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This question is based on Literary Principles.
'If we must die, let it not be like hogs
Hunted and penned in an inglorious spot,
While round us bark the mad and hungry dogs
Making their mock at our accursed lot.'
Claude Mickay, 'If We Must Die'
The mood in the lines above is one of
  • A. disgust
  • B. indignation
  • C. fear
  • D. sorrow
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This question is based on Literary Principles.
Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore so do our minutes hasten to their end.'
In the lines above, Shakespeare is thinking of the
  • A. passing of time and shortness of life
  • B. swift passing of waves from shore to shore
  • C. passing of time from hours to minutes and second
  • D. movement of pebbles to the shore
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This question is based on Literary Principles.
'At the start of the winter came the permanent rain and with the rain came the cholera.
But it was checked and in the end only seven thousand died of it in the army'.
Hemingway 'Farewell to Arms'
The passage above is an example of
  • A. hyperbolism
  • B. juxtaposition
  • C. understatement
  • D. didactism
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This question is based on Literary Principles.
'El - Hadji Abdou Kader Beye was received in princely style at the girl's home. The food was exquisite and the scent of incense filled N'Gone's small wooden room. Nothing was omitted in the careful process of conditioning the man.'
Sembane Ousmane, 'Xala'
The writer suggests in the passage above that El-Hadji is
  • A. a prince
  • B. a food lover
  • C. being entertained
  • D. being manipulated
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This question is based on Literary Principles.
'The strong desire he felt for her fade away. As he had done the previous night, he tried desperately to excite himself mentally. Not a nerve in his body responded. He felt ill. He perspired. He, the stallion who usually flung himself at women, was like pulp.'
Sembane Ousmane, 'Xala'


The terseness of the prose above is employed to

  • A. capture a climax
  • B. depict tension
  • C. condemn the man
  • D. sympathize with the girl
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