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TRIALS ON ENGLISH LITERATURE ✍✍

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GHANAIAN LITERATURE
1.

Read the following extract carefully and answer Questions 5(a) to 5(c)
KEN SARO-WIWA: Home Sweet Home
"My friend, Sira, was Waale's only daughter. As I said, we had grown up together, and had attended school together. She had not been able to complete her elementary  schooling, although she was a brilliant girl."
(Page 181)
a)

Who is Waale?
b)

Sira could not complete her elementary schooling  because ......
c)

Sira was not among the people who came to welcome the writer because ......
Read the following extract carefully and answer Questions 5(d) and 5 (e).
AMA ATA AIDOO: The Girl Who Can
"They say that I was born in Hasodzi; and it is a very big village in the Central Region of our country, Ghana ......"
(Page 142)
d)

The extract is the ...... of the story.
e)

"They say that I was born ......" shows that ......
Read the following extract carefully and answer Questions 5(f) to 5(h).
AMA ATA AIDOO: The Dilemma of a Ghost
MONKA [To herself]: I remember the time he was preparing to go to the white man's land ......
 The money ...... the money ...... This is something which no one should hear anything about.
(Act 3, Page 56)
f)

According to Monka, one of the things no one should hear anything about is ......
g)

The extract is an example of a/an ......
h)

The money ...... the money ...... is an example of a literary device called ......
Read the following extract carefully and answer Questions 5(i) and 5(j).
EVELYN TOOLEY HUNT: Mama Is a Sunrise
When she comes slip-footing through the door,
she kindles us
like lump coal lighted
and we wake up glowing.
(Page 184)
i)

The extract brings out the theme of ......
j)

... she kindles us
like lump coal lighted ...
The dominant figure of speech in the lines above is ......

Solution
a)

Sira's mother/Mama's friend/Narrator's mother's friend/Narrator's friend's mother

b)

Her parents did not want the family to die off/Her parents wanted her to have children/to procreae

c)

She had left the town/She had to leave Dukana because she had given birth to twins/She had been banished/She was forced to travel/leave the village

d)

The prelude/beginning/introduction/setting/location/locale

e)

there is no birth certificate/the narrator's parents are illiterate/she is not sure of where she was born.

f)

a great part of the family land was sold/the oldest and most valuable family inheritance/property/heirloom/kente/gold ornaments were pawned.

g)

aside/monologue/soliloquy

h)

repetition

i)

Mother's love/comfort/Mother's comforting presence/hope/compassion/comfort/A caring mother/happiness/joy/excitement

j)

simile/alliteration

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