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This question is based on selected poems from Wole Soyinka (ed.) Poems of Black Africa and D.I Nwoga (ed) West African Verse.


Kwesi Brew's 'The Dry Season' shows that

  • A. destruction is present in almost every action
  • B. nature is the sole destructive force
  • C. animals are the sole destructive force
  • D. birds are the sole destruction force
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This question is based on General Literary Principles and Literary Appreciation.

'Hee, thou great Anna! whom three realms obey,
Dost sometimes counsel take - and sometimes tea.'
The literary device used in this passage is
  • A. antithesis
  • B. climax
  • C. epigram
  • D. anticlimax
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This question is based on General Literary Principles and Literary Appreciation.

In the morning Benjamin complained of a headache; at noon he collapsed; by midnight he was as dead and cold as a stone.
The dominant literary device in the above statement is
  • A. simile
  • B. epigram
  • C. climax
  • D. anticlimax
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2539

This question is based on George Bernard Shaw's Arms and the Man.

'That is a photograph of the gentleman - the patriot and hero - to whom I am betrothed',. The gentleman referred to in this passage is

  • A. Bluntschli
  • B. Sergius
  • C. Petkoff
  • D. Don Quixote
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2540

This question is based on selected poems from Wole Soyinka (ed.) Poems of Black Africa and D.I. Nwoga (ed.) West African Verse.

.......Their eyes recede from tomorrow.
No sense of mission sustains them.'
These lines from Odia Of Ofeimun's 'The Prodigals express

  • A. a longing for the past
  • B. a lack of grogress
  • C. the weight of tradition
  • D. an impatient attitude
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