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These question are based on literary Appreciation.
Theseus: Now, fair Hippolyta,our nuptial hour
Draw on space for happy day bring in another moon.
But, O, me thinks how slow.
The old moon wanes,she lingers my desires,
Like to a step-drama or a dowager,
Long withering out a young man's revenue.
William Shakespeare: A Midsummer Night's Dream.
The literary device used in the excerpt above are

  • A. personification and simile
  • B. alliteration and synechdoche
  • C. rhyme and refrain
  • D. irony and suspense
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These question are based on literary Appreciation.

'You are the silent cold of pleasure locked in the world worldless wonder
You are the hive of pleasure no dragon can plunder'
Gbemisola Adeoti: Dream code
The excerpt above achieves its rhetorical effect through the use of
  • A. repetition and meiosis
  • B. caesura and hyperbole
  • C. alliteration and irony
  • D. metaphor and rhyme
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These question are based on literary Appreciation.

'It was not yet closing time but yet most staff were trooping out of their offices. The lift was working now and he squeezed himself into it,breathing with difficulty the body odour emitted by one the passengers. He sighed with relief when they got to the ground floor and trumbled out of the lift.'
Ken Saro-Wiwa: A Forest of Flowers.
In the excerpt above,the subject's experience in the lift is
  • A. timely
  • B. unpleasant
  • C. amusing
  • D. comfortable
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These question are based on literary Appreciation.

'In those days
When civilization kicked us in the face
When holy water slapped our cringing brows. The vulture built in the shadow of their talons.'
David Diop: The vulture
The dominant literary device used in the lines above is
  • A. pun
  • B. personification
  • C. simile
  • D. metaphor
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These questions are based on literary Appreciation.

''Do not thank me, instead, let me ask you a question. Now you have all come here sprawling, vomiting, rubbing tears on one another begging me to do my duty and help you.
But what about you yourselves? What have you done to help yourselves?
Answer. Or is the land at peace?
Are not people ailing and dying
Ola Rotimi: The Gods Are Not To Blame
 In the excerpt above, the land is not at peace because of _____

  • A. chieftancy tussel
  • B. political unrest
  • C. sickness and death
  • D. famine and war
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