Based on William Shakespeare's The Tempest, Before the shipwreck that occurred at the beginning of the play, Prospero and his daughter lived in the island for

• A. eighteen months
• B. two decades
• C. twelve years
• D. fourty days

SECTION D (NON-AFRICAN POETRY)

Consider the use of alliteration, assonance and repetition in the poem 'Binsey Poplars'

This question is based on General Literary Principles.

When words or phrases in either poetry or prose rise and fall measuredly, it is said that they

• A. have a regular rhythm
• B. rhyme
• C. are accented and unaccented
• D. are well structured

Read the poem and answer the question

Sleep, O sleep

With thy Rod of Incantation

Charm my Imagination,

Then, only then, I cease to weep

By thy power,

The virgin, by Time O' ertaken,

For Years forlorn, forsaken,

Enjoys the happy Hour.

What's to sleep?

'Tis a visionary Blessing;

A dream that's past expressing;

Our utmost Wish possessing;

So may I always keep.

The dominant device used in the first line is

• A. Oxymoron
• B. apostrophe
• C. rhyme
• D. metaphor

Yet, let me flap this bug with gilded wings,

This painted child of dirt, that stinks and stings

The lines illustrates________

• A. Blank Verse
• B. End ryhme
• C. Internal rhyme
• D. Free Verse

This question is based on selection poem from Johnson, R. et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa; Soyinka, W.. (ed.):Poems of Black African; Senanu, K.E. and Vincent, T. (eds.):A Selection of African Poetry; Maduka, C.T. et al: Exam Focus: Literature in English; Eruvbetine, A.E. et al (eds.): Longman Examination Guides and Nwoga, D. I. (ed.):West African Verse

The person in Houseman's To an Athlate Dying Young addressed the dead athlete using

• A. monologue
• B. apostrophe
• C. dialogue
• D. admonition

These questions are based on Buchi Emecheta's The Joy of Motherhood.

In the novel Nwokocha Agbadi is famous for his oratorical power and

• A. height
• B. illiteracy
• C. wealth
• D. treachery

SECTION A: African Drama

DELE CHARLEY: The Blood of aStranger

Examine the theme of deceit and intrigue in the drama.

UNSEEN PROSE AND POETRY

Read the passage and answer the question

Here in the station, it is in no way different save that the city is busy in its snow. But the old men cling to their seats as though they were symbolic and could not be given up. Now and then they sleep, their grey old heads resting with painful awkwardnesson the backs of the benches. Also, they are not at rest. For an hour, they may sleep in thegasping exhaustion of the ill-nourished and aged, who have to walk in the night. Then, a policeman comes by on his round and nudges them upright. ''You can't sleep here'', he growls. A strange ritual then begins. An old man is difficult to wake. One man after a slight lurch does not move at all, he sleeps on steadily. Once in a while, one of the sleepers will not wake; he will have had his wish to die in the greatdroning centre of thehive rather than in some loney room fulfilled.

''....on the backs of the benches'' illustrates

• A. synecdoche
• B. epithet
• C. assonance
• D. personification

This question is based on General Literary Principles.

In drama, the term climax is used

• A. as a figure of speech connoting beauty
• B. for the point of highest dramatic tension
• C. when the crisis in the play is resolved
• D. when the hero's tragic flaw is revealed