The literary device in the statement – ‘Students are to come to class with their Shakespeare’ is called
- A. metonymy
- B. litotes
- C. synecdoche
- D. personification
Which of the following best describes Literature? It
- A. tells the story of great men and women
- B. is a reflection of man's life in society
- C. is a record of past events
- D. describes what never happened and cannot happen
What distinguishes a novel from a play is
- A. characters
- B. setting
- C. narration
- D. theme
A novel is usually written in
- A. prose
- B. verse
- C. scenes
- D. stanzas
A group of actors in a play is called
- A. characters
- B. cast
- C. chorus
- D. prompters
Pick the odd item from the list below
- A. tragedy
- B. comedy
- C. epilogue
- D. tragi-comedy
A play that is full of exaggerated ridicule and laughter is called
- A. farce
- B. comedy
- C. tragi-comedy
- D. masque
In a play, a long speech by a single character in the presence of other characters is called
- A. soliloguy
- B. monologue
- C. aside
- D. prologue
Which of the following is an African poet?
- A. Dennis Brutus
- B. William Wordsworth
- C. Rober Frost
- D. W.B.Yeats
In poetry, rhythm is a regular pattern of
- A. vowels and consonants
- B. long and short words
- C. stressed and unstressed syllables
- D. stressed syllables and rhymes
Read the extract below and answer this question.
The pattering rain was kicking up little
explosions of dust in the glade.He heard the
faint whisper of the stream as it stole across
the land and disappeared into the bush.
The figure of speech underlined in line 1 is
- A. assonance
- B. consonance
- C. onomatopoeia
- D. alliteration
In a novel, the antagonist is
- A. a fully developed character
- B. a flat character
- C. the main female character
- D. the archrival of the hero
An African author who has written plays, poems and prose is
- A. Wole Soyinka
- B. Zaynab Alkali
- C. Chinua Achebe
- D. Flora Nwapa
Which of the following is a likely source of traditional oral poetry?
- A. Theatre
- B. fiction
- C. books
- D. songs
The state of mind of a poet can be described as
- A. style
- B. mood
- C. setting
- D. theme
The choice of appropriate words to convey the thoughts of an author is called
- A. idiomatic language
- B. setting
- C. figure of speech
- D. diction
The basic elements of drama are
- A. character, plot, episode
- B. dialogue, chorus, plot
- C. character, action, setting
- D. character, monoloue, plot
The birds fly high over
the hills beyond the corn fields.
A poem written or rendered in praise of a person or thing is called
- A. a lyric
- B. an ode
- C. an elegy
- D. a panegyric
The birds fly high over
the hills beyond the corn fields.
The poetic device used in the above extract is
- A. assonance
- B. alliteration
- C. metaphor
- D. metonymy
Pick the odd item from the list below
- A. Night Rain
- B. Things fall Apart
- C. Stanley Meets Mutesa
- D. Nightfall in Soweto
Read the extract below and answer this question.
But the towering earth was tired of sitting in one position. She moved, suddenly, and the houses crumbled, the mountains heaved horribly, and the work of a million years was lost.
The image depicted in the extract is one of
- A. destruction
- B. merriment
- C. happiness
- D. amiration