This question is based on Literary Appreciation

'Fierce harmattan sun on innocent tendrils; torrential downpour on leaking thatch roofs; paintfull comfort of helpless eunuchs; thorny beauty of modern witches; the fatcon's call on day-old-chicks, ours is tragi-comic dialogue.... mute echoes of pains.'

The sonority and rhythmical structure of the lines above are achieved through a pause pattern called

• A. enjambment
• B. caesura
• C. apostrophe
• D. scansion

This question is based on General Literary Principles

A system of plot development which creates the future through anticipation and the past through memory is

• A. deja vu
• B. avant-garde
• C. medieval
• D. metaphysical

This question is based on General Literary Principles

A body of imaginative men and women of letters is generally referred to as

• A. litterateur
• B. laureattes
• C. literaria
• D. literati

This question is based on General Literary Principles

What does the protagonist do in a picaresque novel?

• A. He embarks on a journey
• B. He slows down the narration
• C. He draws illustrative pictures
• D. He becomes an artist

This question is based on selected Poems from Ker, D. et al (eds.): New poetry from African; Syinka, W. (ed.): poems of Black African; Senanu, K.E. and Vincent, T. (eds.): A Selection of African poetry; Umukoro, M. et al (eds.): Exam Focus: Literature- in - English; Eruvbetine, A.E. et al (eds.): Longman Examination Guides and Nwoga, D.I. (ed.): West African Verse.

The mood of the narrator in Mohan Singh's

'A village Girl' is one of

• A. affection
• B. antagonism
• C. admiration
• D. hatred

This question is based on General Literary Principles

A poem written to celebrate one's wedding is

• A. a pastoral
• B. an epithalamium
• C. a prothalamium
• D. a terza rima

This question is based on selected Poems from Ker, D. et al (eds.): New poetry from African; Syinka, W. (ed.): poems of Black African; Senanu, K.E. and Vincent, T. (eds.): A Selection of African poetry; Umukoro, M. et al (eds.): Exam Focus: Literature- in - English; Eruvbetine, A.E. et al (eds.): Longman Examination Guides and Nwoga, D.I. (ed.): West African Verse.

Yusuf Kassam's ' Maji Maji is presented as a

• A. traditional poem
• B. narrative poem
• C. lyric
• D. dirge

This question is based on General Literary Principles

Empathy is achieved when the audience

• A. feels betrayed bythe director
• B. denounces and humiliates the protagonist
• C. vicariously participates in the stage experience
• D. attacks the character foil

'Oshor:...Winds howl forth-howl forth,

hold back hold back-is the time- oh

endless time-slung in oblivion,

make minced meat of your prey.

Charity Angya, The Cycle of the Moon.

The literary device used is

• A. parallelism
• B. irony
• C. onomatopoeia
• D. repetition

This question is based on General Literary Principles

A limerick has

• A. ornate style, humour, irony and seven lines
• B. humour, rhyme scheme and five lines
• C. formal and elaborate style and humour
• D. a stinging climax, rhyme scheme and five lines