What figure of speech is used in the expression below?
‘I have been here a thousand times.’
- A. Apostrophe
- B. Pun
- C. Personification
- D. Hyperbole
These questions are based on General Literary Principles.
Satirical writing employs
- A. synecdoche
- B. irony
- C. onomatopoeia
- D. epigram
These questions are based on General Literary Principles.
The account of an experience of an individual during the course of a journey is known as
- A. an autobiography
- B. a catalogue
- C. a memoir
- D. a travelogue
These questions are based on General Literary Principles.
In a narrative poem,the poet attempts to
- A. describe a place
- B. preach a sermon
- C. tell a story
- D. summarize a story
These questions are based on General Literary Principles.
Pun as a literary device deals with
- A. placing words side by side
- B. playing on words
- C. arragement of words
- D. placing two opposite phrases
These questions are based on General Literary Principles.
A plot structure that defies chronology can be described as
- A. circular
- B. episodic
- C. organic
- D. open-ended
These questions are based on General Literary Principles.
The physical,historical or cultural background of a literary work is referred to as
- A. plot
- B. time
- C. setting
- D. episode
These questions are based on General Literary Principles.
The narrative style in which the hero tells his own story directly is the.
- A. subjective
- B. first-person
- C. third-person
- D. objective
These questions are based on General Literary Principles.
A formal dignified speech or writing praising a person or a thing for past or present deeds is
- A. eulogy
- B. anthology
- C. lampoon
- D. premiere
These questions are based on General Literary Principles.
Both comedy and tragedy have
- A. climax
- B. tragic hero
- C. stanza
- D. happy ending
THIS QUESTION ARE BASED ON SELECTED POEMS FROM D.I. NWOGA’S (ED.): WEST AFRICAN VERSE.
‘Before you, mother Idoto, naked I stand before your watery presence a prodigal’.
In the above lines from Christopher Okadigbo’s Idoto, the speaker is a ‘prodigal’ because he
- A. has wasted all his mother's money
- B. is money
- C. has come back to worship the godess which he has neglected
- D. has been caught discraching the shrine of the godess
THIS QUESTION ARE BASED ON SELECTED POEMS FROM D.I. NWOGA’S (ED.): WEST AFRICAN VERSE.
In Christopher Okigbo’s ‘Idoto’Idoto symbolizes
- A. an object of religious worship
- B. the poet's mother
- C. the poet's cultural traditions
- D. a river in the poet's village
THIS QUESTION ARE BASED ON SELECTED POEMS FROM D.I. NWOGA’S (ED.): WEST AFRICAN VERSE.
In Leopold Senghor’s ‘Long, long you have held between yours hands’, the poet addresses himself to
- A. his beloved country for which he yearns
- B. his love
- C. his love interfused with yearning for his country
- D. a not easily discernible subject.
THIS QUESTION ARE BASED ON SELECTED POEMS FROM D.I. NWOGA’S (ED.): WEST AFRICAN VERSE.
‘But what wakeful of man,
Made of the mud of this earth,
Can stare at the touch of sleep
The stable vehicle of dream
Which indeed is the look of your eyes?’
These lines from J.P. Clark’s ‘Olokun’ suggests that Olokun eyes
- A. hypnotize
- B. cause sleeplessness
- C. terrify
- D. prevent dreams
THIS QUESTION ARE BASED ON SELECTED POEMS FROM D.I. NWOGA’S (ED.): WEST AFRICAN VERSE.
The choice of imagery in J.P Clark’s ‘Olukun’ suggests that the poem intended to arouse
- A. jealousy
- B. secular sentiments
- C. religious sentiments
- D. erotic feelings.
THIS QUESTION ARE BASED ON SELECTED POEMS FROM D.I. NWOGA’S (ED.): WEST AFRICAN VERSE.
In David Diop”s ”The Vultures”, the colonialist are portrayed as
- A. hypocritical and oppressive
- B. interllecture and civilized
- C. humanitarian and sympathetic
- D. adventurous and daring
THIS QUESTION ARE BASED ON SELECTED POEMS FROM D.I. NWOGA’S (ED.): WEST AFRICAN VERSE.
In Lenrie Peter’s ‘We Have Come Home’, the return of the successful scholar is not fulfilling because
- A. the acievement sems out of touchwith his society back home
- B. the tropical atmosphere is full of happiness
- C. the dispensation he meets provides mixed satisfaction
- D. he has become indifferent to his own society.
THIS QUESTION ARE BASED ON SELECTED POEMS FROM D.I. NWOGA’S (ED.): WEST AFRICAN VERSE.
‘Night, and Abiku sucks the oil
From lamps’.
- A. Abiku drinks oil
- B. For Abiku, oil is water
- C. while other babies suck the breast, Abiku sucks oil
- D. The lamp is kept burning all night on account of Abiku
THIS QUESTION ARE BASED ON OLA ROTIMI”S
THE GODS ARE NOT TO BLAME
A dominant device which Ola Rotimi uses to suggest an authentic background in the play is
- A. dialogue
- B. rituals
- C. proverbs
- D. songs and dances
THIS QUESTION ARE BASED ON OLA ROTIMI”S
THE GODS ARE NOT TO BLAME
What is the significance of Alaka and Gbonka to the plot of the play ?
- A. They are major figures in the drama
- B. They only held the vital clues for revealing the identity of Odewale
- C. The y were friends of the late Ogundele
- D. Their meeting with Odewale would help assuage his sorrow.
THIS QUESTION ARE BASED ON OLA ROTIMI”S
THE GODS ARE NOT TO BLAME
Well it wasn’t there anymore with him?
Someone who survived? Someone who managed to come home and say what exactly happened, not even a rat?
The lack of precise knowledge concerning the king”s fate as outlined in the passage above, arose as a result of the fact that
- A. all the six bodyguards deserted the king
- B. ofof the seven bodyguards, only came back
- C. all the four bodyguards were killed
- D. of the five bodyguards, only one came.