This question is based on General Literary Principles.

'From Debbie's room comes the sound of the typewriter. It is an old mechanical typewriter, its noises are metallic and clicking. It chitters onto the end of a line musical, or almost musical 'cling' of the little bell.'

A.S Byatt, 'Artwork'

A striking figure of speech used in the passage above is

• A. onomatopoeia
• B. zeugma
• C. assonance
• D. paradox

This question is based on General Literary Principles.

'When to the Sessions of sweet silent thought,

I summon up remembrance of things past,...

Shakespeare, 'Sonnet XXX'

The lines above contain the predominant use of

• A. a motif
• B. irony
• C. sarcasm
• D. alliteration

This question is based on General Literary Principles.

Sound effects in the theater are realizable through the use of

• A. props
• B. acoustics
• C. proscenium
• D. echoes

This question is based on Oliver Goldsmith's She Stoops To Conquer.

One of the enriching factors of the comedy is the

• A. lopsided resolution of conflicts
• B. manipulation of appearance and reality
• C. contrived misrepresentation of characters
• D. match making attempts by Mrs. Hardcastle

This question is based on General Literary Principles.

Hyperbole refers specifically to

• A. exaggeration for adornment
• B. exaggeration for emphasis
• C. understatement of ideas
• D. restatement of ideas

This question is based on Wole Soyinka's

The Trials of Brother Jero.

JERO: In that case, since, Brother Chume,

your wife seems such a wicked, willful sinner,

I think ....

CHUME: Yes, Holy One...?

JERO: You must take her home tonight...

Jero concedes to Chume taking his wife home and beating her in order to

• A. keep his secret secret
• B. get the beating out of the way quickly
• C. enable jero get into his house
• D. keep Chume's loyalty

This question is based on General Literary Principles.

I have received your letter. By way of a reply, I am beginning this diary, my prop is my distress. Our long association has taught me that confiding in others allays pain.

Mariama Ba, 'So Long a Letter'

By employing the first person narrator, the author of the passage above achieves

• A. sympathy
• B. confidentiality
• C. authenticity
• D. irony

This question is based on Zaynab Alkali's The Stillborn.

What is the most striking feature of the setting in the novel?

• A. The simple but effective description of the landscape
• B. The reliance on straight forward presentations
• C. The effective employment of contrasts
• D. The use of difficult and mystifying language.

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 disenchantment in Kofi Awoonor's 'Songs of Sorrow' is best explained by the

• A. lamentation of the death of a friend
• B. alienation of Africans
• C. discussion of the sad events that afflict Africa
• D. loneliness of the person in the wilderness.

This question is based on General Literary Principles.

The term assonance refers of

• A. repetition of alphabets in lines of a poem
• B. agreement of vowel sounds in a line
• C. repetition of vowels in a line
• D. agreement of consonants in a line