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PAPER I
OBJECTIVE TEST
[60 MARKS]
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

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11. A struggle between B. anecdote

opposing forces in a story or C. allegory
play is D. parody
A. denouement 17. The term used to depict the
B. conflict freedom of a poet with
C. comedy language is
D. tragedy A. poetic diction
B. bathos
12. An expression from which C. graphology
D. poetic license
one derives a mental picture is
A. paradox 18. A poem in which a lone speaker
B. exaggeration seems to be addressing someone
C. imagery else is a
D. photography A. pathetic fallacy
B. verbal irony
C. dramatic irony
13. The repetition of the same
D. dramatic monologue
vowel sounds in a line is
A. alliteration 19. A dirge is a poem sung
B. assonance A. to send a child to sleep
C. onomatopoeia B. to make workers happy
D. parallelism C. at a birthday party
D. at a funeral
14. A character in the story 20. In drama, the ............. creates
who narrates what happens to humor
him or her is A. hero
A. a second person narrator B. clown
B. a first person narrator C. villain
C. an omniscient narrator D. chorus
D. a third person narrator 21. 'Let me not love thee if I love
thee not' illustrates
15. An understatement is A. metaphor
otherwise called B. proverb
A. litotes C. paradox
B. conceit D. meiosis
C. pun
22. ...........is a literary device used
D. contrast to express unpleasant situation in a
more acceptable manner
16. The loneliest people live in A. Epilogue
the most crowded places B. Epigram
illustrates C. Euphemism
D. Eulogy
A. paradox

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Read the extract and answer Thus do we sing!

questions 23 & 24.  Thou who keep'st chaste and free
As the young spring:
Said the Lion: ''On music I dote Ever be thy honor spake
But something is wrong with my From that place the more is broke
throat To the place day doth unyoke
When I practice a scale 27. The stanza is an example of
The listeners quail A. appellation
And flee at the first note''. B. apostrophe
23. What type of poem is this? C. euphemism
A. Epic D. elegy
B. Limerick
C. Ode 28. Pan is used here as
D. Sonnet A. an allusion
B. symbol
24. The rhyme scheme of the poem C. irony
is D. metonymy
A. Aabba
B. Ababa 29. The rhyme scheme of the stanza
C. Ababb is
D. Abbaa A. abcabcc
B. ababcdd
25. A speech in a play in which a C. babacc
character speaks his or her thoughts D. bcbccaa
alone is
A. a monologue 30. ...... refers to the structure of a
B. an aside work of art.
C. an epilogue A. form
D. a soliloquy B. Plot
C. Setting
26. In literature, repetition is used D. Style
essentially for
A. rhyme
B. suspense 31. Conflict in a literary work begins
C. allusion to unfold with
D. emphasis A. climax
B. episode
37. The pattern of a poem without C. exposition
reference to its content is referred to D. resolution
as the
A. limerick 32. The character assumed by the
B. metre author in his writing is
C. free verse A. protagonist
D. form B. chorus
C. persona
Read the stanza and answer the D. pseudonym
questions 27-29.
Pan, O great Pan, to thee 33. Oral literature is part of

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A. drama D. a sestet

B. folklore
C. poetry 40. ''The sun smiled gently on the
D. music scene'' illustrates
A. paradox
34. Poetry is written in B. euphemism
A. chapters C. hyperbole
B. paragraphs D. personification
C. scenes
D. lines 41. The major part of the Petrarch
sonnet is the
35. The ....... produces comic relief A. quintet
in drama B. sestet
A. chorus C. tercet
B. protagonist D. octave
C. antagonist
D. clown 42. ''That it will rain is not unlike''
illustrates the use of
36. A short play is also called a A. irony
A. farce B. litotes
B. novelette C. metaphor
C. playlet D. metonymy
D. slapstick
43. An elegy is a poem written to
Read the stanza and answer a. Mourn the dead
questions 37-39. b. Praise kings
c.Criticize opponent
For days I wept and felt depressed
The one and all I loved had left d. Celebrate victory
But then on me our Bill impressed
'Your love is where she looks bereft' 44. The process of recalling past
events in a piece of literary work are
37. The rhyme scheme is known as
A. abab a. Satire
B. aaba
b. Didactic
C. abcc
D. abbc c.Flash back
d. Fable
38. The lines are iambic
A. pentameter 45. The chorus is usually a feature
B. trimeter of
C. tetrameter
a. Prose
D. hexameter
b. Poetry
39. The lines constitute c.Narrative
A. an epic d. Drama
B. a quatrain
C. an ode 46. Pick out the odd item
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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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c.Inversion reverence. The small vials of various

d. Alliteration liquids such as mercury are little
70. Being as strong as a rock, he vessels of communion wine. The
was always inflicting injury on others. minuscule rings of intricately crafted
Which of the following is used in the gold are like miniature wafers.
statement above? He dips one tiny ring into a liquid,
a. Irony lifts it up to the sky and presses it
b. Metaphor onto a space in the growing length of
c.Personification necklace. It fits- it is like dipping
d. Simile bread into wine and slipping it
between the parted lips of a
71. Pick out the odd item communicant.
a. Poetry Our lent vigils are not as solemn as
b. Drama the goldsmith's silent solemnity that
c.Prose directs his work. We look on as the
d. Sonnet wizardry of the master matter
craftsman displays itself. We are held
72. When a character talk by him or in thrall....
herself on the stage is called
a. Soliloquy 75. The subject matter of the
b. Aside passage is
c.Dialogue A. a goldsmith at work
d. Prologue B. celebrating the Eucharist
C. a priest at the altar
73. The highest point in a plot of a D. communion wine and wafers
story is known as
a. Conflict 76. The dominant devices used are
b. Anti-climax A. personification and irony
c.Climax B. parallelism and repetition
d. Resolution C. metaphor and simile
D. metonymy and synecdoche
74. A poem which deals with
incidents and scenes of simple life is 77. The use of the above devices
called creates an atmosphere of
a. Satirical A. fear
b. An allegorical B. doom
c.A pastoral C. hope
d. An elegiac D. awe
Section B
UNSEEN PROSE AND POETRY 78. The writer's attitude is one of
A. bewilderment
Read the passage and answer B. reverence
questions 75-78  C. indifference
D. arrogance
The goldsmith at work is a priest at
the altar as though he was were
performing the Eucharist, he is Read the poem and answer the
engaged in deliberate motions of question 79-82.
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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

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85. Who is the speaker 91. The speaker is _____

a. Montano a. Iago
b. Brabantio b. Othello
c.Emilio c.Roderigo
d. Ladovico d. Duke

86. Who is the person weeping? 92. Who is uncle?

a. Emilia a. Lodorico
b. Bianca b. Iago
c.Desdemona c.Gratiano
d. Attendant d. Montana

87. What happen before the 93. Niece as used is referred to as

speech? a. Emilia
a. Othello strikes Desdemona b. Desemona
b. Roderigo has been killed c.Bianca
c.Othello murders Desdemona d. Barbary’s maid
d. Casio is demoted
88. What prompted Othello’s 94. Where is the speech made ?
action? a. Othello’s chamber
a. He was over happy b. Cassio’s lodging
b. He love his wife. c.Iago’s house
c. He was jealous and listened to d. Venice street
gossip.
d. He was not served food to eat Read the below extract and answer
question 95-100.
89. What is the relationship X= it is not last, but what and if it
between the speaker and the person were?
that weeps? Y= How!
a. Husband and wife X= I saw it is not last
b. Mistress and maid Y= fetch it let me see it.
c.Family
d. Friends
95. Speaker X is
90. The speaker has just a. Othello
a. Brought a letter b. Cassio
b. Reported the death of Roderigo c.Bianca
c.Blown an alarm d. Desdemona
d. Returned to Venice
96. Speaker Y is
Read the extract and answer a. Iago
question 91-94. b. Emilio
O, she was foul. I scare did know c.Roderigo
you, uncle; their lives your niece, d. Othello
whose breath, indeed, these hands
have newly. I know the act shows 97. What is not last?
horrible and grim. a. Desdemona
b. Venetian sheep
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c.handkerchief
d. banquet

98. The character with speaker X

and Y is
a. Emilia
b. The duke
c.Roderigo
d. Lodovico

99. What relationship exist between

speaker X and Y
a. Husband and wife
b. Friends
c.Sister and brother
d. Family

100. What prompted the

conversation?
a. The napkin got missing
b. A scepter
c.The Venice ship
d. The maiden
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