‘There kneels a jigger, a louse, a weevil, a flea, a bedbug! He is mistletoe, a parasite that lives on the trees of other people’s lives!’
The speaker uses a string of
- A. hyperbole
- B. parables
- C. metaphors
- D. riddles
- E. understatements.
‘When we got off the bus he helped me to cross the road, holding me by the elbow. Submissively, I allowed my self to be led. Out on the square there was an African sun, and in my heart too, shading a flood of light’.
The narrator here is full of
- A. gloom
- B. fears
- C. doubts
- D. cheer
- E. uncertainty.
”Mother, didn”t you hear me? I”ve bought the goat, hen and yams. don”t you want them anymore? Why do you continue to look at me like that?
I haven”t done anything wrong again, have i?
Answer me, speak to me, mother!”
The dominant mood in this passage is one of
- A. sadness
- B. anger
- C. anxiety
- D. nonchalance
- E. joy.
‘I too crossed the rivers, and the virgin ambushes of the forests,
Where Lianas hung down, more treacherous than serpents’.
In the eyes of the writer of these lines, the word ‘Forests’ stands for
- A. friendliness
- B. insecurity
- C. innocence
- D. fertility
- E. safety.
The central organizing idea which unites character, action, language and style in a work of fiction is known as
- A. theory
- B. plot
- C. theme
- D. characterization
- E. fable.
In a play denouement is the
- A. entry of the central character
- B. development of the central conflict
- C. introduction of the minor conflict along side the major conflict
- D. climatic point in the development of the plot
- E. the resolution of the conflicts in the plot.
‘All day long, all along the line
Through tiny station, each exactly like the last chattering little black girls uncaged from school all day long,…’
For the girls mentioned here, the hours spent at school means
- A. creativity
- B. amusement
- C. relaxation
- D. restriction
- E. freedom.
Assonance in poetry is the repetition of
- A. internal vowels in words
- B. stressed syllables in words
- C. consonant sounds in words
- D. final sounds at the end of a line
- E. final sounds at the begining of a line.
Which of the following is a correct definition of the balled?
- A. A climatic episode
- B. An impersonal dramatic piece
- C. An allusive dialogue
- D. A love story told by balled singer
- E. A poem that tells a folk story
In a work of Literature, the hero is one
- A. whose name is mentioned the greatest number of times in the text
- B. who is antagonistic to every one else
- C. whose experience provide the central conflict in the work
- D. who dies in the course of the story
- E. who performs brave and heroic deeds.
A play is a Tragedy when
- A. the autor presents life as a hopeless adventure
- B. the main chracter dies before the play ends
- C. there is much blood shed in the play
- D. the main character is a wicked person
- E. a weakness in the main character leads to his downfall.
What distinguishes poetry from other forms of literature is its
- A. emotion and feeling
- B. ungrammatical expressions
- C. irony and paradox
- D. rhyme and verse
- E. rhyme and metaphor.
In the poem ‘Piano AND Drums’ Okara uses the drums to symbolize
- A. source of poetic inspiration
- B. traditional African ways of life
- C. the complex rhythms of human life
- D. festivals which are held annually
- E. the noisy pastimes of hunters.
David Diop’s poem ‘The Vultures’, ends in a
- A. denunciation of colonialism
- B. resignation to oppression
- C. vindication of apartheid
- D. renunciation of African culture
- E. proclamanation of hope.
In J.P Clarks ‘Abiku’ the word ‘threshold’ means
- A. a line separating the living from the dead
- B. a relic of Abiku's previous life
- C. a mark of a healthy stock
- D. the home of the living
- E. the home of the dead
The poem ‘Viaticum’ portrays a ritual preparation for
- A. life's journey
- B. a war dance
- C. wrestling match
- D. slaughtering cattle
- E. moonlight game
In the poem ‘The Vultures’, David Diop expresses his
- A. hope that African will triumph over colonialism
- B. hatred of Africans
- C. affections of the colonial masters
- D. love of forced romances
- E. hatred of women.
The mood expressed in ‘We Have Come Home’ by Lenrie Peters is that of
- A. hope and joy at one's return
- B. tension over the past and uncertainty of the future
- C. jubilation and a sense of achievement
- D. cautions optimism
- E. apprehension and defeat
When David Diop in ‘The Vultures’ says that ‘civilization kicked us in the face’ and ‘holy water slapped our cringing brows’, he is using
- A. slapstick
- B. a curse
- C. invective
- D. personification
- E. sacrilege.
In Soyinka’s ‘Abiku’, the statement, ‘The ripest fruit was saddest’, is an example of
- A. metaphysical conceit
- B. equivocation
- C. slasng
- D. a paradox
- E. a proverb
‘… like some fish
Doped out of the deep
I have bobbed up bellywise
From stream of sleep’.
The above lines from ‘Night Rain’ are intended to emphasize the fact that the speaker
- A. drank like a fishb
- B. took a heavy dose of sleeping pills
- C. slept with his belly facing upwards
- D. dreamt of fish in deep streams
- E. was suddenly roused from sleep.