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One of the following terms applies to the discussion of both tragedy and comedy:
"That year, the harvest was sad, like a funeral, and many farmers wept as they dug up the miserable yams. One man tied his cloth to a tree branch and hanged himself".
The mood conveyed here is one of
An image in poetry usually gives a clue to one of the following:
Point out the odd item:
Another shoal of cars swam past. One in particular caught his eye, a long slender thing, elegant as a swallow, all gleaming blue and silver, a thousand guineas it would have cost, he thought.
In the first sentence, cars are described in terms of
The Comstocks belonged to the most dismal of all classes, the middle-middle class, the landless gentry. In their miserable poverty, they had not even the snobbish consolation of regarding themselves as an 'old' family fallen on evil days.....
This writer's tone is
You cannot know
And should not bother;
Tide and market come and go
And so shall your mother.
In this verse, the poet uses
If we describe Kossoh Town Boy as an autobiography,we mean that it is
In 'The Flight to Australia' the following line occurs:'Tier upon tier it towered,the terrible Apennines' The figure of speech used in this line is known as
In 'The Castle' Muir writes:Our only enemy was gold'! This is true because
In T.S Elliot's 'Journey of the Magi' the old choirmaster could not be buried in the manner he wished because he unfortunately died
In 'The Duel' Thomas ends his narrative
In 'I Will Pronounce Your Name'Senghor writes:'Naett that is the dry tornado,the clap of lightening'.
The figure of speech used in the above line is
The language of David Diop's 'Africa' suggests
In one of the three jugs
The three jugs were on certain evenings to return the tranquil souls,
the breaths of the ancestors,
The ancestors who were men,
The ancestors who were sages,
Mother has dipped three fingers
three fingers of her left hand:
thumb, forefinger and middle finger
I have dipped three fingers
Three fingers of my right hand:
thumb, forefinger and middle finger.
(From "Viaticum"by B. Diop)
In this poem, the repetitive pattern suggests
Dinny,Lippy,Steepy and Fatty are characters in
In 'Fulani Cattle' J.P Clark expresses
Essentially, plays are meant
Romeo and Juliet is a tragedy because