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Use the quotation below to answer this question.

Bash: You dumb skull of a bone head... you will face court martial for this.
You look everywhere? You search inside toilet bowl?
Wole Soyinka: King Baabu

From the tone of the speech above the speaker is obviously

  • A. lackadaisical
  • B. elated
  • C. happy
  • D. enraged
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These questions are based on Literary Appreciation

'That year the harvest was sad like a funeral and many farmers wept as they dug up the miserable yams. One man tied his clothes to a tree branch and hanged himself.
Chinua Achebe: Things Fall Apart.

The mood conveyed in the excerpt above is one of

  • A. frustration
  • B. sympathy
  • C. dilemma
  • D. sadness
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These questions are based on Literary Appreciation

That age is best which is the first,
When youth and blood are warmer,
But being spent, the worse, and worst
Time still succeeds the former.

The rhyme scheme in the excerpt above is

  • A. aabb
  • B. abab
  • C. abba
  • D. bbaa
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These questions are based on Literary Appreciation

But the towering earth was tired sitting in one position . She moved, suddenly, and the houses crumbled, the mountains heaved horribly, and the work of a million years was lost.
The subject matter of the extract above is

  • A. sea waves
  • B. house movement
  • C. earthquake
  • D. Storms
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What figure of speech is conveyed in the sentence below?

The booming of the gun.

  • A. onomatopoeia
  • B. synedoche
  • C. metaphor
  • D. irony
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