More haste, less speed illustrates the use of

• A. anaphora
• B. paradox
• C. litotes
• D. synecdoche

Read the poem below and answer the following questions

Your lies are the withering strokes still, they come from the inner recesses of your dungeoned heart. And though venomous than the venom, they inspire our once dociled minds to disorders even as your angels of death pass us by with messages of hopeless hope.

Did you read our mind in your lies? We know the seat of power in a castle of your evil heart; where your lies are imprisoned to be released again and again; they are never in rain! but they have soothed us calmly , your lies; the war is not of you anymore, it is of the angels who pass us by with messages of peace.

The main theme of the poem is

• A. evil of lying
• B. hopeless hope
• C. message of peace
• D. message of war

Poetry gets bored of being alone

It wants to go outdoors to chew the winds.

The mental picture evoked in the above lines is that of

• A. smell and touch
• B. sight and hearing
• C. taste and touch
• D. sight and taste

Unseen Prose and Poetry

Read the passage below and answer the following questions

Marooned, Akpatse felt imprisoned. It was fifteen days since the storm. The flood waters were not receding; neither did Akpatse see any sign of help coming. Akpatse could not swim the expanse of flood waters. He meditated: when one looks upon the mountain for help and help comes from the Lord ... where does the Lord sit - in the cloud or on the mountain, or in the valley?

Well, Akpatse looked for salvation in the distance, far across the ocean of flood - the intimidating expense of his great gaoler - up to where the sky and the lips of the flood waters met in a mocking kiss. He had forgotten the feeling of hunger but knew he did not have any energy. What a foolish thing to think! He had not had any food for days. True. But hunger never said hello from the hollow of his 'person-tree' as they say in his language. Akpatse saw no help coming.

The overall feeling evoked by the passage is one of

• A. anger
• B. empathy
• C. love
• D. relief

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Comment on Alison's reactions to Jimmy's attacks on her family.

A novel that recounts the adventures of a likeable rogue is

• A. panegyric
• B. gothic
• C. picaresque
• D. grotesque

Read the extract below and answer the following questions

... Man is but an ass if he go about to

expound this dream. Methought I was - there

is no man can tell

what. Methought I was, and methought I had -

but man is

But a patched fool, if he will offer

To say what methought I

had. The eye of man hath not heard, the ear of

man hath not

seen, man's hand is not able to taste, his

tongue to conceive, nor

his heart to report, what my dream was

(Act IV, Scene One, Lines 201 - 207)

The speaker has just come out of

• A. an appalling experience
• B. a nightmare
• C. an induced sleep
• D. a rehearsal

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Discuss Gbanya as a remarkable character

Unseen Prose and Poetry

Read the passage below and answer the following questions

Marooned, Akpatse felt imprisoned. It was fifteen days since the storm. The flood waters were not receding; neither did Akpatse see any sign of help coming. Akpatse could not swim the expanse of flood waters. He meditated: when one looks upon the mountain for help and help comes from the Lord ... where does the Lord sit - in the cloud or on the mountain, or in the valley?

Well, Akpatse looked for salvation in the distance, far across the ocean of flood - the intimidating expense of his great gaoler - up to where the sky and the lips of the flood waters met in a mocking kiss. He had forgotten the feeling of hunger but knew he did not have any energy. What a foolish thing to think! He had not had any food for days. True. But hunger never said hello from the hollow of his 'person-tree' as they say in his language. Akpatse saw no help coming.

The narrative technique used is

• A. 1st person
• B. Dialogue
• C. 3rd person
• D. stream of consciousness

Read the extract below and answer the following questions

Speaker X: Thou runaway, thou coward,

art thou fled?

Speak! In some bush? Where dost thou hide thy head?

Speaker Y: Thou coward, art thou bragging to the stars,

Telling the bushes that thou look'st for wars,

And wilt not come? Come, recreant, come, thou child;

I'll whip thee with a rod. He is defiled

That draws a sword on thee.

(Act III, Scene Two, Lines 405 - 411)

Speaker Y's speech can be described as

• A. cowardly
• B. solemn
• C. taunting
• D. silly