This question is based on selected poems from Wole Soyinka (ed) Poems of Black Africa and D.I. Nwoga (ed) West African Verse.

'You just wait, I'll tell you more

But let me first sell my tomatoes'.

These two lines from Theo Luzuka's 'The Motoka' reveal the poet's true state of

• A. delight
• B. reality
• C. fear
• D. dream

UNSEEN PROSE AND POETRY

Read the poem and answer the question

What a morning!

The sound of guns was everywhere

The city was trapped,

I heave a mournful sigh- Rebels!

Boom Boom Boom!

The heart pants at the sound of the blast

Lord! When will all this end?

This is the fourth day.

You say you are free

Oh no, you are not

You are trapped-

A prisoner in your own home.

The song is everywhere.

What next?

Food - water - a hiding place

Far from the sound of the gun.

''Boom Boom Boom'' is an example of

• A. symbols
• B. onomatopoeia
• C. metonymy
• D. allusion

The most exciting and tense part of a story is the

• A. epilogue
• B. climax
• C. prologue
• D. exposition

This question is based on selected poems from D. Ker, C. Maduka et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa, Wole Soyinka (ed.): Poems of Black Africa, K.E. Senanu and T. Vincent (eds.): A Selection of African Poetry and E.W. Parker (ed.): A Pageant of Longer Poems.

'I cannot rest from travel; I will drink life to the lees.'The lines above from Tennyson's 'Ulysses' reveal the persona as

• A. adventurous
• B. drunken
• C. lively
• D. restive

This question is based on selected poems from Ker,D. et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa; Soyinka,(ed.): Poems of Black Africa; 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. (eds.): West Africa Verse.

'Woman cannot exist except by man

What is there in that to vex some of them so?

The statement above from the poem Give Me The Minstrel's Seat.exemplifies

• A. litotes
• B. transferred epithet
• C. synechdoche
• D. rhetorical question

Mock-heroic poetry elevates

• A. the important tales of heroes of the past era
• B. trivial subject-matter by using the style of the classical epic
• C. the stripping off of appearances in a witty manner
• D. the beauty in human relationships as exemplified in Homer

This question is based on Ernest Hermingway's The Old Man and the Sea

The character 'boy' is used alongside 'the old Man' in the novel to demonstrate.

• A. the humiliation that is in old age
• B. man's refudeal to grow old
• C. different types of characters in the story
• D. the failing productivity that accompanies old age

Read the extract below and answer the question

A : How dost thou like this tune?

B : It gives a very echo to the seat

Where Love is throned

A : Thou dost speak masterly

My life upon't , young though thou art, thine eye

Hath stayed upon some favour that it loves;

Hath is not, boy?

B : A little, by your favour (Act ll Scene 4)

Speaker A is

• A. Sir Toby
• B. Sir Andrew
• C. Duke Orsino
• D. Countess Olivia

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: Hamlet

Read the extract below and answer the question

If thou hast any sound, or use of voice,

Speak to me;

If there be any good thing to be done,

That may to thee do ease and grace to me,

Speak to me:

If thou art privy to the 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 One, Scene I, lines 128 - 139)

The speaker's mood is

• A. anger
• B. regret
• C. anxiety
• D. disappointment

These questions are based on William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet.

Romeo is banished to Mantua because he

• A. marries Juliet without parental consent
• B. attends Capulet's party uninvited
• C. attempts to kill Paris his rival
• D. kills Tybalt in a street duel