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JSS3 Second Term Test and Exam

                                                            Answer all the questions.

1) The protagonist is the ______________ (a) author (b) villain (c) hero (d) speaker

2) A chapter is to prose, so _____________   is to poetry. (a) Couplet (b) stanza (c) line (d) chorus

3) A humanous scene in a play intended to ease tension is ______________ (a) climax (b) tragic comedy (c) comedy (d) comic relief

4) An essential feature of drama is _______________ (a) soliloquy (b) conflict (c) irony (d) aside

5) A poem which celebrates simple country or rural life is _____________ (a) pastoral (b) dirge (c) an ode (d) an epic

6) A poem with fourteen lines is _____________ (a) an ode (b) sonnet (c) an epic (d) pastoral

7) A principal female character in a novel is called _____________ (a) actress (b) clown (c) hero (d) heroine

8) A literacy work that vividly portrays life can be described as _____________ (a) realistic (b) romantic (c) idealistic (d) sarcastic

9) A stanza of two lines is a _____________ (a) couplet (b) quintet (c) septet (d) quatrain

10) A story which explains a natural phenomenon or justifies the beliefs of a society is ______________ (a) myth (b) legend (c) motif (d) fable

Read the following poem and answer the questions

I wonder how long, you awful parasite shall share with me this little bed and make me from sweet dreams be lost by sucking blood from my poor head.

I should but say man has much blood, which you and your families do feed.

On, for supper, dinner, and lunch

And besides, you do in my bed breed.

Clever thou art, tiny creatures,

You attend me when I am deep asleep

When you art sure, I can’t you capture

Just at the time I snore deep.

Tis is strange that before twilight

The bed clear of you would seen;

For not one of you is in my sight

As if your presence was in dream

11) The subject of the poem is a ______________. (a) Mosquito (b) flea (c) bedbug (d) louse

12) Lines 1 and 2 of the second stanza illustrate the use of ________________ (a) caesura (b) metre (c) enjambment (d) ellipsis

13) The creature in the poem is best described as _____________ (a) clever (b) sluggish (c) awkward (d) tiny

14) The person’s mood is one of _____________ (a) Sarcasm (b) indifference (c) despair (d) joy

15) The device used in Tis is strange is _____________ (a) Assonance (b) alliteration (c) onomatopoeia (d) pun

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Model Unseen Poetry Passages

Wish I could still laugh with the lotus

On the bank of the Nile

Take off my clothes

And dive into Zambezi

Join spirit dances

In the middle of the ganges

Romp with the Rio

To the thunder of the samba

Fan the yangtze’s face

With the fan of the moon

Tease the thames

With a shoeless foot

Embrace the Volga

With open arms

Ask the Misisissipi

For a bowl of water

Alas, between cup and lip

An acre of wishes

16) What is the subject matter of the poem? (a) Africa rivers (b) pain (c) desires and wishes (d) rivers in the world

17) The expression _____________ thunder of the samba illustrate the use of ___________ (a) alliteration (b) simile (c) hyperbole (d) rhyme

18) In line 16, the use of the ellipsis denotes ____________ (a) happiness (b) love (c) omission (d) laughter

19) How many stanzas does this poem have? (a) 1 (b) 9 (c) 18 (d) 5

20) “Romp with the Rio” illustrates the use of ____________ (a) Alliteration (b) anaphora (c) metonymy (d) oxymoron

Theory For Literature Second Term Test and Examination for JSS3

1a) What is prose?

1b) Explain vividly five terminology used in prose

2a) What is a poetry?

2b) List ten types of poetry.

2c) List ten features of poetry and explain five.

3a) Define “Drama”

3b) Explain these terms

a) Protagonist

b) Play wright

c) Tragic flaw

d) Conflict

e) Plot

c) Enumerate five types of drama.

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