The dominant literary device in the poem is

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

Read the extract and answer the question

Here lies our sovereign Lord the King

Whose word no man relies on

Who never said a foolish thing

And never did a wise one.

Which of the following is not a type of play?

• A. Tragedy
• B. Tragic flaw
• C. Comedy
• D. tragic-comedy

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: The Tempest

Read the extract and answer the question

P : Mark his condition, and the answer questions

If this might be a brother.

Q: I should sun

To think but nobly of my grandmother:

Good wombs have borne bad sons.

(Act 1, scene two lines 116-120)

The speakers are

• A. grandfather and son
• B. lovers
• C. father and daughter
• D. friends

This question is based on General Literary Principles and Appreciation.

A speech made at the end of a dramatic performance is generally called

• A. a prologue
• B. an epilogue
• C. a dirge
• D. a monoloque

Read the prose passage and answer the question:

Ngotho was pleased. And Nyolabi and Njeri were full of joy at the news. For the first time many years something like a glimmer of light shone in Ngotho's eyes. He could even be seen making an effort to walk upright. Here at last was a son who might eventually be a match for the Howlands and Jacobos and any others who at all despised him. Kamanu too was pleased. He hoped he could go on helping Njoroge. Njoroge might do something for the family. Njoroge was happy. His first impulse when he learnt what he had gone through was to kneel down and thank God for all He had done for him. ' Give me more and more learning and make me the instrument of thy light and peace. 'To go to Secondary School, the big mission at Siriana, was no small achievement.

What does the expression ''Instrument of thy light and peace'' tell us about the speaker?

• A. His filial bond
• B. His humility
• C. His pride
• D. His sympathy

African Prose

BAY ADEMOWALE: Lonely Days

Discuss the theme of loneliness in the novel.

A short witty statement is called an

• A. epigram
• B. anecdote
• C. epistle
• D. analogy

He had knocked his toes against so many things that he had no toenails anymore and the yaws he had suffered from his youth had twisted his toes up so that they pointed to the sky

Based on Ferdinand Oyono's The Old Man and the Medal,the description above is in reference to the foot of

• A. Kelara
• B. Meka
• C. Egamba
• D. Mvondo

This question is based on selected poems from D. Ker, C. Maduka et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa, Wole Soyinka (ed.): Poems of Black Africa, K.E. Senanu and T. Vincent (eds.): A Selection of African Poetry and E.W. Parker (ed.): A Pageant of Longer Poems.

In Mtshalis 'The Washerwoman's Prayer' the condition of the woman is portrayed through

• A. irony
• B. juxtaposition
• C. comparison
• D. metaphor

This question is based on General Literary Principles.

A fable is a story in which

• A. allegations are made about characters
• B. animals or things are used as characters
• C. there is an important setting
• D. the story is told in poetic form