25 questions. Try each one, then open the answer to check yourself and read the explanation.
An indirect representation is ________
Answer: A (metonymy)
Metonymy represents something indirectly through a thing closely associated with it, e.g. 'the crown' for the king.
A theatre of irrationality and extreme laughter is known as ________.
Answer: B (farce)
A farce is a comedy built on absurd, improbable situations meant to provoke wild laughter.
The longest form of fiction is ________.
Answer: D (novel)
The novel is the longest form of prose fiction, longer than the novella and the short story. An autobiography is non-fiction.
Which of the following is not an element of satire?
Answer: D (overstatement)
The book lists humour, irony and sarcasm as the tools satire uses to expose and correct society's faults.
The narrative technique in which the inner thoughts of the character are brought to the fore is known as ________.
Answer: B (interior monologue)
Interior monologue lets the reader hear a character's private thoughts directly, like Santiago thinking alone at sea in The Old Man and the Sea.
Novel that educates about character's development and growth is known as
Answer: C (bildungsroman)
A bildungsroman follows a character's growth from childhood to maturity.
A rhetorical device of alluding to something and denying that it will be mentioned is known as ________
Answer: D (apophasis)
Apophasis raises a point by saying you will not mention it, e.g. 'I won't mention his many debts.'
The resolution of conflict in a play is ________.
Answer: A (denouement)
The denouement is the final unravelling, where the conflicts of the plot are resolved.
Catharsis is an element of ________.
Answer: B (tragedy)
Aristotle described catharsis, the release of pity and fear in the audience, as the effect of tragedy.
The dominant device in the extract is ________
Answer: C (personification)
Joy is given a 'slender body' that breaks, and joy and peace are treated like living things, so personification dominates.
It can be deduced from the extract that joy is
Answer: C (transient)
Joy 'breaks too soon', meaning it does not last: it is transient.
The last line of the extract indicates the use of ________.
Answer: B (allusion)
'The day of reckoning' refers indirectly to the biblical Day of Judgement, so it is an allusion.
The expression "Our leaders love us and therefore kill us" is
Answer: D (ironical)
Saying leaders kill people because they love them is the opposite of what we expect, so the statement is ironical.
The tone of the extract is
Answer: B (sarcastic)
The speaker keeps calling the person 'a good leader' while listing his failures, mocking him through irony: a sarcastic tone.
The expression is illustrative of ________
Answer: B (anaphora)
Each line begins with the same words, 'You are a leader, a good leader in deed', which is anaphora.
"D-d-during my ch-ch-childhood, I wwwas fond of swallowing c-c-c-cobbles. Now when I hic…cups they rrrush to my throat, and c-c-can't speak"
The speaker in the above extract is
Answer: B (a stutterer)
The repeated sounds (d-d-during, c-c-c-cobbles) show the speaker stammers, so he is a stutterer.
The language of the poem is characteristic of a/an ________
Answer: C (ode)
The poem praises and celebrates Woman in an exalted way, which is the language of an ode.
The reiteration of the word "woman" ________ the theme of the poem.
Answer: A (emphasises)
Repeating 'woman' at the start of line after line keeps attention on the poem's subject, emphasising its theme.
Questions 21 to 23 are based on Faceless by Amma Darko. The plot of the novel is
Answer: D (episodic)
According to the book, events in Faceless are not told in strict time order but in loosely linked episodes, so the plot is episodic.
In Amma Darko's Faceless, the octogenarian whose father shook hands with Gordon Guggisberg during the colonial era is
Answer: B (Naa Yomo)
Naa Yomo, the oldest character, proudly recalls that her father shook hands with Governor Guggisberg.
Which of the following is not a theme in Amma Darko's Faceless?
Answer: B (tribal conflict)
Faceless deals with street children, parental irresponsibility, sexual abuse and fear; tribal conflict is not a theme.
The language of Bayo Adebowale's Lonely Days could be described as
Answer: C (poetic)
Lonely Days is full of chants, proverbs and cultural imagery, so its language is poetic.
Questions 27 to 29 are based on Harvest of Corruption by Frank Ogodo Ogbeche. Which of the following does not describe the import of Madman in the play?
Answer: A (chaotic)
The Madman's role is symbolic, ironical and satirical: his words expose society's corruption. 'Chaotic' does not describe his purpose.
In Harvest of Corruption, which character is a foil to Ogeyi in the play?
Answer: B (Aloho)
Aloho, who chooses corruption, contrasts with the upright Ogeyi and so highlights Ogeyi's moral strength.
In Harvest of Corruption, the catastrophe in the play is ________.
Answer: B (when the culprits are prosecuted at the end of the play)
The catastrophe is the final resolution; here it comes when the corrupt characters are tried at the end of the play.