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'For them no more the blazing hearth shall burn or busy housewife ply her evening care: No children run to lisp sire's return, Or climb his knees the envied kiss to share'.
In these lines from Gray's 'Elegy Written in a country churchyard' the poet is referred to

  • A. a ployman and the herd
  • B. the rich people of the village
  • C. the congregation of the church
  • D. the politicians
  • E. all those buried in the graveyard
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As the magi journey towards their destination, voices singing in their understand was
  • A. worthwhile
  • B. uncertain
  • C. foolish
  • D. wise
  • E. commendable.
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178

The clouds were thickening in the red sky
And night and charmed
A black power into the pounding waves...'
The figure of speech used in these lines from Kwesi
Brew's 'The Sea Eats Our Land's is

  • A. oxymoron
  • B. personification
  • C. metaphor
  • D. simile
  • E. synecocdoche.
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In 'Salute to the Elephant', the poet

  • A. warns about the danger of elephants
  • B. tells the story of Elephants
  • C. describes the attributes of the elephants
  • D. shows where to find elephants
  • E. wants the destructions of elephants
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180

In these lines from Keats 'Ode to a Nightingale'
'The heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains
My sense as though of hemlock I had drunk Or emptied some dull opiate to the drains one minute past and Lethe-wards had sunk',
the poet uses

  • A. alternative rhymes
  • B. heroic couplet
  • C. bank verse
  • D. octosyllabic metre
  • E. terza rima.
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