JAMB - Literature In English (2010 - No. 12)
These questions are based on Literary Appreciation
'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
'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
frustration
sympathy
dilemma
sadness
Explanation
The description of the harvest being "sad like a funeral" and farmers weeping as they dig up miserable yams, along with the mention of a man hanging himself, all contribute to a mood of deep sadness and despair.
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