This question is based on Bayo Adebowale’s Lonely Days
Yaremi’s main job is
- A. selling cassava
- B. harvesting cassava
- C. dyeing taffeta cloths
- D. sewing taffeta cloths
This question is based on Frank Ogodo Ogbeche’s Harvest of Corruption
Who impregnated Aloho?
- A. The Commissioner
- B. Chief Haladu
- C. Justice Odili
- D. Inspector Inaku
_______ In literature is the sequential arrangement of events in a creative work
- A. Cast
- B. Summary
- C. Flaw
- D. Plot
This question is based on Faceless by Amma Darko
What is the reason that caused Odarley’s mother to send her away from home?
- A. she chose to go to the street
- B. her mother remarried
- C. she steals her mother things
- D. she wants to poison her boyfriend
This question is based on Selected Poems from Johnson, R et al(eds): New Poetry from Africa; Soyinka, (ed); Poems of Black Africa; Senanu, K.E, and Vicent, T.(ed.):
A Selection of African Poetry; Gbemisola A.: Naked Soles; Hayward, J.(ed.); The Penguin Book of English Verse and Nwoga, D.(ed.): West African Verse.
Tennyson’s Crossing the Bar is ________?
- A. a celebration of life
- B. an appreciation of nature
- C. a demystification of death
- D. a celebration of the final passage
This question is based on William Shakespeare’s Othello.
According to the highest estimate, how many ships in the Turkish fleet were said to head for the Island of Cyprus?
- A. 107
- B. 230
- C. 200
- D. 140
This question is based on Amma Darko’s Facesless.
The street phenomenon in the novel is a universal theme because
- A. It only occurs in Ghana
- B. It could be found only in Africa
- C. It is common to almost all nations of the world
- D. the novel is read in all parts of the world
“I can stand well enough and I speak well enough”. The excerpt above exemplifies ___ ?
- A. synedole
- B. euphemism
- C. repetition
- D. irony
This question is based on General Literacy Principles
A literacy device wherein the author places a person, concept, idea or theme parallel to another is ________?
- A. allusion
- B. juxtaposition
- C. symbolism
- D. memoir
This question is based on Literary.
Our third jailer made little or me. He was one of the many struggled in order to feed their families. Be seemed to be very much controlled by the other two. Elechi Amadi Sunset in Biafra
The speaker’s attitude towards the jailer in the passage above is that of
- A. admiration
- B. condemnation
- C. spite
- D. respect
This question is based on General Literacy Principles
An example of a narrative poem is ________?
- A. elegy
- B. epic
- C. dirge
- D. sonnet
This question is based on Literary Appreciation
“ How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world ” Anne Frank The Diary of a young Girl
The writer of the passage above is ________?
- A. assertive
- B. retrogressive
- C. optimistic
- D. antagonistic
This question is based on Amma Darko’s Faceless
The narrative style adopted in the novel is
- A. second persons
- B. third person
- C. interior monologue
- D. first person
This question is based on General Literacy Principles
A prose work which centres on moral growth and character formation of an individual is called
- A. psychological novel
- B. picaresque
- C. autobiography
- D. satirical novel
This question is based on Frank Ogodo Ogbeche’s Harvest of Corruption
The play portrays the judiciary as
- A. unserious and lenient
- B. consistent and just
- C. corrupt and weak
- D. patronising and self-righteous
This question is based on General Literacy Principles
At the peak of the trumpeter’s performance, his cheeks were as if they were balloons and his eyes spoke many words. The literacy devices in the extract above are ________?
- A. metaphor and paradox
- B. simile and metaphor
- C. simile and personification
- D. paradox and simile
This question is based on Frank Ogodo Ogbeche’s Harvest of Corruption
The Two dominant themes of the play are
- A. honesty and decency
- B. immorality and greed
- C. poverty and education
- D. weeding and planting
This question is based on William Shakesphere’s Othello.
“…Fathers, from hence trust not your daughters’ minds. By what you see them act. Is there not charms. By which the property of youth and maidhood May be abused?…..”
The speaker in the excerpt above addresses _______?
- A. Othello
- B. Iago
- C. Brabantio
- D. Roderigo
This question is based on Selected Poems from Johnson, R et al(eds): New Poetry from Africa; Soyinka,(ed); Poems of Black Africa; Senanu, K.E, and Vincent, T.(ed): A Selection of African Poetry; Gbemisola A.: Naked Soles; Hayward, J.(ed.); The Penguin Book of English Verse and Nwoga, D.(ed): West African verse.
… goodness lead him not, yet weariness May toss him to my breast’
The literary device in the extract above from Herbert’s The Pulley is
- A. metonymy
- B. personification
- C. oxymoron
- D. irony
“Carrying a heavy bundle of tightly wrapped bits and pieces of junk drooping over his face”
The excerpt above exemplifies _______?
- A. Irony
- B. synedoche
- C. symbolism
- D. euphemism
This question is based on Selec ted Poems from Johnson, R et al(eds): New Poetry from Africa; Soyinka,(ed); Poems of Black Africa; Senanu, K.E, and Vincent, T.(ed): A Selection of African Poetry; Gbemisola A.: Naked Soles; Hayward, J.(ed.); The Penguin Book of English Verse and Nwoga, D.(ed): West African verse.
…where guerillas walk the land while crocodiles surf.
The lines above in Hallowell’s The Dining Table signify _______?
- A. danger
- B. calmness
- C. pity
- D. saddness