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'My room was the smallest space I'D ever been in on which a door had closed. There was a bed, built in wardrobe, chair and small table, and above in the ceiling was screwed a one-candlepower bulb it really made you feel welcome....'
The last statement in this passage is an example of
Aunderstatement
Boverstatement
Chyperbole
Dsarcastic humour
Epoetic diction
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Question 2
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I am not afraid of anything ;, he told them 'I have done almost everything in this world. I have committed all crimes you can think of and been called for most of them. I have been in prison more hours than I have been out of it within the last five years. In recounting his criminal life, this speaker's tone is
Arepentant
Bboastful
Cregretful
Dsubdued
Eremorseful
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Question 3
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'The gates of polished reed closes behind them and the west is let in.'The above are the last two lines of David Rubadins ' Stanley meets Mutesa' and they suggest that
Athe sun setb after the arrival of Stanley
BStanley was shut out of Western civilization
CStanley symbolizes the advert of colonization
DStanley was very well recieved
EStanley thought he would be eaten up by the natives.
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Question 4
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'The whole space was walled with dark aromatic bushes and was a bowl of heat and light. A great tree, fallen across one corner, leaned against the trees that still stood and rapid climber flaunted red and yellow sprays right to the top.'
In describing the action of the climber, the writer has used the literary device of
Asimile
Bhyperbole
Cirony
Donomotopoeia
Epersonification.
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Question 5
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'Political languages is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure minds.'
The writer here suggesting that political language is
Aconvincing
Bdeceptive
Cinteresting
Ddestructive
Ecommendable.
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Question 6
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'There was a time when meadow, grove and stream,
The earth and every common sight
To me did seem
Appareled in celestial light
The glory and the freshness of a dream.
It is not now as it hath been of yore:
Turn wheresoever i may,
By night or day
The things which have seen i now can see no more.'
The mood captured in this passage is one of
Anostalgia
Bdespair
Cconfidence
Dhope
Ejoy
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Question 7
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'It was a town of red brick, or of brick that would have been red if the smoke and ashes had allowed it; but as matters stood it was a town of unnatural red and black like the painted face of a savage. It contained several large streets all very like one another, and many small streets still more like one another, inhabited by people equally like one another, who all went in and out at the same hours...'
The description of the town in this passage suggests
Apeaceful co-existence
Black of progress
Cwarmth and friendliness
Dorganized living
Emonotony
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Question 8
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'Contrition twines me like a snake
Each time i come upon the wake
Of your clan,...'
In this passage 'contrition' is
Apersonified
Bsatirized
Cexaggerated
Dmodified
Eemphasized
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Question 9
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Which of the following novels was written by a Nigerian?
AThe Beautiful Ones Are Not Yet Born
BWeep Not Child
CMine Boy
DA Man Of The People
EMission to Kala.
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Question 10
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Which of the following works by Wole Soyinka is a novel?
AThe interpreters
BThe Lion and the jewel
CThe Trials of Brother Jero
DKongi's Harvest
EThe Strong Breed
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Question 11
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To be complete, a play MUST have
Aa prologue
Ban epilogue
Cdramatic irony
Da conflict
Eseveral soliloquies.
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Question 12
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'Assonance' is the product of a poet's use of
Amasculine ryhme
Bmany consonant
Cregular ryhme
Dsimilar sounding vowels
Eimaginative metaphors.
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Question 13
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A well known epic in English literature is
ARobinson Crusoe
BThe Marchant of Venice
CSons and Lovers
DTreasure Island
Eparadise lost.
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Question 14
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What we call 'tragic flaw' is the
Aelement of plot that makes a work dramatic
Btypographical error occuring in a work of drama
Cpronunciation error made by an actor on stage
Dunsuccessful play written by an other wise great dramatist
Eweakness in character responsible for the downfall of a dramatic hero.
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Question 15
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The protagonist of a story is generally
Athe protest made by the principle character against his adversaries
Bthe principle character of the story
Cthe theme of the story
Done of the minor characters in the story
Ethe protest made by a character against the hero
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Question 16
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The plot of story generally refers to the
Aintrigue made by a character against the hero
Bintrigue made by a hero against a character
Cway the writer begins the story
Dway the writer ends the story
Eway in which the events of the story are organised.
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Question 17
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A short emphatic, witty saying, often involving antithesis or paradox is an
Aepithet
Bepigram
Cinvective
Dimpression
Eanalogy
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Question 18
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Writing about an abstract object as though it had human qualities is known as
Aapostrophe
Bpersonification
Cdenotation
Dallusion
Eimitation
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Question 19
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A question put, not chiefly to elicit an answer, but to make an emphatic statement is known as
Aparadoxial
Bmetaphysical
Clogical
Drhetorical
Eleading
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Question 20
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We can take you where he is, and perhaps your men will help us.
In the above sentence taken from Achebe's Things Fall Apart, the pronoun he refers to
