This question is based on Literary Principles

The expression 'The ripest is the saddest encounter' is an example of

• A. euphemism
• B. paradox
• C. hyperbole
• D. metaphor

A character that develops with events and situations in a novel is a ......character

• A. flat
• B. sound
• C. minor
• D. main

The hyena says the crown is made for him in the above excerpt, the use of the word crown is a good deployment of ____

• A. oxymoron
• B. imagery
• C. personification
• D. synedoche

This question is based on General Literary Principles

An iambic metrical foot consists of

• A. an unstressed syllable following a stressed syllable
• B. a stressed syllable following another stressed syllable
• C. an unstressed syllable following another unstressed syllable
• D. a stressed syllable following an unstressed syllable

I know not, Amina

When again on your brightness of smile

My eyes will rest awhile

Nor when again of your softness of voice

My ears will rest awhile

When again into the silver moonshine

You early at night or late venture

As is your wont in weather fine

Astute, awake in bed as doters may, i'll lie

Dreaming of grasping your velvety texture

The first stanza is a ____________

• A. Tercet
• B. Couplet
• C. Quatrain
• D. Sestet

This question is based on selected poems from Ker,D. et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa; Soyinka,(ed.): Poems of Black Africa; 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. (eds.): West Africa Verse.

Launko's End of the War portrays the

• A. silence of battlefield
• B. irony of life
• C. arrangement of war
• D. usefulness of praise singers

The term given to a type of incident or device which recurs frequently in Literature is

• A. concept
• B. myth
• C. ritual
• D. motif

This question is based on Richard Wright's Native Son.

One of the pictures Bigger sees on the pamphlet given to him by Jan is that of a

• A. knife and a sword
• B. knife and gun
• C. hammer and a sickle
• D. matchet and a hammer

This question is based on the Literary Appreciation

Jibunoh was simply a difficult man.He was relation. He all his neighbours and deserted by his relations policeman in the entire village. He also had ten cases instituted against him for either stealing or violating the rights of others. He had no regard for decency or normal conduct. No lover of peace or order could be his friend. It is not surprising that his death elicited jubilation rather than mourning.'

The passage above reveals th

• A. wickedness
• B. insanity
• C. lawlessness
• D. isolation

A humorous imitation of a serious literary work is

• A. an ode
• B. a parody
• C. an epitaph
• D. a burlesque