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