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Carrangement of words placing two opposite phrases Answer
Dplacing two opposite phrases
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Question 42
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This question is based on selected poems from Johnson, R. et ai (eds): New Poetry African: Soyinka W. (ed): Poems of Black Africa; Senanu, K.E. and Vincent. T. (eds): A Selection of African Poetry, U. Maduka, C. T et al: Exam Focus: Literature in English: Eruvbetine, A. E. et al (eds): Longman Examination Guides: Nwoga D. I. (ed): West African verse and Adeoti G: Naked Soles.
The excerpt below from Marvell's To His Coy Mistress is an example of
The literacy devices used in the lines 'Pataki and Mustard flowers like blue and yellow eyes peep through the green grass' are________from Mohan Singh's 'A Village Girl'
Aalliteration and assonance
Bsimile and personification
Crepetition and alliteration
Drhyme and rhythm
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Question 43
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The use of sound pattern to suggest meaning in poetry is
Alyric
Blullaby
Cmimic
Drhythm
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Question 44
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Narrative poem indicates that the poet is attempting to
Apreach a sermon
Btell a story
Csummarize a story
Ddescribe a place
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Question 45
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Sweet smile in time of snarl
gives pride in spite of sneer
sing, rid this world of despair
and save, a snared heart from
cascading stream of strife
The dominant rhetorical device in the excerpt above is
Arhyme
Balliteration
Cchiasmus
Donomatopoeia
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Question 46
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Travelogue is a work of art written
Aby a famous playwright
Bbefore the death of the author
Cby an unpopular novelist
Don a journey
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Question 47
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Plays are basically meant to be
Apresented on stage
Bpresented in the aircraft
Cpresented in an office
Dpresented in the hospital
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Question 48
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This question is based on Literary Appreciation.
In Williams Shakespeare: Twelfth Night
I have said too much unto a heart of stone,
And laid my honour too unchary on it',
There's something in me that
reproves my fault. But such a headstrong potent fault it is That it but mocks reproof.'
A heart of stone in the lines above is an example of
Aassonance
BMetaphor
CLitotes
Dantonym
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Question 49
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This question is based on General literacy principles
A literary work in which the characters and events are used as symbol is known as
Acharacterization
Ballegory
Cmetaphor
Dparallelism
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Question 50
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Use the passage below to answer this question.
'But the towering earth was tired of sitting in one position.
She moved, suddenly, and the houses crumbled, the mountains
heaved horribly, and the work of million years was lost'.
The subject matter of the passage is
Aearthquake
Bdemolition
Cflood
Dstorm
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Question 51
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This question is based on selected poems from Johnson, R. et ai (eds): New Poetry African: Soyinka W. (ed): Poems of Black Africa; Senanu, K.E. and Vincent. T. (eds): A Selection of African Poetry, U. Maduka, C. T et al: Exam Focus: Literature in English: Eruvbetine, A. E. et al (eds): Longman Examination Guides: Nwoga D. I. (ed): West African verse and Adeoti G: Naked Soles.
The excerpt below from Marvell's To His Coy Mistress is an example of
The figure of speech in the line below from Acquah's In the Navel of the Soul is 'We would be believing we dreamt it'
Aassonance
Bantithesis
Capostrophe
Dalliteration
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Question 52
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This question is based on Literary Appreciation.
The imagery created in the excerpt below is achieved through
'........They do not see the funeral piles
At home eating up the forests.......'
_ _ J.P. -Clark: Casualties
Ametaphor
Bpersonification
Csynecdoche
Dantonym
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Question 53
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This question is based on Literary Appreciation.
A cursing rogue with a merry farce,
A bundle of rags upon a crurch,
Stumbled upon that windy place
Called cruachan, and it was as much.
The rhyme scheme of the stanza above is
Aaabb
Babab
Cbbaa
Dabba
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Question 54
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A significant of a whole through its significant part is
Aallegory
Bpun
Csynecdoche
Dcast
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Question 55
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In drama, the use of gestures to communicate is known as
Amime
Brealistic drama
Cmelodrama
Ddialogue
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Question 56
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A speech or writing used to praise a person or a thing for past or present deeds is
Aeulogy
Bsynecdoche
Cepigram
Depilogue
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Question 57
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This question is based on General literacy principles
In literacy work, verbal irony refers to a
Adevice in which the speaker means the opposite of what he says
Bsituation in which a character speaks or acts against the trends of events
Cdifficult situation which defies a logical or national resolution
Ddevice in which the actor on stage means exactly what he says
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Question 58
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The use of two contrasting words that are placed side by side is called
Aprologue
Boxymoron
Capostrophe
Dcostume
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Question 59
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This question is based on General literacy principles
A literary genre which directly imitates human action is
Adrama
Bcomedy
Cprose
Dpoetry
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Question 60
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This question is based on William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet.
In Romeo and Juliet, use the excerpt below to answer this question
'.... So tedious is this day
As is the night before some festival
To an important child that hath them.
new robes and may not wear.
The literary device used in the excerpt is
