‘He glanced at his bitten nails, and with his chin resting on his knees, said, ‘well, i ask them to let me go below to visit my pa in the cell. they feel sorry for me, and say its okay. So i go down to see him, this man what made my ma’s life a misery like hell, and who never had a word for me, and did nothing but give me the belt’.
From what he says, the kid in this passage
- A. loves his father
- B. dislikes his father
- C. disowns his father
- D. feels sorry for his father
- E. is proud of his father.
‘But now as he climbed the steep path leading to his home, his courage started to lag behind. His conscience lagged behind. His weak body and hungry stomach pushed him expectantly up the path towards home, where rest and satisfaction awaited him…’
The literary device predominantly used in this passage is
- A. hendiadys
- B. onomatopoeia
- C. metonymy
- D. simile
- E. personification.
So fair fancy few would weave
In these years!
The poetic device consciously used here is
- A. personification
- B. apostrophe
- C. alliteration
- D. oxymoron
- E. simile.
‘Dead leaves blew into the room.
And alighted upon my bed.
Ans a tree declared to the gloom
Its sorrow that they were shed’
The mood registered in these lines is
- A. excitement
- B. depression
- C. gaiety
- D. happiness
- E. persimism
‘Folk all fade. And whither.
As i wait alone where the fair was?
Into the clammy and numbing night fog
Whence they entered hither
Soon one more goes thither!
In these lines, ‘the clammy and numbing night fog’ (line3) refers to
- A. a night in the poet's life
- B. unpleasant weather conditions
- C. life's problem and misfortunes
- D. the state before birth and after death
- E. darkness after sunset
‘He sat down on a box. he took out letter he had received from Joseph the other Friday and read it again. Then he put it back. A tear, a single tear, ran down his face. he rubbed it off, rather impatiently. he poured water, cold water from a cup, into one hand and washed his face.
He was suddenly very lucid, calm inside’.
What makes this scene taken from a novel very real to the reader is the writer’s use of
- A. imagery
- B. simile
- C. details
- D. uncommon words
- E. metaphor
In Mine Boy Peter Abraham’s is of the view that in South Africa
- A. a black and white should live and develop separately
- B. racial harmony is desirable and possible
- C. black should never cooperate with white
- D. racial harmony is merewishful thinking
- E. the conflict between black and white can never end.
Keats’ ‘Ode to a Nightingale’ is a romantic poem because
- A. it depends a great deal on the poet's spontaneous response to beauty
- B. it is a poem about love
- C. nightingale symbolizes love
- D. it was addressed to one of Keats' friends called Nightingale
- E. Keats first described the poem as a romantic poem.
In Oswald Mtshali’s ‘nightfall in Soweto’, Night represents
- A. the oppression of whites by the Africans
- B. white people's fear by the Africans
- C. the black victimization of white people
- D. the oppression of the Africans by the white people
- E. the rebelion of the white people
In The Marriage of Anansewa, to which character
do the following praise-names refer?
‘Oh Mighty-Tree-of-Ancient-Origin
Mighty-Tree-of-Ancient-Origin
Rooted in the shrine of deity
Countless branches in which
Benighted wandering birds
Are welcome to shelter’
- A. Togbe Klu IV
- B. Chief of the Mines
- C. Chief-Who-Is-Chief
- D. Chief of Sapa
- E. property Man.
The subject of ‘If You Should Know Me’ by Oswald Mtshali is that the
- A. blacks should create a new image for themselves
- B. blacks should get ajusted to the image the whites have created for them
- C. whites should know the blacks very well
- D. whites should deal with the uncompromising blacks
- E. blacks should always be law abiding
Which character does NOT fit into the group?
- A. Corin
- B. Silvius
- C. William
- D. Young Siward
- E. Audrey.
Which character made the following statement in Macbeth?:
This castle hath a pleasant seat, the air Nimbly and sweetly recommends itself
Unto our gentle senses’
- A. Macbeth
- B. Duncan
- C. Lady Macbeth
- D. Macduff
- E. Lennox
what is the subject of Kalu Uka’s ‘Earth to Earth?
- A. The size of the universe
- B. The immensity of Nature
- C. Death
- D. Growth
- E. A long journey
Dramatic irony entails
- A. a statement that means more than is evident to its maker
- B. a hilarious statement
- C. satirical comment
- D. a sarcastic announcement
- E. praise of the audience.
The ‘Myth of the Bagre’ is recited at the
- A. funeral of young men
- B. funeral of young women
- C. funeral of old men and woman
- D. coming of age of young men and women
- E. return of the ancestors.
In Shakespeare”s Macbeth, the central character-Macbeth-is
- A. a Russhian general
- B. a Scottish general
- C. a Finnish general
- D. an English general
- E. a German general
Gray’s ‘Elegy Written in a country churchyard’ can be seen as
- A. total condemnation of human life
- B. lament for the death of the great and powerful
- C. an attack on social inequality
- D. a criticism of the poor and the unambitious
- E. a recognition of the poor and simple life.
The dominant attitude in T.S. Eliot’s ‘Journey of the magi’s is
- A. dissatisfaction
- B. total satisfaction
- C. ambivalence
- D. disgust
- E. pessimism.
The grave procession in Soyinka”s ”procession l-Hanging day” is meant to suggest in the entire poem
- A. the people in the procession are going to the grave
- B. the people are moving slowly in order to avoid the sunny spots
- C. the people in the procession are solemn
- D. the people in the procession are solemn and are going to the grave
- E. the people walk soundlessly.
‘The Thane of Cawdor lives: why do you dress me in borrowed robes?
Macbeth is putting this question to
- A. Banquo
- B. the witches
- C. hid servant
- D. Ross and Angus
- E. Lady Macbeth.