WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: Twelfth Night.

Read the extract below and answer the question

O that I served that lady,

And might not be delivered to the world

Till I had made mine own occasion mellow,

What my estate is!

(Act 1 Sc. 11)

The word ''delivered'' in line 2 means

• A. condemned
• B. sent away
• C. made known
• D. forgotten

This question is based on Frank Ogodo Ogbeche's Harvest of Corruption.

Aloho is employed as Chief's

• A. Personal Assistant
• B. Protocol Officer
• C. Legal Adviser
• D. Secretary

A short account of an interesting event is ________

• A. a tale.
• B. an anecdote
• C. an episode.
• D. a story

Read the extract and answer the question

Y : Do you know me, my lord?

Z : Excellent well;you are a fishmonger

Y : Not I, my lord.

Z : Then I would you were so honest a man.

Y : Honest, my lord!

Z : Ay, sir; to be honest, as this world goes. Is to be one man picked out of ten thousand.

(Act Two, Scene II, lines 173-179)

The underlined statement illustrates

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

''The cell is a cruel place; sometimes a haven'', illustrates the use of

• A. paradox
• B. sarcasm
• C. anti-climax
• D. personification

This question is based on General Literary Principles.

An action in a play that stimulates the audience to pity a character is

• A. pathos
• B. parody
• C. pyrrhic
• D. props

This question is based on Zaynab Alkali's The Stillborn.

Like many other characters of her type, Li in the novel, is able to attain progress through her

• A. prayers to God
• B. criticism of the system
• C. optimistic attitude
• D. dedication to duty

SECTION B (NON-AFRICAN DRAMA) AUGUST, WILSON: Fences

Comment on the appropriateness of the title, Fences.

This question is based on zaynab Alkali's The Stillborn.

Li got more accustomed to her home because she

• A. grew a little more religious
• B. had greater hold on her stern father
• C. found greater solace in an outside relationship
• D. became closer to tradition

UNSEEN PROSE AND POETRY

Read the poem below and answer the question

Now, Joy is born of parents poor,

And Pleasure of our richer kind;

Though Pleasure's free, she cannot sing

As sweet a song as Joy confined.

Pleasure's a moth, that sleeps by day

And dances by false glare at night;

But joy's a Butterfly, that loves

To spread its wings in Nature's light.

''Pleasure's moth'' is an example of a (n)

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