The substitution of mild and pleasant expression for harsh and blunt one is called
- A. ambiguity
- B. climax
- C. peripety
- D. euphemism.
Caricature is used to
- A. ridicule a person by distorting his most prominent features
- B. censure an individual by emphasizing his weakness
- C. expose the folly in literature
- D. elicit the artistic potential of dramatists.
Pip’s Flippant remarks concerning the tombstones in the opening chapter of Great Expectations indicate
- A. his longing for death
- B. the child's inability to understand
- C. his yearning for his parents
- D. his fascination for inscriptions on stonework.
In Great Expectations. while Pip was going away from home to take the coach in London, Joe and Biddy threw old shoes at him because
- A. Pip had in a haste forgotten to pack those old shoes of his
- B. they wanted to play a practical joke on Pip for the last time
- C. Pip had made them angry by his joy to leave home
- D. they believede that the act would bring him good luck.
”His mouth was such a post-office of a month that he had a mechanical appearance of smiling”.
This description in Great expectations refers to
- A. Mr. Punblechoo
- B. Mr. Wemmick
- C. Mr. Drummle.
- D. Mr. Brown
At the very end of Great Expectations, Estella disclosed to Pip that the source of her present maturity and wisdom was
- A. the sound education she had at school
- B. her pleasant association with Mrs. Harvisham
- C. the suffering she had experienced in life
- D. her long exposure to high society
In Great Expectations, Pips nursing of Magwitch is significant because it
- A. prevents Magwitch's immediate death by prolonging his life
- B. enables Magwitch to confirm Pip's as his heir
- C. recalls Herbert's nursing of Pip
- D. shows Pip's moral regeneration.
The major cause of the tragedy in The Victims is
- A. the African polygamous marriage system
- B. Nwabunor's jealosy
- C. Ogugua's moral laxity
- D. Obunua's irresponsibility
A close reading of The Victims reveals that Ogugua’s pr-marital and extra-marital affairs are a reflection of her
- A. innate promiscuity
- B. love of public scandals
- C. defiance of social norms
- D. self-hate.
Which of the following best describes Nwabunor in The Victims?
- A. An industriouswoman plagued by bad luck
- B. A quarrelsome woman
- C. A jealous rival
- D. A shrewd calculating woman
In The Victims, the two old women play the role of
- A. guardians of tradition
- B. eavesdroppers
- C. witches
- D. chorus
The sufferings of the protagonist in Birago Diop’s ‘vanity’ are
- A. caused by circumstance
- B. self-inflicted
- C. imposed on them by enemies
- D. the act of fate
Which of the following best describes the speakers attitude to mother Idoto in Okigbo’s poem ‘Idoto’?
- A. Obsequious
- B. Defiant
- C. Arrogant
- D. Submissive.
‘I shall sleep under the roof of other heads of hair in shelter from storms’.
In Leopold Senghor’s poem ‘Long long you have held between your hands’, the word ‘storms’ in the above line refers to
- A. sea storms
- B. rain storms
- C. storming raids by the racist police
- D. storms of passion.
In J.P Clark’s Olokun’, the line
‘So drunken like ancient walls’
means that the worshipers are drunken with
- A. wine served at Olokun's altar
- B. sacred water since Olokun rules the sea
- C. bounties to be bestowned by Olokun
- D. intense awe of Olokun
In J.P Clark’s ‘Olokun’, the line ‘No greater love has a woman’ signifies
- A. unrequired love
- B. mutual love
- C. impossible love
- D. erotic love
At the end of the poem ‘pianos and Drums’, the protagonist is best described as
- A. an authentic African
- B. a cultural mulatto
- C. sophisticated African
- D. a cultured youth
”But it is not the time
To lay wreaths
For yesterdays crimes…”
Lenrie Peters in his poem, We Have Come Home” makes this statement because
- A. the future is unpredictatble
- B. past sufferings are best forgotten
- C. there is no point crying over spilled milk
- D. mourning can be posponed
In ”Abiku”, the statement
”Yams do not sprout in amulets
To earth Abiku”s limbs….”
Simply means
- A. Abiku should not be buried with amulets
- B. yams and amulets are repugnant to Abiku
- C. Abiku cannot be appeased
- D. yams cannot grow on Abiku's grave.
The tragedy in Romeo and Juliet occurs as a result of
- A. a flaw in the character of Romeo
- B. a flaw in the character of Juliet
- C. Friar Lawrence's advice
- D. circumstances rather than flaws in character.
Which of the following illustrate the element of chance in Romeo and Juliet?
- A. Friar Lawrence's letter to Romeo
- B. Rosaline rejection of Romeo's love
- C. Juliet's confiding in her nurse
- D. The death of Lady Mountague.