UNSEEN PROSE AND POETRY

The month of July crept in. The sky, like a hooded monk wore black, as in mourning, ready to shed its load. The sun was mystified while heaps of sand and dust spiralled high up in the sky, sendinghigh and low alike scurrying into hiding. The town had never known such a downpour, it was forty-eight hours of weeping by both the heavens and the inhabitants of Olusi who lost most of their life's savings in this destructive blessing.

...........high and low alike refers to the

• A. rulers of the village
• B. women and their children
• C. chiefs and their subjects
• D. rich and the poor

NON-AFRICAN POETRY

Comment on Frost's use of symbolism in The Road Not Taken.

This question is based on Wole Soyinka's

The Trials of Brother Jero.

Jero is aptly described in the play as

• A. neat
• B. suave
• C. polished
• D. lofty

Read the extract below and answer the following questions

... Man is but an ass if he go about to

expound this dream. Methought I was - there

is no man can tell

what. Methought I was, and methought I had -

but man is

But a patched fool, if he will offer

To say what methought I

had. The eye of man hath not heard, the ear of

man hath not

seen, man's hand is not able to taste, his

tongue to conceive, nor

his heart to report, what my dream was

(Act IV, Scene One, Lines 201 - 207)

It is a state of

• A. deception
• B. ignorance
• C. illusion
• D. innocence

Shakespeare's poetry consists mainly of

• A. quartrain
• B. heroic verse
• C. blank verse
• D. couplet

A situation where an audience is aware of an action a character is ignorant of is ________

• A. dramatic irony
• B. comic relief
• C. aside
• D. satire

Read the poem below and answer the question

Thou art the judge of man

Judging his plans and behaviour

Judging his speech and egotism

You are the patient Judge

Nations plan without having thee in view

They boast of their will

But soon you show them their follies

You are the patient Judge

Tomorrow and Tomorrow, go here and there

Time smiles and laughs

He frowns his face and consults with fate

You are the patient Judge

The poem is about

• A. judgement
• B. fate
• C. time
• D. life

This question is based on General Literary Principles.

A playwright who solves the dilemma of his characters by rescuing them from impossible circumstances using extra human device has employed

• A. deus ex machina
• B. dramatis personae
• C. contrived manipulation
• D. dramatic reversals

SECTION F: NON - AFRICAN PROSE

RICHARD WRIGHT: Native Son

With reference to three symbols, discuss Wright’s use of symbolism in the novel.

This question i based on selected poems from Wole Soyinka (ed.) Poems of Black Africa, E.K. Senanu and T. Vincent (ed.)Selection of African Poetry and E.W. Parker (ed.) A Pageant of Longer Poems.

The persona in the poem 'To the Soldier Hero' by Mazisi Kunene is portrayed as being

• A. blood thirsty
• B. brave
• C. humane
• D. fearful, yet patriotic