This question is based on the Literary Appreciation

If God is the sole author of man's life and all that befall him on earth, does it not stand to reason that all evils that befall man are God sanctioned?

If man generally turns to God to ball him out of evil or bad occurrences, is one wrong then to conclude that He allows evils to befall man to bring him back to Him?

The literary style used in the passage above is

• A. discursive
• B. rhetorical
• C. accusative
• D. interrogative

'I am informed the day recycles itself today

when I slept in the Lord in February

I blame no one for an untimely death

I bless Good for a noble departure-His words

The lord taketh the righteous away before evil days

The lines above express

• A. anniversary
• B. procreation
• C. incarnation
• D. resurrection

I shall booze and zoom contains a device called

• A. alliteration
• B. imagery
• C. onomatopoeia
• D. hyperbole

Comment on Birches as a descriptive poem

This question is based on Camara Laye's The African Child.

Laye's first-person narrative techinique

• A. makes the work very humorous
• B. makes his work less realistic
• C. quickens the tempo of his narrative
• D. makes his story more believable

Read the extract below and answer this question. Thepattering rain was kicking up little

explosions of dust in the glade.He heard the

faint whisper of the stream as it stole across

the land and disappeared into the bush.

The figure of speech underlined in line 1 is

• A. assonance
• B. consonance
• C. onomatopoeia
• D. alliteration

This question is based on Thomas Hardy's Tess of the d'Urbervilles.

Angel Clare is depicted as

• A. a rebellious and self-opinionated character
• B. an independent-minded character
• C. a fastidious and garrulous character
• D. a flirtatious and impulsive young man

This question is based on Thomas Hardy's The Mayor of Casterbridge.

What is represented by the characters of Henchard and Farfrae in the novel is the

• A. contrast between the old and the new
• B. conflict between belief and unbelief
• C. conflict between a tragic and a comic hero
• D. conflict between foolhardiness and kindness

A writer's choice of words is his

• A. diction
• B. mood
• C. tone
• D. setting

Section A: AFRICAN DRAMA

HARVEST OF CORRUPTION - FRANK OGODO OGBECHE

Consider Aloho as a foil to Ogeyi.