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    ADEDAMOLA COLLEGE

    NO. 26, TOKUNBO OJO STREET OROGUN, IBADAN


    Third TERM EXAMINATION
    CLASS: SS 2 SUBJECT: LITERATURE IN ENGLISH.

    SECTION A.

    Use the except below to answer question 1-5.

    He hath rid his prologue like a rough colt: he knows not the stop. A good moral, my Lord; it is not
    enough to speak, but but to speak true.

    1. Where was this except taken from?

    A. Act IV, Scene I. B. Act I, Scene, I. C. Act V, Scene I. D. Act II, Scene I.

    2. Who is the speaker?

    A. Demetrius. B. Titania. C. Lysander. D. Theseus.

    3. Who does the speaker speak about?

    A. Quince. C. Puck. C. Pyramus. D. Flute.

    4. What is the obvious poetic device overwhelmingly present in Line 1?

    A. Alliteration. B. Indentation. C. Synedoche. D. Simile.

    5. Puck pays a trick on Bottom by:

    A. Transforming him into a strange animal. B. Stealing his clothes while he is bathing. C. Changing his
    voice into that of a bird. D. Changing his head into that of an ass.

    6. What is the major device in the following remark: 'At the fall of the house they lived in, the widow lost
    her husband, her sewing machine and her ear-rings'?

    A. Metaphor B. Oxymoron C. Bathos D. Simile.

    7. What is the dominant device used in 'I came, I saw but was conquered'?

    A. Allusion. B. Blank verse. C. Free verse. D. Illusion.

    8. A deliberate understatement in which one uses the negative in order to express the opposite of what
    is meant is:

    A. Anti-thesis. B. Litotes. C. Hyperbole. D. Apostrophe.


    9. What figure of speech is prominent in 'The US us making use of many Nigerian scientific brains in her
    technological programmes'?

    A. Synedoche. B. Metonymy. C. Metaphor. D. Oxymoron.

    10. To derive meaning of a word through its sound is referred to as:

    A. Phonetics. B. Phoneme. C. Oxymoron. D. Onomatopoeia.

    11. A question asked in a poem, drama, or prose which does not demand an answer before it makes
    impact is known as:

    A. Leading question. B. Rhetorical question. C. Paradoxical question. D. Heeding question.

    12. In the remark, 'The child is the father of the man,' the user deploys.....

    A. Paradox. B. Oxymoron. C. Pun. D. Onomatopoeia.

    13. 'The sunshine of her smile left me restless for days.' What is the most outstanding literary device
    deployed in the sentence?

    A. Personification. B. Metaphor. C. Metonymy. D. Apostrophe.

    14. A figurative expression in which a part stands for a whole or a whole stands for a part is referred to
    as:

    A. Personification. B. Amplification. C. Synedoche. D. Metonymy.

    15. 'For me a delicious music, and then prayers start my typical day.' the preceding sentence is an
    example of:

    A. Simile. B. Litotes. C. Bathos. D. Synaesthesia.

    Use the passage below to answer question 16-20.

    If that may be, then all is well. Come sit down, every mother's son, and rehearse your parts, Pyramus,
    you begin when you have spoken your speech, enter into that brake, and so everyone according to his
    cue.

    16. Who is the speaker?A. Quince. B. Bottom. C. Flute. D. Puck.

    17. "Pyramus, you begin...." You begin what?

    A. The counting. B. The play. C. The singing. D. The hunting.

    18. Does Pyramus begin immediately?

    A. Yes. B. No. C. Not sure. D. Was not there.


    19. The magic juice first affected one of these young Athenians.

    A. Demetrius. B. Hermia. C. Lysander. D. Helena.

    20. The non-Athenian in the play is?

    A. Demetrius. B. Lysander. C. Hippolyta. D. Egues.

    SECTION B: THEORY QUESTIONS.

    INSTRUCTION: ANSWER ALL QUESTIONS.

    1. Write in detail about the character Hermia in the drama "A Midsummer Night's Dream" making
    notbale references/citations from the drama.

    2. Explain the term metaphysical poetry, and cite notable characteristics of a metaphysical poetry.

    3. Briefly and concisely summarize the poem "The Journey Of The Magi" highlighting a few of its theme
    referencing to lines that portray these themes in the poem.

    4. What kind of poem is "Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night"? And this poem was born out of the
    poet's love for who?

    5. Give a well detailed analysis of the drama "A Midsummer Night's Dream" identifying the major
    characters and their roles in your analysis, stating concisely what made these characters significant in
    the story.

    6. List and explain three figures of speech and three themes present in the poem "THE GRIEVED LANDS
    OF AFRICA."

    7. List three themes present in the poem "THE GOOD MORROW." and explain.

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