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Monometer is a
A final stanza of a poem that is shorter than the preceding one is called
Black theatre is a drama concerned with
That quality in a literal work which evokes tenderness, pity or sorrow is
'Emonewua: You it is who own me, and I speak by your permission. When I came home with my husband this morning, believing my mother was ill and
needed nursing, little knew I was walking into a house of ruin
J.P Clark-Bekederemo: The Boat
From the excerpt above, the speaker is
Caliph: ....... son, Open all your ears.
May Allah grant us the fortitude to accept his commands
.... Now the rest is my burden.
I am willing to accept Allah's
will in the matter.
The language of the speaker above is
And your laughter like a flame
piercing the shadows
Has revealed Africa to me beyond
the snow of yesterday.
From the poem above, shadow means
'Yet in their finger upon
Our navel
The midwives of the spirit say
They feel a foetal throb.'
The dominant literary device used in the extract above from Acquahs' In the Navel of the Soul is
These questions are based on General Literary Principles.
A play that mainly aims at provoking excessive laughter is called.
use the lines below to answer this question.
A cursing rogue with a merry farce,
A bundle of rags upon a crutch,
Stumbled upon that windy place
Called Cruachan, and it was as much
.
The rhyme scheme of the stanza above is
The theme of the poem is
The poem can be described as
These questions are based on Literary Appreciation
Don't panic. Be calm. If you are somehow upset... try to regain your exposure.
The speaker in the excerpt above is
What figure of speech is conveyed in the sentence below?
The booming of the gun.
These questions are based on Literary Appreciation
But the towering earth was tired sitting in one position . She moved, suddenly, and the houses crumbled, the mountains heaved horribly, and the work of a million years was lost.
The subject matter of the extract above is
These questions are based on Literary Appreciation
That age is best which is the first,
When youth and blood are warmer,
But being spent, the worse, and worst
Time still succeeds the former.
The rhyme scheme in the excerpt above is
These questions are based on Literary Appreciation
'That year the harvest was sad like a funeral and many farmers wept as they dug up the miserable yams. One man tied his clothes to a tree branch and hanged himself.
Chinua Achebe: Things Fall Apart.
The mood conveyed in the excerpt above is one of
Use the quotation below to answer this question.
Bash: You dumb skull of a bone head... you will face court martial for this.
You look everywhere? You search inside toilet bowl?
Wole Soyinka: King Baabu
From the tone of the speech above the speaker is obviously
What figure of speech is used in the expression below?
'I have been here a thousand times.'
These questions are based on General Literary Principles.
Satirical writing employs