Literature in English Past Questions

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....They do not see the funeral piles
At home eating up the forests..."

J.P. Clark:Casualties

The imagery created in the above excerpt is achieved through

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"The drums overwhelmed the guns..."

J.P Clark: Casualties

The poet in the excerpt above uses

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"Hide me now, when night children haunt the earth"
Wole Soyinka:Night

Night children in the stanza above reflects the consciousness of

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....How can i look at Oyo and say i
hate long shiny cars? How can i
come to the children and despise
international schools?
And Koomson comes, and the
family sees Jesus Christ in him....

The feeling conveyed by the speaker above is one of

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Unequal laws unto a savage race,
That board, and sleep, and feed....

The lines above show that the speaker

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The old man slept in his favourite chair
The wind ran its fingers through his hair
He looked like a tree gone dry of sap
And his hands were dry upon his lap

The rhyme scheme of the poem above is

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"What eyes will watch our large mouths
Shaped by the laughter of big children
What eyes will watch our large mouths?"

Birage Diop:Vanity

The tone of the lines above is one of

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O! Ceremony,show me but thy worth What is thy soul of adoration

The figure of speech in the lines above is

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The main aim of caricature is to

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The juxtaposition of two contrasting ideas in a line of poetry is

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A fable is a story in which

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A literary genre which directly imitates human action is

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A poet's use of regular rhythm is known as

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Drama is the representation of a complete series of actions by means of

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In the theatre, words spoken by a character that are meant to be heard by the audience but not by the other characters on stage is called

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In literary work, verbal irony refers to a

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Characterization in a novel refers to the

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A literary work in which the characters and events are used as symbols is known as