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These questions are based on literary Appreciation.

I am not afraid of anything he told them.
I have done almost everything in this world.
I have committed all crimes you can think of and been jailed for most of them.
I have been in prison for more hours than I have been out of it within the last five years.
In recounting his criminal life, the speaker's tone is

  • A. regretful
  • B. subdued
  • C. repentant
  • D. boastful
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These questions are based on literary Appreciation.

I have said too much unto a heart of stone, And laid my honour too unchary on it', There's something in me that reproves my fault, But such a headstrong potent fault it is That is but mocks reproof.'
William Shakespeare: Twelfth Night
A heart of stone in the line above is an example of

  • A. metonymy
  • B. assonance
  • C. metaphor
  • D. litotes
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'Homage to Peregede, the triumphant mother of morning radiant in Chameleon's velvet let today's dawn bring on its rail trains of good tidings.
Gbemisola Adeoti: Salutation to the gods.
The excerpt above is an example of
  • A. invocation
  • B. ode
  • C. elegy
  • D. limerick
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''Blood was to prove no solace to the king.
The rejection he had suffered at Idama's hands pushed his spirit into a comfortless hole in which,
alone with himself, he searched in vain for ways to run from his inner emptiness.'
Ayi Kwei Armah: Two Thousand Seasons.
The narrator's attitude to the king is one of

  • A. envy
  • B. suspicion
  • C. contempt
  • D. sympathy
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The wood decay, the woods decay and fall,
The vapour weep their burden to the ground,
Man comes and fills the field and lies beneath,
And after many a summer dies the swan.
The subject matter of the line above is

  • A. death
  • B. famine
  • C. storm
  • D. rainfall
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