NON-AFRICAN POETRY

Discuss the major regrets of the slain soldier in"Strange Meeting"

Answer all the questions in this section

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: The Tempest

Read the extract and anser the question.

Silence ! One word more

Shall make me chide thee, if not hate thee. What!

An advocate for an impostor! Hush!

(Act 1,Scene Two, lines 478 - 480)

The ''advocate'' and the ''impostor'' are

• A. conspirators
• B. suspicious of each other
• C. enemies
• D. attracted to each other

NON-AFRICAN PROSE: INVISIBLE MAN

Examine the ideology of the Brotherhood in the novel.

This question is based on Wole Soyinka's The Lion and the Jewel.

Which of the following character traits will apply to Lakunle?

• A. Comic and absurd
• B. Stupid and simplistic
• C. Pompous and spontaneous
• D. Decisive and bold

Read the poem below and answer questions 26 to 30.

We wear the mask that grins and lies,

It hides our cheeks and shades our eyes,

This debt we pay to human guile;

With torn and bleeding hearts we smile

And mouths with myriad subtleties,

Why should the world be over-wise,

In counting all our tears and sighs?

Nay, let them only see us, while

We wear the mask.

We smile but O great god, our cries

To thee from tortured souls arise

We sing, but oh the clay is vile

Beneath our feet and long the mile,

But let the world dream otherwise,

We wear the mask!

The poet's tone is

• A. Supplicatory
• B. defiant
• C. conciliatory
• D. compliant

Read the extract below and answer question

X: I pray thee, gentle mortal, sing again;

Mine ear is much enamoured of thy note;

So is mine eye enthralled to thy shape;

And thy fair virtue's force perforce doth move me

On the first view, to say, to swear, I love thee.

Y: Methinks, mistress, you should have little reason for that: ...

(Act llI, Scene One, Lines 116-121)

Speaker Y is a member of

• A. Theseus' retinue
• B. Titania's retinue
• C. the group of actors
• D. the group of lovers

Read the extract below and answer the question.

That age is best which is the first

When youth and blood are warmer

But being spent, the worse, and worst

Times still succeed the former.

A poem of four lines is known as a

• A. sonnet
• B. couplet
• C. sestet
• D. quatrain

Othello: Why, how now, ho? from whence ariseth this?

Are we turned Turks, and to Ourselves do that

Which heaven hath forbid the ottomites?

For Christian shame put by this barbarous brawl!

He hat stirs next to carve for his own rage

Holds his soul light; he dies upon his motion.

Silence the dreadful bell, it frights the isle

From her propriety, What is the matter, masters?

Honest Iago, that looks dead with grieving

Speak, Who began this? On thy love, I charge thee

Iago: I do not know

(Acts II, Scene Three, Lines 155 - 165)

The underlined expression refers to the____________

• A. Intervention of the storm in the war
• B. Return of the victorious army to Cyprus
• C. Killing of Roderigo by Iago
• D. Stabbing of Montano by Cassio

One of the following is a literary device

• A. Sonnet
• B. Ode
• C. Suspense
• D. Lyric

Poison ivy came up like a rose

in red and thorny garb

I look, liked and did dare touch

my pals my avid touch espied

with green and frosty eyes

I should've only looked, and not leapt,

For away and over my rising moon she flew

On clipped wings of my dream

Now a song-filled air pocket of serenades

A love's wretch, my dream is a hornbill

Flightless and tottering.

My dream remains a dream still

Now my dream is a locked-up serenade

Line 2 is in iambic___________

• A. Trimether
• B. Tetrameter
• C. Pentameter
• D. Hexameter