This question is based on selected poems from Ker, D. et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa; Soyinka, W. (ed.): Poems of Black Africa; Senanu, K.E. and Vincent, T.(eds.): A Selection of African Poetry; Umukoro, M. et al (eds.): Exam Focus: Literature in English; Eruvbetine, A.E.et al (eds.): Longman Examination Guides and Nwoga D.I. (ed.): Weast African Verse.
Keats’ on the Grasshopper and Cricket is best described as
- A. romantic
- B. medieval
- C. metaphysical
- D. platonic
This question is based on selected poems from Ker, D. et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa; Soyinka, W. (ed.): Poems of Black Africa; Senanu, K.E. and Vincent, T.(eds.): A Selection of African Poetry; Umukoro, M. et al (eds.): Exam Focus: Literature in English; Eruvbetine, A.E.et al (eds.): Longman Examination Guides and Nwoga D.I. (ed.): Weast African Verse.
In We must learn Again to Fly; Ofeimum exhorts the reader
- A. not to lose hope in the face of adversity
- B. to enjoy his success
- C. to give up if he does not succeed
- D. to work harder even if he succeeds
This question is based on Ahmed Yerima’s Attahiru.
The character attributes of Attahiru qualify him as
- A. an egocentric partriot
- B. a Muslim fanatic
- C. a religious martyr
- D. a political revolutionary
This question is based on General Literary Principles.
The sides of a stage are called
- A. the ways
- B. both sides
- C. the pits
- D. the wings
This question is based on General Literary Principles.
A metrical pause occurring in the middle of a line in a poem is called
- A. rhythm
- B. tetrametre
- C. assonance
- D. caesura
This question is based on General Literary Principles.
A complex plot can be described as the plot structure that has
- A. multiple scenes
- B. strands of events runnings concurrently
- C. well-developed characters
- D. an abstract subject and setting
This question is based on General Literary Principles.
An address to a metaphysical source of inspiration by a poet is called
- A. clairvoyance
- B. inspiration
- C. invocation
- D. nemesis
This question is based on General Literary Principles.
Flash back in a literary work help to
- A. fill the missing link
- B. reveal the characters'mindsets
- C. place the story in proper perspective
- D. relate events that are extraneous to the story
This question is based on General Literary Principles.
A travelogue is
- A. the account of the travails of a character in novle
- B. a record of the writer's experiences during a journey
- C. a variant of a novel written in a free style on a writer's journey
- D. the account of the experiences of an indiviual during his lifetime
This question is based on General Literary Principles.
A humorous scene, incident or speech in the course of a serious fiction or drama is a
- A. play-within-the-play
- B. comic scene
- C. comic relief
- D. tragi-comedy
This question is based on General Literary Principles.
A work which takes place in a non-existent world or which concerns an incredible character is
- A. romance
- B. fantasy
- C. parody
- D. superstition
This question is based on General Literary Principles.
An anti-social taken by the tragic hero which results in a catastrophe is called
- A. anagnorisis
- B. premonition
- C. harmatia
- D. empathy
This question is based on Ahmed Yerima”s Attahiru.
The play is historical because it deals with
- A. real personages and places
- B. the jihad led by Caliph Attahiru
- C. lugard''s attempt to amalgamate the southern and northern protectorates
- D. Attahiru''s ascenssion to the caliphacy in November 1902
This question is based on General Literary Principles.
The physical setting within which the action of a narrative takes place is the
- A. stage
- B. scene
- C. locale
- D. location
This question is based on Ahmed Yerima’s Attahiru.
Abbas the beggar is a symbol of
- A. the end justifying the means
- B. the rich also crying
- C. pride before perdition
- D. courage amidst adversity
This question is based on Ahmed Yerima’s Attahiru.
The dispute between Sarkin Zango and Sarkin Fatake is over a
- A. horse
- B. piece of land
- C. source of water
- D. farmland
This question is based on Ahmed Yerima’s Attahiru.
Form the viewpoint of the British government, the attack on the Sokoto Caliphate is
- A. one of superiority
- B. a war of attrition
- C. one of vengeance
- D. a jihad
This question is based on William Shakespeare’s Hamlet.
The seeming shifty structure of the play is used to
- A. assist in the development of the characters
- B. sustain the reader's interest
- C. reflect the emotional and psychological state of Hamlet
- D. slow down the pace of the plot development
This question is based on William Shakespeare’s Hamlet.
The king’s clown whose skull is exhumed by Gravedigger is
- A. Rosencrantz
- B. Yorick
- C. Sexton
- D. Fortinbras
This question is based on William Shakespeare’s Hamlet.
‘But, howsoever thou pursuest this act,
Taint not thy mind, nor let thy soul contrive Against thy mother….’
The ghost exhorts young Hamlet not to kill his mother because
- A. his wife is bewitched into falling for Claudius' seduction
- B. the ghost wishes her to be left to the torment of her conscience
- C. the ghost still loves his wife even in death
- D. the young Hamlet will be guilty of matricide
This question is based on William Shakespeare’s Hamlet.
Ghost serves to
- A. accelerate dramatic conflict
- B. intensify dramatic conflict
- C. initiate dramatic conflict
- D. complicate dramatic conflict