This question is based on General Literary Principles and Appreciation.

Blank verse

• A. is nonsensical verse
• B. consists of unhymed five stress lines
• C. is verse used by the nobility
• D. consists of rhyme in the second and fourth line

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

This question is based on General Literary Principles and Appreciation.

A burlesque is

• A. an exaggerated mockery of a literary work
• B. a sentimental comedy
• C. an account of a famous person's life
• D. a rhetorical device used for effect in poetry

This question is based on General Literary Principles and Appreciation.

A stanza of three lines linked by rhyme is generally called a

• A. couplet
• B. ballad
• C. tercet
• D. quatrain

This question is based on George Bernard Shaw's Arms and the Man.

The main themes in the play are best summed up by the phrase

• A. military glory and romantic love
• B. heroism and marriage
• C. innocent women and brave men
• D. realism and romance

This question is based on General Literary Principles and Appreciation.

'The dum, dum of the drum' is a good example of

• A. assonance
• B. onomatopoeia
• C. metaphor
• D. simile

This question is based on Wole Soyinka's The Lion and the Jewel.

'This is the words of women. At this moment our star sits in the center of the sky

We are supreme.'

These words were spoken by

• A. The favourite
• B. Sadiku
• C. Sidi
• D. the third girl

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

This question is based on Mariama Ba's So Long a Letter

'You forget that I have a heart, a mind, that I am not an object to be passed from hand to hand.

You don't know what marriage means to me....'These words by Ramatoulaye are addressed to

• A. Mawdo
• B. her mother-in-law
• C. Daouda Dieng
• D. Tamsir

This question is based on General Literary Principles and Appreciation.

'...Akosua Nowa has touched my manhood;

Tell her, red ant upon the tree;

If she passes this way, I am gone,

I am gone to load my gun

No matter how hidden deep her treasure,

By my father's coffin I swear

I'll shoot my way to it this day;

Son of the hunter King

There is liquid fire in my gun!

' Akosua Nowa' by Joe de Graft

The beauty of this poem is built upon its

• A. rhythm
• B. extended images of treasure and gun
• C. the protagonist's boastfulness
• D. the arrangement of the lines