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In Mine Boy, the dominant shebeen queen who is described as 'tall and big, with the smooth yellowness of the Basuto women...'is

  • A. Ma Plank
  • B. Leah
  • C. Eliza
  • D. Lena
  • E. Maisy.
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'Local colour'in a novel or play is feature which
  • A. defines the nature of the vegetation of the setting
  • B. explains the difference in patterns of behaviours of our characters
  • C. refers to the racial backgrounds of the major characters in the novels or play
  • D. emphazises the customs, norms, values and setting of the novel or play
  • E. highlights thye ethnic origins of the various characters in the novel or play.
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''London''

I wander thro'' each charter''d street

Near where the charter''d Thames does flow,

And mark in every face i meet

Marks of weakness, marks of woe



In every cry of every Man

In every infant''s cry of fear,

In every voice, in every ban,

The mind-forged manacles i hear.



How the chimney-sweeper''s cry

Every black''ning Church appalls;

And the hapless Soldier''s sigh

Runs in blood down Palace walls.



But most thro'' midnight streets i hear

How the youthful Harlot''s curse

Blasts the new born infant''s tear,

And blights with plagues the marriage hearse.

The stanza form in ''London'' is referred to as
  • A. a quartet
  • B. a quatrain
  • C. a quadruple
  • D. quintet
  • E. sestet.
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229

Kaunda's reminiscences of his boyhood in Lubwa were

  • A. completely happy
  • B. a mixture in Lubwa and hatred of his playmates
  • C. dominated by entirely painful incidents
  • D. a mixture od sad and happy expiriences
  • E. a combination of regret and hatred of the teachers
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Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness.
Close bosom-friend of the mating sun:
Conspiring with him how to load and bless
With fruit the vines that round the
thatch-eves run;
To bend with apples and moss'd cottage tress
And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core;
To swell the ground, and plump the hazel shells
With a sweet kernel; to set budding more,
And still more, later flowers for bees,
Until they think warm days will never cease,
For summer has o'er brimm'd their clammy cells.

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The most important figure of speech in the above passage is

  • A. paradox
  • B. personification
  • C. metaphor
  • D. simile
  • E. onomatopoeia.
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