Marcus Antonius roused the public to mutiny in his funeral speech in Julius Ceasar partly because he succeeded in discrediting Brutus ans Cassius by calling them 'honorable men', when in fact he consciously organized his speech to prove that they were dishonorable. This device is known as
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(C)
irony
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'O Julius Caesar!art mighty yet!
Thy spirit walks abroad and turns our swords.
In our own proper entrails'.
These lines were spoken by
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(C)
Brutus before the corpse Cassius
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'Night hangs upon mine eyes; my bones would rest, that have but laboured to attain this hour'.
Brutus' words in the above lines come
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(E)
after his defeat by the forces of Octavius and Antony.
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There is a tide in the affairs of man
Which, taken at the flood, lead on to fortune;
Omitted, all the voyage of their life
Is bound in shadows, and miseries.
This is a statement made by
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(C)
Brutus, urging that Cassius and himself lead out their forces to meet those of Antony and Octavius at Philippi
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Most of the information in the Trial of Brother Jero is conveyed when Brother Jero speaks to himself in dramatic monologues otherwise known as a
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(E)
soliloquy.
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Amope was introduced as a character into The Trials OF Brother Jero primarily to dramatize the
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(C)
disadvantage of marrying an uneducated woman
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The hero of The Trials of Brother Jero is
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(E)
Brother Jero
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Soyinka's main concern in The Trials of Brother Jero is to
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(B)
expose the religious charlatans in the society
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In the book, THE TRIAL OF BROTHER JERO by Wole Soyinka, Brother Jero himself identifies ONE of the following as his main weakness
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(C)
Lustfulness
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The tone used in the poem Owusu is that of
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(A)
admiration
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The poem 'When a Strainer Takes in Water' is
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(B)
an incantation
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In addition to describing scenes of an African village night, Senghor's poem, 'Nuit de Sine' makes a definite statement about
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(E)
communicating with dead ancestors.
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We sang that song before
In the thousand seasons of good harvest
And full fish fo0llowing our father's footprints
On the long shores.
A poetic device consciously used by Awoonor in these lines (from more message) is
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(B)
alliteration
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The Yoruba incantatory poem, 'When a Strainer Takes in Water', is meant to be recited in order to
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(D)
escape retribution
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The run on' lines in J.P Clark's poem, 'Night Rain', suggest the
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(E)
continuous pouring down of the night rain
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In 'Fulani Cattle', the poet expresses
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(B)
regret that there will soon not be enough cattle to go round
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In the poem, 'The Cathedral', Kofi Awoonor expressed
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(C)
disapproval of the change from Africa's past life to the present modern
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'The Fence' (Lenrie Peters) is a
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(C)
moral poem which deals with the poet's dilemma
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The overall mood conveyed in Wole Soyinka's poem,'Night', can be accurately described as
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(B)
agitated
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In Animal Farm, Boxer represents the dedicated worker who serves the revolutionary cause to the best of his ability and is
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(C)
unfairly, ruthlessly treated in the end
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'Nine hens had died in the meantime. Their bodies were buried in the orchard, and it was given out that they had died by coccidiosis.'
In the passage taken from Animal Farm, the truth is that the
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(B)
official explanation given is unacceptable
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'No sentimentality, comrade! War is war. The only good human being is a dead one.'
This statement in Animal Farm was made by
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(D)
Snowball
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You would often hear on hen remark to another,
Under the guidance of our leader, Comrade Napoleon, i have laid five eggs in six days'. or two cows, enjoying a drink at the pool, would exclaim,
'Thanks to the leadership of Comrade Napoleon, how excellent this water taste!'
It is obvious from this passage that the narrator
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(E)
its being ironic since neither the cows nor the hens are correct
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Which of the following adjectives best describes the character of Okonkwo in Things Fall Apart?
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(B)
Quick tempered
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Artistically, Okonkwo's seven years' exile is a device used by Achebe to
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(E)
de-emphizes the role of Okonkwo in the novel
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'...No, my friend, he is not too young. A chick that will grow into a cock can be spotted the very day it hatches. i have done my best to make Nwoye grow into a man, but there is too much of his mother in him.'
The truth, which Okonkwo knows but cannot bring himself to state, is that Nwoye is what he is because there is in him too much of
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(B)
his grandfather
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The title of Achebe Things Fall Apart is taken from poem written by
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(E)
W.B Yeats.
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The novel Thin gs Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe was first published in
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(C)
1958
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A Sonnet is a poem of
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(D)
fourteen lines
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Point out the odd term
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(E)
plot.
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The antagonist in a tragedy is
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(D)
the character set in opposition to the main character
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In 'In Memoriam' Senghor writes 'That from the dangerous safety of the tower, i may go down into the street...'
'Dangerous safety' used in this poem is an example of
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(A)
oxymoron
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A statement that appears to say something opposite to common sense or the truth, but which may contain a truth is
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(E)
a paradox.
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Dialogue is important in drama because it
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(E)
reveals the minds of the characters.
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A novel is
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(A)
a long prose narrative fiction
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Identify the odd item in the following list
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(D)
Catastrophe
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'We return to our places, these kingdoms. But no longer at ease here, in the old dispensation,
With an alien people clutching their gods.
I should be glad to another death'.
Which of the following authors chose the title of one of his novels from the above lines?
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(E)
Chinua Achebe
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'Even children knew of Simi! Wives knelt and prayed that their men might sin a hundred times with a hundred women, but may their erring feet never lead them to Simi of the slow eyelids. For then men lost hope of salvation, their homes and children became ghost of a past illusion, learning from Simi to a new view of life, and love immersed in a cannibal's reality. Simi broke men, and friendship'.
It is obvious from this passage that Simi is
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(D)
an alluring, irresistible man-snatcher
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The tendency in words to echo the meaning by the actual sound is called
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(A)
onomatopoeia
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The expression 'All the world is a stage' is a good example of the figure of speech known as
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(E)
metaphor.
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The 'Settings' in a novel refers to
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(B)
the overall social and physical background of the main events in the novel
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'Then suddenly her heart was whipped up, she now rode on strange waves: alone defying the wind and the rain; alone, fighting hunger and thirst in the desert; alone, struggling with strange demons in the forest, bringing glad tidings to her people'.
The mood of the lady in this passage is one of
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(C)
triumphant defiance
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'I breathed a sigh of relief when i was twenty-six, determined that from then on my life will take a turn for the better. To make sure this happened I did two things which made sure it never could: i got a job, and I got married'.
The quality which this passage displays is
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(B)
seriousness
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'All was quiet in this park
Until the wind, like a gasping messenger, announced
The tyrant's coming
Then did the branches talk in agony'.
There is in line 2 ('like a gasping messenger...') an example of
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(D)
simile
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'I have wandered on the wilderness
The great wilderness men call life
The rain has beaten me,
And the sharp stumps cut as keen as knives'
For the writer of these lines, living in an experience to be described as