Literature in English Past Questions

This question is based on Thomas Hardy's The Mayor of Casterbirdge.
Henchard arranged a meeting with Susan that the Ring instead of in his house because

This question is based on Thomas Hardy's The Mayor of Casterbridge.
Characterization in the novel is designed to show that man's fate is determined by

This question is based on Thomas Hardy's The Mayor of Casterbridge.
What is represented by the characters of Henchard and Farfrae in the novel is the

This question is based on Thomas Hardy's The Mayor of Casterbridge.
One of the main features that sustains the reader's interest in the novel is the

This question is based on zaynab Alkali's The Stillborn.
The major concern of the novel is the

This question is based on zaynab Alkali's The Stillborn.
The dominant tone of the novel is one of

This question is based on zaynab Alkali's The Stillborn.
Grandma informs Li in the novel that her salt-pot is empty because

This question is based on zaynab Alkali's The Stillborn.
'My blood is hot, but my flesh is famished...
The rains have come, the field is prepared,
But my field remains untilled,...
The statement above reflects the

This question is based on zaynab Alkali's The Stillborn.
Li got more accustomed to her home because she

This question is based on zaynab Alkali's The Stillborn.
'And in spite of everything, in the soft cradle of her heart, there was another baby forming'.
What baby is being referred to in the above statement?

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.
Wordsworth's 'The Solitary Reaper' is preoccupied with the

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.
The persona in 'My Last Duchess' regards the painting 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.
'The is my son, mine own Telemachus To whom I leave the scepter and the isle.'
In the lines above from Tennyson's Ulysses', scepter' and 'isle' are a poetic device called

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.
'Returning is not possible
And going forward is a great difficulty'
Sorrow' depict

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.
The phrase 'location indifferent' in 'Telephone Conversation' conveys Wole Soyinka's

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.
Oswald Mtshali's 'They Washerwoman's Prayer' 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.
The repetition of the line 'They Too Are Earth' has the effect of

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.
'The eye that looks down will surely see the nose
The finger that fits should be used to pick the nose
The lines above from 'Hurrah for Thunder' bear two major connotations.
These are

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 'Hurrah for Thunder', Christopher Okigbo celebrates