- 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 oppression of women
B) Joy of retirement
C) The importance of song
D) The power of time
- 3. Which is a Non-African Poetry?
A) The song of the women of my land
B) Black Woman
C) The Good Morrow
D) The leader and the led
- 4. The poem " The leader and the led is written by ___
A) Niyi Osundare
B) John Kolosa
C) Wole Soyinka
D) Oumar Farouk
- 5. The poem " Black Woman" has it's setting in _______
A) Nairobi
B) Europe
C) Africa
D) England
- 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) Repetition
C) Metaphor
D) Alliteration
- 8. The subject matter in the poem" The song of the women of my land' is on _____
A) the plight of African women
B) The training of African women
C) The beauty of African women
D) The endurance of African women
- 9. Enjambment is also called _______
A) Rhetorical question
B) Continuation
C) Run-on-line
D) Symbolism
- 10. The poem " A Government Driver on his retirement" is a narrative poem
A) I don't know
B) True
C) False
- 11. A literary device that creates a mental picture of a situation is ______
A) symbolism
B) imagery
C) flashback
D) epilogue
- 12. The feeling and attitudes of a writer are conveyed by __________
A) language
B) mood
C) setting
D) theme
A) convey meaning
B) have similar spellings
C) are parallel lines
D) sound alike
- 14. A writer’s choice of words is his ______
A) setting
B) diction
C) tone
D) mood
- 15. Which of the following options is the stronghold of poetry?
A) all of the above
B) ideas only
C) beauty only
D) emotion only
- 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) aabb
B) abab
C) abba
D) abcd
- 17. The poem “The Leader and the Led”, is about __________.
A) the king of the jungle
B) when to make the right choices
C) the animals fighting against man
D) the animals choosing a leader
- 18. According to the poem, which animal has a “lethal appetite”?
A) elephant
B) hyena
C) warthog
D) lion
- 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) oxymoron
B) irony
C) simile
D) antithesis
- 20. Our need calls for a hybrid of habits”,
Proclaims the Forest Sage,'
The above refers to the need for __________.
A) balance
B) truth
C) war
D) agreement
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