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1

'Ibadan,

running splash of rust

and gold - flung and scattered

among seven hills like broken

china in the sun.'

J.P. Clark, 'Ibadan'

The poem above is memorable for its:

  • A. Metaphor
  • B. Heroism
  • C. Pun
  • D. Lyricism
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2

This question is based on General Literature Principles and Literary Appreciation.

Ocol rejects the old type.

He is in love with a modern woman

He is in love with a beautiful girl

Who speaks English.'

Okot p'Bitek, 'Song of Lawino'

The writer of the lines above

  • A. appraises people who speak English
  • B. shuns the old type of woman
  • C. ridicules Ocol's value judgment
  • D. is critical of the modern woman
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Read the extract below and answer the following question: 
 

The boat nodded in timing with the gentle
Bobbing of the float on the unhurrying
Tide as the angler awaited the bite and
Pull of a salmon

3

The extract presents the image of a

  • A. dark night
  • B. calm weather
  • C. bright day
  • D. rough time
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4

The dominant literary device used in the extract is

  • A. parallelism
  • B. antithesis
  • C. apostrophe
  • D. personification
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Read the poem below and answer the question that follows:

Miniver Cheevy, child of scorn,
Grew lean while he assailed the season;
He wept that he was ever born,
And he had reasons.
Miniver loved the days of old
When swords were bright and steeds prancing;
The vision of a warrior bold
Would set him dancing.

5

child of scorn illustrates

  • A. contrast
  • B. euphemism
  • C. metaphor
  • D. metonymy
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