- 1. The main female character in a play is called a _______.
A) hero
B) herodian
C) heroin
D) heroine
- 2. A literary device that creates a mental picture of a situation is
A) flashback
B) epilogue
C) imagery
D) symbolism
- 3. ‘The whole town was present at the wedding ceremony’. This is an example of ____
A) hyperbole
B) repetition
C) oxymoron
D) onomatopoeia
- 4. The feeling and attitudes of a writer are conveyed by __________
A) setting
B) theme
C) mood
D) language
A) have similar spellings
B) convey meaning
C) are parallel lines
D) sound alike
- 6. “Peter’s pretty partner paid the bills” is an example of
A) satire
B) digression
C) rhyme
D) alliteration
- 7. A writer’s choice of words is his ______
A) tone
B) mood
C) setting
D) diction
- 8. Marching alOng fifty score strOng Great hearted gentlemen singing this sOng
. The CAPITALIZED LETTERS illustrate
A) repetition
B) onomatopoeia
C) consonance
D) assonance
- 9. The big boulder blasted the house illustrates
A) alliteration
B) paradox
C) contrast
D) irony
- 10. Which of the following is written by a Non-African poet?
A) Black Woman
B) The Leader and the led
C) The Good Morrow
D) Raider of the treasure trove
- 11. The poem 'The Song of the women of my land is written by
A) Agostinho Neto
B) Farouk Sesey
C) Christopher Maley
D) Niyi Osundare
- 12. The poem _________ justify the type of leadership in Africa.
A) The song of the women of my land
B) Caged bird
C) Raider of the treasure trove
D) The Leader and the led
- 13. Is freedom ironic in Maya Angelou's Caged bird?
- 14. Who introduced sonnet in English Literature first?
A) William Shakespeare
B) Sir Thomas Wyatt
C) Edmund Spencer
D) Thomas Gray
- 15. The poem 'The Good Morrow' is a
A) Religious poem
B) Sarcastic poem
C) Oral poem
D) metaphysical love poem
A) Lade Wosornu
B) Onu Chibuike
C) John Donne
D) Leopold Seder Senghor
- 17. The themes in Agostinho Neto’s The Grieved Lands of Africa are these except
A) Essence of life
B) grief
C) hope,optimism, and life.
D) slavery
- 18. Raider of the Treasure Trove is a simple didactic poem that emphasises the dangers and the resulting destructiveness of rage. . True/False
- 19. In Niyi Osundare's Leader and the led. The ______(animal) stakes his claim
to the leadership of the pack
- 20. The dominant theme in 'The Leader and the led is the theme of leadership. True or False
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