This question is based on selected poems from R. Johnson and D. Ker 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; M. Umukoro and A Sani et al (eds.): Exam Focus: Literature in English; A.E. Eruvbetine and M. Jibril et al (eds.): Longman Examination Guides: Poetry and E.W. Parker (ed.): A Pageant of Longer Poems.

The dominant images in Nyi Osundare's 'They Too are the Earth'are

• A. disease, illness and death
• B. aristocracy, affluence and wealth
• C. poverty, suffering and the downtrodden
• D. greed aristocracy and the ambitious

This question is based on General Literary Principles.

A primary ballad is associated with

• A. educated people
• B. urban folk
• C. the nomads
• D. rural folk

This question is based on selected poems from R. Johnson and D. Ker 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; M. Umukoro and A Sani et al (eds.): Exam Focus: Literature in English; A.E. Eruvbetine and M. Jibril et al (eds.): Longman Examination Guides: Poetry and E.W. Parker (ed.): A Pageant of Longer Poems.

'... It is not yet dawn

And we wake from one nightmara

To another.'

• A. terrifying dream
• B. seemingly endless night
• C. vicious cycle of oppression
• D. persona's experience

This question is based on General Literary Principles.

A character who does not develop or experience change in the course of his or her existence in a novel is a

• A. round character
• B. flat character
• C. rounded character
• D. major character

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

X: What country, friends, is this?

Y: This is lllyria, lady.

X: And what should I do in lllyria?

My brother he is in Elysium.

Perchance he is not drown' d;....

The dialogue above takes place

• A. in the captain's ship
• B. in lllyria
• C. by the sea-coast of lllyria
• D. by the sea-coast after lllyria

This question is based on selected poems from R. Johnson and D. Ker 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; M. Umukoro and A Sani et al (eds.): Exam Focus: Literature in English; A.E. Eruvbetine and M. Jibril et al (eds.): Longman Examination Guides: Poetry and E.W. Parker (ed.): A Pageant of Longer Poems.

In Browning's My Last Duchess' the poet- persona's attitude to the Duchess is tha

• A. anger
• B. love
• C. sadness
• D. scorn

This question is based on Femi Osofisan's Morountodun.

Titubi's experience at the peasants' camp is narrated through a dramatic technique called

• A. reflection
• B. projection
• C. dramatic irony
• D. flashback

This question is based on General Literary Principles.

The term for the moral flaw or weakness that leads to the downfall of a major character in drama is

• A. chaos
• B. hamartia
• C. denouement
• D. reversal

This question is based on selected poems from R. Johnson and D. Ker 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; M. Umukoro and A Sani et al (eds.): Exam Focus: Literature in English; A.E. Eruvbetine and M. Jibril et al (eds.): Longman Examination Guides: Poetry and E.W. Parker (ed.): A Pageant of Longer Poems.

'My bottom raven black-one moment madam!- sensing

Her receiver rearing o

• A. madam and receiver
• B. tenant and telephone
• C. landlady and tenant
• D. receiver and thunderclap

This question is based on General Literary Principles.

A trilogy is the

• A. sequence of three one-act drama written by the same author
• B. set of three players written by the same authors
• C. collection of three poems of equal length
• D. series of related stories divided into three equal parts