'As virtuous men pass mildly away,
And whisper to their souls, to go
Whilst some of their sad friends do say,
The breadth goes now, and some say, "No".'
John Donne: A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning
The tone of this poem is generally

'Senhor Jose got cold during the night. After having uttered those redundant useless words,
here she is, he wasn't sure what else he should do. It was true that, after long and arduous
labours, he had managed, at last, to find the unknown woman, or rather, the place where
she lay, a good six feet beneath an earth that still sustained him'
Jose Saramago: All the Names
What happens to the unknown woman in the passage above?

The subject matter of a literary work is the

This question is based on THE LION AND THE JEWEL.
The indication that Soyinka's "The Lion and the Jewel" is culturally set is its use of_____

Be him English
Be him African
Be him Nigerian
The lines above are an example of

*For seven days it rained that June;
A storm half out to sea kept turning around like a dog trying to settle himself on a rug; We
were the fleas that complained in his hair.
John Updike, Wash
The image set in the lines above are of

CYCLIST gets down and begins to prop his bicycle.
CYCLIST: All right. If you're sure it won't take long.
BARBER: I am known for my lightning clippers. Even the soldiers know me. I can shave the
head of an entire battalion between one coup and the next. Sit down and relax your back.
Cycling is not easy
when you've abandoned it for some time.
Wole Soyinka, The Beautification of Area Boy.
The literary devices in the dialogue above are

A Government Driver on His Retirement is a poem of thirty-three lines divided into _______
stanzas

This question is based on BLACK WOMAN.
"fruit with firm flesh" illustrates the use of ____

This question is based on CAGED BIRD.
Read this excerpt from the poem and answer questions .
"The free bird thinks of another
breeze / and the trade winds
soft through the sighing trees"
What is the effect of the trees sighing in this verse?

An extended fictional narrative which is realistic is known as a

When he gave me the bottle, and I opened it,
I was shocked by the odour that hit my nose:
I immediately corked it again, and spat on the floor..
Isidore Okpewho, The Last Duty.
The reaction in the passage above is that of

"...Rage is Chief
Rage drags rags after you, of Charity
Laughter, sweetness and light, Rage is thief
Enemy of equanimity"
The figure of speech dominant in these lines is _____

This question is based on BAT.
Read the excerpt and answer questions
"Bat!
Creatures that hang themselves up like an old rag, to sleep, And disgustingly upside down."
The theme of this excerpt is____
Option 1
All of the above
Option 2
the poet right to Individual choice
Option 3
the poet admiration of the beauty of nature
Option 4
the poet appalling remarks about the bird

The combination of two or more metaphors is called

'The fair breeze blew
The white foam flew
The furrow followed free
We were the first that ever burst
Into that silent sea.'
The dominant figure of speech in the above passage is

When an object is invested with a meaning beyond its immediate reference, it becomes

This question is based on THE SONG OF THE WOMEN OF MY LAND.
Use the excerpt to answer questions
"they sang in the forlorn fields
about their lives; songs
of how they ploughed the terrain of their landscape
for memories of lyrics lost in the vast void of time,
in those days when a song beheld their lives;
when servitude cuffed the ankles of their soul,
and dereliction decapitated the epic of their lives."
The theme of this excerpt is____

Using the name of one thing for something else with which it is closely associated in an
instance is

A panegyric poem is composed to

"I had not taken the first step in knowledge, I had not learnt to let go with the hands".The
above lines is an example of a

A character that is always against the interest of the protagonist is

The process of creating character and endowing them with certain attitude is .....

This question is based on RAIDER OF THE TREASURE TROVE.
The poetic device in the expression "Rage is chief" is ___

Which of these is the oldest genre of literature?

The part of a play when climax approaches is known as

This question is based on BAT.
Use the excerpt to answer questions .
"Where light pushes through;
A sudden turning upon itself of a thing in the air.
A dip to the water.
And you think:
"The swallows are flying so late!"
Swallows?"
The dominant poetic device in the excerpt is___

Dramatis personae in a play refers to

An action in a play that stimulates the audience to pity a character is

The sides of a stage are called

Don't panic. Be calm. If you are somehow upset...try to regain your composure.
The speaker in the excerpt above is

Not a few of us ended our application letter like this: 'if you are kind enough to
accomodate this humble application, Sir/Madam, I shall do my uttermost best to rendered
you the greatest services which it is at my desposition to your best satisfactory. Yours
obediently servant...' yet without English, you had no education fit for a white collar job
Cameron Daodu: The Gab Boys
The tone of the passage above is

The writing convention in which the events in narrative are scrambled as they come to the
writer's mind without any attempt to arrange them in orderly sequence is called

Lineation refers to

'Fierce harmattan sun on innocent tendrils; torrential downpour on leaking thatch roofs;
painful comfort of helpless eunuchs; thorny beauty of modern witches; the falcon's call on
day-old-chicks, ours is tragi- comic dialogue:... mute echoes of pains' .
The sonority and rhythmical structure of the lines above are achieved through a pause-
pattern called

This question is based on A GOVERNMENT DRIVER ON HIS RETIREMENT.
"I shall booze and zoom" contains a device called

A tragic hero, according to the Aristotelian precept, must be a

'My heart is a quiet drum, something it flares like a parched thunder cracking through a
damask sky it lifts me in its fired spectacle.'
-Cynthia James; Drumology
The imagery in the excerpt above is largely

A story with elements that have both literal and figurative meanings is

Jibunoh was simply a difficult man. He was hated by all his neighbours and deserted by his
relations. He was the first and only person to beat a policeman in the entire village. He also
had ten cases instituted against him for either stealing or violating the rights of others. He
had no regard for deanery or normal conduct. No lover of peace or order could be his
friends. It is not surprising that his death elicited jubilation rather than mourning'
The plot of the novel is