The writer of a poem is called__________?
- A. Author
- B. Poet
- C. Writer
- D. Narrator
Which of these is the meaning of “CAST”?
- A. a list of all characters in a drama
- B. what the character is saying
- C. the person who writes the drama
- D. a list of protagonists in a drama
What does the playwright do?
- A. Writes a poem
- B. Writes a book
- C. Writes a play
- D. Directs a drama
“Peter’s pretty partner paid the bills” is an example of___________?
- A. Alliteration
- B. Rhyme
- C. Satire
- D. Digression
A literary device in which parts of a sentence are grammatically the same, or are similar in construction Is known as__________
- A. Simile
- B. Aside
- C. Parallelism
- D. Irony
Group of lines are called _____
- A. Sentences
- B. Stanzas
- C. Danzas
- D. Line Grouping
The phrase “living death” in a literary work is an example_____________
- A. Synecdoche
- B. Prose
- C. Oxymoron
- D. Aside
Tension between the protagonist and the antagonist is called______
- A. Climax
- B. Concrete
- C. Conflict
- D. Confident
In drama, the protagonist is ________
- A. the writer of the drama
- B. the leading character
- C. the “nice guy”
- D. the actor
He who writes a prose is a__________?
- A. Poet
- B. Writer
- C. Author
- D. Actor
“I cannot rest from travel: I will drink, life to the lees, all times I have enjoyed greatly, have suffered greatly”. A.L. Tennyson: “Ulysses”
The lines above inform the reader that the poet
- A. Is determined to suffer
- B. Has his poetic imagination kindled
- C. Will cure his sour mood
- D. Will not drink much
“… They do not see the funeral plies, At home eating up the forests…” J.P Clark: “Casualties”
The imagery created in the above excerpt is achieved through______
- A. Metaphor
- B. Personification
- C. Synecdoche
- D. Metonymy
“The drum overwhelmed the guns…” J.P Clark: “Casualties”
The poet in the excerpt above uses
- A. litotes
- B. symbolism
- C. onomatopoeia
- D. aliteration
Serrated Shadows, through dark leaves,
Till, bathed in warm suffusion of your dapped cells
sensation pained me, faceless, silent as night thieves
Wole Soyinka: “Night”
The dominant mood in the lines above is one at____________
- A. apprehension
- B. defiance
- C. joy
- D. indifference
“Hide me now, when night children haunt the earth” Wole Soyinka: “Night”.
Night children in the stanza above reflects the consciousness of__________
- A. birds
- B. armed robbers
- C. animals
- D. spirit beings
How can I look at Oyo and say I hate long shiny cars? How can I come to the children and despise international schools? And Koomson comes; and the family sees Jesus Christ in him…
The feeling conveyed by the speaker above is one of_________
- A. anger
- B. alienation
- C. hope
- D. despair
Your head is like a drum that is beaten for spirits
Your ears are like the fans used for blowing fire.
The lines above are a good example of_________
- A. caricature
- B. ridicule
- C. satire
- D. lampoon
Use the following excerpt to answer the question.
“I wonder how long, you awful parasites,
Shall share with me this little bed.
And make me, from my sweet dreams be lost,
by sucking blood from my poor head…
Mbure: “To Bed-Bug“
The most dominant figure of speech in the excerpt is________
- A. metaphor
- B. simile
- C. personification
- D. hyperbole
Use the following excerpt to answer the question.
“I wonder how long, you awful parasites,
Shall share with me this little bed.
And make me, from my sweet dreams be lost,
by sucking blood from my poor head…
Mbure: “To Bed-Bug“
The lines are an example of a________?
- A. limerick
- B. lampoon
- C. light verse
- D. light opera
The question is based on William’s Shakespeare’s OTHELLO
“O heaven; How got she out?
O treason of the blood!
Father; from hence trust not your daughters’ minds
By what you see them act. Is there not charms
By which the property of youth and maid-hood
May be abused?
The speaker of the excerpt above is________
- A. Brabantio
- B. Othello
- C. Gratiano
- D. Roderigo
The question is based on William’s Shakespeare’s OTHELLO
“Soft you; a word or two before you go. I have done the state some service and they knew’ No more of
- A. Travelling
- B. Sick
- C. Dying
- D. Eloping