This question is based on William Shakespeare's Hamlet.
Ghost serves to
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50 questionsThis question is based on William Shakespeare's Hamlet.
The king who is poisoned in the Garden in the play-within-the-play is
This question is based on Ayi Kwei Armah's Fragments.
Boateng describes the writers' studio as a place where
This question is based on Ayi Kwei Armah''s Fragments.
The Baako ultimately goes mad indicates that
This question is based on Ayi Kwei Armah's Fragments.
The message State Express 555 is an advertisement for
This question is based on Femi Ademiluyi''sThe New Man
In terms of religion, the people of Ipaja can be described as
This question is based on Femi Ademiluyi'sThe New Man
After listening to the soldiers' conversation, the convict decides to
This question is based on Femi Ademiluyi'sThe New Man
The tension generated at Ipaja and Iwuya early in the novel is a result of
This question is based on Thomas Hardy's
The theme of chance is graphically demonstrated by the
This question is based on Thomas Hardy's
Most of Tess'misery as a girl-mother comes from the thought of
This question is based on Thomas Hardy's
The death of Prince can be said to
This question is based on Thomas Hardy's
Tess of the d'Urbervilles
Angel Clare prefers Tess to Mercy Chant as a wife because she
'You are the cold nests
In which the migrant bird lays no eggs.'
Kittobbe: To the Childless
The device used in the excerpt above is
'... Not a few of us ended our application letters like this:. If you are kind enough to accommodate this humble application, Sir/Madam, I shall do my uttermost best to rendered you the greatest services which it is at my disposition to your best satisfactory. Yours obediently servant...'Yet without English, you had no education fit for a white collar job.'
Cameron Daodu: The Gab Boys
The tone of the passage above is
'I am jealous and passionate like Jehovah, God of the Jews;
J.P Clark: Olokun
A device used in the second line of the excerpt above is
This question is based on the Literary Appreciation.
'Your no-good pig, and here I am feeding him everyday letting him sleep in my house. I got a knife from the kitchen. I am going to kill that pig.'
Patricia Melo: The Killer
The speaker in the excerpt above is trying to
'On the broken walls,
Bats hang away from the sun
Shadows of an ancient stranger
Cast their presence over our shoulders
A pathway leads to the abandoned gate.'
Mazisi Kunene: The Fearful Ruin
The dominant mood in the excerpt above is that of
'For God's sake, let us sit upon the ground,
And tell sad stories of the death of kings;
How some have been deposed, some slain in war
Some haunted by the ghosts they have deposed
Some poisoned by their wives, some sleeping killed,
All murdered;
William Shakespeare:King Richard II
The subject matter of the speech above is
' 'O fleeting gleam of noon dream You incense my clothed cream!
Tony E. Afejuku: An Orchard of Wishes
The literary device used in the lines above is
'It was not the apple that tempted Eve, but this grapefruit; thus did maren revise the tale of Paradise Lost, and even Chris, shocked as he was at such blasphemy,confessed himself tempted to agree whenever maren returned from raiding the Principal's compound, with a shirtful of booty to share, especially on a hot afternoon.'
Wole Soyinka: Ibadan: The Penkelemes Years, A Memoir
The passage above achieves a mock-heroic effect through the use of