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