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PAPER I
OBJECTIVE TEST
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This paper consists of one hundred questions. Each question is followed by four
options lettered A to D. Choose the correct option and shade in pencil on the
answer sheet the answer space which bears the same letter as the option you
have chosen. Give only one answer to each question. Think carefully before you
shade the spaces. Erase completely any answer you wish to change.
C. Satire
Section A D. Parody
6. A metrical foot in which a stressed
GENERAL KNOWLEDGE OF
syllable is followed by an unstressed
LITERATURE syllable is
1. A short saying which expresses an A. iambic
idea in a clever way is B. spondaic
A. an epigram C. trochaic
B. a limerick D. dactyl
C. an ode
D. a lyric 7. The first four lines of the
Shakespearean sonnet rhyme
2. A character whose actions or A. abcd
qualities serve to heighten those of B. abba
the hero through contrast is C. abab
A. an adversary D. cdcd
B. a protagonist
C. an antagonist 8. A story in which characters or actions
D. a foil represent abstract ideas or moral
qualities is
3. A curtain raiser is an introductory A. an epic
performance that is B. a legend
A. not part of the main play C. an allegory
B. the first part of the main play D. a satire
C. not separate from the play
D. the first party of the final scene 9. The use of imagery in prose or verse
A. appeals to the senses
4. A stanza of four lines is a B. develops the plot
A. couplet C. creates confusion
B. quintet D. obscures meaning
C. septet
10. In drama, comic relief often
D. quatrain
occurs in
5. _ in drama operates against a A. comedies
character who is unawares of a B. tragedies
situation which the audience know C. historical plays
about D. romantic plays
A. Verbal irony
B. Dramatic irony
a. Simile
b. Metaphor Read the extract below and use
c.Soliloquy it to answer. questions 52 and
d. Personification 53.
“ A wind howls, the street way, the
47. In drama the representation of loose house top sheet clather and
action without the use of words is clag.
called The open doors shut with a bang and
a. Opera the sky make night of day.
b. Miami 52. The above poem describe
c.Farce a. Thunderstorm
d. Dance b. Rain
c.Earth quake
48. Which of the following is not a d. Flood
feature of epic
a. It has fourteen lines 53. What is the rhyme scheme of
b. I is a long narrative poem the poem?
c.It is written in elegant style a. adcd
d. It relates the deeds of b. aabb
c.abba
49. The expression “ He was a lion d. abbc
in the fight illustrate the use of e.
a. Personification 54. The expression “We came, we
b. Metaphor saw, we conquered “illustrates the
c.Simile ____________ in a story.
d. Symbolism a. Anticlimax
b. Climax
50. A humorous scene is a tragedy c.Crisis
called d. Mood
a. Dry humors
b. Tragic comedy 55. A writer’s attitude towards his
c.Comic tragedy work is called
d. Comedy of situation a. Theme
b. Tone
51. When a writer uses a world, c.Flashback
which echoes its sounds and d. Plot
meaning. Which literary device is he
using 56. Pick out the odd item
a. Irony a. Tragedy
b. Alliteration b. Ode
c.Onomatopoeia c.Flashback
d. Pun d. Ballad
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d. Diction
57. In a narrative, setting is the
a. Time and place of the story 63. A person who writes a play is
called
b. Theme and subject
a. Play writer
c.Action of the story b. Play wright
d. Tone of the story c.Play right
d. Play write
Read the extract below and
answer questions 58-60. 64. A stanza of four lines is called
“ I will complain, yet praise a. Tercet
I will be wail, approve b. Septet
And all my sour, sweet day c.Quatrain
I will lament and love” d. Octave
58. The dominant device used in the 65. In poetry, rhyme is mainly
poem is device of
a. Contrast a. Meaning
b. Parody b. Movement
c.Caesura c.Sound
d. Litotes d. Action
59. Line three illustrates the use of 66. A song sang to sooth a child to
a. Oxymoron sleep is called
b. Onomatopoeia a. Lullaby
c.Synecdoche b. Dirge
d. Allusion c.Threnody
d. Ode
60. State the rhyme scheme of the
above extract 67. Which of the following is not a
a. aaba type of drama?
b. abba a. Farce
c.abcd b. Comedy
d. abbc c.Fiction
d. Tragic-comedy
61. An act or play may be broken
into 68. A tragic hero falls as a result of
a. Scenes _______ in his character
b. Asides a. Farce
c.Exist b. A flaw
d. Props c.Judgment
d. Resolution
62. The writer choice of word is
called 69. Full fathom five thy fathers of
a. Climax his bones are coral made. The figure
b. Personification of speech used in the first line is
c.Antithesis a. Onomatopoeia
b. Repetition
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D. defiance
At dawn must I rise to till the rock
That our land has turned into Read the poem and answer the
The land where on we'd gleefully question
harvested paddy
Planted and nurtured and tended on Proud mothers of the coming age,
plots marshy 'Tis good to find you now engage
Our woes are bloody woes of Your minds and time your lives to
accursed revenges raise
Of the land spirits aggrieved and by Above the level of bygone days.
his fellow
Kindred blood has counted for less 'Tis good to see you play your part
than no value With spirit and undaunted heart,
Brother's wife has been wife to other It gives young Africa's throbbing soul
brother's brother A glimpse of a bright and glorious
Communal loot has emptied our goals.
country silos
The earth has stopped breathing and God bless you, mothers of our race,
sighed God cause to shine on you His face;
Soldered tears has the moon shed And give you strength and all you
The earth was scorched at noon-day crave
night To bring forth sons and daughters
And our land has turned to hoeing brav
rock 83. The rhyme scheme is
A. aabb ccdd eeff
79. The theme of the poem is B. abab abab aabb
A. famine and disease C. abca abbc abab
B. drought and heat D. abba abca abab
C. abomination and retribution 4
D. sickness and death 84. The theme of the poem is
A. the love of mother
80. The mood of the poet is one of B. invoking the spirit of womanhood
A. recklessness C. admiration for women's hard
B. hopelessness work
C. happiness D. the suffering of women5
D. loneliness
SECTION C
81. ''The earth has stopped Answer all questions in this
breathing and sighed'' illustrates section.
A. bathos William Shakespeare
B. climax
C. personification The Tragedy of Othello
D. paradox Read the following extract and
82. The run-on lines convey the answer question 86-90
speaker's My lord, this would not be believed in
A. indignation Venice. Though I should swear I saw
B. lamentation it _______ tis very much make her
C. disappointment amends; she weep
c.handkerchief
d. banquet