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Stars hide your fires;
let no light see my black and deep desires
They eye wink at the hand; yet let that be Which the eyes fears, when it is done to see'
In these lines Shakespare uses
  • A. hyperbole
  • B. metonymy
  • C. onomatopoeia
  • D. simile
  • E. apostophe
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'I am become a name;
For always roaming with a hungry heart
Much have i seen and known; cities of men
And manners, climates, council, governments'
These line fairly represent the attitude of Ulysses' life. This attitude may be described as
  • A. complaining continually about life
  • B. unwillingness to agree and work with others.
  • C. ceaseless labour and search for challenges
  • D. dislike of one's country or home
  • E. roaming and idling.
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'Fast fading violets covered up in leaves
And mid May's eldest child
The coming must-rose full of dewy wine
The murmurous haunt of files on summer eves'.
('Ode to a nightingale')
The poetic beauty of the last line owes to the use of
  • A. smile
  • B. onomatopeia
  • C. metaphor
  • D. archaism
  • E. metonymy
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In 'Ode to a nightingale' Keats celebrates the beauty of

  • A. a particular immortal Bird
  • B. all nightingales
  • C. artistic expression
  • D. philosophical statement
  • E. the nightingale Ruth heard
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In Procession I-Hanging Day', Soyinka writes about

  • A. what he actually witnessed
  • B. an imaginary event
  • C. what he read about in the pspers
  • D. what the prison wader told him
  • E. what everyone knows.
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