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This question is based on selected poems from R. Johnson and D. Ker, et al (ed.): New poetry from Africa; Wole Soyinka (ed.): poems 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: E.W. Parker (ed.): A Pageant of Longer poems and D.I. Nwoga (ed.): West African Verse.
In Niyi Osundare' s ' They Too Are The Earth', musical effect is achieved by
  • A. repetition
  • B. double rhymes
  • C. assonance
  • D. end rhymes
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This question is based on selected poems from R. Johnson and D. Ker, et al (ed.): New poetry from Africa; Wole Soyinka (ed.): poems 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: E.W. Parker (ed.): A Pageant of Longer poems and D.I. Nwoga (ed.): West African Verse.
The rhyming pattern in the last stanza of Okigbo' s Hurrah for Thunder' makes the stanza
  • A. an octave
  • B. a quatrain
  • C. a couplet
  • D. a sestet
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This question is based on selected poems from R. Johnson and D. Ker, et al (ed.): New poetry from Africa; Wole Soyinka (ed.): poems 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: E.W. Parker (ed.): A Pageant of Longer poems and D.I. Nwoga (ed.): West African Verse.
' ... In Tempe or the dales of Arcady? What men or gods are these? What maidens loth? What mad pursuit? What struggle to escape? What pipes and timbrels? What wild ecstasy?'
In Keats ' Ode on a Grecian Urn', the recurrent use of the rhetorical question in the lines above suggests
  • A. admiration and amazement
  • B. confusion and fear
  • C. shock and surprie
  • D. worry and sadness
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This question is based on General Literary Principles
The most important concepts in poetry are

  • A. story and action
  • B. plot and rhythm
  • C. rhythm and imagery
  • D. plot and character
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This question is based on General Literary Principles
The literary device which anticipates that an event will take place is best described as
  • A. foreshadowing
  • B. rising action
  • C. flashback
  • D. parody
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