Read the poem and answer the question

Sleep, O sleep

With thy Rod of Incantation

Charm my Imagination,

Then, only then, I cease to weep

By thy power,

The virgin, by Time O' ertaken,

For Years forlorn, forsaken,

Enjoys the happy Hour.

What's to sleep?

'Tis a visionary Blessing;

A dream that's past expressing;

Our utmost Wish possessing;

So may I always keep.

The power of ''sleep'' is described as

• A. majestic
• B. magical
• C. poetic
• D. worshipful

Read the extract and answer the question

Y : Do you know me, my lord?

Z : Excellent well;you are a fishmonger

Y : Not I, my lord.

Z : Then I would you were so honest a man.

Y : Honest, my lord!

Z : Ay, sir; to be honest, as this world goes. Is to be one man picked out of ten thousand.

(Act Two, Scene II, lines 173-179)

The underlined statement illustrates

• A. metaphor
• B. simile
• C. hyperbole
• D. irony

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: Hamlet

Read the extract below and answer the question

If thou hast any sound, or use of voice,

Speak to me;

If there be any good thing to be done,

That may to thee do ease and grace to me,

Speak to me:

If thou art privy to the country's fate,

Which, happily foreknowing may avoid,

O, speak!

Or if thou has uphoarded in thy life,

Extorted treasure in the womb of earth,

For which, they say, you spirits oft walk in death,

Speak of it;

(Act One, Scene I, lines 128 - 139)

The character addressed is

• A. the queen
• B. the ghost
• C. Bernado
• D. Reynaldo

Read the extract and answer the question

Y : Do you know me, my lord?

Z : Excellent well;you are a fishmonger

Y : Not I, my lord.

Z : Then I would you were so honest a man.

Y : Honest, my lord!

Z : Ay, sir; to be honest, as this world goes. Is to be one man picked out of ten thousand.

(Act Two, Scene II, lines 173-179)

Speaker Z's responses suggest that he is

• A. planning revenge
• B. pretending to be mad
• C. telling a lie
• D. preparing to commit suicide

A line of poetry is measured by the

• A. number of words
• B. number of feet it contains
• C. images
• D. rhythm

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: Hamlet

Read the extract below and answer the question

If thou hast any sound, or use of voice,

Speak to me;

If there be any good thing to be done,

That may to thee do ease and grace to me,

Speak to me:

If thou art privy to the country's fate,

Which, happily foreknowing may avoid,

O, speak!

Or if thou has uphoarded in thy life,

Extorted treasure in the womb of earth,

For which, they say, you spirits oft walk in death,

Speak of it;

(Act One, Scene I, lines 128 - 139)

The speech was made after

• A. the killing of Polonius
• B. Hamlet's arrival at the palace
• C. the arrival of the players
• D. the appearance of the ghost

A pause within a line of a poem is a

• A. zeugma
• B. foot
• C. caesura
• D. stress

During this speech

• A. the palace soldiers arrived
• B. Hamlet attacked the speaker
• C. the queen fainted
• D. a cock crowed

AFRICAN PROSE ISIDORE OKPEWHO: The Last Duty

Examine the role of Major Ali in the novel.

UNSEEN PROSE AND POETRY

Read the passage and answer the question

Here in the station, it is in no way different save that the city is busy in its snow. But the old men cling to their seats as though they were symbolic and could not be given up. Now and then they sleep, their grey old heads resting with painful awkwardnesson the backs of the benches. Also, they are not at rest. For an hour, they may sleep in thegasping exhaustion of the ill-nourished and aged, who have to walk in the night. Then, a policeman comes by on his round and nudges them upright. ''You can't sleep here'', he growls. A strange ritual then begins. An old man is difficult to wake. One man after a slight lurch does not move at all, he sleeps on steadily. Once in a while, one of the sleepers will not wake; he will have had his wish to die in the greatdroning centre of thehive rather than in some loney room fulfilled.

''droning'' and ''have'' illustrate

• A. anecdote
• B. epigram
• C. allusion
• D. epitaph