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Question 31

This question is based on General Literacy Principles

At the peak of the trumpeter's performance, his cheeks were as if they were balloons and his eyes spoke many words. The literacy devices in the extract above are ________?

metaphor and paradox

simile and metaphor

simile and personification

paradox and simile

Explanation

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Correct option: C

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Question 32

This question is based on Frank Ogodo Ogbeche's Harvest of Corruption

The play portrays the judiciary as

unserious and lenient

consistent and just

corrupt and weak

patronising and self-righteous

Explanation

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Correct option: C

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Question 33

This question is based on General Literacy Principles

A prose work which centres on moral growth and character formation of an individual is called

psychological novel

picaresque

autobiography

satirical novel

Explanation

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Correct option: A

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Question 34

This question is based on Selec ted Poems from Johnson, R et al(eds): New Poetry from Africa; Soyinka,(ed); Poems of Black Africa; Senanu, K.E, and Vincent, T.(ed): A Selection of African Poetry; Gbemisola A.: Naked Soles; Hayward, J.(ed.); The Penguin Book of English Verse and Nwoga, D.(ed): West African verse.

The mood of Peter's The Panic of Growing Older can be described as _______?

sober

boastful

defiant

languid

Explanation

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Correct option: A

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Question 35

This question is based on Selected Poems from Johnson, R et al(eds): New Poetry from Africa; Soyinka, (ed); Poems of Black Africa; Senanu, K.E, and Vicent, T.(ed.):
A Selection of African Poetry; Gbemisola A.: Naked Soles; Hayward, J.(ed.); The Penguin Book of English Verse and Nwoga, D.(ed.): West African Verse.

...where guerillas walk the land while crocodiles surf

The lines above in Hallowelps The Dining Table signify _______?

danger

calmness

pity

saddness

Explanation

It refers to oppressors who luxuriate while the masses suffer.

Correct option: A

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Question 36

This question is based on Amma Darko's Faceless

The narrative style adopted in the novel is

second persons

third person

interior monologue

first person

Explanation

The story is narrated using Omniscient or third person's point of view, which involves the narrator knowing everything that happens in the story, including the characters' thought.

Correct option: B

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Question 37

This question is based on Literary Appreciation

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world Anne Frank The Diary of a young Girl

The writer of the passage above is ________?

assertive

retrogressive

optimistic

antagnistic

Explanation

The writer said that confidently making his opinion known for all to hear.

Correct option: A

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Question 38

This question is based on General Literacy Principles

An example of a narrative poem is ________?

elegy

epic

dirge

sonnet

Explanation

Epic is a long narrative story poem that celebrates real historical events.

Correct option: B

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Question 39

Thus question is based on Frank Ogodo Ogbeche's Harvest of Corruption

Two dominat themes of the play are __________?

honesty and decency

immorality and greed

poverty and education

weeding and planting

Explanation

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Correct option: B

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Question 40

This question is based on Literary.

Our third jailer made little or me. He was one of the many struggled in order to feed their families. Be seemed to be very much controlled by the other two. Elechi Amadi Sunset in Biafra

The speaker's attitude towards the jailer in the passage above is that of

admiration

condemnation

spite

respect

Explanation

The speaker was making the statement to upset "the third jailer"

Correct option: C

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