- 1. The main female character in a play is called a _______.
A) herodian
B) heroin
C) hero
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) repetition
B) hyperbole
C) onomatopoeia
D) oxymoron
- 4. The feeling and attitudes of a writer are conveyed by __________
A) mood
B) setting
C) language
D) theme
A) have similar spellings
B) are parallel lines
C) sound alike
D) convey meaning
- 6. “Peter’s pretty partner paid the bills” is an example of
A) rhyme
B) satire
C) digression
D) alliteration
- 7. A writer’s choice of words is his ______
A) setting
B) mood
C) tone
D) diction
- 8. Marching alOng fifty score strOng Great hearted gentlemen singing this sOng
. The CAPITALIZED LETTERS illustrate
A) assonance
B) onomatopoeia
C) repetition
D) consonance
- 9. The big boulder blasted the house illustrates
A) contrast
B) paradox
C) alliteration
D) irony
- 10. Which of the following is written by a Non-African poet?
A) Black Woman
B) Raider of the treasure trove
C) The Leader and the led
D) The Good Morrow
- 11. The poem 'The Song of the women of my land is written by
A) Niyi Osundare
B) Agostinho Neto
C) Christopher Maley
D) Farouk Sesey
- 12. The poem _________ justify the type of leadership in Africa.
A) Raider of the treasure trove
B) The Leader and the led
C) Caged bird
D) The song of the women of my land
- 13. Is freedom ironic in Maya Angelou's Caged bird?
- 14. Who introduced sonnet in English Literature first?
A) William Shakespeare
B) Edmund Spencer
C) Thomas Gray
D) Sir Thomas Wyatt
- 15. The poem 'The Good Morrow' is a
A) Oral poem
B) Religious poem
C) Sarcastic poem
D) metaphysical love poem
A) Leopold Seder Senghor
B) John Donne
C) Onu Chibuike
D) Lade Wosornu
- 17. The themes in Agostinho Neto’s The Grieved Lands of Africa are these except
A) slavery
B) grief
C) hope,optimism, and life.
D) Essence of life
- 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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