This question is based on selected poems from Ker, D. et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa; Soyinka, W. (ed.): Poems of Black African; Senanu, K.E. and Vincent, T.(ds.): A Selection of African Poetry; Umukoro, M. et al (eds.); Exam Focus: Literature-in-English; Eruvbetine, A.E. et al (eds.) Longman Examination Guides and Nwoga, D.I. (ed.):West African Verse

In Cheney-Coker's Myopia, the myopic ones are the

• A. peasants
• B. rulers
• C. poets
• D. traders

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: The Merchant of Venice

Read the extract below and answer the question

Not in love neither? Then let us say you are sad

Because you are not merry; and 'twere as easy

for you to laugh and leap, and say you are merry

Because you are not sad.

(Act 1 sc 1)

The person addressed is

• A. Antonio
• B. Nerissa
• C. Lorenzo
• D. Salarino

SECTION F: NON - AFRICAN PROSE

RICHARD WRIGHT: Native Son

How are the Daltons portrayed in the novel?

In literature, the two components of diction are

• A. sentence construction and punctuation
• B. vocabulary and punctuation
• C. syntax and sentence construction
• D. vocabulary and syntax

UNSEEN PROSE AND POETRY

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Here in the station, it is in no way different save that the city is busy in its snow. But the old men cling to their seats as though they were symbolic and could not be given up. Now and then they sleep, their grey old heads resting with painful awkwardnesson the backs of the benches. Also, they are not at rest. For an hour, they may sleep in thegasping exhaustion of the ill-nourished and aged, who have to walk in the night. Then, a policeman comes by on his round and nudges them upright. ''You can't sleep here'', he growls. A strange ritual then begins. An old man is difficult to wake. One man after a slight lurch does not move at all, he sleeps on steadily. Once in a while, one of the sleepers will not wake; he will have had his wish to die in the greatdroning centre of thehive rather than in some loney room fulfilled.

The passage conveys a mood of

• A. defiance
• B. hope
• C. fear
• D. despair

Oral literature is part of

• A. drama
• B. folklore
• C. poetry
• D. music

If you touch me,I shall smash your face with this bottle

Based on J.C. De Graft's Sons and Daughters,The statement above is made by

• A. Manaan to lawyer B
• B. Manaan to Mrs Bonu
• C. James to Awere
• D. Awere to Aaron

Read the passage and answer the question

world have been Heathcliff's miseries, and I watched and felt each from the beginning.My great thought in living is himself.If all else perished, and he remained, I should still continue to be. And if all else remained, and he wereannihilated, the universe would be turned to a mighty stranger _ is should not seem a part of it.My love for Linton is like the foliage in the woods; time will change it, I'm well aware, as winter changes the trees.My love for Heathcliff resembles the eternal rocks beneath _ as source of little visible delight, but necessary. Nelly, I am Heathcliff!. He's always, always in my mind _ not as a pleasure to myself, but as my own being....

My love for Heathcliff resembles the eternal rocks beneath illustrates

• A. metaphor
• B. allusion
• C. euphemism
• D. simile

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 Vicent, 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.

The mood of Peter's The Panic of Growing Older can be described as

• A. sober
• B. boastful
• C. defiant
• D. languid

This question is based on General Literature Principles and Literary Appreciation. 'I die, yet depart not,

I am bound, yet soar free;

Thou art and thou art not,

And ever shall be!'

'The City of Dreams' by Robert Buchanan. The literary device consciously used in the above extract is

• A. metaphysical conceit
• B. paradox
• C. oxymoron
• D. meiosis