'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

'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

'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

'For seven days it rained that June;
A storm half out to sea kept turning around like a dog trying to settle himself on a rug; We were the fleas that complained in his hair.'
John Updike, Wash

The images set in the lines above are of

'We have been asleep, Mr. Speaker, my fellow citizens; asleep in our dream of security! Asleep in our well-meaning, sportsmanlike way of wishing the other fellow well. Asleep in the false security of accepting all men of goodwill who would be free as men of honor.'
Ralph Ellison, Juneteenth.

The force of the speech above is sustained on.

'Thomas Gradgrind, sir. A man who proceeds upon the principle that two is not to be talked into allowing for anything over.'
Charles Dickens, Hard Times

From the passage above, Thomas Gradgrind is

'Jose Palacios, his oldest servant, found him floating naked with his eyes open in the purifying waters of his bath and thought he had drowned.
He knew this was one of the many ways the General meditated, but the ecstasy in which he lay drifting seemed that of a man no longer of this world.'
Gabriel Garcia Marquez, The General in His Labyrinth.

The master in the passage above is obviously in a state of

The character 'boy' is used alongside 'the old Man' in the novel to demonstrate.

The skeleton of the marlin implies the

The Old Man and the Sea epitomises

Santiago loses his catch to the sharks because

Laye's stay with Uncle Mamadou reveals a lot about

The setting of The African Child is a kingdom with

Laye's first-person narrative techinique

Pa Noble became a living legend because

The marriage of Adah and Francis collapses because of

The character of Marshal in the play shows that

The sub-plots of the play are united by

The war in Femi Osofisan's Morountondun symbolizes the struggle between the

The frequent intervention of the Director makes the stage experience of Morountodun very

Not yet old enough for a man, nor young enough for a boy; as a squash is before 't is almost an apple; 't is with him in standing water, between boy and man. He is very well-favoured, and he speaks very shrewishly; one would think his mother's milk were scarce out of him.

The images in the quotation above express the speaker's

Come away, come away, death,
And in sad cypress let me be laid...

In the lines above, the character is

Duke:
Be clamorous, and leap all civil bounds,
Rather than make unprofited return.

Duke's statement above to Cesario means that he should

The traditional verse form of speech as dialogue in Twelfth Night is used to symbolize the

Twelfth Night is preoccupied with the juxtaposition of

In Niyi Osundare' s ' They Too Are The Earth', the musical effect is achieved by

The rhyming pattern in the last stanza of Okigbo' s Hurrah for Thunder' makes the stanza

In Keats ' Ode on a Grecian Urn', the recurrent use of the rhetorical question in the lines above suggests

The most important concepts in poetry are

The literary device which anticipates that an event will take place is best described as

The flat character in a literary work

The overwhelming pride that destroys the tragic hero is called

A farce refers to a drama that has elements of the

Catharsis is experienced

An extended fictional narrative which is realistic is known as a

The technique in which both the stage and the auditorium are involved in a lay production is called

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The theme of Browning's My Last Duchess' is

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Tanure Ojaide's The Owl Wakes Us portrays a society that is

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In Mapanje's When This Carnival Finally Closes', the poet is describing the

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From the tone of Wole Soyinka's 'Telephone Conversation', the two persons talking hold each other in

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The major theme of Thomas Gray''s Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard'' is that death renders life

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Browning's My Last Duchess apparently shows the Duke's

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In Rubadiri''s '' Stanley Meets Mutesa'', the poet portrays the hardship experienced by the explorer's party through

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John Keats' 'Ode on a Grecian Urn' expresses the idea that

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'The curfew tolls the knell of parting day,
The lowing herd wind slowly o'er the lea,
The plowman homeward plods his weary way;
And leaves the world to darkness and to me.'

In the lines above from Gray's 'Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard', the imagery is