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To justify the deposition of the Emirs of Bida and Kontagora, the British authorities accuse them of

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'I wish him luck with his infidel friends But he must remember that there is only one moon at a time, one sun at a time'
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Caliph Attahiru's dream about heavy smoke on the battlefield and the ancestors passing the flag of Islam from one head to another serves as

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Madawaki: The whiteman is an uninvited guest to our land, he must observe, not dictate
The statement above is prompted by the

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The call made on Hamlet to avenge his father's death makes him

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Hamlet: Suit the action to the word, the word to the action; with this special observance, that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature.
Here, Hamlet is urging the players to

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In The Mouse-trap, the murderer is

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The novel suggests that an individual who stays apart from his society will

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The setting of the novel is the

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Naana's attitude is one of

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Angel Clare is depicted as

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'Phases' in the novel refers to

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From the tragedy of Tess, it can be said that Thomas Hardy is concerned with the evils of

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Brutus'A Troubadour I Traverse is inspired by his struggle against

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The theme of Wangusa's A Taxi Driver on His Death is

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J.P Clark's Agbor Dancer portrays

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The subject matter of Senghor's I will Pronounce Your Name is

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The tone of Ofeimun's We Must Learn Again to Fly is that

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In Cheney-Coker's Myopia, the myopic ones are the

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'And the name died before the man.'From the statement above in Houseman's To an Athlate Dying Young, what happens to the athlata?

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In Keats 'On the Grasshopper and Cricket 'poetry of earth' refers to

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In On His Blindness, Milton uses the experience of his blind state to

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The predominant use of the third-person pronoun in a novel creates a

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A poem without a regular rhyme scheme is a

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Aesthetics in literature has to do with the creation of

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Cast in a play refers to

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A tragic hero, according to the Aristotelian precept, must be a

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A careful choice of words dictated by a particular mood or an event refers to

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The insertion of material unrelated or distantly related to the insertion of material unrelated or distantly related to the specific subject under discussion in a given work is called

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When an object is invested with a meaning beyond its immediate reference, it becauses

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Unity of time in a tragedy implies that all actions should take place

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A short, carefully phrased expression meant to elicit amusement and surprise is

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'History's stammerer when will your memory master the vowels of your father's name?
Niyi Osundare: Waiting Laughter's
The literary device used in the excerpt above is

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''It is a beauteous evening, calm and free

The holy time is quiet as a Nun

Breathless with adoration; the broad sun

Is sinking down in its tranquility;

The gentleness of heaven broods O'er the sea:

Listen! the might Being is awake

And doth with his eternal motion make

A sound like thunder-everlasting'.

W. Wordsworth: It is a Beauteous Evening
The rhyme scheme of the stanza above is

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'And the promised pleasure will the face of vanished treasure in the face of plundered pound hidden beneath roots of greener grasses in a land far from the masses
The tone of the poem above is

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The expression 'The ripest is the saddest encounter' is an example of

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'My heart is a quiet drum, sometimes it flares like a parched thunder cracking through a damask sky it lifts me in its fired spectacle'.
Cynthia James: Drumology
The imagery in the excerpt above is largely

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'If an eagle be imprisoned On the back of a coin And the coin is tossed into the sky
That coin will flutter But the eagle will never fly.'
Henry Dumas: America
The poem above achieves its literary effect through the use of

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''They came on like a whirlwind, and dashed over the line snorting, kicking, squealing in a compact, pie bald tossing mob of bay,brown, grey backs, eyes staring, necks extended, nostrils red,long tails, streaming. As soon as they had leaped upon the road the thick dust flew upwards from under their hoofs, and within six yards of Glorgio only a brown cloud with vague forms of necks and cruppers rolled by, making the soil tremble..
Joseph Conrald: Nostromo
The passage above describes a troop of

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''She wanted to spit herself. But she checked herself. 'Get dressed,' she said earnestly. 'Get dressed and let's go You known I have a lot of things to do. And if we are going to meet again like this, ...'she slapped the Samson and Deliah.'''
Festus lyayi: Violence
In the passage above, the speaker can described as