Diction is a writer's choice of___________-

• A. Style
• B. Syntax
• C. Rhythm
• D. Words

The speech is about ________

• A. Brabantio's complaint about Othello.
• B. Othello's loss of his handkerchief
• C. Brabantio's loss of his daughter
• D. the fight between Cassio and Roderigo

'But such a tide as moving seems asleep. Too full for sound and foam.

When that which drew from out the boundless deep. Turns again home.'

The rhyme scheme in the excerpt above from Tennyson's crossing the Bar is

• A. abac
• B. abba
• C. abab
• D. abcb

Read the extract below and answer the question

.......'twere damnation

To think so basealthough; it were too gross

To rib her cerecloth in the obscure grave; ?

Or shall I think in silver she's immured;

Being ten times undervalued to tried gold?

(Act 11 scene seven, lines 49 - 53)

''Though'' in the extract implies

• A. meditating on his love
• B. associating the portrait with lead
• C. challenging rival suitors
• D. reflecting on his fate

These question is based on Literary Appreciation.

Busy old fool

Unruly sun

Why dost thou thus

Through windows

And through curtains

Call on us?

J. Donne: The Sun Rising

The figure of speech involved in the lines above is

• A. epigram
• B. pun
• C. simile
• D. personification

Read the extract and answer the question

If thou hast any sound, or use of voice,

Speak to me;

That may be any good thing to be grace to me,

Speak to me;

If thou art privy to thy country's fate,

Which, happily, foreknowing may avoid,

O, speak!

Or if thou has uphoarded in thy life

Extorted treasure in the womb of earth,

For which, they say, you spirits oft walk in death

Speak of it:

(Act 1 scene one, lines 129-139)

The speaker is

• A. Hamlet
• B. Mercellus
• C. Horatio
• D. Claudius

AFRICAN DRAMA

KOBINA SEKYI: The Blinkards.

Comment on the comportment of the cosmopolitan club members

SECTION E - African Prose

BAYO ADEBOWALE: Lonely Days

Discuss Yaremi’s marriage in the novel.

A symbolic representation of ideas, actions and situations in a work of art is a/an

• A. fable
• B. allegory
• C. romance
• D. parody

The clash of interest that originates from opposing forces in literature is

• A. climax
• B. denouement
• C. conflict
• D. aside