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This question is based on General Literary Principles.
When a protagonist is purged of the dominant emotions of pity and fear at the end of a tragedy, it is called
  • A. catharsis
  • B. dementia
  • C. purgation
  • D. redemption
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This question is based on General Literary Principles.
When a statement is made on stage to the hearing of only the audience, it is called
  • A. a prologue
  • B. a soliloquy
  • C. an aside
  • D. a diatribe
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This question is based on General Literary Principles.
A playwright who solves the dilemma of his characters by rescuing them from impossible circumstances using extra human device has employed
  • A. deus ex machina
  • B. dramatis personae
  • C. contrived manipulation
  • D. dramatic reversals
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This question is based on General Literary Principles.
The Christs
are still in performing miracles
in the market places
heroding the masses with imperatives
feeding the hungry
with 21-gun salutes
for victories that are yet to be won.'
Odia Ofeimun, 'The Messiahs'
The attitude of the poet to his subject in the lines above is

  • A. ironic
  • B. sarcastic
  • C. benevolent
  • D. explosive
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This question is based on Literary Principles.
'Otto's wife was a potter. Nessa remembered Sandra Davis telling her this. Not just a wife, not just a mother - as Nessa's own mother had been, as all the women in her childhood were and were expected to be; cooks and floor scrubbers, fanatical table polishers and chairback starchers, nest builders.
Georgina Hammick, 'Habits'
In the passage above, it can be inferred that Otto's wife
  • A. scrubbed floors and polished tables like the other women
  • B. was a potter and was thereforespared other domestic jobs
  • C. was a potter like Nessa's mother
  • D. was a potter in addition to being a wife andmother
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