22 reviewed questions with answers and explanations.
Practice selection: full-paper coverage has not been confirmed.
What is the central setting of Frank Ogodo Ogbeche’s Harvest of Corruption?
D: Jabu
The principal action of Harvest of Corruption takes place in the fictional city of Jabu. Specific venues such as the hotel belong within the play’s wider setting and do not replace the city as its central location.
AI-reviewed · source checkedIn Harvest of Corruption, which of these crimes involves Chief Ade-Amaka?
C: Smuggling
Chief Ade-Amaka uses his position to facilitate illicit drug movement. Smuggling is therefore the listed offence supported by his activities; the other choices describe different kinds of wrongdoing.
AI-reviewed · source checked“Ill-starred wench, pale as thy smock, / When we shall meet at compt.” — Shakespeare, Othello.
Which device appears in pale as thy smock?
A: Simile
Pale as thy smock compares the woman’s pallor with her clothing using as. This explicit comparison is a simile rather than a direct metaphor or a play on word meanings.
AI-reviewed · source checkedIn Othello, which prejudice helps explain Brabantio’s opposition to his daughter’s marriage?
B: Othello is a Moor
Brabantio’s objections express prejudice against Othello as a Moor and disbelief that Desdemona freely chose him. The play exposes this prejudice through Brabantio’s accusations of enchantment.
AI-reviewed · source checked“O heaven! How got she out? O treason of the blood! / Fathers, from hence trust not your daughters’ minds / By what you see them act.—Is there not charms / By which the property of youth and maidhood / May be abused?” — Othello.
Who speaks the quoted words?
A: Brabantio
Brabantio speaks after discovering Desdemona has left to marry Othello. His alarm about daughters deceiving their fathers and his suspicion of charms identify him as the speaker.
AI-reviewed · source checkedIn Amma Darko’s Faceless, what is the name of Kabria’s husband?
C: Adade
Adade is Kabria’s husband in Faceless. Kwei and Kpakpo belong to Maa Tsuru’s relationships, while Ottu is a child in Kabria’s family, so these names do not identify her husband.
AI-reviewed · source checked“She was both a child and an adult and could act like both.” Which character is described in Amma Darko’s Faceless?
A: Fofo
Fofo is still a young teenager, but life on the streets has forced her to develop adult survival habits. The description captures the contrast between her age and the behaviour imposed by her circumstances.
AI-reviewed · source checkedAmma Darko, author of Faceless, is from which country?
C: Ghana
Amma Darko is a Ghanaian novelist. Her participation profile at the University of Iowa identifies Ghana as her country; Germany is associated with a period of residence rather than her nationality.
AI-reviewed · source checkedIn Bayo Adebowale’s Lonely Days, who is Yaremi’s only son?
A: Alani
Alani is Yaremi’s son in Lonely Days. Wande is connected to Segi’s household, Deyo is an older family friend, and Olode is a place, so they do not identify Yaremi’s son.
AI-reviewed · source checkedIn Richard Wright’s Native Son, who is Mary Dalton’s boyfriend?
A: Jan Erlone
Mary Dalton’s boyfriend is Jan Erlone. Bigger works for the Dalton family, while Buckley and Max have legal roles in the story; none of them is the boyfriend named in this relationship.
AI-reviewed · source checkedWhich is one of the themes of William Morris’s The Proud King?
A: arrogance
The king becomes so proud that he treats himself as more than human. His humiliation and eventual humility expose the danger of arrogance, which is central to the poem’s moral movement.
AI-reviewed · source checked'The panic Of growing older Spreads fluttering wings from year to year' The dominant figure of speech in the lines above from Peters' The Panic of Growing Older is
Which figure of speech presents panic as a winged creature?
B: metaphor
Panic is imagined as a winged creature that spreads its wings. This transfers the qualities of a bird to an abstract feeling, creating a metaphor rather than specifically a human action.
AI-reviewed · source checkedKofi Awoonor is a poet from
C: Ghana
Kofi Awoonor was a Ghanaian poet associated with Ewe traditions. Kenya is where he died, which should not be confused with his country of origin.
AI-reviewed · source checked(1) But such a tide as moving seems asleep, / (2) Too full for sound and foam, / (3) When that which drew from out the boundless deep / (4) Turns again home. — Tennyson, Crossing the Bar.
What is the rhyme scheme of these four lines?
B: abab
Asleep and deep rhyme in the first and third lines, while foam and home link the second and fourth. Alternating those sounds gives the rhyme pattern ABAB.
AI-reviewed · source checked“blue Peter on empty ships / all peters with petered out desires.” — Adeoti, Ambush.
What state is suggested by petered out desires?
A: disappointed
Petered out means dwindled or exhausted. Desires that have petered out therefore suggest disappointed hopes, rather than successful ambition or evidence of laziness.
AI-reviewed · source checkedAn art that is both literary and theatrical is
C: drama
Drama exists as a written literary text and as a work enacted in performance. That combination of writing and theatre distinguishes it from the other listed forms.
AI-reviewed · source checkedThe continuation of meaning without pause, from one line to the next is
A: enjambment
Enjambment carries a sentence or phrase across a verse line break without a full syntactic pause. It concerns the relation between sentence structure and lineation.
AI-reviewed · source checkedIn literary criticism, the vocabulary or language used by a writer is generally known as
B: diction
Diction refers to a writer’s choice and use of words. Rhythm concerns patterned movement or sound, while a figure of speech is a particular figurative expression.
AI-reviewed · source checkedWeep not child, weep not my darling, With these kisses, let me remove your tears The ravening clouds shall no longer be victorious They shall no longer possess the sky ...The speaker of the lines is
What outlook does the speaker express?
B: optimistic
The speaker comforts the child and predicts that threatening clouds will lose their power. This expectation of improvement expresses optimism rather than helplessness or indifference.
AI-reviewed · source checked`... for my purpose holds To sail beyond the sunset and the baths; of all the western stars, until I die.'Tennyson: Ulysses. From the excerpt above, the persona does not intend to
What does the speaker not intend to do?
B: stop travelling
The speaker resolves to continue sailing until death, so he does not intend to stop travelling. The reference to death sets the limit of his resolve rather than expressing a refusal to die.
AI-reviewed · source checked'And my children left their peaceful nakedness for the uniform of iron and blood.' David Diop: Loser of Everything. In the lines above, the imagery depicts a displacement of
What change does the imagery depict?
C: innocence by violence
Peaceful nakedness suggests innocence, while iron and blood evoke weapons and violence. The contrast therefore moves from an innocent state into violent conflict.
AI-reviewed · source checked'Now we have come to you, And are amazed to find Those you have loved and respected Mock you to your face.' Kwesi Braw: Lest we should Be The Last The lines above convey the feeling of
Which feeling do the words convey?
C: Disappointment
Finding mockery from people once loved and respected reverses an expectation of loyalty. The resulting feeling is disappointment, rather than satisfaction or hope.
AI-reviewed · source checked