This question is based on General Literature Principles and Literary Appreciation.

'His mind was crowded with memories; memories of the knowledge that had come to them when they closed in on the struggling pig, knowledge that they had outwitted a living thing, imposed their will upon it, taken away its life like a long satisfying drink,' Lord of the Flies by William Golding.

The dominant device in this extract is

• A. progressive repetition
• B. progressive amplification
• C. bold contrast
• D. rhyetorical emphasis

This question is based on Literary Appreciation.

Will no one tell me what she sings

perhaps the plaintive numbers flow

for old, unhappy, far off things

And battles long ago.

Or is it some more humble lay,

Familiar matter of today?

The lines above end in a literary device known as

• A. Irony
• B. conceit
• C. transferred epithet
• D. rhetorical question

A device used by a writer to recall past event in a literary work is

• A. anti-climax
• B. interlude
• C. flashback
• D. foreshadowing

UNSEEN PROSE AND POETRY

Read the poem and answer the question

I wonder how long, you awful parasite

Shall share me this little bed,

And make me, from sweet dreams be lost

By sucking blood from my poor head.

I should but say man has much

Blood, which you and your families do feed

on; for supper, dinner, and lunch,

And besides, you do in my bed breed.

Clever thou art, tiny creature;

You attend me when I am deep asleep;

When thou art sure, I cant you capture,

Just as the time I snore deep.

''Tis so strange that before twilight,

The bed clear of you would seem;

For not one you is in my sight

As if your presence was in a dream.

The poem is generally made up of

• A. rhyming couplets
• B. heroic couplets
• C. end-stopped lines
• D. run-on lines

An understatement is otherwise called

• A. litotes
• B. conceit
• C. pun
• D. contrast

A formal dignified speech or writing praising or a thing for past or present deeds is

• A. lampoon
• B. eulogy
• C. premiere
• D. anthology

This question is based on General Literary Principles.

A novel which depicts the adventures of the main character who is usually something of a rogue is a

• A. comedy
• B. fable
• C. prose
• D. picaresque

These question are based on literary Appreciation.

'In those days

When civilization kicked us in the face

When holy water slapped our cringing brows. The vulture built in the shadow of their talons.'

David Diop: The vulture

The dominant literary device used in the lines above is

• A. pun
• B. personification
• C. simile
• D. metaphor

NON - AFRICAN DRAMA

BERNARD SHAW: Arms and the Man

Comment on the significance of the battle at Slivnitza.

Read the extract and answer the question

Thrift, thrift,....! the funeral baked meats

Did coldly furnish forth the marriage tables.

Would I had seen that day,.....!

My father! _ Me thinks I see my father.

(Act 1, Scene Two, Lines 180-184)

''The primrose path of dalliance'' means

• A. a religious life
• B. a reckless life
• C. the way to heaven
• D. the way to hell