He who writes a prose is a__________?
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111 questions“I cannot rest from travel: I will drink, life to the lees, all times I have enjoyed greatly, have suffered greatly”. A.L. Tennyson: “Ulysses”
The lines above inform the reader that the poet
"... They do not see the funeral plies, At home eating up the forests..." J.P Clark: “Casualties"
The imagery created in the above excerpt is achieved through______
"The drum overwhelmed the guns..." J.P Clark: "Casualties"
The poet in the excerpt above uses
Serrated Shadows, through dark leaves,
Till, bathed in warm suffusion of your dapped cells
sensation pained me, faceless, silent as night thieves
Wole Soyinka: "Night"
The dominant mood in the lines above is one at____________
"Hide me now, when night children haunt the earth" Wole Soyinka: "Night".
Night children in the stanza above reflects the consciousness of__________
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_________
Your head is like a drum that is beaten for spirits
Your ears are like the fans used for blowing fire.
The lines above are a good example of_________
The most dominant figure of speech in the excerpt is________
The lines are an example of a________?
The question is based on William’s Shakespeare's OTHELLO
"O heaven; How got she out?
O treason of the blood!
Father; from hence trust not your daughters' minds
By what you see them act. Is there not charms
By which the property of youth and maid-hood
May be abused?
The speaker of the excerpt above is________
The question is based on William’s Shakespeare’s OTHELLO
"Soft you; a word or two before you go. I have done the state some service and they knew’ No more of
The question is based on William’s Shakespeare’s OTHELLO
Brabantio is opposed to the relationship between Othello and Desdemona because_________
The question is based on William’s Shakespeare’s OTHELLO
Othello kills Desdemona because the_______
The question is based on William’s Shakespeare’s OTHELLO
ill-starred wench: Pale as thy smoke; When we shall meet at comp"
The device used in the line above is__________
The question is based on Bayo Adebowale's LONELY DAYS
Yaremi's only son is______?
The question is based on Bayo Adebowale's LONELY DAYS
In the novel, bage cap signifies everlasting ________?
The question is based on Bayo Adebowale's LONELY DAYS
Widows mourning in Kofi wear garments that are________???
The question is based on Richard Wright’s NATIVE SON
Mr Dalton is of the opinion that Negroes are happier when they are
The question is based on Richard Wright’s Native Son
Weekly, Bigger is to be paid_________?