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This question is based on Literary Principles.
'So Children,
If per chance you see a here that roars
Or an ape perched in a palanquin,
Look on in silence..'
'Africa by David Diop
This excerpt exemplifies
  • A. poetic climax
  • B. rhetorics
  • C. paradox
  • D. conflict
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This question is based on Literary Principles.
Going up the river was like traveling back to the earliest beginnings of the world when vegetation rioted on the earth and the big trees were kings An empty stream, a great silence, an impenetrable forest. The air was warm, thick, heavy, sluggish. '
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad.
The landscape described in the passage above is
  • A. formidable
  • B. friendly
  • C. hostile
  • D. overpowering
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This question is based on Literary Principles.
'Poor bastard,
Dumped on the ground to make room
For his nocturnal fathers,
Or on the mat to spend his horrid nights
Among the steaming pots of food
And walking rats.'
''The Bastard'' by B.S. Tibenderana
The picture presented above is one of
  • A. loneliness
  • B. hunger
  • C. desolation
  • D. squalor
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This question is based on Literary Principles.
'' The road was endless. One road led to a thousand others. Which in turn fed into paths, which fed into dirt tracks, which become streets, which ended in avenues and cul-de-sacs''
The Famished Road by Ben Okri.
The description above suggests
  • A. urban disorder
  • B. a labyrinth
  • C. clutter
  • D. disharmony
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This question is based on Ola Rotimi's Ovonramwen Nogbaisi.

Forget self! Forget status! let power die so that Benin may live!....
Iyase's entreaty comes when

  • A. the Ifa priest makes his predicitions
  • B. the whitemen attack Benin
  • C. Ovonramwen is discovered in hiding
  • D. Ovonramwen is asked to pay homage to the Whiteman
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