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The skeleton of the fish is brought by the shore to

  • A. draw sympathy for the old man
  • B. show the old man's fruitless effort
  • C. show that the skeleton itself is useful
  • D. mock the misadventure of the old man
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This question is based on selected poems from:

R. Johnson and D. Ker er al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa; Wole Soyinka (ed.): Poems of Black Africa; K.E. Senanu and T. Vincent (eds.): A Selection of African Poetry; M. Umukoro and A. Sani et al (eds.) Exam Focus: Literature in English; A.E. Eruvbetine and M. Jibril et al (eds.): Longman Examination Guides: Poetry and E.W. Parker (ed.): A Pageant of Longer Poems.

"Hurrah for Thunder" by Christopher Okigbo could be regarded as a call to

  • A. beware of the animals in the jungle
  • B. beware of the effects of thunder
  • C. condemn the destructive qualities of elephants
  • D. be conscious and vigilant of man's abuse of power
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This question is based on selected poems from:

R. Johnson and D. Ker er al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa; Wole Soyinka (ed.): Poems of Black Africa; K.E. Senanu and T. Vincent (eds.): A Selection of African Poetry; M. Umukoro and A. Sani et al (eds.) Exam Focus: Literature in English; A.E. Eruvbetine and M. Jibril et al (eds.): Longman Examination Guides: Poetry and E.W. Parker (ed.): A Pageant of Longer Poems.

'My bottom raven black-one moment madam!- sensing
Her receiver rearing on the thunderclap'

The extract above from Wole Soyinka's "Telephone Conversation" shows the friction between

  • A. madam and receiver
  • B. tenant and telephone
  • C. landlady and tenant
  • D. receiver and thunderclap
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This question is based on selected poems from:

R. Johnson and D. Ker er al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa; Wole Soyinka (ed.): Poems of Black Africa; K.E. Senanu and T. Vincent (eds.): A Selection of African Poetry; M. Umukoro and A. Sani et al (eds.) Exam Focus: Literature in English; A.E. Eruvbetine and M. Jibril et al (eds.): Longman Examination Guides: Poetry and E.W. Parker (ed.): A Pageant of Longer Poems.

In Wole Soyinka's "Telephone Conversation," the dominant literary technique deployed is

  • A. alliteration
  • B. onomatopeia
  • C. oxymoron
  • D. simile
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This question is based on selected poems from:

R. Johnson and D. Ker er al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa; Wole Soyinka (ed.): Poems of Black Africa; K.E. Senanu and T. Vincent (eds.): A Selection of African Poetry; M. Umukoro and A. Sani et al (eds.) Exam Focus: Literature in English; A.E. Eruvbetine and M. Jibril et al (eds.): Longman Examination Guides: Poetry and E.W. Parker (ed.): A Pageant of Longer Poems.

David Rubadiri's "Stanley meets Mutesa" symbolically describes the meeting between

  • A. a black king and a white man
  • B. Stanley and Mutesa
  • C. the West and Africa
  • D. Europe and a black king
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