(Exam) SS 2 Literature in English (1st Term)
  • 1. A....... poem teaches moral
A) symbolic
B) didactic
C) empirical
D) ballad
  • 2. A sonnet consist of....... lines of poem
A) six
B) two
C) eight
D) fourteen
  • 3. A question which does not require an answer is......
A) ironic
B) rhetorical
C) flashback
D) discourse
  • 4. A writer choice of words is his......
A) setting
B) tone
C) mood
D) diction
  • 5. pick the odd item
A) simile
B) ballad
C) elegy
D) ode
  • 6. Drama is meant to.....
A) be read and acted only
B) criticize
C) teach manners only
D) educate and entertain
  • 7. ........ is a literary device used to express something unpleasant in a more acceptable manner
A) eulogy
B) epigram
C) epilogue
D) euphemism
  • 8. The poem "Not my business" was written by......
A) Wole Soyinka
B) Lenrie Peter
C) Niyi Osundare.
D) Afriyie Vidza
  • 9. The most exciting and tense part of a story is the......
A) climax
B) exposition
C) epilogue
D) prologue
  • 10. A literary work written in form of letter is.....
A) romantic
B) tautological
C) epistolary
D) creative
  • 11. A deliberate use of exaggeration for the purpose of humour/emphasis is......
A) personification
B) irony
C) metaphor
D) hyperbole
  • 12. The major features of play are.......
A) paragraph and chapter
B) chapter and line
C) act and scene
D) line and stanza
  • 13. In a story, the adversary of the protagonist is......
A) antagonist
B) hero
C) heroine
D) foil
  • 14. The principal female character in a novel is......
A) villain
B) heroine
C) actress
D) none of the above
  • 15. one of these is not among the themes in "Not my business" by Niyi Osundare
A) theme of tyranny
B) theme of oppression
C) theme of indifference
D) theme of loneliness
  • 16. "Night" is a poem written by......
A) John Donne
B) Elizabeth L. A Kamara
C) J. P Clark
D) Wole Soyinka
  • 17. one of the dominant figure of speech in "Not my business" by Niyi Osundare is
A) litotes
B) Irony
C) repetition
D) Euphemism
  • 18. Metaphysical poem are poems based on......
A) life
B) nature
C) hereafter
D) things
  • 19. ....... is a figure of speech that give life to inanimate object
A) assonance
B) irony
C) personification
D) litotes
  • 20. The overall mood conveyed in Wole Soyinka's poem "Night" can be accurately described as....
A) calm
B) cheerful
C) aggressive
D) agitated
  • 21. "Once upon a time" by Gabriel Okara is a.....
A) song
B) play
C) essay
D) poem
  • 22. ....... imitate echo sound
A) allusion
B) onomatopoeia
C) allegory
D) euphemism
  • 23. "Once upon a time" by Gabriel Okara is a conversation between
A) father and son
B) two brothers
C) two adults
D) grandmother and grandson
  • 24. Where is Gabriel Okara from?
A) Vietnam
B) Kenya
C) England
D) Nigeria
  • 25. Flashback is used in a novel to tell .....
A) the hidden actin
B) the futuristic action
C) the immediate action
D) the action in past
  • 26. ...... is the repetition of vowel sounds
A) alliteration
B) rhyme pattern
C) assonance
D) anthology
  • 27. A long and serious narrative about heroic character is a/an.....
A) burlesque
B) epic
C) ballad
D) elegy
  • 28. "He is like a bull when angry", contain which figure of speech
A) simile
B) pun
C) metaphor
D) hyperbole
  • 29. The following are the elements of Poetry except.....
A) tone or mood
B) theme
C) diction
D) fiction
  • 30. A published collection of poems by different poets is known as......
A) amalgam
B) anthology
C) poetry
D) edit
  • 31. A statement containing two opposite ideas that makes it seem impossible or unlikely although it is probably true is a
A) pun
B) irony
C) metaphor
D) paradox
  • 32. pick the odd item, in relation to drama
A) episode
B) plot
C) stanza
D) character
  • 33. 'I have just finished reading Wole Soyinka' is an example of....
A) synecdoche
B) personification
C) metonymy
D) hyperbole
  • 34. A play written for stage act is known as......
A) scene
B) drama
C) act
D) play let
  • 35. one can tell poetry from prose by......
A) plot
B) condensed language
C) setting
D) characterization
  • 36. The most intense part of a literary work is also called......
A) resolution
B) climax
C) peak
D) epic
  • 37. A soothing song to send a baby to sleep is called.......
A) doxology
B) lullaby
C) nanny opera
D) alibi
  • 38. A sonnet may be divided into an octave and a........
A) sestet
B) tercet
C) couplet
D) quatrain
  • 39. poetry is defined by
A) evocation of feelings and imagination
B) using of figures of speech
C) suspense
D) plot and setting
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