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This question is based on Selected Poems from Johnson,R.et al (eds.): New Poetry from African (ed); Poems of Black Africa; Senanu, K.E. and Vincent, T.(ed): A Selection of African Poetry; Adeoti, G: Naked Soles; Hayward, J. (ed); The Penguin Book of English Verse and Nwoga, D. (ed): West African Verse.

The tone of the persona in Blake's The School Boy is that of
  • A. fear
  • B. fulfillment
  • C. contempt
  • D. neutrality
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This question is based on Selected Poems from Johnson,R.et al (eds.): New Poetry from African (ed); Poems of Black Africa; Senanu, K.E. and Vincent, T.(ed): A Selection of African Poetry; Adeoti, G: Naked Soles; Hayward, J. (ed); The Penguin Book of English Verse and Nwoga, D. (ed): West African Verse.

'awaiting in ambush'
ambush in the line above from Adeoti's Ambush symbolises
  • A. exploit
  • B. frustration
  • C. danger
  • D. pain
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This question is based on Selected Poems from Johnson,R.et al (eds.): New Poetry from African (ed); Poems of Black Africa; Senanu, K.E. and Vincent, T.(ed): A Selection of African Poetry; Adeoti, G: Naked Soles; Hayward, J. (ed); The Penguin Book of English Verse and Nwoga, D. (ed): West African Verse.

'And by her stood that image of the king in rich apparel, crown and signet-ring'
The image in the lines above in Morris'
The Proud King is
  • A. auditory
  • B. gustatory
  • C. tactile
  • D. visual
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'But such a tide as moving seems asleep. Too full for sound and foam.

When that which drew from out the boundless deep. Turns again home.'


The rhyme scheme in the excerpt above from Tennyson's crossing the Bar is

  • A. abac
  • B. abba
  • C. abab
  • D. abcb
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One of the themes of Awoonor's The Anvil and the Hammer is

  • A. education
  • B. slavery
  • C. colonisation
  • D. corruption
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