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Identify the odd item in the following list
  • A. Prose
  • B. Poetry
  • C. Melodrama
  • D. Catastrophe
  • E. Drama.
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'We return to our places, these kingdoms. But no longer at ease here, in the old dispensation,
With an alien people clutching their gods.
I should be glad to another death'.

Which of the following authors chose the title of one of his novels from the above lines?
  • A. Eddie Iroh
  • B. Onuora Nzukwu
  • C. Cyprian Ekwensi
  • D. Elechi Amadi
  • E. Chinua Achebe
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'Even children knew of Simi! Wives knelt and prayed that their men might sin a hundred times with a hundred women, but may their erring feet never lead them to Simi of the slow eyelids. For then men lost hope of salvation, their homes and children became ghost of a past illusion, learning from Simi to a new view of life, and love immersed in a cannibal's reality. Simi broke men, and friendship'.

It is obvious from this passage that Simi is
  • A. famous for her love of children
  • B. a goddess worshipped by children, women and men
  • C. a woman other women like to befriend
  • D. an alluring, irresistible man-snatcher
  • E. disliked for teaching sex-education.
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The tendency in words to echo the meaning by the actual sound is called
  • A. onomatopoeia
  • B. assonance
  • C. alliteration
  • D. rhyme
  • E. phonetics.
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The expression 'All the world is a stage' is a good example of the figure of speech known as
  • A. personification
  • B. paradox
  • C. onomatopoeia
  • D. simile
  • E. metaphor.
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