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