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This question is based on Literary Appreciation
'Everywhere now, freedom is on the loose And in its name, men and women slaughter One another with terrible abandon Carnage has become the means of Setting simple scores with our friends'
Okinba Launko: Pain Remembers, Love Rekindles
The dominant rhetorical device in the poem above is

  • A. innuendo
  • B. assonance
  • C. oxymoron
  • D. limerick
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This question is based on Literary Appreciation
This thing you are doing is too heavy for you' he said . I went to school only a little, but I have killed many many more years in this world than you have,'
Gabriel Okara: The Voice
it can be inferred from the passage above that the
  • A. listener is a porter
  • B. listener is wise
  • C. speaker is a murderer
  • D. speaker is more experienced
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This question is based on Literary Appreciation
The guilty are too well-fed to pass through the needle's eye of our scorn the noose of public contempt hangs idle at the market place'
Odia Ofeimun: The Poet Lied and other poems The allusion in the excerpt above is
  • A. mythical
  • B. biblical
  • C. historical
  • D. classical
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This question is based on Literary Appreciation
'My brother you flash your teeth in response to every hypocrisy.
My brother with gold-rimmed glasses You give your master a blue-eyed faithful look.
My poor brother in immaculate evening dress
Screaming and whispering and pleading in the parlours of condescension'.
Diop: The Renegade
The poet's attitude here is
  • A. paradoxical
  • B. envious
  • C. ironical
  • D. sarcastic
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This question is based on Literary Appreciation
MR.BOROFO: I heartily curse the day my wife decided to go to
England. Ever since then,I have had nothing but we must do this because it is done in England, we mustn't do that, because it is not done by English people and so on ad nauseam.
The subject matter of the passage above is the
  • A. uncritical acceptance of European values
  • B. woes of English marriage
  • C. adventures in England
  • D. intransigence of an African wife
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