ANUM PRESBY SHS

END OF SECOND SEMESTER EXAMS, 2023

PAPER 1₰2
LITERATURE-IN-ENGLISH NAME …………………………………………………………

DURATION: 2 HRS 15 MINS SIGNATURE …………………………………………………

PAPER 1 (OBJECTIVES: 1 HOUR)

1. An unexpected deviation in writing 9. A narrative technique that shows

from a serious issue to something events that will happen in the
unimportant is future, offering a glimpse of what’s
a. Allusion b. bathos c. to come refers to
fantasy d. pathos a. Foreshadow b.
2. A drama curtain parts or ….. at the Flashforward c.
beginning and closes or ….. at the Flashback d. Jump
end of an act or drama. 10. In a theatrical performance, a break
a. Falls; rises b. rises; rises between acts or scenes during
c. falls; falls d. rises; falls which the audience can relax or
3. In a play, the …… also comments refresh is called
on the action a. Intermission b. breaktime
a. Protagonist b. c. interlude d. interplay
chorus c. antagonist 11. A poem of six-lined stanzas
d. villain followed by a tercet is known as
4. Light to my path is thy Word, Oh a. Hexameter b.
Jehovah illustrates Sestet c. Sestina d.
a. Allegory b. apostrophe c. Cecelia
contrast d. parallelism
Read the lines below and answer
5. Love is found amongst the fool; the
Questions 12 to 14.
fool is found amongst love
illustrates Through dogged diligence,
a. Antithesis b. chiasmus c. plodding non-stop,
conceit d. metaphor Has he earned the award of cash
6. A three-line stanza with the rhyme and book prize
scheme ABA, BCB, and CDC is And my respect for human’s
called hardworking.
a. Tercet b. Limerick c.
Terza Rima d. trimeter 12. The underlined expression
7. A musical introduction that illustrates
precedes the action and sets the a. Alliteration b. assonance
mood of the work is called c. contrast d.
a. Opera b. Cantata c. parallelism
Overture d. chanson 13. The literary device in the second
8. A misleading clue or event that line is
diverts attention from the real issue a. Bathos b. conceit c.
or conflict is known as inversion d. meter
a. Red herring b. Deceit 14. The last two lines illustrate
c. Conceit d. Disguise a. Epithet b. pathos c.
simile d. zeugma.
 15. The purging of fear, pity or guilt closed and her glistering arms folded
after watching a tragedy is called? round me in a generous embrace that had
a. Catharsis b. poetic justice me buried in her lavish bosom where I
c. resolution d. conflict melted lasciviously-into darkness.
16. Power stands against power is an The next thing I knew, time had passed
example of? and a ball of ebbing palm oil fire hung
a. Repetition b. Epanalepsis over the western hill. In a bog was I,
c. Epistrophe d. Tautology clutching a putrid log-alone.
17. A narrative style that tries to 21. The passage is about
capture a character’s thought a. A greedy man b. A strange
process in a realistic way is called encounter c. The setting sun
a. Point of View b. First d. The visit of a lover
Person c. Stream of 22. The lady is described as
consciousness d. Soliloquy a. Amazing b. Dazzling c.
18. A stanza consisting of nine lines is Lustful d. Nonchalant
referred to as 23. The narrator’s mood changes from
a. Novena b. Deca stich c. one of expectation to that of
Haiku d. Anapodoton a. Anxiety b.
19. A sudden reversal of fortune Disappointment c.
experienced by the tragic hero, Excitement d. Sadness
often turning a situation from good 24. A ball of ebbing palm oil fire is
to bad is known as a. An allusion b. An anecdote
a. Hubris b. Peripeteia c. c. A conceit d. A
Hamartia c. Anagnorisis pun
20. Who wrote the novel “To Kill a 25. The passage ends in
Mockingbird”? a. An anticlimax b. A climax c.
a. F. Scott Fitzgerald b. Humor d. Suspense
J.D. Salinger c. Harper
Lee d. George Orwell Read the poem below and answer
PART II Questions 26 to 30
UNSEEN PROSE AND
In shadows cast by twilight’s gentle hand,
POETRY
A tale unfolds of a woman, richly tanned.
Read the passage below and answer Her body, a poem, curves like ancient
Questions 21 to 25 prose,
A story of beauty that steadily grows.
From break I passed by my familiar alley, Beneath the moon’s soft and silvered light,
careless of any danger. The clap-clap of Her silhouette dances, a wondrous sight
her hands coming together attracted my Her breasts, like verses, rise and fall,
attention. I turned about as you would A cadence of passion, a siren’s call.
when called by your name. There she So let the poets sing, let the artists dream,
stood, lighting up the alley with her Of the dark woman’s curves, a celestial
essence-motionless-not stirring, not even stream.
In the tapestry of love, where stars align,
beckoning-just there, tall and queenly-yet
Her essence, a verse, in the poet’s design.
urging me closer to her.
26. The poem is about
My surging lustful desire surpassed idle a. Africa b. Women c. The power
curiosity. Suddenly, the space between us of poetry d. Creation
 27. Which line clearly expresses what Read the extract below and answer
the poem is about? Questions 36 to 38
a. A tale unfolds of a woman, richly While these visions did appear;
tanned. b. So let the poets sing, let And this weak and idle theme,
the artists dream. C. In the tapestry No more yielding but a dream,
of love, where stars align. D. Her Gentles, do not reprehend.
silhouette dances, a wondrous sight If you pardon, we will mend.
28. Her body, a poem, curves like (Act 5, Scene 1, lines 417-421)
ancient prose illustrates 36. The speaker is?
a. Metaphor b. Allusion c. a. Robin b. Theseus c.
Hyperbole d. Synecdoche Oberon d. Lysander
29. The poem above is an example of a 37. The addressee is?
……………… poem a. Egeus b. Oberon c.
a. Negritude b. Lyrical c. Hippolyta d. Himself
Sonnet d. Satirical 38. If you pardon, we will mend is an
30. The mood of the persona is example of?
a. Empathetic b. Flippant c. a. Onomatopoeia b. Metaphor
Romantic d. Antagonistic c. Deux ex Machina d.
alliteration
SECTION B
Answer all the questions in this section. Read the extract below and answer
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: A Questions 39 to 43.
Midsummer Night’s Dream
Read the extract below and answer To the best bride bed will we,
Questions 31 to 35 Which by us shall blessed be,
Speaker X: he cannot be heard of. Out of And the issue there create
doubt he is transported. Ever shall be fortunate.
Speaker Y: if he come not, then the paly is So shall all the couples three
marred. It goes not forward, doth it? (Act 5, Scene 1, Lines 394-398)

31. Speaker X is? 39. The speaker is?

a. Bottom b. Quince a. Oberon b. Theseus c.
c. Snout d. Starveling Lysander d. Robin
32. Speaker Y is? 40. The addressee is?
a. Flute b. Lysander c. Snug a. Hermia b. himself c.
d. Theseus Hippolyta d. Titania
33. He in the extract is 41. ” Couples three” includes …….
a. Bottom b. Lysander a. Demetrius and Helena b.
c. Starveling d. Theseus Oberon and Hippolyta c.
34. The scene is Lysander and Helena
a. A room in the palace b. Another d. Theseus and Hippolyta
part of the wood c. A room in 42. Best bride bed refers to that of
Quince’s house d. The wood a. Lysander and Hermia b.
35. The person not heard of Demetrius and Helena c.
a. Has committed suicide Theseus and Hippolyta d.
b. Has eloped c. Is missing Oberon and Titania
d. Is newly married 43. Where is this statement made?
 a. The woods b. Palace 48. “Iron tongue” in the extract refers
c. Near the cradle of Titania to
d. At Quince’s House a. Fiery Words b. bells
c. Romantic Words
Read the extract below and answer d. Spirits
Questions 44 to 45. 49. The last line is an example of?
Now the hungry lion roars, a. Simile b. Inversion c.
And the wolf behowls the moon, Hyperbole d. Personification
Whilst the heavy ploughman snores, 50. What kept them that late at night?
All with heavy task fordone. a. A wedding b. A
(Act 5, Scene 1, Lines 362-365) conflict c. A dream d. A
performance.
44. The speaker is?
a. Robin b. Oberon c. PAPER TWO (2)
Faires d. Titania SECTION C
45. The predominant device in the AFRICAN PROSE
extract above is?
a. Metaphor b. Answer ONE question ONLY from this
Onomatopoeia c. section
Anadiplosis d. Assonance Second Class Citizen-
Buchi Emecheta
Read the extract below and answer
Questions 46 to 50. 1. Examine Adah’s attitude towards
The iron tongue of midnight hath told Francis
twelve 2. What are Adah’s impressions of the
Lovers, to bed; ‘tis almost fairy time. African culture?
I fear we shall outsleep the coming morn
As much as we this night have Answer ONE question ONLY from this
overwatched. section
(Act 5, Scene 1, Lines 354-357)
Wuthering Heights- Emile Bronte
46. The speaker is?
3. What impressions do you form of
a. Theseus b. Oberon c.
Isabella?
Robin d. Egeus
4. Examine the character of Hindley
47. The addressee is?
Earnshaw.
a. Robin b. Theseus c.
Hippolyta d. Lysander

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Drama and Poetry
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DRAMA AND POETRY

Answer four questions in all; one question from each section.

Develop not less than five points in your answers

SECTION A
AFRICAN DRAMA
Answer one Question only from this section
WOLE, SOYINKA: The Lion and the Jewel

1. Discuss the issues of Feminism raised in the play.

2. What role does the setting play in the play’s themes of change and
modernity?

SECTION B
NON-AFRICAN DRAMA
Answer one Question only from this section
AUGUST, WILSON: Fences

3. How is Troy responsible for the collapse of the unity in his family?
4. Discuss the significance of the fence in Fences.

SECTION C
AFRICAN POETRY
Answer one Question only from this section

5. Comment on the use of three symbols used in the Black Woman.

6. Examine The Leader and the Led as a Satire.

SECTION D
NON-AFRICAN POETRY
Answer one Question only from this section

7. How does the journey change the lives of the Magi?

8. Discuss the theme of love in The Good Morrow.