In ''Biodun did his best but was first from behind'', "first from behind'' is an example of
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99 questionsPick out the odd item
A short poem expressing intense emotions and usually sung is a/an
A piece of writing about oneself is a/an
Pick out the odd item
Poetry differs from prose by its use of
A play is watched by a/an
A seemingly absurd statement is a/an
The genres of Literature are
One of the following plays is based on the mistakes of a night
This question is based on Literary Appreciation.
'Lift not the painted veil which those who live call
life: though unreal shapes be pictured there,
And it but mimic all we would believe
With colours idly spread - behind, lurk fear,'
P.B Shelley, Sonnet.
The stanza above is an example of a
This question is based on Literary Appreciation.
'Careened,
These oily tears
Dripping down the tears on your depressed face,
Will one day be staunched,
I swear!
Ibiwari Ikiriko, Oily Tears
The tone of the poet is
The diction of Femi Osofisan's Morountodun can be described as
In Oswald Mtshali's 'Nightfall in Soweto', night
'The curfew tolls the knell of parting day,
The lowing herd wind slowly o'er the lea,
The plowman homeward plods his weary way;
And leaves the world to darkness and to me.'
In the lines above from Gray's 'Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard', the imagery is
John Keats' 'Ode on a Grecian Urn' expresses the idea that
In Rubadiri''s '' Stanley Meets Mutesa'', the poet portrays the hardship experienced by the explorer's party through
Browning's My Last Duchess apparently shows the Duke's
The major theme of Thomas Gray''s Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard'' is that death renders life
From the tone of Wole Soyinka's 'Telephone Conversation', the two persons talking hold each other in