This question is based on Ayi Kwei Armah's 'The Beautiful Ones Are Not Yet Born.'

The main significance of the fire in the novel is to

• A. provide warmth
• B. roast meat
• C. provide warning
• D. provide signal

UNSEEN PROSE AND POETRY

Read the passage below and answer the question

The fact was that, no sooner had the sickles began o play than, the

atmosphere suddenly felt as if cress would grow in it without other

nourishment. it rubbed people's cheeks like damp flannel when they

walked abroad: There was a gusty, high warm wind: isolated raindrops atarred the window-panes at remote distancees; the sunlight

would flap out like a quickly opened fan, throw the pattern of the window

upon the floor of the room in a milky, colourless shine, and withdraw as suddenly as it had passed.

The passage deals with

• A. metaphor
• B. simile
• C. oxymoron
• D. hyperbole

This question is based on Thomas Hardy's The Mayor of Casterbridge.

Characterization in the novel is designed to show that man's fate is determined by

• A. his character
• B. forces beyond him
• C. his social background
• D. his community

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 bard is a

• A. novelist
• B. playwright
• C. poet
• D. narrator

A recurrent image in a literary work that illustrates theme is

• A. symbol
• B. dramatic irony
• C. motif
• D. pathetic fallacy

This question is based on selected poems from Johnson, R. et all (eds.): New Poetry from Africa; Soyinka, W. (ed.):Poems of Black Africa; Senanu, K.E. and Vincent, T. (eds.): A Selection of African Poetry; Maduka C.T et al: Exam Focus: Literature in English; Eruvbetine, A.E et al (eds)_: Longman Examination Guides: Nwoga, D.I. (ed.): West African Verse and Adeoti G.: Neked Soles.

The attitude of the poet-persona to bats, in Lawrence's Bat is one of

• A. satisfaction
• B. reverence
• C. harted
• D. repulsion

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: A Midsummer Night's Dream

Read the extract below and answer the question:

Lysander riddles very prettily;

Now much beshrew my manners and my pride, If Hermia meant to say Lysander lied.

But, gentle friend, for love and courtesy Lie further off, in human modesty;

Such separation as may well be said

Becomes a virtuous bachelor and a maid;

So far be distant, and good night, sweet friend: Thy love ne'er alter, till thy sweet life end!

• A. Oberon's place
• B. the woods
• C. the Queen's palace
• D. Theseus' palace

Read the poem and answer the question

Move him into the sun

Gently its touch awoke him once,

At home, whispering of fields unsown

Always it woke him even in France

Until this morning and this snow

If anything might rouse him now

This kind old sun will know

Think how it wakes the seeds

Woke,once, the clays of a cold star

Are limbs, so dear achieved, are sides,

Full-nerved still warm too hard to stir?

Was it for this the clay grew tall?

O what made fatuous sunbeams toil

To break earth's sleep at all?

The poem is a/an

• A. elegy
• B. epic
• C. sonnet
• D. lyric

Fletcher's Upon An Honest Man's Fortune achieves its lyrical effect through the use of

• A. Synecdoche
• B. Antithesis
• C. enjambment
• D. Ballad

A pause within a line of a poem is a

• A. zeugma
• B. foot
• C. caesura
• D. stress