- 1. A couplet is formed by _________.
A) four rhyming lines of poetry
B) two rhyming lines of poetry
C) five rhyming lines of poetry
D) five alternate rhyming lines
- 2. Which of the following is not a theme in the poem "The Grieved Land of Africa"?
A) The power of time
B) Joy of retirement
C) The oppression of women
D) The importance of song
- 3. Which is a Non-African Poetry?
A) The song of the women of my land
B) Black Woman
C) The leader and the led
D) The Good Morrow
- 4. The poem " The leader and the led is written by ___
A) Niyi Osundare
B) Wole Soyinka
C) John Kolosa
D) Oumar Farouk
- 5. The poem " Black Woman" has it's setting in _______
A) Nairobi
B) Europe
C) England
D) Africa
- 6. The major theme in the poem "Black Woman" is _
A) Rejection of European standard of beauty
B) Blackness as a subject of beauty
C) Racism
D) African Land
- 7. In the poem" The Grieved Land of Africa" degrading......dance, sweat......seas, flower......forest, jingling.......jailers, victorious voice, decked......dances, baobabs....... balances are examples of ________
A) Assonance
B) Metaphor
C) Repetition
D) Alliteration
- 8. The subject matter in the poem" The song of the women of my land' is on _____
A) The beauty of African women
B) The endurance of African women
C) The training of African women
D) the plight of African women
- 9. Enjambment is also called _______
A) Symbolism
B) Continuation
C) Run-on-line
D) Rhetorical question
- 10. The poem " A Government Driver on his retirement" is a narrative poem
A) True
B) False
C) I don't know
- 11. A literary device that creates a mental picture of a situation is ______
A) imagery
B) epilogue
C) flashback
D) symbolism
- 12. The feeling and attitudes of a writer are conveyed by __________
A) setting
B) language
C) theme
D) mood
A) convey meaning
B) sound alike
C) are parallel lines
D) have similar spellings
- 14. A writer’s choice of words is his ______
A) tone
B) mood
C) setting
D) diction
- 15. Which of the following options is the stronghold of poetry?
A) beauty only
B) ideas only
C) emotion only
D) all of the above
- 16. ‘Like the dew on the thorn
Like the foam below a valley
Like the bubble on a sweet babe born
Thou art gone, forever rarely’
The rhyme scheme of the above extract is
A) abab
B) abcd
C) aabb
D) abba
- 17. The poem “The Leader and the Led”, is about __________.
A) the animals fighting against man
B) the animals choosing a leader
C) the king of the jungle
D) when to make the right choices
- 18. According to the poem, which animal has a “lethal appetite”?
A) lion
B) elephant
C) hyena
D) warthog
- 19. Tough like a tiger, compassionate like a doe
Transparent like a river, mysterious like a lake"
The lines above illustrate the use of ________
A) antithesis
B) irony
C) oxymoron
D) simile
- 20. Our need calls for a hybrid of habits”,
Proclaims the Forest Sage,'
The above refers to the need for __________.
A) truth
B) balance
C) war
D) agreement
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