LITERATURE FIRST TERM EXAMINATION SS 1
FIRST TERM
Examination malpractices may lead to a repeat of the subject or suspensions don’t be involved.
SUBJECT: LITERATURE IN ENGLISH CLASS: SS1 TIME: 2 HRS
INSTRUCTION: Attempt all the question
General questions on literary appreciation
SECTION A
- Along and serious narrative about heroic character is a/an _______________ (a) burlesque (b) ballad (C) epic (d) elegy
- In literature, words that imitate or echo sounds is known as ________________ (a) pun (b) onomatopoeia (c) mime (d) simile
- “He is like a bull when angry”, contain which figure of speech. (a) Metaphor (b) hyperbole (c) pun (d) simile
- Flashback is used in a novel to tell _________________ (a) the action in past (b) the immediate action (c) the futuristic action (d) the hidden action
- A person used to mourn the called _______________ (a) dirge (b) lyric (c) ode (d) lampoon
- _______________ is the repetition of vowel sounds (a) alliteration (b) anthology (c) assonance (d) rythme pattern
- A deliberate exaggeration for humaur is known as ______________ (a) personification (b) irony (c) metaphor (d) hyperbole
- The main opposing character in a play is called ________________ (a) protagonist (b) anti-character (c) mighty-warrior (d) antagonist
- Autobiography is story told by __________________ (a) someone by him/herself (b) another person of someone else (c) major heroic attitude (d) animal narrated by man
- A couplet means _______________ (a) poem of four lines (b) poem of two lines (c) poem of six lines (d) poem of seven lines
- The following are the element of poetry except _______________ (a) theme or subject (b) diction (c) tone or mood (d) fiction
- The following falls under the category of lyrical poem except ____________ (a) ode (b) elegy (c) sonnet (d) ballad
- The king of kutuje has joined his ancestors is an example of _________________ (a) euphemism (b) eulogy (c) metapropism (d) trilogy
- Dramatic personage are ______________ (a) audience watching a play (b) characters (c) character in a prose work (d) clown in a comic work
- An omniscient narrator in a prose work is ______________ (a) detaches himself from the story (b) knows nothing about the characters and event (c) knows everything about the characters and event (d) is a character in the story
- An epilogue ________________ (a) introduces a play (b) sum up a play (c) developes characters (d) introduces characters
- A question used for effect which does require an answer is _______________ (a) oratorical (b) antheitetical (c) anticlimactic (d) rhetorical
- A playwright can otherwise be called a/an ________________ (a) author (b) clown (c) dramatist (d) play director
- A choice of word that creates a special effect is called _______________ (a) fallacy (b) mood (c) diction (d) atmosphere
- Poem is to stanza, as prose is to _______________ (a) narration (b) acting (c) dramatist (d) play
UNSEEN PROSE AND POETRY
Read the passage poem and answer the questions correctly
UNSEEN POETRY
Question 21 – 25
Your world is as big as you make it
I know for I used to abide
In the narrowest rent in corner
My wings pressing close to my side
But I sighted the distant horizon
Where the sky line encircled sea,
And I throbbed a burning desire
To travel this immensity.
I battered the cordon around me
And cradled my wings on the breeze
Then soared to the uttermost
With rapture, with power, with ease.
- The poet is _______________ (a) angry (b) frustrated (c) excited (d)indifferent
- The theme of the poem is the ______________ (a) need to overcome limitations (b) joy of travelling (c) the flight of birds (d) the sighting of the see
- “your world is as big as you make it” illustrates ______________ (a) epigram (b) metonymy (c) paradox (d) simile
- The poem is best described as a/an _______________ (a) ode (b) epic (c) pastoral (d) lyric
- The last stanza is made up of ________________ (a) end-stop line (b) rhymic couplets (b) alternate rhymes (d) run-on-lines
UNSEEN PROSE
Ignorance, as all tyrants know is the tonic of servitude. An illiterate person is easy to enslave because he is not aware of his own hidden strengths or of others possibilities in existence elsewhere around him but length such as man to read and allow him to a library, you witness how suddenly, all his world, litter to close and restricted, exploded.
The book transports him to wonderful places where people live without chains because the rulers there are more human and more generous or because they ruled themselves are loss timid and more aggressive and better organized.
- The following themes are portrayed in the passage, except ________________ (a) effectiveness of teaching to read (b) limitation of illiterate person (c) uselessness of books (d) usefulness of reading.
- The figure of speech involved in the book transport him to wonderful places is ______________ (a) metonymy (b) oxymoron (c) personification (d) pun (e) synecdoche.
- The underline expression in the passage is an example of _________________ (a) apostrophe (b) irony (c) litotoes (d) metaphor (e) simile
- The passage is a comparison of ________________ (a) book and libraries (b) ignorant and the intelligent (c) the illiterate and the literate (d) the libraries and the books (e) the ruled and the ruler
- The tone of the passage advocate that ______________ (a) many worlds exist in the book (b) ruler should read more books (c) the library should be opened to all
Instruction: Question no 4 is compulsory
Answer any other 2. (Answer 3 questions in all)
THEORY SECTION B
1a. Explain concisely the meaning of literature.
- Critically explain ten importance of literature.
2a. Name and discuss in full the genres of literature.
- List ten elements of drama and critically explain each.
- Name five types of drama.
3a. What is a prose?
- Explain the characteristics of prose.
- List and explain the main classification of prose.
4a. Write out correctly all the verse of the poem “Cage Bird” – by
- Critically explain the poetic devices used in the poem.
5a. What is poetry?
- List five types of poetry.
- Critically explain types of poem with examples.
