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This question is based on General Literary Appreciation.

"Hide me now, when night children haunt the earth"
Wole Soyinka:Night

Night children in the stanza above reflects the consciousness of

  • A. birds
  • B. armed robbers
  • C. animals
  • D. spirit beings
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This question is based on General Literary Appreciation.

"Serrated shadows, through dark leaves
Til, bathed in warm suffusion of your
dapped cells
Sensation pained me, faceless, silent
as night thieves."
Wole Soyinka: Night

The dominant mood in the lines above is one of
  • A. apprehension
  • B. defiance
  • C. joy
  • D. indifference
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This question is based on General Literary Appreciation.


"The drums overwhelmed the guns..."

J.P Clark: Casualties

The poet in the excerpt above uses

  • A. litotes
  • B. symbolism
  • C. onomatopoeia
  • D. alliteration
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This question is based on General Literary Appreciation.

....They do not see the funeral piles
At home eating up the forests..."

J.P. Clark:Casualties

The imagery created in the above excerpt is achieved through

  • A. metaphor
  • B. personification
  • C. synedoche
  • D. metonym
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This question is based on General Literary Appreciation.

"I cannot rest from travel: I will
drink
Life to the lees, all times I have
enjoyed
Greatly, have suffered greatly"
A.L. Tennyson:Ulysses

The lines above inform the reader that the poet

  • A. is determined to suffer
  • B. has his poetic imagination kindled
  • C. will cure his sour mood
  • D. will not drink much
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