Literature-in-English Mock 2025

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The main character in a story or play is the

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The character who opposes the main character is the

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The time and place in which a story happens is its

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The central idea or message of a literary work is its

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A group of lines forming a unit in a poem is a

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Two consecutive rhyming lines in a poem form a

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Folktales, proverbs, riddles and dirges passed on by word of mouth are examples of

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A dirge is a song or poem performed

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Ananse stories usually end with

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A short, wise saying that expresses a general truth is a

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Things Fall Apart was written by

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The sequence of events in a story is its

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Instructions in a play script about movements, settings and how lines are said are

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In Romeo and Juliet, the two feuding families are the

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Identify the figure of speech: "a deafening silence"

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Identify the figure of speech: "He passed away last night" (meaning he died).

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A hint of what will happen later in a story is

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A scene that goes back to events that happened earlier is a

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The highest point of tension in a plot is the

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A speech in which a character alone on stage speaks his or her thoughts aloud is a

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A short remark made by a character to the audience, unheard by the other characters, is an

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The pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry is its

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Poetry that does not follow a regular rhyme or metre is

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In Things Fall Apart, Okonkwo's village is

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In Things Fall Apart, the boy given to Umuofia as compensation and who lives with Okonkwo's family is

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A story in which the narrator knows the thoughts and feelings of all the characters uses

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In The Lion and the Jewel, the young village belle whom both Lakunle and Baroka want to marry is

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In The Lion and the Jewel, Baroka is the

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In An Inspector Calls, the young woman whose death the Inspector investigates is

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The continuation of a sentence from one line of poetry into the next without a pause is

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"I wandered lonely as a cloud" contains

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"The harmattan walks in at dawn, its dusty sandals on our sills; it borrows the colour from the hills and leaves before the day is gone." The rhyme scheme of the stanza is

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"The harmattan walks in at dawn, its dusty sandals on our sills; it borrows the colour from the hills and leaves before the day is gone." "it borrows the colour from the hills" suggests that the wind

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"O Moon, you lamp the poor man's road for free." Addressing the moon directly is called

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"The lorry groans uphill, its belly full of yams, its horn a hoarse old man who will not rest." The repetition of the h sound in "horn" and "hoarse" is an example of

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Ananse stories are called anansesem because they

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Free verse differs from blank verse because free verse

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An allegory is

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"Sweet sorrow" in "Parting is such sweet sorrow" is an example of

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A dramatic monologue is a poem in which

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The use of a formulaic opening such as "We do not really mean…" in Akan folktales serves to

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A frame narrative is

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In medias res means a story begins

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Peripeteia in tragedy refers to

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Anagnorisis in tragedy is the moment of

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Synaesthesia in poetry is

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Verisimilitude in fiction refers to

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"The pen is mightier than the sword" uses "pen" and "sword" as examples of

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Zeugma is a figure in which

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A deus ex machina is