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This question is based on Literary Appreciation.
Willy's first words show that his coming back is
This question is based on Literary Appreciation.
Linda's words above express a feeling of
This question is based on Literary Appreciation.
Africa my Africa of proud warriors in ancestral savannahs...
I have never known you but your blood flows in my veins
Your beautiful black blood that irrigates the fields....
David Diop, "Africa"
In the lines above, Diop uses
This question is based on Literary Appreciation.
'Thus; quixoting till a cast-off of my land I sing and fare, person to loved-one pressed braced for this pressure and the captor's hand that snaps off service like a weathered strand...'
Dennis Brutus 'A Troubadour I Traverse'
In the lines above, the poet-persona expresses
This question is based on Literary Appreciation.
'Those who have nothing but guns for the hungry and think of nothing but death and dying let them spend our earth's fortune harvesting blood from the fields of war. The last banquet shall be their children's blood.
Kofi Anyidoho, "Blood Harvest"
The stanza above succinctly presents the
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'In Umuaro it is not our custom to refuse a call, although we may refuse to do what the caller asks. Ezeulu does not want to refuse the white man's call and so he is sending his son!'
Chinua Achebe, Arrow of God
The lines above illustrate the use of
This question is based on Literary Appreciation.
'He would hear the heavy uneven breathing of the child. It was as if she were carrying a weight with great effort up a long hill...He prayed again ''Father, look after her. Give her peace...Take away my peace forever, but give her peace''
Graham Greene, The Heart of the Matter.
The man's reactions to the presence of the dying child show that he is
This question is based on General Literary Principles.
Lineation refers to
This question is based on General Literary Principles.
Mock-heroic poetry elevates
This question is based on General Literary Principles.
Using the name of one thing for something else with which it is closely associated is an instance of
This question is based on General Literary Principles.
The term given to a type of incident or device which recurs frequently in Literature is
This question is based on General Literary Principles.
A novel which focuses on the adventures of a rogue who does not change much in the course of the story is
This question is based on General Literary Principles.
A trilogy is the
This question is based on General Literary Principles.
A primary ballad is associated with
This question is based on General Literary Principles.
The narrator in a prose work who is also a character is
This question is based on General Literary Principles.
A panegyric poem is composed to
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A character who does not develop or experience change in the course of his or her existence in a novel is a
This question is based on General Literary Principles.
The figure of speech in which a character makes a statement that has or would have deep and serious implications in the play is
This question is based on General Literary Principles.
The term for the moral flaw or weakness that leads to the downfall of a major character in drama is
This question is based on selected poems from Ker, D. et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa; Soyinka, W. (ed.): Poems of Black African; Senanu, K.E. and Vincent, T.(ds.): A Selection of African Poetry; Umukoro, M. et al (eds.); Exam Focus: Literature-in-English; Eruvbetine, A.E. et al (eds.) Longman Examination Guides and Nwoga, D.I. (ed.):West African Verse
In "Ode on a Grecian Urn," John Keats is concerned with