These question is based on General Literary Principles.

A device used by a writer to recall past event in a literary work is

These question is based on General Literary Principles.

A paragraph in prose is equivalent to a

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A fable is a brief narrative illustrating wisdom and

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A device used in poetry to achieve emphasis or stress a point is known as

These question is based on General Literary Principles.

A literary work that ridicules the shortcomings of people or ideas is

These question is based on General Literary Principles.

The figure of speech in which the writer means the exact opposite of what he intends to say is

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Action without speech in a play is

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A literary work that teaches moral is said to be

These question is based on General Literary Principles.

A mistake committed by the hero which leads to his downfall is known as

These question is based on General Literary Principles.

The speech made by a character to himself on stage is

These question is based on Literary Appreciation.

"Women as a clam, on the sea's crescent
I saw your jealous eye quench the sea's
Fluorescence, dance on the pulse
incessant.

Wole Soyinka:Night
The lines above suggests that women are

These question is based on Literary Appreciation.

"Busy old fool
Unruly sun
Why dost thou thus
Through windows
And through curtains
Call on us?"

J. Donne: The Sun Rising

The excerpts above suggests

These question is based on Literary Appreciation.

"Busy old fool
Unruly sun
Why dost thou thus
Through windows
And through curtains
Call on us?"

J. Donne: The Sun Rising

The figure of speech involved in the lines above is

These question is based on Literary Appreciation.

Will no one tell me what she sings
perhaps the plaintive numbers flow
for old, unhappy, far off things
And battles long ago.
Or is it some more humble lay,
Familiar matter of today?

The lines above shows that the persona

These question is based on Literary Appreciation.

Will no one tell me what she sings
perhaps the plaintive numbers flow
for old, unhappy, far off things
And battles long ago.
Or is it some more humble lay,
Familiar matter of today?

The lines above end in a literary device known as

These question is based on Literary Appreciation.

Oh incomprehensible God!
Shall my pilot be
My inborn stars to that
Final call to thee...

The literary device used in the first line is

These question is based on Literary Appreciation.

"Busy old fool, unruly sun,
Why dost thou thus."

J. Donne:The Sun Rising

From the lines above, the poet sees the sun as

This question is based on Literary Appreciation.

The body perishes, the heart stays young.
The platter wears away with serving food.
No log retains its bark when old,
No lover is peaceful while the rival weeps.

The theme of the poem above is

This question is based on Literary Appreciation.

The body perishes, the heart stays young.
The platter wears away with serving food.
No log retains its bark when old,
No lover is peaceful while the rival weeps.

From the poem above, "No lover is peaceful while the rival weeps" means that

"Will college make you a better Olokun
priest?
Will it make you serve our ancestors
better?
Look at me. An able-bodied, strong-
hearted priest
of Olokun. Did I go to college?"

Grace Osifo: Dizzy

The literary device used in the passage above is

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

James: Let me swear, woman. And I will swear by my father's coffin that if....

The speaker is referring to

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

Aaron'...All I need really is a place in an Art school, engineering can go hang itself.

The dominant figure of speech in the excerpt above is

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

From the play, the character of Aaron represents the

These question is based on William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet.

'Uncle, this is a Montague, our foe; A villain that is hither come in spite, To scorn at our solemnity this night.'
The villain in the excerpt above is

These question are based on selected poems from Johnson, R. et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa; Soyinka, W. (ed.): Poems of Black Africa; Senanu, K.E. and Vincent, T. (eds): A Selection of African Poetry; Umukoro M. et al: Exam Focus: Literature in English; Eruvbetine, A.E. et al (eds.): Longman Examination Guides: Poetry for Senior Secondray Schools NWOGA, d.i. (ED.) wEST AFRICAN vERSE.

The language of Cope's Sonnet VII is

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

James: Let me swear, woman. And I will swear by my father's coffin that if....

The lines depict James as a

The question is based on William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet.

"What, drawn and talk of peace? I hate
the word As I hate hell, all Montagues,
and thee Have at thee,coward!"

Based on William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, the lines above reveal the speaker as a

Based on William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, Romeo's mood at the beginning of the play can be described as

Based on William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, Romeo's mood at the beginning of the play can be described as

Based on William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, Romeo's mood at the beginning of the play can be described as

"O'deadly sin! O rude unthankfulness!
Thy fault our law calls death, but the kind
Prince, taking thy part, hath rushed aside the law,
And turned that black word "death" to banishment."
 

Based on William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, the speaker in the passage above is

"....Put up thy sword
Or manage it to part these men with me."

Based on William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, the speech above was made when

Based on Ferdinand Oyono's the Old Man and the Medal, for his sacrifices to the church, Meka gets

"Since I came to this country I have never seen cocoa as well dried as yours."

Based on Ferdinand Oyono's The Old Man and the Medal, the speaker above is

In Buchi Emecheta's The Joys of Motherhood, Nnu Ego is blamed for the misfortunes of her

Based on Buchi Emecheta's The Joys of Motherhood,

According to the novel Nnaife becomes frustrated when

Based on Buchi Emecheta''s The Joys of Motherhood, Adaku remains faithful to Nnaife until she

Based on George Orwell's Ninety Eighty-Four, the Ministry of Love is concerned with

Based on George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, the instruments of power and torture belong to

Based on George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, the action in the novel is built around

Based on George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, Winston Smith works in the Record Department of the Ministry of

These question are based on selected poems from Johnson, R. et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa; Soyinka, W. (ed.): Poems of Black Africa; Senanu, K.E. and Vincent, T. (eds): A Selection of African Poetry; Umukoro M. et al: Exam Focus: Literature in English; Eruvbetine, A.E. et al (eds.): Longman Examination Guides: Poetry for Senior Secondray Schools NWOGA, d.i. (ED.) wEST aFRICAN vERSE.

The dominant poetic technique employed in Adeoti's Naked Soles is

These question are based on selected poems from Johnson, R. et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa; Soyinka, W. (ed.): Poems of Black Africa; Senanu, K.E. and Vincent, T. (eds): A Selection of African Poetry; Umukoro M. et al: Exam Focus: Literature in English; Eruvbetine, A.E. et al (eds.): Longman Examination Guides: Poetry for Senior Secondray Schools NWOGA, d.i. (ED.) wEST aFRICAN vERSE.

Rubadiri's An African Thunderstorm can be described as

These question are based on selected poems from Johnson, R. et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa; Soyinka, W. (ed.): Poems of Black Africa; Senanu, K.E. and Vincent, T. (eds): A Selection of African Poetry; Umukoro M. et al: Exam Focus: Literature in English; Eruvbetine, A.E. et al (eds.): Longman Examination Guides: Poetry for Senior Secondray Schools NWOGA, d.i. (ED.) wEST aFRICAN vERSE.

'Since it was you who in all these thin seasons."

The device employed in the line above from Kunene's The Heritage of Liberation, is an example of

These question are based on selected poems from Johnson, R. et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa; Soyinka, W. (ed.): Poems of Black Africa; Senanu, K.E. and Vincent, T. (eds): A Selection of African Poetry; Umukoro M. et al: Exam Focus: Literature in English; Eruvbetine, A.E. et al (eds.): Longman Examination Guides: Poetry for Senior Secondray Schools NWOGA, d.i. (ED.) wEST aFRICAN vERSE.

"Let me ask for what reason or rhyme
women refuse to marry?
Woman cannot exist except by man,
what is there in that to vex some of them so?

The lines above from "Give Me The Minstrel's Seat" is an example of