between two mechanical contraptions, one, robot-like and the other stationary, but able to respond to the extent of punching, by sharp flickers of red light. It was an all consuming battle,as a swift hand positioned the price label of the ceaseless flow of item on the coneyor belt and the right delivered the punches. The intending owners were more unnoticed onlookers. Anyway, there is a belated recognition of them in ''thank you, call again balance sheet. '' It's all so mechanical, she thought. I mean, any creature-baboon, extraterrestial being or anything - could as well receive the same treatment as long as the conditions are met- ''bring to the counter, labelled items from the shelves.''Where is the human touch? She wondered.

The narrative technique used in the passage is

• A. omniscient
• B. third person
• C. flashback
• D. first person

This question is based on Selected Poems from Johnson, R et al(eds): New Poetry from Africa; Soyinka,(ed); Poems of Black Africa; Senanu, K.E, and Vincent, T.(ed): A Selection of African Poetry; Gbemisola A.: Naked Soles; Hayward, J.(ed.); The Penguin Book of English Verse and Nwoga, D.(ed): West African verse.

... goodness lead him not, yet weariness May toss him to my breast'

The literary device in the extract above from Herbert's The Pulley is

• A. metonymy
• B. personification
• C. oxymoron
• D. irony

Read the extract below and answer question

X: I pray thee, gentle mortal, sing again;

Mine ear is much enamoured of thy note;

So is mine eye enthralled to thy shape;

And thy fair virtue's force perforce doth move me

On the first view, to say, to swear, I love thee.

Y: Methinks, mistress, you should have little reason for that: ...

(Act llI, Scene One, Lines 116-121)

Speaker X has just

• A. escaped from the city
• B. fallen into a world of dreams
• C. woken up from an induced sleep
• D. abandoned a loved one

This question is based on J.P Clark's The Wives' Revolt

The tradition of Erhuwaren endorses

• A. polyarchy
• B. anarchy
• C. matriarchy
• D. patriarchy

This question is based on General Literary Principles.

'I love to pass my fingers,

As tide through weeds of the sea

And wind the tall fern-fronds

Through the strands of your hair

Dark as night that screens the naked moon.'

J.P. Clark, 'Olokun'

The dominant poetic techniques employed in the lines above is

• A. metaphor
• B. alliteration
• C. rhythm
• D. simile