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126

'Fast fading violets covered up in leaves
And mid May's eldest child
The coming must-rose full of dewy wine
The murmurous haunt of files on summer eves'.
('Ode to a nightingale')
The poetic beauty of the last line owes to the use of

A. smile
B. onomatopeia
C. metaphor
D. archaism
E. metonymy

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127

In 'Ode to a nightingale' Keats celebrates the beauty of

A. a particular immortal Bird
B. all nightingales
C. artistic expression
D. philosophical statement
E. the nightingale Ruth heard

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128

In Procession I-Hanging Day', Soyinka writes about

A. what he actually witnessed
B. an imaginary event
C. what he read about in the pspers
D. what the prison wader told him
E. what everyone knows.

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129

When the Franklin declares in the prologue to his tale that he has 'not slept on mount Parnassus' he meant that

A. his bed has always uncomfortable
B. he has sleepless nights
C. he has no literary pretensions
D. he is well-versed in rhetorics
E. he is a poor sleeper.

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130

'The Tiger of William Blake is made up of a series of

A. analogies
B. rhetorical questions
C. apostrophes
D. exaggerations
E. similes.

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