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This question is based on General Literary Principles

The moment of recognition of truth when ignorance gives way to knowledge in a character is know as
  • A. hamartia
  • B. anagnorisis
  • C. hubris
  • D. anamnesis
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This question is based on Literary Appreciation

If I cannot slaughter other tribes men If I do not say my prayer in the morning If I turn my back on some of your advice...

Ismeal Heron:Pardon me.

The repetition in the lines above is a poetic device of

  • A. plagiarism
  • B. anaphora
  • C. paralipsis
  • D. alliteration
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This question is based on �Literary Appreciation

'Though alien to this clime its capacity for bagging crime befits a legendary scion of the soil the brief sack with bulging stomach.'The poem achieves its significant effect through the use of

  • A. quatrain and imagery
  • B. rhyme andsimile
  • C. onomatopoeia and alliteration
  • D. alliteration and personification
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This question is based on �Literary Appreciation

I will pronounce your name, Obi, I will declaim you, Obi!The device used in the line above is
  • A. repetition
  • B. chronological
  • C. refrain
  • D. parallelism
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This question is based on �Literary Appreciation


And the fountain of Tololo is an Oasis it quenches the thirst of travellers The myriad paces of the mind fold their wings, For here too, growth emerges from sleep; from a beginning that was the end of an era.'
Mazisi Kunene: The Ancestors and the Sacred Mountain
From the excerpt above, it can be said that the poet is being
  • A. paradoxical
  • B. anttithetical
  • C. illogical
  • D. tautological
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