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These questions are based on General Literary Principles.

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

  • A. an autobiography
  • B. a catalogue
  • C. a memoir
  • D. a travelogue
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497

These questions are based on General Literary Principles.

Satirical writing employs

  • A. synecdoche
  • B. irony
  • C. onomatopoeia
  • D. epigram
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498

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

  • A. Apostrophe
  • B. Pun
  • C. Personification
  • D. Hyperbole
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Use the quotation below to answer this question.

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

  • A. lackadaisical
  • B. elated
  • C. happy
  • D. enraged
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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

  • A. frustration
  • B. sympathy
  • C. dilemma
  • D. sadness
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