'Everything in this room outrages my sense of beauty, undermine my will to create pictures of lasting appeal...'

The speaker in the quotation above is

• A. Happy
• B. Excited
• C. Tired
• D. Frustrated

This question is based on selected poems from D. Ker, C. Maduka 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 and E.W. Parker (ed.): A Pageant of Longer Poems.

''They too are the earth

Under snakeskin shoes and Mercedez tyres'.

Niyi Osundare uses the lines above to describe the

• A. material for the shoes of the poor
• B. repulsive snakeskin-like bodies of the poor
• C. hope of the oppressed for a better life
• D. oppression of the dispossessed

Lines and stanzas are to poetry as action and dialogue are to

• A. music
• B. prose
• C. fiction
• D. drama

Use the extract below to answer questions

Line 1: My heart leaps up when I behold

Line 2: A rainbow in the sky

Line 3: so was it when my life began

Line 4: so is it now

Line 5: so is it when I have grown

Line 6: the child is the father of the man.

The mood of the writer is that of _____?

• A. Elation
• B. Sarcasm
• C. Sorrow
• D. Anxiety

This question is based on Literary Appreciation.

The old man slept in his favorite chair

The wind ran its fingers through his hair

He looked like a tree gone dry of sap

And his hands were dry upon his lap

The rhyme scheme of the poet above is

• A. bbaa
• B. aabb
• C. abab
• D. baba

AFRICAN POETRY

Examine the changes in the persona's in "Expelled"

Something a character says on stage that is meant for the audience alone is

• A. an epilogue
• B. a mine
• C. a soliloguy
• D. an aside

This question is based on Literary Appreciation

'You are the cold nests

In which the migrant bird lays no eggs.'

Kittobbe: To the Childless

The device used in the excerpt above is

• A. synecdoche
• B. imagery
• C. metaphor
• D. irony

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: Hamlet

Read the extract and answer the question

Your leave and favour to return to France;

From whence though willingly I came to Denmark,

To show my duty in your coronation.

Yet now, I must confess, that duty done.

My thoughts and wishes bend again toward France

And bow them to your gracious leave and pardon.

(Act 1, Scene two, Lines 51 -57)

The other character present at the scene is

• A. Rosencrantz
• B. Ophella
• C. Guildenstern
• D. Polonius

A mountain of fufu was placed before the hungry visitors. The device used above is

• A. hyperbole
• B. euphemism
• C. alliteration
• D. assonance