This question is based on General Literary Principles

'Whereat: with blade, with bloody blameful blade.

He bravely broached his boiling bloody best'.

The dominant figure of speech in the lines above is

• A. simile
• B. alliteration
• C. assonance
• D. repetition

This question is based on Literary Principles. 'Ibadan,

running splash of rust

and gold - flung and scattered

among seven hills like broken

china in the sun.'

J.P Clark, 'Ibadan'

The poem above is memorable for its

• A. pun
• B. heroism
• C. metaphor
• D. lyricism

This question is based on General Literary Principles

A humorous play based on an unrealistic situation is considered in drama as

• A. comedy
• B. tragdy
• C. farce
• D. burlesque

This question is based on Literary Principles.

The commissioner, who was also the local magistrate, peered at the two men. He did not go near because fastidiously he too wished to avoid the odour of travel that clung to them. Except for the alpaca jacket which he wore in the office, he was a model of starched and expensive neatness from his lean skull to the gleaming toes of his formal shoes'.

Alex La Guma, 'Time of the Butcherbird'

From the italicized lines above, the writer cond

• A. convenient setting
• B. contemptuous tone
• C. stark metaphor
• D. graphic description

This question is based on Camara Laye's The African Child.

The author makes the reader believe his story by using

• A. a confessional style
• B. elements of humour
• C. detailed description
• D. another narrator

This question is based on General Literary Principles.

The device used by writers to give truths by indirection is called

• A. irony
• B. paradox
• C. hyperbole
• D. satire

This question is based on William Shakespeare's Twelfth Night.

The significance of the sub-plot dealing with Feste,

Toby and Maria is the expression of life's

• A. fragility
• B. pleasure
• C. comedy
• D. romance

This question is based on General Literary Principles.

The theme of a literary work is the

• A. dominant pre-occupation of the work
• B. interesting issues raised in the work
• C. different views on a particular topic
• D. psychological issues in the work

This question is based on General Literary Principles 'Nightfall! Nightfall!

You are my mortal enemy'.

The figurative name for the manner in which nightfall is directly addressed as though present in Mtshali's 'Nightfall inSoweto' is

• A. an ode
• B. allusion
• C. apostrophe
• D. dramatic

This question is based on General Literary Principles.

In drama, the term climax is used

• A. as a figure of speech connoting beauty
• B. for the point of highest dramatic tension
• C. when the crisis in the play is resolved
• D. when the hero's tragic flaw is revealed