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Both comedy and tragedy have

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A formal dignified speech or writing praising a person or a thing for past or present deeds is

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The narrative style in which the hero tells his own story directly is the.

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The physical,historical or cultural background of a literary work is referred to as

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A plot structure that defies chronology can be described as

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Pun as a literary device deals with

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In a narrative poem,the poet attempts to

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The account of an experience of an individual during the course of a journey is known as

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Satirical writing employs

What figure of speech is used in the expression below?
'I have been here a thousand times.'
 

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Bash: You dumb skull of a bone head... you will face court martial for this.
You look everywhere? You search inside toilet bowl?
Wole Soyinka: King Baabu

From the tone of the speech above the speaker is obviously

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'That year the harvest was sad like a funeral and many farmers wept as they dug up the miserable yams. One man tied his clothes to a tree branch and hanged himself.
Chinua Achebe: Things Fall Apart.

The mood conveyed in the excerpt above is one of

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That age is best which is the first,
When youth and blood are warmer,
But being spent, the worse, and worst
Time still succeeds the former.

The rhyme scheme in the excerpt above is

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But the towering earth was tired sitting in one position . She moved, suddenly, and the houses crumbled, the mountains heaved horribly, and the work of a million years was lost.
The subject matter of the extract above is

What figure of speech is conveyed in the sentence below?

The booming of the gun.

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Don't panic. Be calm. If you are somehow upset... try to regain your exposure.
The speaker in the excerpt above is

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Move him into the sun
Gently its touch awoke him once,
At home, whispering of fields unsown
Always it woke him even in France
Until this morning and this snow
If anything might rouse him now
This kind old sun will know
Think how it wakes the seeds
Woke once the clays of a cold star
Are limbs so dear achieved are sides
Full-nerved still warm too hard to stir?
Was it for this the clay grew tall?
O what made fatuous sunbeams toil
To break Earth's sleep at all?

The poem can be described as 

 

Move him into the sun
Gently its touch awoke him once,
At home, whispering of fields unsown
Always it woke him even in France
Until this morning and this snow
If anything might rouse him now
This kind old sun will know
Think how it wakes the seeds
Woke once the clays of a cold star
Are limbs so dear achieved are sides
Full-nerved still warm too hard to stir?
Was it for this the clay grew tall?
O what made fatuous sunbeams toil
To break Earth's sleep at all?

Use the lines above to answer this question;

The theme of the poem is

use the lines below to answer this question.

A cursing rogue with a merry farce,
A bundle of rags upon a crutch,
Stumbled upon that windy place
Called Cruachan, and it was as much
.
The rhyme scheme of the stanza above is

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A play that mainly aims at provoking excessive laughter is called.

 

'Yet in their finger upon
Our navel
The midwives of the spirit say
They feel a foetal throb.'
The dominant literary device used in the extract above from Acquahs' In the Navel of the Soul is

And your laughter like a flame
piercing the shadows
Has revealed Africa to me beyond
the snow of yesterday.
From the poem above, shadow means

Caliph: ....... son, Open all your ears.
May Allah grant us the fortitude to accept his commands
.... Now the rest is my burden.
I am willing to accept Allah's
will in the matter.
The language of the speaker above is

'Emonewua: You it is who own me, and I speak by your permission. When I came home with my husband this morning, believing my mother was ill and
needed nursing, little knew I was walking into a house of ruin
J.P Clark-Bekederemo: The Boat
From the excerpt above, the speaker is

That quality in a literal work which evokes tenderness, pity or sorrow is

Black theatre is a drama concerned with

A final stanza of a poem that is shorter than the preceding one is called

Monometer is a

A character that heavily relies on cultural types for his manner of speech, his personality and other distinguishing characteristics is

The form of poetry that celebrates with nostalgia the ideal world of the countryside is referred to as

'To see a world in a grain of sand
And a heaven in a wild flower
Hold infinity in the palm of your hand
And eternity in an hour'
- William Blake
To see a World In a Grain of Sand.
The predominant figure of speech used in the lines above is

I am informed the day recycles itself today
When I slept in the Lord in February .
I blame no one for an untimely death
I bless God for a noble departure- His words The Lord taketh the righteous away before evil days.'

The persona in the poem appear happy to have died

The tragic character is the person whose experiences arouse pity and

A panegyric poem is composed to

A trilogy is the

The term given to a type of incident or device which recurs frequently in literature is

The term for the moral flaw or weakness that leads to downfall of a major character in drama is

The narrator in a prose work who is also a character is

Africa my Africa of proud warriors in ancestral savannahs.
I have never known you
but your blood flows in my vein
Your beautiful black blood that irrigates
the field...
David Diop, 'Africa'
In the lines above, Diop uses

The figure of speech in which a character makes a statement that has or would have deep and serious implication in the play is

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In Kunene's A heritage of liberation, the poet persona requests that the weapon of warfare be handed to their

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The predominant device in Launko's End of war is

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The theme of the poem "Give Me The Minstrel's Seat" centres on

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The poet persona in Marvell's To His Coy Mistress is willing to praise the ladies eyes for

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In Lawrence's Bat, the poet persona mistakes the bats for

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In Elliot's Journey of the Magi, the magi are aided on their journey by

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According to Cope's Sonnet VII, poetry is basically

This question is based on J.C De Graft Sons and Daughters.
'I simply don't understand what's the matter with everybody today. everybody let me down, and ......
The speaker above is referring to

This question is based on Ferdinand Oyono's The Old Man and the Medal

The disagreement betweeen Mvondo and Nti centres on the latter's claim to have

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Meka can best be described as

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In the novel, the colonialists treat the Africans with

This question is based on Buchi Emecheta's The Joys of Motherhood.

In the novel, the society puts high value on

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The medicine man links the lump discovered on Nnu Ego at birth, to the

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The constant companion of Nnaife's family are

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Rubadiri's An African Thunderstorm, says that during thunderstorm in the village

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The Ministry of Peace is concerned with making

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The subject matter of the novel is

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How did Winston start his rebellion against the state?

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The party seeks power for

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As the dancers move through paths strewn with glass chips, the images in Adeoti's Naked Soles change from

This question is based on William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet

The play is mostly written in

This question is based on William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet

'O serpent heart, hid with a flowering face!'
The statement above refers to

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The spatial setting of the play is

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Romeo is banished from Mantua because he

This question is based on J.C. De Graft's Sons and Daughters.

Maanan expresses dislike for lawyer B because of