Use the following excerpt to answer the question.

I wonder how long, you awful parasites,

Shall share with me this little bed.

And make me, from my sweet dreams be lost,

by sucking blood from my poor head...

Mbure: To Bed-Bug

The most dominant figure of speech in the excerpt is________

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

The use of sound pattern to suggest meaning in poetry is

• A. lyric
• B. lullaby
• C. mimic
• D. rhythm

Read the extract and answer the question:

I do I know not what, and fear to find

Mine eye to great a flatterer for my mind

Fate, show thy force; ourselves we do not owe,

'What is decreed must be, and be this so

(Act 1, Scene 5)

What has the speaker just done?

• A. sent a ring to Orsino
• B. Written a letter to Malvolio
• C. Met her brother who is presumed dead
• D. sent a ring to Cesario

SECTION F: NON - AFRICAN PROSE

NATIVE SON - RICHARD WRIGHT

What is Bigger’s attitude towards religion?

This question is based on General Literary Principles and Appreciation.

'His round cheeks, his round nose, his round chin were a cool, healthy red. In the globe of his face and neatly circular as if drawn in bright crayon, his narrow long, tip tilted eyes, clear a pale blue water, seemed out of place, as if two incompatible strains had collided in making him.'

The picture presented above of a particular individual has

• A. photographic clarity
• B. satiric undertones
• C. elements of exaggeration
• D. derogatory connotations

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: A Midsummer Night's Dream

Read the extract below and answer the question:

Lysander riddles very prettily;

Now much beshrew my manners and my pride, If Hermia meant to say Lysander lied.

But, gentle friend, for love and courtesy Lie further off, in human modesty;

Such separation as may well be said

Becomes a virtuous bachelor and a maid;

So far be distant, and good night, sweet friend: Thy love ne'er alter, till thy sweet life end!

• A. Hermia
• B. Helena
• C. Hippolyta
• D. Tatiana

This question is based on Thomas Hardy's Tess of the d'Urbervilles.

Angel Clare's ambition in marrying Tess d'Urbervilles is to secure a wife with

• A. high social standing
• B. great fortune
• C. rustic innocence
• D. a wide knowledge of the world

Read the poem and answer the question

In front of the gate, the guard stands with his rifle,

Above, untidy clouds are carrying away the moon,

The bedbugs are swarming around like army tanks on manoeuvers

While the mosquitoes form squadrons, attacking like fighter planes.

My heart travels a thousand miles towards my native land.

My dream interwines with sadness like a stein of a thousand threads,

Innocent, I have endured a whole year in prison

Using my tears for ink, I turn my thoughts into verses.

The poem is written in

• A. blank verse
• B. pentameter
• C. free verse
• D. trochee

The feeling of the narrator in the extract is to one of ________

• A. Confusion
• B. fatigue
• C. love
• D. joy

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 hard and erect hoe'' connotes

• A. uprooting of weeds
• B. the sowing of seeds
• C. digging of the soil
• D. farming implement