Literature 210-1

PAPER 3
ESSAY
Drama and poetry
[100 Marks]
Paper 3 consists of eleven essay questions. You are required to answer five in
all. Write your answers in ink (blue or black) only. For each question, all
necessary details of working including rough works and diagrams must be shown
with the answer.

Section A
African Drama
Answer only two (2) questions from this section, one from each play.
Dele Charley: The blood of a stranger
1. Who in your opinion is the hero of this play and why?
[10 marks]
2. Think about the role of money in the play. How does it affect difference character?
[10 marks]
3. How does the play instruct our society to receive stranger.
[10 marks]
Frank Ogdo Ogbeche: Harvest of corruption
4. Justify the fate that befalls Aloho at the end of the play.
5. Discuss chief Haladu’s activities as a pen-robber.
[10 marks]
6. In details, examine the character of Ogeyi Oga as a human right crusader .
[10 marks]

Section B
Non-African Drama
Answer only two (2) questions from this section, one from each play.
Oliver Goldsmith: She stoops to Conquer
7. How does the play help us to acknowledge a truth of who were?
[10 marks]
8. What makes “She stoops to conquer” a comedy of error?
[10 marks]
Lorraine Hansberry: A Raisin in the Sun
9. What is Mama’s dream for the family? How is it different or similar to
Walter dream for the family?
[10 marks]
10. Discuss the tittle of the play. How does it relate to the dream of
each of the characters?
[10 marks]
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11. What are the most important factors determining characters’
choices? [10 marks]
Section C
African Poetry
Answer any four questions from this section.
Vanity: Birago Diop
12. Discuss the use of rhetorical question in the poem ‘vanity”.
[10 marks]
Ambush: Ghemisola Adeoti
13. Closely examine the view that “Ambush is a serious a poem”.
[10 marks]
14. Do you consider the tittle of the poem appropriate? Provide
reasons. [10 marks]
Piano and Drum: Gabriel Okara
15. Discuss the poet attitude in the poem.
[10 marks]
16. Discuss the use of symbolism in Okara’s piano and drum.
[10 marks]
The Dining Table: Gbanabam Hallowell
17. Discuss briefly the setting of the poem.
[10 marks]
18. Discuss dining table as a criticism of war and the despoliation of
war. [10 marks]
The Panic of growing Older: Lenrie Peters
19. Discuss the panic of growing older as a criticism of man’s striving on
earth. [10 marks]
20. Show vividly that “the panic of growing older “is pessimistic poem.
[10 marks]

Section D
Non-African Poetry
Answer all questions in this section

21. Comment on the use of pun in Herbert’s the pulley.

[10 marks]
22. Examine the theme endurance in Robert Frost’s Birches
[10 marks]

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PAPER I
OBJECTIVE TEST
[50 MARKS]
This paper consists of fifty (50) 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.
Section A B. Dramatic irony
GENERAL KNOWLEDGE OF C. Satire
LITERATURE D. Parody
1. A stanza of four lines is a
A. couplet 3. A ballad is essentially a ...........
B. quintet poem
C. septet A. descriptive
D. quatrain B. dramatic
C. pastoral
2. _ in drama operates against a D. narrative
character who is unawares of a
situation which the audience know 4. A story in which characters or
about actions represent abstract ideas or
A. Verbal irony moral qualities is
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A. an epic broke
B. a legend To the place day doth unyoke
C. an allegory
D. a satire 10. The stanza is an example of
A. appellation
5. The use of imagery in prose or B. apostrophe
verse C. euphemism
A. appeals to the senses D. elegy
B. develops the plot
C. creates confusion 11. Pan is used here as
D. obscures meaning A. an allusion
B. symbol
6. A character that develops in the C. irony
course of a novel or play is D. metonymy
described as
A. flat 12. The rhyme scheme of the stanza
B. antagonist is
C. round A. abcabcc
D. protagonist B. ababcdd
C. babacc
7. A dirge is a poem sung D. bcbccaa
A. to send a child to sleep
B. to make workers happy Read the passage and answer the
C. at a birthday party question 
D. at a funeral
The goldsmith at work is a priest at
8. In drama, the ............. creates humor the altar as though he was were
A. hero performing the Eucharist, he is
B. clown engaged in deliberate motions of
C. villain reverence. The small vials of various
D. chorus liquids such as mercury are little
vessels of communion wine. The
9. 'Let me not love thee if I love thee minuscule rings of intricately crafted
not' illustrates gold are like miniature wafers.
A. metaphor He dips one tiny ring into a liquid, lifts
B. proverb it up to the sky and presses it onto a
C. paradox space in the growing length of
D. meiosis necklace. It fits- it is like dipping
bread into wine and slipping it
Section B between the parted lips of a
UNSEEN PROSE AND POETRY communicant.
Read the stanza and answer the Our lent vigils are not as solemn as
questions that follow the goldsmith's silent solemnity that
Pan, O great Pan, to thee directs his work. We look on as the
Thus do we sing! wizardry of the master matter
Thou who keep'st chaste and free craftsman displays itself. We are held
As the young spring: in thrall....
Ever be thy honor spake
From that place the more is
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13. The subject matter of the C. an ode
passage is D. a sestet
A. a goldsmith at work
B. celebrating the Eucharist 20. ''The sun smiled gently on the
C. a priest at the altar scene'' illustrates
D. communion wine and wafers A. paradox
B. euphemism
14. The dominant devices used are C. hyperbole
A. personification and irony D. personification
B. parallelism and repetition
C. metaphor and simile Read the extract below and use it to
D. metonymy and synecdoche answer. Question 21-23.
“ A wind howls, the street way, the
15. The use of the above devices loose house top sheet clather and
creates an atmosphere of clag.
A. fear The open doors shut with a bang and
B. doom the sky make night of day.
C. hope
D. awe 21. The above poem describe
a. Thunderstorm
16. The writer's attitude is one of b. Rain
A. bewilderment c.Earth quake
B. reverence d. Flood
C. indifference
D. arrogance 22. What is the rhyme scheme of the
poem?
Read the stanza and answer this a. adcd
question b. aabb
c.abba
For days I wept and felt depressed d. abbc
The one and all I loved had left
But then on me our Bill impressed 23. The expression “We came, we
'Your love is where she looks bereft' saw, we conquered “illustrates the
____________ in a story.
17. The rhyme scheme is a. Anticlimax
A. abab b. Climax
B. aaba c.Crisis
C. abcc d. Mood
D. abbc
Read the extract below and answer
18. The lines are iambic the questions 24-26.
A. pentameter “ I will complain, yet praise
B. trimeter I will be wail, approve
C. tetrameter And all my sour, sweet day
D. hexameter I will lament and love”

19. The lines constitute 24. The dominant device used in the
A. an epic poem is
B. a quatrain a. Contrast
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b. Parody b. An allegorical
c. Caesura c.A pastoral
d. Litotes d. An elegiac
SECTION C
25. Line three illustrates the use of Answer all questions in this section.
a. Oxymoron William Shakespeare
b. Onomatopoeia The Tragedy of Othello
c. Synecdoche Read the following extract and
d. Allusion answer question 46-50

26. State the rhyme scheme of the My lord, this would not be believed in
above extract Venice. Though I should swear I saw it
a. aaba ___ tis very much make her amends;
b. abba she weep
c. abcd
d. abbc 31. Who is the speaker
a. Montano
Read the extract below and answer b. Brabantio
the question that follows: c.Emilio
“ I remember the good old days when d. Ladovico
I used to walk bare-footed on the
cobble an pavement without any care 32. She weeps, who is the person
or worries. Those were the good old weeping?
days indeed. a. Emilia
b. Bianca
27. The narrator mood in the extract c.Desdemona
is d. Attendant
a. Mundane
b. Ecstatic 33. What happen before the speech?
c. Cheerful a. Othello strikes Desdemona
d. Nostalgic b. Roderigo has been killed
c.Othello murders Desdemona
28. The highest point in a plot of a d. Casio is demoted
story is known as
a. Conflict 34. What is the relationship between
b. Anti-climax the speaker and the person that
c. Climax weeps?
d. Resolution a. Husband and wife
b. Mistress and maid
29. A poem of fourteen lines is called c.Family
a. Sonnet d. Friends
b. An ode
c. A lyric 35. The speaker has just
d. An epic a. Brought a letter
b. Reported the death of Roderigo
30. A poem which deals with c.Blown an alarm
incidents and scenes of simple life d. Returned to Venice
is called Read the below extract and answer
a. Satirical question 54-59.
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X= it is not last, but what and if it
were?
Y= How!
X= I saw it is not last
Y= fetch it let me see it.
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Z: I am one, Sir that comes to tell you
Your daughter and the moor are
now making the beast with two
backs.
(Act I, scene I, lines 114-116)

36. Speaker X is 42. Who is speaker Y?

a. Othello a. Iago
b. Cassio b. Brabantio
c. Bianca c. Roderigo
d. Desdemona d. Cassio

37. Speaker Y is 43. Who is speaker Z?

a. Iago a. Iago
b. Emilio b. Brabantio
c. Roderigo c.Roderigo
d. Othello d. Cassio

38. What is not last? 44. “Your daughter” refers to

a. Desdemona a. Desdemona
b. Venetian sheep b. Emilia
c. handkerchief c.Jessica
d. banquet d. Ophelia

39. The character with speaker X 45. The “Moor” refers to

and Y is a. Othello
a. Emilia b. Brabantio
b. The duke c.Iago
c. Roderigo d. Roderigo
d. Lodovico
46. Who is the father of the
40. What relationship exist between “daughter” according to the extract?
speaker X and Y a. Brabantio
a. Husband and wife b. Iago
b. Friends c.Othello
c. Sister and brother d. Roderigo
d. Family
Read the extract below carefully and
41. What prompted the answer questions 47-50
conversation? ( In personal suit to make me his
a. The napkin got missing lieutenant), off-capp’d to him: and, by
b. A scepter the faith of man, I know my price, I
c. The Venice ship am
d. The maiden worth no worse a place: but he; as
loving
Read the extract below carefully and his own pride and purposes,
answer questions 42-46 evades them, with a bombast
circumstance
Y: What profane wretch art thou? (Act one, Scene I, lines 10-14)

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49. To whom is the speaker
47. Who is speaking? speaking?
a. Roderigo a. Brabantio
b. Brabantio b. Iago
c.Iago c.Cassio
d. Cassio d. Roderigo

48. “But he; as loving his own pride 50. The scene of this action is
and purposes” … the “he” refers to a. A street
a. Othello b. The sea-coast
b. Brabantio c. Another street
c.Iago d. Sea-port in Cyprus?
d. Roderigo

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