This question is based on General Literary Principles.
The word ‘image’ is associated with
- A. attitude
- B. mood
- C. tone
- D. abstraction
This question is based on General Literary Principles.
A form of symbolism in which ideas or abstract qualities are represented in a poem is an
- A. allegory
- B. allusion
- C. ambiguity
- D. apostrophe
This question is based on General Literary Principles.
An exaggeration or overstatement in literature is a
- A. hexameter
- B. hyperbole
- C. metaphor
- D. soliloquy
This question is based on General Literary Principles.
A quatrain is
- A. the last line of a poem
- B. the fourth line of a sonnet
- C. a poem which ends with a question
- D. a stanza consisting of four lines
This question is based on General Literary Principles.
Comic relief is
- A. the use of humorous characters speeches or scenes in a tragic work
- B. a figure of speech used in comic theatre
- C. the use of hearty and wholesome laughter in plays
- D. a device used in the theatre where a play ends in marriage
This question is based on General Literary Principles.
The purgation of the emotions of pity and fear in tragedy is called
- A. catharsis
- B. tragi-comedy
- C. demetia
- D. cleansing
This question is based on General Literary Principles.
When a story is told in a song and passed down by word of mouth, it is called
- A. a sonnet
- B. an epic
- C. a ballad
- D. a singer's story
This question is based on William Golding’s Lord of the Flies.
The character in the novel who best symbolizes man’s pride in his ability to reason is
- A. Henry
- B. Maurice
- C. Piggy
- D. Roger
This question is based on William Golding’s Lord of the Flies.
That the rescue ship was attracted not by a fire made for the purpose but by one aimed at smoking Ralph out for destruction is a case of
- A. oxymoron
- B. paradox
- C. irony
- D. catastrophe
This question is based on William Golding’s Lord of the Flies.
The island in the novel is a
- A. symbol of peace
- B. hide out for children during the war
- C. symbol of innocence
- D. world of abundance
This question is based on William Golding’s Lord of the Flies.
At one point in the novel, Jack paints his face
This act can be interpreted to mean
- A. regression into savagery
- B. that he is now fully ready for the dance
- C. an attempt to hide from the other children
- D. an attempt to hide from the animals he wishes to hunt
This question is based on Ayi Kwei Armah’s ‘The Beautyful Ones are Not Yet Born’.
Kofi Billy’s right leg was cut off by a machine in the novel because
- A. the young Englishman loaded too much tension into the steel ropes
- B. he had been playing at work with the steel ropes
- C. the steel ropes were old, slack and gave way
- D. he had always wanted a wooden leg
This question is based on Ayi Kwei Armah”s ”The Beautyful Ones are Not Yet Born”.
By the coup which takes place towards the end of the novel, the writer suggests that
- A. there is very little hope for genuine change
- B. all corrupt politicians shall be ousted
- C. the military is the hope for salvation
- D. the beautiful ones will soon be born
This question is based on Ayi Kwei Armah’s ‘The Beautyful Ones are Not Yet Born’.
‘…no difference at all between the ” whitemen” and their apes the layers and the merchants and now apes of the apes our Party men …’
The statement above refers to Koomson’s
- A. commitment to the plight of the poor man
- B. reaction to the politics of betrayal
- C. change of attitude to the plight of the poor man
- D. disgust with the ''whitemen'' who are apes
This question i based on selected poems from Wole Soyinka (ed.) Poems of Black Africa, E.K. Senanu and T. Vincent (ed.)Selection of African Poetry and E.W. Parker (ed.) A Pageant of Longer Poems.
The dominant mood in ‘Ode to a Nightingale’ is that of
- A. anxiety
- B. melancholy
- C. helplessness
- D. fury
This question i based on selected poems from Wole Soyinka (ed.) Poems of Black Africa, E.K. Senanu and T. Vincent (ed.)Selection of African Poetry and E.W. Parker (ed.) A Pageant of Longer Poems.
The confusion in the poet in D.H. Lawrence’s poem ‘Snake’ arises from
- A. education and love
- B. fascination and fear
- C. anger and hospitability
- D. protest and regret
This question i based on selected poems from Wole Soyinka (ed.) Poems of Black Africa, E.K. Senanu and T. Vincent (ed.)Selection of African Poetry and E.W. Parker (ed.) A Pageant of Longer Poems.
The setting of T.S. Eliot’s ‘Journey of the Magi’ is characterized by
- A. coldness
- B. confusion
- C. faiety
- D. warmth
This question i based on selected poems from Wole Soyinka (ed.) Poems of Black Africa, E.K. Senanu and T. Vincent (ed.)Selection of African Poetry and E.W. Parker (ed.) A Pageant of Longer Poems.
Kofi Awoonor’s poem ‘Songs of Sorrow’ suggests that
- A. death is temporary
- B. life is continuous
- C. the living communicate with the dead
- D. death is final
This question i based on selected poems from Wole Soyinka (ed.) Poems of Black Africa, E.K. Senanu and T. Vincent (ed.)Selection of African Poetry and E.W. Parker (ed.) A Pageant of Longer Poems.
In ‘The Casualties’ J.P. Clark discusses
- A. soldiers who die in the war
- B. insecurity of the writer in times of crisis
- C. the suffering of soldiers and civilians during a war
- D. those whose property is destoryed during a war
This question i based on selected poems from Wole Soyinka (ed.) Poems of Black Africa, E.K. Senanu and T. Vincent (ed.)Selection of African Poetry and E.W. Parker (ed.) A Pageant of Longer Poems.
The poet in Sunset Sonata proposes
- A. defiance and protest
- B. arrogance and complacency
- C. nonchalance and pride
- D. violence and aggression
This question i based on selected poems from Wole Soyinka (ed.) Poems of Black Africa, E.K. Senanu and T. Vincent (ed.)Selection of African Poetry and E.W. Parker (ed.) A Pageant of Longer Poems.
‘And when He looks at the grimy coating,
Caking off your emaciated skin,…’
These lines from Richard Ntiru’s ‘The Pauper’ describe
- A. the texture of the pauper's skin
- B. the coat the pauper was wearing
- C. the effect of the surroundings
- D. poverty and dirt