This question is based on selected poems from R. Johnson and D. Ker 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.

Gray's 'Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard' is a

• A. lamentation over a dead friend
• B. lamentation over the passing of life
• C. reflection on the passing of life
• D. reflection on nature

In Lenrie's 'The Panic of Growing Older', another significant theme therein is on the___________

• A. fear of natural disasters
• B. uncertainties of life
• C. futility of war
• D. essence of mankind and nature

A short play performed between the acts of a bigger play for entertainment is

• A. an in media res
• B. an interlude
• C. an incantation
• D. a deux ex machina

A dead metaphor is one that is

• A. overused and ineffective
• B. extended in meaning
• C. implied
• D. mixed

Based on Femi Osofisan's Morountodun.

The re-enactment of the Moremi legend in the play can be described as

• A. dramatic epilogue
• B. dramatic monologue
• C. role-playing
• D. flashback

An expression from which one derives a mental picture is

• A. paradox
• B. exaggeration
• C. imagery
• D. photography

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

''My heart thus pressing-fix'd my face and eye-with a sententious look, that nothing means...'In the lines above, the speaker implies that

• A. his gesture means nothing
• B. he is a pious man
• C. he is being sentimental
• D. his heart is pressing against his face and eye

Pick the odd item from the options listed below.

• A. Romance
• B. Novel
• C. Short Story
• D. Sonnet

These questions are based on General Literary Principles.

Both comedy and tragedy have

• A. climax
• B. tragic hero
• C. stanza
• D. happy ending

Othello: So please your grace, my ancient;

A man he is of honesty and trust

To his conveyance i assign my wife

Grace shall think

To be sent after me

(Act 1, Scene Three, Lines 279-283)

Othello is speaking to_____________

• A. Brabantio
• B. Duke
• C. Montano
• D. Roderigo