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This question is based on Literary Appreciation.
Football is the only sport on earth that can be considered truly global. Simple and inexpensive. it is equally likely to be found in a tight Marseille banlieue, an obscure corner of a Lagos slum, and the heart of a Buenos barrio. Marley’s music is similarly universal…
According to the excerpt above, football is
- A. played only in Lagos slums
- B. footballers like Marley’s music
- C. popular but cheap
- D. a universal game
This question is based on Literary Appreciation.
“The commission has the power to investigate,
to conciliate to hold hearings, to order
reinstatement of a discharged employee, and
to direct the appointment of a qualified applicant”
The rhetorical device used in the excerpt above is
- A. Irony
- B. Personification
- C. Hyperbole
- D. Parallelism
This question is based on Literary Appreciation.
“Lonely road,
Not a star
Lonely road
Shadows far
And quiet”
Peter Abraham Lonely Road.
The rhyme scheme in the excerpt above is
- A. abcdec
- B. ababc
- C. babac
- D. aabbc
This question is based on Alex Agyei-Agyiri’s Unexpected Joy at Dawn.
The setting of the novel is
- A. Nigeria and Ghana
- B. Nigeria and Togo
- C. Ghana and Niger
- D. Nigeria and Benin
This question is based on Alex Agyei-Agyiri’s Unexpected Joy at Dawn.
Wachuk in the novel is
- A. the cigarette seller
- B. Niyi’s friend
- C. Idem’s husband
- D. the alcohol seller
In Senghor’s Black Woman, the dominant literary device is
- A. hyperbole
- B. personification
- C. simile
- D. metaphor
Sesay’s “The Song of the Woman of My Land” is a
- A. political poem
- B. geographical poem
- C. social poem
- D. panegyric poem
In Eliot’s “Journey of the Magi”, “six hands at an open door” is an example of
- A. synecdoche
- B. irony
- C. alliteration
- D. metonymy
Osundare’s “The Leader and the Led” is
- A. dramatic
- B. satiric
- C. narrative
- D. elegaic
The poet persona in Donne’s “The Good Morrow” reflects on
- A. spiritual love
- B. the immortality of love
- C. falling in love
- D. love marriage
The style of Chibuike’s “A Government Driver on His Retirement” is
- A. narrative
- B. monologic
- C. reflective
- D. panegyric
“But a caged bird stands on the grave of dreams”
The excerpt above from Angelou’s “Caged Bird” implies that caged bird
- A. will die
- B. will be frustrated
- C. stands on its grave
- D. walks freely to actualise its dream
Lawrence’s “Bats” is a
- A. sarcasm
- B. satire
- C. dramatic dialogue
- D. dramatic monolgue
This question is based on Wole Soyinka’s The Lion and the Jewel
Lakunle declines to pay bride price on Sidi because he sees tradition as
- A. unholy
- B. illegal
- C. babaric
- D. childish
The question is based on Wole Soyinka’s The Lion and the Jewel
The play is a
- A. Comedy
- B. Tragi-comedy
- C. Farce
- D. Melodrama
This question is based on John Osborne’s Look Back in Anger
Alison and Jimmy are accommodated during the first month of their marriage by
- A. Hugh Tanner
- B. Nigel
- C. Cliff
- D. Webster
This question is based on John Osbourne’s Look Back in Anger
The protagonist in the play is
- A. Alison Porter
- B. Cliff Lewis
- C. Jimmy Porter
- D. Colonel Redfern
This question is based on John Osbourne’s Look Back in Anger
The couple’s marital crisis is aggravated by
- A. Jimmy
- B. Cliff
- C. Helena
- D. Hugh
This question is based on John Osborne’s Look Back in Anger.
The reason why Jimmy easily gets along with Cliff is because
- A. they both belong to the working class
- B. Alison speaks well of Cliff
- C. the relatives of Jimmy’s mother are rich
- D. they are both from affluent backgrounds
This question is based on John Osborne’s Look Back in Anger.
Jimmy’s harmatia is
- A. infidelity
- B. anger
- C. pride
- D. jealousy
This question is based on Buchi Emecheta’s Second Class Citizen
Adah is so obsessed with the sleek woman at the hospital because the woman
- A. has a doting husband
- B. has a high paying job
- C. gives birth to twins
- D. lives in a mansion
This question is based on Buchi Emecheta’s Second Class Citizen.
Adah’s disappointment is in the overwhelming
- A. freedom for the blacks
- B. reception of the blacks
- C. recognition given the blacks
- D. discrimination against the blacks
This question is based on Buchi Emecheta’s Second Class Citizen
The main challenge Adah encounters in England is
- A. being a woman
- B. financial limitations
- C. being half literate
- D. being a black person
The question is based on Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights
The structure of the novel is based on two major conflicts of
- A. love
- B. passion
- C. emotion
- D. romance
This question is based on Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights
The setting of the novel is
- A. Mid 16th century
- B. Mid 17th century
- C. Mid 18th century
- D. Mid 19th century
This question is based on Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights
The novel can be described as a
- A. Renaissance prose
- B. Victorian novel
- C. French fiction
- D. English autobiography
This question is based on Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights.
Heathcliff considered himself the second half of
- A. Nelly Dean
- B. Isabella Linton
- C. Hindley Earnshaw
- D. Catherine Earnshaw
This question is based on General Literary Principles.
The collection of images within a literary work is referred to as
- A. imagery
- B. images
- C. symbolism
- D. caesura
This question is based on general literary principles
The leading character in a literary work is the
- A. protagonist
- B. antagonist
- C. villain
- D. anti-hero
A long narrative poem that relates heroic exploits is
- A. panegyric
- B. lyric
- C. ballad
- D. epic
This question is based on General Literary Principles.
A poem of eight rhyming lines is
- A. quatrain
- B. octave
- C. sonnet
- D. limerick
This question is based on General Literary Principles.
The events that make up the story is the
- A. plot
- B. setting
- C. atmosphere
- D. theme
A poem that is shaped in the image of the object it talks about is
- A. concrete
- B. lyrical
- C. metaphysical
- D. romantic
The choir is on wheels to a convention illustrates
- A. Hyperbole
- B. Allusion
- C. Metonymy
- D. Personification
Which of the following helps best to create and sustain interest in a literary work?
- A. plot
- B. rhyme
- C. rhythm
- D. suspense
The dominant device used in Macbeth doth murdered sleep; the innocent sleep is
- A. alliteration
- B. conceit
- C. metonymy
- D. personification
A narrative that extols the deeds of a heroic figure is a
- A. ballad
- B. folktale
- C. panegyric
- D. pastoral
Ife is a woman of great virtue
She is a woman of great vice illustrate
- A. antithesis
- B. alliteration
- C. paradox
- D. pathos
The overwhelming confidence and pride that lead to the fall of the protagonist is
- A. catharsis
- B. ego
- C. harmatia
- D. hubris
The major divisions in a play are
- A. acts
- B. chapters
- C. scenes
- D. stanzas
Read the lines below and answer the question:
My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains
My sense, as though of hemlock I have drunk
The metrical pattern is
- A. anapestic
- B. dactylic
- C. iambic
- D. trochaic
Read the lines below and answer the question:
My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains
My sense, as though of hemlock I have drunk
The mood of the poet is that of
- A. anger
- B. apathy
- C. drunkenness
- D. sadness
Read the lines below and answer the question:
My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains
My sense, as though of hemlock I have drunk
The mood of the poet is that of
- A. anger
- B. apathy
- C. drunkenness
- D. sadness
A narrative composed in the form of a letter is
- A. an eponymous novel
- B. an epistolary novel
- C. a novella
- D. a panegyric
The device used in She gave him lots of cash and tender attention is
- A. bathos
- A. zeugma
- B. pathos
- C. suspense
The Shakespearean sonnet differs from the Petrachan sonnet by ending with a
- A. couplet
- B. quatrain
- C. sestet
- D. tercet
Read the lines below and answer the question:
The closing of the day
Is the beginning of the day
The lines
- A. are alliterated
- B. are repeated
- C. end stop
- D. run on
One of the important means available to a writer of a literary work is
- A. diction
- B. fiction
- C. stage
- D. stanza
Read the lines below and answer the question:
The curl of my lips, the swing of my waist, the
The ride of my breast, the stride of my steps, the
Flash of my tech and the palm of my hand
The line is an example of
- A. euphemism
- B. parallelism
- C. personification
- D. synecdoche
Read the lines below and answer the question:
The curl of my lips, the swing of my waist, the
The ride of my breast, the stride of my steps, the
Flash of my tech and the palm of my hand
The image created in the line appeals to the sense of
- A. sight
- B. taste
- C. smell
- D. touch
Characters in a play that the author uses as a vehicle for commentary is
- A. chorus
- B. dancers
- C. drummers
- D. singers
The _______ comes after the loose ends of the plot have been tied up.
- A. climax
- B. denouncement
- C. epilogue
- D. epilogue
UNSEEN PROSE
Read the passage and answer the following question
The message was unambiguous: her John was on his way back. For how long had he been gone? Jenny wondered.
She wrung her hands in silent expectation. She stood, turned about, and sat, motionless. She was listening in the silence of the room and looking into the gloom of the unlit room.
She seemed to pull herself together as she rose to her full height, switched on the light and turned on the TV, to no station in particular, selecting no programme at all. She sat in front of the TV, not watching. Her heart was pounding, slowly, she hoisted herself from the armchair and moved towards the kitchen, like one sleepwalking.
She must get some food ready for the sojourner. Her rapid heartbeat did not show in her slow-motion actions. Her cooking done, Jenny was carrying the dish on a tray to the dining table when the doorbell rang. Jenny dropped the tray.
The passage is about
- A. a meeting place
- B. jenny’s expert cooking
- C. the disappointment of love
- D. the passion of love
The figure of speech used in she was listening to the silence of the room is
- A. conceit
- B. irony
- C. oxymoron
- D. zeugma
The technique of narration is
- A. First person
- B. Second person
- C. Third person
- D. stream of consciousness
UNSEEN PROSE
Read the passage and answer the following question
The message was unambiguous: her John was on his way back. For how long had he been gone? Jenny wondered.
She wrung her hands in silent expectation. She stood, turned about, and sat, motionless. She was listening in the silence of the room and looking into the gloom of the unlit room.
She seemed to pull herself together as she rose to her full height, switched on the light and turned on the TV, to no station in particular, selecting no programme at all. She sat in front of the TV, not watching. Her heart was pounding, slowly, she hoisted herself from the armchair and moved towards the kitchen, like one sleepwalking.
She must get some food ready for the sojourner. Her rapid heartbeat did not show in her slow-motion actions. Her cooking done, Jenny was carrying the dish on a tray to the dining table when the doorbell rang. Jenny dropped the tray.
In _____ and moved inwards the kitchen, like one sleepwalking, the simile portrays one who is
- A. absent minded
- B. disappointed
- C. passion driven
- D. morose
The mood is one of
- A. anxiety
- B. despondency
- C. sorrow
- D. regret
The mood is one of
- A. anxiety
- B. despondency
- C. sorrow
- D. regret
UNSEEN POETRY
Read the poem and answer the question
My heart was in fearful flight
Pursued by Cupid, arrow poised
Waiting for my flight’s end
When I’d turn about
Or I’d fall supine
My fleeing heart to pierce
Enslave or enthrall and ravish hopeless
So, I’m pining and pining away
For you high up there have perched
Out of reach of my now yearning
Which was why my heart’d been fleeing
From cupid’s poised arrow
The poem is about
- A. unforgettable
- B. sacrificial
- C. unrequited
- D. selfish
The lines that provide evidence for what the poem is about are _____
- A. 2 and 3
- B. 7 and 8
- C. 9 and 10
- D. 11 and 12
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