Read the extract and answer question

Said the Lion: ''On music I dote

But something is wrong with my throat

When I practice a scale

The listeners quail

And flee at the first note''.

What type of poem is this?

• A. Epic
• B. Limerick
• C. Ode
• D. Sonnet

Answer all the question in this section

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: Othell0

So opposite to marriage that she shunned

The wealthy, curled darlings of our nation,

Run from her guardage to the sooty bosom

Of such a thing as thou to fear, not to delight?

(Act 1, Scene Two, Lines 66 - 70)

The speaker is

• A. Othello
• B. Duke
• C. Brabantio
• D. lago

'I don't fancy forbidden fruits of fashions and fads'' illustrates

• A. refrain
• B. repetition
• C. assonance
• D. alliteration

Pick the odd item

• A. tragedy
• B. comedy
• C. stanza
• D. farce

This question is based on Literary Appreciation

'It was not the apple that tempted Eve, but this grapefruit; thus did maren revise the tale of Paradise Lost, and even Chris, shocked as he was at such blasphemy,confessed himself tempted to agree whenever maren returned from raiding the Principal's compound, with a shirtful of booty to share, especially on a hot afternoon.'

Wole Soyinka: Ibadan: The Penkelemes Years, A Memoir

The passage above achieves a mock-heroic effect through t

• A. meiosis
• B. epigram
• C. allusion
• D. symbolism

A dead metaphor is

• A. overused and ineffective
• B. implied and not funny
• C. implied and underused
• D. overused and funny

This question is based on general Literary principles

The large space above the proscenium in a theater from which the scene are controlled is called

• A. aside
• B. achronism
• C. flies
• D. setting

This question is based on General Literary Principles.

Oxymoron is the use of two contrasting words that are

• A. placed far apart
• B. different in meaning
• C. placed side by side
• D. similar in meaning

Read the extract and answer the question

Work on,

My medicine work! Thus credulous fools are caught,

And many worthy and chaste dames even thus,

All guiltless, meet reproach. What ho! My lord!

My lord, I say!

(Act IV, Scene One, Lines 45 - 49)

Just before this speech,

• A. Othello falls into a trance
• B. Bianca flings a handkerchief at Cassio
• C. Montano fights with Cassio
• D. Roderigo is killed

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; Nwoga, D.I.(ed.); West Africa Verse and Adeoti G.: Naked Soles

The first stanza of Eliot's The Journey of the Magi depicts the

• A. increment of fortune for the pilgrims
• B. blind acceptance of faith
• C. hazards of the journey
• D. journey as an influential factor