This question is based on Literary Appreciation.
LINDA: (hearing WILLY outside the bedroom, calls with some trepidation): Willy!
WILLY: It’s all right, I came back.
LINDA: Why? What happened? (slight pause). Did something happen, Willy?
WILLY: No, nothing happened.
Arthur Miller, Death of a Salesman
Willy’s first words show that his coming back is
- A. ill-timed
- B. too early
- C. not expected
- D. normal
This question is based on Literary Appreciation.
LINDA: (hearing WILLY outside the bedroom, calls with some trepidation): Willy!
WILLY: It’s all right, I came back.
LINDA: Why? What happened? (slight pause). Did something happen, Willy?
WILLY: No, nothing happened.
Arthur Miller, Death of a Salesman
Linda’s words above express a feeling of
- A. darkness and horror
- B. fear and sadness
- C. fear and anxiety
- D. suspicion and shock
This question is based on Literary Appreciation.
Africa my Africa of proud warriors in ancestral savannahs…
I have never known you but your blood flows in my veins
Your beautiful black blood that irrigates the fields….
David Diop, “Africa”
In the lines above, Diop uses
- A. personification
- B. metaphor
- C. simile
- D. onomatopoeia
This question is based on Literary Appreciation.
‘Thus; quixoting till a cast-off of my land I sing and fare, person to loved-one pressed braced for this pressure and the captor’s hand that snaps off service like a weathered strand…’
Dennis Brutus ‘A Troubadour I Traverse’
In the lines above, the poet-persona expresses
- A. defiance
- B. resignation
- C. fear
- D. sorrow
This question is based on Literary Appreciation.
‘Those who have nothing but guns for the hungry and think of nothing but death and dying let them spend our earth’s fortune harvesting blood from the fields of war. The last banquet shall be their children’s blood.
Kofi Anyidoho, “Blood Harvest”
The stanza above succinctly presents the
- A. problem of war
- B. problem of hunger
- C. folly of soldiers
- D. repercussion of violence
This question is based on Literary Appreciation.
‘In Umuaro it is not our custom to refuse a call, although we may refuse to do what the caller asks. Ezeulu does not want to refuse the white man’s call and so he is sending his son!’
Chinua Achebe, Arrow of God
The lines above illustrate the use of
- A. deep metaphor
- B. extended proverb
- C. traditional parable
- D. local colour
This question is based on Literary Appreciation.
‘He would hear the heavy uneven breathing of the child. It was as if she were carrying a weight with great effort up a long hill…He prayed again ”Father, look after her. Give her peace…Take away my peace forever, but give her peace”
Graham Greene, The Heart of the Matter.
The man’s reactions to the presence of the dying child show that he is
- A. tolerant
- B. compassionate
- C. prayerful
- D. loving
This question is based on General Literary Principles.
Lineation refers to
- A. tracing family descent of poeple in verse
- B. the unit in the rhythmic structure of verse
- C. the arrangement of lines in verse form
- D. the grouping together of a number of units of rhythm
This question is based on General Literary Principles.
Mock-heroic poetry elevates
- A. the beauty in human relationships as exemplified in Homer
- B. trivial subject-matter by using the style of the classical epic
- C. the stripping off of appearances in a witty manner
- D. the important tales of heroes of the past era
This question is based on General Literary Principles.
Using the name of one thing for something else with which it is closely associated is an instance of
- A. parody
- B. paradox
- C. parallelism
- D. metonymy
This question is based on General Literary Principles.
The term given to a type of incident or device which recurs frequently in Literature is
- A. motif
- B. ritual
- C. myth
- D. concept
This question is based on General Literary Principles.
A novel which focuses on the adventures of a rogue who does not change much in the course of the story is
- A. romanesque
- B. grotesque
- C. picaresque
- D. burlesque
This question is based on General Literary Principles.
A trilogy is the
- A. sequence of three one-act drama written by the same author
- B. set of three plays written by the same authors
- C. collection of three poems of equal length
- D. series of related stories divided into three equal parts
This question is based on General Literary Principles.
A primary ballad is associated with
- A. educated people
- B. urban folk
- C. the nomads
- D. rural folk
This question is based on General Literary Principles.
The narrator in a prose work who is also a character is
- A. subjective narrator
- B. objective narrator
- C. omniscient narrator
- D. participatory narrator
This question is based on General Literary Principles.
A panegyric poem is composed to
- A. abuse
- B. condemn
- C. praise
- D. elaborate
This question is based on General Literary Principles.
A character who does not develop or experience change in the course of his or her existence in a novel is a
- A. round character
- B. flat character
- C. rounded character
- D. major character
This question is based on General Literary Principles.
The figure of speech in which a character makes a statement that has or would have deep and serious implications in the play is
- A. aside
- B. euphemism
- C. dramatic irony
- D. textual contrast
This question is based on General Literary Principles.
The term for the moral flaw or weakness that leads to the downfall of a major character in drama is
- A. chaos
- B. hamartia
- C. denouement
- D. reversal
This question is based on selected poems from:
R. Johnson and D. Ker er al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa; Wole Soyinka (ed.): Poems of Black Africa; K.E. Senanu and T. Vincent (eds.): A Selection of African Poetry; M. Umukoro and A. Sani et al (eds.) Exam Focus: Literature in English; A.E. Eruvbetine and M. Jibril et al (eds.): Longman Examination Guides: Poetry and E.W. Parker (ed.): A Pageant of Longer Poems.
In “Ode on a Grecian Urn,” John Keats is concerned with
- A. the impermanence of the Grecian Urn
- B. human and eternal love
- C. the youthfulness of lovers
- D. everlasting beauty of art
This question is based on selected poems from:
R. Johnson and D. Ker er al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa; Wole Soyinka (ed.): Poems of Black Africa; K.E. Senanu and T. Vincent (eds.): A Selection of African Poetry; M. Umukoro and A. Sani et al (eds.) Exam Focus: Literature in English; A.E. Eruvbetine and M. Jibril et al (eds.): Longman Examination Guides: Poetry and E.W. Parker (ed.): A Pageant of Longer Poems.
In Browning’s “My Last Duchess'” the poet persona’s attitude toward the Duchess is that of
- A. anger
- B. love
- C. sadness
- D. scorn