This question is based on Camara Laye's The African Child.

The father permits his son to go to Paris because he

• A. sees no future in traditional African ways
• B. is encouraged by the missionaries
• C. wants him to be future leader
• D. wishes to free him from blacksmithing

In ''I am so famished, I can devour a whole cow'', the device used is

• A. hyperbole
• B. metaphor
• C. irony
• D. sarcasm

UNSEEN POETRY AND PROSE

Read the poem and answer the question

At the onset of the rain

The drought-stricken land

Suck up the wetness

And the gates to the field

Are flung widely open.

It is the signal for planting!

It is time for joyous toiling!

At various times of day

The hard and erect hoe

Would thrust and dig deep

Into the receiving wet soil.

Seeds on different quantities

Seeds of varying potency

Are broadcasted in layers

Into the womb of the earth

With time and much labour

The seed now transformed

Blossoms and grows into new life!

The dominant device used in the extract is

• A. metaphor
• B. paradox
• C. symbolism
• D. simile

'O happy torment'' is an example of

• A. oxymoron
• B. synecdoche
• C. innuendo
• D. simile

This question is based on General Literary Appreciation

The exclusive right given to authors to protect their works from unlawful production is

• A. a copyright
• B. an authority to write
• C. an author's right
• D. a constitutional provision

This question is based on Oliver Goldsmith's She Stoops to Conquer.

For Young Marlow, which of the following is the most objectionable aspect of marriage?

• A. Rigours of formal courtship
• B. Being introduced to a wife
• C. Demands by in-laws
• D. Demands by the wife

From forth the fatal loins of these two foes

A pair of star-crossed lovers take their life...

Based on William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, the lines above suggests that the tragedy in the play

• A. could have been averted
• B. is predestined
• C. is brought on enmity
• D. brought misfortune on the lovers

The opening lines of the stanzas are ________

• A. trochaic
• B. iambic
• C. anapaestic
• D. dactylic

The question is based on Bayo Adebowale's LONELY DAYS

Yaremi's only son is______?

• A. Alani
• B. Wande
• C. Olode
• D. Deyo

This question is based on selected poems from Wole Soyinka (ed.) Poems of Black Africa and D.I. Nwoga (ed.) West African Verse.

.......Their eyes recede from tomorrow.

No sense of mission sustains them.'

These lines from Odia Of Ofeimun's 'The Prodigals express

• A. a longing for the past
• B. a lack of grogress
• C. the weight of tradition
• D. an impatient attitude