Literature in English Past Questions

'CYCLIST gets down and begins to prop his bicycle,
CYCLIST: All right. If you're sure it won't take long.
BARBER: I am known for my lightning clippers Even the soldiers know me. I can shave the head of an entire battalion between one coup and the next.
sit down and relax your back. Cycling is not easy when you've abandoned it for some time...
Wole Soyinka, The Beautification of Area Boy.

The literary devices in the dialogue above are

'When he gave me the bottle, and I opened it, I was shocked by the odour that hit my nose.
I immediately corked it again, and spat on the floor.'
Isidore Okpewho, The Last Duty.

The reaction in the passage above is that of

'Symbol of fruitfulness, symbol of barrenness Mother and destroyer, the calm and the storm!
Life and desire and dreams and death
Frank Collymore, Hymn to the Sea,

The address to the sea in the lines above is done by the use of

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Willy's first words show that his coming back is

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Linda's words above express a feeling of

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Africa my Africa of proud warriors in ancestral savannahs...
I have never known you but your blood flows in my veins
Your beautiful black blood that irrigates the fields....

David Diop, "Africa"

In the lines above, Diop uses

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'Thus; quixoting till a cast-off of my land I sing and fare, person to loved-one pressed braced for this pressure and the captor's hand that snaps off service like a weathered strand...'

Dennis Brutus 'A Troubadour I Traverse'

In the lines above, the poet-persona expresses

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'Those who have nothing but guns for the hungry and think of nothing but death and dying let them spend our earth's fortune harvesting blood from the fields of war. The last banquet shall be their children's blood.

Kofi Anyidoho, "Blood Harvest"

The stanza above succinctly presents the

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'In Umuaro it is not our custom to refuse a call, although we may refuse to do what the caller asks.  Ezeulu does not want to refuse the white man's call and so he is sending his son!'

Chinua Achebe, Arrow of God

The lines above illustrate the use of

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'He would hear the heavy uneven breathing of the child. It was as if she were carrying a weight with great effort up a long hill...He prayed again ''Father, look after her. Give her peace...Take away my peace forever, but give her peace''

Graham Greene, The Heart of the Matter.

The man's reactions to the presence of the dying child show that he is

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Lineation refers to

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Mock-heroic poetry elevates

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Using the name of one thing for something else with which it is closely associated is an instance of

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The term given to a type of incident or device which recurs frequently in Literature is

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A novel which focuses on the adventures of a rogue who does not change much in the course of the story is

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A trilogy is the

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A primary ballad is associated with

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The narrator in a prose work who is also a character is

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A panegyric poem is composed to