Africa my Africa of proud warriors in ancestral savannahs.
I have never known you
but your blood flows in my vein
Your beautiful black blood that irrigates
the field…
David Diop, ‘Africa’
In the lines above, Diop uses
- A. onomatopoeia
- B. metaphor
- C. personification
- D. simile
The narrator in a prose work who is also a character is
- A. omniscient narrator
- B. participatory narrator
- C. objective narrator
- D. subjective narrator
The term for the moral flaw or weakness that leads to downfall of a major character in drama is
- A. denouement
- B. hamartia
- C. chaos
- D. reversal
The term given to a type of incident or device which recurs frequently in literature is
- A. ritual
- B. concept
- C. myth
- D. motif
A trilogy is the
- A. set of three one-act drama written by related authors
- B. sequence of three plays written by the same author
- C. series of related stories divided into three equal parts
- D. collection of three poems of equal length
A panegyric poem is composed to
- A. praise
- B. abuse
- C. condemn
- D. elaborate
The tragic character is the person whose experiences arouse pity and
- A. frustration
- B. terror
- C. horror
- D. sympathy
I am informed the day recycles itself today
When I slept in the Lord in February .
I blame no one for an untimely death
I bless God for a noble departure- His words The Lord taketh the righteous away before evil days.’
The persona in the poem appear happy to have died
- A. a noble death
- B. at an old age
- C. an untimely death
- D. during the day
‘To see a world in a grain of sand
And a heaven in a wild flower
Hold infinity in the palm of your hand
And eternity in an hour’
– William Blake
To see a World In a Grain of Sand.
The predominant figure of speech used in the lines above is
- A. metaphor
- B. paradox
- C. hyperbole
- D. simile
The form of poetry that celebrates with nostalgia the ideal world of the countryside is referred to as
- A. a pastoral
- B. a ballad
- C. an ode
- D. an elegy
A character that heavily relies on cultural types for his manner of speech, his personality and other distinguishing characteristics is
- A. A stock character
- B. A rounded character
- C. An antagonist
- D. A fiction character
Monometer is a
- A. Line of verse consisting of a metrical foot
- B. Single foot used in John Milton's sonnets
- C. line repeated in first syllable of a word
- D. Single meter of Coleridge's poem, 'Christabel.'
A final stanza of a poem that is shorter than the preceding one is called
- A. Envoi
- B. Antithesis
- C. Epanalepsis
- D. Irony
Black theatre is a drama concerned with
- A. Mouners dressed in black
- B. The identity of black Americans
- C. Africans of west Indian origin
- D. Actors of black origin
That quality in a literal work which evokes tenderness, pity or sorrow is
- A. pathos
- B. patois
- C. pathopoeia
- D. pataphysics
‘Emonewua: You it is who own me, and I speak by your permission. When I came home with my husband this morning, believing my mother was ill and
needed nursing, little knew I was walking into a house of ruin
J.P Clark-Bekederemo: The Boat
From the excerpt above, the speaker is
- A. trained nurse
- B. homeless
- C. bereaved
- D. recovering from an illness
Caliph: ……. son, Open all your ears.
May Allah grant us the fortitude to accept his commands
…. Now the rest is my burden.
I am willing to accept Allah’s
will in the matter.
The language of the speaker above is
- A. inciting
- B. diplomatic
- C. imploring
- D. submissive
And your laughter like a flame
piercing the shadows
Has revealed Africa to me beyond
the snow of yesterday.
From the poem above, shadow means
- A. bleak future
- B. period of suffering
- C. abstract ideas
- D. famine
‘Yet in their finger upon
Our navel
The midwives of the spirit say
They feel a foetal throb.’
The dominant literary device used in the extract above from Acquahs’ In the Navel of the Soul is
- A. epigram
- B. rhythm
- C. allegory
- D. enjambment
These questions are based on General Literary Principles.
A play that mainly aims at provoking excessive laughter is called.
- A. Comedy
- B. Farce
- C. Satire
- D. A Tragic-comedy
The hunter dies
and leaves his poverty to his gun
The blacksmith dies
and leaves his poverty to his anvil…
The extract above is an example of
- A. epic
- B. eulogy
- C. ballad
- D. elegy