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This question is based on Charles Dicken's Great Expectations.
My heart leaps up when I behold
A rainbow in the sky:
So was it when my life began
So be it now I am a man;
So be it when I shall grow old,
Or let me die!
And I could wish my day to be
Bound each to each by natural piety'.
My heart leaps up by W. Worthsworth.
'The child is father of the Man' is an example of

  • A. personification
  • B. oxymoron
  • C. metonymy
  • D. paradox
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This question is based on Charles Dicken's Great Expectations.
Time out of mind
the going was easy
because of oil boom
we glutted and plotted,
as mad as a hatter'.
The dominant figure of speech in the above piece is

  • A. assonance
  • B. dissonance
  • C. slapstick
  • D. alliteration
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This question is based on Charles Dicken's Great Expectations.
Í am ugly but I can buy myself the most beautiful of women. Therefore I am not ugly....I according to my individual characteristics am lame but money furnishes me with twenty-four feet.
Therefore I am not lame. I am bad, dishonest unscrupulous, stupid; but money is honoured, and hence its possessor...I am brainless, but money is the real brain of all things and how then should its possessor be brainless ? Besides, he can buy clever people for himself and is he who has power over the clever not more clever than the clever?
The writer of the above passage is

  • A. jealous of rich and influential people
  • B. overwhelmed by the power of money
  • C. contemptuous of the poor
  • D. indirectly exposing the negative influence of money
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This question is based on Charles Dicken's Great Expectations.
Hark, Hark!
Bow-Wow
The watch dogs bark!
Bow-Wow
Hark, Hark! I hear
The strain of the struting chanticleer
Cry, 'cock-a-doole-doo!
In the above lyric, the words in italics are examples of

  • A. assonance
  • B. onomatopeia
  • C. alliteration
  • D. consonance
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THIS QUESTION ARE BASED ON SELECTED POEMS FROM D.I. NWOGA'S (ED.): WEST AFRICAN VERSE.


And I lost in the morning mist of an age at a riverside.... 

In these lines, the speaker expresses that 

  • A. cannot master the cultural clash of Europe and his native Africa
  • B. is in aworld where the two have to co-exist in spite of incongruity
  • C. that both world's are concrete complexities of the present African way of life
  • D. that African life has been dulled by foreign intervention
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