A literary work in which the characters and events are used as symbols is known as _________?
Answer
(B)
allegory
2
Characterisation in a novel refers to the _____?
Answer
(C)
characters and the way they behave
3
In literacy work, verbal irony refers to a _________?
Answer
(A)
device in which the speaker means the opposite of what he says
4
In the theatre, words spoken by a character that are meant to be heard by the audience but not by the other characters on stage is called_________?
Answer
(A)
aside
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Drama is the representation of a complete series of actions by means of _________
Answer
(C)
speech, movement and gesture for the stage, screen and radio
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A poet‘s use of regular rhythm is known as _______?
Answer
(C)
metre
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A literacy genre which directly imitates human actions is______?
Answer
(A)
Drama
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A fable is a story in which________?
Answer
(B)
animal is or things are used as characters
9
The juxtaposition of two contrasting ideas in a line of poetry is_________?
Answer
(D)
oxymoron
10
The main aim of caricature is to_______?
Answer
(D)
ridicule
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The question is based on Richard Wright’s Native Son
Bigger kills Mary due to______?
Answer
(A)
Fear
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The question is based on Richard Wright’s Native Son
Weekly, Bigger is to be paid_________?
Answer
(B)
Twenty Five Dollars
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The question is based on Richard Wright’s NATIVE SON
Mr Dalton is of the opinion that Negroes are happier when they are
Answer
(B)
servant in the white family
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The question is based on Bayo Adebowale's LONELY DAYS
Widows mourning in Kofi wear garments that are________???
Answer
(C)
Black
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The question is based on Bayo Adebowale's LONELY DAYS
In the novel, bage cap signifies everlasting ________?
Answer
(A)
happiness
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The question is based on Bayo Adebowale's LONELY DAYS
Yaremi's only son is______?
Answer
(A)
Alani
17
The question is based on William’s Shakespeare’s OTHELLO
ill-starred wench: Pale as thy smoke; When we shall meet at comp"
The device used in the line above is__________
Answer
(A)
Simile
18
The question is based on William’s Shakespeare’s OTHELLO
Othello kills Desdemona because the_______
Answer
(A)
former is jealous
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The question is based on William’s Shakespeare’s OTHELLO
Brabantio is opposed to the relationship between Othello and Desdemona because_________
Answer
(B)
Othello is a moor
20
The question is based on William’s Shakespeare’s OTHELLO
"Soft you; a word or two before you go. I have done the state some service and they knew’ No more of
Answer
(C)
Dying
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The question is based on William’s Shakespeare's OTHELLO
"O heaven; How got she out?
O treason of the blood!
Father; from hence trust not your daughters' minds
By what you see them act. Is there not charms
By which the property of youth and maid-hood
May be abused?
The speaker of the excerpt above is________
Answer
(A)
Brabantio
22
Use the following excerpt to answer the question.
"I wonder how long, you awful parasites,
Shall share with me this little bed.
And make me, from my sweet dreams be lost,
by sucking blood from my poor head...
Mbure: "To Bed-Bug"
The lines are an example of a________?
Answer
(C)
light verse
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Use the following excerpt to answer the question.
"I wonder how long, you awful parasites,
Shall share with me this little bed.
And make me, from my sweet dreams be lost,
by sucking blood from my poor head...
Mbure: "To Bed-Bug"
The most dominant figure of speech in the excerpt is________
Answer
(C)
personification
24
Your head is like a drum that is beaten for spirits
Your ears are like the fans used for blowing fire.
The lines above are a good example of_________
Answer
(A)
caricature
25
How can I look at Oyo and say I hate long shiny cars? How can I come to the children and despise international schools? And Koomson comes; and the family sees Jesus Christ in him...
The feeling conveyed by the speaker above is one of_________
Answer
(D)
despair
26
"Hide me now, when night children haunt the earth" Wole Soyinka: "Night".
Night children in the stanza above reflects the consciousness of__________
Answer
(D)
spirit beings
27
Serrated Shadows, through dark leaves,
Till, bathed in warm suffusion of your dapped cells
sensation pained me, faceless, silent as night thieves
Wole Soyinka: "Night"
The dominant mood in the lines above is one at____________
Answer
(A)
apprehension
28
"The drum overwhelmed the guns..." J.P Clark: "Casualties"
The poet in the excerpt above uses
Answer
(B)
symbolism
29
"... They do not see the funeral plies, At home eating up the forests..." J.P Clark: “Casualties"
The imagery created in the above excerpt is achieved through______
Answer
(B)
Personification
30
“I cannot rest from travel: I will drink, life to the lees, all times I have enjoyed greatly, have suffered greatly”. A.L. Tennyson: “Ulysses”
The lines above inform the reader that the poet
Answer
(B)
Has his poetic imagination kindled
31
He who writes a prose is a__________?
Answer
(C)
Author
32
In drama, the protagonist is ________
Answer
(B)
the leading character
33
Tension between the protagonist and the antagonist is called______
Answer
(C)
Conflict
34
The phrase “living death” in a literary work is an example_____________
Answer
(C)
Oxymoron
35
Group of lines are called _____
Answer
(B)
Stanzas
36
A literary device in which parts of a sentence are grammatically the same, or are similar in construction Is known as__________
Answer
(C)
Parallelism
37
"Peter's pretty partner paid the bills" is an example of___________?
Answer
(A)
Alliteration
38
What does the playwright do?
Answer
(C)
Writes a play
39
Which of these is the meaning of “CAST”?
Answer
(A)
a list of all characters in a drama
40
The writer of a poem is called__________?
Answer
(B)
Poet
41
This element shows how sections are separated into parts with numbers and titles_____________
Answer
(C)
Chapters
42
These elements are sections of text within a chapter, they are separated and contain dialogue_____________
Answer
(C)
Paragraphs
43
A folk-tale is a__________?
Answer
(B)
Work Of Fiction
44
In drama, the antagonist is_____________
Answer
(C)
the character opposing the lead character
45
_____________refers to time and place of a drama?
Answer
(C)
setting
46
A “sub-chapter” in a piece of drama is a______________
Answer
(D)
Scene
47
What structure is poetry written in?
Answer
(D)
lines and stanzas
48
''Tell me not, sweet, I am unkind" illustrates_________
Answer
(A)
inversion
49
Define “rhyme”?
Answer
(C)
the repetition of an ending sound
50
Which element of drama tells the actor what to do?
Answer
(B)
stage directions
51
______is a subdivision of a poem?
Answer
(B)
lines
52
An act of speaking one’s thought aloud by oneself, regardless of any hearer, in a play is known as____________
Answer
(D)
soliloquy
53
What is the narrator of a poem called?
Answer
(B)
speaker
54
A “chapter” in a piece of drama is a
Answer
(A)
act
55
The question is based on George Orwell's NINETEEN EIGHTY-FOUR
The novel draws a picture of______?
Answer
(A)
useless past
56
The question is based on George Orwell's NINETEEN EIGHTY-FOUR.
The power and oppression of an irresistible evil debased Winston’s dreams of________?
Answer
(C)
freedom and democracy
57
The question is based on George Orwell's NINETEEN EIGHTY-FOUR.
The novel can be described as__________?
Answer
(D)
pessimistic
58
The question is based on George Orwell's NINETEEN EIGHTY-FOUR.
Room 101 symbolises a place of________???
Answer
(D)
torture
59
The question is based on J.P Clark's WIVES' REVOLT.
In the play the central idea is that gender equity_______?
Answer
(C)
attainable and desirable
60
The question is based on J.P Clark's WIVES' REVOLT.
In their fight, the women settle at Eyara in order to_______?
