PARAGRAPH DEVELOPMENT

ACTIVITY 1
Paragraph 1 of an informal letter
Write a well- developed- paragraph 1 of a letter to your best friend inviting him to come spend the easter
vacation with you and you and your family. Write about three plans you have made to make it an
interesting celebration.
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ACTIVITY 2
Paragraph 1 of an informal letter
Write a well- developed- paragraph 1 of a letter to your uncle telling him of your future career choice
and some reasons why you think he should support you through school in order to achieve your aim.
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ACTIVITY 3
Paragraph 2 of an informal letter
Write a well- developed- paragraph 2 of a letter to your best friend inviting him to come spend the easter
vacation with you and you and your family. Write about three plans you have made to make it an
interesting celebration.

ACTIVITY 4
Paragraph 2 of an informal letter
Write a well- developed- paragraph 2 of a letter to your uncle telling him of your future career choice
and some reasons why you think he should support you through school in order to achieve your aim.

ACTIVITY 5
Paragraph 3 of an informal letter
Write a well- developed- paragraph 3 of a letter to your best friend inviting him to come spend the easter
vacation with you and you and your family. Write about three plans you have made to make it an
interesting celebration.

ACTIVITY 6
Paragraph 3 of an informal letter
Write a well- developed- paragraph 3 of a letter to your uncle telling him of your future career choice
and some reasons why you think he should support you through school in order to achieve your aim.

ACTIVITY 7
Paragraph 4 of an informal letter
Write a well- developed- paragraph 4 of a letter to your best friend inviting him to come spend the easter
vacation with you and you and your family. Write about three plans you have made to make it an
interesting celebration.

ACTIVITY 8
Paragraph 4 of an informal letter
Write a well- developed- paragraph 4 of a letter to your uncle telling him of your future career choice
and some reasons why you think he should support you through school in order to achieve your aim.

ACTIVITY 9
Paragraph 5 of an informal letter
Write a well- developed- paragraph 5 of a letter to your best friend inviting him to come spend the easter
vacation with you and you and your family. Write about three plans you have made to make it an
interesting celebration.

ACTIVITY 10
Paragraph 5 of an informal letter
Write a well- developed- paragraph 5 of a letter to your uncle telling him of your future career choice
and some reasons why you think he should support you through school in order to achieve your aim.

ACTIVITY 11
Informal letter
Write a well- developed letter to your best friend inviting him to come spend the easter vacation with you
and you and your family. Write about three plans you have made to make it an interesting celebration.
(Your essay shouldn’t be less than 450 words)

ACTIVITY 12
Informal letter
Write a well- developed letter to your uncle telling him of your future career choice and some reasons
why you think he should support you through school in order to achieve your aim. (Your essay shouldn’t
be less than 450 words)
DRAMA
1. Joshua came to make amends to all the 5. The mood of Speaker Y towards the
peasants in the community because they addressee is that of __________________
suffered the blunt of his mother’s wrath the a. Melancholy
most. How does Joshua make such b. Empathy
amends? c. Joy
a. By finding the third end of the rope d. Despair
b. By finding a job for himself 6. In Joshua’s first encounter with Duella,
c. By giving the peasants inspiration their conversation is filled
d. By marrying Duella with___________
a. Love
Speaker X: “She’s screaming again.
b. Antagonism
Take no notice, she always does that.
c. Compassion
You’d think she was an animal”.
d. Flattery
Speaker Y: “Had you not better find out 7. “People grow smaller and smaller into
what she wants? midgets”. The above extract
2. Speaker X is ____________________ exemplifies_____________
a. Sumako a. Oxymoron
b. Joshua b. Metaphor
c. Zekey c. Hyperbole
d. Benko d. Euphemism
3. Speaker Y is _____________
a. Attu “I like talking about myself because I am a
b. Sumako living museum.”
c. Joshua 8. The extract above
d. Duella exemplifies____________
4. Who is being talked about in the dialogue? a. Simile
a. Zekey’s wife b. Personification
b. Duella’s mother c. Metaphor
c. Madam Umbele d. Pun
d. Duella
9. ‘Living museum’ in the above extract 14. The play begins with
suggests that, the speaker______________ Duella_____________
a. Lived in a museum a. Waiting for Joshua
b. Has lived a life of royalty before b. Welcome Joshua
c. Understands the tradition of the c. Carrying a pail of water
peasants d. Going to fish
d. Has survived all the odds of life
breaking rules Speaker X: “There is only one woman who
“You look like a tramp to me” once did that. She raised an empire from
10. What literary device can be found in this little rooms and made men slave for her.
extract? Glad she is no more.”
a. Pun 15. Speaker X is ___________________
b. Simile a. Duella
c. Irony b. Benko
d. Metaphor c. Joshua
11. The Son of Umbele is an example of an d. Sumako
African________________ 16. Who was present when this utterance was
a. Tragicomedy made?
b. Comedy a. Joshua
c. Tragedy b. Benko
d. Mime c. Duella
12. Which of these characters raised an empire d. Zekey
from little rooms? 17. Who is being talked about?
a. Umbele a. Sumako’s wife
b. Joshua b. Madam Umbele
c. Sumako c. Duella
d. Duella d. Sumako
13. Why does Sumako stay at home while his 18. ‘glad she is no more’ best
children go fishing? exemplifies______________
a. He is lazy a. Pun
b. He is on retirement b. Litotes
c. He is old c. Euphemism
d. His children insists that he stays home d. Anaphora
19. Which of these characters howls like an 24. Which other character was present when
animal? these utterances was made?
a. Duella a. Benko
b. Sunsumbone b. Sumako
c. Sumako’s wife c. Attu
d. Attu d. Joshua
20. Which of these is Joshua’s only identity? 25. According to Sumako, the first man to
a. His sack make a woman of Duella will__________
b. His bag a. Break her curse
c. His mother’s mask b. Find success
d. His name c. Find destruction
Speaker X: “you’re just a contemptuous d. Marry her
upstart. You!” 26. Which of these best describes explains why
Speaker Y: “oh father, isn’t that a horrid Duella is still unmarried?
thing to say to a stranger?” a. Her age
21. Speaker X and Y b. The high bride price demanded by
are____________________ respectively. Sumako
a. Sumako and Benko c. Her wild nature
b. Duella and Sumako d. She got a curse on her head
c. Sumako and Zekey Speaker X: “The good man Sumako
d. Sumako and Duella The ocean does his will
22. The mood of speaker X is that Has always been that way
of_____________ To this very day”
a. Blissfulness 27. What is the dominant literary device in this
b. Anger extract?
c. Indifference a. Oxymoron
d. Sadness b. Symbolism
23. Stranger in this extract makes reference c. Personification
to____________ d. Antithesis
a. Umbele 28. Speaker X refers to the___________
b. The prince a. Fishermen
c. Joshua b. Peasant women
d. The hunter c. Hunters
 d. Slaves Speaker X: “I never thought Sumako was
29. Speaker X praises Sumako in order such a clown. See who he has got to bring
to____________ harmony into this house.”
a. Fool him
Speaker Y: “what’s so amusing about
b. Pay less for the fish they buy
that?”
c. Catch his attention
d. Be favoured by him. 34. Who is speaker X?

30. Which of these characters is well known a. Benko

for making a tune of everything? b. Attu

a. Attu c. Duella

b. Zekey d. Sumako’s wife

c. Joshua 35. Speaker Y is________________

d. Benko a. Duella

Speaker X: If only Duella doesn’t go b. Zekey

sneezing on the boats bringing bad luck to c. Attu

us. d. Joshua

31. Speaker X is_____________ Speaker X: “you’ll destroy him.”

a. Sumako Speaker Y: “as if you care, let me tell you,

b. Benko he’s indestructible

c. Attu 36. Speaker X and Y are_____________

d. Zekey a. Benko and Joshua

32. What is the dominant literary device in this b. Benko and Sumako

extract? c. Benko and Duella

a. Consonance d. Attu and Zekey

b. Alliteration Read the following extract and answer

c. Onomatopoeia question 37- 39.

d. Pun ….. I carry it wherever I go. See that? See?

33. Speaker X made this utterance using the It makes you shiver, makes your blood run

words of_________ cold. It makes you nervous, make your feet

a. Attu wobble; doesn’t it, huh?

b. Benko 37. The speaker is ____________

c. Sumako a. Sumako

d. Joshua b. Benko
 c. Joshua b. Zekey
d. Duella c. Sumako
38. The thing being described is__________ d. Joshua
a. The speaker’s mother’s mask 43. There is a new mouth to feed is a good
b. The addressee’s mother’s mask example of___________
c. The speaker’s gun a. Euphemism
d. The speaker’s fishing net b. Synecdoche
39. The reaction of the addressee shows c. Metaphor
his__________ the speaker d. Metonymy
a. Love for Read the following extract and answer 44-
b. Loyalty to 46.
c. Hatred for If you ever meet a soul in the wilderness
d. Suspicion of tuned to music please do not pass by, it
belongs to my brother.
Read the following extract and answer 40 –
44. What has just happened to my brother?
43.
A. He has lost his gun.
…… I said I’m not hungry, don’t you B. He has been bitten by a snake
understand that? There is a new mouth to C. He has lost his mother
feed so why should you bother about me? D. He has lost his woman
40. The mood of the speaker is that 45. The person referred to as my brother in the
of_____________ extract is______________
a. Loneliness a. Zekey
b. Sadness b. Joshua
c. Anger c. Attu
d. Indifference d. Benko
41. What put the speaker into such mood? 46. The above speech is____________
The__________ a. An aside
a. disappointment at fishing b. An apostrophe
b. death of his woman c. A soliloquy
c. sickness of his mother d. A duologue
d. arrival of one from the city. 47. Which of these does Joshua consider a
42. The new mouth to feed is____________ cheap way to living?
a. Benko a. Living among peasants
 b. The fishing occupation 50. He rages inside and smoulders like a
c. Living under pretence volcano. This sentence
d. Living in poverty exemplifies_________
48. What was the mood of Attu when he heard a. Oxymoron
that Joshua is the son of Umbele? b. Simile
a. Bliss c. Metaphor
b. Shock d. Personification
c. Anger
d. Surprise
…….He was born of thunder. He rages
inside and smoulders like a volcano. You’d
think he was the son of fury.
49. Who was being talked about?
a. Sumako
b. Joshua
c. Benko
d. Attu
 6. What course had Steve been studying in
PROSE the UK?
a. Electrical Engineering
b. Theatre Arts
1. Girls who travel from North to South
c. Photography and Film
usually return home for____________
d. Anthropology
a. Millet harvest
b. Groundnut harvest Read the extract below and answer question 7 and
c. Puberty rites 8.
d. Ramadan She was wearing a fitted, white satin top with a
2. Abena gains admission to the university of flowing skirt in the local blue and white print
Ghana to study BA degree in__________ cloth.
a. Sociology
7. Which of the senses is evoked in the
b. Linguistics
expression above?
c. English
a. Smell
d. Political Science
b. Taste
3. Faiza and Abena had been separated
c. Hearing
for_______
d. Sight
a. 5 years
8. Who does ‘she’ refer to in the expression
b. 10 years
above?
c. 15 years
a. Roberta Fosu
d. 20 years
b. Miss Faraday
4. The name Faiza means all the following
c. Dr. Mohammed
except___________
d. Helena Owusu
a. Victorious
9. Abena has plans to study further in______
b. Successful woman
a. Medicine
c. Winner
b. Surgery
d. Brilliant
c. Tropical Anthropology
5. “You don’t have to be a Muslim to have an
d. Journalism
Arabic name”. Who is the speaker?
10. I lay back feeling like a limp rag. What
a. Steve
literary devices are contained in this
b. Abena
expression?
c. Mike
a. Metaphor and personification
d. Faiza
 b. Alliteration and simile 16. One of the following is not a theme
c. Simile and euphemism explored in the story?
d. Personification and alliteration a. Marriage
11. Faiza went to secondary school in _______ b. Culture
a. Tamale c. Unconditional love
b. Tolon d. Politics
c. Yendi 17. Faiza does not want to marry in America
d. Kumasi because_____________
12. __________arranged for Faiza to do her a. She does not like the weather
locum at Abena’s father’s hospital. b. She does not want to marry a foreigner
a. Abena’s father c. She does not want to like there
b. Dr. Ampiah d. She is an African
c. Abena 18. Who is the speaker in “your father is a
d. Miss Faraday village boy too?”
13. “Every good lace needs a good gele” This a. Abena’s mother
expression illustrates_____________ b. Abena’s father
a. Synecdoche c. Mike
b. Hyperbole d. Abena
c. Irony
Read the following extract and answer questions
d. Alliteration
19 to 21.
14. Which of the following statements is not
true? …… I knew she was puzzled that I should prefer

a. Asana will soon open a boutique in Faiza’s company to hers especially when we were

Tolon a family in a way. She called me broni although I

b. Asana visited Aunty Lydia’s shop. darker- skinned than her, to show that she did not

c. Abena finally marries Mike consider someone as privileged as myself a true

d. Abena finally marries Steve Ghanaian.

15. Mike and Steve invite Abena and Faiza to 19. The she in the extract refers to________
a/an__________ a. Gifty
a. cocktail party b. Rakiya
b. tea party c. Asana
c. dancing party d. Abena
d. ice- cream party
 20. The speaker is__________ c. Running away to Accra
a. Auntie Lydia d. Stopping a marriage
b. Gifty
Read the following extract and answer questions
c. Auntie Omotola
25- 28
d. Abena
21. Which literary device is used in the “It’s been ages,” he continued, “Mike told me

underlined expression in the extract? you were here that he had discovered you after

a. Alliteration your unceremonious disappearance from the

b. Irony market.

c. Euphemism 25. The adverb here in the extract refers to___

d. Assonance a. University of Ghana, Legon

Read the following extract and answer 22- 24 b. Auntie Omotola’s shop
c. Makola market
“Stop it” I said grabbing the knife from her
d. Aunite Lydia’s shop
and returning it to the basket in which
26. Mohammed is also known as_________
Auntie kept her cooking utensils. “How
a. Faiza
can you even think of such a thing?”
b. Asana
22. The one being addressed is__________
c. Steve
a. Gifty
d. Abena
b. Faiza
27. It’s been ages illustrates___________
c. Mike
a. Paradox
d. Asana
b. Personification
23. Why does the addressee want to do what
c. Hyperbole
he/ she is being prevented from doing? He/
d. Metaphor
She_________________
28. The you in the extract refers to__________
a. Does not want to be married off
a. Malik
b. Wants to show bravery
b. Stephen
c. Hates the speaker’s friend
c. Abena
d. Has been accused falsely of stealing
d. Faiza
money
29. The story begins in ______________
24. What does such a thing refer to?
a. Tolon
a. Harming a friend
b. Makola market
b. Killing yourself
c. Kejetia market
 d. The hospital c. Shoprite
30. What is the name written on Auntie d. Lovers joint
Lydia’s shop? 36. How much was Faiza accused of stealing
a. Lydia’s fashion from Aunty Lydia?
b. Lydia’s beauty home a. ¢100
c. Lydia’s palace b. ¢200
d. Lydia’s fashion c. ¢50
31. Who owns the biggest tailoring shop in d. ¢1000
Tolon? 37. Which of these is a major theme in the
a. Auntie Fatima novel?
b. Alhaji Brown Tetteh a. Admiration
c. Sister Rakia b. Communal love
d. Asana c. Marriage
32. Who is the narrator of the story? d. Religion
a. Mamle Wolo 38. What was the main reason why Alhaji
b. Faiza Brown Teeth wanted a new bride?
c. Abena a. To show he is rich
d. Asana b. To celebrate his return from Mecca
33. How old was Faiza when she set out to c. To prove his manliness
look for Asana? d. To display generosity
a. 10 39. According to the novel, women in Tolon
b. 12 take pride in__________
c. 13 a. Having many children
d. 18 b. Feeding their families
34. Why was Asana not given to her aunt? c. Possessing many pots and pans
a. She is a twin d. Rich suitors
b. Her father is very powerful 40. ‘nyama- nyama as used in the novel means
c. Her aunt died before she was born ________
d. She was dear to her mother a. Cheap
35. Mike and Stephen invited Abena and Faiza b. Classless
for an ice- cream at_____________ c. Worthless
a. Melcom d. Fake
b. Milly’s