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This question is based on General Literary Appreciation.

O! Ceremony,show me but thy worth What is thy soul of adoration

The figure of speech in the lines above is

  • A. antithesis
  • B. invocation
  • C. personification
  • D. apostrophe
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This question is based on General Literary Appreciation.

"What eyes will watch our large mouths
Shaped by the laughter of big children
What eyes will watch our large mouths?"

Birage Diop:Vanity

The tone of the lines above is one of

  • A. sarcasm
  • B. sacrilege
  • C. chiasmus
  • D. eulogy
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This question is based on General Literary Appreciation.

The old man slept in his favourite chair
The wind ran its fingers through his hair
He looked like a tree gone dry of sap
And his hands were dry upon his lap

The rhyme scheme of the poem above is

  • A. bbaa
  • B. aabb
  • C. abab
  • D. baba
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This question is based on General Literary Appreciation.

Unequal laws unto a savage race,
That board, and sleep, and feed....

The lines above show that the speaker

  • A. detects discrimination
  • B. is desirous of adventure
  • C. hates his old wife
  • D. knows much of his city men
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This question is based on General Literary Appreciation.

....How can i look at Oyo and say i
hate long shiny cars? How can i
come to the children and despise
international schools?
And Koomson comes, and the
family sees Jesus Christ in him....

The feeling conveyed by the speaker above is one of

  • A. anger
  • B. alienation
  • C. hope
  • D. despair
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