This question i based on William Shakespeare''s Macbeth.

''This supernatural soliciting

Cannot be ill, cannot be good. If ill,

Why hath it given me earnest of success,...

What does the phrase ''earnest of success'' refer to?

This question i based on William Shakespeare's Macbeth.
'... I think our country skins beneath the yoke; It weeps, it bleeds, and each new day a gash is added to her wounds.'
Who made the above statement and to whom?

This question is based on Ayi Kwei Armah's 'The Beautiful Ones are Not Yet Born'.
'Ah, you know, the chichidodo is a bird
The chichidodo hates excrement with all its soul.
But the chichidodo only feeds on maggots, and you know the maggots grow best inside the lavatory. This is the chichidodo'.
Which character in the novel is likened to his bird?

This question is based on Ayi Kwei Armah's 'The Beautyful Ones are Not Yet Born'.
The use of the word 'salt' in the novel is suggestive of

This question i based on selected poems from Wole Soyinka (ed.) Poems of Black Africa, E.K. Senanu and T. Vincent (ed.)Selection of African Poetry and E.W. Parker (ed.) A Pageant of Longer Poems.
In his reaction to his friend's death, the mood of the poet, in 'For CHristopher Okigbo' is that of

This question i based on selected poems from Wole Soyinka (ed.) Poems of Black Africa, E.K. Senanu and T. Vincent (ed.)Selection of African Poetry and E.W. Parker (ed.) A Pageant of Longer Poems.
The persona in the poem 'To the Soldier Hero' by Mazisi Kunene is portrayed as being

This question i based on selected poems from Wole Soyinka (ed.) Poems of Black Africa, E.K. Senanu and T. Vincent (ed.)Selection of African Poetry and E.W. Parker (ed.) A Pageant of Longer Poems.
'And when He looks at the grimy coating,
Caking off your emaciated skin,...'
These lines from Richard Ntiru's 'The Pauper' describe

This question i based on selected poems from Wole Soyinka (ed.) Poems of Black Africa, E.K. Senanu and T. Vincent (ed.)Selection of African Poetry and E.W. Parker (ed.) A Pageant of Longer Poems.
The poet in Sunset Sonata proposes

This question i based on selected poems from Wole Soyinka (ed.) Poems of Black Africa, E.K. Senanu and T. Vincent (ed.)Selection of African Poetry and E.W. Parker (ed.) A Pageant of Longer Poems.
In 'The Casualties' J.P. Clark discusses

This question i based on selected poems from Wole Soyinka (ed.) Poems of Black Africa, E.K. Senanu and T. Vincent (ed.)Selection of African Poetry and E.W. Parker (ed.) A Pageant of Longer Poems.
Kofi Awoonor's poem 'Songs of Sorrow' suggests that

This question i based on selected poems from Wole Soyinka (ed.) Poems of Black Africa, E.K. Senanu and T. Vincent (ed.)Selection of African Poetry and E.W. Parker (ed.) A Pageant of Longer Poems.

The setting of T.S. Eliot's 'Journey of the Magi' is characterized by

This question i based on selected poems from Wole Soyinka (ed.) Poems of Black Africa, E.K. Senanu and T. Vincent (ed.)Selection of African Poetry and E.W. Parker (ed.) A Pageant of Longer Poems.
The confusion in the poet in D.H. Lawrence's poem 'Snake' arises from

This question i based on selected poems from Wole Soyinka (ed.) Poems of Black Africa, E.K. Senanu and T. Vincent (ed.)Selection of African Poetry and E.W. Parker (ed.) A Pageant of Longer Poems.
The dominant mood in 'Ode to a Nightingale' is that of

This question is based on Ayi Kwei Armah's 'The Beautyful Ones are Not Yet Born'.
'...no difference at all between the '' whitemen'' and their apes the layers and the merchants and now apes of the apes our Party men ...'
The statement above refers to Koomson's

This question is based on Ayi Kwei Armah''s ''The Beautyful Ones are Not Yet Born''.

By the coup which takes place towards the end of the novel, the writer suggests that

This question is based on Ayi Kwei Armah's 'The Beautyful Ones are Not Yet Born'.
Kofi Billy's right leg was cut off by a machine in the novel because

This question is based on William Golding's Lord of the Flies.
At one point in the novel, Jack paints his face
This act can be interpreted to mean

This question is based on William Golding's Lord of the Flies.
The island in the novel is a

This question is based on William Golding's Lord of the Flies.
That the rescue ship was attracted not by a fire made for the purpose but by one aimed at smoking Ralph out for destruction is a case of

This question is based on William Golding's Lord of the Flies.
The character in the novel who best symbolizes man's pride in his ability to reason is

This question is based on General Literary Principles.
When a story is told in a song and passed down by word of mouth, it is called

This question is based on General Literary Principles.
The purgation of the emotions of pity and fear in tragedy is called

This question is based on General Literary Principles.
Comic relief is

This question is based on General Literary Principles.
A quatrain is

This question is based on General Literary Principles.
An exaggeration or overstatement in literature is a

This question is based on General Literary Principles.
A form of symbolism in which ideas or abstract qualities are represented in a poem is an

This question is based on General Literary Principles.
The word 'image' is associated with

This question is based on General Literary Principles.
The stylistic device that uses the name of one thing to describe another is called a

This question is based on General Literary Principles.
'Whether the nymph shall break Diana's law, Or some frail China jar receive a flaw; Or stain her honour, or her new brocade;.
The Rape of the Lock by Alexander Pope
The figure of speech used here is

This question is based on General Literary Principles.
'...let the greying day grow
....let the evening horns blow
....let the melting mountains go
....but let the sundown sow''
To Wole with Love' by Atukwei Okai
The use of the words 'melting mountains' is

This question is based on Literary Principles.
'''Yet lunchtime ''
Without thinking of what of what he was saying
the man tapped out, 'Not food'.
Insu Siding answered, 'Plenty here''.
And a conversation had begun.
''Lucky''.
''Come. Transfer. Easy''
''Can't.''
''Why?''
''Secret.''
''Familu?''
''Secret''.
The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born by A.K. Armah.
This is an example of a dialogue that is

This question is based on Literary Principles.
'The morning mist
and chimney smoke
of White City Jabavu
flowed thick yellow
as pus oozing
from a gigantic sore'
'An Abandoned Bundle' by Oswald M. Mtsha 'i
The simile above gives rise to

This question is based on Literary Principles.
'Excitedly, Faku announced Garba's intention to marry her immediately and settle in the city. Garba was ''tired of the village'' and yearned to go '' back to civilization.'' Faku had caught the city fever too and could not wait to leave the village.
The Stillborn by Zaynab Alkali.
Which of the following words best describes the writer's attitude to urban life?

This question is based on Literary Principles.
'' Old father, old artificer
bear me now and ever in good stead''
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man' by James Joyce.
The word 'artificer' describes

This question is based on Literary Principles.
'Slowly the silence on the mountain-top deepened till the click of the fire and the soft hiss of roasting meat could be heard clearly...
Lord of the Files by William Golding
'Soft hiss of roasting meat' in the passage above refers to the

This question is based on Literary Principles.
'So Children,
If per chance you see a here that roars
Or an ape perched in a palanquin,
Look on in silence..'
'Africa by David Diop
This excerpt exemplifies

This question is based on Literary Principles.
Going up the river was like traveling back to the earliest beginnings of the world when vegetation rioted on the earth and the big trees were kings An empty stream, a great silence, an impenetrable forest. The air was warm, thick, heavy, sluggish. '
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad.
The landscape described in the passage above is

This question is based on Literary Principles.
'Poor bastard,
Dumped on the ground to make room
For his nocturnal fathers,
Or on the mat to spend his horrid nights
Among the steaming pots of food
And walking rats.'
''The Bastard'' by B.S. Tibenderana
The picture presented above is one of

This question is based on Literary Principles.

'' The road was endless. One road led to a thousand others. Which in turn fed into paths, which fed into dirt tracks, which become streets, which ended in avenues and cul-de-sacs''
The Famished Road by Ben Okri.

The description above suggests

This question is based on Ola Rotimi's Ovonramwen Nogbaisi.

Forget self! Forget status! let power die so that Benin may live!....
Iyase's entreaty comes when

This question is based on Ola Rotimi's Ovonramwen Nogbaisi.

At the end of Ovonramwen's discussion with Gallway and Hutton, one can conclude that Ovonramwen is

This question is based on Ola Rotimi's Ovonramwen Nogbaisi.

'Not much. tell Queen Victoria that at last the big pot of corn been toppled; now mother hen and her children may rejoice!'

The phrase 'mother hen and her children' in the passage above refers to

This question is based on Ola Rotimi's Ovonramwen Nogbaisi.


'Go tell Overami that he has nothing to fear from the white men in matter of fair play....'

In the above statement, the White man expects Ovonramwen to

This question is based on Ola Rotimi's Ovonramwen Nogbaisi.

GALLWAY (untying a parcel). 'Your Highness, our Queen, Her Royal Majesty Queen Victoria, asks us to extend her very best wishes to you;...... What is contained in the parcel which Gallway unties?

This question is based on William Shakespeare's Macbeth.

Which of the following is the most fitting moral lesson that the reader can derive from the play?