Literature in English Past Questions

This question is based on Thomas Hardy''s The Mayor of Casterbridge.

Hardy makes the novel realistic by

This question is based on Thomas Hardy's The Mayor of Casterbridge.
By allowing Henchard to get drunk and sell off his wife, Hardy makes the point that

This question is based on Thomas Hardy's The Mayor of Casterbridge.
Mrs. Newson refuses to reward the furmity seller for disclosing the whereabout of Henchard because she

This question is based on Thomas Hardy's The Mayor of Casterbridge.
The statement, 'Time the magician, had wrought much here' is made when

This question is based on Thomas Hardy's The Mayor of Casterbridge.
'''I, Michael Henchard, on this morning;..., do take an oath before God here in this Solemn place...
And this I swear upon the book before me;... !''
The oath above is taken when

This question is based on Zaynab Alkali's The Stillborn.
By allowing Sule to return to the village in spite of his earlier vow, the author suggests the existence of

This question is based on Zaynab Alkali's The Stillborn.
The tell-tale of Li's going to the dance is a

This question is based on Zaynab Alkali's The Stillborn.
In the novel, Faku deserts Garba for

This question is based on Zaynab Alkali's The Stillborn.
Li's initial aspiration in the novel is to

This question is based on Zaynab Alkali's The Stillborn.
Like many other characters of her type, Li in the novel, is able to attain progress through her

This question is based on selected poems from D. Ker, C. Maduka et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa, Wole Soyinka (ed.): Poems of Black Africa, K.E. Senanu and T. Vincent (eds.): A Selection of African Poetry and E.W. Parker (ed.): A Pageant of Longer Poems.
'I cannot rest from travel; I will drink life to the lees.'The lines above from Tennyson's 'Ulysses' reveal the persona as

This question is based on selected poems from D. Ker, C. Maduka et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa, Wole Soyinka (ed.): Poems of Black Africa, K.E. Senanu and T. Vincent (eds.): A Selection of African Poetry and E.W. Parker (ed.): A Pageant of Longer Poems.
Browning's 'My Last Duchess'is

This question is based on selected poems from D. Ker, C. Maduka et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa, Wole Soyinka (ed.): Poems of Black Africa, K.E. Senanu and T. Vincent (eds.): A Selection of African Poetry and E.W. Parker (ed.): A Pageant of Longer Poems.
What is the poet-persona's feeling for the reaper in Wordsworth's 'The Solitary Reaper'?

This question is based on selected poems from D. Ker, C. Maduka et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa, Wole Soyinka (ed.): Poems of Black Africa, K.E. Senanu and T. Vincent (eds.): A Selection of African Poetry and E.W. Parker (ed.): A Pageant of Longer Poems.
In Mtshalis 'The Washerwoman's Prayer' the condition of the woman is portrayed through

This question is based on selected poems from D. Ker, C. Maduka et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa, Wole Soyinka (ed.): Poems of Black Africa, K.E. Senanu and T. Vincent (eds.): A Selection of African Poetry and E.W. Parker (ed.): A Pageant of Longer Poems.

''O incomprehensible God!

Shall my pilot be''

These lines in Okara''s ''The Call of the River Nun'' reveal a religious undertone which also expresses the