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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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These question are based on literary Appreciation.

'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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These questions are based on literary Appreciation.
''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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