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This question is based on General Literary Appreciation.


Fights by the book of arithmetic
The figure of speech in the line above is

  • A. hyperbole
  • B. euphemism
  • C. litotes
  • D. innuendo
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This question is based on General Literary Appreciation.


Weep not child, weep not my darling
With these kisses let me remove your tears
The ravening clouds shall no long be victorious
They shall no longer possess the sky....
The speaker of the lines is
  • A. optimistic
  • B. carefree
  • C. helpless
  • D. pessimistic
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This question is based on General Literary Appreciation.


'This thing you are doing is too heavy for you, he said.' I went to school only a little, but I have killed many more years in this world than you have.'
G.Okara: The Voice.

It can be inferred from the passage above that the
  • A. listener is wise
  • B. speaker is a porter
  • C. listener is more experienced
  • D. speaker is more experienced
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This question is based on General 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. apostrophe
  • B. burleques
  • C. rehetoric question
  • D. passion
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'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 it but mocks reproof.'.


William Shakespeare: Twelfth Night
A heart of stone in the lines above is an example of

  • A. litotes
  • B. metonymy
  • C. assonance
  • D. metaphor
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