45 questions. Try each one, then open the answer to check yourself and read the explanation.
The speaker is referring to
Answer: D (Hannah.)
James Ofosu addresses 'woman' here: his wife Hannah, with whom he argues about the children's careers.
The dominant figure of speech in the excerpt above is
Answer: A (personification)
Engineering is told to 'go hang itself', as though it were a person: personification.
From the play Sons and Daughters, the character of Aaron represents the
Answer: A (new generation)
Aaron wants to choose his own career in art against his father's wishes, standing for the new generation.
The villain in the excerpt above is
Answer: D (attending a feast uninvited.)
Tybalt complains that Romeo, a Montague, has come uninvited to the Capulets' feast.
The lines above reveal the speaker as a
Answer: C (violence seeker)
Tybalt scorns the very word peace and attacks Benvolio at once: he is looking for a fight.
In Romeo and Juliet, Romeo's mood, at the beginning of the play can be described as
Answer: C (melancholic and sentimental)
At the start Romeo is sad and lovesick over Rosaline, shutting himself away and sighing: melancholic and sentimental.
The speaker in the passage above is
Answer: D (Friar Lawrence.)
Friar Lawrence scolds Romeo in his cell for calling banishment worse than death, when the Prince has shown him mercy (Act 3 Scene 3).
The speech above is made when
Answer: B (Benvolio tries to separate the servants of the feuding families)
In the opening street brawl Benvolio draws his sword to part the fighting servants and asks Tybalt to help him.
In The Old Man and the Medal, to the white men, the medal that is given to Meka symbolizes
Answer: B (friendship)
The Commandant presents the medal as a sign of friendship between France and Meka.
Questions 14 to 16 are based on Buchi Emecheta's The Joys of Motherhood. In the Novel, Nnu Ego is blamed for the misfortunes of her
Answer: B (husband)
Nnu Ego is blamed for Nnaife's troubles and failures as the head of the family.
According to The Joys of Motherhood, Nnaife becomes frustrated when
Answer: D (he is arrested and charged for attempted murder of his in-law.)
Nnaife's life collapses when he attacks the Yoruba man courting his daughter and is jailed for attempted murder.
In The Joys of Motherhood, Adaku remains faithful to Nnaife until she
Answer: A (is rebuked by the Ibuza society for abusing Nnu Ego)
After the Ibuza elders take Nnu Ego's side and rebuke Adaku at the family meeting, Adaku decides to leave Nnaife and live on her own as a trader.
Questions 17 to 20 are based on George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four. The Ministry of Love is concerned with
Answer: B (torture and pain)
Despite its name, the Ministry of Love is where the Party tortures and 're-educates' people like Winston.
In Nineteen Eighty-Four, the instruments of power and torture belong to
Answer: D (the party.)
All power in Oceania, including the means of torture, is held by the Party.
In Nineteen Eighty-Four, the action in the novel is built around
Answer: C (Winston Smith)
The story follows Winston Smith, the protagonist.
In Nineteen Eighty-Four, Winston Smith works in the Record Department of the Ministry of
Answer: D (Truth.)
Winston rewrites old records in the Records Department of the Ministry of Truth.
Questions 21 to 30 are based on selected poems. The dominant poetic technique employed in Adeoti's Naked Soles is
Answer: B (onomatopoeia)
The key gives onomatopoeia: the poem uses words that imitate the sounds of the marching feet.
The device employed in the line above from Kunene's The Heritage of Liberation, is an example of
Answer: C (apostrophe)
The speaker addresses 'you' directly, as though the absent person could hear: apostrophe.
The lines above from Give Me The Minstrel's Seat is an example of
Answer: B (rhetorical question)
The speaker asks questions that expect no answer in order to make a point: rhetorical questions.
The line above from Marvell's To His Coy Mistress depicts
Answer: C (how fast time flies)
Time is pictured as a winged chariot racing behind the lovers: time flies quickly.
Lawrence's Bat opens with the description of the
Answer: B (scenery)
The poem begins with the evening view over Florence (the sunset, the river, the bridge) before the bats appear.
The theme of Eliot's The Journey of Magi is
Answer: C (quest for salvation)
The wise men's hard journey to the Christ child stands for the search for salvation and spiritual rebirth.
Acquah's In the Navel of the Soul describes the
Answer: B (excesses of the new generation churches and politicians)
The poem attacks the greed and excesses of new-generation churches and politicians.
The lines above from Launkos' End of the War, enhance the
Answer: A (language of the poem)
The proverb-like lines about drums and echoes enrich the language of the poem.
The language of Cope's Sonnet VII is generally
Answer: A (poetic)
The sonnet uses elevated, figurative, poetic language.
A device used by a writer to recall past event in a literary work is
Answer: A (flashback)
A flashback takes the story back to earlier events.
A paragraph in prose is equivalent to a
Answer: A (stanza in poetry)
A stanza groups lines of a poem the way a paragraph groups sentences in prose.
A fable is a brief narrative illustrating wisdom and
Answer: B (truth)
A fable is a short story that teaches a moral truth.
A device used in poetry to achieve emphasis or stress a point is known as
Answer: B (repetition)
Poets repeat words or lines to emphasise an idea.
A literary work that ridicules the shortcomings of people or ideas is
Answer: D (a satire.)
Satire uses humour and ridicule to expose people's faults.
The figure of speech in which the writer means the exact opposite of what he intends to say is
Answer: D (irony.)
Irony is saying one thing while meaning the opposite.
Action without speech in a play is
Answer: B (mime)
Mime tells a story through movement and gesture without words.
A literary work that teaches moral is said to be
Answer: D (didactic.)
A didactic work is written mainly to teach a moral lesson.
A mistake committed by the hero which leads to his downfall is known as
Answer: B (tragic flaw)
The tragic flaw (hamartia) is the error or weakness that brings about the hero's fall.
The speech made by a character to himself on stage is
Answer: B (soliloquy)
In a soliloquy a character alone on stage speaks his thoughts aloud.
The lines above suggest that women are
Answer: D (covetous.)
The night is pictured as a woman whose 'jealous eye' puts out the sea's glow: a jealous, covetous nature.
The excerpt suggests
Answer: B (indictment of the sun)
The speaker scolds the sun as a 'busy old fool' for disturbing the lovers: an indictment of the sun.
The figure of speech involved in the lines is
Answer: D (personification.)
The sun is treated as a nosy, foolish person who calls on the lovers through their windows.
The lines show that the persona
Answer: C (does not understand the girl's language)
The speaker asks 'Will no one tell me what she sings?': he cannot understand the language of her song.
The lines end in a literary device known as
Answer: D (rhetorical question.)
The passage closes with a question the speaker does not expect anyone to answer: a rhetorical question.
The literary device used in the first line is
Answer: D (apostrophe.)
The speaker cries out directly to God ('Oh incomprehensible God!'): apostrophe.
From the lines above, the poet sees the sun as
Answer: B (an unnecessary evil)
Calling the sun a 'busy old fool' and 'unruly' shows the speaker sees it as an unwanted nuisance.
The theme of the poem is
Answer: A (non-peaceful nature of love)
The poem ends on the rival who weeps: love always brings pain and rivalry to someone, so it is never peaceful.
No lover peaceful while the rival weeps means that
Answer: A (the pain of one lover is felt by the other)
A lover cannot be at peace while his rival suffers: one person's pain in love affects the other.
The literary device used in the passage above is
Answer: D (parallelism.)
The speaker repeats the same sentence pattern ('Will college make you...? Will it make you...?'): parallelism.