Read the extract below and answer the question

....very vilely in the morning when he is sober, and most vilely in the afternoon when he is drunk. When he is best he is a little worse than a man, and when he is worst he is a little better than a beast

(Act 1 sc ll)

The speaker is

• A. Portia
• B. Launcelot
• C. Jessica
• D. Antonio

NON-AFRICAN DRAMA

NIKOLAI GOGOL: The Government Inspector

Examine three comic scenes in the play.

This question is based on selected poems from Johnson, R. et ai (eds): New Poetry African: Soyinka W. (ed): Poems of Black Africa; Senanu, K.E. and Vincent. T. (eds): A Selection of African Poetry, U. Maduka, C. T et al: Exam Focus: Literature in English: Eruvbetine, A. E. et al (eds): Longman Examination Guides: Nwoga D. I. (ed): West African verse and Adeoti G: Naked Soles.

The excerpt below from Marvell's To His Coy Mistress is an example of

The figure of speech in the line belo

• A. assonance
• B. antithesis
• C. apostrophe
• D. alliteration

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

__________decides that Juliet should marry a young man named Paris, who has been asking for her hand

• A. Friar Laurence
• B. Lord Capulet
• C. Balthasar
• D. Friar John

This question is based on Buchi Emecheta's The Joys of Motherhood.

In Nnaife's house, life became miserable to Nnu Ego by the news that

• A. Nnaife's elder brother had died
• B. Nnaife has inherited buildings and properties
• C. Nnaife had lost Ngozi
• D. Nnaife has inherited his brother's wives and children.

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.

'BEHOLD her, single in the field,

You solitary Highland Lass!

Reaping and singing by herself;...

O listen! for the Vale profound

Is overflowing with the sound.'

The lines above from William Wordsworth's 'The So

• A. a soliloguy
• B. an aside
• C. an apostrophe
• D. an interior monologue

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 lines are an example of a________?

• A. limerick
• B. lampoon
• C. light verse
• D. light opera

The term used to depict the freedom of a poet with language is

• A. poetic diction
• B. bathos
• C. graphology
• D. poetic licence

Kwarshiorkor, grave, ravage, wreck, funeral, piles and fearful.

These words from J.P. Clarks The Casualties connote

• A. war
• B. burial
• C. casualty
• D. disaster

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.

'The is my son, mine own Telemachus To whom I leave the scepter and the isle.'

In the lines above from Tennyson's Ulysses', scepter' and 'isle' are a poetic device called

• A. metonymy
• B. symbol
• C. allusion
• D. allegory