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This question is based on Literary Appreciation.
Sweet smile in time of snarl gives pride in spite of sneer sing, rid this world of despair and save a snared heart from cascading stream of strife.

The dominant rhetorical device in the excerpt above is

  • A. rhyme
  • B. alliteration
  • C. repetition
  • D. onomatopoeia
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This question is based on Literary Appreciation.

'My heart leaps up when I behold

A rain in the sky:

So was it when my life began;or

Let me die!

The Child is the father of the man;

And I could wish my day to be

Bound each to each by natural piety.'

William Wordsworth: My heart leaps up when I behold

The expression 'The child is the father of the man' in the poem above is an example of

  • A. paradox
  • B. metaphor
  • C. simile
  • D. ellipsis
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This question is based on Literary Appreciation.

'Today's my last day here. I'm done banging my head against the glass ceiling. They think I don't know why they really hired me. They're talking to dad behind my back. Begging for favours. Work permit renewals. Licences. Tax and duty waivers. Contracts and tenders

Ken Kamoche: A fragile Hope

The technique employed in narrating the excerpt above is

  • A. flashback
  • B. stream of consciousness
  • C. foreshadowing
  • D. play-within-the-play
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This question is based on Literary Appreciation.

If the Earth were mortal

Where would the flower live?

If you left the Earth

What would happen to beauty?

The poet's tone above can be described as

  • A. lamentative
  • B. satiric
  • C. imploring
  • D. adoring
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This question is based on Literary Principles.

A literary work which imitates another in a distorted form is called

  • A. exodium
  • B. isocohen
  • C. metonymy
  • D. burlesque
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