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.

The disenchantment in Kofi Awoonor's 'Songs of Sorrow' is best explained by the

• A. lamentation of the death of a friend
• B. alienation of Africans
• C. discussion of the sad events that afflict Africa
• D. loneliness of the person in the wilderness.

This question is based on General Literary Principles and Appreciation.

'A great city is a battlefield...You need to be a fighter to live in it, not exist, mark you, live. Anybody can exist, dragging his soul around behind him like a worn-out coat; but living is different' 'To Sir with Love' by E.R. Braithwaite

The literary device predominantly used in this passage is

• A. simile
• B. oxymoron
• C. symbolism
• D. sarcasm

Read the extract and answer the question

My heart leaps up when I behold

A rainbow in the sky:

So was it when my life began,

So is it now that I am a man,

So be it when I shall grow

The child is father of the man

The subject of the extract is

• A. childishness
• B. the adverse effects of the rainbow on man
• C. the unchanging cycle of nature
• D. the adverse effects of old age

Read the poem and answer the question

Move him into the sun

Gently its touch awoke him once,

At home, whispering of fields unsown

Always it woke him even in France

Until this morning and this snow

If anything might rouse him now

This kind old sun will know

Think how it wakes the seeds

Woke,once, the clays of a cold star

Are limbs, so dear achieved, are sides,

Full-nerved still warm too hard to stir?

Was it for this the clay grew tall?

O what made fatuous sunbeams toil

To break earth's sleep at all?

The mood in the last two lines is one of

• A. surprise
• B. lament
• C. uncertainty
• D. indifference

In The Flight to Australia', the following line occurs: 'Tier upon tier it towered, the terrible Apennines'. The figure of speech used in this line is known as

• A. alliteration
• B. litotes
• C. exaggeration
• D. parody

The paragraph in prose can be compared to _ in poetry

• A. couplet
• B. line
• C. stanza
• D. verse

This question is based on Amma Darko's Facesless.

The street phenomenon in the novel is a universal theme because

• A. It only occurs in Ghana
• B. It could be found only in Africa
• C. It is common to almost all nations of the world
• D. the novel is read in all parts of the world

An inscription on a tombstone is an

• A. epitaph
• B. epistle
• C. epigram
• D. ode

NON AFRICAN DRAMA

OLIVER GOLDSMITH: She Stoops to Conquer

Assess the character of Mrs. Hardcastle in the play.

This question is based on Ferdinand Oyono's

• A. disillusion with the whites
• B. satisfaction with the medal
• C. contribution to the colonialists
• D. admiration for the church