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And my children left their peaceful nakedness
For the uniform of iron and blood'
In the lines above from David Diop's Loser of Everything' the imagery depicts a displacement of
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(A)
innocence by violence
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Yusuf Kassam's ' Maji Maji is presented as a
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(B)
narrative poem
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'Pataki and mustard flowers Like blue and yellow eyes Peep through the green grass'The literary devices used in the lines above from Mohan Singh's 'A village Girl'are
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(D)
simile and irony
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Lenrie Peters in 'She came in Silken Drapes' reflects
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(A)
the paradox of childbirth
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John Donne's 'Death be not Proud is informed by a
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(D)
metaphysical persuasion on the immortality of man
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The mood of the narrator in Mohan Singh's 'A village Girl' is one of
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(C)
admiration
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The dominant imagery in Kofi Awoonor's 'The Cathedral' is
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(D)
visual
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'I said I had the tree. It wasn't true. The opposite was true. The tree had me'.
from Robert Frosts ' Wild Grapes' is
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(B)
the dramatic suspension of a child on a tree
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Arthur Nortje's 'Nightfall' despicts
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(B)
the horrors of nightfall
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This question is based on Abubakar Gimba's Witnesses to Tears
In the novel, Al-Amin's initial reservations about his daughter's engagement to Lahab are informed by
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(B)
Lahab's doubtful morality
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This question is based on Abubakar Gimba's Witnesses to Tears
The novel is largely set in
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(B)
Sabonville city
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This question is based on Abubakar Gimba's Witnesses to Tears
The witnesses to the tears in the novel are
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(B)
Lahab and Hussaina
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This question is based on George Orwell's Animal Farm.
Old Major ends his speech to the animals with a song in order to
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(A)
spur them to action
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This question is based on George Orwell's Animal Farm.
The execution of some of the animals on the orders Napoleon is to
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(D)
pave way for Napoleon to become an absolute ruler
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This question is based on George Orwell's Animal Farm.
The message of the novel is that
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(D)
no society exists where everyon is equal
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This question is based on George Orwell's Animal Farm.
After the expulsion of Snowball from the farm, the triumvirate that ran the farm was composed of
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(A)
Minimus, Napoleon and Squealer
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This question is based on S.I Osammor's The Triumph of the Water Lily.
The dominant impression of the first person narrative in the novel gives it
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(D)
an autobiographical character
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This question is based on S.I Osammor's The Triumph of the Water Lily.
The persona of the novel sees death as a welcome event provided one
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(C)
has fulfilled one's destiny on earth
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This question is based on S.I Osammor''s The Triumph of the Water Lily.
The metaphor of the Water Lily'' in the novel is indicative of
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(C)
victory over tribulation
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This question is based on Literary Appreciation
'But there was a stillness about Ralph as he sat that marked him out: there was his size and attractive appearance; and most obscurely, yet powerfully, there was the conch. The being that had blown that, had sat waiting for them on the platform with the delicate thing balanced on his knees, was set apart. '
Golding, Lord of the Flies.
In the passage above, the conch symbolises
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(B)
authority
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This question is based on Literary Appreciation
'The old Squire was an implacable man: he made resolutions in violent anger, but he was not moved from them after his anger subsided as fiery as volcanic matters cool and harden into rock
George Eliot, Silas Marner
In the statement above, the Squire is portrayed as a
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(D)
quick tempered and adamant man
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This question is based on Literary Appreciation
'I'm not going to be drawn into that old trap of an argument and be picked up by the tail like some wet rat out of a sewer;
The speaker in the statement above is being
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(B)
analogical
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'Oshor:...Winds howl forth-howl forth,
hold back hold back-is the time- oh
endless time-slung in oblivion,
make minced meat of your prey.'
Charity Angya, The Cycle of the Moon.
The mood captured in the lines above is one of
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(A)
fear
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'Oshor:...Winds howl forth-howl forth, hold back hold back-is the time- oh endless time-slung in oblivion, make minced meat of your prey.'
Charity Angya, The Cycle of the Moon.
The literary device used is
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(A)
parallelism
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This question is based on Literary Appreciation
'Those years of my travels. Years of innocence and experience...months of twidding my thumbs with insecurity in search of my true people. Yes in search of my true people. But wherever I went I did not find people but caricatures of people who insisted on being taken seriously as people Perhaps I was on the wrong planet.
In the wrong skin.
Dambudzo- Marechera, Black Sunlight.
The passage above expresses the state of mind of
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(A)
an alienated man
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This question is based on Literary Appreciation
'If I can fasten but one cup upon him with that which he had drunk tonight already He 'll be as full of quarrel and offence As my young mistress' dog...' Shakespeare, Othello
From the statement above it can be inferred that the speaker is
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(D)
scheming
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This question is based on Literary Appreciation
'Thathat is why wwe must acc-c-cept the universal d-d-dome,b-b-because ththere is no d-d-d-direction. The b-b-bridge is the d-d-dome of rreligion and b-b-bridges d-ddon't jjjust g-g-go from hhhere to ththere; a birdge also faces backwards'
Wole Soyinka, The Interpreters
The idiolectal feature of the character's speech is the
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(C)
repetition of initial consonant sound
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This question is based on Literary Appreciation
'It was January and Monday my father had to gather his nerve to go back to teaching During the Christmas vacation he became slack and in a fury of screw-turning had to retighten himself. The long haul he called the stretch between Christmas and Easter.'
John Updike, The Centaur.
The long haul in the narrative above describes
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(D)
a long vacation
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This question is based on Literary Appreciation
'Fierce harmattan sun on innocent tendrils; torrential downpour on leaking thatch roofs; paintfull comfort of helpless eunuchs; thorny beauty of modern witches; the fatcon's call on day-old-chicks, ours is tragi-comic dialogue.... mute echoes of pains.'
The sonority and rhythmical structure of the lines above are achieved through a pause pattern called
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(B)
caesura
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This question is based on General Literary Principles
A body of imaginative men and women of letters is generally referred to as
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(D)
literati
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This question is based on General Literary Principles
A body of imaginative men and women of letters is generally referred to as
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(D)
literati
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This question is based on General Literary Principles
A poem written to celebrate one's wedding is
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(B)
an epithalamium
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This question is based on General Literary Principles
An iambic metrical foot consists of
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(A)
an unstressed syllable foolowing a stressed syllable
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This question is based on General Literary Principles
Empathy is achieved when the audience
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(C)
vicariously participates in the stage experience
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This question is based on General Literary Principles
The overall design of a drama to which all other components relate is its
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(C)
structure
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This question is based on General Literary Principles
What does the protagonist do in a picaresque novel?
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(A)
He embarks on a journey
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This question is based on General Literary Principles
In the plot of a novel emphasis should be placed on
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(A)
showing casual connection of incidents
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This question is based on General Literary Principles
An irredeemable reversal of the hero's fortune in a tragedy is called
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(B)
peripeteia
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This question is based on General Literary Principles
A system of plot development which creates the future through anticipation and the past through memory is
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(B)
avant-garde
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This question is based on General Literary Principles
A limerick has
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(B)
humour, rhyme scheme and five lines
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this Question is based on Oliver Goldsmith's She Stoops to Conquer.
The play is essentially about the
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(B)
comedy of errors of one night
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this Question is based on Oliver Goldsmith's She Stoops to Conquer.
In the play the general picture depicted is that of
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(C)
chaotic value systems
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this Question is based on Oliver Goldsmith's She Stoops to Conquer.
Form the stage directions it is apparent that Oliver Goldsmith makes use of a
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(C)
variety of sets to suit the subject matter
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this Question is based on Oliver Goldsmith's She Stoops to Conquer.
Hardcastle:
And I love every thing that's old old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wines; and I believe, Dorothy (taking her hand) you'll own I have been pretty fond of an old wife.
Mrs. Hardcastle,
you're forever at your Dorothy's, and your old wife's. You may be a Darby, but l'll be no Joan, I promise you I am not so old as you'd make me, by more than one good year.
The dialogue above reveals the couple's
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(B)
difference in lifestyle
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this Question is based on Oliver Goldsmith's She Stoops to Conquer.
Kate could best be described as