Literature in English Past Questions

This question is based on Literary Appreciation.

If the Earth were mortal

Where would the flower live?

If you left the Earth

What would happen to beauty?

The poet's tone above can be described as

This question is based on Literary Appreciation.

'Today's my last day here. I'm done banging my head against the glass ceiling. They think I don't know why they really hired me. They're talking to dad behind my back. Begging for favours. Work permit renewals. Licences. Tax and duty waivers. Contracts and tenders

Ken Kamoche: A fragile Hope

The technique employed in narrating the excerpt above is

This question is based on Literary Appreciation.

'My heart leaps up when I behold

A rain in the sky:

So was it when my life began;or

Let me die!

The Child is the father of the man;

And I could wish my day to be

Bound each to each by natural piety.'

William Wordsworth: My heart leaps up when I behold

The expression 'The child is the father of the man' in the poem above is an example of

This question is based on Literary Appreciation.
Sweet smile in time of snarl gives pride in spite of sneer sing, rid this world of despair and save a snared heart from cascading stream of strife.

The dominant rhetorical device in the excerpt above is

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'An unlucky creation

His mother, a streetwalker;

His lying father,

A champion at producing bastards.'

B.S.: Tibenderana: The Bastard

The subject of the poem above is

This question is based on Literary Appreciation.

Life, though a vanity

Yet, not purposeful in drawing resignation

Life's spice is in strife

From the extract above, the poet suggests that

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'She even thinks that up in heaven

Her class lies late and shores

While poor black cherubs rise at seven

To do celestial chores.'

Countee Cullen: For a Lady I Know

The tone of the poem above is

The subject matter of the passage is

The depicted image is one of

This question is based on Literary Appreciation.

'You do not have to be brutal to be a soldier, or rather you are brutal not because you are a soldier, but because there is a murderer in you who is waiting for war and army uniforms to give them expression.'

Festus lyayi:Heroes

The speaker here contends that

This question is based on General Literary Principles.

A figurative device in which a statement is made and then withdrawn is referred to as

This question is based on General Literary Principles.
A short narrative or lyrical poem intended to be sung is a

This question is based on General Literary Principles.
Limerick is a light verse which consist of five lines that are

This question is based on General Literary Principles.
A long story narrating a series of complicated events is called a