This question is based on Femi Osofisan’s Morountodun.
Titubi joins the farmer’s revolt
- A. to ensure it's success
- B. as a spy for the establishment
- C. in pursuit of Marshal
- D. to defy the police
This question is based on Femi Osofisan’s Morountodun.
In the play, social change is achieved through
- A. collectivism
- B. sectionalism
- C. individualism
- D. communism
This question is based on General Literary Principles.
‘The woman whose breast I sucked is gone to the worms, ‘Oculi, Orphan’. These lines illustrate the use of
- A. sadism
- B. sophism
- C. satire
- D. euphemism
This question is based on General Literary Principles.
In drama, a conspicuous weakness in the character of the protagonist contributing to his downfall is referred to as
- A. an anagnorisis
- B. a tragic flaw
- C. a catharsis
- D. a catastrophe
This question is based on General Literary Principles.
Romantic poetry emphasizes
- A. the beauty of nature
- B. intimate relationships
- C. the love in human nature
- D. the romance in human aspiration
This question is based on General Literary Principles.
A melodramatic play is based on
- A. a melodious manipulation of events
- B. ingredients that mellow down events
- C. sensational plot and characters
- D. the playwright's didactic overtones
This question is based on General Literary Principles.
‘If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?’ Shelly, ‘Ode to the West Wind’. The literary device used here is
- A. an apostrophe
- B. an allegory
- C. a poetic license
- D. a rhetoric
This question is based on General Literary Principles.
When two statements or comparisons are apparently contradictory, we have an example of
- A. irony
- B. paradox
- C. contrast
- D. parallelism
This question is based on General Literary Principles.
An elegy is a poem that mourns for the
- A. deceased
- B. bereaved
- C. accused
- D. king
This question is based on General Literary Principles.
Poems that are not written in meter or regular line length are called
- A. short verses
- B. rhythmic verses
- C. free verses
- D. irregular verses
This question is based on General Literary Principles.
The three main unities in drama are those of
- A. action, time and place
- B. time, space and action
- C. place, time and space
- D. space, action and time
This question is based on General Literary Principles.
Persona refers to the
- A. central character in a play
- B. voice of the character
- C. the image a character presents
- D. the personality of a character
A band of singers and dancers in drama who acts as a link between the play and the audience is the
- A. Chorus
- B. Clown
- C. Playwright
- D. Cast
A situation where an actor addresses the audience without the other actors hearing him is called
- A. Soliloquy
- B. Chorus
- C. Aside
- D. Solo
Criticism is a literary activity which seeks to
- A. Find faults in a literary work
- B. Analyze and evaluate a literary work
- C. compare and contrast novels
- D. Discover the beauty of a literary work.
A technique by which a previous scene or action can be recalled in a play to shed light on the present action is
- A. Climax
- B. Flashback
- C. Interlude
- D. Cathersis
A play in which the acts succeed on another without probable or necessary sequence is
- A. Episodic
- B. Simple
- C. Linear
- D. Convoluted
The repetition of a consonant sound in quick succession of sound effect is
- A. Alliteration
- B. Pun
- C. onomatopoeia
- D. Assonance
These qustion is based on selected poems from Johnson, R, 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: U. Maduka, C.T et al: Exam Focus: Literature Examination Guides; Nwoga, D.I. (ed.): West African Verse and Adeoti G: Naked Soles.
The theme of Cope’s Sonnet VII is
- A. art of poetry
- B. adventure
- C. contempt for literature
- D. isolation
These qustion is based on selected poems from Johnson, R, 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: U. Maduka, C.T et al: Exam Focus: Literature Examination Guides; Nwoga, D.I. (ed.): West African Verse and Adeoti G: Naked Soles.
The casualties in Launko’s End of the War
- A. women
- B. children
- C. men
- D. soldiers
These qustion is based on selected poems from Johnson, R, 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: U. Maduka, C.T et al: Exam Focus: Literature Examination Guides; Nwoga, D.I. (ed.): West African Verse and Adeoti G: Naked Soles.
“We would be believing we dreamt it”
The figure of speech in the line above from Acquah’s In the Navel of the Soul is
- A. apostrophe
- B. assonance
- C. antithesis
- D. alliteration