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Cdoes not deal with the causes of natural phenomena
Dteaches us how to contemplate
Edoes not teaches us how to contemplate
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Question 12
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The dominant rhetorical device used in the poem is
Aapostrophe
Bpersonification
Cmetonymy
Dsynecdoche
Esimile.
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Question 13
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'And now the bells are chiming
A year is born
'And my heart bell is ringing
in a dawn'
The writer of these words is in a state of
Aexuberance
Bdejection
Cdespair
Djoyful hope
Edismal sorrow.
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Question 14
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He would like some good Fufu, but without a lot of meat, street Fufu is miserable food, and with meat the cost will crucify a man completely.
The man in this passage is obviously
Aa rich man
Ba poor man
Can ignorant man
Da rich ignorant man
Ea poor unthinking man
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Question 15
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'But it has been from the first her great mistake to meet him, marry him, to love him as she so bitterly had. Looking at his face, it sometimes came to her that all women had been cursed from the cradle: all, in one fashion or another, being given the same cruel destiny, born to suffer the weight of men'.
The sentiment expressed here about the curse on women is
Athat of the writer of the passage
Bthat of the lady in the passage
Cthat of the lady's parent
Dthat of everybody everywhere
Ethat of unnamed person.
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Question 16
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'Cheers!' said koomson. he looked ready to add something as he raised his glass, but the high voice of his wife cut the air to pieces.
'This local beer,'she was saying, 'does agree with my constitution.'
'And what sort of constitution is it that you have?'asked the man from his isolated place.
What the writer feels for or toward the woman in his passage is
Alove
Bsympathetic understanding
Ccontempt
Drespect
Edifference.
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Question 17
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'Was it so hard, Achilles,
So very hard to die?
Thou knowest and i know not-
So much the happier am i'
This verse is taken from a poem written by a soldier at the battle-front. He clearly sees dying in battle as
Aglorious
Bpatriotic
Cbrave and desirable
Da good experience
Ehe may be brave but undesirable.
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Question 18
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'He glanced at his bitten nails, and with his chin resting on his knees, said, 'well, i ask them to let me go below to visit my pa in the cell. they feel sorry for me, and say its okay. So i go down to see him, this man what made my ma's life a misery like hell, and who never had a word for me, and did nothing but give me the belt'.
From what he says, the kid in this passage
Aloves his father
Bdislikes his father
Cdisowns his father
Dfeels sorry for his father
Eis proud of his father.
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Question 19
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'But now as he climbed the steep path leading to his home, his courage started to lag behind. His conscience lagged behind. His weak body and hungry stomach pushed him expectantly up the path towards home, where rest and satisfaction awaited him...'
The literary device predominantly used in this passage is
Ahendiadys
Bonomatopoeia
Cmetonymy
Dsimile
Epersonification.
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Question 20
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So fair fancy few would weave
In these years!
The poetic device consciously used here is
Apersonification
Bapostrophe
Calliteration
Doxymoron
Esimile.
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Question 21
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'Dead leaves blew into the room.
And alighted upon my bed.
Ans a tree declared to the gloom
Its sorrow that they were shed'
The mood registered in these lines is
Aexcitement
Bdepression
Cgaiety
Dhappiness
Epersimism
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Question 22
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'Folk all fade. And whither.
As i wait alone where the fair was?
Into the clammy and numbing night fog
Whence they entered hither
Soon one more goes thither!
In these lines, 'the clammy and numbing night fog' (line3) refers to
Aa night in the poet's life
Bunpleasant weather conditions
Clife's problem and misfortunes
Dthe state before birth and after death
Edarkness after sunset
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Question 23
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'He sat down on a box. he took out letter he had received from Joseph the other Friday and read it again. Then he put it back. A tear, a single tear, ran down his face. he rubbed it off, rather impatiently. he poured water, cold water from a cup, into one hand and washed his face.
He was suddenly very lucid, calm inside'.
What makes this scene taken from a novel very real to the reader is the writer's use of
Aimagery
Bsimile
Cdetails
Duncommon words
Emetaphor
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Question 24
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In Mine Boy Peter Abraham's is of the view that in South Africa
Aa black and white should live and develop separately
Bracial harmony is desirable and possible
Cblack should never cooperate with white
Dracial harmony is merewishful thinking
Ethe conflict between black and white can never end.
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Question 25
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Keats' 'Ode to a Nightingale' is a romantic poem because
Ait depends a great deal on the poet's spontaneous response to beauty
Bit is a poem about love
Cnightingale symbolizes love
Dit was addressed to one of Keats' friends called Nightingale
EKeats first described the poem as a romantic poem.
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Question 26
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In Oswald Mtshali's 'nightfall in Soweto', Night represents
Athe oppression of whites by the Africans
Bwhite people's fear by the Africans
Cthe black victimization of white people
Dthe oppression of the Africans by the white people
Ethe rebelion of the white people
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Question 27
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In The Marriage of Anansewa, to which character
do the following praise-names refer?
'Oh Mighty-Tree-of-Ancient-Origin
Mighty-Tree-of-Ancient-Origin
Rooted in the shrine of deity
Countless branches in which
Benighted wandering birds
Are welcome to shelter'
ATogbe Klu IV
BChief of the Mines
CChief-Who-Is-Chief
DChief of Sapa
Eproperty Man.
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Question 28
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The subject of 'If You Should Know Me' by Oswald Mtshali is that the
Ablacks should create a new image for themselves
Bblacks should get ajusted to the image the whites have created for them
Cwhites should know the blacks very well
Dwhites should deal with the uncompromising blacks
Eblacks should always be law abiding
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Question 29
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Which character does NOT fit into the group?
ACorin
BSilvius
CWilliam
DYoung Siward
EAudrey.
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Question 30
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Which character made the following statement in Macbeth?:
This castle hath a pleasant seat, the air Nimbly and sweetly recommends itself
Unto our gentle senses'
