A very brief story is an

• A. allusion
• B. autobiography
• C. allegory
• D. anecdote

O Julius Caesar, thou are mighty yet Thy spirit walks abroad.

Based on Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, the statement above is

• A. a ghost story
• B. superstition
• C. an apostrophe
• D. an exaggeration

This question is based on General Literary Principles.

In literary work, verbal irony refers to a

• A. device in which the speaker means the opposite of what he says
• B. situation in which a character speaks or acts against the trend of events
• C. difficult situation which defies a logical or rational resolution
• D. device in which the actor on stage means exactly what he says

A literary work in which action and characters represent ideas is

• A. an allusion
• B. an epigram
• C. an allegory
• D. an innuendo

To fly flags of joy Two figures of speech used here are

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

A dramatic performance with scenes played by body movements or gestures without words known as

• A. comedy
• B. pantomime
• C. panegyric
• D. melodrama

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 phrase, 'pressurized good-breeding' from Wole Soyinka's 'Telephone Conversation', refers to the

• A. speaker's personality
• B. whiteman's upbringing
• C. lady's personality
• D. persona's upbringing

UNSEEN PROSE AND POETRY

Read the poem and answer the question

I wonder how long, you awful parasite

Shall share me this little bed,

And make me, from sweet dreams be lost

By sucking blood from my poor head.

I should but say man has much

Blood, which you and your families do feed

on; for supper, dinner, and lunch,

And besides, you do in my bed breed.

Clever thou art, tiny creature;

You attend me when I am deep asleep;

When thou art sure, I cant you capture,

Just as the time I snore deep.

''Tis so strange that before twilight,

The bed clear of you would seem;

For not one you is in my sight

As if your presence was in a dream.

• A. amazement
• B. pity
• C. regret
• D. nonchalance

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. alternate rhyme
• B. identical rhymes
• C. couplets
• D. run-on lines

An essential features of drama is___________

• A. Soliloquy
• B. Conflict
• C. Irony
• D. Aside