MID TERM TEST FIRST TERM LITERATURE SS 1

FIRST TERM MID TERM TEST 

                                  SUBJECT: LITERATURE-IN-ENGLISH                  CLASS: SSS 1                 TIME: 2HOURS.

INSTRUCTION; YOU ARE REQUESTED TO SELECT THE SUITABLE OPTIONS FOR THE QUESTIONS 1-30

1. What is the major device deployed in the following remark ‘At the fall of the house they lived in, the widow lost her husband, her sewing machine and earring? (a) Metaphor (b) Oxymoron (c) bathos (d ) simile.
2. What is the dominant device exemplified in this sentence? “I came, I Saw conquered’? (a) allusion (b) Blank device (c) free verse (d) Illusion.
3. A deliberate understatement in which one uses the negative in order to express the opposite of what is (a) Anti-thesis (b) Litotes (c) Hyperbole (d) Apostrophe.
4. The expression of the exact opposite of what one or has in mind even though the words are not supposed to be taken at face value is: (a) Sarcasm (b) euphemism (c) Irony d) metonymy.
5. What figure of speech is prominent in “the US is making use of many Nigerian scientific brains in her technological programmes”. (a) Synecdoche (b) Metonymy (c) metaphor (d) Oxymoron.
6. To derive the meaning of a word through it’s sound is referred to as; (a) phonetics (b) phoneme (c) oxymoron (d) onomatopoeia.
7. When two words opposite in meaning stand shoulder to shoulder in are mark, a figure of speech known as —— has been used. (a) Enjambment (b) Oxymoron (c) Melodrama (d) hyperbole.
8. In the remark, “the child is the father of the man’, the user deploys (a) paradox (b) oxymoron (c) pun (d) onomatopoeia.
9. Jolliba stood on the middle of the road, unafraid of the surging traffic, as if he was no longer alive’. The major literary device in the preceding sentence is (a) Synaesthesia (b) innuendo (c) syncopation (d)simile
10. The sunshine of her smile left me restless for two days’ what is the most outstanding literary device on 
11. ‘For me delicious music and then prayers start my typical day’ The preceding sentence is an example of the use (a) simile (b) litotes (c) bathos (d) synesthesia.
12. The figure of speech which states an unpleasant fact in a pleasant manner is a called (a) oxymoron (b) echoism (d) euphenism.
13. A figurative expression in which a parts stands for a whole or awhile stands for a part is reffered to as; (a) personification (b) amplification (c) synecdoche (d) metonymy.
14. A question asked in a poem, drama or a piece which does not demand an answer before it make an impact is known as; (a) leading question (b) rhetorical question (c) paradoxical question (d) heeding question.
15. ‘Hillary, the heiress of the Clinton poloitical dynasty, held her heed as she harangued hooligans in the harlem’. The dominant literary dance deployed in the preceeding sentence is; (a) metonymy (b) denouement (c) alliteration (d) anagnorises.
16. The appreciation of arts and its beauty is—————- 9a) aesthetics (b) analogy (c) analogy (d) Ana chronology.
17. One of the types of prose is ————— (a) fiction (b) friction (c) faction (d) fraction.
18. The true life story of a person written by another person is ———— (a) biography (b0 auto-biography (c) menography (d) Chromatography.
19. An —————— is often peopled by Animal (a) fable (b) Paradox (c) allegory (d) novel.
20. ———————- in literature refers to a fanciful tale whose characters, incidents are out of this world (a) romance (b) elegy (c) Parable (d) historical novel.
21. ——————– is neither a full novel nor a short story (a) Novella (b) fable (c) allegory (d) Parable.
22. A ————— is dominated by elements of terror, horror and the supernatural (a) Historic novel (b) Gothic Novel (c) Metafiction (d) Romance.
23. The ————– refers to the way and manner in which the events or incidents narrated in the work are arranged (a) Plot (b) setting (c) narrative techniques (d) Characterization.
24. The representation of speech, actions in a work of art by certain people is regarded as———— (a) Plot (b) setting (c) narrative setting (d) characterization. 
25. A poem that tells a story is said to be —————– (a) Drama (b) Narrative (c) Song (d) Lyric.
26. A poem of fourteen lines is called (a) sonnet (b) Ballad (c) Epic (d) Ode.
27. —————- is a poem that focuses on the celebration or exaltation of a person or an object (a) Ballad (b) Epic (c) Ode (d) Sonnet.
28. The ———- is a long narrative poem centred around a hero with great achievement (a) Ballad (b) Epic (c) Ode (d) Sonnet.
29.  ——- is a poem of five funny lines which has the  rhyme scheme of aabba (a) Limerick (b) Epic (c) Panegyric (d) Lullaby.
30. A poem sung to Children in order to lure them to a sleep (a) Lullaby (b) Limerick (c) Epic (d) panegyric.

SECTION B

         Instruction: Answer only three questions from this section

1. Define prose (b) Differentiate between the fiction and non-fiction citing relevant examples c) Explain the biography and autobiography.
2. Give an account on the following types of poems (i) Lullaby (ii) Narrative poem (iii) Sonnet. (b) Define a couplet————–.
3. Analyse these four types of characters: I) Eponymous Characters II) Hero/Heroine/Protagonist III) Flat character III) round character.
4. Explain the following: I) Plot II) Setting III) Characterization 

(b) Analyse the narrative techniques; I. First person Technique II) Third Person technique.