- 1. A situation where an audience is aware of an action a character is ignorant of is ________
A) aside
B) comic relief
C) dramatic irony
D) satire
- 2. A fictional prose which is neither a novel nor a short story is a/an __________
A) novella
B) fable
C) allegory
D) novelettes
- 3. Read the extract below and answer Questions 5 to 7. With the pen, he wrote kings into reality With his words, kingdoms arose, Those same words, slaves inhaled Their hands building walls, their feet tromping territories His pen was like the breath of life. Their hands building walls, their feet tromping territories illustrate ________
A) metonymy
B) hyperbole
C) paradox
D) irony
- 4. Comic relief occurs in ________
A) comedies
B) tragedies
C) pastorals
D) romance
- 5. Students rarely read Julius Caesar these days illustrates ________
A) caesura
B) oxymoron
C) zeugma
D) eponym
- 6. Which of the following is written by a Non-African poet?
A) The Grieved Land of Africa
B) Black Woman
C) The Leader and The Led
D) The Journey of Magi
- 7. The predominant use of long vowels in the first sentence heightens the ______ of the waves
A) anger
B) great noise
C) endless movement
D) expanse
- 8. The writer's attitude to the scene is one of _________
A) anxiety
B) awe
C) contempt
D) indiference
- 9. The expression million voices is used as _________
A) metonymy
B) euphemism
C) hyperbole
D) conceit
- 10. A ship in the last line symbolises _________
A) A. despair
B) sailors
C) hope
D) pirates
- 11. Read the poem and answer Questions 26 to 30. Oft in the stilly night Ere slumber's chain has bound me Fond memory brings the light of other days around me: The smiles, the tears of boyhood years. The words of love then spoken; The eyes that shone How dimm'd and.gone The cheerful hearts now broken! Thus in the stilly night Ere slumber's chain has bound me. The theme is about the poet's _________
A) fee the stilly night.
B) broken love affairs.
C) sleepless night.
D) yearning for happier times gone
- 12. The two words that give hint of the poet's unhappiness are?
A) night and dimm'd
B) light and shone
C) light and night
D) Shone and dimm'd
- 13. The meaning of the expression, Ere slumber's chain has bound me is
A) before i dream
B) before i sleep
C) since i cannot sleep
D) after i wake up
- 14. Choose the word that is nearest in meaning to the CAPITALIZED word in questions 30-39. The criminal was INCARCERATED.
A) imprisoned
B) arrested
C) cautioned
D) pardoned
- 15. A literary work which is intended to teach a moral lesson is __________
A) moralistic.
B) romantic
C) mimetic
D) didactic
- 16. A short account of an interesting event is ________
A) an anecdote
B) a story
C) a tale.
D) an episode
- 17. A scene in fiction enacting past events is __________
A) flashback
B) interlude
C) allusion
D) foreshadow
- 18. Milton! thou should'st be living at this hour. The literary device used in the line above is _________
A) suspense
B) apostrophe
C) aside
D) soliloquy
- 19. We live to die, we die to live is an example of _________ A. paradox B. hyperbole C. inversion D. Oxymoron
A) We live to die, we die toparadox
B) hyperbole
C) inversion
D) Oxymoron
- 20. Read the poem and answer questions 42 to 44. Here she lies, a pretty bud, Lately made of flesh and blood; Who as soon fell fast asleep As her little eyes did peep. Give her strewings, but not stir The earth that lightly covers her. The poem is about a/an ___________
A) little child
B) traveller
C) flower
D) old woman
- 21. The persona's mood is one of ________
A) anger
B) admiration
C) joy
D) indifference
- 22. The rhyme scheme is ______
A) ab ab cc
B) abc abc
C) aa bc bc
D) aa bb cc
- 23. A play in which characters act through gestures and facial expressions is a _______
A) farce
B) burlesque
C) mime
D) melodrama
- 24. Characterization refers to __________
A) the readers' opinions of the characters
B) the roles played by the character
C) how characters are grouped
D) how characters are depicted
- 25. Dramatis personae refers to ________
A) characters
B) chorus
C) audience
D) cast
- 26. A literary' device used to enhance sound effect in poetry is __________
A) imagery
B) symbol
C) refrain
D) alliteration
- 27. The main character in a literary work is the
A) villian
B) antagonist
C) narrator
D) protagonist
- 28. A speech delivered by a character who is alone on the stage is
A) a chorus
B) an aside
C) a dialogue
D) a soliloquy
- 29. What is the major device deployed in the following remark:'At the fall of the house they lived in, the widow lost her husband, her sewing machine and her ear-rings'?
A) Simile
B) Bathos
C) Oxymoron
D) Metaphor
- 30. A figurative expression in which a part stands for a whole and a whole stands for a part is referred to as:
A) Personification
B) Synecdoche
C) Amplification
D) Metonymy
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