This book should fill the memory, rule the heart and guide the feet.

The above expression illustrates the use of

• A. repetition
• B. refrain
• C. synecdoche
• D. metaphor

This question is based on Wole Soyinka's The Trials of Brother Jero.

'...This morning alone I have been thrice in conflict with the daughters of discord. First there was...'The omission in the conflict in the above statement from the play refers to

• A. Delila and Jezebel
• B. the girl who goes to swim everyday
• C. the woman chasing the drummer boy
• D. Chume's wife whom he owes money.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: Twelfth Night Read the extract below and answer the question

So please my lord, I might not be admitted;

But from her handmaid to return this answer:

The element itself, till seven years heat,

Shall not behold her face at ample view......

(Act 1 Scene 1)

The report is made to

• A. Olivia
• B. Malvolio
• C. Viola
• D. Orsino

This question is based on Thomas Hardy's The Mayor of Casterbridge.

The statement, 'Time the magician, had wrought much here' is made when

• A. Susan Newson sees Henchard at Casterbridge
• B. Elizabeth-Jane discovers her true father
• C. Farfrae gets married to Elizabeth-Jane
• D. Farfrae becomes the Mayor of Casterbridge

UNSEEN PROSE AND POETRY

Read the poem below and answer the question

Now, Joy is born of parents poor,

And Pleasure of our richer kind;

Though Pleasure's free, she cannot sing

As sweet a song as Joy confined.

Pleasure's a moth, that sleeps by day

And dances by false glare at night;

But joy's a Butterfly, that loves

To spread its wings in Nature's light.

The dominant device used in presenting ''Joy'' and ''Pleasure'' in the first stanza is

• A. diction
• B. oxymoron
• C. personification
• D. conceit

This question is based on William Shakespeare' s Twelfth Night.

Come away, come away, death,

And in sad cypress let me be laid...

In the lines above, the character is

• A. expressing his unhappiness about death
• B. expressing his preference for a cypress coffin
• C. lamenting over his unreciprocated love
• D. wishing for death to come

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: The Merchant of Venice

Read the extract below and answer the question

A : I pray thee over -name them, and as thou namest them, I will describe them. And according to my description level at my affection.

B : First there is the neapolitan prince.

A : Ay, that's a colt indeedd, for he doth nothing but talk of his horse, and he makes it a great appropriation his own good parts that he can shoe him himself. I am much afeared my lady his mother played false with a smith

Speaker B is

• A. Portia
• B. Antonio
• C. Nerissa
• D. Bassanio

Ascribing human moods to nature, as in a playful-breeze illustrates _________

• A. humour
• B. pathetic fallacy
• C. symbolism
• D. zeugma

AFRICAN PROSE

ASARE KONADU: A Woman In Her Prime

Narrate Pokuwaa's experience with her first two husbands.

A literary piece used to mock of ridicule a society or practice is called

• A. an allegory
• B. a fable
• C. a farce
• D. a satire