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This question is based on General Literary Principles.
A play that tells a single story, has one setting and takes place within a specified period is said to
  • A. be heavilymoralistic
  • B. be clearly cohesive
  • C. possess the unities
  • D. have tragic elements
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This question is based on General Literary Principles.

With beaded bubbles winking at the brim,
And purple-stained mouth,'


John Keats, 'Ode to a Nightingale'. The above lines are an example of

  • A. tautology
  • B. comic relief
  • C. euphemism
  • D. consonance
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This question is based on Literary Principles.
'Still stand stubborn
To stones that strangle the dawn,
Still stand stubborn
To stones that maim the morn,
still stand stubborn
To stones that assail the sun'
Atukwei Okai, 'Sunset Sonata'
The dominant literary device employed in the above passage is

  • A. onomatopoeia
  • B. repetition
  • C. metonymy
  • D. alliteration
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This question is based on Literary Principles.
'On the lower deck in the babel of two hundred voices he would forget himself, and beforehand live in his mind the sea life of light literature,.
Joseph Conrade Lord Jim
The character in the above passage is
  • A. talking
  • B. sleeping
  • C. reading a literature book
  • D. day-dreaming
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This question is based on Literary Principles.
'The eyes of the house dog sprawled between my legs followed, full envy, piece after piece of fish down the throat of his master, my host.'
Ferdinand Oyono, Houseboy
The dog in the passage
  • A. followed his master about
  • B. ran after his master's fish
  • C. caught the fish between the legs
  • D. watched as his master ate the fish
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