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2010 JAMB LITERATURE QUESTIONS
Paper Type:A A. Fosuwa and Maidservant

B. Hannah and George
1. Which literature in English C. Aaron and Maanan
Question Paper Type is given to D. Lawyer B and Mrs. B
you?
3. Maanan expresses dislike for
A. Type A Lawyer B because of __.
B. Type B
C. Type C A. his condemnation of her choice
D. Type D of career
B. his recent advances towards
2 her
C. coming back of the Agunwa to C. the betrayal of her father's
the trust
society to live again D. the betrayal of his wife's trust.
D. ill-luck and tragic events
attributed to 4. The traditional order in the play
a predestined fate is represented by __ .
Questions 2 to 5 are based on A. Mrs. B

J.C. De Graft's Sons and B. Hannah
Daughters C. Maanan
D. Aunt
2. ‘I simply don't understand
what's the matter with everybody 5. Where does the play take
today. Everybody let me down, place?
and the speaker above is referring
to __. A. On the street
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B. In George's place 8. '0' serpent heart, hid with a
C. In Aunt's house flowering face!' The statement
D. In Ofosu's place. above refers to __
Questions 6 to 10 based on A. Juliet

William Shakespear's Romeo B. Romeo
and Juliet C. Tybalt
D. Benvolio.
6. '0' deadly sin!O rude
unthankfulness! 9. The spatial setting of the play
Thy fault our law calls death, but is __.
the kind Prince, Taking thy part,
hath rushed aside the law And A. Athens
turned that black word...' Deadly B. Verona
sin refers to the __. C. Padua
D. Venice
A. suicide of Juliet
B. suicide of Romeo 10. Romeo is banished to Mantua
C. murder of Paris because he __.
D. murder of TybaIt
A. kills Tybalt in a street duel
7. The play is mostly written in B. marries Juliet without parental
__. consent
C. attends Capulet's party
A. blank verse uninvited
B. free verse D. attempts to kill paris his rival.
C. metres
D. foot.
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Questions 11 to 13 are based Questions 14 to 16 are based
on Buchi Emecheta's The Joys on Ferdinand Oyano's The Old
of Motherhood. Man and the Medal.
11. In the novel, the society puts 14. The disagreement between
high value on __. Mvondo and Nti centres on the
latter’s claim to have __.
A. egalitarianism
B. male ascendancy A. assisted Meka in getting the
C. procreation medal
D. gender equity. B. eaten the entire entrails of a
sheep
12. The medicine man links the C. eaten more than his share of
lump discovered on the head of the food
Nnu Ego at birth, to the __. D. been in a white man’s office
A. possession of physical 15. Meka can be best be

admirable qualities that makes described as__.
her an epitome of perfection.
B. wound inflicted on the slave A. an egocentric old man
woman buried with Agbadi’s wife B. a simple-hearted old man
C. an impulsive old man
13. The constant companions of D. an old religious bigot
Nnaife's family are __.
16. In the novel, the colonialists
A. togetherness and happiness treat the Africans with __.
B. poverty and hunger
C. sickness and joblessness A. Kids’ gloves
D. disagreement and humiliation B. disdain
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C. indifference C. When he started a secret affair
D. honour D. When he spied on the party.
Questions 17 to 20 are based 20.The party seeks power for __.

on George Orwell's Nineteen
Eighty-four A. the nation
B. its own sake
17. The Ministry of peace is C. its members
concerned with making _. D. peoples' sake
A. instruments Questions 21 to 30 are based

B. weapons on selected poems from Ker,
C. wars D. et al (eds.) New Poetry
D. reconciliation from African; Soyinka, (ed.)
Poems of Black Africa; Senanu
18. The subject matter of the K.E. and Vincent T. (eds.): A
novel is __. selection of African Poetry;
Umukoro, M et al (eds.) Exam
A. totalitarian dictatorship Focus: literature in English;
B. exploitation and cruelty Eruvbetine, A.E. et al (eds.):
C. retributive justice Longman Examination Guides
D. class segregation. and Nwoga, D. I. (ed): West
African Verse.
19. How did Winston start his
rebellion against the state __. 21. As the dancers move through
paths strewn with glass chips, the
A. By engaging in anti-party images in Adeoti's Naked Soles
activities change from __.
B. By keeping a private diary
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A. joy to excitement D. rhythm.
B. inaction to action
C. pain to grief 24. In Kunene's A heritage of
D. sorrow to joy. Liberation, the poet persona
requests that the weapons of
22. Rubadiris's An African warfare be handed to their __.
Thunderstorm, says that during
thunderstorm in the village A. friends
B. relations
A. women cook their food C. grand children
B. children play in the rain D. families
C. children are delighted while
women move in and out 25. The predominant device in
D. both women and children are Launko's End of the War is __.
delighted
A. onomatopoeia
23. 'Yet in their finger upon B. antithesis
Our navel The midwives of the C. oxymoron
spirit say They feel a foetal D. paradox
throb.
26. The theme of the poem Give
The dominant literary device used Me The Minstrel's Seat centres
in the extract above from on __
Acquahs' In the Navel of the
Soul is A. divorce
B. fortune
A. epigram C. marriage
B. allegory D. companionship.
C. enjambment
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27. The poet persona in Marvell's A. boring
To His Coy Mistress is willing to B. therapeutic
praise the lady's eyes for C. philosophical
D. inspiring
A. thirty thousand years
B. six decades Questions 31 to 40 are based
C. two centuries on General Literary Principles.
D. a century
31. A play which mainly aims at
28. In Lawrence's Bat, the poet provoking excessive laughter is
persona mistakes the bats for called
A. owls A. tragi-comedy
B. swallows B. comedy
C. pipistrello C. a farce
D. sparrows D. satire.
29. In Eliot's Journey of the 32. Both comedy and tragedy

Magi, the magi are aided on their have __.
journey by
A. happy ending
A. donkeys B. climax
B. horses C. tragic hero
C. camels D. stanza
D chariots.
33. A formal dignified speech or
30. According to Cope’s Sonnet writing praising a person or a
VII, poetry is basically__. thing for past or present deeds is
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A. premiere D. organic
B. eulogy
C. anthology 37. Pun as a literary device deals
D. lampoon with
34. The narrative style in which A. placing two opposite phrases

the hero tells his own story B. placing words side by side
directly is the __. C. playing on words
D. arrangement of words
A. objective
B. subjective 38. In a narrative poem, the poet
C. first- person attempts to
D. third-person.
A. summarize a story
35. The physical, historical or B. describe a place
cultural background of a literary C. preach a sermon
work is referred to as D. tell a story
A. episode 39. The account of experiences of

B. plot an individual during the course of
C. time a journey is known as
D. setting
A. a travelogue
36. A plot structure that defies B. an autobiography
chronology can be described as C. a catalogue
D. a memoir
A. open-ended
B. circular 40. Satirical writing employs _.
C. episodic
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A. epigram A. enraged
B. synecdoche B. lackadaisical
C. irony C. elated
D. onomatopoeia. D. happy.
Questions 41 to 50 are based 43.'That year the harvest was

on Literary Appreciation. sad, like a funeral, and many
farmers wept as they dug up the
Use the quotation below to miserable yams. One man tied his
answer questions 41 and 42. cloth to a tree branch and hanged
himself'. Chinua Achebe:
41. ‘Basha: You dumb skull of a Things Fall Apart
bone head . . . you will face court
martial for this. You look The mood conveyed in the
everywhere? You search inside excerpt above is one of
toilet bowl?
Wole Soyinka: King Baabu A. sadness
B. frustration
The person being addressed C. sympathy
above is a D. dilemma.
A. soldier 44.'That age is best which is

B. student the first,
C. domestic servant when youth and blood are
D. lawyer warmer,
But being spent, the worse,
42. From the tone of the speech and worst
above, the speaker is obviously Time still succeed the former.
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The rhyme scheme in the excerpt From the poem above, shadow
above is means
A. bbaa A. famine
B. aabb B. bleak future
C. abab C. period of sufferings
D. abba. D. abstract ideas.
45. But the towering earth was 47. Don't panic. Be calm, If
tired sitting in one position. you are some how upset ...try
She moved, suddenly, and the to regain your exposure.
houses crumbled, the
mountains heaved horribly, The speaker in the excerpt above
and the work of a million is
years was lost.
A. hopeless
The subject matter of the extract B. uncertain
above is C. afraid
D. confident.
A. storm
B. sea waves Use the lines below to answer
C. house movement questions 48 and 49.
D. earthquake.
48. Move him into the sun
46. And your laughter like a Gently its touch awoke him
flame piercing the shadows once, At home, whispering of
Has revealed Africa to me fields unsown Always it woke
beyond the snow of yesterday. him even in France Until this
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morning and this snow If A bundle of rags upon a
anything might rouse him now crutch,
This kind old sun will know Stumbled upon that windy
Think how it wakes the seeds place
Woke, once, the clays of a cold Called cruachan, and it was as
star Are limbs, so dear much.
achieved, are sides Full nerved
still swarm too hard to stir The rhyme scheme of the stanza
Was it, for this the clay grew above is
tall? 0 what made fatuous
sunbeams toil To break earth's A. aabb
sleep at all. B. abab
C. bbaa
The poem can be described as D. abba.
A. a lyric ANSWER KEYS

B. an epic
C. a sonnet 1. A 2. A 3. B 4. D 5. D 6. D 7. B
D. an elegy. 8. B 9. B 10. A 11. C 12. D 13. B
14. C 15. D 16. B 17. D 18. B
49. The theme of the poem is 19. A 20. B 21. D 22. C 23. C
24. C 25. D
A. futility of life
B. distortion of life 26. D 27. D 28. A 29. C 30. B
C. creation of life 31. C 32. B 33. B 34. C 35. D
D. vanity of life 36. D 37. C 38. D 39. A 40. C
41. A 42. A 43. A 44. C 45. D
50. A cursing rogue with a 46. D 47. D 48. C 49. A 50. B
merry farce,
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1. Which Question Paper Type of 4. The final harassment of

Literature-in-English is given to Maanan takes place in
you?
A. Ofosu’s office
A. Type A B. Lawyer B’s house
B. Type B C. Lawyer B’s chamber
C. Type C D. Ofosu’s house
D. Type D
5. ‘Everything in this room
Questions 2 to 5 are based on outrages my sense of beauty,
J. C De Graft’s Sons and undermines my will to create
Daughters. pictures of lasting appeal....’ The
speaker in the quotation above is
2. From it’s resolution of conflicts,
the pay can be described as A. happy
B. frustrated
A. tragedy C. excited
B. comedy D. tired
C. farce
D. melodrama Question 6 to 10 are based on
William Shakespeare’s Romeo
3. The prevailing theme of the and Juliet.
play is ----
6. ‘Farewell – God knows
A. love when we shall meet again.
B. affluence I have a faint cold fear thrills
C. social decadence through my veins,
D. self-will
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That almost freezes up the 8. The news of Juliet's death is
heat of lie. broken to Romeo in Mantua by
I’ll call them back again to
comfort me. Nurse! – What A. Balthasar
should she do here? My dismal B. Friar Lawrence
scene I need act alone. Come, C. Boy
vial’. D. Friar John
The intention of the speaker 9. In the play, Mercutio can be

above is to described as
A. commit A. fraudulent
B. suicide B. quarrelsome
C. take a temporary harmful C. gentle
substance D. kind-hearted
D. escape from harsh realities of
life 10. The plot of the play is
7. The play reaches the point of A. simple

denouncement B. complicated
C. convoluted
A. at the family feast D. chronological
B. when Romeo kills Paris at the
tomb Questions 11 to 13 are based
C. at the reconciliation of the on Ferdinand Oyono's The Old
feuding families. Man and the Medal.
D. when Romeo is informed of
Juliet’s death
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11. The heavy downpour on the D. M. Fouconi
night of Meka's investiture
symbolizes Questions 14 to 16 are based
on Buchi Emecheta's The Joy
A. revelation of Motherhood.
B. mockery
C. conviction 14. For attempted murder, Nnaife
D. blessing was jailed for
12. Vandermayer's attitude and A. four months

action towards Meka illustrates B. three months
the church's C. five months
D. two months
A. despondency
B. suspicion 15. In the novel, Nwokocha
C. infuriation Agbadi is famous for his oratorical
D. hypocrisy powers and
13. 'As he opened and shut his A. height

mouth his lower jaw went down B. treachery
and came up, puffing up and then C. illiteracy
deflating the skin under his chin.' D. wealth
The subject of description in the 16. In the novel, the handing over
lines above is of a baby boy in a dream to Nnu
Ego by her personal god signifies
A. the high commissioner
B. M. Pipiniakis A. reincarnation
C. the white chief B. future blessing
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C. idol worship D. tour
D. doom
20. The novel can be described as
Questions 17 to 20 are based
on George Orwell's Nineteen A. optimistic
Eighty-Four B. antagonistic
C. persuasive
17. The novel draws a picture of D. pessimistic
A. a useless past Question 21 to 30 are New

B. a totalitarian future Poetry based on selected
C. an unstable moment poems Ker, D. e t al (eds.)
D. a peaceful atmosphere Bew Poetry from Africa;
Soyinka, (ed.): Poems of Black
18. The power and oppression of Africa; Senanu K. E and
an irresistible evil debased Vincent, T. (eds.): A Selection
Winston's dreams of __. of African Poerty; Unukoro,
Met al (eds.): Exam
A. freedom and democracy Focus: Literature in English;
B. internal security Eruvbetine, A.E. et al(eds.):
C. wealth and capitalism Longman Examination Guides
D. sovereignty and Nwoga, D.I (ed): West
African Verse.
19. Room 101 symbolizes a place
of 21. In Naked Soles, Adeoti writes
that the carnival of naked soles
A. rest dances through
B. fun
C. humiliation A. scorching sun
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B. a dirty room B. criticism of modern tradition
C. blooming thorns C. intolerance of the new
D. a cloudy atmosphere generation
D. celebration of African tradition.
22. In Rubadiri's An African
Thunderstorm, the 25. Lanko’s End of the War
thunderstorm begins with portrays the
A. rain from the west A. silence of

B. clouds from the east B. usefulness of praise singers
C. rain from the east C. irony of life
D. clouds from the west D. arrangement of war
23. The theme of Acquah's In the 26. 'Woman cannot exist except
Navel of the Soul is by man, What is there in that to
vex some of them so?'
A. the conflict of traditions
B. ensuring that traditions were The statement above from the
strictly observed poem Give Me The Minstrel's Seat
C. the futility of man and his Exemplifies
tradition
D. the strength in diversity of A. litotes
culture and traditional views. B. rhetorical question
C. transferred epithet
24. In Kuene’s A Heritage of D. synecdoche
Liberation, the persona is
concerned with the 27. Marvell, in To His Co Mistress
uses the imagery of Coy death to
A. people's struggle for survival
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A. appreciate God's power A. persuasive
B. underscore life's transience B. humorous
C. condemn the lady C. optimistic
D. scare the lady D. mournful
28. To sustain the interest of Questions 31 to 40 are based

readers, Lawrence in Bat uses on General Literary Principles.
A. elision 31. The large space above the

B. hyperbole proscenium in a theatre from
C. suspense which the scenes are controlled is
D. oxymoron called
29. 'With a running stream and a A. aside

water-mill beating the darkness. B. setting
And three trees on the low sky.' • C. anachronism
D. flies
In the excerpt above from Eliot's
Journey on the Magi, the 32. 'Good warriors make
dominant literary device is others come to them and do
not go to others.... When you
A. oxymoron induce opponents to come to
B. personification you, then their force is always
C. hyperbole empty, like attacking
D. alliteration emptiness with fullness is
throwing on eggs.' Zhang Yu:
30. The tone of Cope's Sonnet VII The Art of War.
is generally
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The theme of the passage above C. directs a play
is D. acts a film.
A. folly of soldiers 36. Travelogue is a work of art

B. inspiration written
C. spurring people to action
D. war A. by a famous playwright
B. before the death of the author
33. The repetition of single words C. by an unpopular novelist
or phrases at the beginning of D. on a journey
lines is
37. Plays are basically meant to
A. assonance
B. parallelism A. change the world
C. onomatopoeia B. keep people out of trouble
D. alliteration C. be ready for pleasure
D. be presented on stage
34. A ballad is meant to be 38. A character who re-enacts
familiar experiences that Leaders
A. acted easily identify with is
B. sung
C. discussed A. round character
D. read B. flat character
C. stock character
35. In drama, dramaturge is he D. static character
who
39. The plot of a story generally
A. writes or edits plays refers to the
B. feature in a play
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A. intrigue made by a character Like to a step-dame or a do
against the hero wager,
B. way the writer ends the story Long withering out a young
C. way in which the events of the man's revenue.
story are organised William Shakespeare. A
D. way in which the writer begins midsummer Night's Dream
the story
The literary devices used in the
40. The metric pattern in a line of excerpt above are
poetry with five stressed and five
unstressed syllables is A. personification and smile
B. irony and suspense
A. trochaic decametre C. alliteration and synecdoche
B. dactylic metre D. rhyme and refrain.
C. iambic pentameter
D. anapaestic metre 42. 'You are the silent code of
pleasure locked in wordless
Question 41 to 50 are based wonder. You are the hive of
on literary Appreciation. treasure, no dragon can
plunder' Gbemisola Adeoti
41. Theseus: Now, fair :Dream Code.
Hippolyta, our nuptial hour.
Draws on space four happy The excerpt above achieves its
days bring in. rhetorical effect through the use
Another moon. But 0, me of
thinks how slow
This old moon wanes, she A. repetition and meiosis
lingers my desires, B. metaphor and rhyme
C. caesura and hyperbole
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D. alliteration and irony sprawling vomiting, rubbing
tears on one another begging
43. It was not yet closing me to do my duty and help
time, but already most staff you. But what about you
were trooping out of their yourselves? What have you
offices. The lift was working done to help yourselves?
now and he squeezed himself Answer. Or is the land at
into it, breathing with peace? Are not people ailing
difficulty the body odour and dying?'
emitted by one of the OIa Rotimi: The Gods Are Not
passengers. He sighed with To Blame
relief when they got to the
ground floor and tumbled In the excerpt above, the land is
out of the lift.' not at peace because of
Ken Saro-Wiwa: A Forest of A. chieftaincy tussle

Flowers B. famine and war
C. political unrest
In the excerpt above, the D. sickness and death
subject's experience in the lift is
45. ‘In those days. When
A. timely. civilization kicked us in the
B. comfortable. face, when holy water slapped
C. unpleasant brows. The vultures built in
D. amusing the shadow of their talons.'
David Diop: The Vulture
44. 'Do not thank me, instead,
let me ask you one question, The dominant literary device used
Now you have all come here in the lines above is
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A. pun That it but mocks reproof.'
B. metaphor William Shakespeare: Twelfth
C. personification Night
D. simile
A heart of stone in the lines above
46. I am not afraid of is an example of
anything; he told them. I have
done almost everything in this A. metonymy
world. I have you can think of B. litotes
an been committed all c y C. assonance
jailed for most of them. I have D. metaphor
been in prison more hours
than I have been out of it 48. 'Blood was prove no solace
within the last five years. to the king. The rejection he
had suffered at Idama's hands
In recounting his criminal life, the pushed his spirit into a
speaker's tone is comfortless hole in which,
alone with himself, he
A. regretful searched in vain for ways to
B. boastful run from his inner emptiness.'
C. subdued Ayi Kwei Armah: Two Thousand
D. repentant Seasons
47. 'I have said too much unto The narrator’s attitude to the king
a heart of stone, And laid my is one of
honour too unchary on it',
There's something in me that A. envy
reproves my fault,. But such a B. sympathy
headstrong potent fault it is C. suspicion
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D. contempt C. famine
D. storm
49. 'Homage to Peregede the
triumphant mother of morning ANSWER KEYS
radiant in Chameleon's velvet.
Let today's dawn bring on its 1. D 2. B 3. D 4. D 5. B 6. B 7. C
rails trains of good tidings.' 8. A 9. B 10. D 11. B 12. D 13.
Gbemisola Adeoti: Salutation to D 14. A 15. D 16. B 17. A 18. A
the gods 19. D 20. A 21. C 22. D 23. D
24. D 25. C
The excerpt above is an example
of 26. B 27. B 28. C 29. B 30. B
31. D 32. B 33. B 34. B 35. A
A. invocation 36. D 37. D 38. A 39. C 40. C
B. limerick 41. A 42. C 43. C 44. D 45. C
C. ode 46. B 47. D 48. D 49. A 50. A
D. elegy
50. The wood decay, the

woods decay and fall, The
vapour weep their burthen to
the ground, Man comes and
fills the field and lies beneath,
And after many a summer dies
the swan. The subject matter
of the lines above is
A. death
B. rainfall
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1. Which Question Paper Type of Use the quotation below to

Literature-in-English as indicated answer questions 1 and 5. ‘If
above is given to you? you touch me, I shall smash
your face with this bottle.’
A. Type Green
B. Type Purple 4. "If you touch me, I shall smash
C. Type Red your face with this bottle"
D. Type Yellow
The statement is made by
Question 2 to 5 are based on
J.C. De Graft's Sons and A. Manaan to lawyer B
Daughters. B. Manaan to Mrs Bonu
C. James to Awere
2. Who is the paternal aunt to D. Awere to Aaron
Aaron and Maanan?
5. The issue at stake is that
A. Mrs Bonu
B. Hannah A. Maanan is trying to
C. Fosuwa compromise
D. Adwao B. Lawyer B is trying to kiss
Maanan
3. From the play, George is a C. James sees Awere as a bad
influence
A. laboratory assistant D. Mrs Bonu is taunting Maanan
B. pharmacist for loving her husband
C. nurse
D. medical doctor
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Questions 6 to 10 are based B. as a source of envy to all
on William Shakespeare’s C. in terms of riches
Romeo and Juliet D. as being outstanding
6. "From forth the fatal loins of 8. "The all-seeing sun, Ne'er saw
these two foes match since first the world
A pair of star-crossed lovers begun."
take their life..."
The lines above were spoken by
The lines above suggest that the
tragedy in the play A. Count Paris in praise of Juliet
B. Romeo in praise of Juliet
A. could have been averted C. Romeo in praise of Roseline
B. is predestined D. Lady Capulet in praise of
C. is brought on enmity Roseline
D. brought misfortune on the
lovers 9. The major role of Mercutio in
the play is to
7. O she doth teach the
torches to burn bright! It A. serve as a contrast to Romeo
seems she hangs upon the B. aid and abet Romeo's passion
cheek of night C. annoy Tybalt
A rich jewel in an Ethiop's D. accompany Romeo to Friar
ear." Lawrence
From the lines above, Juliet's 10. The play shares the feature of
beauty is presented classical tragedy through the use
of
A. in contrast to the dark night
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A. violence on stage up so that they pointed to the
B. chorus sky"
C. comic relief
D. flashback The description above is in
reference to the foot of
on Ferdinand Oyono’s The Old A. Kelara
Man and the Medal. B. Meka
C. Egamba
11. "Meka, kneeling down in D. Mvondo
his usual fashion with his
behind up in the air. Kelara 13. "They said their prayers in
knelt down beside him. a monotonous sing-song,
Amalia and her husband knelt kneeling on their bamboo bed
down as well." like camels waiting to be
loaded."
The actions of Meka, Kelara,
Amalia and her husband signify The dominant figure of speech in
the excerpt above is
A. parade
B. dance A. rhetorical question
C. prayer B. simile
D. celebration C. metaphor
D. mixed metaphor
12. "He had knocked his toes
against so many things that he Questions 14 to 16 are based
had no toenails anymore and on Buchi Emecheta’ The joy of
the yaws he had suffered from Motherhood.
his youth had twisted his toes
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14. As a symbol of material Questions 14 to 16 are based
success and fulfilment, Ibuzza on George Orwell’s Nineteen
community places a lot of Eighty-Four.
importance on
17. The novel is mainly classified
A. childbirth as a
B. wealth
C. male child A. metaphor
D. female child B. hyperbole
C. satire
15. Ona on her dying bed appeals D. fiction
to Agbadi to
18. Winston writes that the hope
A. give her a befitting burial of the country lies on the
B. take good care of her children
C. take another wife A. ministry of the truth
D. allow Nnu Ego marry a man of B. proles
her choice C. party
D. children
16. The little money Nnaife makes
after returning from Fernando PO 19. In the novel, two minutes
is used for hate is a programme designed for
A. expanding Nnu Ego's business A. parents

B. taking care of his family B. thought police
C. sending his children to school C. the community
D. getting more wives D. children
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20. To drop his philosophy of life B. freedom and self-determination
and imbibe the tenets of the C. pricks and tears
party, Winston is subjected to all D. disappointed and disarray
forms of torture and inhuman
treatment by 22. One of the dominant themes
if Rubadin's An African
A. O'Brien Thunderstorm is the
B. thought police
C. Big Brother A. relationship between man and
D. Goldstein woman
B. activities of man during rainy
Questions 21 to 30 are based seasons
on selected poems from C. effect of rain on women and
Johnson, R, et al (eds.): New children
Poetry from Africa; Soyinka, D. problem of climate change
W. (ED.): Poems of Black
Africa; Senanu, K.E. and 23. In Kunene's A Heritage of
Vincent, T. (eds.): A Selection Liberation, the weapons are to
of African Poetry: U. Maduka, be preserved for the generation
C.T et al: Exam Focus: yet unborn by the
Longman Examination Guides;
Nwoga, D.I. (ed.): A. gods
West African Verse and Adeoti B. elders
G: Naked Soles. C. people
D. government
21. The movement in Adeoti's
Naked Soles is characterized by 24. Give Me The Minstrel's
Seat ends on a clarion call for
A. hope and agreement
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A. freedom A. three trees on the low sky
B. peace B. empty wine-skins
C. rectitude C. spiritual rebirth
D. commitment D. holy pilgrimage
25. "...the youthful hue/sits on 28. "We would be believing we

thy skin like a morning dew..." dreamt it"
The excerpt above from Marvell's The figure of speech in the line
To His Coy Mistress is an example above from Acquah's In the
of Navel of the Soul is
A. simile A. apostrophe
B. anaphora B. assonance
C. paradox C. antithesis
D. onomatopia D. alliteration
26. In Lawrence's Bat, the poet 29. The casualties in Launko's

compares bats with End of the War
A. sparrows A. women
B. swans B. children
C. swallows C. men
D. crows D. soldiers
27. Elliot's The Journey of the 30. The theme of Cope's Sonnet
Magi could be said to examine VII is
the issues of
A. art of poetry
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B. adventure 33. In literary work, verbal irony
C. contempt for literature refers to a
D. isolation
A. device in which the speaker
Questions 31 to 40 are based means the opposite of what he
on general Literary Principles. says
B. situation in which a character
31. A literary work in which the speaks or acts against the trend
characters and events are used as of events
symbols is known as C. difficult situation which defies a
logical or rational resolution
A. characterization D. device in which the actor on
B. allegory stage means exactly what he says
C. metaphor
D. parallelism 34. In the theater, words spoken
by a character that are meant to
32. Characterization in a novel be heard by the audience but not
refers to the by the other characters on stage
is called
A. writer's opinion of the
characters A. aside
B. way the characters are B. soliloquy
revealed to the reader C. acoustic
C. characters and the way they D. tone
behave
D. reader's opinion of the 35. Drama is the representation
characters of a complete series of actions by
means of
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A. movement and gesture for the B. animals or things are used as
screen and audience characters
B. speech, movement and gesture C. there is an important setting
for the stage only D. the story is told in poetic form
C. speech, movement and gesture
for the stage, screen and radio 39. The juxtaposition of two
D. speech, gesture and movement contrasting ideas in a line of
for the screen and radio poetry is
36. A poet's use of regular rhythm A. euphemism

is known as B. synedoche
C. catharsis
A. allegory D. oxymoron
B. assonance
C. metre 40. The main aim of caricature is
D. onomatopoeia to
37. A literary genre which directly A. describe

imitates human action is B. expose
C. emphasize
A. drama D. ridicule
B. comedy
C. prose Questions 41 to 50 are based
D. poetry on Literary Appreciation
38. A fable is a story in which 41. O! Ceremony, show me but

thy worth What is thy soul of
A. allegations are made about adoration
characters
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The figure of speech in the lines And his hands were dry upon
above is his lap
A. antithesis The rhyme a scheme of the poem

B. invocation above is
C. personification
D. apostrophe A. bbaa
B. aabb
42. "What eyes will watch our C. abab
large mouths, Shaped by the D. baba
laughter of big children
What eyes will watch our 44. Unequal laws unto a
large mouths?" Birage Diop: savage race, That board, and
Vanity sleep, and feed....
The tone of the lines above is one The lines above show that the
of speaker
A. sarcasm A. detects discrimination

B. sacrilege B. is desirous of adventure
C. chiasmus C. hates his old wife
D. eulogy D. knows much of his city men
43. The old man slept in his 45. ....How can I look at Oyo
favourite chair and say I hate long shiny
The wind ran its fingers cars? How can I come to the
through his hair children and despise
He looked like a tree gone dry international schools? And
of sap Koomson comes, and the
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family sees Jesus Christ in night thieves." Wole Soyinka:
him.... Night
The feeling conveyed by the The dominant mood in the lines

speaker above is one of above is one of
A. anger A. apprehension
B. alienation B. defiance
C. hope C. joy
D. despair D. indifference
46. "Hide me now, when night 48. "The drums overwhelmed

children haunt the earth" Wole the guns..." J.P Clark:
Soyinka:Night Casualties
Night children in the stanza above The poet in the excerpt above
reflects the consciousness of uses
A. birds A. litotes
B. armed robbers B. symbolism
C. animals C. onomatopoeia
D. spirit beings D. alliteration
47. "Serrated shadows, 49. ‘....They do not see the

through dark leaves, Til, funeral piles
bathed in warm suffusion of At home eating up the
your dapped cells Sensation forests...’ J.P. Clark:Casualties
pained me, faceless, silent as
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The imagery created in the above 14. A 15. D 16. D 17. C 18. A
excerpt is achieved through 19. C 20. A 21. B 22. A 23. A
24. D 25. A
A. metaphor
B. personification 26. A 27. C 28. D 29. D 30. A
C. synecdoche 31. B 32. C 33. A 34. A 35. B
D. metonym 36. C 37. A 38. B 39. D 40. D
41. D 42. A 43. B 44. A 45. D
50. "I cannot rest from travel: 46. B 47. A 48. C 49. A 50. B
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1. Which Question Paper Type of A. Fosuwa

Literature-in-English is given to B. Awere
you? C. Maanan
D. Hannah
A. Type B
B. Type I 4. Aaron'...All I need really is a
C. Type B place in an Art school,
D. Type U engineering can go hang itself.
Questions 2 to 5 are based on The dominant figure of speech in

J.C. De Graft's Sons and the excerpt above is
Daughters.
A. metonymy
Use the excerpt below to B. synecdoche
answer questions 2 and 3. C. personification
D. metaphor
James: Let me swear, woman.
And I will swear by my father's 5. From the play, the character of
coffin that if.... Aaron represents the
2. The lines depict James as a A. painters

B. art work
A. traditionalist C. new generation
B. Christian D. old generation
C. pagan
D. Muslim 6. 'Uncle, this is a Montague,
our foe; A villain that is hither
3. The speaker is referring to
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come in spite, To scorn at our A. melancholic and sentimental
solemnity this night.' B. dreamy and hopeful
C. frustrated and pensive
The villain in the excerpt above is D. gay and elated
A. attempting to steal 9. "O'deadly sin! O rude

B. attending a feast uninvited unthankfulness!
C. engaging in a shouty match Thy fault our law calls death,
D. holding a sword to commit but the kind
murder Prince, taking thy part, hath
rushed aside the law,
7. "What, drawn and talk of And turned that black word
peace? I hate the word As I "death" to banishment."
hate hell, all Montagues, and
thee Have at thee,coward!" The speaker in the passage above
is
Based on William Shakespeare's
Romeo and Juliet, the lines above A. Lord Montague
reveal the speaker as a B. Friar Lawrence
C. Apothecary
A. violence seeker D. Lord Capulet
B. peace maker
C. real Montague 10. "....Put up thy sword Or
D. trouble shooter manage it to part these men
with me."
8. Romeo’s mood, at the
beginning of the play can be The speech above was made
described as when
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A. Tybalt challenges Romeo to A. Nkolo
duel B. the Commandant
B. Prince Escalus arrives to make C. the Catechist
peace between the families D. Nua
C. Romeo and Paris engaged
themselves in a fight 13. To the white men, the medal
D. Benvolio tries to separate the that is given symbolizes
servants of the feuding families
A. harmonious relationship
Questions 11 to 13 are based B. love
on Ferdinand Oyono's the Old C. peace
Man and the Medal D. friendship
11. For his sacrifices to the Questions 14 to 16 are based

church, Meka gets on Buchi Emecheta’s The Joy
of Motherhood.
A. appointed into the church
elders' council 14. Nnu Ego is blamed for the
B. the privilegde to choose a misfortunes of her
permanent place to sit
C. a place near an aged leper A. parents
D. a land to build a new house B. husband
C. siblings
12. "Since I came to this D. children
country, I have never seen
cocoa as well dried as yours." 15. According to the novel Nnaife
becomes frustrated when
The speaker above is
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A. Oshiaju secures a scholarship D. hatred and pain
to study abroad
B. he is arrested and charged for 18. The instruments of power and
attempted murder of his in-law torture belong to
C. his wife gives birth to female
twins A. the government
D. he is recruited into the army B. the party
C. the thought police
16. Adaku remains faithful to D. individuals
Nnaife until she
19. The action in the novel is built
A. starts keeping unnecesary around
friends
B. is unable to give birth to a A. Winston Smith
male child B. O'Brien
C. is rebuked by the Ibuza society C. Julia
for abusing Nnu Ego D. Big Brother
D. becomes rich and powerful
20. Winston Smith works in the
Questions 17 to 20 are based Record Department of the
on George Orwell’s Nineteen Ministry of
Eighty-four
A. love
17. The Ministry of Love is B. truth
concerned with C. peace
D. plenty
A. peace and freedom
B. torture and pain Questions 21 and 30 are based
C. joy and peace on selected poems from
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Johnson, R. et al (eds.): New B. dramatic
Poetry from Africa; Soyinka, C. traditional
W. (ed.): Poems of Black D. satirical
Africa;
Senanu, K.E. and Vincent, T. 23. 'Since it was you who in all
(eds): A Selection of African these thin seasons."
Poetry; Umukoro M. et al:
Exam Focus: The device employed in the line
Literature in English; above from Kunene's The
Eruvbetine, A.E. et al (eds.): Heritage of Liberation, is an
Longman Examination Guides: example of
Poetry for Senior Secondary
Schools NWOGA, D.I. (ed.) A. apostrophe
West African Verse B. allusion
C. anecdote
21. The dominant poetic D. aside
technique employed in Adeoti's
Naked Soles is 24. "Let me ask for what
reason or rhyme women
A. zeugma refuse to marry?
B. oxymoron Woman cannot exist except by
C. hyperbole man, what is there in that to
D. onomatopoeia vex some of them so?
22. Rubadiri's An African The lines above from Give Me The

Thunderstorm can be described Minstrel's Seat is an example of
as
A. pathetic fallacy
A. didactic B. chiasmus
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C. ironical statement 28. Acquah's In The Navel of the
D. rhetorical question Soul describes the
25. ‘Time winged chariot’ A. lack of experienced midwives

in the society
The line above from Marvell's To B. excesses of the new generation
His Coy Mistress depicts churches and politicians
C. complications of motherhood
A. how fast time flies and child bearing
B. the usefulness of time D. conflict between the church
C. the measurement of time and tradition
D. how fast events unfold
29. "Listen...they will tell
26. Lawrence's Bat opens with you...to beat drums is mere
the description of the children's play, the adult's is
to start echoes...
A. scene
B. creatures The lines above from Launkos'
C. bats End of the War, enhance the -----
D. scenery
A. rhyme of the poem
27. The theme of Eliot's The B. rhythm of the poem
Journey of Magi is C. language of the poem
D. use of imagery
A. quest for salvation
B. escape from persecution 30. The language OF Cope’s
C. nature Sonnet VII past event in a literary
D. journey work is
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A. complicated B. origin
B. simple C. custom
C. poetic complicated D. truth
D. difficult
34. A device used in poetry to
Question 31 to 40 are based achieve emphasis or stress a
on General literacy Principles point is known as
31. A device used by a writer to A. rhyme

recall past event in a literary work B. assonance
is C. repetition
D. alliteration
A. interlude
B. anti-climax 35. A literary work that ridicules
C. flashback the shortcomings of people or
D. foreshadowing ideas is
32. A paragraph in prose is A. a masque

equivalent to a B. a satire
C. an irony
A. trope in poetry D. a fable
B. verse in poetry
C. stanza in poetry 36. The figure of speech in which
D. meter in poetry the writer means the exact
opposite of what he intends to say
33. A fable is a brief narrative is
illustrating wisdom and
A. satire
A. urgency B. irony
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C. paradox 40. The speech made by a
D. metaphor character to himself on stage is
37. Action without speech in a A. monologue

play is B. epilogue
C. aside
A. soliloquy D. soliloquy
B. aside
C. epilogue Question is based on Literary
D. mime Appreciation.
38. A literary work that teaches 41. "Women as a clam, on the

moral is said to be sea's crescent
I saw your jealous eye quench
A. impressive the sea's
B. didactic Fluorescence, dance on the
C. instructive pulse incessant. Wole Soyinka:
D. corrective Night
39. A mistake committed by the The lines above suggest that

hero which leads to his downfall is women are
known as
A. magicians
A. comic relief B. covetous
B. terse C. dogmatic
C. climax D. seers
D. tragic flaw
Use the quotation below to
answer question 42 and 43.
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"Busy old fool And battles long ago.
Unruly sun Or is it some more humble lay,
Why dost thou thus Familiar matter of today?
Through windows
And through curtains 44. The lines above show that the
Call on us?" persona
J. Donne: The Sun Rising
A. does not understand the girl's
42. The excerpts above suggests language
B. is so much in love with the girl
A. praise of nature C. so hates the words of the girl
B. invitation to the sun D. understands the girl's songs
C. welcoming the sun
D. indictment of the sun 45. The line end in a literary
device known as
43. The figure of speech involved
in the lines above is A. transferred epithet
B. rhetorical question
A. simile C. Irony
B. personification D. conceit
C. epigram
D. pun 46. Oh incomprehensible God!
Shall my pilot be
Use the quotation below to My inborn stars to that
answer questions 44 and 45. Final call to thee...
Will no one tell me what she
sings perhaps the plaintive The literary device used in the
numbers flow for old, first line is
unhappy, far off things
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A. passion 48. The theme of the poem above
B. apostrophe is
C. burlesque
D. rhetoric A. permanence of love
B. decaying nature of wood
47. "Busy old fool, unruly sun, C. non-peaceful nature of love
Why dost thou thus." D. diminishing nature of love
J. Donne:The Sun Rising
49. “No lover peaceful while the
From the lines above, the poet rival weeps" means that
sees the sun as
A. there is true and permanent
A. a necessary evil love
B. a light provider B. the two lovers weep together
C. illumination after darkness C. the pain of one lover is felt by
D. an unnecessary evil the other
D. there is no permanent love
Use the quotation below to
answer questions 48 and 49. 50. "Will college make you a
better Olokun priest?
The body perishes, the heart Will it make you serve our
stays young. ancestors better?
The platter wears away with Look at me. An able-bodied,
serving food. strong-hearted priest of
No log retains its bark when Olokun. Did I go to college?"
old, Grace Osifo: Dizzy Angel
No lover peaceful while the
rival weeps. The literary device used in the
passage above is
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A. simile
B. parallelism
C. onomatopoeia
D. metaphor
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1. D 2. A 3. B 4. C 5. C 6. B 7. D
8. C 9. A 10. D 11. A 12. B 13.
D 14. D 15. C 16. A 17. A 18. A
19. A 20. A 21. D 22. C 23. A
24. D 25. A
26. A 27. A 28. B 29. D 30. A

31. C 32. C 33. D 34. C 35. B
36. B 37. D 38. B 39. D 40. A
41. B 42. D 43. B 44. B 45. B
46. B 47. A 48. A 49. C 50. D
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1. Which Question Paper Type of 4. Erelu is

Literature-in-English is given to
you? A. the oldest wife of the Oba
Akinjobi
A. Type F B. a courtier to the Alaafin of Oyo
B. Type S C. the most brilliant woman in
C. Type L Owu
D. Type S D. the first wife of the Oba
Questions 2 to 5 are based on 5. Balogun Kusa is killed by a

Femi Osofisan's Women of
Owu A. god
B. herbalist
2. In the play, the gods are C. lunatic
portrayed as D. soldier
A. helpless Questions 6 to 10 are based

B. architects of man's destiny on William Shakespeare's The
C. amorous Tempest.
D. saviours of mankind
6. In the play, Ariel is identified as
3. Orisaye describes Balogun
Kusa as A. leader of the spirits
B. Prospero's daughter
A. a great warrior C. Alonso's wife
B. an enemy and a butcher D assistant to Sycorax
C. a friend in need
D. a good leader
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7. Before the shipwreck that 10. Prospero is portrayed as a
occurs at the beginning of the man who is
play, Prospero and his daughter
have lived in the Island for A. full of mistrust for everybody
B. more interested in studying
A. two decades than in governance
B. twelve years C. dependent on the spirits for his
C. forty days survival
D. eighteen months. D. eager to conquer the world
8. Caliban's intention to rape Questions 11 to 13 are based

Miranda is born out of the desire on Asare Konadu's A Woman
to in Her Prime.
A. destroy the Island 11. The novel explores the theme

B. compete with Ferdinand of
C. populate the Island with
Calibans A. exploitation of the African
D. marry her. woman
B. sex discrimination in Ghana
9. The character associated with C. women liberation in Nigeria
savagery in the play is D. child quest of an African
woman
A. Ariel
B. Stephano 12. According to the novel, the
C. Caliban worst calamity that can befall a
D. Ferdinand woman is
A. inability to bear male
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B. inability to marry D. everyone must take holy
C. divorce children communion
D. barrenness.
15. Eugene Achike in the novel is
13. In the novel, Asogo is a game portrayed as
in which
A. a soft and gentle husband
A. fathers narrate animal stories B. an uncompromising
B. boys abuse girls with music traditionalist
C. girls sing songs of praise C. a fanatical Catholic adherent
admonition D. a tough retired soldier.
D. mothers lure their babies to
sleep 16. In the Achike family, the
character who is central to the
Questions 14 to 16 are based theme is
on Chimamanda Adiechie’s
Purple Hibiscus A. Kambili
B. Mama
14. In the novel, one of the C. Sisi
changes introduced into St. D. Jaja
Agnes’ church by Father is that
A. there must be fasting every on Ernest Hemingway's The
month Old Man and the Sea.
B. the Credo must be recited in
lgbo 17. In the novel, the type of fish
C. the Kyrie must be rendered caught by Santiago after days of
only in Latin effort is
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A. shark D. when he sleeps on the boat for
B. iris a few hours.
C. marlin
D. geisha Questions 21 to 30 are based
on Selected Poems from
18. The novel demonstrates the Ker,D. et al (eds.) New Poetry
from Africa;
A. attempt to catch fish Soyinka, (ed.): Poems of Black
B. desire to understand life Africa; Senanu K.E. and
C. influence of the sea on man Vincent, T. (eds.): A Selection
D. struggle of man against-defeat of African Poetry; Umukoro, M
et a! (eds.): Exam Focus:
19. In the novel, the attitude of Literature in English;
the old man toward nature is Ernubetine, A.E. et al (eds.):
quite Longman Examination Guides
and Nwoga, D.1. (ed): West
A. cautious and sceptical African Verse.
B. hostile and callous
C. careless and indifferent 21. The dominant image in
D. warm and friendly. Adeoti's Hard Lines is
20. Santiago's second dream A. auditory

occurs B. gustatory
C. visual
A. the night before his fishing D. tactile.
expedition
B. in his house 22. The tone of Umeh's
C. at the end of the book Ambassadors of Poverty can be
described as
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A. metaphorical 26. The dominant technique used
B. sarcastic in Serenade is
C. admonitory
D. panegyrical A. metaphor
B. simile
23. Owonibi's Homeless, not C. oxymoron
Hopeless, the persona explains D. apostrophe
that street beggars
27. The sun in Donne's The Sun
A. always worry about heaven Rising is depicted through the
B. rarely sleep and dream use of
C. attend conferences in towns
D. are concerned with their daily A. invocation
needs. B. ellipsis
C. enjambment
24. Cheney-Coker's Myopia is a D. apostrophe
A. dirge 28. In Raleigh's The Soul's

B. lament Errand, the soul is portrayed as a
C. sonnet
D. ballad A. friend of suffering masses
B. fearless message-bearer
25. Jared Angira is an African C. restorer of lost glory
poet from D. messenger of hope and peace.
A. Sierra-Leone 29. The allusion in Hughes's The

B. Kenya Negro Speaks of Rivers is
C. South Africa mainly
D. Ghana.
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A. biblical A. epilogue
B. historical B. exposition
C. classical C. catharsis
D. literary D. catastrophe
30. Fletcher's Upon An Honest 33. A device in drama where a

Man's Fortune encourages character speaks alone is
people to
A. apostrophe
A. condemn soothsaying B. dialogue
B. move in the direction of God C. soliloquy
C. accept soothsaying D. aside
D. accept life as it is.
34. A plot in a literary work is
Questions 31 to 40 are based about
on General Literary Principles
A. resolution of conflicts
31. An action in a play that B. law of poetic justice
stimulates the audience to pity a C. character delineation
character is D. causal arrangement of events
A. pathos 35. Tone and mood of a poem

B. parody refer to
C. pyrrhic
D. props A. setting
B. space
32. Purgation of emotion, pity and C. locale
fear is D. atmosphere
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36. A funny incident within a B. a monologue
serious situation is C. a prologue.
D. an epilogue
A. tragicomedy
B. tragic hero 40. Which of the following is
C. comedy central to narrative fiction?
D. comic relief
A. Objectivity
37. In literature, a flat character B. Subjectivity
can be described as one who C. Verisimilitude
D. Dialogue
A. dies abruptly
B. achieves greatness Questions 41 to 50 are based
C. is undeveloped on Literary Appreciation.
D. undergoes changes
41. He put himself in uniform,
38. Dramatis personae in a play made one for his five year-old
refers to son, and marched with the infant
from dawn till noon every market
A. cast list day, on the main road singing
B. protagonist and antagonist `Kayiwawa beturi…
C. list of characters
D. order of appearance The persona in the excerpt above
is portrayed as
39. The speech made at the end
of a dramatic performance is A. energetic
generally called B. a policeman
C. a soldier
A. a dirge D. abnormal
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42. He is a faithful liar B. madman
C. sole of a pauper
The above is an example of D. sole of a soldier.
A. epigram 45. 'Lift not the painted veil which

B. oxymoron those who live call life: though
C. euphemism unreal shapes be picture there,
D. antithesis And it but mimic all we would
believe With colours idly spread-
43. Fights by the book of behind, lurk fear.' P.B Shelley:
arithmetic Sonnet
The figure of speech in the line The stanza above is an example

above is of a
A. hyperbole A. quatrain
B. Euphemism B. sonnet
C. Litotes C. couplet
D. Innuendo D. sestet
44. And when you trudge on one Use the following excerpt to
horny pads Gullied like the soles answer questions 46 to 48.
of modern shoes Pads that even
jiggers cannot conquer Ì wonder how long, you awful
parasites, shall share with me this
Horny pads in the lines above is a little bed, And awake me, from
reference to a my sweet dreams be lost, sucking
blood from my poor head...'
A. policeman By Mbure: To a Bed-Bug
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46. The lines are an example of a The lines above are a good
example of
A. limerick
B. lampoon A. caricature
C. light verse B. ridicule
D. light opera C. satire
D. lampoon
47. The poet persona expresses
dismay about 50. 'This thing you are doing is
too heavy for you, he said. I
A. bat went to school only a little but
B. cockroaches I have killed many many more
C. grasshoppers years in this world than you
D. light opera have'.
G. Okara: The voice
48. The most dominant figure of
speech in the excerpt is It can be inferred from the
passage above that the
A. metaphor
B. simile A. listener is wise
C. personification B. speaker is a porter
D. hyperbole C. listener is more experienced
D. speaker is more experienced.
49. You
Your head is like a drum that is ANSWER KEYS
beaten for spirits.
You 1. D 2. B 3. B 4. A 5. C 6. A 7. D
Your ears are like the fans used 8. D 9. C 10. A 11. A 12. D 13.
for blowing fire. D 14. B 15. C 16. A 17. C 18. D
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19. A 20. D 21. C 22. C 23. D
24. B 25. A
26. D 27. D 28. B 29. A 30. D

31. A 32. C 33. C 34. D 35. D
36. D 37. C 38. C 39. D 40. D
41. D 42. B 43. D 44. C 45. A
46. A 47. B 48. C 49. D 50. D
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1. 'Busy old fool, unruly sun 4. In owonibi's Honieless, not

why windows and through Hopeless the persona explains
curtains call on us?' that street beggars
The most vivid figure of speech A. Always worry about in heaven

in the lines above from Donne's B. Attend conferences towns
The Sun Rising is C. are concerned with their daily
needs
A. simile D. Rarely sleep and dream
B. diction
C. personification 5. The poet persona in Serenade
D. pun is a
2. The allusion in Hughes's The A. Suitor

Negro Speaks of Rivers is mainly B. Mother
C. spinster
A. biblical D. Passer-by
B. classical
C. literary 6. In Cheney-Coker's Myopia,
D. historical peasants refer to
3. In Adeoti's Hard Lines, Sodium A. Under-privileged masses

cyanide is B. Politicians
C. farmers
A. poisonous D. Rural dwellers
B. adhesive
C. sweet 7. In Angira's Expelled, the poet
D. fragrant persona laments the
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A. Loss of his property B. A simile
B. Harrowing experiences from C. an alliteration
the stranger's visit D. An irony
C. presence of the strangers
D. Problem of his family and their 11. The repetition of a consonant
economic implications sound in quick succession for
sound effect is
8. Fletcher's Upon An Honest
Man's Fortune achieves its lyrical A. Alliteration
effect through the use of B. Pun
C. onomatopoeia
A. Synecdoche D. Assonance
B. Antithesis
C. enjambment 12. A play in which the acts
D. Ballad succeed one another without
probable or necessary sequence is
9. Rhythm is achieved in Raleigh's
The Soul's Errand through the use A. Episodic
of B. Simple
C. linear
A. Metaphor D. Convoluted
B. Alliteration
C. repetition 13. A technique by which a
D. Antithesis previous scene or action can be
recalled in a play to shed light on
10. The title of Umeh's the present action is
Ambassador of Poverty is
A. Climax
A. Repetition B. Flashback
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C. interlude B. Clown
D. Catharsis C. Playwright
D. Cast
14. Criticism is a literary activity
which seeks to 17. A character whose name is
used as the title of the text is
A. Find faults in a literary work
B. Analyse and evaluate a literary A. Antagonist
work B. Round
C. compare and contrast novels C. eponymous
D. Discover the beauty of a D. Flat
literary work
18. In poetry, the term license
15. A situation where an actor implies
addresses the audience without
the other actors hearing him is A. Freedom to sell poems
called B. Liberty the poets take with
language
A. Soliloquy C. approval given to poets to
B. Chorus compose poems
C. aside D. Honour given to deserving
D. Solo poets
16. A band of singers and dancers 19. The person who takes the
in drama who act as a link leading role in a play or novel is
between the play and the the
audience is the
A. Protagonist
A. Chorus B. Actor
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C. antagonist A. Narrative
D. Actress B. Argumentative
C. dramatic
20. A form of writing in which the D. Descriptive
poet write with nostalgia about
simple village life is 23.'once upon a time son, they
used to laugh with their eyes;
A. Ballad but now they only laugh with
B. Romance their teeth, while their ice-
C. epic block-cold eyes search behind
D. pastoral my shadow'
G. Okara: Once upon a time
21. ‘We all make decisions.
Sometimes it is wrong, The lines above are expressive of
sometimes it is right.'
A. Friendliness
The speaker in the lines above is B. Insincerity
C. jealousy
A. Afraid D. Sympathy
B. Excited
C. pessimistic 24.'when she opens her heart
D. Reassuring the savior's image!'
Traditional: Love Song.
22. 'Her neck is rope-like thin,
long and skinny and her face The allusion in the lines above
sickly pale.' shows
Okotp' Bitek: Song of Lawino.
A. That the poet is a Christian
The style used in the lines is
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B. That his love had a heart spoke through lightning and
surgery thunder.’
C. the climax of love relationship
D the anti-climax of love The figure of speech in the third
relationship line above is
25. 'Ay, your times were fine A. Personification

times indeed you have been B. Simile
telling us of them for many a C. hyperbole
long year. Here we live in an D. Metaphor
old rumbling mansion, that
looks for all the world like an 27.'Ay, your times were fine
inn, but we never see times indeed you have been
company.' telling us of them for many a
Goldsmith: She Stoops to long year. Here we live in an
Conquer. old rumbling mansion, that
looks for all the world like an
The figure of speech in the world inn, but we never see
like an inn is company.'
Goldsmith: She Stoops to
A. Irony Conquer.
B. Euphemism
C. simile The figure of speech in the world
D. Metaphor like an inn is
26. 'She gave out colanuts and A. hopeful

together they ate to appease B. frustrated
the angry earth and amadioha C. regretful
D. Happy
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28. 'Her neck is rope-like thin, I built an absolute trust.'
long and skinny and her face Shakespeare: Macbeth,
sickly pale.’
Okot p’ Bitek:Song of Lawino. The gentleman in the lines above
The style used in the lines is A. Annoys the speaker

B. fights with the speaker
A. Ridicule C. detests the speaker
B. admonition D. Betrays the speaker
C. anger
D. sympathy 31. The flourishing fish market in
the novel is located In
29. ‘Ah. sunflower, weary of
time who contests the steps of A. St. Louis
the sun seeking after that B. Canary Island
sweet golden clime where the C. Cleveland
travellers' Journey is done. D. Havana
The figure of speech in the second 32. In summary, the old man can
line above is be described as
A. Simile A. A Marxist
B. metaphor B. an idealist
C. irony C. an optimist
D. Hyperbole D. A realist
30. ‘There is no art to find the 33. As he struggled with fish and
minds construction on the face the sharks, the old man
he was a gentleman on whom
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constantly talks to himself C. sisi
because D. Jaja
A. He is afraid of the sea 37. The novel exposes

B. that is what all fishermen do
C. it will make the sharks leave A. Military dictatorship
D. The boy has left him B. the travails of a single girl
C. what happens in a family with
34. To the old man, mandolin is a highhanded father
D. The problem of running a large
A. A symbol of oppression family in an urban society
B. the cause of the ill-luck
C. a source of encouragement 38. 'A priest rushed forward
D. Typical of lazy youths and poured libation,... Having
thus appealed to the keeper of
35. The subject matter of the the spirit world, they waited
novel is for results. Moments passed
before the bearers could move
A. Domestic violence again.'
B. religious zeal
C. child abuse The incident is the
D. Marital infidelity
A. Sacrifice to make pokuwaa
36. In the Achike family, the pregnant
character who is central to the B. burial of Yaw Boakye
theme is C. search for Yaw Boakye
D. Search for the missing black
A. Kambili hen
B. mama
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39. According to the medicine A. Man and nature
man, pokuwaa has miscarriage B. heaven and earth
because C. sin and forgiveness
D. Slow and steady
A. Kwadwo often beats her
B. she is barren from birth 42. In the play, Prospero leaves
C. her mother does not offer his Dukedom of Milan to devote
thanksgiving sacrifice his time to the pursuit of
D. Kwaswo's mother is a powerful
witch A. Magic
B. knowledge
40. 'A priest rushed forward C. romance
and poured libation... Having D. Recreation
thus appealed to the keeper of
the spirit world, they waited 43. Prospero's sense of justice is
for results. Moments passed one sided because
before the bearers could move
again.' A. While he is angry with Antonio,
he enslaves Ariel and Caliban
The incident narrated above takes B. he wants his back, so he can
place rule again
C. he sees his usurpation from
A. On the way to the stream one side
B. at the market place D. He is unfair to Miranda
C. close to the cemetery
D. At the village square 44. An idea that recurs in the play
is
41. The central theme of the play
is A. People's love for power
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B. people's love for money 48. Orisaye insists that she
C. development of the Island receives revelations from
D. Love at first sight
A. Sango
45. Gonzalo in the play is B. Ogun
C. Orunmila
A. Antonio's brother D. Obatala
B. a Milan Senator
C. a Neapolitan Councillor 49. In the play, a General of the
D. Sebastian's co-conspirator Allied Forces is
46. In the play, the gods are A. Okunade

portrayed as B. Erelu
C. Akinjobi
A. Saviours of mankind D. Anlugbus
B. architects of man's destiny
C. helpless 50. In the play, Oba
D. Amorous Asunkungbade is the
47. In the play, Osofisan shows A. War leader of Ijebu

that war B. Ooni of lfe
C. Monarch of Oyo
A. Is destructive D. Founder of Owu-Ipole
B. is injurious to the gods
C. builds human society
D. Must be fought with patriotic
zeal
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1. C 2. C 3. B 4. D 5. A 6. D 7. D
8. D 9. A 10. A 11. D 12. A 13. B
14. A 15. D 16. A 17. C 18. B
19. A 20. C 21. D 22. D 23. C
24. C 25. C
26. A 27. C 28. A 29. B 30. D

31. C 32. A 33. D 34. C 35. B
36. A 37. C 38. B 39. C 40. C
41. B 42. D 43. C 44. D 45. C
46. B 47. A 48. D 49. A 50. D
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1. ... The usual works you know Questions 3 – 5 are based on

these things. We'll dangle this Frank Ogodo Ogbechei’s Harvest
babe before the Chief fora price. of Corruption
He will employ her and we can
make use of her to get what we 3. The central setting of the play
want. She will run the errands is
while we pick the bucks'.
A. Mabu
The babe in the excerpt above B. Gbossa
refers to C. Darkin
D. Jabu
A. Ogeyi
B. Alice 4. ‘Good day (He says without
C. Ochuole looking up.) See me there by 4
b. Aloho p.m. Okay? Bye!'
2. '0! God forgive me. Is this a There in the excerpt above refers
trap or what? God! to the
Poor girl! Whatever is her reason
for this dangerous decision.' A. Court room
B. Police station
A. Chief C. Airport
B. Doctor D. Akpara hotel
C. Inspector Inaku
D. ACP Yakubu 5. Chief Ade Amaka is involved in
which of the following crime?
A. Child trafficking
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B. Land grabbing 8. Brabantio is opposed to the
C. Smuggling relationship between Othello and
D. Rigging Desdemona because
Questions 6 – 10 are based on A. he prefers lago

Williams Shakespeare's B. Othello is a Moor
Othello C. Roderigo woos her first.
D. Desdemona is too young
6. 'ill-starred wench, pale as thy
smock, When we shall meet at 9. 'soft you; a word or two before
compt.' you go. I have done the state
some service, and they know't No
The device used in the lines above more of that, I pray you, in your
is letters, When you shall these
unlucky deeds relate ',
A. simile
B. pun The speech above is made. when
C. metaphor the speaker is
D. paradox
A. travelling
7. Othello kills Desdemona B. sick
because the C. dying
D. eloping
A. former is jealous
B. former's race is insulted 10. '0 heaven; How got she out?
C. latter is a witch. 0 treason of the blood.
Father, from hence trust not your
daughters' minds
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By what you see them act. Is A. Fofo
there not charms B. Baby T.
By which the property of youth C. Odarley
and maidhood may be abused? D. Obea.
The speaker of the excerpt above 13. The writer of the novel is from
is
A. Germany
A. Brabantio B. Scotland
B. Othello C. Ghana
C. Gratiano D. Nigeria
D. Roderigo
Question 14 – 16 are based on
Question 11 – 13 are based on Bayo Adebowale's Lonely Days.
Ammadarko's Faceless
14. Windows in mourning in Kufi
11. The name of Kabria's husband wear garments that are
is
A. red
A. Kwei B. black
B. Kpakpo C. white
C.Adade D. dull
D. Ottu
15. In the novel bage cap signifies
12. 'She was both a child and an everlasting
adult and could act like both
A. happiness
The character being referred to in B. sorrow
the excerpt above is C. freedom
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D. despair The dominant literacy device in
the excerpt above is
16. Yaremis’ only son is
A. apostrophe
A. Alani B. euphemism
B. Wande C. syntactical parallelism
C. Olode D. rhetorical question
D. Deyo
20. Bigger and the gang rob
Questions 17 – 20 are based on Negroes because
Richard Wright's Native Son
A. they are the same
17. Bigger burns Mary body in the B. it is not a crime
C. they are helpless
A. toilet D. it is easier
B. basement
C. backyard 21. One of the themes in Morris
D. wardrobe The Proud King is
18. Mary's lover is ___ A. arrogance

B. greed
A. Earlone C. education
B. Buckley D. achievement.
C. Bigger
D. Max 22. 'The panic Of growing older
Spreads fluttering wings from
19. 'Suppose Mary had not year to year'
burned? Suppose she was still
there, expose’
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The dominant figure of speech in Too full for sound and foam,
the lines above from Peters' The When that which drew from out
Panic of Growing Older is the boundless deep
Turns again home.'
A. onomatopoeia
B. metaphor The rhyme scheme in the excerpt
C. personification above from Tennyson's Crossing
D. apostrophe the Bar is
23. Kofi Awoonor is a poet from A. abba

B. abab
A. Cameroon C. abed
B. Nigeria D. aabb
C. Ghana
D. Kenya 26. 'So strength first made a way;
Then beauty flowed, then wisdom,
24. Okara's Piano and Drums honour, pleasure.'
symbolizes
The lines above from Herbert's
A. superiority of the white man The Pulley is an example of
B. how Africa is becoming
complex A. personification
C. simplicity of the European B. paradox
society C. metaphor
D. the complexities of the D. antithesis
Western society
27. Blake's The School Boy can
25. But such a tide moving seems be referred to as
asleep,
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A. dramatic From the lines above in
B. instructive Hallowell's The Dining Table, the
C. satiric persona is
D. expository
A. thirsty
28. Ìf we cry roughly of our B. displeased
torments; Ever increasing from C. hungry
the start of things, What eyes will D. sick
watch our large mouths; Shaped
by the laughter of big children 30. 'blue Peter on empty ships all
What eyes will watch our large peters with petered out desires.'
mouths?' It can be deduced from the lines
above in Adeoti’s Ambush that
The language of the persona of the Peters are
the above excerpt in Diop's Vanity
is A. disappointed
B. betrayed
A. inciting C. lazy
B. submissive D. greedy
C. imploring
D. diplomatic 31. An art that is both literary and
theatrical is
29. 'Dinner tonight conies with;
gun wounds, Our desert tongues A. prosody
lick the vegetable; blood-the B. a prose
pepper' C. drama
D. a poem
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32. The speech made by a B. synecdoche
character to himself on stage is C. alliteration
D. melodrama
A. epilogue
B. monologue 36. The plot of a story generally
C. aside refers to the
D. soliloquy
A. way in which the writer begins
33. In literature, a round the story
character is associated with B. intrigue made by a character
against the hero
A. change and growth C. way the writer ends the story
B. simplicity and modesty D. way in which the events of the
C. stability and determination story are organized
D. running down other characters
37. A didactic piece is one in
34. In a narrative poem, the post which the writer
attempts to
A. teaches human lessons
A. summarize a story B. dictates to the reader
B. preach a sermon C. condemns human foibles
C. describe a place D. discuses dialectic themes
D. tell a story
38. What basically distinguish
35. The continuation of meaning literature from other disciplines
without pause, from one line to
the next is A. communication of idea
B. use of creative imagination
A. enjambment C. portrayal of places
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D. exposition of human A. pessimistic
experience B. optimistic
C. helpless
39. A reward or punishment a D. carefree
character receives in a literary
work is 42. 'You see that Benz at the
rich's end? Ha! That motoka is
A. point of attack motoka, lt belongs to the Minister
B. poetic justice for fairness. Who yesterday was
C. popular outcry loaded with a doctorate. At
D. poetic license Makerere with whisky and I don't
know what Plus I hear the literate
40. In literary criticism, the thighs of an undergraduate
vocabulary or language used by a Theo Luzuka: The Motoka
writer is generally known as
The excerpt above can be
A. figure of speech described as
B. diction
C. expression A. sad
D. rhythm B. humorous
C. strange
41. Weep not child, weep not my D. serious
darling, With these kisses, let me
remove your tears The ravening Questions 43 to 50 are based
clouds shall no longer be on Literary Appreciation.
victorious They shall no longer
possess the sky ...The speaker of 43. `... for my purpose holds To
the lines is sail beyond the sunset and the
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baths; of all the western stars, you to your face.' Kwesi Braw:
until I die. Lest we should Be The Last
'Tennyson: Ulysses.
The lines above convey the
From the excerpt above, the feeling of
persona does not intend to
A. satisfaction
A. undertake dangerous B. hope
adventure C. disappointment
B. stop travelling D. fear
C. die
D. travel at night 46. The times has come when I
can fool myself no more I am no
44. 'And my children left their man sadiku. My manhood ended
peaceful nakedness for the near a week ago.
uniform of iron and blood.' David
Diop: Loser of Everything. The lines above reveal that the
speaker
In the lines above, the imagery
depicts a displacement of A. has become impotent
B. loves women
A. village life by barrack life C. is tired of marriage
B. nature by science D. is disgusted with life.
C. innocence by violence
D. the natural by the artificial 47. 'In those days When
civilization kicked us in the face
45. 'Now we have come to you, When holy water slapped our
And are amazed to find Those you cringing brows.
have loved and respected Mock
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The vultures built in the shadow 49. When I remember by gone
of their talons.' days I think how evening follows
David Diop: The Vulture. morning So many I loved were
not yet dead, So many I love not
The dominant Literary device yet born.
used in the lines above is
The period of life the poet has
A. metaphor arrived at is
B. pun
C. simile A. middle age
D. personification. B. adolescence
C. old age
48. ‘The leaves are withered D. early childhood
Roses fold and shrink Dog the
panting athlete shows his tongue 50. ‘Behold her, single in the field
dwarled A shadow flees Nude You solitary Highland lass!
under and crack.' Nuts wrinkle Reaping and singing by herself
and crack.’ O listen! For the value profound is
W. Kamera: Poems in Four Parts. overflowing with sound.’ Words
worth: The Solitary Reaper.
One dominant image presented in
the lines above is that of The lines above constitute
A. death A. an apostrophe
B. summer B. an aside
C. tiredness C. an interior monologue
D. spent life D. soliloquy
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1. D 2. A 3. B 4. D 5. C 6. A 7. A
8. B 9. C 10. A 11. C 12. A 13. C
14. B 15. C 16. A 17. B 18. A
19. D 20. B 21. A 22. C 23. C
24. B 25. B
26. A 27. C 28. C 29. B 30. B

31. A 32. A 33. A 34. D 35. A
36. D 37. A 38. D 39. B 40. B
41. B 42. B 43. B 44. C 45. C
46. A 47. D 48. A 49. A 50. A
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Question 1 to 5 are based on 4. En! En! En! You have come

Frank Ogodo Ogbeche's again... I am not always
Harvest of Corruption comfortable when you start
dishing out this you born again
1. Aloho perceives her pregnancy stuff...'
as a form of
A. Ochuole
A. reward B. Aloho
B. blessing
C. punishment 5. Aloch is warned about
D. injustice associating with Ochuole be-cause
the latter is
2. The play can be referred to as
A. too sophisticated
A. dramatic irony B. proud
B. allegory C. mischievous
C. fable D. born-again
D. satire
Question 6 to 10 are based on
3. According to Ochuole, William Shakespeare's
government job is Othello.
A. a waste of time 6. She is abused, stol'n from

B. time consuming me and corrupted By spells
C. good for hardworking youths and medicines bought of
D. an avenue to personalize public mountebanks; .
fund
The excerpt above refers to
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A. Brabantio's suspicion his complaints.'Tis yet to
B. lago's distrust of Emilia know Which, when I know
C. Othello's suspicion that boasting is an honour,'
D. Cassio's disaffection for lago
The speaker in the excerpt above
7. The play is first staged at is
A. Liverpool stadium A. Brabantio

B. Manchester stadium B. Othello
C. Whitehall palace London C. Cassio
D. London Threatre D. Lago
8. Àll's One-Good faith, how 10. ‘O heaven; How got she out?
foolish are our minds! If I do O treason of the blood
die before thee, prithee, Father, from hence trust not your
shroud me. In one of those daughter’s minds
same sheets.' By which the property of youth
and maidhood May be abused?
The plea in the excerpt above is
made by The speaker of the excerpt above
is
A. Desdemona to Emilia
B. Othello to lago A. Brabantio
C. Lago to Emilia B. Othello
D. Cassio to Bianca C. Gratiano
D. Roderigo
9. ‘Let him do his spite; My
services which I have done Question 11 to 13 are based
the signiory Shall out-tongue on Amma Darko's Faceless.
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11. Sodom and Gomorrah used in 14. Labankada signifies
the novel is an example of
A. wealth and peace
A. mixed metaphor B. wealth and life
B. allusion C. wealth and prosperity
C. synecdoche D. wealth and protection
D. euphemism
15. The women of kufi are
12. The novel focuses on powerful
A. stubborn children A. singers

B. negligent parents B. farmers
C. greedy politicians C. traders
D. peer group influence D. widows
13. Fofo chooses to spend the 16. The windows in the land are
night in front of the provision joined by the loss of
store because
A. love
A. it is a Sunday B. family
B. she is ill C. fame and wealth
C. she does not want to risk D. dignity and status
losing her job
D. she has nowhere to go Question 17 to 20 are based
on Richard Wright's Native
Question 14 to 16 are based Son
on Bayo Adebowale's Lonely
Days. 17.'Light flooded the room and
revealed a black boy standing
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in a narrow space between C. educated
two' The style of the lines above D. given some respect
is
Question 21 to 30 are based
A. narrative on Selected Poems from
B. dramatic Johnson, Ret al(eds): New
C. descriptive poetry from Vincent,
D. expository T.(eds): A selection of African
Poetry; Gbemisola.: Naked
18. Bigger kills Mary due to Soles;
Hayward, J African Verse.
A. fear Morris'
B. envy
C. hatred 21. The Proud King is
D. distrust
A. didactic
19. Weekly, Bigger is to be paid B. pastoral
C. traditional
A. twenty dollars D. lyrical
B. twenty-five dollars
C. thirty dollars 22. Mystic rhythm in the third line
D. thirty-five dollars of the first stanza of Okara's
Piano and Drums
20. Mr Dalton is of the opinion
that Negroes are happier when A. express mood
they are B. provides music
C. carries a definite message
A. together D. are for pleasurable dancing
B. servants in the white family
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23. The line above in Adeoti's 26. Peter's the Panic of Growing
Ambush is an example of Older can be referred to as
A. pun A. metaphysical
B. alliteration B. philosophical
C. metaphor C. satirical
D. simile D. metaphorical
24. The mood of the person in 27. One vivid device in Blake’s
Tennyson's Crossing the Bar is The School Boy is
that
A. oxymoron
A. pain B. rhetorical question
B. frustration C. ironical statement
C. hope D. metaphor
D. love
28. ‘… and my boots have
25. Having a glass of blessings suddenly become too reluctant
standing by,' to walk me.’
The line above from Herbert's The The persona in the above excerpt
Pulley is an example of in Hallowell's The Dining Table is
A. synecdoche A. exhausted
B. personification B. excited
C. hyperbole C. indifferent
D. simile
29. The tone of Diopo’s Vanity is
one of
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A. anger A. concert
B. pity B. opera
C. joy C. theatre
D. scorn D. pantomime
30. Awoonor's The Anvil and the 33. In literature, local colour is
Hammer presents a picture of the
A. universal
A. past and present B. restricted
B. past and future C. only English
C. future D. only American
D. olden days
34. A clue to an event that will
Question 31 to 40 are based happen later in a work of art is
on General Literacy Principles
A. flashback
31. Totality of the effects B. foreshadowing
produced on a reader of a literary C. premonition
work is D. digression
A. tone 35.. . Comedy of lower kind in

B. mood which believability is sacrificed for
C. plot the main objective of exciting
D. diction laugh is
32. An art form in which singers A. farce

and musicians performs dramatic B. comedy
work combining text and music is C. melodrama
D. tragi comedy
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36. ‘I am on the world's We have the heat and the glory of
extreme corner.' Kofi Awoonor: the rainbow
Song of Sorrow. But we kill our own suns with
hurtful glee
The speaker in the lines move is
The poet's feeling call be
A. indifferent described as that of
B. sad
C. angry A. disappointment
D. in pain B. indifference
C. anxiety
37. Then I sat myself quiet... for D. joy
five
And forty turbulent years I 39. When I remember by gone
waited, sapped, famished, days
For love to wake from her sickly I think how evening follow
slumber; morning
So many I loved were not yet
The figure of speech in the last dead,
line above is So may I love not yet born
A. assonance The period of life the poet has

B. personification arrived at is
C. metaphor
D. oxymoron A. middle age
B. adolescence
38. We have rain but hate to C. old age
plant D. early childhood
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40. ‘Behold her, single in the field
You solitary Highland Lass’
Reaping and singing by herself
O listen! for the value profound
Is overflowing with the sound.’
Words worth: The Solitary
Reaper
The lines above constitute
A. an apostrophe
B. an aside
C. an interior monologue
D. soliloquy
ANSWER KEYS
1. C 2. C 3. D 4. C 5. C 6. A 7. D
8. A 9. A 10. A 11. B 12. B 13. C
14. C 15. C 16. D 17. C 18. A
19. B 20. B
21. A 22. C 23. B 24. C 25. A

26. A 27. B 28. A 29. A 30. A
31. B 32. B 33. B 34. B 35. A
36. B 37. B 38. A 39. A 40. A
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Questions 1 to 10 are based A. device in which the speaker

on General Literacy Principles. means the opposite of what he
says
1. A literary work in which the B. situation in which a Character
characters and events are used as speaks or acts against the tread
symbols is known as of events
C. difficult situation which defies a
A. characteristics local or rational resolution
B. allegory D. device in which the actor on
C. metaphor stag: means exactly what he
D. parallelism says.
2. Characterisation in a novel 4. In the theatre, words spoken

refers to the by a character that are meant to
be heard by the audience but not
A. writer’s opinion of the by the other; characters on stage
characters is called
B. way the characters are
revealed to the reader A. aside
C. characters and the way they B. soliloquy
behave C. acoustic
D. readers of the characters. D. tone
3. In literacy work, verbal Irony 5. Drama is the representation of

refers to a a complete series of actions by
means of
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A. movement and gesture for the B. animals or things are used as
screen and audience characters
B. speech, movement and gesture C. there is an important setting
for the stage only D. the story is told in poetic farm
C. speech, movement and gesture
for the stage, screen and radio 9. The juxtaposition of two
D. speech, gesture and movement contrasting ideas in a line of
for the screen and radio poetry is
6. A poet's use of regular rhythm A. euphemism

is known as B. synecdoche
C. catharsis
A. allegory D. oxymoron
B. assonance
C. metre 10. The main aim of caricature is
D. onomatopoeia. to
7. A literacy genre which directly A. describe

imitates human actions is B. expose
C. emphasize
A. drama D. ridicule.
B. comedy
C. prose Questions 11 to 13 are based
D. poetry on Richard Writer's Native
Son.
8. A fable is a story in which
11. Bigger kills Mary due to
A. allegations are made about
characters A. fear
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B. envy C. white
C. hatred D. dull
D. distrust
15. In the novel, bage cape
12. Weekly, Bigger is to be paid signifies everlasting
A. twenty dollars A. happiness

B. twenty-five dollars B. sorrow
C. thirty dollars C. freedom
D. thirty-five dollars D. despair.
13. Mr Datton is of the opinion 16. Yaremi's only son is

that Negroes are happier when
they are A. Alani
B. Wande
A. together C. Olode
B. servants in the white family D. Deyo.
C. educated
D. given some respect. Questions 17 to 20 are based
on George Orwell's Nineteen
Questions 14 to 16 are based Eightyfour.
on Bayo Adebowale's Lonely
Days. 17. The novel draws a picture of
14. Windows in mourning in Kofi A. a useless past

wear garments that are B. a totalitarian future
C. an unstable moment
A. red D. a peaceful atmosphere
B. black
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18. The power and oppression of A. both undesirable and
an irresistible evil debased unattainable
Winston's dreams of B. desirable but unattainable
C. attainable and desirable
A. freedom and democracy D. obnoxious but desirable
B. internal security
C. wealth and capitalism 22. In their flight, the women
D. sovereignty settle at Iyara in order to
19. Room 101 symbolises a place A. cure cross-piece

of B. hurt their husbands
C. forestall reconciliation
A. rest D. seek peace
B. fun
C. humiliation 23. `...Great Orators in the
D. torture assembly, and poor nannies at
home:"
20. The novel can be described as
Those being ridiculed here are the
A. optimistic
B. antagonistic A. husbands
C. persuasive B. old-women
D. pessimistic. C. wives
D. spinsters
on J.P Clark's Wives Revolt. 24. …Those with full breasts have
walked out, and that leaves you,
21. In the play, the central idea is me, and, the old-girls returned
that gender equality is
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home on retirement, it's the dry The device used in the line above
season child." is
The character to whom the words A. simile

are spoken in the play is in B. pun
C. metaphor
A. front of the veranda of Okoro's D. paradox
house
B. the-kitchen, upstage 27. Othello kills Desdemona
C. Okoro's front yard, down stage because the
D. the direction of the kitchen, off
stage A. former is jealous
B. former's race is insulted
25. The mutual exchange of C. latter is a witch
abuse in the play is reminiscent of D. latter is an idol
A. Ikaki 28. Brabantio is opposed to the

B. Udje relationship between Othello and
C. Etiyeri Desdemona because
D. Ekpe
A. he prefers Lago
Questions 26 to 30 are based B. Othello is a moor
on Williams's Shakespeare's C. Rodgerigo woos her first
Othello. D. Desdemona is too young
26. "ill-starred wench, Pale as thy 29. "Soft you; a word or two
smoke; before you go.
When we shall meet at compt" I have done the state some
service an,' they know' No more
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of that, I pray you, in your letters, Use the following excerpt to
When you shall these unlucky answer questions 31 to 33.
deeds relate"
"I wonder how long, you awful
The speech above is made when parasites,
the speaker is Shall share with me this little bed,
And awake me, from my sweet
A. travelling dreams be lost,
B. sick Sucking blood from my poor
C. dying head...
D. eloping Mbure: "To Bed-Bug"
30."0 heaven; How got she out? 31.The lines are an example of a
O treason of the blood!
Father; from hence trust not your A. limerick
daughters' minds B. lampoon
By what you see them act. Is C. light verse
there not charms D. light opera.
By which the property of youth
and maidhood may be abused? 32. The poet persona expresses
dismay about
The speaker of the excerpt above
is A. bat
B. cockroaches
A. Brabantio C. grass coppers
B. Othello D. light opera
C. Gratiano
D. Roderigo 33. The most dominant figure of
speech in the excerpt is
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A. metaphor The feeling conveyed by the
B. simile speaker above is one of
C. personification
D. hyperbole A. anger
B. alienation
34. You C. hope
Your head is like a drum that is D. despair
beaten for spirits
You 36. "Hide me now, when night
Yours ears are like the fans used children haunt the earth"
for blowing fire. Wole Soyinka: "Night" Night
children
The lines above are a good
example of In the stanza above reflects the
consciousness of
A. caricature
B. ridicule A. birds
C. satire B. armed robbers
D. lampoon. C. animals
D. spirit beings
35. How can I look at Oyo and
say I hate long shiny cars? 37. Serrated shadows,
How can I come to the through dark leaves
children and despise Till, bathed in warm suffusion
international schools? And of your dapped cells
Koomson comes; and the Sensation pained me, faceless,
family semi Jesus Christ in silent as night thieves
him... Wole Soyinka: “Night”
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The dominant mood in the lines A. metaphor
above is one of B. personification
C. synecdoche
A. apprehension D. metonymy
B. defiance
C. joy “I cannot rest from travel: I
D. indifference will drink, life to the lees, all
times I have enjoyed, Greatly,
38. “The drum overwhelmed have suffered greatly”. A.L.
the guns…” J.P Clark: Tennyson: ”Ulysses”
“Causalities”
40. The lines above inform the
The poet in the excerpt above reader that poet
uses
A. is determined to suffer
A. litotes B. has his poetic imagination
B. symbolism kindled
C. onomatopoeia C. will cure his soar mood
D. alliteration D. will not drink much
39. “… They do not see the

funeral piles,
At home eating up the
forests…” J.P Clark:
“Causalities”
The imagery created in the above

uses
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ANSWER KEYS
1. B 2. C 3. A 4. A 5. B 6. C 7. A
8. B 9. D 10. D 11. A 12. B 13. B
14. B 15. C 16. A 17. A 18. A
19. D 20. A
21. C 22. B 23. A 24. A 25. B

26. A 27. A 28. B 29. C 30. A
31. A 32. B 33. C 34. D 35. D
36. B 37. A 38. C 39. A 40. B
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Paper Type:A A. Fosuwa and Maidservant

Questions 2 to 5 are based on A. Mrs. B

Questions 6 to 10 based on A. Juliet

A. possession of physical 15. Meka can be best be

Questions 17 to 20 are based 20.The party seeks power for __.

A. instruments Questions 21 to 30 are based

29. In Eliot's Journey of the 32. Both comedy and tragedy

34. The narrative style in which A. placing two opposite phrases

A. episode 39. The account of experiences of

Questions 41 to 50 are based 43.'That year the harvest was

A. soldier 44.'That age is best which is

A. a lyric ANSWER KEYS

1. Which Question Paper Type of 4. The final harassment of

The intention of the speaker 9. In the play, Mercutio can be

7. The play reaches the point of A. simple

12. Vandermayer's attitude and A. four months

13. 'As he opened and shut his A. height

A. a useless past Question 21 to 30 are New

A. rain from the west A. silence of

28. To sustain the interest of Questions 31 to 40 are based

A. elision 31. The large space above the

29. 'With a running stream and a A. aside

A. folly of soldiers 36. Travelogue is a work of art

Ken Saro-Wiwa: A Forest of A. chieftaincy tussle

50. The wood decay, the

1. Which Question Paper Type of Use the quotation below to

A. expanding Nnu Ego's business A. parents

25. "...the youthful hue/sits on 28. "We would be believing we

26. In Lawrence's Bat, the poet 29. The casualties in Launko's

36. A poet's use of regular rhythm A. euphemism

37. A literary genre which directly A. describe

38. A fable is a story in which 41. O! Ceremony, show me but

A. antithesis The rhyme a scheme of the poem

A. sarcasm A. detects discrimination

The feeling conveyed by the The dominant mood in the lines

46. "Hide me now, when night 48. "The drums overwhelmed

47. "Serrated shadows, 49. ‘....They do not see the

A. is determined to suffer study group

B. has his poetic imagination

1. Which Question Paper Type of A. Fosuwa

Questions 2 to 5 are based on The dominant figure of speech in

2. The lines depict James as a A. painters

A. attempting to steal 9. "O'deadly sin! O rude

11. For his sacrifices to the Questions 14 to 16 are based

22. Rubadiri's An African The lines above from Give Me The

25. ‘Time winged chariot’ A. lack of experienced midwives

31. A device used by a writer to A. rhyme

32. A paragraph in prose is A. a masque

37. Action without speech in a A. monologue

38. A literary work that teaches 41. "Women as a clam, on the

39. A mistake committed by the The lines above suggest that

26. A 27. A 28. B 29. D 30. A

1. Which Question Paper Type of 4. Erelu is

Questions 2 to 5 are based on 5. Balogun Kusa is killed by a