This question is based on Bayo Adebowale's Lonely Days.

In Kufi the death of a husband is treated with

• A. indifference
• B. suspicion
• C. elation
• D. anger

An individual who acts, appears or is referred to as playing a part in a literary work is a

• A. villain
• B. character
• C. clown
• D. narrator

The dominant theme is ______

• A. unrequited love
• B. loss of opportunity
• C. lack of trust.
• D. insatiable hunger

'A trouble shared is a trouble halved' illustrates the use of______

• A. Paradox
• B. Cliche
• C. Pun
• D. Metaphor

This question is based on General Literary Principles.

The narrator in a prose work who is also a character is

• A. subjective narrator
• B. objective narrator
• C. omniscient narrator
• D. participatory narrator

The loneliest people live in the most crowded places illustrates

• A. paradox
• B. anecdote
• C. allegory
• D. parody

Read the extract below and answer the question

As much as I deserve: why, that's the lady

I do in birth deserve her, and in fortunes

In graces, and in qualities of breeding

But more than these, in love I do deserves

(Act 11, sc VII)

The subject of the extract is

• A. a declaration of love
• B. the choice of caskets
• C. the elopement of two lovers
• D. a marriage proposal

UNSEEN PROSE AND POETRY

Read the passage below and answer the question

The killing of a whale at sea isn't pleasant to witness or even to contemplate. Hunted down through solar and other highly specialized equipment, the whale has no more chance of escape like a steer in a slaughterhouse. The manner of his death, however, is very different. A grenade-tipped harpoon explodes deep within his body, often causing prolonged suffering before the gentle-giant, whose intelligence may be second only to our own, is reduced to a carcass ready for processing into crayons, lipstick, shoe polish, fertilizer, margarine and pet food.

The inhumane manner of death, however, is the least part of the scandal known as the whaling industry. Much more important is the fact that the killing is quite unnecessary. Adeguate substitutes exist for every single use to which the whale carcasses are currently put, and although some 32,000 whales are killed every year, the sum of commodities are provide is insignificant in the world's economy.

''...like a steer in a slaughterhouse'' is an example of

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

AFRICAN POETRY

Discuss contrast as a poetic device in "In the navel of the soul."

This question is based on George Orwell's Animal Farm

The execution of some of the animals on the orders Napoleon is to

• A. prevent Snowball from coming back to the farm
• B. make the pigs constitute themselves into a special class
• C. achieve the pigs' socialist goals without further delay
• D. pave way for Napoleon to become an absolute ruler