This question is based on General Literary Principles.

Satirical writing employs

• A. synechdoche
• B. irony
• C. onomatipoeia
• D. epigram

'The fair breeze blew

The white foam flew

The furrow followed free

We were the first that ever burst into that silent sea.'

The dominant figure of speech in the above passage is

• A. repetition
• B. alliteration
• C. paradox
• D. rhyme scheme

The pauper in Richard Ntiru's poem of that title is

• A. hungry,lonely and sad
• B. lonely, dirty but happy
• C. dirty, hungry and terrified
• D. hungry,lonely and diseased

Read the poem and answer the question

I'm going soldering:

Mad the rhythm runs

With drumming and with trumpeting

And glory of the guns.

I've come home again:

I know that blood is red;

I know how sodden falls the rain

Where flesh lies dead.

The rhyme scheme in the first stanza is

• A. aabb
• B. abab
• C. abbaa
• D. aabc

Read the poem and answer the question

We have come to the crossroads

And I must either leave or come with you

I lingered over the choice

But in the darkness of my doubts

You lifted the lamp of love

And I saw in your face

The road that I should take.

The dominant literary device used in the poem is

• A. paradox
• B. parody
• C. metaphor
• D. oxymoron

These question are based on selected poems from Johnson, R. 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: Exam Focus: Literature in English; Eruvbetine, A.E. et al (eds.): Longman Examination Guides: Poetry for Senior Secondray Schools NWOGA, d.i. (ED.) West African Verse.

Jared Angira is an African Poet from

• A. Ghana
• B. Sierra-Leone
• C. Kenya
• D. South Africa

This question is based on Literary Appreciation

'The old Squire was an implacable man: he made resolutions in violent anger, but he was not moved from them after his anger subsided as fiery as volcanic matters cool and harden into rock

George Eliot, Silas Marner

In the statement above, the Squire is portrayed as a

• A. kind and generous friend
• B. father to everyone in the community
• C. miserly and ungracious ruler
• D. quick tempered and adamant man

The major distinctive feature of drama is

• A. dialogue
• B. setting
• C. epilogue
• D. plot

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 repetition of the line 'They Too Are Earth' has the effect of

• A. making us more conscious of the earth
• B. beautifying the experience the poem describes
• C. accusing us of human insensitivity
• D. enhancing the imagery of the poem

This question is based on General Literary Principles and Appreciation.

'Here lies a great and mighty king

Whose promise none relies on

He never said a foolish thing

Not ever did a wise one'.

The lines above could best from an

• A. epistle
• B. episode
• C. epiphany
• D. epitaph