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'Fast fading violets covered up in leaves
And mid May's eldest child
The coming must-rose full of dewy wine
The murmurous haunt of files on summer eves'.
('Ode to a nightingale')
The poetic beauty of the last line owes to the use of
  • A. smile
  • B. onomatopeia
  • C. metaphor
  • D. archaism
  • E. metonymy
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127
In 'Ode to a nightingale' Keats celebrates the beauty of
  • A. a particular immortal Bird
  • B. all nightingales
  • C. artistic expression
  • D. philosophical statement
  • E. the nightingale Ruth heard
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128
In Procession I-Hanging Day', Soyinka writes about
  • A. what he actually witnessed
  • B. an imaginary event
  • C. what he read about in the pspers
  • D. what the prison wader told him
  • E. what everyone knows.
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129
When the Franklin declares in the prologue to his tale that he has 'not slept on mount Parnassus' he meant that
  • A. his bed has always uncomfortable
  • B. he has sleepless nights
  • C. he has no literary pretensions
  • D. he is well-versed in rhetorics
  • E. he is a poor sleeper.
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130
'The Tiger of William Blake is made up of a series of
  • A. analogies
  • B. rhetorical questions
  • C. apostrophes
  • D. exaggerations
  • E. similes.
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