The commissioner, who was also the local magistrate, peered at the two men. He did not go near because, fastidiously, he too wished to avoid the odour of travel that clung to them. Except for the alpaca jacket, which he wore in the office, he was a model of starched and expensive neatness from his lean skull to the gleaming toes of his formal shoes.
Alex La Guma, 'Time of the Butcherbird'
From the except above, the writer condemns the Commissioner by employing a
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'Standing on the veranda, I see my sons Alioune and Malick arriving in tears. They are in a pitiable state; torn clothes, bodies covered in dust from a fall, knees bleeding beneath the shorts. There is a larg hole in the right sleeve of Malick's sweater; the arm on the same side hangs down limply. One of the boys supporting him explained to me:
'A motorcyclist knocked down Malick and Alioune.
We were playing football'''
Mariama Ba, 'So Long a Letter'
The use of the present tense in the passage
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'At the most remote end of the crypt there appeared another less spacious. Its walls had been lined with human remains piled to the vault overhead. In the fashion of the great catacombs of Paris. Three sides of this interior crypt were still ornamented in this manner. From the fourth the bones had been thrown down , and lay promiscuously upon the earth, forming at one point a mound of some size',
E. Pope, 'Cask of Amontillado'
In the passage above, the author evokes the atmosphere of
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'He always thought of the sea as a la mar which is what people call her in Spanish when they love her. Sometimes those who love her say bad things of her but they are always said as though she were a woman'.
Hemingway, 'The Old Man and the Sea'
In the passage above, the sea is
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'Ibadan,
running splash of rust
and gold - flung and scattered
among seven hills like broken
china in the sun.'
J.P Clark, 'Ibadan'
The poem above is memorable for its
