UNSEEN PROSE AND POETRY

Read the passage below and answer the following questions:

Along marched the crowd, determined not to be distracted from its cause and the course it had charted. If anyone could intimidate the chief, it was Sasu, who led the crowd. The chief nurtured unruffled restraint. He knew Sasu, knew that Sasu would not waste the trust between them on renegades.

One way to divert a mob from its goal is to join in with it, lead it on, but, finally, veer it from the course of its cause. Onward, towards the chief's palace marched the crowd, singing war songs.

The sun frowned as the palace guards, rattling like leaves in a storm - fear branded on their faces, came out to survey the threatening crowd and prepare for a siege. Just then, Sasu turned about, heading away from the palace - with the crowd, and the war songs.

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

This question is based on J.C Graft's Sons and Daughters

In the play, the character of Lawyer B is presented through the use of

• A. play-within-the-play
• B. flashback
• C. dialogue
• D. irony

Read the extract and answer Questions

I will rather sue to be despised than to deceive so good a

commander with so slight, so drunken, and so indiscreet

an officer. Drunk! And speak parrot! And squabble!

swagger! Swear! And discourse fustian with one's own

shadow! a thou invisible spirit of wine, if thou hast no

name to be known by, let us call thee devil!

(Act II, Scene Three, lines 262-267)

The speaker is addressing

• A. Cassio
• B. Iago
• C. Othelo
• D. Roderigo

Which one of the following does not relate to the tone in Diop's Vanity?

• A. Sarcasm
• B. Condemnation
• C. Rejuvenation
• D. Concern

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: Hamlet

Read the extract below and answer the question

If thou hast any sound, or use of voice,

Speak to me;

If there be any good thing to be done,

That may to thee do ease and grace to me,

Speak to me:

If thou art privy to the country's fate,

Which, happily foreknowing may avoid,

O, speak!

Or if thou has uphoarded in thy life,

Extorted treasure in the womb of earth,

For which, they say, you spirits oft walk in death,

Speak of it;

(Act One, Scene I, lines 128 - 139)

The character addressed is

• A. the queen
• B. the ghost
• C. Bernado
• D. Reynaldo

This question is based on William Shakespeare's Romeo's and Juliet.

The multiple deaths in the play serve as a punishment for

• A. imposing life partner on children
• B. treating others with hatred
• C. disobeying one's own parents
• D. shedding kinsmen's blood

This question is based on selected poems from Ker, D. et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa; Soyinka, W. (ed.): Poems of Black Africa; Senanu, K.E. and Vincent, T.(eds.): A Selection of African Poetry; Umukoro, M. et al (eds.): Exam Focus: Literature in English; Eruvbetine, A.E.et al (eds.): Longman Examination Guides and Nwoga D.I. (ed.): Weast African Verse.

Brutus'A Troubadour I Traverse paints the picture of

• This question is based on selected poems from Ker, D. et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa; Soyinka, W. (ed.): Poems of Black Africa; Senanu, K.E. and Vincent, T.(eds.): A Selection of African Poetry; Umukoro, M. et al (eds.): Exam Focus: Literature in English; Eruvbetine, A.E.et al (eds.): Longman Examination Guides and Nwoga D.I. (ed.): Weast African Verse. Brutus'A Troubadour I Traverse paints the picture of A. peace amidst pestilence
• B. love in a hostile environment
• C. hatred inspired by state terror
• D. hunger in the midst of plenty

Read the following lines to answer this question

The livid waters roared and snarled and flapped

At the poor battered and weeping yacht.

The dominant device used in the lines is

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

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

A paradox is

• A. applied to a word or combination of words whose sound resembles the sense
• B. a statement which seems self-contraditory or absurd, yet turns out to have a valid meaning
• C. an episode of pantomime introduced through gesture and bodily movement in a play
• D. an elaborately conceived poem expressing an urban poet's nostalgia for life in the country

Read the poem below and answer the question below:

Miniver Cheevy, child of scorn,

Grew lean while he assailed the season; He wept that he was ever born,

And he had reasons.

Miniver loved the days of old

When swords were bright and steeds prancing; The vision of a warrior bold

Would set him dancing.

• A. trochaic
• B. dactyllic
• C. iambic
• D. spondaic