The tragic character is the person whose experiences arouse pity and

• A. sympathy
• B. terror
• C. horror
• D. frustration

In Literature, the term poetic justice applies to __________

• A. a story that ends well
• B. characters that are spared death
• C. the development of a good plot
• D. the rewarding of good characters and the punishing of bad ones.

A poem that describes the simple life of rural people is called ___

• A. elegy
• B. ode
• C. lyrics
• D. pastoral

This question is based on Literary Appreciation.

The body perishes, the heart stays young.

The platter wears away with serving food.

No log retains its bark when old,

No lover is peaceful while the rival weeps.

From the poem above, No lover is peaceful while the rival weeps means that

• A. the pain of one lover is felt by the other
• B. there is no permanent love
• C. there is true and permanent love
• D. the two lovers weep together

This question is based on selected poems from Ker, D. et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa; Soyinka, W. (ed.): Poems of Black Africa; Senanu, K.E. and Vincent, T.(eds.): 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.): Weast African Verse.

In Houseman's To an Athlete Dying Young, the poet sees the death of the young athlete as

• A. belated
• B. permanent
• C. temporary
• D. timely

This question is based on Williams Shakespeare's Twelfth Night.

Valentine:

....But, like a cloistress, she will veiled walk,

And water once a day her chamber round

With eve-offending brine; all this to season...

The imagery above describes

• A. Viola's deep sorrow for her drowned brother
• B. Olivia's deep sorrow over the loss of her brother's love
• C. Viola's grief over a love she cannot show
• D. Olivia's intense grief over the death of her brother

A character in the story who narrates what happens to him or her is

• A. a second person narrator
• B. a first person narrator
• C. an omniscient narrator
• D. a third person narrator

This question is based on Oliver Goldsmith's She Stoops To Conquer.

The success of the play as a comedy relies on the author's use of

• A. dramatic irony
• B. stock comic characters
• C. comic relief
• D. stage and scenic disguise

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.

Brutus'A Troubadour I Traverse is inspired by his struggle against

• A. injustice
• B. capitalism
• C. colonialism
• D. zealotry

This question is based on General Literary Principles

The overall design of a drama to which all other components relate is its

• A. catharsis
• B. exposition
• C. structure
• D. symbol