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These question is based on Literary Appreciation.

Oh incomprehensible God!
Shall my pilot be
My inborn stars to that
Final call to thee...

The literary device used in the first line is
  • A. burlesque
  • B. rhetoric
  • C. passion
  • D. apostrophe
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These question is based on Literary Appreciation.

"Busy old fool, unruly sun,
Why dost thou thus."

J. Donne:The Sun Rising

From the lines above, the poet sees the sun as
  • A. illumination after darkness
  • B. an unnecessary evil
  • C. a necessary evil
  • D. a light provider
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This question is based on Literary Appreciation.

The body perishes, the heart stays young.
The platter wears away with serving food.
No log retains its bark when old,
No lover is peaceful while the rival weeps.

The theme of the poem above is

  • A. non-peaceful nature of love
  • B. diminishing nature of love
  • C. permanence of love
  • D. decaying nature of wood
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This question is based on Literary Appreciation.

The body perishes, the heart stays young.
The platter wears away with serving food.
No log retains its bark when old,
No lover is peaceful while the rival weeps.

From the poem above, "No lover is peaceful while the rival weeps" means that

  • A. the pain of one lover is felt by the other
  • B. there is no permanent love
  • C. there is true and permanent love
  • D. the two lovers weep together
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"Will college make you a better Olokun
priest?
Will it make you serve our ancestors
better?
Look at me. An able-bodied, strong-
hearted priest
of Olokun. Did I go to college?"

Grace Osifo: Dizzy

The literary device used in the passage above is
  • A. onomatopoeia
  • B. metaphor
  • C. simile
  • D. parallelism
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