The process of creating characters and endowing them with certain attitude is ......
Answer
(C)
Characterization
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This question is based on BAT.
Read the excerpt and answer the question:
"Bat!
Creatures that hang themselves up like an old rag, to sleep, And disgustingly upside down."
The theme of this excerpt is____
Answer
(D)
the poet's appalling remarks about the bird
4
The writing convention in which the events in a narrative are scrambled as they come to the writer's mind without any attempt to arrange them in orderly sequence is called
Answer
(D)
stream of consciousness
5
Using the name of one thing for something else with which it is closely associated in an instance is
Answer
(D)
metonymy
6
Which of these is the oldest genre of literature?
Answer
(B)
Poetry
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The tragic character is the person whose experiences arouse pity and
Answer
(B)
terror
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'As virtuous men pass mildly away,
And whisper to their souls, to go
Whilst some of their sad friends do say,
The breadth goes now, and some say, "No".'
John Donne: A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning
The tone of this poem is generally
Answer
(C)
serious
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Cast in a play refers to
Answer
(D)
all the actors
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A panegyric poem is composed to
Answer
(D)
praise
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Jibunoh was simply a difficult man. He was hated by all his neighbours and deserted by his relations. He was the first and only person to beat a policeman in the entire village. He also had ten cases instituted against him for either stealing or violating the rights of others. He had no regard for deanery or normal conduct. No lover of peace or order could be his friends. It is not surprising that his death elicited jubilation rather than mourning'
The passage above reveals that Jibunoh symbolizes
Answer
(C)
lawlessness
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The part of a play when climax approaches is known as
Answer
(D)
Epitasis
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'And so Tom awoke and we rose in the dark
And got with our bags and our brushes to work
Though the morning was cold, Tom was happy and warm;
So if all do their duty they need not fear harm.'
In the lines above, Tom is warm because he
Answer
(C)
is doing his duty
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The term given to a type of incident or device which recurs frequently in Literature is
Answer
(D)
motif
15
An extended fictional narrative which is realistic is known as a
Answer
(D)
novel
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A Government Driver on His Retirement is a poem of thirty-three lines divided into _______ stanzas.
Answer
(A)
six
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This question is based on THE JOURNEY OF THE MAGI.
Read the excerpt and answer question
"And running away, and wanting their liquor and women,
And the night-fires going out, and the lack of shelters,
And the cities hostile and the towns unfriendly"
The dominant device in this excerpt is ___
Answer
(B)
synecdoche
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The sides of a stage are called
Answer
(C)
the wings
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Be him English
Be him African
Be him Nigerian
The lines above are an example of
Answer
(B)
anaphora
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When he gave me the bottle, and I opened it,
I was shocked by the odour that hit my nose:
I immediately corked it again, and spat on the floor..
Isidore Okpewho, The Last Duty.
The reaction in the passage above is that of
Answer
(D)
nausea
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A formal dignified speech or writing praising a person or a thing for past or present deeds is
Answer
(B)
eulogy
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A character that is always against the interest of the protagonist is
Answer
(C)
villain
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"...Rage is Chief
Rage drags rags after you, of Charity
Laughter, sweetness and light, Rage is thief
Enemy of equanimity"
The figure of speech dominant in these lines is _____
Answer
(B)
personification
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'... Not a few of us ended our application letter like this: 'if you are kind enough to accomodate this humble application, Sir/Madam, I shall do my uttermost best to rendered you the greatest services which it is at my desposition to your best satisfactory. Yours obediently servant...' yet without English, you had no education fit for a white collar job
Cameron Daodu: The Gab Boys
The tone of the passage above is
Answer
(D)
Derisive
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A trilogy is the
Answer
(C)
sequence of three plays written by the same author
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Dramatis personae in a play refers to
Answer
(B)
list of characters
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This question is based on SECOND CLASS CITIZEN.
"She swallowed it all, just like a nasty pill." The literary device employed here is
Answer
(C)
simile
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'My heart is a quiet drum, sometimes it flares like a parched thunder cracking through a damask sky it lifts me in its fired spectacle.'
-Cynthia James; Drumology
The imagery in the excerpt above is largely
Answer
(B)
auditory and visual
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"She wanted to split herself. But she checked herself. 'Get dressed,' she said earnestly. 'Get dressed and let's go. You know I have a lot of things to do. And if we are going to meet again like this... 'She slapped the bed, 'then it won't be here. It will be at the Samson and Delilah.'" -
Festus Iyayi; Violence
In the passage above, the speaker can be described as
Answer
(B)
domineering
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This question is based on THE LION AND THE JEWEL.
The indication that Soyinka's "The Lion and the Jewel" is culturally set is its use of_____
Answer
(A)
dance and songs
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This question is based on THE LEADER AND THE LED.
" The hyena says the crown is made for him" in the above excerpt, the use of the word "crown " is a good deployment of ____
Answer
(D)
synedoche
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The exclusive right given to authors to protect their works from unlawful production is
Answer
(B)
a copyright
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The narrative style in which the hero tells his own story directly is the
Answer
(B)
first-person
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Lineation refers to
Answer
(A)
the arrangement of lines in verse form
35
The subject matter of a literary work is the
Answer
(A)
theme
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A structural arrangement of unit of composition by which one element of equal importance with another is similarly placed is called
Answer
(D)
parallelism
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This question is based on CAGED BIRD.
"for the caged bird/sings of freedom.",
The poetic device used in this expression is____
Answer
(B)
irony
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'Will college make you a better Olokun priest?
Will it make you serve our ancestors better?
Look at me. An able-bodied, strong-hearted priest of Olokun.
Did I go to college?
Gracy Osifo:Dizzy Angel
The literary device used in the passage above is
Answer
(B)
parallelism
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This question is based on RAIDER OF THE TREASURE TROVE.
"To fly flags of joy" Two figures of speech used here are
Answer
(C)
metaphor and alliteration
40
This question is based on THE SONG OF THE WOMEN OF MY LAND.
Use the excerpt to answer this question
"they sang in the forlorn fields
about their lives; songs
of how they ploughed the terrain of their landscape
for memories of lyrics lost in the vast void of time,
in those days when a song beheld their lives;
when servitude cuffed the ankles of their soul,
and dereliction decapitated the epic of their lives."
The theme of this excerpt is____
Answer
(B)
the oppression of women
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Jose Palacios, his oldest servant, found him floating naked with his eyes open in the purifying waters of his bath and thought he had drowned. He knew this was, one of the many ways the General meditated, but the ecstasy in which he lay drifting seemed that of a man no longer of this world.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez, The General in His Labyrinth
The master in the passage above is obviously in a state of
Answer
(A)
trance
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A metrical pause occurring in the middle of a line in a poem is called
Answer
(C)
caesura
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'The fair breeze blew
The white foam flew
The furrow followed free
We were the first that ever burst
Into that silent sea.'
The dominant figure of speech in the above passage is
Answer
(B)
alliteration
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Careened',
These oily tears
Dripping down the tears on your depressed face,
Will one day be staunched, I swear!
Ibiwari Ikiriko, Oily Tears.
The tone of the poet is
Answer
(B)
optimistic
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CYCLIST gets down and begins to prop his bicycle.
CYCLIST: All right. If you're sure it won't take long.
BARBER: I am known for my lightning clippers. Even the soldiers know me. I can shave the head of an entire battalion between one coup and the next. Sit down and relax your back. Cycling is not easy
when you've abandoned it for some time.
Wole Soyinka, The Beautification of Area Boy.
The literary devices in the dialogue above are
Answer
(A)
hyperbole and allusion
46
"I had not taken the first step in knowledge, I had not learnt to let go with the hands".The above lines is an example of a
Answer
(C)
Repetition
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This question is based on CAGED BIRD.
Read this excerpt from the poem and answer questions .
"The free bird thinks of another
breeze / and the trade winds
soft through the sighing trees"
What is the effect of the trees sighing in this verse?
Answer
(C)
It indicates that the bird is carefree
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Don't panic. Be calm. If you are somehow upset...try to regain your composure.
The speaker in the excerpt above is
Answer
(C)
confident
49
This question is based on A GOVERNMENT DRIVER ON HIS RETIREMENT.
"I shall booze and zoom" contains a device called
Answer
(C)
onomatopoeia
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"The sun used to smile in my hut".
The line is an example of
Answer
(B)
personification
51
The use of two contrasting words that are placed side by side is called
Answer
(A)
oxymoron
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The combination of two or more metaphors is called
Answer
(C)
Mixed metaphor
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________ are generally regarded as brief but purposeful references, within a literary text, to a person, place, event, or to another work of literature.
Answer
(D)
Allusions
54
An action in a play that stimulates the audience to pity a character is
Answer
(D)
pathos
55
This question is based on BAT.
Use the excerpt to answer this question.
"Where light pushes through;
A sudden turning upon itself of a thing in the air.
A dip to the water.
And you think:
"The swallows are flying so late!"
Swallows?"
The dominant poetic device in the excerpt is___
Answer
(B)
imagery
56
When an object is invested with a meaning beyond its immediate reference, it becomes
Answer
(A)
a symbol
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A story with elements that have both literal and figurative meanings is
Answer
(A)
allegory
58
A tragic hero, according to the Aristotelian precept, must be a
Answer
(C)
noble character with hubris
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This question is based on RAIDER OF THE TREASURE TROVE.
The poetic device in the expression "Rage is chief" is ___
Answer
(C)
metaphor
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*For seven days it rained that June;
A storm half out to sea kept turning around like a dog trying to settle himself on a rug; We were the fleas that
complained in his hair.
John Updike, Wash
The image set in the lines above are of
Answer
(B)
discomfort and likely destruction
61
The overwhelming pride that destroys the tragic hero is called
Answer
(C)
hubris
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'Fierce harmattan sun on innocent tendrils; torrential downpour on leaking thatch roofs; painful comfort of helpless eunuchs; thorny beauty of modern witches; the falcon's call on day-old-chicks, ours is a tragicomic dialogue:... mute echoes of pains' .
The sonority and rhythmical structure of the lines above are achieved through a pause- pattern called
Answer
(C)
caesura
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This question is based on BLACK WOMAN.
"fruit with firm flesh" illustrates the use of ____
Answer
(D)
alliteration
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'Senhor Jose got cold during the night. After having uttered those redundant useless words, here she is, he wasn't sure what else he should do. It was true that, after long and arduous labours, he had managed, at last, to find the unknown woman, or rather, the place where she lay, a good six feet beneath an earth that still sustained him'
Jose Saramago: All the Names
What happens to the unknown woman in the passage above?
Answer
(B)
She is dead
65
This question is based on THE GOOD MORROW.
Use this excerpt to answer question
"If ever any beauty I did see,
Which I desired, and got, 'twas but a dream of thee."
The excerpt above evokes the use of ____
Answer
(D)
Visual imagery
66
The moment of recognition of truth when ignorance gives way to knowledge is known as
Answer
(B)
Anagnorisis
67
A long story narrating a series of complicated events is called a
Answer
(D)
saga
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This question is based on A GOVERNMENT DRIVER ON HIS RETIREMENT.
"Many years on wheels" The reference to "wheels" exemplifies the use of ___ in the poem.
Answer
(D)
synecdoche
69
A novel that features spiritual apparitions as major character is
Answer
(D)
Gothic
70
This question is based on SECOND CLASS CITIZEN.
The novel is set after which major war?
Answer
(C)
Second World War (1939-1945)
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This question is based on LOOK BACK IN ANGER.
What were the other businesses Jimmy porter had tried apart from the sweet stall business?
Answer
(D)
Journalism, advertising, and vacuum cleaning
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This question is based on THE LION AND THE JEWEL.
The use of language in the play is written in both___ and ___ forms.
Answer
(B)
prosaic and poetic.
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This question is based on UNEXPECTED JOY AT DAWN.
Which of these characters is at the center of the impact of the xenophobic attack in the novel?
Answer
(A)
Nii Tackie
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This question is based on THE LION AND THE JEWEL.
Sidi insisted on the payment of her bride-price because it indicates that she_____
Answer
(A)
is a virgin
75
This question is based on THE LION AND THE JEWEL.
In the play, the jewel of Ilujinle is____
Answer
(D)
Sidi
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This question is based on UNEXPECTED JOY AT DAWN.
How did Mama Orojo meet Tom Monday.
Answer
(B)
she met him on an evangelism trip
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This question is based on LOOK BACK IN ANGER.
Who was the first-person Alison informed about her pregnancy?
Answer
(D)
Cliff
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PROSE: AFRICAN: UNEXPECTED JOY AT DAWN
What distinguishes Nii Tackie from every other Ghanaian?
Answer
(C)
His tribal mark
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This question is based on WUTHERING HEIGHT.
What gift did Mr. Earnshaw promise to bring Nelly Dean from Liverpool?
Answer
(C)
Fruit
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This question is based on SECOND CLASS CITIZEN.
Who is Mr Cole?
