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This question is based on the Literary Appreciation.
'Your no-good pig, and here I am feeding him everyday letting him sleep in my house. I got a knife from the kitchen. I am going to kill that pig.'
Patricia Melo: The Killer
The speaker in the excerpt above is trying to

  • A. brace himself up for the action
  • B. report the pig before killing it
  • C. contemplate the killing of the pig
  • D. justify the action of killing the pig
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This question is based on the Literary Appreciation.
'I am jealous and passionate like Jehovah, God of the Jews;
J.P Clark: Olokun
A device used in the second line of the excerpt above is
  • A. simile
  • B. hyperbole
  • C. metaphor
  • D. paradox
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This question is on Literary Appreciation
'... Not a few of us ended our application letters like this:. If you are kind enough to accommodate this humble application, Sir/Madam, I shall do my uttermost best to rendered you the greatest services which it is at my disposition to your best satisfactory. Yours obediently servant...'Yet without English, you had no education fit for a white collar job.'
Cameron Daodu: The Gab Boys
The tone of the passage above is
  • A. derisive
  • B. ironic
  • C. melancholic
  • D. harsh
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This question is based on Literary Appreciation
'You are the cold nests
In which the migrant bird lays no eggs.'
Kittobbe: To the Childless

The device used in the excerpt above is
  • A. synecdoche
  • B. imagery
  • C. metaphor
  • D. irony
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This question is based on Thomas Hardy's
Tess of the d'Urbervilles
Angel Clare prefers Tess to Mercy Chant as a wife because she

  • A. is an accomplished lady
  • B. is from a very god family
  • C. understands farm life
  • D. is a good Christian
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