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These question are based on literary Appreciation.

'In those days
When civilization kicked us in the face
When holy water slapped our cringing brows. The vulture built in the shadow of their talons.'
David Diop: The vulture
The dominant literary device used in the lines above is
  • A. pun
  • B. personification
  • C. simile
  • D. metaphor
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These questions are based on literary Appreciation.

''Do not thank me, instead, let me ask you a question. Now you have all come here sprawling, vomiting, rubbing tears on one another begging me to do my duty and help you.
But what about you yourselves? What have you done to help yourselves?
Answer. Or is the land at peace?
Are not people ailing and dying
Ola Rotimi: The Gods Are Not To Blame
 In the excerpt above, the land is not at peace because of _____

  • A. chieftancy tussel
  • B. political unrest
  • C. sickness and death
  • D. famine and war
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These questions are based on literary Appreciation.

I am not afraid of anything he told them.
I have done almost everything in this world.
I have committed all crimes you can think of and been jailed for most of them.
I have been in prison for more hours than I have been out of it within the last five years.
In recounting his criminal life, the speaker's tone is

  • A. regretful
  • B. subdued
  • C. repentant
  • D. boastful
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These questions are based on literary Appreciation.

I have said too much unto a heart of stone, And laid my honour too unchary on it', There's something in me that reproves my fault, But such a headstrong potent fault it is That is but mocks reproof.'
William Shakespeare: Twelfth Night
A heart of stone in the line above is an example of

  • A. metonymy
  • B. assonance
  • C. metaphor
  • D. litotes
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These question are based on literary Appreciation.

'Homage to Peregede, the triumphant mother of morning radiant in Chameleon's velvet let today's dawn bring on its rail trains of good tidings.
Gbemisola Adeoti: Salutation to the gods.
The excerpt above is an example of

  • A. invocation
  • B. ode
  • C. elegy
  • D. limerick
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